Notices by mcv (mcv@nerdica.net)

@cstross @onepict @alex

Crispin is not the only one; 8 of her family members have Wikipedia pages. I'm sure she'll inherit her own eventually.

@nicholas_saunders @GI_Jack @drewdevault

Not everything is about competition. There's also room for cooperation. That company worked closely with some other companies in the Apache ecosystem to make their tools better than those from other ecosystems.

The company also gave away its in-house developed open source CMS and made money not from licenses but from support contracts and hiring out experts.

@nicholas_saunders @GI_Jack @drewdevault

Many Apache projects are being developed by people working for the businesses that use it. And it's useful for the businesses that people share that work, because it means better supported software for them.

Sharing is valuable for companies too. My first employer refused to share a framework that an employee wrote, and that meant they lost support for it, when they could have gotten free support. My second employer hired tons of Apache contributors and did very well as a result.

@clacke @hypolite @efraim @tipjip @Paul

I will definitely be rewatching 2021 soon as well. Either when part 2 is released, or together with my son, who has to read and watch it for school.

I haven't seen the 2000 version yet. Should I? I think it's the only version that goes into the sequels, which I also haven't read, because I've been told quality goes down.

I love them both. The 2021 version is massive, gorgeous, and epic, but does feel a bit hollow or shallow to me somehow, in a way I can't really explain.

Maybe it is that the 1984 has a bolder vision, is more opinionated, and that imbues it with a vibrant life that's somewhat lacking from the movie that just tries to follow the book as closely as possible.

And if it failed to follow the book as closely as possible, it's Baron Harkonnen. And yet that was the most daring thing the movie did. Funny that.

@lmk @eff

I guess business have to build tools to finally support proper public key authentication in everything.

@clacke @randahl

I would really hope that being in prison would finally do it. But that's not going to end the problems of which he's been the most annoying symptom. There's still too many Americans living in a media ecosystem of lies and a political party that will eagerly sell its soul for any stab at power.

"Or else" isn't very specific. At the very least include a photo of the politician's children at their school or something. That's what makes a threat at least somewhat credible.

I'm also running a somewhat political game, but it's not that deep. I'm mostly following the SRM4 adventures, fleshing them out a bit more here and there. I want to do a bit more with the corruption around the Backhaven administration, but I'm not sure how. It's mentioned a lot in various sources, but never very fleshed out.

@aral I thought you wanted a version without Google's apps?! Now it turns out you do have that option, pre-installed so you don't have to do it yourself, and that's still not good enough?

I don't understand you. Are you just here to bitch about people having the audacity to try to make phones environmentally less damaging?

I do not, actually. The most expensive websites tend to be the worst. Government websites often cost hundreds of millions and are invariably terribly designed. Big Tech websites try to lock us into their business model. The most interesting websites tend to be those by hobbyists sharing something about something they really care about.

I want user-driven content, not ad-driven content. The one big website I really like, is Wikipedia, and it's paid by donations, not ads. The worst websites are the ad-driven content farms that Google likes to put high on their search results because they have more ads than the user-driven websites that these farms stole their content from.

@Syphilia @Are0h @BlackAzizAnansi @mekkaokereke When I was young, the Dutch were certain that we were the most tolerant nation in the world. We weren't racist! We dealt with that at the end of WW2. Racist parties would never get more than one seat in our parliament. Also, we were a merchant nation, and racism was bad for business, so we'd always been this tolerant (let's not mention the slave trade, okay?).

Then, about 20 years ago, one racist party after another kept popping up. Suddenly racists were coming out of the woodwork everywhere. Every time someone pointed out something was racist, racists would quickly deny it and demonstrate their racism.

Maybe we were just good at pretending we weren't racist. Or at least good at fooling ourselves.