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i dont find it puzzling at all. the website is basically a blank canvas. contact information is nonexistent.

ignoring the issue is just another way of saying "catch me if you can." and even then open source lawsuits are rather toothless anyway, so the company clearly expects there to be zero consequence.


Ollama is YC21 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ollama and was founded by the engineers of what became Docker Desktop

You know, the tool that very famously had a massive rug pull once it gained marketshare https://www.servethehome.com/docker-abruptly-starts-charging...


> First here, we understand that Docker needs to generate revenue. Creating a foundational technology and not having revenue to grow the business is hard. At the same time, the notice period is what one may consider short.

If the money was starting to run dry, with everyone using the tech (and Docker Hub in particular) but not really giving them any money for it, then something was bound to change.

It's cool that there are other alternatives to Docker Hub though and projects like Podman. I feel like with a bigger grace period, the Docker pricing changes wouldn't have been a big deal.


if you ever wanted to obliterate any consumer confidence in a market thats already routinely mocked, loathed and derided...i can think of no better way than to ensure it is fecklessly unaccountable to any sort of regulation.

what is the point of this?

a used car for 10k does more, costs less, and has a lower carbon footprint.


Customization, no previous owner that you have no idea how they took care of the vehicle, less chance of complications and expensive fixes, warranty, it's a new pickup that doesn't cost $50k+, etc.


> and has a lower carbon footprint

No it doesn't. An electric vehicle takes < 18 months to become carbon negative. Nobody buys a used car expecting it to last than 18 months. If it does, replacing your car every 18 months is not carbon friendly.


correction: my Social Media site Is Over.


>Virtual machines are often seen as slow, expensive, bloated and outdated.

by whom?

I tend to loathe firecracker posts because theyre all just thinly veiled ads for Amazon services.

Firecracker is not included in the standard linux KVM/QEMU duo and has sparse documentation. you cannot deploy a firecracker image like a traditional VM. in fact there are no tools to assist in creating a firecracker VM, and the filesystem for the VM must be EXT4.

TL;DR: this is all fun stuff if youre 200% cloud, but most companies run a ton of on-prem vms as well.


I was using ignite for a while to create firecracker vms, i think it’s called flintlock now. Ignite worked great when I was using it.


If you can afford a $250 light up piece of plastic nonsense to taunt and gatekeep your coworkers with, chances are you can probably spend $20 on a time management book.

this seems like an actively hostile narcissistic addition to a collaborative workplace that would get you fired in a week.


I've seen these kinds of things more for children/family in work-from-home than coworkers. My mom used to do it primarily with door status (is the door open or shut), but I've seen families where something brighter and more obvious is helpful.


Yeah, it didn't suprise me that the only woman in all the demos was coming to interupt the BUSY dev and his Important Work. I was surprised that this is made by Flipper, though!


I might use it to keep the kids out when I'm on a Zoom call in the home office. It looks fun.


If for some reason you did not understand cryptocurrency outside of its use in countries like North Korea, and wanted to crush its consumer confidence, you would in fact turn it into a lawless madhouse in favour of your fiat (which is rapidly losing value)

Trump forgets the US, and most other major nations have a cryptocoin. a loss of confidence in an emerging currency market is a great way to torpedo your nations hegemony.


This is an advertisement for The Brennan Center, tailored to reach members of the current neoconservative administration by highlighting issues and concerns they align with.

It provides no actionable information, its just an "attaboy" to the state.


> It provides no actionable information, its just an "attaboy" to the state.

There is actionable information: state governments and election officials cooperated more closely in the 2024 election than in previous elections, should not expect the need for cooperation to decrease, and should train officers to handle election-related threats. The article is in part a warning about avoiding the false sense of security encouraged by media framings of a "smooth" or "boring" 2024 election, or attitudes like `probably just another bomb hoax`.

Also, the article is not an "attaboy":

> Election officials and at least one governor were quick to praise law enforcement for their work. Congratulations are certainly in order, but the work is not done. Election security, like cybersecurity, is a race without an end. While both communities made important strides ahead of the 2024 election, without ongoing investment these gains may be quickly lost.


i refuse to believe a company that wasted $320 million dollars on "the electric state" could ever manage to do anything correctly. stripe the parking lot? stock the breakroom? clean the toilets? simply not possible.


Badly managed companies often hire some very good talent which can allow them to sometimes do very impressive things in spite of themselves.


The scriptwriters aren't managing the network flows across the backend of their infrastructure. Netflix's trouble with scripts doesn't affect their ability to move bits around.


Beautiful art and book, but what a unfaithful travesty of a production that absolutely trodded on the original work.


Chinese scientists under the steadfast leadership of the communist party of China will gladly undertake this important scientific research.


There is a point to be made in favor of political stability.

One of the great things in Ireland is the list-based voting that punishes extreme viewpoints and policies. OTOH, sometimes we need politicians willing to make unpopular choices, and our system makes that more difficult.

China, IIRC, has a different concept, one where a person can't be a candidate to a position more than one level higher than the highest one they were previously elected for. This prevents anomalies like Trump, and seems to be a very sensible approach (if coupled with a couple extra freedoms and multiple parties).


Xi Jinping has removed many of those protections though like the maximum term count so he could stay in power.

And Ireland politics got me pretty sad. It just seems to pingpong between two equally inept parties (fianna fail and fine gael) and nothing new ever happens. They just keep piling problem on problem without ever solving anything. I remember there being a lot of fuss about patients in hallways during mary harney's reign in the mid '00s and I don't think that was ever solved. Last time I ended up in hospital there I ended up in exactly that situation. The post-2007 housing crisis is another one. Does anyone actually expect that to be ever solved? And the strange thing is, this country has no shortage of land whatsoever.

What happens is that one party blames their predecessor and wins the election and then next term things switch back again through exactly the same mechanism.

I think something more left like sinn fein would be good for the country but they have too much image baggage due to their past. And labour seems to really just sit at the sidelines forever.


>What happens is that one party blames their predecessor and wins the election and then next term things switch back again through exactly the same mechanism.

This is literally the United States for the last half century.


The unpopular choices that need to be made in America are the centrist ones.

One of them being "whether it's left- or right-aligned, let's not engage in your social agenda on the federal level for a while"

>where a person can't be a candidate to a position more than one level higher than the highest one they were previously elected for

For much of the time in the Roman Republic they also had this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_honorum


So you have to work your way up from the bottom? Surely there’s a mathematical impossibility to get to the presidency here unless you’re making astronomical progress year over year?


There aren't that many (11) levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service_of_the_People%27...

Functionally, the US mostly works the same way - people start in small local roles and move to county, state, and national levels over time. It's just not enforced as a hard rule, just a practical thing.


That makes more sense then. The US probably has around that number too and you’re right that we do mostly work up from the bottom. The most common method of avoiding the ladder is through military service but that’s basically a parallel ladder requiring very similar work.


Yeah. If you're a somewhat senior officer in the military, you know how to do things like budget, manage, lead, etc. that all come in handy running an organization like a campaign or Congressional office.


The only 2 countries on Earth - USA and China.

You don't have to choose between oligarchy and communism. There's normal countries out there.


I'm a huge fan of how Switzerland does it. We USED to be that pre-Great Depression / New Deal.


Some more words from Aristotle to aid the discussion: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-different-forms-of-g...

I'd probably go with plutocracy for the U.S., but we're in the process of trying to disrupt that. (Trying...)


Yes, lets go back to how it was in the 20s and 30s in the United Sates... Said noone ever. I wish I had a time machine for these people.


I'm not saying we should have a plutocracy, I think we've achieved one. It needs breaking up.


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