Post AztVF3z1KjM9uAxUpc by ewjoachim@piaille.fr
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 (DIR) Post #Azt41peWbaicvsq2ee by whitequark@mastodon.social
       2025-11-04T01:46:16Z
       
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       watching a video about private equity buying everything in pro audio (native instruments, etc)i think over a long enough timescale (over than five years) the only tools that remain are FOSS ones.it doesn't matter that you think they're janky compared to professional-grade ones (sometimes they are, sometimes they're actively better, though that's rare)because you won't have your professional-grade ones for very long, anyways.
       
 (DIR) Post #Azt41r31PzuNG9J7Tc by whitequark@mastodon.social
       2025-11-04T01:47:39Z
       
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       i have understood for over a decade now that community led open source isn't a _development_ strategy or _maintenance_ strategy. it is a survival strategy in an adversarial environment dominated by capital. this is why, in long term, it is superior to any other type of software/hardware development
       
 (DIR) Post #Azt41s6xSqeQYe9mFc by whitequark@mastodon.social
       2025-11-04T01:49:09Z
       
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       i think describing community led open source as _risk-management strategy_ would be my preferred way of describing it. yes, it has some other benefits and drawbacks. but it is the best way to counteract the risk of enclosure by capital.
       
 (DIR) Post #Azt41tMEpWT4QKJUhs by whitequark@mastodon.social
       2025-11-04T01:52:57Z
       
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       this reason is why "I will release a non-trivial part of what I am developing on a daily basis [either as an employee, as a contractor, or in my free time] as open source" has been a non-negotiable point whenever I would work somewhere.the median lifespan of a small company doing something unique is under 5 years. i want my work to have use for longer than that. it takes too much of my life to produce it for me to ignore it
       
 (DIR) Post #Azt41uINLMyLKdVvKC by foone@digipres.club
       2025-11-04T01:54:39Z
       
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       @whitequark god yeah. I've written so much wasted code that some short-lived company was sitting on, doing nothing with.
       
 (DIR) Post #Azt4OlhXSk3bL1BWm8 by varx@cybersecurity.theater
       2025-11-04T01:58:07Z
       
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       @foone @whitequark I keep thinking about the really quite nice load balancer I wrote for a previous employer that got thrown away not long after I left.At least I got to write a blog post describing how it worked—but what I don't have are all the tuning parameters, and now I don't have a source of traffic to even run simulations with.
       
 (DIR) Post #AztVF3z1KjM9uAxUpc by ewjoachim@piaille.fr
       2025-11-04T06:59:33Z
       
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       @foone @whitequark https://xkcd.com/664/Hidden text: Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it's locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine. For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.