Make your MIT-licensed library big enough that the corpos use it, then switch it to AGPL just before you add a really important and tricky feature they've been waiting for.
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https://xkcd.com/963/ (October 2011)
[Mouseover text] Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.
I'll be the old stodger voice and mention that taking 5 minutes from time to time to not be stimulated is good for mental health, and apparently creativity too.
... And then I'll put in my vote for Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. (In F-droid as Puzzles, app by Chris Boyle)
* cracks knuckles * Time to roll out a federated, truly open source generative AI and use it to ((checks notes)) mock Disney.
Daemons Unleashed
The title assumes we know this Dirk guy, but might not have heard of Linus...
Some various answers here; but for me, it came from w/o as a shorthand for 'without', then I started sometimes writing w/ for 'with' and wondering if that's okay!
And we need some people to step up and become contributors and maintainers.
common animals
Royalty
"And here on your left you will see a prime example of the common European prince. No longer afforded a natural habitat, the nation of Britain has built special reserves for these princelings and other royalty, called palaces. On certain days you can observe royals being transported in specially equipped vehicles from one palace to another to encourage mating."
"No, no, we only cheated that one time, it's in the past. Let it go. We've had our one lie, now we're perfectly honest!"
Alt text: Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.
Endless Sky.
It's an open world 2D spacefaring game, with a good core story and more being added by the surprisingly-active dev community.
Not without its flaws, but anyway I think it's a fantastic game in its own right. And it's both "finishable" and under continued development & expansion.
Sounds like a crazy idea to me. Next you'll be saying, end a TV show before the ratings have plummeted to zero.
I hear rumours that cast doubt on its veracity
It just looks so sad there. Poor envelope.
I mean, that's pretty bad in itself. You'd think for a national election someone could find programmers able to make formats match and catch errors properly.
What were you guys voting on anyway? MySpace bands?
Spread equality! Beat up your husband today!
...ah, did I get the wrong take on this?
For real, though, men generally have more ability (and more propensity afaik?) to cause serious physical harm to women then vice versa, and, especially in many cultures, the woman is more likely to feel she has no option but submit and accept abuse.
At the same time, though, arguments are normal in relationship, and it's well worth both sides learning to understand what's upsetting their partner and how to talk/act differently and how to process the struggles together in a healthy way.
So, I read something on this a little while ago. It has to do with the moon's weaker gravity making time progress at a different rate, so the lunar time zone gives a precise reference for sub-second (nanosecond I guess?) precision manoeuvres and such like.
My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore.
Aww.
If you love it, set it free!
I think something on the UK's NHS implied the risk is primarily for mothers with various kinds of problems (including drug or alcohol abuse). Made me wonder if it's largely recommended for everyone to cover the many people who are at risk but don't want to think they are.
I already reverted my machines to Windows 10 ages ago
Ah the sweet smell of, "your computer is not ready for Windows 11. Find out what you can do."
Yes, the old Internet was absolutely full of good-natured, kind, helpful people.
It wasn't until my boomer grandchildren got hold of Facebook that I got tricked into rm -rf, and called dirty words for believing a stranger
... Luckily I use Windows so it didn't hurt me.
Now I use Hurd, btw
Wouldn't it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?
The whole point of computers, as far as I can tell, is to be that abusive relationship we never could perfect with humans. Linux is no exception, it's just more passive-aggressive and better with gaslighting.
"You see, if only you'd installed this dependency, which I showed you so clearly in the error logs all along - and I categorised them so nicely - but you never like to look there, do you? - I mean, I understand, and that's why I mentioned it - not too strongly, because I didn't want to upset you more - in the terminal output..."
Yes and no. Ownership is valuable. But the flexibility to live and move with less responsibility is also valuable.
Really? I assumed FF was 'fast fourier'.
Ever since the scandal where they changed the root certificate to enable inserting ads into Https - and worse still, IIRC made them the same (?) meaning anyone who figured it out could intercept any other affected-laptop-user's Https - I've felt some caution about Lenovo laptops.
TD;DR
Too Dull; Didn't Read?
And now... Lots of websites with menus on the left!
Still, happy for you that your dad could humble himself to you. That's really hard for some people, even when they'd like to, it's like your brain just won't compute how to say it without coming out wrong so you never say it.
Look at this idiot here, not understanding the herring's natural state to swim up slipperiness.
That said, the LLM isn't running an array of bonus functions like breathing and wondering why you said that stupid thing to your Aunt's cousin 15 years ago and keeping tabs on your ambient noise for possible phone calls from that nice boy who promised to call you back.
I dunno though... The power of love is a curious thing.
I, too, get my coffee from the rolling bistro.
Impersonate? Become!
That sounds pretty cool, though I'd be concerned it will suffer from the classic problem of current AI (...and humans, but that's by the by) of confident incorrectness. Like an automatic transmission can miss meanings and types of context that a human will spot, programmatically generating speech can probably mess up punctuation and flow - even the way a human reader sometimes will get part way through a sentence and realise they need to start again for it to come out right.
That said, I can't see it being a big problem for most works, just unfortunate here and there. For once it seems an AI application short on downsides! (Except for the usual economic ones for many people previously trained in the field.)
... Alabama is now asking for volunteers to try it out on first. UN experts are yet to sign up.
"Hey, what's up? Where have you been?"
"Oh, if you'd seen my ex, you'd know."
This was the topic of discussion between an historian, a mathematician and a mystic.
The historian said, "writing. The ability to put words on paper to be communicated to people who never even met the 'speaker', is the single greatest achievement of mankind."
The mathematician said, "no, numbers. The ability to express and develop truly abstract concepts, which in turn leads to Incredible real applications. Numbers are the single greatest invention of mankind."
The mystic said, "the Thermos flask."
"The Thermos flask?"
"The Thermos flask. It keeps hot drinks hot in the winter, and cold drinks cold in the summer. But think - that little flask - how does it know?"
Came here to say Simon Tatham's puzzles.
I also like, from f-droid, Tower Jumper, and from Play, hillclimb racing.