Notices by Dan Hugo (danhugo@fosstodon.org)

Their Billionaires are BAD!
OUR Billionaires are [BETTER|WORSE]!

I wonder how this will work out

cc @dansup

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/mark-cuban-is-ready-to-fund-a-tiktok-alternative-built-on-blueskys-at-protocol/

@martijnbraam

I worked at NSCP back (way back) in the day, we could clean build on a desktop PPro in about 90 minutes, and it was not too difficult figure out what was going on where (even after the Xfe re-wrote everything in C++ without telling anyone).

It was still crazy, but it sounds like it still is and more. Yipes!

@martijnbraam

And everything was in cvs without pserve, auto mounted on /m/src.

First day:
1. Do not cd /m/src
2. DO NOT cd /m/src

Someone did checkout into /m/src about once/week.

Such interesting times.

(root on all unix-like machines was pil/QED fwiw…)

@stavvers I have worked at a well-known online publication as a software eng… reporters are a hoot.