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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Awwww ๐Ÿ’œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I see what you mean and understand you. It's very idealistic and I appreciate the thought of it, but it just won't apply to a modern world full of varied people in the way you wish. The reality of it is that most people simply are not interested in participating and it's not in the best interests of any project to expect to change that. Contributions from someone who shares no passion or interest will be less qualitative at best. That's not even to mention that you're likely missing the forest for the trees, as most open source software is built upon hundreds of other projects. You cannot reasonably expect participation on that scale. You can encourage, desire, or structure an income stream to support it; but you cannot expect it as it's just not rational.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Not sure what part of the open source community you've been diving into, but the expectation of contribution to the project is not realistic nor logical as there's not "always" something a person can contribute and you'd absolutely run afoul of "too many chefs in the kitchen" (even Wikipedia acknowledges this and has structured editing in a way to help alleviate the issues). Though open source for me, and a lot of others, has always embodied passion, a desire to aid the community, and a drive to prevent closed alternatives. None of that is based around "co-op" style expected contribution development. Hell, even Stallman famously addressed my "free as in beer" statement, saying that open source is more akin to "free as in speech" overall, but since this particular project is not monitizing and are GPL 2 licensed, they are absolutely free as in beer.

(https://www.wired.com/2006/09/free-as-in-beer/)

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I understand this, but we need to be reasonable and avoid extremes. This software is extensively free (as in beer) and requires development support. As long as the prompt doesn't cross any lines into exploitive territory I think it's fine. It would be nice for them to have explored other fundraising avenues first though and have saved this as an exhaustive "final" option.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Don't worry. His entire set is the joke.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Cloudflare is amazing , until it's not. Chances are you'll fall within the 95% that have a great time, but if for some reason you draw the ire of sales, engineering, or a system bug you're gonna have a bad time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this the new embrace, extend, extinguish?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They love Linux*!

*the windows subsystem for Linux

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

There are going to be very few hashing algorithms that can take a certain byte value and hash it down into a unique smaller byte value. If you miscoded the database and stored the hashed passwords into a value of a fixed length, you have to abide by that length without some trickery or cleaveriness. Is that not the case? Every time I've seen this limitation in wild code that has been the case.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The answer is always a poorly coded database. :(

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's. Fucking. Insane. Like, it's a documented registry fix from Microsoft themselves. If you have a gpo pushing it, it's not getting reset. Also you literally just disregarded the way 90% of software makes configuration changes to your system, the registry.... Please tell me you don't work in IT because if you do your coworkers and end users must hate their lives.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Or a proper gpo/registry modification as detailed: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-restart ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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