You can probably guess, but the US

unfortunately definitely not.

my team has a strong emphasis on working with hardware. remote work doesn’t really make sense

Hit me up if you want a job where you’ll be forced to learn about inter-satellite laser links (free space optics)!

This is SO true. I’m hiring for a software engineer position right now. We’ve been looking for MONTHS. Recently, we’ve finally managed to fill the first head.

So many applicants just can’t even code. My company is not a place where you learn how to code, it’s a place where you learn all the stuff which you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

We still have a qualified applicants shortage.

I mean, that entirely applies for self hosted git as well

why not zsh? that’s why I switched from fish

if you’ve ever used one then you know that that is indeed it

it is unusable

nice comparison but hilarious to call AOSP not FOSS but the other ones somehow FOSS. do they know where the other ones come from?

Starlink is definitely faster than all but the most expensive GEO services (and those require specialized hardware)

there’s no fundamental physics limitation that makes this true. in fact, light in a vacuum travels faster than in glass fiber, so the theoretical latency of LEO internet is actually faster compared to fiber over a certain distance

Yeah it’s an enormous pain in the ass. I don’t bother anymore

I’m glad it works for you, but this would not work at my company. We have much stricter network controls

it’s also not always easy to buy those. nobody wants to use cryptocurrency unless it is easy to get cryptocurrency

Yeah, go ahead and install your own Linux distro. Now you can’t authenticate to the internal network or use any of the services.

At the end of the day, corporate being able to manage Linux is what makes it possible to be used in an enterprise environment. There are regulatory and auditing requirements that would otherwise make Linux not an option.

Many of us find ourselves to be more effective on Linux. There is some business requirement in terms of the service runs on Linux, but they didn’t have to let people have it on their personal workstations

that’s not true if it’s company managed

I would say service based

yeah this isn’t necessarily true. I work at a large company and run Linux full time.

they are not all the same.

we even have dedicated Linux IT

Microsoft can’t stop you from signing images with your own keys.

That’s what I do, and it’s almost entirely automated on Linux these days.

right but unless you sign a contributor licensing agreement when you contribute then the copyright owner can’t relicense code you contributed.

so if you contribute to a GPL codebase it’s pretty legally perilous to try to unilaterally relicense code that isn’t “yours”.

this is pretty nebulous territory anyways, but I’d argue it’s pretty unethical to relicense to a more restrictive license essentially “taking” the GPL code from contributors