antihumanitarian

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[–] antihumanitarian 18 points 3 days ago

For people lacking context, Boeing split off and sold their division that became Spriti Aerosystems. The theory at the time was that Boeing's core competency wasn't building airplanes, it was managing relationships with other vendors. In particular, the actual plane manufacturing part of the company was undesirable due to perceived poor "Return on Net Assets." The theory they pitched to shareholders was they should sell off non obviously profitable divisions so they reduced asset liability while keeping the same or better profits.

That was their explanation, of course it was a terrible idea.

[–] antihumanitarian 1 points 6 days ago

Title worried me for a moment that they were dropping Steam Input; happy to see they seem intent on the opposite.

[–] antihumanitarian 34 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well this is a tremendous step in the wrong direction. The economic problem is the ad supported model in the first place, no matter how it's run. This is the same thing Google does, they keep user data to themselves and sell the ad placement. So now Mozilla has the same economic incentives as Google. Unfathomably bad move.

[–] antihumanitarian 27 points 3 weeks ago

The moment that shocked me was when printers, network cards, and even motherboard integrated Ethernet didn't work on Windows without driver downloads but Linux was plug and play. Full reversal of the situation.

[–] antihumanitarian 5 points 3 weeks ago

If you read carefully this is actually very similar to the Steam news. I doubt Valve or GOG care, but generally the games are "sold" by the publisher as non transferable licenses for you to play them. So the part that matters isn't up to them.

[–] antihumanitarian 24 points 1 month ago

Note the versions, none of the results give you the official operators page for the current version, 16. They give 9, which went EOL in 2021.

[–] antihumanitarian 7 points 1 month ago

Have you tried recent models? They're not perfect no, but they can usually get you most of the way there if not all the way. If you know how to structure the problem and prompt, granted.

[–] antihumanitarian 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Them using Google indexes anonymously isn't intending to solve the problem you think it is. It's more about incentive structures. Google's "free" search optimizes for ad revenue now. The API access doesn't as much, and Kagi certainly doesn't have an ad incentive. So privacy is a nice bonus, but the real benefit is a customer serving incentive structure.

[–] antihumanitarian 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wonder how we should interpret the country "XD" being on the list. As far as I can tell its never been used for any real country.

[–] antihumanitarian 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Funny how the DOS equivalent of ls is dir, so before the GUI folder metaphor.

[–] antihumanitarian 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A major caveat I've noticed some people misunderstand: it's corporate CLAs that are problematic. The Apache Foundation also requires contributors sign a CLA, but it's to provide a legal fail safe and a way to update to say Apache 3.0 if need be one day. Apache's non profit, open source mission aligns with respecting the rights of contributors and the community. Corporations, on the other hand, not so much.

[–] antihumanitarian 28 points 2 months ago

Codeberg is run off of donations, they have no service contract revenue. Nobody, much less a volunteer, wants to commit to a 5 or 10 year service plan like that, it's not sustainable for a small project from a non profit.

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