Seems like it, lol. Her loss. Actual Mahjong is a good time. :D

Not FOSS, but Mahjong Soul is pretty well-made.

See also: How Chiropractic Started as a Ghost Religion

loose an afternoon

That’s alright. A chiropractor can tighten up that afternoon for ya.

How does your ISP have anything to do with port forwarding, or wired vs. wifi?

Seize the means of computation.

Always blew my mind at CompUSA that they had lil security boxes around the $30 games, but $200 (or however much it was) Red Hat was just chillin.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76908/trouble-star-trek-transporters

If the transporter takes all the atoms that make up a person, encodes them, beams them somewhere else, and then reassembles them, how can we know that the resulting “person” is the same person who went in?

Capitalism is a tool. Being pro-capitalism is like being pro-circular saw.

What you see as “anti-capitalism” is people pointing out that using one tool for everything is, at best, inefficient… and, at worst, dangerous.

Insisting that everything must be quantifiable and min/maxed according to market demands is nonsense, and hurts people.

There are things we value which are not profitable. There are things that are profitable but not valuable.

If a leftist movement doesn’t have a horribly misleading and unnecessarily inflammatory name, is it even a leftist movement?

Looks like that’s based on an outdated TOS. Even then, those terms are pretty tame except for the one about transferable license for uploaded content, which has thankfully been narrowed by a lot in the current TOS. (Now it just means: We’re allowed to store your images on S3, resize them, and show them to people you specifically selected to send them to.)

For a company that’s worried about 230 safe harbor, GDPR, CCPA, and wants to promote their first-party products at you, this is all standard.

Also:

This service does not sell your personal data

They learned their lesson with the old Visual Studio. Spending all of that money to maintain an IDE where the core 90% of it was no better than any open source or shareware alternative.

The only reasons people needed VS specifically were all features that could easily be turned into self-contained plugins.

And with everything turning into cloud services, there’s pretty much no point in trying to sell installable local apps that are impossible to fully DRM and have no justifiable subscription fees.

And when an enterprise goes to pick a cloud repo service, cloud code workspace, cloud hosting, devops system, AI development assistant, etc… Who are they gonna pick? Maybe the one from the same company that makes “that one app all our devs rave about”?

Their privacy policy says they don’t sell your data.

Not that you should automatically trust any communication platform (present Lemmies excluded), but exchange of data for services is at least not the business model on paper.

In a sense, you still “are the product”, because people won’t buy Nitro if there’s noone to talk to.

But that’s different from like… tracking micro-motions of your mouse to categorize your personality traits and increase ad conversions.

Genuinely free? VSCode

Freemium: Discord

You pay with your data: Google Maps

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Github issue from 4 years ago

Self-closed after 3 days

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