Sadly, while I find AI effective, I also find it's removed the craft and personal reward I get from open source. So I will instead grow potatoes.

Or the protestors pathetically hope the billionaires will notice them and invest in their startups.

Back in the day hackernews had some fire and resistance.

Too many tech workers decided to rollover for the government and that's why we are in this mess now.

This isn't an argument about law, it's about designing secure systems. And lazy engineers build lazy key escrow the government can exploit.

I have no problem with a reasonable request. But this is definitely enshittification territory.

Sigh, we can have nothing good anymore.

I aim to be like them, high performers that get respect from their peers, but unknown to internet strangers.

Sometimes you get the rare exceptions of people who don't chase fame but become known for their work due to other people talking about it.

I'm usually a cross OS/platform guy. Using each for what they are good at. But lately Win11 has just felt like it's not bringing anything to the table except pain. Especially with Steam making linux so attractive for gaming lately.

I have more media than I can ever watch, more ebooks/comics than I can read in 10 lifetimes, a copy of pre-2021 reddit, a copy of pre-2021 Wikipedia, etc etc.

I also have a physical library too, for the more crucial knowledge.

Even TikTok is just slopaganda, AI videos to promote fascism. So it's not just text, it's all content online only unless it's come from someone you trust and know.

However Visual Studio and Xcode are closed source and still popular in some circles.

Most people will still be relying on open source libraries while using those platforms though.