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  • Who gets to decide who’s unstable?

    Doctors, Independent Medical Mental Health Professionals, and to some extent prior personal patterns. Honestly, thats not politically motivated, thats just common sense.

    The problem with that is that it’s not currently socially acceptable to seek mental health assistance, and it’s hard to get (long wait and high cost in the US at least) assistance when you need it. So people don’t.

    And for the second part, the first time may be the last as they go out with a bang. Ive lost family members due to the combo of these two statements.

    But also, history shows that it doesn’t matter that much for the higher impact/mass shootings. If someone is motivated enough, they’ll find a way. It doesnt matter reduce the count as it reduces the ease of finding a weapon, but it doesn’t make it zero and we shouldn’t really try for that.










  • Same here. Though it makes sense as we also cut a “release” branch that aid what goes to production and it’s behind protections against rogue PRs/commits so devs can’t just push there, the process must be followed. “Main” is for devs. “Release” is for prod. “Master” didn’t really jive with that layout so it’s gone.










  • Instead of building our own clouds, I want us to own the cloud. Keep all of the great parts about this feat of technical infrastructure, but put it in the hands of the people rather than corporations. I’m talking publicly funded, accessible, at cost cloud-services.

    I worry that quickly this will follow this path:

    • Someone has to pay for it, so it becomes like an HOA of compute. (A Compute Owners Association, perhaps) Everyone contributes, everyone pays their shares
    • Now there’s a group making decisions… and they can impose rules voted upon by the group. Not everyone will like that, causing schisms.
    • Economies of scale: COA’s get large enough to be more mini-corps and less communal. Now you’re starting to see “subscription fees” no differently than many cloud providers, just with more “ownership and self regulation”
    • The people running these find that it takes a lot of work and need a salary. They also want to get hosted somewhere better than someone’s house, so they look for colocation facilities and worry about HA and DR.
    • They keep growing and draw the ire of companies for hosting copies of licensed resources. Ownership (which this article says we don’t have anyway) is hard to prove, and lawsuits start flying. The COA has to protect itself, so it starts having to police what’s stored on it. And now it’s no better than what it replaced.