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this article isn’t about rubygems the service and it repeatedly states so

He’s been posting increasingly inflammatory articles, for the most recent round refer to https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...

that’s a lot of words to write “we did a hostile takeover”

Hey now, there’s a lot of Hello World, Mandelbrots and Ugly Tailwind Dashboards too :o)

It told me my PC can't run it and to get a Copilot enabled PC. I got a Mac instead. I sure hope Apple pays Microsoft for their great ad campaign.

We are engineers. Much like an artist could draw the rest of the owl, it’s not an unreasonable ask towards a field that each day seems to grow more accustomed to the learned helplessness.

Not becoming a murderer for hire in the first place, for one.

It mostly seems like the author is ruining it for himself.

Check the date of the article. They used to be the shadow cabal before Lina put public pressure on them to go legal.

You say this because your native language broadly fits into ascii and you would sing a different tune if it didn’t.

No, this doesn’t work. Many of the affected sites have these but they’re ignored. We’re talking about git forges, arguably the most standardised tool in the industry, where instead of just fetching the repository every single history revision of every single file gets recursively hammered to death. The people spending the VC cash to make the internet unusable right now don’t know how to program. They especially don’t give a shit about being respectful. They just hammer all the sites, all the time, forever.

hmmm, I'll try. Think of these things like you think about using cli tools. If you ONLY had ffmpeg or imagemagick in isolation, there would be no benefit to using them on the command line. You are working with images and video after all. That's what GUI is for! Even if you end up using them, you use them through a GUI wrapper. I bet Resolve uses ffmpeg somewhere under the hood.

They don't work in isolation, though, and I bet you can easily think up a bunch of usecases for either. They're scriptable and they compose well, after all, so the tradeoff is worth it. You put up with the headache to automate that batch job of changing the intro sequence of the thousand video files and generate new thumbnails and put the new subtitles in one go.

In emacs, everything tends to be composable and scriptable. You are in GUI land but things feel powerful like in CLI land, except discoverable. It's the "vim is the text editor of the unix IDE" idea, except they put the whole unix into your editor. When people jokingly claim it's an OS they're only half joking. It's malleable. You are already running it. You are already familiar with the way it works, with the way you discover features, get help etc. Why start another program for a task like this?

The devaluation happened through streaming services. Instead of spending dozens of dollars on subscriptions, BitTorrent and last.fm enables me to find what I like and spend the money on Bandcamp instead where it actually reaches the artist I am buying from. I can just get a Spotify subscription instead though, if you insist.

It’s the year 21XX. Another HN story about python packaging being solved for good this time hits the front page. I try to use a python app, am impressed by its capability to generate 10 pages of red text and go back to cryosleep.

This would be nice, however we get both the boot AND the flood of information.

4. If I now go one step further and use a commercial DDoS service to make the get requests for me because this comparison is already a stretch, then why would the DDoS provider accessing the website on my behalf be in a different legal category as my Firefox web browser accessing the website on my behalf?

Someone wants to add it enough to click the button that adds the site. Sometimes you need to REALLY want to add it because no category is applicable so you also click the button to add the category.

I'm a heavy commuter and have been for the last two decades and there are no recent developments worth talking about, take it for what you will.

He is not doing that.

There were a bunch of these during the netbook boom and they were grandparent-proof. Sadly, all of my favorites (Moblin/Meego, Joli OS and xpud) are long dead.

I am keeping a close eye on it for sure. The last time I tried it wasn't quite there yet and still had too many rough edges for my taste.

Their app needs Google Play Services. To install it on an Android device I'd want to use over my iPhone, I'd have to jump through a bunch of hoops and it would become a project with permanent upkeep. So I use an iPhone instead.

There is no other manufacturer that sells what I want. The alternative is worse (Google) or incompatible with the reality of my daily life (my banks app won't work on it). On the desktop side of things it's getting better, the Framework desktop is interesting, but there's still no REAL alternative yet. Maybe in 5 years.

They didn't "become" anything. They didn't "give away" anything. The torture prison and fascism isn't a bug, it's a feature. People voted for this. A large part of this community voted for it, probably the majority.

As it turns out, the VC potential of Mandelbrot and HelloWorld.py are quite limited :o)

This point is so tired. I don’t understand how a thought forms in my neurons, eventually matures into a decision and how the wires in my head translate this into electrical pulses to my finger muscles to type this post so I guess I can’t have opinions about complexity.

People defending this are wrong in an additional, more pathetic way: Even if you insist on “cheating” and using an LLM to communicate, you are using it badly. You manage to be obviously incompetent at using the tool you are evangelizing.

To use your Google analogy, it’s the equivalent of posting:

> I googled and these are the results (…)

and then copy pasting the first page of results.

> Once configured

is doing some heavy lifting here. "Once configured" vim can do the same you can do in VsCode. Editor wars are really the dumbest nerd fight.

Or I can buy an iPhone and Apple doesn’t break the law :)