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WW3 is well underway. It began around 2021 or even 2020 depending on how you account it.

@vic @dcc @FourOh-LLC @cjd i don't think corporations should be afraid of using free software, they should be afraid of cheating. making money with free software is perfectly fine if they give me the sourcecode.

every software with a "community" edition is very likely overengineeredcargo cult trash anyway, at least in my experience. then, about 90% of the developer and "devops" tools of the last decade fall into the "overengineered cargo cult trash" category.

In Open Source, anyone who gets "big" enough to matter either gets onboard with corporate policy, or gets cancelled.

Look at RMS, ESR, the grandfathers of FOSS. All the ones who didn't take the corporate job got a hit put on them at some point.

Brendan Eich is a great example. He becomes CEO of Mozilla and popular-at-the-time dating website okcupid BLOCKS ALL FIREFOX USERS until he's ousted.

Think that was because he gave $1000 to anti gay marriage a million years ago? Yeah right. It's because he's not owned.

Now look at Mozilla, their browser market share has fallen deep into the single-digit zone. The company is entirely rudderless & their biggest source of revenue is donations from Big G.

If their objective was to get everyone on Chrome, they've definitely succeeded at that.

Meanwhile Eich went on to start his own browser from scratch, and it's still not on the charts - but its userbase has doubled for 5 years in a row, tapping 50mn.

Firefox could have beaten chrome, but it was killed.
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@MK2boogaloo Haven't beat half life 2, tried playing it twice and got tired of running down flood canals.

@freemo imo ruminants are one of the ecologically best options to produce food if they can graze on meadows where nothing else would properly grow without heavy use of fertilizers. keeping ruminants was key for people settling in middle and northern europe for this reason.

@Vo @captainepoch yeah oils are surprisingly effective. i had problems with headaches due to astigmatism for a long time and putting mint oil onto the places which hurt works really well. almost as effective as ibuprofen so i can save that for the real shit headache!

> "the truth about lock free programming"
> writes a lock
> "the lock free code is the same as the lock"

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I don't know any pharms that don't carry side effects that are worse than the symptom they treat.

Herb-wise: Passionflower, chamomile, valerian, catnip teas.

Cannabis (of the right kind, takes experimentation), or just CBD can help for me.

Also, a decoction of Cat's Claw (uncaria tomentosa) has a really strong calming/sedative effect on me. Does take a while to make though.

@Vo @captainepoch chamomille does indeed work and has saved my ass, it will take the edge out of anxiety. i think lemon balm does work too.

make sure the teas are strong enough, ideally it's loose tea. with tea bags you'll need multiple per cup, at least for chamomille.

@D-Droid the poast nitter peaked at 21,704 requests/s. that's almost 5x poast with all our users. and all of the nitters seem to have been hit. someone was scraping something. im compiling lists now
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