FLOSS program called “TIPP10”

Looks cool! Just weird that it doesn’t provide the code hosted on a forge and gives a download of the source instead

That sucks majorly, I knew GitLab isn’t our friend, but to plain dismiss a development effort that didn’t even come from their own employees is just spitting in our face.
Forgejo federation can’t come any sooner ✊

This is NaN rizz

Yes, happily unemployed 😊

You can’t rely on their goodwill, you either make it enforceable with a license, or you just treat it as a something that you don’t expect to make money from.

The comparison to artists doesn’t really hold, because they won’t start a work for someone without them asking, then showing off their creation and hoping that the involuntary “client” will pay for it once it’s already been done.
While programmers can be commissioned to make some piece of software, that will most likely end up as proprietary, unless stated otherwise in the contract between the two parties, akin to a commissioned piece of art, hardly any client will be ok or even proactively ask you to release the work under a CC license.

Companies especially are more revenue than image driven (or solely tbh), so they won’t “waste” any money where they can avoid it, if Amazon finds a nice service they can host and tweak on their AWS that promises to be useful and make them lots of money, they will just go for it and stay within the lines of what the license allows, which often is “too open” for its own good (think MIT), so the project won’t see nothing like a contribution back, let alone money.
The illuminated companies that can (more like want to) afford to contribute in any way to software they rely on are few and far apart and it takes them to realize how much of an impact the project they’re using makes on their business, which is often difficult to put into tangible numbers, we see that happening mostly with the biggest projects, think Blender, Linux, etc. The poor library developer will most likely never see a dime coming from the thousands of employers whose developers will pull in their dependency for their product

Chat, is this real?

This got me teary eyed, I feel humbled when I hear these stories and wonder why I don’t put more effort into what I do

Knew someone would say that, lol, gold project, sad that it’s gone unmaintained and my man started working on home-manager at home
…wait

Yew* Rust

FTFY

This doesn’t account for all the comfort food the programmer will have to consume in order to keep themselves sane

Oh that’s fair, never would have guessed myself

That’s exactly what a Stockholm syndrome victim would say!

Where programming?

LGTM+

There is Interstellar!

Based.
The universe is my IDE, my hands are my editor.

Bro is so committed to the repo bit that he made me cry

Hmm, I think I get it now, it does seem a bit easier looking at it that way

They’re promoted as a way to keep a long distance relationship going

I’m curious, what’s the supposed effect?

This was too damn funny for what I expected it to be