unlawfulbooger
joined 2 years ago
Exactly, permissive licenses such as MIT allow for other people to do a rugpull and change the deal (pray I don’t alter it any further). With open source licenses the community can just fork.
That’s why I always pick AGPL for my projects. Then I can be certain that the code can be freed from greedy hands, and the actual users get all the value of the effort I put in.
VC funding really is making a deal with the devil, because you suddenly have a huge amount of cash, so the startup starts living large (hire more devs, run on expensive cloud infrastructure). But sooner or later they want their money back, plus interest; and few services are profitable, let alone that profitable. So the only thing that startups are usually capable of is to squeeze their users for all they’re worth.
Take a look at all the big startups and see:
- how long it took for them to be profitable
- how much VC funding they got until then
Companies need to pay that back and then some.
And don’t forget that VC’s see this as a perpetual investment, so your revenue must grow year after year, even if you’ve saturated the market.
( I only recognized FryFry. )
It was fun to see the characters in different roles and animations styles tho.
If you’ll pardon the pun,
This feels like a god-tier shitpost
Thank for translating the Tamarian!
Sokath, his eyes uncovered.
Can you explain how this relates to star wars?
You’re welcome!
Wow, who would have thought?
It seems the AI hype is shrinking (or at least slowing down), since people are more and more critical of it: intellectual property, workers rights, power consumption, climate impacts, usefulness and more.
If you want more reading, I recommend these:
I can’t recommend Ed Zitron’s blog enough: Where’s your Ed at
He did an interview with Adam Conover a month ago, which was also really interesting.
The other blog I highly recommend is The Luddite, e.g. Why is there an AI hype?
I was just talking about the theme song. Giancarlo Esposito should definitely be in Trek
¿por qué no los dos?
It’s not a bad song or anything, I just don’t like it at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sadly not :(