At that point just let me ditch the formality and send over the summary in the first place.

A tangent a little bit but so much this. Why haven’t we normalized using fewer words already?
Why do we keep writing (some blogs and all of content marketing) whole screens of text to convey just a sentence of real content?
Why do we keep the useless hello and regards instead of just directly getting to the points already?

I didn’t notice it going bad. What’s going on?

I mean the new one, not Vortex

According to modlog it was against Rule#2

Wasn’t there the same question here yesterday?

I don’t know

Fortunately
but maybe “yet”…

I Ducked https://activisthandbook.org/wellbeing/deescalation maybe one of the sources would be helpful?

EDIT: purely what I (from my chair) think might work: (of course, don’t step outside your own boundaries, safety etc)

• address the provocateur - to redirect the emotions from the police, so situationally it’s not their place to respond anymore
• be calm and try to address that this is not the way we want to protest. “I understand that you are angry. I am too. But this is not the way we can change things, violence is not the answer…” - to dissipate the anger put out by the provocateur so it’s not picked up by non-provocateurs
• probably if those will be organized, they will be moving in packs and pairs, so when you address one guy, another one will try to pick up the anger. That’s why it’s important that many of protesters are aware that provocations might be taking place and be ready to back you up with calming down

EDIT2:

• if you are successful they will be trying to trigger you. Be mindful of your tone and body language - your role is not to convince them, but to affect the mood around you. We are social creatures, the point is to not get to the point of a pack of angry wolves
• remember that they don’t have to be a provocateur, they might be just a protester that is that angry at the situation. Be respectful, don’t get into accusation/blame game
• remember that provocateurs don’t have to be bald burly men

I think the message was “be prepared to de-escalate provocations during protests”

Why not just cooperate with nexus mods? Their new app (yes, still a deep beta) works quite well

it was already posted 4 hs earlier

students

When I was a student I despised the idea of typeless var in C#. Then a few years later at my day job I fully embraced C++ auto. I understand the frustration but unfortunately being wrong is part of learning

It might be interesting to cross-post this question to [email protected]
but brace for impact

I don’t think such trend would be so big. And anyone who has used any LLM for programming learns very quickly that those are very far from replacing anyone

They don’t want to use those tools, legal or technical, because it goes against the spirit of FOSS, even if it’s to stop someone else who is abusing the spirit of FOSS.

I’m not convinced. It all started from a license saying “if you want to distribute your version, you have to license it the same”. One either plays by the rules or the modification doesn’t see the light of day. And at the time of publication, it was rather radical stance
Freedom sometimes has to be enforced

This is not a story about a company denying free trial to another company because the latter is big. It’s about the latter leeching resources from supporters who’s money go towards the fleet that serves their 4k VM “trial”

It is against the spirit of FOSS

I know. The world runs on duct-tape

I 100% expect so. It’s much easier and cheaper to do it this way and also gives them data to train copilot further

I might be wrong, though

I’m not convinced that the number of questions asked is the correct metric. In the end the point is not to have a constant flow of questions, rather constant flow of answers found.

There is a point in proficiency in language/library/whatever after which it is faster to find the answer in the code/documentation/test example than to wait until another person on even higher level will come and answer your question.
Maybe we simply filled out what was needed to be asked in the beginner-bug found-intermediate space and, apart from questions stemming from new versions etc, SO does not need more questions?

Expectation for everything to constantly grow is unrealistic

And as usual, that is not where the costs should be cut. Even with the current relegation of platform (I mean running mission-critical machines in cloud). I wouldn’t trust that company to be their customer if I knew they operate like that

Picture a semi-governmental company

Also, relying on 30-day license that has to be refreshed on monthly basis, now with personal emails, is a sev1 waiting to happen. Very unmaintainable

And if someone from That Company is reading this: you still have time to do the right thing. You’ve got the rocket science down. Now try ethics.

💋🤌

When a building needs maintenance bad enough that it doesn’t pass a set of regulations, it will get closed until fixed. Maybe we need something like that for IT infrastructure