@Demolishun They have enforced it though. Things like "WP Plans" are restricted and BlueHost/Gator/others have been paying to use it.

Wordpress can selectively chose a price for each person wanting to use the trademark (and that price can be free) but they do need to take care of every case.

I dunno. I hate Silver Lake. It's a scum asset management firm (like State St, Blackrock, Vanguard) and WP Engine doesn't give a shit.

At the same time, Matt is being a complete and total fucking moron. He could easily win this if he like ... took 5 minutes to understand the law or think about his statements. But everything he's done has been crying baby rattling.

Wordpress is garbage tier software anyway.

What kind of car? I'd take my 2006 WRX 5speed over a whore any day. (Her name is Nicole and she's more reliable than any woman .. less expensive too):

https://battlepenguin.com/technolog...

ah yes, building maintenance

At least you tried! There are plenty of sharks in the ocean!

The do exist. I've been in them before, I swear!

I wonder if anyone at a company I've left has looked at the git logs, saw my name, and said "I don't know who you are or where you went ... but I hate you ... so much."

Don't tell people your goals. Do them first. You're less likely to follow through if you tell people first.

My last job was devops and I was on a project to setup a VoIP Session Border Controller (SBC). I had very limited experience going in setting up SIP on my phone. I just handled the server side, helping out the telecom people.

It was the third time I've been involved in telecom (with three different companies, in two countries).

Telecom is a man made horror beyond comprehension.

oh and also check out

https://hexcodle.com

That's a fun daily one.

There are puzzle games with timers? Yea that sounds terrible.

One of my favorite indie puzzle games is Strata. It's very pretty, colorful and relaxing.

Once you get into it and figure it out, it's not too difficult to get perfect on every level. But I still found it fun and relaxing.

I'm not a fan of what I'm doing currently, but it's fully remote and it's a lot of money.

There are times when I miss people and would rather work in my local market, but it's just so much money I wouldn't consider leaving at this point. The company is a startup and has had stability issues, but they just got a big round of funding and have a runway until 2025.

I'm going to stick with it because there are so many of my own side projects I want to complete. At my current savings rate, I could pay off my house in ~4 years too, even with buying things for side projects.

Thanks for your post. It's good to be reminded the importance of financial stability in these very weary times.

Why would anyone ever want to work for Google? Do you hate yourself?

But ... what is a women?

YouTube has also declared war on Invidious instances. Videos will refuse to play in Firefox now as well.

I just use FreeTube and yt-dlp

Well .. this escalated quickly

Like AOL bots in the 90s

Ever time I have to touch Go, I'm just filled with pain and sorrow.

Or you could just hang yourself and make the world a better place you racist fuck.

@retoor God called in sick today

I'm an Indian (1st generation born in the US; ABCD kid who can't speak Hindi anymore) ... I've been back in my youth and I understand/agree with the issues. India corporations have a horrible culture or corruption. It's like a nation of the worst US/EU "consulting" companies.

There are good engineers and good companies in India, and that's what keeps a lot of the infrastructure afloat ... but the CCP has clean water in most areas (although terrible food safety) and India still has neither.

I've always thought the Scamdemic was a scam from the beginning. Whether it was rebranded flu or a real novel virus that was made out to be more dangerous than it was doesn't matter. The effects, the authoritarianism, the forced medication for the least tested preventative in modern regulatory history .. everyone forgot about all that stuff.

Good ran. I want to yell *take your meds* 😅 .. but seriously though, glad your eyes are open.

Also, Trump totally didn't a real bullet to the ear.

@retoor Well they haven't been toxic to me. They've been way more welcoming than the Sway community.

Drew DeVault at least had a long series of DMs with me before he decided I was a evil back in 2020. So at least he took the time to justify his idiocy. I think DeVault is toxic. He also stayed at a friend of mine's house in The Netherlands and was a total and complete asshole to him.

Brodie Robertson did an interview with Vaxry (Hyprland creator), and I think Vaxry seems like an alright guy. He's very young. I find it disheartening to see what's happening to him. If that was the type of welcome I got from the FOSS community back when I was in University (early 2000s), I'm not sure if I would have stuck around.

🤷

@nosoup4u DockerDesktop has had an enterprise licensing charge for years. But you can just install the command line tool/daemon (on Windows/Mac) and avoid it.

I have a love hate relationship with Docker. I understand a lot about advanced Linux packing. At its core, Docker is just chroot + cgroup + a layered filesystem. It's really kinda amazing how it works.

But the repository of images sucks ass. There's no way to properly version or have metadata for update paths. Of all the things Moby/Docker could be charging for, they can't even fix the core issues that's causing unconstrained growth of images. I've written about Docker Orchestration systems here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

I started this project as an attempt to solve the issue of versioning upgrades, by basing all my containers on Nix:

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/nixbee/

but it's got a long way to go.

@spongessuck I've used Podman and it works, but it's API isn't complete. Last time I tried, it couldn't even handle gzipped images. If you want to do anything advanced or use bindings, you often need to find Podman specific libraries instead of Docker ones.

I used it for months on my home server but went back to docker due to docker-compose compatibility issues

I tried Wayland out again for a few months, this time using Hyprland. It was a way better experience than Sway. I want to love it, but I still ran into some really frustrating issues:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

The low hanging fruit is gone. Really complex questions can't be answered with AI, so no one bothers.

Not sure if you noticed, but they removed the reputation graph. I was in the top 15%, pretty much because I started very early and only asked questions when I got really stumped.

Wait, so if it can only be done through the app, how does this work for people without smartphones? Or is it just a website you upload to ... and if so, why couldn't he just scan it right there?

@tosensei What? No .. you is singular or plural. It's been that way since I was a kid.

English removed informal "you" (thee, thy).

Do you even English?

You can use a WikiLess instance as an anti-tracking tool:

https://wiki.poast.org/

I've written about Wikipedia's propaganda and money usage before. I would never give them any money again:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

Kinda neat .. not sure if I want to run some random pluging from a random person's OneDrive ... and I've never needed more than the community edition for my personal stuff anyway.

I wish there were better, truly open source, alternatives. Eclipse has fallen way far behind. Void Linux has "oss-code" which is VS Code with all the tracking patched out, Code still doesn't have horizontal tabs which makes it unusable in my opinion.

...the state of editors really sucks. Maybe I should try neovim again.