People deserve to get paid on their work, and currently the best way to do that and survive in America is to work on completely closest source products that don’t respect their users. Open source is probably the most respectful but doesn’t work well as a business. We need something that works reliably for delivering real products that will achieve mass adoption. I think these source available licenses are that.

The context in the article is important. Similar to what FUTO preaches-- people don’t donate. That’s why corporate solutions usually win. Better to charge a bit of money so we can have nice things.

The plan was to rely on donations, which doesn’t usually work for hosted products.

I skimmed the article. Home Assistant Supervised seemed like it may be branding for the Docker edition, which apparently it is not.

Wait, does this mean they’re deprecating the docker image?

I like the digital sovereignty stuff. Just wish they’d get rid of the AI act and some other rather heavyhanded, regressive rules. Then I’d probably go to Zurich and try to get into the tech scene there.

People here keep saying folks are more chill on the West Coast, but I’ve lived in NYC for two years and around California for 8 (mostly the bay area), and this hasn’t been my experience at all. If anything, I’ve noticed the opposite of the stereotype. The California folks tend to be very un-“chill” when I deviate from some social norm by accident, while New Yorkers are generally pretty accepting. I also find when I ask folks out west to be direct because I really need that they way my mind works, they still often don’t, but New Yorkers will. I’m not sure what others mean when they say the West Coast is more chill since it was so much harder for me to get by there-- maybe they’re talking about something else.

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Though the image generators are actually good. The visual arts will never be the same after this

“Built to do my art and writing so I can do my laundry and dishes” – Embodied agents is where the real value is. The chatbots are just fancy tech demos that folks started selling because people were buying.

6.7% is still very high

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Not in NYC. Spectrum is my only option and they are flaky as hell

Think a bit before you talk. Hard for all of us!

But why?

Just do a lightweigt process in a few docs and Excel, and meet in person often enough that you know what folks are doing. That’s SOOOO much better and more natural for getting real work done. Great ideas die in JIRA among endless planning meetings and premature decomposition and estimates.

Some good points, but a very angry framing. We’ve moved around so much that many of us have lost touch with our wider communities. Many like myself never had one to begin with. Find and establish community before raising kids.