Rocky Linux is a commercial derivative, it isn't just Oracle. Alma is a non profit, but, you still get the core Redhat product for free (gratis).

I don't agree with, or like, what Redhat is doing here. But, I get it. We live in a purely capitalist society, and Redhat/IBM are publicly traded companies. They have to make money. And in this case Redhat is doing most all of the work and other companies (Oracle / Rocky / etc) are selling support for less than Redhat. The alternative is a race to the bottom in selling support, which doesn't benefit anyway. Redhat contributes a LOT back upstream into the kernel, gnome, etc ... and that costs money.

They aren't doing anything that the license doesn't allow them to do, though they are stomping and spitting on the spirit of the GPL.

They can't stop you from redistributing the SRPMs, but, if you do, they can deny you additional releases (including point releases). You'll always be entitled to the version of the SRPMs for the binaries you are running.

But, this is just a whack-a-mol game. Alma and Rocky will figure out how to work around this, and life will go on.

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It's like any new service that is better than a previous service. If you can't reach critical mass of users, it doesn't matter how good it is.

People don't care about the table that they are eating dinner at. They care about the other people around the table.

Twitter's table is a little shaky, but they keep wedging things under the feet to level it. Until a critical mass of people get tired of shoving something under the table feet to keep it stable, people aren't going to switch.

And Mastodon isn't a perfect table either, and people tried it and deemed it to not be better. Getting people to come back that already gave it a shot, and decided it wasn't better, to come back ... will be "hard".

At 6167 pieces, $500 is less than 10 cents per brick, which is the "going rate" when determining if a set is a decent value or not. that bricks in this set are about 8 cents each ... which isn't bad, especially when you consider the minifig count and the licensing.

100% this. Lego has evolved from the 1980s, and this set (and others) represent that evolution.

You can still use the bricks from the 80s with the new bricks. they are completely compatible. But now your completely square castle can have angles, and vines going up the side, and a moat with water and waves hitting the rocks.

My main use case for github search is finding code in the organization that I work in. If:

* we see an error message in our centralized logging solution, and I need to know where it comes from
* i want to find all the internal code that calls an internal micro service
* we need to find product names across repos

We have a /lot/ of repos (thousands). Downloading all of them and searching locally isn't really feasible.

Github's default search is horrible, and strips most "special" characters out, and doesn't support regular expression searching. Sourcegraph is great for this now, but is extremely expensive at $90 per active user per month. Having a better search built into Github would be a game changer for organizations.

> "No company subject to [Chinese Communist Party] dictates should have the power to accumulate such extensive data on the American people or curate content to nearly a third of our population," Bennet wrote in the letter.

This is a slippery slope. I don't want the government dictating what I can and cannot watch.

The Chinese government has an agenda, yes, but so does MSNBC and Fox news. Both of which are curating content for us. They are protected by the 1st amendment, but that doesn't lessen their influence.

TikTok is curating, mostly, dance trends and girls in swimming pools. There are companies in the USA doing worse with our data, and curating real agendas ...

If you can get past the crap, and train their profile of what you want to see, there is a good bit of content on TikTok from Makers, demonstrating / teaching some techniques and there are some decent chef's showing off some decent ideas.

It is mostly trash, but i've discovered some gems that i've been able to take and apply in the real world in cooking, wood working, modeling, etc ... I was introduced to some new books, such as the Murder Bot series, and the Poppy wars which were fantastic reads. Got some board game ideas from reviewers that my kids and play regularly.

TikTok's algorithm is fantastic at discovering that stuff, as long as you are OK with seeing the newest dance trend along with it.

The first use case that I thought of would be for someone like Stephen Hawkings, and other people that can no longer speak the way they used to. Imagine how great it would be to be able to use your own voice after a horrible accident or disease.

We are either going to love and embrace all these new technologies, and learn how to mitigate the threats from them ... which is largely the same thing we've had to do with all new technologies, ever ...

OR, we are going to be terrified of them and regulate them out of relevance.

The difference is, we are at a point of rapid advancement in truly game-changing technologies, some of which we don't fully understand, and that's "scary".

Personally, i think that these are exciting times and I truly hope that we embrace these technologies.

