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This post demonstrates two things:
First: Open Source needs more funding so that maintainers can easier separate work and personal life. Because it also allows bulding bigger teams to avoid the "Bus factor" problem.
Second, corollary: volunteer work has always existed, always will, and needs publicly renown rewards. That's the kind of thing that a "universal income" would allow. It's another proof that if they don't have to earn a living, people WILL do good things.
I have a multi-screen setup, and the "DisplayPort <> USB type C" cable that I use to connect my laptop to a 3-display hub is failing.
I bought two "DisplayPort <> USB type C" new cables, with bidirectional transfer, 8K resolutions and stuff.
None of them work.
I'm waiting for a third cable, but a cable that can be used without the DP<>DP coupler that I currently need, wish me luck...
How do you do "display-port-based multi-screen setup with only usb-type-c computer output" these days?
If a project has some minor releases during the year, and a lot of patch releases, like at least one per month, what do you think it means about the project's health?
Note:
- 📊 Sharing allows more consistent data!
- 💬 Commenting allows for a broader view that's more exhaustive than checkboxes.
- 🙏 Since I can't make 2 polls in one post, please only check 1 box per release type (patch / minor), thank you!
| 🚩 Lots of patches = lots of bugs | |
| ✅️ Lots of patches = great support | |
| 🚩 Lots of minors = unstable feature set | |
| ✅️ Lots of minors = progressive, lots of new stuff |
As far as I'm concerned, you have three options:
1. Not watch the new Harry Potter.
2. Watch the new Harry Potter but shut up about it.
3. Admit to watching the new Harry Potter and be judged.
There is no fourth option. I think you should do number 1, but you're a grownup and I don't have access to your router, so it's not up to me. But understand that if you do watch it, you need to either shut the hell up or brace yourself. Because I am not here to make you feel ok about it.
Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website, https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/.
Patent: AI-generated content page tailored to a specific user, https://patents.google.com/patent/US12536233B1/en.
So. Google wants to rebuild websites based on everything Google knows about the visitor user (history, devices, location, ads…) and the visited website.
It is destroying creativity, human work, brand, innovation, the funny unusual stuff that make a site different.
Google is destroying the Web.
You did it! 🥳
European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.
This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪
RE: https://mastodon.world/@exchgr/116289855900191746
Yup, that thread! This is a great metaphor of BS tech in the age of regurgitatingAI.
When people are claiming that AI does a better job than anyone using their brain they put in a situation of power and agency something or someone who doesn’t carry the responsibility and consequences of their mess is pure madness.
You wouldn’t let a kid fly a plane, neither would you move into a sandcastle so why being ok with AI building our software?
Don’t be passive to madness. Time for outrage!
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