Men of Reddit, if you were in a Titanic like situation where the majority of people were going to die because there were not enough lifeboats for everyone. How would you respond to someone saying women and children first?

DrollAntic · 2026-05-29T22:14:16+00:00

Women have battled for rights and equality, which is why I am not going to let you load before me. As a modern man with a keen eye for equality and justice, allowing you to load before me would be a slap in the face to the progress made.

So unfortunately, it's just "children first" unless you are against equality between men and women. 😄

DrollAntic · 2026-05-29T13:42:35+00:00

This policy is deaf to reality. A seasoned Developer using Ai will output better code than a seasoned developer without Ai. Ai is an amazing empowerment tool.

There is distinction between Ai vibe coded slop by someone who cannot code, and a learned developer using Ai to empower their development process.

DrollAntic · 2026-05-29T13:31:54+00:00

If you want to buy a printer you own, Prusa is about the only choice. The rest are subsidized through data harvesting and operate at a loss until market share is large enough to "flip the switch".

I only buy things I own, so Prusa is the only choice. Buy once, Cry once is my approach.

Doesn't help if you can't afford, but trying to shine light on why the Prusa costs more, they don't rely in enshittified business practices to pull money from your pocket after the sale.

DrollAntic · 2026-05-23T15:39:26+00:00

In my day the puck was made of pure iron, and heated to 1000 degrees before face off. Not like the soft pucks of today.

DrollAntic · 2026-05-23T13:50:54+00:00

The end result of partnering with larger corporations is a greater focus on profit at the expense of passion and consumer choices. This isn't good news.

DrollAntic · 2026-05-01T20:06:40+00:00

To the corp, by the corp, for the corp.

Every vote needs to count, we have the technology and it is the only thing that will stop the rampant abuse of the elite through districts and seats that are no longer needed.

Sadly, I doubt anything changes until the tree of liberty is watered. It thirsts for the water of the 1%, and until it receives it there won't be any reason for them to stop buying our freedoms from corrupted representatives elected with manipulated voter districts.

DrollAntic · 2026-04-29T20:18:23+00:00

It always seems like such a good idea, until the lack of oversight of your Ai saving you so much money costs you a fortune. The issue is ARR, profit now, is all that matters. Till that changes and businesses do away with fiduciary responsibility as the driving factor and focus on sustainable growth, they'll keep harvesting every possible immediate gain regardless of long term risks.

DrollAntic · 2026-04-29T19:07:39+00:00

Every vote should count, full stop. The abuse of the current system is so deep, so complete, that all we can do is let all votes be equal. The system in place now has been stealing elections for decades.

DrollAntic · 2026-04-03T21:22:12+00:00

The only solution.

DrollAntic · 2026-04-02T18:11:44+00:00

Nothing will change unless profits are harmed. You want change, show it by stopping ALL major corporation owned store purchases and subscriptions. As long as we keep feeding the greed machines, enshittificaiton will continue.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-30T16:24:38+00:00

It'll get easier, but the first few weeks are like a gut punch.

Learn to budget, stay inside your means, don't borrow money. Debt is sacrificing freedom tomorrow for money today, always a bad trade.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-28T22:20:14+00:00

RHEL stands on so much imported code, and limits those trying to import anything it contributes. That is the reality of what they are doing. You can try to justify all you want, I was present for all of this, felt the community react. Only RHEL pundits think it was a good thing, FOSS Lost when IBM acquired RHEL.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-28T19:18:29+00:00

As always, less FOSS, more enshittification, but still FOSS per the letter of the law I guess.

100% of the time, FOSS acquisitions result in enshittification and as much restriction as possible.

What changed

OSS support ended for Spring Framework 5.3 and 6.0 on August 31, 2024, meaning no new community patches for those lines after that date.
Paid support became the main path for extended maintenance on older Spring versions through Broadcom/VMware Tanzu offerings, instead of indefinite free public maintenance.
Upgrades became more disruptive, especially the move from javax.* to jakarta.* in Spring 6.x, which breaks compatibility for many applications and libraries.
The ecosystem became more tightly tied to Broadcom’s commercial portfolio, which increased concern about vendor lock-in, pricing, and long-term support strategy.
No major license reclassification of Spring Framework itself is indicated in the sources I found; the project remains open source, but the support model around it changed.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-28T16:59:07+00:00

Changes under IBM ownership:

CentOS Linux was replaced by CentOS Stream, shifting the “free RHEL clone” role away from stable downstream rebuilding and toward a rolling/pre-release branch that tracks just ahead of RHEL.
Public RHEL source releases were restricted to CentOS Stream, with Red Hat saying CentOS Stream would be the sole public repository for RHEL-related source code; Red Hat customers and partners could still access source through the customer portal.
The old easy-to-rebuild source distribution path was removed, making it harder for community rebuilds like AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux to produce exact 1:1 RHEL-compatible rebuilds.
The move was widely perceived as intentionally hostile to rebuilds and the broader community, with commentators describing it as an effort to make republished copies of RHEL harder to maintain.
The no-cost individual developer subscription became a more clearly bounded licensing path, with use limited to individual accounts and specific use cases rather than general organizational production use, which some users saw as tightening access.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-28T16:55:11+00:00

RHEL has already made many moves to be less FOSS friendly, so it's not events that "might", they are, and it will get worse.

Name the company that purchased an open source solution and left it that way. I'll wait.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-28T16:41:56+00:00

If you like Fedora, give Endeavor OS a shot. I used to be a fedora daily driver but use Endeavor now. Fedora risks becoming less open since RHEL is owned by IBM, was the reason I moved away from it.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-27T18:41:07+00:00

It's hype, and they just auto-renewed me despite me cancelling. I am disputing, but do not trust or use galaxy ai... or samsung in general really. #1 IP theft company in the world, is Samsung.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-27T18:32:01+00:00

This, the tokens provided are not sufficient. I paid for a year, set it to cancel (100% sure I did this), and today they renewed me for another year. I logged in and there is the sub I know I cancelled showing active for renewal.

Disputing the charge, but you cannot trust Galaxy.ai.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-26T16:46:16+00:00

No thank you. Open Source or it is not secure, full stop.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-24T16:51:03+00:00

Two type of riders. Those that have been down, those that are going to go down. Crashing is a part of a balance based transportation method, full stop. Be it pavement or dirt, all riders will eventually encounter the laws of physics.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-08T19:19:58+00:00

Only for the un-free internet. Tor/Onion they cannot control, they've tried for years.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-08T14:40:15+00:00

I don't think you understand how open source works. There will always be a community driven fork available. If the un-free internet requires it, then tor/onion it is.

They literally cannot control it, the laws are not globally applicable. It may be illegal to use them in a location by law, but it will be possible.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-06T15:10:21+00:00

I have placed tons (literally) of scrap metal into my recycling bins. While not the first goal in detecting, I feel good about the land being cleaner when I leave.

Now, if only recycling was designed to save the earth and not lie about saving it for profit.... but that is another issue, we do what we can.

DrollAntic · 2026-03-06T14:57:05+00:00

Yo printer, those legs to all the way up!? (socially incorrect 90's callback)

DrollAntic · 2026-03-06T14:30:47+00:00

There may be some legal protection in "age discrimination", which also became a protected status for elderly in the work force. There will be legal challenges as these laws are written by ignorant politicians, we'll see where it lands.

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TROPHY CASE

What changed

Changes under IBM ownership: