It’s worse. My music is on Spotify - while I would no longer meet their minimum for payments, even before that change they refused to pay me or provide stats until I provided a twitter or Facebook page/IG page, none of which I have - despite publishing through an established publishing company who could absolutely handle payments and play stats.

Spotify is cancer.

Didn’t work for me. Got blocked with a subscribe pop up.

I have a shortcut that automatically gets or creates the links so no biggie - and I prefer the archive links anyway because there’s so much other noise on articles these days.

Paywall bypass for the Atlantic article: https://archive.is/hjUb1

That’s a a great idea. Would you like me to come up with a business plan?

James Hoffman called bullshit on this one and it’s fun to see Huberman squirm in the comments. https://youtu.be/yCJr49GU9yY

TLDR: it might nonsense.

Wait we’re pretending WhatsApp isn’t spyware now?

They will never be happy.

Totally fair and exactly part of my original disdain. I was happy with SysV and Upstart. But here we are and I’ve got things to do. ;)

I hated repackaging all my software for systemd. lol. We waited as long as we could before eating that pie.

It was highly contentious for a number of years - largely because it had a lot more functionality and touched more parts of the OS than the init systems it was designed to replace. It was seen as overzealous by the naysayers.

I was in the never system-d camp for a long time because I felt like my ability to choose was being removed. Even some distros that provided alternate init systems eventually went systemd-only.

But I’ve come around - it’s fine, good even - though ultimately I had no choice or say in it.

It’s very straightforward and easy to write one’s own units. It’s reasonably easy to debug and often helpful when something isn’t working as expected.

Like all things in the world of software, many folks are going to try (and eventually succeed) to make a better mousetrap.

This particular init system’s design goals seem (at least to me) to indicate a focus on small, embedded and/or more secure systems where the breadth of tools like systemd are a hindrance.

Here here.

We live in a town that’s one of the richest per capita in my country, thanks in no small part to several billionaire families.

It’s next to one of the poorest where many of the workers are supplied for the billionaires’ businesses.

Gee, I wonder how all that wealth got “created” or “transferred”?

Click bait title (by the source not OP!)

Severe turbulence causes emergency landing, 25 injured.

This title is designed to make us go see “what corporate fuckup happened now” when this has nothing to do with the carrier.

There was a really interesting podcast on the AP style and its entrenched biases - but only available to subscribers:

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/bonus-who-writes-the-rules-of-news/

Scummy landlord’s gonna scummy landlord.

I really appreciate your response. It’s incredibly helpful and deeply thoughtful. Thank you.

What comes next is not directed at you but rather provides some other color based on a few things you touched on.

I worked for the guy. He gets no slack from me. He changed my life in many ways both wonderful and not. And while it’s unlikely I’d work with or for him again he was a net positive in my life.

I don’t see product the way he sees product which is exactly as you note: it’s for him. Some of that “for him” approach has resonated deeply with the OSS community and still does. He changed Cloud Computing in the best of ways. He’s a giant. And we’re lucky he’s around.

This small ghostty issue (and some others I can’t recall now) was emblematic of our core disagreement about how we build systems for a broader user base. That’s why I said I get their PoV but disagree with it. I think it would be fair to say using the product reminded me a lot about this particular tension. Reading the GitHub issues even more so. That’s wholly on me.

I am thankful to ghostty for helping me explore many more options. I had been using iterm2 on my laptop and struggling to find something I liked on my Linux workstation. Checking out the new hotness after all the hype still resulted in a net positive.

Nevertheless I am genuinely happy it’s working for you and, again, thanks for your kind and calm response.

Yep - but seeing the thread about it in their github repo was also a turn off. I don’t have to do it with other clients.

I also believe that has to happen on each server - and we’ve got a lot of servers. I’m not particularly keen on needing to change anything to get my terminal emulator to, well, work.

While I get the ghostty team’s PoV - I don’t agree with it.

Ghostty has lots of issues ssh-ing into remote systems that aren’t on the bleeding edge.

I couldn’t get it to work reasonably well enough for me and tried a bunch of others. Currently using Alacritty on both my Linux desktop workstation and Mac Laptop.

I use Zellij anyway and it has all the tab/pane/floating window support I was looking for.

Won’t you be my Neighbor is a wonderful documentary whether you’re a fan or not.

Hot take: what most people call AI (large language and diffusion models) is, in fact, part of peak capitalism:

• relies on ill gotten gains (training data obtained without permission, payment or licensing)
• aims to remove human workers from the workforce within a system that (for many) requires them to work because capitalism has removed the bulk of social safety netting
• currently has no real route to profit at any reasonable price point
• speculative at best
• reinforces the concentration of power amongst a few tech firms
• will likely also result in regulatory capture with the large firms getting legislation passed that only they can provide “AI” safely

I could go on but hopefully that’s adequate as a PoV.

“AI” is just one of cherries on top of late stage capitalism that embodies the worst of all it.

So I don’t disagree - but felt compelled to share.

I have a desktop which has / had a similar problem.

Originally I built it with a g-series Ryzen which has integrated Radeon Vega graphics. Upgraded to a 3060 and wanted to run Linux for gaming instead of windows.

I couldn’t get a distro to reliably use my graphics card without the issues you describe. Stuttering, crashing, generally unusable.

Garuda was the answer (to be fair I’d try Bazzite too but I just didn’t get there as Garuda worked). In fact, it worked out of the box for me and I enjoyed it so much I made it my work OS.

I like the GUI utilities they’ve made for front-ending a bunch of Arch CLI utilities and I’ve been saved by BTRFS snapshots more than once.

What is success here? The few founders and VC get filthy rich as the larger population dumps their money into Discord stock while the users and teams with limited foresight, who’ve moved their communities to discord, suffer?

I mean yeah I guess that’s the success Cory Doctorow warns us about again and again.

But that’s not my definition of success.

For context I’ve been on the receiving end of an IPO and the founders and investors made out like bandits while a fair number of employees were stuck holding the bags thanks to lock-ins, dilution and over priced shares.