> remain safely encrypted due to LastPass's Zero Knowledge architecture

It just occurred to me, maybe i'm late to the party ... but, If Lastpass has a zero knowledge architecture, could it be used as an encrypted chat system if e2e encrypted chats, like signal, are forced (due to regulation) to have a back door?

Will password managers like Lastpass or or self hosted ones like Bit Warden or Vault be the next place for criminals to communicate (since that's the whole rational for wanting a back-door e2e encrypted chat apps)?

This.

When i was a kid (in the 80s), going out to eat was expensive and we rarely did it. Maybe once every couple of months, it was a pretty big deal to even go to the local diner.

Fast forward to the late 1990s through ~2017 or 2018 or so, and eating out got more and more common. A night or 2 or 3 a week. The price of eating out was comparable to eating at home, when you factor in leftovers for lunches.

Starting around 2018, i started noticing that burgers were costing $15, and other meals that used to be ~$10 were jumping to $20, and since i've learned how to cook in the past 15 years or so, the cost/utility just doesn't add up any more.

It looks like the cost of eating out is shifting back to where it was 35-40 years ago. Going out to eat just doesn't have the appeal to me anymore.

Considering how many restaurants we have now compared to 40 years ago, i wonder how they are going to make it. But, when i see all the parking lots packed, every night, maybe i'm in the minority.

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I was a SciFi nerd growing up. Dreaming of virtual reality and holodecks as a kid, I'm very excited about seeing where this technology goes.

But, I really want to see open standards. I don't want Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or any other company driving this. It would be in our best interest to have a consortium of companies to drive the standards.

I'm not joining Facebook to use their hardware. I don't want to be in an Apple walled garden Metaverse. I want to be able to interact with people on any system or platform.

I think each company would need to differentiate their headsets in some way. Apple could have tight integration with their ego system so that it all works flawlessly together. Facebook can use 80% of the visual space for scrolling ads, and but basically give it away for free. Other companies might have better screens, longer batter, better GPU, whatever ...

But, both Apple and Facebook and "Other" users should be able to be in the same virtual office space ... or Dungeon fighting skeletons ... or dealing with Q in Sherwood forrest.

Years ago i wanted to retire my FreeNAS box, because it was load and big, so, I bought 2 drobos. 1 was a primary storage volume and the other was a backup of the first. I used it as the storage for everything that we had, photos, movies, etc.

After 8+ years of reliable usage a drive failed. "No big deal" i thought, and i swapped in a new drive. Everything failed after that. The system didn't recognize the drive. The knwoledge base said to update the firmware, which bricked it.

I went to best buy and grabbed a couple big external drives and immediately copied everything off the backup Drobo just in case. Switched the backup drobo to be the primary and started talking to Drobo "support" about what happened and why. Out of warranty, so, i could pay $75 for support. I did. The solution was to buy a refurbished one.

During this process a drive died in my other drobo (which, makes sense, they were all purchased and put in service at the same time). Got on the phone with support to walk through what to do, so that my other one wouldn't be bricked too.

In the end, it was also bricked. Cancelled the order for the refurbished drobo and bought 2 Synology cases.

They've been going strong for me for about 4 years. If they give me trouble, i'm going to grab a couple used rack mount servers and fill them with disks ... though, i'd rather not have too.

If you are scrolling on TikTok, or the like, for hours a day ... you MIGHT be using your phone too much.

But, i think the same argument can be said about consuming any form of entertainment. In the 80s and 90s, we were watching too much TV. We were supposed to be outside or reading more.

Now many people read books on their phones, or listen to podcasts and music while they are doing something else.

If you think you are using it too much as a calculator, or a navigation device, or other modern "crutch" instead of doing it with your brain ... :shrug: ... Personally, I like not having to get out a compass, and put it on the topo map, when i'm back packing for a weekend in the back country (i still have a map with me just in case ... but the phone hasn't failed me yet with hundreds of weekends treking in the woods with my family). And, as a pilot, i love not having to carry an e6b with me and calculating all the minutia before going flying. Yes i was skeptical at first, but after using the electronic versions of everything for more than a decade with zero failures, i'm OK not carrying paper maps and an e6b when flying.

As long as you are maintaining a healthy "entertainment vs healthy activity balance", the same as we were supposed to do with watching TV and going outside, I don't see any real difference between now and then ... it is just a new tool. And i'm OK embracing that new tool.