...what do you expect me to think about? Inventions that are "unheard of" as well as well-known creations based on earlier, free ideas form the basis for modern society. People building on on existing concepts makes the experience better for everybody involved.

Nothing I create even needs to be famous anyway because I usually just create things for fun instead of for profit, and it makes no difference to me.

No, because everything I make is public domain. If someone uses an idea and improves on it then I have no problem with that.

"In the unlikely event that you happen to make a zillion bucks off of this, then good for you; consider buying a homeless person a meal." - ABRMS software license

Tipping service workers is not a thing where I live, and anywhere it is, paying service workers fairly in the first place is always a better alternative.

Copyright just isn't a well thought out system. How can somebody "own" an idea? It doesn't make any sense, and doesn't have any solid foundation because it was originally designed as a form of censorship, not to stimulate people to create works. If it was designed for that then it's failed miserably, because in its current state, copyright only exists to serve massive organisations that can afford to fight anyone over anything, often regardless of whether or not their claims are legitimate.

Since around the turn of the millenium, humanity has been conducting an experiment: to see what happens when communication can freely happen between anyone, anywhere, instantly. Close to 5.5 billion people have access to a global information network, billions of interconnected minds that produce infinite amounts of incredible content every instant, in a system that will never ever reach its full potential as long as the bizarre scheme that allows individuals to "own ideas" remains in place.

We created a world of information, where thoughts and concepts can be distributed with little effort or cost, and anyone can contribute to and improve on any previous idea, allowing anyone else to benefit from it.

Then a system was placed on top of it to make these intangible communications artificially scarce and to prevent people from benefitting from the information.

WHY

I feel singled out now lmao

Why would I bother understanding? Both are stupid concepts anyway

Why's it called 'centrist' instead of 'middle-wing'?

Everyone talks about how shit Nvidia drivers are on Linux, but nobody talks about how shit Nvidia drivers are in general

If someone were to fork it and remove the "bad parts" (cough _G cough getfenv()), it'd be a strong contender for best languange of all time

Luau with a JIT would be an absolutely incredible programming language

Trying to have globally decentralised technology without crypto technology is like trying to have climate justice without social justice, it makes little sense to separate two sides of the same coin

There's a reason why the docs say not to run exit nodes on your home network: I set ExitRelay=1 for a matter of a few hours almost a month ago, and even now I'm still getting IP blocklisted by Bing/Google/AWS/US Government websites

Seeing the double :: colon operator used in the syntax of any language immediately makes me wince, even if I have no idea what it's actually used for in that language

The real answer is probably "I've been spoilt by tools like Prisma and need to learn how to actually get good at using one database rather than jumping between them constantly whenever something new and shiny gets released"

Are databases just hard or are there really no good ones or am I simply bad at programming?

I have all of the amazing DX and type-safety and easy client-server communication and boatloads of features that come with developing a large web app in Node and full-stack JS with CI/CD etc

yet my brain still sometimes longs for the simplicity of a Ruby & Rails or Moonscript & Lapis or raw PHP web app, or a service in Python & Bottle or Lisp or Arc. Then I remember that API I tried to build in Coffeescript once and I realise maybe things are better nowadays.

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I'm so glad the Git GPG key popup allows me time to close it and rewrite my commit message about 6 times before pushing

Or... maybe the ozone layer wasn't gone in 10 years because perhaps there was a huge international movement to stop using chlorofluorocarbons in aerosols, because they were causing massive damage to it?

https://hack-technicolor.readthedocs.io/ This is probably the most comprehensive wiki I have ever seen on such a niche topic