Which he can borrow cash against

Genius

They’ll just use the opportunity to buy back stock.

Alright, not that I wrote or implied that anywhere… In fact Java was probably the whole reason Oracle bought Sun to gain leverage over Android. Which fits very much into what I wrote - one company innovates, another one buys them to squeeze users (Google wasn’t a customer of Sun, they used their own implementation which wasn’t exactly Java but also not exactly anything else). Just that Sun by all means wasn’t a small company, I mean they controlled almost a full stack with their own processors (SPARC), workstations and servers (Blade was somewhat famous), an operating system with Solaris (and if you want to count it even JavaOS) and Java on top of those, and they contributed a lot of technology like NFS, ZFS (license discussions aside). On the other hand, when they bought someone, the product wasn’t just milked to death, but actually integrated into their stack and continued to be developed in the open.

Shame it turned out that way, I guess Sun was a bit overleveraged with how much they did vs. how much they made from it. And to think that Oracle paid less than a fifth than what Twitter sold for later for all of that technology to go to waste, just for a chance to sue Google… But we long as suits continue to license their stuff because they have cool advertisements at airports, this will keep going.

Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level , it’s first and foremost a company focused on selling licenses, and they’re really innovative in that regard but if you fall for that as a company, I have no pity, this is their whole schtick.

Big companies in general are often rather conservative in nature while innovation happens on smaller scale and later expands.

The big problem is rather that a lot of innovation has been absorbed by the big companies via buyouts, especially when money was cheap to borrow. Innovation bears risk, buying an established solution and milking existing users much less so.

I don’t think the users are without blame. A lot of people ignore the red flags when a solution is just convenient enough (we need the commercial support / this exactly covers our use case so we don’t have to hire someone to adapt it / …) and the vendor then cashes out when moving away from his solution would be really expensive.

I think there’s still a lot of innovation lately, but a lot people are just looking for the next big thing that does everything it feels like.

less comes with all distributions I know

server owners

The only server owners in Discord are Discord themselves. They just let you use them so they can monetize your data.

I found it especially funny that his initials are the same as Mike Tyson’s.

The guy is an absolute gaming legend. Just figuring out so much about a single game on your own and then optimizing it to such a degree with all the randomness involved. Truly obsessed

Cryptocurrency with Tor has unironically done more for drug safety than most administrations worldwide. I hate the framing “fake money for criminals” because while there are despicable crimes, not all of them use cryptocurrency, in fact USD was the most common last time I checked, OTOH what constitutes a criminal can be an arbitrary rule. Woman in Texas having an abortion paying with crypto? Fits the definition but I’m not sure people here would condemn it.

I’m not happy with how cryptocurrency turned out with the huge speculational bubble, NFTs, not even a huge fan of smart contracts but I think the idea of a decentralized and maybe even anonymous ledger is very much in the spirit of the fediverse.

Nice info.

If you want know more about a completely different aspect of Punch-Out!, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBR9ypSOTGQ

So in the non US game version, Soda Popinski is named Vodka Dunkenski.

I thought this was an issue with revisions, I still he was also called Vodka in the early US version.

I mean even Mike Tyson got renamed to Mr Dream later…

Isn’t he called “Don Flamenco”? Haha

Don’t put too much thought into it, ist an empty threat to scare idiots, there’s no logic

Also basically every Linux big name posted there. It was so great. I’m still sad it’s gone

For years Dota players have argued that having to click the enemy hero to see their mana is peak game design. It was very rare to see anyone argue on favor of it. Better late than never I guess?

Mostly holding Nano, used Monero quite often - should probably spend some Nano at one point… But vendors accepting it here are rare

Omg we’re cryptocurrency twins. I hold exactly these two for the same reasons

One might think so, but the number 3 in the potential title makes this highly unlikely.

Damn I love Don Rosa comics.

Is this from the one where they found Croesus’ vault to make the amulet from his lucky coin?

Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is also not only a happy story about him getting rich, but also about becoming lonely and somewhat bitter in the later stories.

Highly recommend reading them, Disney likes sweep them under the rug for whatever reason.

The treasure hunt series (where I think this picture is from) is a bit more light-hearted in nature, but still very good.

That nicer place is probably at home. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. But I think all fast food chains raised prices? At least here in Europe it’s not like McDonald’s is somehow standing out as more expensive. Worse, yes. But that was always the case