Doesn’t know the lyrics. Just goes meow meow meow.
Agreed that it’s an entirely acceptable position to try and avoid being stuck in the crossfire of cyber warfare. Let’s be clear though, cyber warfare is already going on and Russia+China are pulling no punches routinely wiping American and European servers in various ways. Anyone on the front line of cybersecurity sees them knocking ceaselessly.
Whether it is being offered to the end users as free (as in freedom) software or as paid closed source has the usual implications. Ease of use, accessibility measures and support impacts inclusivity. Supported languages (natural and programming) will influence further who uses them or not. What constitutes the user base will determine what’s it’s used for and in turn will apply pressure to the editor to take a certain direction.
Political impact is not always obvious and not every single grain of software will be infused with a powerful one. The point is that our choice is either to ignore it or to acknowledge it. We can’t opt out of the world; blind neutrality is as political as any other position.
I would like to offer as a counterpoint that everything is political. Tech is no exception. Tech is a tool, a tool comes with a specific affordance and an affordance suggests to the wielder a certain worldview. To wilfully ignore the social and political impact of one’s work does not protect it from the world’s turmoil.
I could go on
Also chaotic neutral: prioritizes issues by curiosity.
Only part I miss from going at the office. It’s not the same when you have to bake your own bribes.
If it listens and nods to the unedited, director’s cut version of my woes and frustrations, I’ll give it a cookie.
No, .com is not meant as commercial anymore and it was always open to everybody. No matter how easy the domain resellers are making it, picking TLDs has some implications: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
The .io TLD has been the subject of controversy for a number of years despite (or because it is?) being hijacked by tech.
EDIT: More about it
Just please don’t be smart ass and choose a non relevant top-level domain because it looks cute. .io is for the British Indian Ocean Territory. .af is for Afghanistan. queer.af actually got taken down by the talibans.
.com and .org are both open TLDs and totally fine. If you’re afraid to be understood as organization, you can go for .com. It’s the default of the web by now.
If your service can be understood as some kind of web application, you could look into .app as well.
Thank you! Wow, they were truly ahead of their time. 🙃
What is this cursed place? The clickbait has eaten everything. uBlock should make this into a blank page.
It’s fascinating how s-expressions are both data type and language syntax. Such power. Only other time I saw something remotely like this was XSLT & XML, which I admittedly do not miss one bit.
They sure like to use nondescript generative AI pictures. Can’t figure out what’s under the hood of their “Code Teacher” LLM. Most lessons are behind login.
Are passionate about the development lifecycle of other engineers and their pain points.
If you’ve been coding for 55+ years, you’ve almost gone through a whole engineer life cycle and you most probably know a lot about pain points.
I do! You mean like an actual second physical drive? Does that bring advantages compared to partitioning a single drive besides the space?
How do you produce the coffee to power the rust users?
I want to ditch Windows, I really do, but when I get free time I want to either play a game or tinker on some side project. I don’t want to fiddle with drivers and what not for my OS. A year ago I killed a few weekends trying to get a Ubuntu partition nice and cozy for gaming but I got fed up fighting with all kinds of issues on basic things. The fact that games actually running correctly on Linux is hit-or-miss as well… It’s a hard sell (even though it’s free). Microsoft seems to be hell-bent on convincing me to try out some other Linux distro at some point though.
Open source money? Why not just call it crypto so everyone understands what this is about?