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Just want to point out that it absolutely is possible to train an AI that will keep track of its sources for inspiration and can attribute those when it makes a response.

Meaning creators could be compensated for their parts of AI generated stuff, if anyone wanted to.

The free software as a passion project idea became untenable long ago. It works for UNIX style utilities where the project stays small and changes can be managed by one person but breaks down on large projects.

As a user, try to get a feature added or bugfix merged. Its a weeks or sometimes months/years long back and forth trying to get the bikeshedding correct.

As a maintainer, spend time reading and responding to bug reports which are all unrelated to the project. Deal with a few pull requests that don't quite fit the project, but might with more polish. Take a month off and wait for the inevitable "is this being maintained?" Issues reports.

I contribute back changes because I want those features but don't want to maintain a longterm fork of the project. When they're rejected or ignored its demoralizing. I can tell myself "This is the way of open source" but sometimes I just search for another project that better fits my needs rather than trying to work on the one I submitted changes to.

That is the happy path. The sad path of this is how many people look at the aforementioned problems and never bother to submit a pull request because it's too much trouble? Git removed most of the technical friction of contributing, but there is still huge social friction.

Long story short: the man pages maintainer deserves something for all the "work" part of maintaining. He can continue to not be paid for the passion part.

Questions are a burden and answers a prison for oneself.

Back in the village again!

Wells Fargo has like 20,000 employees or some junk (unresearched). This is performative bullshit meant to signal to the industry, and maybe to scare their employees.

Edit: they have 238,698 employees according to wikipedia. Subtract 12 from that and then ignore this not-news.

If we keep going we might accidentally reinvent Usenet news.

Not saying that like its a bad thing, just saying we might be able to take some inspiration from there.

I'll take "Things I thought were settled law, and creepy photos of dude who introduced legislation to overturn them" for $500 Alex.

They don't have money but they do have the classic authoritarian hierarchy of SciFi.

Want to travel the galaxy? You need a starship. How do you get a starship? Join the federation.

Picard retired to a grape farm in France. How did he get that perk? Can anyone have a grape farm in France?

SciFi has an inherent power imbalance between the fleet and grounders. This comes from the ability to move around and drop bombs on people. As much as they try to stay in a socialist paradise, they still have tons of incidents that end up being solved the starfleet way.

It's a quote from starship troopers, but the idea of "Service guarantees citizenship" is what draws fascists to SciFi. It's a tough problem to fix in fiction and most of the time it's overlooked because spaceships are cool on paper. They make great entertainment.

The reality is that serving in the federation usually would mean you've never been on a starship bridge. You're 20 levels down in a maintenance hold with no outside view. Nobody tells you shit and all you know is the ship is being fired at and you're fucking terrified.

Even if you can pull up an external view on your tablet (which is a massive security problem), you still don't have any control over the fight. Now you can watch torpedoes coming straight at you and realize the captain can't stop it, and you can't either..

Morale would be constantly in the toilet, and without a bigger reward than to explore strange new worlds you can't see from the hold, people would be constantly quitting.

In conclusion, I'm not saying that star trek is fascist. I'm just saying it hand waves away 90% of the problems with their alleged utopia and people like watching action packed SciFi adventures.

I have a whole separate rant about weapons like lasers that travel at the speed of light. In the real world most fights would happen across distances, with ships being undetectable against the blackness of space, until a beam comes out of nowhere and instantly destroys your ship. But because it's fiction you can ignore this.

Isn't the Pope's word unchallengeable according to Catholic doctrine? I might be naive about this, but it seems like these cardinals could face ex-comunication for insubordination? If that doesn't happen wouldn't this public challenge weaken his power?

I guess maybe that is the point for these cardinals, but maybe they're cutting off their nose to spite their faces.

I think the second one would be my sticking point. People can't write applications you would care about if they might not work on every network.

Lots of ipv4 hacks are based around compatibility tradeoffs.

That being said, I dont know that the /64 everywhere crowd is ever going to win that fight.

Using small subnets might break ipv6-pd, which, when it works is worth keeping.

Calling them ordinancemakers might confuse people

I saw this and they had a click through agreement that they can market to you if you get it this way. It's 99 cents on steam and now I wonder which deal is better

Can do.. But won't

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDeBrtY5W4