MangoCats

That’s year-month-day hour:minute:second.millisecond +/-TZ, you heathen!

The choice doesn’t matter - consistency does a bit.

Once you blast the lawsuit into the press your software gets better known. FFmpeg was fairly well known before it got hijacked and stuffed in every set-top video decoder box on the planet, but now it has that reputation as well.

Certain areas of law have provisions for this, others don’t. GPL law tends toward the not very lucrative side of things. What are your monetary damages? Well, I was going to make $0, but they broke my terms so now my GPL software is better known but I still make $0 - compute damages please?

Both parties virtually paved the way for jobs to leave the country - it didn’t benefit the majority of their constituents.

I knew a guy who left Detroit at 30 to install A/C systems in Florida, made good money but by 40 he was tired of crawling around hot attics, so he went back to school, learned to code and went back to Detroit to work software instead of the factory floors… he did alright, didn’t set the world on fire, but also didn’t retire to an early grave with health problems from breathing fiberglass in 130 degree confined spaces.

It was true around the .com boom, and the advice might have been good for a few years, but like everything else: following yesterday’s trends will get you lost in a crowd of the clueless and under-informed.

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In the late 1990s our MSCE graduates were starting at $70K which is easily in six figure territory today when adjusted for inflation.

Six figures is far from what it used to be.

Only if you can afford better lawyers than they can.

Yeah, I thought that foolishness was behind us with the crypto export impossible to enforce rules, but it’s baaaack with AI.

When all the valuable code is free, the price of valuable code will be 0.

People will only profit from the value of the code, not the creation/ownership of the code itself.

It’s a fundamentally different model, not a broken one. It will break a lot of businesses if they don’t adapt.

It’s the shop management software. The shop owner is a friend, he tells me he could disable that feature for me, but he gets paid a little bit every time the free offer is sent out. I think it’s just funny. Maybe one of these days we’ll turn it on before going on a long road trip just to have satellite radio to play with on the highway, but around normal life I have zero use for subscription radio.

In the world of “fair” - it still has the old battery powered remote buttons to keep in the cars, and the button on the wall, just like openers always have had, but I’m not in my cars or near the button about 2/3 of the time I want to open or close that door - so I just get pissed off specifically at that company every time I use their app. Whatever they get from those ads really can’t be worth that loss of customer good will, can it?

Have one, suppose I could try tweaking filters around whatever it gets its ads from, but the code to present the button to open the door doesn’t show up until after the ads do, so I suspect all my pihole will be able to do is break the app.

I think I got the last one of those, but mine did come with a “free” phone app to open/close the door. The app turned into an advertising platform about 3 years after I put the opener in - no options out, gotta see the ads if I want to use my opener via app.

Never forget: Han shot first.

When I get an oil change now I also get “three free months” of Sirrius Satellite radio… racket and a half subscription seeking scum.

I purchased a used car from an individual, it had some hacky alarm system spliced in under the dash which malfunctioned quite comically at the grocery store (if it weren’t for the fear of being stranded with a car full of frozen foods) after we had owned the car about a month. That one was such a mess, I managed to identify its components and clip it out, leaving the factory harness undisturbed - would have been a bit more challenging if the system had actually cut some wires that later needed to be re-spliced.

have a larger profile in the surveillance capitalism machine.

This is why, when I’m not watching, I’ll set Netflix to stream movies I like.