Notices by maxine 🇵🇸 (maxine@hachyderm.io)

@dalias i don’t think this is much of a hot take - vertical integration attempts at this failed pretty hard (vanmoof) or nearly went bankrupt (cowboy) while exceeding regular ebike costs and being less reliable. bosch and shimano seem responsible for most of the ebikes i see when cycling, and they stretch from being as simple as “press on button and cycle” to “configure your preferred boost levels or gearing in an app, and then cycle”, and that seems to have by far won with regular bike cos as well as cargo bikes.

@dalias you can’t expect websites that would be perfectly fine being static to drop their progressive webapp and spa bullshit, a PM would get really sad

@dalias @hipsterelectron i don’t think templeos qualifies as necessarily more fascist than wisdom tree games, but whether either qualifies as fascist depends on whether you believe there’s more than one way to do orthodoxy imo

@dalias i think their origin is weird, especially since it all came out of xbmc, but they are unparalleled for user sharing and watch/listened tracking (unfortunately). When it comes to being able to loan something out to a friend, it’s pretty much this or sending them a file, so I think their present day usecases make a lot of sense, even as they pivot to being an ad supported streamer

@dalias my plex is a) audiobooks from libro and b) shows from blurays. Jellyfin unfortunately doesn't come close to working with the second reasonably

@dalias the verge did something really clever by getting kudos for their jfk/hbo hp piece, and then doubling down on covering every emission from musk and his fellow band of arseholes as sincere. tho in their defence, tech journalism has always just been part of the marketing machine of tech cos

but then people should have caught on when they put up a paywall but made the comment section free to peruse.

@dalias oh there is no way this entire line of thinking doesn’t stem from some mixture of catholicism and justifying violence against “lower” creatures

@dalias never say executives aren’t innovative people

@dalias i think they’re trying for an infinity money glitch

@dalias i think this is a hachy side block fwiw? Or maybe i am blocked too

@dalias i guess mobile clients don’t surface this nicely, viewing on the wev

@dalias the one thing we will always have a growing supply of is people who contrary to all evidence think they’re funny

@dalias a problem doesn’t have to be interesting for someone to get enjoyment out of slapping first on it. Same as any would be Linnaeus who wants to document living communities.

@dalias it’s always the problem of people who enjoy the puzzle of implementing any random idea. If only they tried sudokus instead.

@dalias they’ll work around the clock to fix this one before dlss5 ships

@dalias also in the thread: flask boy jumping in to defend this crap!

@dalias I’m broadly anti anti-viral licensing and pro-corporate licensing, which is largely how I see the MIT/BSD style licensing side of things, personally, but I think that comes from a great disappointment at free software not actively styling itself as a pro-labour movement reclaiming tools from capital.

@dalias it’s like the arguments for why treating LLM code and its proponents as actively malicious are all coming from the LLM camps actions! Really hard to claim this was done with anything but active hate of free software as the motivator, since there’s no valid reason to want MIT over LGPL…

@dalias a neighbour offered a much better solution by asking the racist to meet them outside so they can explain

An implied threat might be just what was needed to get this person to at least stfu

@dalias While definitely not the sole reason, I think some part of the problem is crypto people and NFT shills didn’t get chased out with pitchforks as they maintained community positions while working for the next ponzi scheme, and while the overlap with opensource was smaller back then, it still showed that tech workers can act with complete impunity within their communities.

So honestly, especially the figureheads who relentlessly promote it, need shunning and rejection.