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> literally nobody is saying that From the article: "it’s time for Matt to resign from either the WordPress Foundation or Automattic." Can I gently suggest to you that posting unde…

So it turned out, there was an option 3, where random internet guy was ignored and the maintainer both made money from his work, and continued with the public good of donating work…

... "faulty logic"... the Maintainer runs a business and makes a lot of money and he should give that up, but is invited to keep working as before for nothing. It is left to others…

The guy has some kind of point (for which he was flamed in the comments, and respect for acknowledging his gratitude to the maintainer) but the maintainer did the work, and by dint…

This is from Dec 20.

Without the russian detour: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/16/business/50k-car-prices/i...

This isn't stripe customer service, nobody here can change your situation.

"No privacy concerns".... you're dreaming if you think you won't have "privacy concerns" in Russia or whatever. In fact being able to see the endpoint of the traffic you're trying …

Since a couple of years ago, I spent a year or so like this, with the TV resting on the desk directly. It looked pretty nice, but it had some problems. - The only actual 8K modes r…

No... core volunteers who provide work to you for free, which you have been consuming successfully, have now extended the domain of their works to also encompass something on top y…

This plugin can only operate on top of the core code, whoever distributes the plugin to you. It means you have to decide to either bin the whole ecosystem, or use the core and plug…

As I wrote elsewhere, this is no different from a project deciding to incorporate a third party's functionality into the core. Either way whoever provides the plugin, you trust the…

You have been and continue to trust Automattic for the core code. If for example, Automattic instead had said they will bundle the plugin functionality with the core, there are man…

GPL does not make any representations about private equity being able to extract value from the work.

Users of the plugin already have a trust and consumption relationship with Automattic for the core. It's more like mcdonalds replacing Coke with McCola with your mcdonalds meal - y…

Sorry, this is a GPL plugin to stuff already maintained by Automattic? It's not like users aren't already updating to whatever Automattic want to give them, in the core, if that's …

> In one instance, the lawyers set about trying to disprove the legitimacy of handwritten notes. ... Sherrell’s team tracked down the printer of the notepad in China, proving that …

Guys... look into stgit if you like the sound of this iconoclasm https://stacked-git.github.io/

PDF's god is Adobe though... you have to pay a tithe if you want to get serious. And never speak of Flash.

This is just FUD.

United Kingdom just doesn't drink coffee? I don't think so... according to this we manage 98M cups of coffee a day https://balancecoffee.co.uk/blogs/blog/coffee-consumption-st...

I was expecting to see the word "yocto", did I miss it? This goes quite far along the path, building all the build tools and toolchain to the same version before building the packa…

... or involves people from a country they are not allowed to do business with.

Yes, they are regulated abroad because they are rightly frightened of what SV will do to them without it, it's unrelated to "competitive advantage".

After establishing that Musk has "fuck everyone" money, the rest of this is explaining why some pamphlet-author is dissappointed he's not happier. He's not going to care and since …