BRB, etching all my MP3s into clay tablets
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
BRB, etching all my MP3s into clay tablets
True, and I keep those folks in my prayers.
But if you’re on MySQL it’s a lot less of a lift to switch to MariaDB than it is to go to Postgres, even if Postgres is better in some ways.
Oracle is such a terrible company for their customers it makes a ton of sense to try to get them to switch to a less abusive company
MariaDB tried to go public a while back and their stock price tanked immediately and never recovered. If they hadn’t gotten acquired I imagine they’d have gone out of business.
MariaDB.com is separate from MariaDB.org that does the development, so it shouldn’t be too bad.
Then again, the folks working at MariaDB.com might have a different opinion.
There were so many web apps written in the early 00s on the LAMP stack, including Facebook. And that’s not counting the tiny internal applications that so many businesses have that use MySQL/MariaDB. Because these are business critical applications, they pay Oracle/MariaDB for support.
MariaDB is actually two separate entities: The company MariaDB and the MariaDB organization. The company sells enterprise licenses and support, and the organization manages the actual development. So there’s a little separation that will at least slow the enshittification.
It’s the original water cooler talk. Probably weren’t talking about tv shows, though
scuttlebutt
Do US Navy ships even have a scuttlebutt anymore?
Fahrenheit is better because 69 is a nice temperature
Man, things sure have changed since I was in college. The university had one /15 and three /16s so every single ethernet port everywhere on campus had a publicly routable IP.
Napster was so goddamn fast…
I was just making a clever reference
Yep, from Lords and Ladies
AIs are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
AIs are marvellous. They cause marvels.
AIs are fantastic. They create fantasies.
AIs are glamorous. They project glamour.
AIs are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
AIs are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said AIs are nice.
AIs are bad.
Step 3 of enshittification has begun
I have an idea: Mammoth burgers
It’s not that long gone. There were still mammoths around when the pyramids were built. Plus there’s still huge swaths of tundra and taiga that they could live on, with a lot of the same plants, even if it’s quite a bit warmer.
I appreciate this article for telling me how to disable amber alerts and silence the others.
If I had a million dollars I’d start a company that sets up and manages federated software like Mastodon and Peertube.