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Does anyone else get paralyzed on fixing small things because they’re terrified of it becoming a larger thing?

This never occurred to me… I just thought I need to fix this. Shit. Debuff unlocked.

I guess “hire someone” is always an option, but it’s a difficult task sometimes, especially finding someone reliable.

Actually, this is way more annoying to me. I’ve been ripped off/scammed too many times. I hate blindly trusting other people to not screw me over. Just this week my AC mysteriously broke after a recent-ish visit from some HVAC “professional”. I had to call another company cuz this is way more complicated than I can handle (for now…). After talking with the 2nd guy, it seems like the 1st guy didn’t do the maintenance work properly… I tried researching and going with a reputable company, but damn it still feels like a shot in the dark. Completely random chance they may completely break my shit.

Also, for some work, I’ve noticed I do it either at the same standard or better than some of these “professionals”. So. Meh.

Yes, it may take me several weeks to do it, but at least I know I tried to do it right, instead of rushing off to the next job.

squidward opens chair: ooh, AGPLv3, nice

squidward closes chair: sign our CLA

… You know… yeah, that’s true. One of the huge benefits of using some open source library is that you don’t have to maintain it. But if you clean room it, then it’s all on you.

Although, companies like Amazon will have the engineers to maintain it internally. But a lot of other companies won’t.

And then you have the chardet guy: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fight back? Should we start withholding test suites now? Withhold docs?

It’s a little more nuanced than that.

I will gladly write my own small, half-assed framework that I 100% know, can reason about, can debug, and can extend to fit my requirements. I will gladly pass on a fat-assed, bloated framework with a million dependencies, where I only need a few features, and where if I need something that isn’t offered by the framework I have to submit a PR or add some janky-ass workaround.

Careful. I tried doing this once. The company didn’t like it and they ADDITIONALLY charged me a chargeback fee. So not only did I have to pay whatever bogus charge, I also had to pay a chargeback fee. :(

Maybe I could have taken them to small claims court but … eh … that seemed like too much work.

An inspiration. I salute you, sir. I’m attempting the same.

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

Perfect is the enemy of good.

A satirical website dubbed Malus (malice) has been making its rounds and fooling users after claiming it’s deploying AI tools to recreate open source projects from scratch with corporate-friendly licensing (my personal favorite is Emergency AGPL Removal in the footer links)

Hahaha. That’s funny. Oh, guys.

💀 https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

Meanwhile OnlyOffice is saving to Macroslop format by default: https://piefed.social/c/libreoffice/p/1803568/libreoffice-blasts-fake-open-source-onlyoffice-for-working-with-microsoft-to-lock-users

Hell yeah!

Dropping X11 seems huge.

Yeah, you gotta add “meme”. This isn’t surprising?

It’s like searching for the word “information” and then getting mad because none of the search results are about “information for how to change car oil”. You’re searching for a general term and expecting a specific result.

?.. I don’t get it… you’re getting more or less relevant results for the general phrase “me gusta”?

This isn’t exclusive to Open Source projects. This happens all the time with proprietary apps as well: https://killedbygoogle.com/

Even things like TV shows can get killed after 1 season.

I use AirVPN, which gives you a random static port for port forwarding.

Neat! I’m currently using GNOME Calendar and Thunderbird, but not really in love with either.