1. This is why BDFL culture in open source is bad. Because if the BDFL decides to go all in on some completely bizarre mess, all of a sudden there’s massive fork politics.
2. Hey is the marquee product now?? Does anyone actually use Hey? I tried it for a year, and basically found I was paying for the privilege of having a slower, buggier, less feature-rich gmail that can’t even dent the have-a-paid-email-that-doesn’t-exploit-you market (Fastmail and Proton exist, yo).
The only people I know still using Hey are doing so because there's no way to move your address elsewhere. It's a PITA to change your email everywhere (and some unfortunate place don't let you; e.g. email as the login and primary key)
I already migrated all of my projects off rails, moving to fastapi, due to a combination of DHH's political bs and Ruby's fumbling of progressive typing/type hints. I actually just completed the migration a couple weeks ago.
I'm now doubly-glad since it seems like, indeed, the bdfl has lost both the plot and the B. The fact that Omarchy is also some weird corporate-sponsored AI-pilled linux reskin is further concerning.
In retrospect, his jamming of things like thruster, hotwire, etc etc into the framework and then now basically abandoning them has me grateful I didn't adopt them, even though I thought they seemed pretty well-intended at the time.
Yeah, isn’t this a classic kind of scam the would-be scammer situation? If you think there’s some way to buy one cheap device and somehow get around subscribing to streaming services[1], then of course you’re going to be in a market with fraudsters…
[1] Can someone explain what the theory of the product is here? It sounds like they’re marketing these things as ways for the customer to commit fraud, for example by connecting to someone else’s login. How else would the customer expect to be able to get free Netflix or whatever?
It may be the case that these devices are front-ends for pirated content that's hosted in various places. They're not streaming it from Netflix servers. It's content similar to that offered by Netflix and other streaming services, pirated by someone else, and hosted by someone else for streaming by anyone who can figure out how to find it.
Honestly I’m shocked this took so long. For years and years this has smelled like a massive vulnerability to me, just because so constantly I find myself getting docusigns from people I have some kind of business with, without any warning in advance that it’s coming.
At least a couple times a year I find myself calling some banker/travel organizer/administrator in charge of some speaking fee/etc./etc. and asking “hey, I have some Docusign with a weird name on it in my inbox, is that from you?”
(See also, every process within a million miles of the mortgage industry, which seems almost custom-made by fraudsters to help other fraudsters, like the whole practice of mailing out letters saying “Surprise! A servicer change happened, now you need to send a check to this totally other company you’ve never heard of! Trust us, it’s real!”)
What. The author of this post ought to be ashamed of their desperate effort to avoid being called out for making shitty and/or obnoxious software by blaming the people to describe to future victims that it is shitty and/or obnoxious software. Clearly people should be required to spend their hard-earned money and scarce time on software without having access to information about how other people experienced it.
How many apps have you personally made and released? Do you know what it’s like to get an abusive review on something you spent a lot of time and effort making or do you never enter the arena yourself and simply consume and criticize?
When you get other people’s money, you have to be accountable to them. Sorry. I don’t release apps, but I do teach at a university. I’m also accountable to the people whose money I get. Sometimes student evaluations are terrible, and it sucks to get them, but that’s a lot better than deliberately stripping information for them.
Right, and from your domain your university (or some) may require you to teach a curriculum that’s ineffective and you take the blame for it. There are plenty of quality of life things developers would love to do but can’t and they take the blame with 1 star reviews. Glad you at least can empathize with that.
> When you get other people’s money, you have to be accountable to them.
How would you feel if someone showed up to your class, were asked to leave because they didn’t pay tuition, and then gave you a bad performance review because of it- and that review actually mattered and stuck with you?
1. This is why BDFL culture in open source is bad. Because if the BDFL decides to go all in on some completely bizarre mess, all of a sudden there’s massive fork politics.
2. Hey is the marquee product now?? Does anyone actually use Hey? I tried it for a year, and basically found I was paying for the privilege of having a slower, buggier, less feature-rich gmail that can’t even dent the have-a-paid-email-that-doesn’t-exploit-you market (Fastmail and Proton exist, yo).