You can’t kill The Metal

The Metal will live on

Punk Rock tried to kill The Metal

But they failed, as they were smite to the ground

New Wave tried to kill The Metal

But they failed, as they were stricken down to the ground

Grunge tried to kill The Metal Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

They failed, as they were thrown to the ground

Not actually Starbucks related but the other day I wanted a coffee so I bought a $5 48oz bottle of cold brew at the grocery store and helped myself to a courtesy cup, lid, ice and straw so I could drink it right away. So for the same price as probably a 16oz cold brew I got that and the remaining ~3/4 of the bottle to take home.

I don’t know DBZ. It thought it was Vegeta something

Design is hard. I didn’t exactly grok this right away. I guess you’d want to put the top text above the image to show that that’s the “speaker” and the bottom text is a label. I’m not sure but I would know it if I saw it done right.

Woot.com has lots of refurbs around that price.

It’s part of Amazon so you can use your Prime shipping.

Two presidents in that picture

Jitsi Meet

I’ll contact their webmaster and file a bug report

During COVID, wages for the lowest paid people increased more than other classes. I think it was partially the rise of gig work giving alternatives to people who were otherwise stuck working at Walmart because that’s the only job in town.

A full time employee isn’t a servant?

The economy is bifurcating into haves and have-nots. The haves paying for more services from the have-nots closes that gap. Maybe not by much, but at least in the right direction.

Just because gig work makes inequality more visible, doesn’t mean it’s causing it.

Look how far we’ve come

We could not determine whether Giovansanti has ever harmed someone by speeding. But the circumstantial evidence is not reassuring: The right side of his truck is visibly damaged, and he refused to answer a straightforward question about his collision history.

If it was his car being damaged while parked it would be the left side, so probably not that.

Lending library books is based on the doctrine of first sale, and the idea that you can resell and lend physical objects.

Running a service is not the same as selling a standalone physical good.

To extend that analogy, this would be like an obligation of the author to make their manuscripts available.

A lot of things seem like common sense of you have an overly simplistic view of the world.

What law is a developer breaking when they shut down an old game?

Feels to me more like kicking you out of Chipotle at closing time.

Servers cost money. Making server side code available takes effort and money. It’s the issue of positive versus negative rights. The difference between being entitled to food stamps (you have to give me) versus having the right to hunt (you have to let me). Of course we have food stamps, but that’s funded by the government, it’s not an obligation for grocery stores to give food away.

The point of the guac analogy is the entitlement to say that you as a consumer gets to dictate a price singlehandedly.

Developing and running server-side software is my job. It’s a lot easier said than done to take software designed only to run inhouse and make it easily installable and runnable in other environments. The typical project will have tangled deployment processes and hard coded secrets and tons of baked in assumptions.

Are they required to open source the code? That’s a licensing issue that might be impossible. Do they have the license to redistribute their dependencies? Did they vendor them, making it hard or impossible to untangle?

Just releasing binaries is no good. All code needs to be maintained. Vulnerabilities get discovered and need to be patched.

Some of the biggest botnets on the planet are Internet of Things devices that never get security updates. They’re a scourge.

Israel has its own military industrial complex. It’s an even bigger portion of their economy. They’re a very high tech nation. ICQ, the predecessor of AOL Instant Messenger, was invented in/by Israelis.

75 is the mandatory retirement age for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Thank you for clarifying but I still think this has the guac problem, which is the customer dictating “I think this is easy/cheap/free so you should just give it to me.” You don’t know what effort or cost is involved. There could be license entanglements. Running code that you don’t have the source for to be able to patch vulnerabilities in is a bad idea. This stuff should be negotiated voluntarily. I don’t see an arguments about market failure or externalities or monopolies to justify bringing in a regulation.