The prices are going up for every provider. It’s across the board. Porkbun.com too.

Paragraph 3. They did, just not in the last 6 years.

Hi bilb, this is blab. I just wanted to say thank you for your approach. You run a wonderful server.

Totally agree.

I think we should all strive to do better. Unit tests, mock-ups, UX design, 2 week sprints with actual working deliverables, well documented use cases, every thing neatly stacked in Jira, dev,test,staging,prod environments, continuous integration and every thing else we are told to do.

Then reality sets in……

With all that said, 25 years as a dev, this utopian environment is almost impossible to find unless forced by regulatory compliance. Medical devices, life critical systems, etc. or if you have big piles of money.

This is very true.

Unfortunately most product managers SUCK at designing or making software.

Agile tries to fix this be supporting frequent iteration.

Unfortunately most programmers SUCK at writing good code.

TDD tries to fix this by forcing the consideration of end results (testing) at the beginning. It forces programmers and product teams to actually think and work. Make clear design decisions earlier on, but not to the point of waterfall.

It’s just a giant cesspool of failure due to human laziness that usually falls on the shoulders of QA.

Bottom line, making good software is hard. It takes time. But the market won’t support slow development. The business and sales teams remind me of Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka.

Can you provide some examples of what you are looking for? There are a handful of private edu trackers that may have the content you desire.

I don’t.

But I take many precautions.

I’ve been pirating software since the C64. About 40 years. Never stopped. Never will.

I buy the good software I encounter. As a developer, i know it’s important to keep funding further development. Unfortunately most is overpriced garbage.

Long story short.

1. Be prepared for disaster.
2. Scan it. Sandbox it if concerned.
3. Firewall inspect/block/allow every outbound comm.
4. Get it from a trusted source.

Basically the same stuff you should be doing with all software.

Edit for firewall clarification.

Hahaha. Copper top.

I think that what AI may do, for a long time, is enhance our hobbies.

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, AI.

Just like early cryptocurrency, there will be value in work done. Seeing an artist create will be just as valuable as the resulting artwork.

The report is very light on comparative data. It does look cherry picked. I’d be much more interested in a real piece of research. I do see the point of CCDHs claims. But it’s pretty weak. Free speech has some uncomfortable aspects that the general populace doesn’t want to see. Blocking and filters can help tune the fire hose to your individual preferences. For example on X, I filter all the political out of my feed. It’s not that hard, people are just lazy.

Fuck off already.

God bless the hackers, crackers, reverse engineers, and disrupters. Pray they help keep you free of too much pain.