I am Blakeyrat, ask me anything. (no longer answering questions)
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Well it lasted quite a bit longer than expected, so, congrats on your extended
love andtolerance?
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well, mute doesn't work here
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what was the final straw that convinced you that open source software sucks?
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What's your favourite desktop search software?
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@ComputerForumUser said in I am Blakeyrat, ask me anything.:
What's your favourite desktop search software?
Nice try, @SpectateSwamp .
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@fbmac said in I am Blakeyrat, ask me anything.:
what was the final straw that convinced you that open source software sucks?
I am going to attempt reply:
Microsoft release visual studio community edition!
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What is your favorite Undertale character
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What is your favorite Unicode character?
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What is the maximum number of duck sized horses that you'd fight before you'd rather fight a horse sized duck?
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@blakeyrat said in I am Blakeyrat, ask me anything.:
but you couldn't make the mod free and also take donations
Wasn't it something stupid like "you can set it to name-your-own-price and set the minimum to $0, but once someone owns the mod (even if they paid $0) they can't get charged again for it"?
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@Nagesh is that bad or good? I kind of like the fact that u can get a free edition of vs and SQL and Code isn't a bad editor at all.
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@serguey123 said in I am Blakeyrat, ask me anything.:
u
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Why did my "last read" mark not carry over from Discourse to NodeBB?
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@sloosecannon U mad, bro?
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@lolwhat lil bit
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@Lorne-Kates it did, but topics that existed 2 weeks or more before the migration kept their "last read" positions to make the update go faster.
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@ben_lubar said in I am Blakeyrat, ask me anything.:
@Lorne-Kates it did, but topics that existed 2 weeks or more before the migration kept their "last read" positions to make the update go faster.
Fucking Discourse.
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Well since this thread has already been necromanced, I might as well ask one more set of questions, but I'll try to make it a good one.
With regard to open source, do you think that the majority of the problems you see in FOSS are fundamental faults in developing in an open environment (e.g., that the goal of open software is itself flawed, or they are due to allowing any chump to walk in off the street and start changing things around, H2G2 style, or are due to the lack of a centralizing authority driving the projects and keeping them moving in the desired direction, or some other thing that is inherent in FOSS), or do you believe that they are primarily incidental (e.g., a matter of the sorts of developers who are drawn to the open source community, the dynamics of the community itself, or some other interpersonal issue that isn't necessarily an aspect FOSS development)? Do you feel that the (frequent but not quite universal) lack of monetary compensation in FOSS development is a factor? What about the argument that 'ego-driven development' encourages the wrong sort of contributions (either for reasons similar to your dispute with gamification, or some other reason related to recognition from ones' peers being a primary motivation)? What role does lack of continuity in FOSS projects (and the consequent CADT anti-pattern and similar issues) play in this, and it is less serious than with bespoke development, or more?
Finally, is there any way to avoid or minimize the flaws you see in FOSS without losing its primary goals?
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@ScholRLEA Just thought of another question, related to the EDD one: is the fact that gift economies, both historical and present-day, are by their nature symbiotic to a separate production economy (because only those who have the luxury of time and a means of support separate from the gift economy - e.g., feudal lords, university students living on grants and student loans, etc. - can have the opportunity to fully participate in the gift economy) have any significance to your view of FOSS? Would (and perhaps, will) the development of a post-scarcity society change this equation?
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this topic could be a category, one topic for question
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can we has the topic title changed to "you're no longer welcome here, suspended for 4788555365867 days"
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@fbmac This is NodeBB, it would have to be "206865591805454400 seconds".
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Necromantic incantation in 3..2..1..
Note that the few times anyone actually asked a question, they were all ignored by Blakey? Or was that the joke, and I deserve a ?
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@ScholRLEA said in I am Blakeyrat, ask me anything. (no longer answering questions):
Necromantic incantation in 3..2..1..
Note that the few times anyone actually asked a question, they were all ignored by Blakey? Or was that the joke, and I deserve a ?
Yes, that was the joke. I believe less than 6% of the questions have been answered.
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@ScholRLEA He started answering a few questions, and it was an interesting thread. But then he got angry with the guy that doxxed him in the lounge and he disowned it.