@theruran I look forward to reading anything you might write. We are sorely in need of new ideas around these topics. At the moment, with few exceptions, the software commons seems to have been successfully enclosed by corp interests, which is why we keep seeing articles like the one above.

I read an article like this, and I can't help but think, "Maybe if we keep doing things the same way, it'll be different this time."

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/959069/b435cd2bd38c0192/

I'm not saying Corbet is saying that. It's just that these articles crop up relatively often, and yet... It seems precarity in open source is an essential feature of how it is currently being organized.

(I get it. I have bills to pay too, and I'm certainly not out there creating co-op foundation for those aspects of free software I want to see maintained.)

@clacke Sounds about right. I have to admit I took our TV broadcast setup for granted since I grew up with it. :)

@miah I can't believe I haven't heard of this awesome 80s concept of Dragon Sound, "which consists of an ethnically diverse group of five college students who are best friends. They live together, train Taekwondo together, attend University of Central Florida together, and are all orphans."

At least according to wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Connection

@clacke This is the best explanation I've seen so far.

https://www.vox.com/culture/23778245/max-disney-paramount-remove-delete-streaming

@clacke US restaurants do add sales tax, but it varies by state, county, and city.

#TIL that the moon helps stabilize the tilt of Earth's axis:

"The moon has long been recognized as a significant stabilizer of Earth's orbital axis. Without it, astronomers have predicted that Earth's tilt could vary as much as 85 degrees. In such a scenario, the sun would swing from being directly over the equator to directly over the poles over the course of a few million years, a change which could result in dramatic climatic shifts."

https://www.space.com/12464-earth-moon-unique-solar-system-universe.html

Good thing the moon is there!

@clacke [Music cuts out. Faint snoring sounds ensue.]

@clacke I hope this person gets credits somewhere like: "Arranged for floppy drive, hard drive, and scanner by Paweł Zadrożniak"

@clacke Everyday.

@clacke "In HТML6, specifying a content type is redundant as the browser can work it out using wizardry." Nice!

@ColinTheMathmo Sometimes it's good to flush those people out. Make 'em show themselves so you can take notes. 😆

@ColinTheMathmo As long as you "wonder if I am similarly afflicted with an excessive confidence in my abilities" you are likely always going to be open to others opinions and open to collaboration and open to growth and self-improvement and open to new ideas and approaches and open to empathy for others (and hopefully not too hard on yourself). That's the sort of qualities I find valuable and attractive in people I work with. :)

I was reminded of this yesterday. Seems like a good thing to revisit occasionally.

https://1x.engineer/

"Chromostereopsis is a depth illusion where intense warm vs. cool colors appear to sit on different planes relative to the viewer. "

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2022/05/chromostereopsis.html

For me the red seems to float above the blue.

(I don't know if the image will bother anybody, but it's like an abstract representation of an eyeball.)

@trickster Programmers' Credo!

https://nitter.net/pinboard/status/761656824202276864

@thezerobit Thank you for linking that. I did see that (and I should've dropped that in my original toot ), but I was hoping to hear testimonials from people who may have actually relied on any of those companies' services.

If I don't hear from anybody on here about recommendations, I'll probably start to reach out to those that look the most promising and see what sort of response I get.

Dear, fediverse, this may be a long shot, and please humor me if my question seems to go against the obvious choice for the monopolists of our day.

Do you have any recommendations for companies that provide hosting for Trac combined with subversion and git repositories? I don't mean setting up a vm and self-hosting. I mean a company that takes care of keeping the services running for me.

Thanks in advance!

@ieure Possibly this part of the talk from Jonathan Blow? I don't know if he has an associated blog post with it.

https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?t=1372