I wonder how much of this is investment flowing out of everything and into factories and mining other industries that the current regime is de-regulating.

The tech industry spawned a new type of Wall Street investor who thinks a stock is a high-interest savings account. There's no room for risk, you need to grow at exactly 3.141593% per quarter or you face the pitchforks-and-patagonia-vests threatening to take their money down the street to the next bank.

In these cases I'm always curious who the investors were. I have the bad feeling it was you and me via our 401ks somehow.

In this particular case I believe it was mostly individual accredited investors, putting in anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of dollars. The case has records of the fund trying to get GE in too, but it doesn't look like they succeeded. Some of those individual investors may have been pretty small fry so I do feel a bit bad for them, but on the other hand if you want to dabble in Venture Capital, you need to be savvy.

This is an old page that pre-dates the Fable situation. Seems people only discovered it recently though.

Edit: oh, just saw the previous discussion on HN from 2 mo ago

Well, with writing it's more editors and lunches. That's how I got a book contract.

I think it's clear at this point that the allegations don't worry them. They tried debunking them by pointing out that the overwhelming majority of these are separate daemons that are entirely optional, can be packaged separately, and don't affect anybody who doesn't want to use them. The people raging against systemd didn't feel obligated to take those facts into account.

So they're just doing their own thing, and the distro landscape seems a clear indication that their own thing looks pretty compelling to basically every distro with any meaningful market share.

People may as well make the pitch that Linux is "taking over everything".

Thankfully, AI allows you to write tightly-coupled code (the kind Uncle Bob and Martin Fowler warned you not to write!) which is usually more efficient.

The system is kind of working as intended? The publisher sent them a DMCA takedown notice, and since the site failed to take down the offending content, the publisher is fully within their rights to (1) contact the hosting provider and ask them to take down the entire site (2) contact the registrar and ask them to suspend the site (3) contact Google and request delisting of the site (the one department of Google that actually moves at a non-glacial pace) (4) take legal action against the John Doe behind the site and unmask them, maybe even garnishing their Amazon affiliate revenue.

The sooner you act, the better. But it seems like the publisher didn't bother with any of that, or they're just slow and are getting around to it. The author of the book couldn't even be bothered to respond to the blog author's question about it.

Makes me wonder if e-ink could solve this. A red dot that's only visible in daytime, when you want it to be.

Preach it louder for the people in the back. I get into "debates" (really one-sided shouting matches where I'm the one getting shouted at) any time I defend a product that doesn't match the checklist-like sensibilities of the nerd intelligensia. Ironically, the Unix Philosophy that everyone adores is basically the same concept.