Crypto has just made more evident how finance wizards are simply adept at saying something is incredibly valuable, and getting people to believe them. Tesla has no reason to be so valuable. SpaceX I’d agree, but Tesla has been overtaken at every aspect by other companies.

Unfortunately, corporations have bastardized the term “open” (looking at you, OpenAI) trying to get the credit Open Source software has earned.

Libre was a good choice to emphasize “free as in speech”.

If humanity survives until then, we can implement 9-digit dates and delay the problem until Y100K.

Plex is more polished, but I love Jellyfin’s subtitle search; it blows Plex’s socks away.

Also, Jellyfin doesn’t nag me every effing time to enable DRM in Firefox for some unfathomable reason.

But Plex definitely wins on performance, IMO.

Take HomeAssistant for example: you’re free to use it self-hosted, but as soon as you want to expose it securely through the Internet, there’s need for infrastructure that has costs, both in materials and labor. In HomeAssistant’s case, it’s NabuCasa that does it, and costs money, and helps fund the work of HomeAssistant’s developers.

Having things free (libre) and open source is a blessing, but we have become used, entitled, even spoiled, to enjoy the work of very specialized people for free. That’s not always feasible.

Another example, Zabbix, is totally open source and free, they only charge for support and training if you ask for them. It has worked for them for many years, but if they start to struggle with funding, I’d understand if they charged for it.

In my country, it’s the casinos. They naturally receive cash predominantly, and can easily launder millions. Everything else is small potatoes.

We do what we must
because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead

Yeah, let’s see how well that ping works when they find a deathclaw in one of those trips.

YOU DIED (several minutes ago)

brag about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution we? Like, can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?

H-hey!

They have a brain as complex as ours, they’re social, and they’re believed to be really smart.

If they’re actually dumb, very dumb, I swear to god I will buy a single non-certified dolphin-free tuna can out of spite.

Unfortunately the only fly straight down, and they only stop after reaching the floor.

Wait, those were regular sloths!

:(

This is scandalous! We were supposed to get a different kind of fraud!

They even probably worked better than real AI, the shame!

Try it a few times, his laptop catches fire.

Hard non-binary persons, mind you!

And if they wear furry suits it’s because they’re harder! Wait…

Wow. Aren’t we Mexicans inventive?

Apple has teased with making the iPhone-as-a-service, meaning you lease it instead of owning it. The tariffs might give it the pretext it needed to go ahead with the idea, because the alternative would be sacrificing some of its abundant profit margins.

Yup, PRI started as left, enjoyed seven decades of de facto dictatorship, during which it moved to center-right, then lost two times in a row to PAN, which is right-center. PAN lost to MORENA, in great part because PRI formed an under-the-table alliance with them. MORENA says its left, but in reality it swings all over the place.

Now PRI and PAN have become shells of their former selves, and MORENA had made sure to change the electoral and legal systems so it will be very hard for them to lose. Its founder and former president had long dreamed for a de facto dictatorship return. He’s getting his son ready to take over in the next presidential election.

Mexican (and Latin American) politics are always such a mess: presidents have too much power, and many disregard the law with impunity. I’m sorry to see USA is experiencing the same, Trump should be in jail for encouraging the Capitol riots.

You joke, but Russia is a better replacement for China than Ukraine. The territory is bigger, which means more resources, and instead of giving them aid USA can buy raw material cheap because they need money.

At least that’s the strategy I’d expect from your current administration, since everything is laser-focused on very short term profit.

Ligma balls ha ha ha (gets fired)

Seriously, Ligma’s one of the most unfortunate names for a professional product since Cockroach Database or Coq.

Reading this list from Mexico: we used to have a disastrous economic crisis every six years, without fail, as the exiting president and their accomplices took everything that wasn’t nailed, and even contracted debt so they could steal even more.

Compared to those awful decades, having no self-inflicted major crisis since 2000 has been sweet. Unfortunately, many of the people who caused those crises are in power right now, covering their backs. It’s a matter of time before the next one.

I guess my point is: people will adapt, because they have to. Many will lose a lot, but somehow will survive. Things have to get much much worse before people can’t take it anymore.

I wish your country reacts faster than mine did, and that it doesn’t fall back again like mine seems to be doing.