David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Remember: It's okay for your F/OSS project to be finished. You don't have shareholders who need you to grow every year. You don't have customers who need to be persuaded to buy a subscription or a new version every year by marketing-driven features. If it solves the problem that you created it to solve, you have won. You now have some software that solves the problem that you had. You are allowed to stop now.
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born... will die
Wag the Dog - Mentiras que matan - Willie Nelson - "Good Old Shoe"- Dustin Hoffman - Robert De Niro
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/115980058808754224
Also dictionaries eventually run out of words to list and they are very useful
Working Class History#OtD 30 Jan 1968 Vietnamese anti-colonial forces launched the Tet offensive. While it was a tactical failure with huge casualties it showed that US propaganda that victory was imminent was a lie and spurred anti-war sentiment, including amongst US troops https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e10-the-gi-resistance-in-vietnam-part-1/
Mike SmaleRE: https://furry.engineer/@patcharcana/115924257915194326
sure, empires fall, power pyramid ossify, overproduction of elites, bureaucratic decay etc. Ibn Khaldun ~1350
But for me the mind-blowing part was that scientific progress is not a given - it can actually regress. Took me ages to accept it's true
RE: https://mastodon.social/@GripNews/115918428799143978
The next Che Guevara or Trump or Sixto Rodriguez or... will be AI generated and will explain to you in a personalized message that revolution means to buy the new Whatever hair balsam...