That’s pretty solid logic. I like it.

What’s the third track? A free Palestine? “Let’s be mad for people calling us out for not demanding more when children are murdered at industrial scale.” That’s how you sound.

Sometimes you have to give your friends a helpful push.

“The smartest man in the world.”

As many free alternatives as there were before the rampant vibecoding, it seems that this growing collection of tools is not only functional, but a message to the large companies as well. Most of these apps are still far from what they intend to replace, however, so we’ll have to see how deep this message cuts.

Blood in the water for Adobe. Acrobat is a steaming pile of garbage. My org worked with their engineering team to track down a bug that we reported. They affirmed the bug (app hangs on launch) and then took four to five months fixing it.

I’ve worked in software engineering. I know that debugging, patching, testing, verifying is difficult. But the enterprise license costs a lot and that was a very long time with a crippling bug. The only satisfactory answer (to me) is that they don’t feel urgency because they are entrenched without real competition. They need to wake up.

(No, I don’t think vibe-coded Acrobat replacements will unseat them. I think LLM-powered real devs will come for them because the moat is smaller.)

Alabama Man!

“When his wife asks him where he’s been, just use the action button and bust her lip open.”

Another franchise, but also relevant.

If you’re a Candice Owens slob, whatever. No teacher should bang students, but this one is called out by a conspiracy nutjob. Scrutinize but don’t listen to her.

Hot babes in that video for sure. But Come to Daddy is more of the Halloween vibe in my opinion. First time I ever heard it, my buddy played it for me while we were on mushrooms. Scary as fuck.

Then he put on Future Sound of London’s Dead Cities. That’s when it became too much.

No shit? The lady who said there must be a peace-fire… [cheers] … for at least six weeks (or some similar bullshit). And didn’t let any Palestinians speak at her big party. And told other activists to go to another rally for whatever they were saying. She lost? I wonder why.

It’s not difficult to meet your voters where they are if you actually listen to them.

Was it because Win11 had a bunch of slopcoded Copilot bs? Inquiring minds want to know.

Impose voting rights restrictions that reduce their access. Take the average life expectancy in your country, reduce the number by whatever the voting age is in your country. Cut off their right to vote by that number.

In the USA, where you can vote at 18, if the average life expectancy is 81 (made up a number), voting would end after 63. Pretty good way to ensure longterm thinking prevails.

That’s been my experience. But I choose to stay because the instance doesn’t block other instances. I prefer to see what people are saying and make my own decisions. Still haven’t blocked any instances.

We had an intern at a previous employer who worked with us for two summers. Last I spoke to him, he was gonna go work for weapons company. I told him that was a morally terrible decision. As far as I know, he went there and might be making a lot of money. No respect from me if that happened.

That’s a terrible feeling that I have definitely experienced. “That stupid jerk (past-me) did this!”

Hi. I’m Nobody.

So do I. We had our financial person take steps to limit our exposure. Still, I expect we’ll take a major hit regardless. Hopefully, we can ride it out with no major financial emergency forcing us to sell while the market is down.

which mackleless
/usr/bin/mackleless

Checks out.

No, piracy is about “Yaaaarrrr!”

In its submission to the EU’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, the group calls yt-dlp “a major problem for the music industry” and names four of its maintainers by their GitHub handles.

Ok, so add YouTube to the list.

I think this is the right move. They started on MacOS. They expanded to Linux and Win for reasons that were unclear (to me). If they can’t keep all three going, open-sourcing the code is appropriate. If people want to keep going, awesome. If not, well… And they refocus their resources to the platform that they presumably consider their primary home, else they wouldn’t have started with MacOS first.

I have Orion installed and occasionally use it. But I’m also a browser junky and can’t resist trying every new browser I read about. (I’m posting this from the recently announced Search browser and it’s using impressively low system resources. I recommend test driving it if you’re curious. I’m not affiliated in any way).