The ideal internet was open and free if you could pay hosting and bandwidth costs - generally those who were associated with universities could

Oh that’s sad. The nature of commerce and competition means that proprietary stuff will never go away because making closed stuff is the way MBAs are taught to create “competitive advantage”

What’s holding GNU/Hurd back? Can’t be hardware anymore since it became blazing fast

That was not the UNIX way… True UNIX way would end silently and have zero as $?

Some people also use tablets and even foldable phones

It’s jarring nevertheless

Do remember that Apple also gets their cut of the money

How do you like the smell of despair in the morning?

I find it… Exquisite

And you really need to trust Tor exit nodes

She does not have superhuman stock picking and macroeconomic environment decoding abilities. She got massively lucky with China until Xi decided that large successful Chinese enterprises were a danger to his Party and COVID+inflation stressed all other companies

Kotlin won’t save your skin if the code you wrote should be performant but you layered it into a heap of abstract classes, interfaces, factories, etc and, realistically, no one else would use or expand on that

Only once, tho

This is the scorched earth approach to error handling

Also akin to Uber drivers, door dash delivery people, Airbnb hosts (back in the beginning)

No, he is on a pointer to a pointer to a point tonight

Good contrasting points but the bar is set really low. Maybe Europe is a better comparison?

Technically correct is the best kind of correct

Some mods are too protective of their communities, not fully understanding that moderating is the kind of free labor that spez wants to make profit on

Unless the hosts are hosted in Moldova or Russia