The cover image is just too good. It's just way too good.

There is a lot of naivete behind the whole idea that some alternative is better because it's open source. You can clearly tell it's a project made by software developers, not by behavioural analysts, psychologists, or really anyone who has talked to another human being in the past 30 days.

The only real alternative to TikTok is a big dumpster fire.

Isn't land use and zoning the real problem? (Interesting that there is no occurrence of "land" in the article.) Who cares how the houses are built when you have nowhere to put them anyway. The most recent housing developments are in the literal fucking middle of a hill where you have to drive for 30 minutes for any signs of human life.

That's absolutely it. The most absurd case is of course San Francisco, where literally one single building allowed by recent state law overriding local zoning is adding 100 years worth of total housing units and 15 years worth of affordable housing construction at current rates to the Marina district (https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-safeway-to...), but the same problem exists in a lesser form across the state.

Who is "you" in that sentence?

One.

> they basically insulted me saying that my brand new $3,500 PC wasn't good enough.

Big chuckle there, so good. Hey, at least they had a sense of humour.

But I agree the hardware support could be much better even to this day.

My feeling at the time was that BSD developers and many users were at least 30 years old or much older and had professional jobs and money.

The Linux community felt like college students with no job and not much money. That included Linus Torvalds himself who developed the kernel while in college and wasn't rich. DEC basically gave Linus an Alpha to get him to port the kernel to it.

Very true in the beginning.

Your prof loved BSD/386 while the students were rocking a shared server cobbled from a 386 the science department threw out.

The 101 itself is full of ads for pump-and-dump startups that likely won't exist in the next two minutes. One reads about the old days of Xerox PARC and how they produced one world-changing innovation after another, then compare that to the present reality and wonder where all that brainpower and novelty went. Now it's just some random permutation of "yolo ai ai ai" for a product that is clearly a scam and obviously nothing to show for it. Seems like the whole tech scene has been captured by MBAs and grifters with very few original ideas.

I agree that people should just stay off LinkedIn. Keep your local job boards alive. That being said:

> LinkedIn doesn't need to obey to EU law.

This is false. A company must follow the law of the jurisdictions where it operates.

It is remarkable that it took an ad from the same company that makes the product to make (some) people come to the realization of the surveillance they are subjected to and uninstall their cameras. The public is truly clueless despite all the messaging from the EFF and other organizations.

Why is this down-voted? Everything we do in this industry rests upon somebody else's gift of free/open software, that is the reality of it. I do feel an inclination to contribute back however I can, even if it's just documentation, or submitting a (properly detailed) bug report, for precisely the reason described here.

No kidding. I don't maintain anything of enough popularity to warrant being approached like that, but a good hourly-rate answer would be the no-brainer response.