It was surprisingly common, though due to the cost of buying tapes, it wasnt as common as it is now.

VHS tapes have this nifty feature where you could store video on it in 3 different formats. While the tape from the rental place was stored in the format that fit roughly 2hrs on a tape, you could record three 2hr movies to a tape if you used the lower quality EP format (I think that was the acronym).

This lead to people like my friend’s dad keeping shelves of tapes with hastily scrawled labels on them for 3 different movies or 6 different episodes.

All you needed for any of this was 2 VCRs, which from the early 90s were pretty affordable.

Am I the only one that thinks it’s a little silly to blog $2B on a hybrid when you can just run wires along the tracks and go full electric? Given that the grid clearly needs investment, you could expand its capacity and range at the same time with theoretically limited costs.

That was great. This is why I subscribe here.

He’s pissing off the right people!

YES!

This is why these rich motherfuckers chose to donate to such causes. They don’t see it as a donation, they think they’re buying a museum to showcase whatever they want.

That’s very cool. Hopefully GNOME will steal this idea one day.

Hopefully, this includes a way too launch a new tab with a specified container using only the keyboard.

I swear, the stupid of these people must be contagious. It’s the only thing that explains how they’re not all laughed out of every gathering.

That won’t do in my case 'cause I need to share multiple windows throughout the session as I switch between my terminal/IDE/browser etc.

[I’ve now edited the initial question to reflect this]

The problem is that I need to switch workspaces rapidly as part of the share: terminal → browser → IDE → browser → IDE → terminal, etc. I can’t be constantly going back and toggling which window I’m sharing.

[I’ve now edited the initial question to reflect this]

That was a frustrating read. Dude gets screwed by Microsoft who effectively steals his code and rebrands it as theirs and then he goes on to talk about why he prefers MIT.

That’s understandable, though one of the other commenters suggested the LGPL which might make for a good fit for your case. Here’s a comparison with the other two if you’re interested.

The AGPL is just the GPL with extra rules requiring sharing the code even if you expose it exclusively via a service.

Ooh, yes for for this case, the LGPL would be a good middle-ground for OP’s concerns.

A simple comparison between the two via interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu says that they’re almost identical save for one clause around trademarks:

https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/licence/compare/BSD-3-Clause;MIT

But I’d be remiss if I didn’t advocate for a license that better protected your project from corporate theft. The AGPL and GPL are excellent licenses that protect your work and that of the community from companies that would copy it, improve it exclusively for themselves and then ship your work exclusively in binary form:

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/

The facts don’t care about the feelings of the electorate, let alone that of shareholders.

1. Carbon capture does not work. There’s no practical case for it, even if you throw the economics out.
2. Increasing renewable energy is not enough if we continue to increase our fossil burning.
3. Any economic or political case for fossils is necessarily short-term, because points 1 and 2 ensure that the long-term always ends in catastrophe and catastrophe is bad for the economy.

For those on Mastodon, the #CarryShitOlympics hashtag has some real gems in this style.

With all those forest fires clearing the way, now’s the time to build more climate shredding infrastructure!

I started using it 'cause I was working with a lot of Linux nerds and they convinced me to try it out. I liked the politics of the GPL and the potential in the Free ecosystem.

25 years later I refuse to use anything else. Windows & Mac are built to take options away from you, to force you do use your hardware their way, and I hate it. My machine does exactly what I want it to, with hundreds of keyboard shortcuts and a solid UI built atop transparent subsystems. Windows ties my hands while pushing ads and AI into my eyeballs. Mac only “Just Works” if you’re using it precisely the way that want you to and exclusively with other iShit. No thanks.

Thank you for this. It’s positively infuriating the way the left keeps eating itself. There is no way the establishment will let socialism take root in the Democratic party, but there’s real value in moving the Overton window to the left enough to allow people to see either the benefits of socialist policies or (more likely) the opposition to it.

The whole “fuck these guys, they’re not revolutionary enough” is a great way to ensure that nothing ever gets done.

We should absolutely have red lines though. Some of these candidates already cross them, and even more candidates may be all talk. But shitting all over anyone who dares to do anything other than launch an unpopular resistance is not constructive.