is it still owned by tencent?

how does it compare to yt-dlp?

Most Adobe tools don’t have any good free alternatives even for home use.

inkscape is on a level with illustrator (maybe even better)

for drawing: try krita

if you want to pay money (much much less than for adobe): Affinity is on a level with fotoshop

But only temporarily

but is it?

I thought the temporal improvement would be for everyone who already used the high way (because they will get to their destination a little bit faster). And for the few extra people, who start to use the highway but didn’t use it before, the improvment will stay.

When you add a new lane to a road, people think that the traffic will be easier there, so they take that route instead of their normal one

so for these people the new lane will create marginal improvement, right?

soft failures add complexity and ambiguity to your system, as it creates many paths and states you have to consider. It’s generally a good idea to keep the exception handling simple, by failing fast and hard.

here is a nice paper, that highlights some exception handling issues in complex systems

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14-paper-yuan.pdf

why not?

it’s safe to assume there are similar issues in closed source. A big part of the snowden leaks was about how NSA could access lots of data at will. It wouldn’t surprise me if they also could execute code.

Also there is stuxnet. But I am not sure, if there were intentional backdoors, or only some “natural occuring” RCE.

it takes away my charging port

is that really the main issue? if so, there are also adapters, which also expose the charging port

is stateless possible without kubernetes? (and without vendor lock in?)

GP said:

RE: Containers, even if you DO go that route, do you really need Kubernetes, which will come at an additional monetary and also maintenance cost? The likely answer at least initially is a big fat “no”.

I agree, that good cloud engineers can save costs in the cloud. But I also think good non-cloud engineers, can save much much more.

When you are rewriting your entire stack to leverage cloud performance, you could probably spend a similar effort for a rewrite that increases regular performance by a similar factor.

RE: Containers, even if you DO go that route…

I was under the impression, that stateless stuff without containers requires a strong vendor login (aws lambda, google functions, azure function). Are you saying, I could do stateless without vendor-lockin and without containers and without kubernetes? This is news to me. Please point me to some resources

One’s an active decision

There are not so many quality notebooks without any brand-logos on them.

Also wearing a brand-logo when you have the choice not to, is kinda cringe.

what does “get surprised on their own call” mean?

have you considered an usbc to 3.5mm adapter?

I am asking because I only recently found out those exists.

source

Because megacorps are at least “smart enough” to pretend they aren’t trying to take over the world.

there are enough examples for corps doing evil things. You hear about them less often, because they cover their tracks and the outcry is generally smaller than when governments do similar things.

Whereas governments have a tendency to justify a lot of horrible shit for righteous reasons.

corps justify a lot of horribble shit for financial reasons. Is that better?

who else should be a significant backer for an open source project? google? microsoft?

That’s still not how governments work

It would be nice if it worked like that, but we both know it doesn’t

To become chancellor you have to swear an oath on the “schwarze Null”. that you forgot what you did during the largest tax-scam in history

At the ML course at uni they said verbatime that they are plagiarism machines?

Did they not explain how neural networks start generalizing concepts? Or how abstractions emerge during the training?