Here’s how we fix a society that’s already drowning in advertising … more advertising.

Russell Howcroft would think that this was the Duck’s Nuts!

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Pretty sure that you’re a teenager for seven years, not five.

I have asked for sources when a post makes an extraordinary claim. It’s rare that I get anything meaningful as a response, but often I learn something or both of us do.

Frankly I have no idea what you are talking about.

In my experience there is no relationship between the kernel and audio drivers of a host to that of a virtual machine running on that host, unless you’re doing some funky audio passthrough, but I can’t think of a way to achieve that unless you’re futzing with building your own drivers.

As far as “mac hardware”, I’m assuming that you’re talking about Intel based Apple hardware, since there’s extremely limited support for Apple Silicon (M1 and M2 with incomplete peripheral support through Asahi Linux) and AFAIK, there is no LTS support at all at this time.

I’m a software developer with over 40 years experience. Much of it with FOSS.

Your argument in relation to GitHub does not take in the reality of the effort involved with migrating to a different platform, effort that is likely unpaid, has no logistical upside and stalls the development efforts of a project, not to mention breaking every single source code repository link across the wider internet, links that represent publicity and community engagement.

It’s one thing migrating after a service vanishes, it’s an entirely different thing to migrate due to the philosophical differences perceived by the ownership change to Microsoft. In my opinion, chanting FOSS is insufficient as an argument.

I have several projects and clients that use GitHub and while I detest copilot and the enshitification that the new ownership represents, I’m also aware that it’s likely that the sale provides financial security to the continued existence of GitHub.

I think it’s admirable that a project is asking its community if it should stay or move and I wish the developer(s) wrestling with this all the strength and patience in the world to work through it.

I know I’ve struggled with the same considerations and I’m still using GitHub … for now.

Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.

A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.

You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.

In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.

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I live here and that’s pretty much the case. Mind you, this is the first I hear that we’ve agreed to this and I daresay there will be some vigorous discussion among us Sandgropers.

Use a bash command line:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6250698/how-to-decode-url-encoded-string-in-shell

Age 57, never want to leave the house to go to a party again.

Excellent example. I hadn’t even considered electronics coming from a software background.

It’s like “sugar free” and “green”, meaningless unless it’s regulated, policed and prosecuted.

As others have said, the best labelling system we currently have is the licence that’s attached to the software.

Mind you, that in and of itself is not sufficient, since the source code needs to come with it, and arguably the ability to actually compile it, neither of which are guaranteed, again more requirements for policing and prosecution.

Also, when I say policing, I’m not talking about the law enforcement community, I’m talking about developers and end users paying attention and calling out breaches.

Whilst contemplating all that, this costs money, something that is in very short supply within the wider open source software community and what little there is, goes to pay for food and lodging for a very very very small group of developers.

Fix funding and you can have all the stickers in the world, in the meantime, nope.

So, somewhat disappointedly … no.

At best it’s a way to see the world and experience new things, at worst it’s sex slavery.

I’d be extremely careful, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

I suspect that the answer depends entirely on who reports on it first. By the time the rest of the world has had time to catch up, the tone is already set.

For a related concept, consider the use of the phrase “domestic terrorism”.

I can’t help myself.

Which lie?

I moved country as a way to see the world. I left Nederland and started with Australia because I had an Australian passport. I was going to give it a year. I worked six months, was unemployed for 18, then got a three day gig that lasted for six and a half years.

That move was 35 years ago. I’m still in Australia. In the meantime I met my partner, travelled around the country for five years and started my own business 26 years ago.

I visited Nederland four years in, but it didn’t feel like home.

It took many years for this to feel like home, from time to time I’d love to hug my family, but never felt homesick, I love watching YouTube videos of places where I grew up. I’ll visit the local Dutch Shop to remember smells and tastes and to bullshit in Dutch, but otherwise I’ll be doing my Aussie life.

I was born here, but grew up in Nederland.

With the quality of Assumed Intelligence detectors, this is unlikely to ever come to pass, especially since humans are involved.

This is like banning H₂O, NaCl and C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ from your life because “you don’t like chemicals”.

(Water, Salt and Sugar)

This is what that looks like in real life:

https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/34892

Tah, I’ve now added my question on Mastodon.