Which is even more surprising on 'hacker' news. Maybe the average (US-centric) 'hacker' nowadays is just a corporate worker dreaming.
I recently joined a megacorp after decades of small companies and I'm having quite enough fun on the project side and everything. Corporate bureaucracy is nothing after you dealt with actual international bureaucracy. Only downside is that pay is /too low/.
Don't take this the wrong way but corporate are such prima donnas!
I got flashbacks from my tiny startup days when corporate went to procurement companies which wanted specific terms and mode of payment. And after all the infrastructure was in place... they basically spent no money!
The SBOM idea exists in various forms. Few need it and few use it.
If somebody wants to pay money, they will figure out a way. If they want to invent an excuse they will find one.
> If somebody wants to pay money, they will figure out a way. If they want to invent an excuse they will find one.
I think this is just not true. Reducing friction will increase participation.
I make donations to many organizations currently. I would donate to more, but it's a hassle to identify them and determine what/how I want to donate. It's just not a top priority for me, for better or worse. But if I could click a button right now and 5x my donations with the trust that they were supporting what I wanted them to, I'd do it!
edit: Also, this is a reminder to me that everything is a choice and I could be spending my time setting up donations instead of commenting on HN...
> Don't take this the wrong way but corporate are such prima donnas!
Not taking it the wrong way, you're right :)
> I got flashbacks from my tiny startup days when corporate went to procurement companies which wanted specific terms and mode of payment. And after all the infrastructure was in place... they basically spent no money!
Yep, that's painful but I count it as the cost of doing business.
If I jump through these hoops and my competition doesn't it sets me apart.
If only 1 in 10 then spent money so be it.
> The SBOM idea exists in various forms. Few need it and few use it.
True today.
Not true tomorrow.
Software development will become a highly regulated industry.
This is my prediction at least.
> If somebody wants to pay money, they will figure out a way. If they want to invent an excuse they will find one.
I think they do, but my guess is that most people don't keep their phones long enough for that to be the reason to stop using the phone. Usually the phones get damaged/lost/too slow to run modern apps etc.
I didn't know there's different kinds of bricking. It does NOT sound like having root access.
This big warning is on the front page:
> Warning: Toltec does not support OS builds newer than 2.15.1.1189. You will soft-brick your device if you install before support is released. See remarkable2-recovery for information on how to recover your device if you have done this.
> I didn't know there's different kinds of bricking.
There are two types of bricking[0]. A hard brick, where the device no longer functions, and may not be recoverable, and a soft brick, where the device is still working, but fails to boot to a usable state.
> It does NOT sound like having root access.
Could you clarify what you mean by this not sounding like you have root access? You have the ability to sign in to the device as the root user out of the box, which is exactly what root access is.
> This big warning is on the front page:
>
> > Warning: Toltec does not support OS builds newer than 2.15.1.1189. You will soft-brick your device if you install before support is released. See remarkable2-recovery for information on how to recover your device if you have done this.
Yes, I know about the warning, I wrote it. When it was less strongly worded, way too many people were ignoring the warning, trying to install toltec on an OS version that didn't have the offsets required for rm2fb yet, and did not write down their SSH password or set up an SSH key.
> a soft brick, where the device is still working, but fails to boot to a usable state.
Interesting. This means that if I ruin my grub I soft bricked the PC. As long as it's recoverable easily, I wouldn't consider that 'bricking'.
> Could you clarify what you mean by this not sounding like you have root access?
I just meant that if the device is no longer usable, you don't control it (as root). But you clarified that soft-brick is like a boot problem which, if easily fixable, isn't a problem.
The relatively well off can't even keep a server online.
Silly article. It's basically claiming that since even the relatively well off are not doing so great nowadays due to inflation, etc. they may appreciate some wealth redistribution (to those even poorer) because they now understand inequality. (The article authors also imply inequality will lead to a revolt, aka. the stick).
Yeah, sure! You can bet the relatively well off which are feeling the economic heat will just love to pay more taxes and plunge even more rapidly on the economic ladder.
It is kind of a strange argument that the author tacked on at the end. No body is doing well these days, even people with relatively good incomes are struggling. You know what would help those struggling people? Higher taxes!
It was a really strange transition and kind of torpedoed the entire article.
My garden is full of birds. The neighbour forgot to trim his huge tree one year and it was full of bird nests.
Birds are left with no place to live near / in cities if there's so little gardens and trees.
But put some water, grass and trees and birds show up.
Having a water source is also huge. Saw migratory birds too, multiple years.
I don't think it's on purpose or not but our small towns and back yards are just not welcoming for nature. If there's a little room, animals do come.
But real estate is all about room! People need to keep storing stuff. My neighbors on basically all sides keep building sheds and extending their homes. Pretty soon they will have no grass to speak of. But plenty of room for storage.
The conflation of “spyware” ie tracking for monetization purposes with telemetry used by developers to ensure the health of production systems is foolish and harmful.
Homebrew is a complex system that can break in lots of ways, and it’s being developed on an entirely open source basis, with no company behind it.
Having some visibility into the operation of a running system is table stakes. You’re asking the developers donating their time to this very useful project to tie a hand behind their back because you are paranoid.
More often than not, if people like you got their way OSS software just wouldn’t be built, or would be taken over by a for profit entity that has much less benign ideas about spyware.
This is literally a story about the homebrew project listening to the community and migrating to privacy-preserving self-hosted analytics. People like you will never be happy, so they should be entirely ignored.
I don't understand how command line makes the distinction here. Maybe if it where just a simple tool that doesn't require an internet connection for its functionality. But since Homebrew is not just the command line tool, but also a repository and build system in constant motion. I understand that as a developer you might want to have insights into how certain changes (will) impact the user experience.
True, the open source world never before had a repository and build systems in constant motion. Homebrew is the innovation we needed to make things in software.
Not a virtue in itself. But if you live in the bay area you are priced out of living less densely. You can of course move away to a more affordable area. And now with remote work being more accepted that is a viable option for white collar workers, definitely not for blue collar though.
But if you have kids, family, friends, in the bay area then that is a difficult decision to say the least.
