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We accept a degree of friction for other constitutional entitlements.

Buying a gun, free speech, right to assembly. Each with caveats.

Appearing in front of your fellow citizens as a breathing person is central to how voting has worked for hundreds of years.

Why change it?

I agree it should be paid day off.

Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:55PM (#50307686)
That's the case right now--but what might a customized model tailored only for a narrow set of OS functions behave like? I suspect its achievable with a lot less compute.

Now is that a desirable product? Would it succeed on the merits in the marketplace? Maybe it would...

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:49PM (#50299309)
mtgox all over again.
Amazing. Is something like this available now, or in the future, for hobbyists? Happy to pay retail prices.
Or might it be when a cron job runs?
Right, and that's a good question too. Since its a foundation, its probably fair to assume that a fair number of management are there due to financial contributions by their sponsoring corps.

When that's case, the priority might become on renewing financial support. Keeping the personality happy is seen as a way to keep the funding stream.

Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:25PM (#50189489)
Ugh. Love Railway.
it's a good point. I wonder if we'll see a PHP fork and rewrite in rust. like tcrs. given the recently issues they would seem to benefit the most...
I wonder if that isn't a side effect of how its structured...

When a corporation sponsors the language, such as Java, Go, .Net, there's an inherent economic component which acts as a forcing function.

PHP being a foundation sounds nice. But consensus wasn't strong enough to affect the key outcomes.

Re:Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:22PM (#50175680)
This might be the nail in the coffin for php.
Re:America Didn't Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:22PM (#50095515)
Or corruption.
We all stand on the shoulders of others work. Designers use fonts, engineers tools, etc.

To make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

I wonder if they're paying less than the 70s?
I've been very happy with FireFox.
Re:Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? on Sunday August 16, 2026 @09:56AM (#49320117)
Yes.
Re:Apple is getting this wrong on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @07:24AM (#49167048)
Poor judgement, open ai
Another reason to avoid windows.
That remains to be seen. Individuals absolutely can be held to account. Corporations are not pass to behave illegally.
Re:DAG Workflow Engine on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:16PM (#48011700)
My version of a similar tool; but written in Go with a compile time guarantee.

https://github.com/swetjen/daggo

Re:Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:10PM (#47882055)
Microsoft isn’t known for great judgement.
Re:Cal.com is going closed source on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @11:57AM (#47780968)
I hate how this sounds...but this reads to me "we lack the confidence in our code security so we're closing the source code to conceal vulnerabilities which may exist."
But we're not talking about speed cameras or a private entity with exclusive contract with the police to provide traffic enforcement.

We're talking about Flock. A company offering surveillance as a service. Per their website:

>Trusted by over 12,000 public safety customers including cities, towns, counties, and business partners.

If Flock's argument holds then most of the CCPA be circumvented this same way. All it takes is a few entities and clever contract language.

If that's a valid excuse than the CCPA isn't worth the paper its written on.
Re:I Just Want Simple S3 on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @08:40AM (#47764897)
Unlike the author, I run SeaweedFS without issue locally and with acceptable transfer speeds.
Is it just me or does this describe most of Microsoft software at the moment? I tried to sign into my personal microsoft account to setup an oauth flow and I was greated by an infinity repeating error dialog about some internal service that had failed.

At work, I use outlook. The number of times I've gotten caught in an auth loop where I enter again and again my creds + tfa only for the screen to flicker and start all over again.

Complete garbage.

Re:I Traced My Traffic Through a Home Tailscale Exit Node on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:09AM (#47600373)
Cloudflare tunnels
Re:Stop picking my Go version for me on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @05:49PM (#47593945)
Heavily regulated industry with a lengthy change control process for this sort of thing.

Personally, I love all of the new Go stuff and I'm using the current version on my personal projects.

Different users. Many people care about privacy and aren’t using Meta products. And many businesses care about it too and have information policies to protect their IP.
Re:Stop picking my Go version for me on Saturday March 28, 2026 @10:59PM (#47560023)
This just got me. Datadog decided that they only support the current and last major versions of Go. So, 1.26 and 1.25. But in my cause we're still on 1.24.13 which was released by the Go team less than two months ago.

Datadog won't be getting a renewal from us.

I'd prefer we instead all use Non-violent Communication. No need for permission. The world would be more beautiful place if we all had giraffe ears.

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