My (WASP) grandmother used to do this too. The fruit ones were alright. The other ones were not.

To date, the only countries that have made progress in blocking VPN traffic with some success are authoritarian regimes with ISP-level surveillance.

You know you’re on to something when the only playbook you can find was written by the Chinese government.

Real answers: gitlab has awesome integrated CI, and you can always go for a remote integration if you prefer (e.g. self-hosted Jenkins, or a managed solution like circleci).

I think that the code of conduct pre-diff is less professional but totally unambiguous about AI-generated contributions, so I’m not sure where your confusion is coming from. And I have already spent more time looking for evidence of your claims than you have, so no thanks, I think that unless you present something of substance I’m good.

I’m not sure how you think they aim to achieve that business lock-in, but many of us suspect it’s by offering a product that replaces workers.

Ok, I just searched their codeberg for the word “fuck” and both (yes, exactly 2) closed MRs were, in fact, heaps of LLM puke with no engagement from the “author”. More importantly, both of these were created after the policy was posted.

I think your argument is nonsense. Post evidence if you have it, but I’m guessing you won’t.

Yea, if you remove all context, you could make that argument. But if we narrowly focus on “the generations of the future overwhelmingly see this as a problem they must fix” then I think it stands to reason that the AI fanboys haven’t won everyone over yet, which is what the person you’re replying to was actually saying.

Why are you so sure this is “revisionism”? They’re not trying to rewrite history, they’re trying to explain their staunch policy.

It’s their project, and if they want to carefully select contributors they think will stick around and be a member of the community, then that is entirely their prerogative. This is a viable model for a niche project. There’s no requirement that they invest time and energy to review and integrate every last PR.

I mean, just last year Disney learned the hard way that acquiescing to Trump’s whim invites volatility when they suspended Jimmy Kimmel in June. Subscribers fled in droves, they had to bring him back on… It was a shit show they’re unlikely to want to repeat.

The easy solution is to make no publicly visible moves and wait patiently.

Very true, but investors are sensitive to changes in the wind. Trump is looking very weak these days, and any company who allows themselves to be cowed by his parlor tricks will lose investor confidence.

Yeah, I was initially pretty interested because a player like Apple can really push the envelope and drive innovation. I am still wistfully hoping for a portable office AR setup one day.

Live events (like sports) would be cool, but I’m not sure Apple wants to play licensing/marketing matchmaker at the scale required for that to be profitable. From what I’ve heard, it’s the worst part of being in the streaming industry.

A recent survey by AI orchestration platform provider Zapier of 542 US executives with active AI vendor contracts, found that nearly 90 percent believed they could switch AI vendors within four weeks, and 41 percent said they could do it in just 2–5 business days.

I work at a Fortune 500 and I’m the point of contact for half a dozen vendors, so I have a lot of visibility into the legal and procurement challenges. I can say with absolute confidence that even our annual renewals with existing vendors don’t go through in 4 weeks.

Who are these executives that have absolutely no understanding of their own companies?

Isn’t it weird how when billionaires make more money “a rising tide raises all boats”, but when the poorest make more money, suddenly there’s extreme resource scarcity?

Yep, I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen that if you really want to drop juniors and give tools to seniors, then you have to pay the monthly cost (whatever it will be) and you have to be ready to foot the big bill in 5 years when your seniors (with no candidate replacements) say they’ll take a 50% raise or walk.

I’m saying that companies owning houses is the market manipulation, neighbor.

Blackrock isn’t a housing company or developer, it’s an investment group. What’s happening here is that a group that hires a lot of very smart people to manipulate market values has found an easy mark in housing.

The housing shortage is fueled by artificially high prices, not square footage or bedrooms. That’s what you’re missing.

Causing annoyance is one of the more polite ways of expressing your dissatisfaction with the status quo.

People who develop and maintain closed-source software. Who did you think you were referring to?

Uh, most of us are selling our labor the same as anyone else, dude.

Yeah, are we ready to have a serious conversation about removing him from office yet, or will our republican neighbors wait until the death toll hits the millions, the world is in a full economic depression, and France has repointed its strategic weapons towards us and Israel?

Obviously a rhetorical question, we know the answer.