xkcd #743: Infrastructures

Title text: The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going.

Transcript2003: [Cueball approaches a bearded fellow.] Cueball: Did you get my essay?
Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open-
Cueball: Give it a rest already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that works, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.
Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we’re building and who-
Cueball: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic. 2010: Cueball: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they’re DOING EVIL STUFF!
Bearded Fellow: Do you see this? [Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.] Bearded Fellow: It’s the world’s tiniest open-source violin.

HellAwaits,

Hot take: while I do appreciate and use FOSS (I’m on Linux), that doesn’t make the people who talk about it 24/7 non-stop any less annoying.

lapingvino,

Hot take: people being annoying doesn’t make them less right about things and if you disregard the warnings you still only have yourself to blame.

themeatbridge,

Hotter take: Dismissing a warning because it’s annoying is a tacit admission that they are right and you just don’t give a shit. People are lazy creatures. We have to make fire alarms the most obnoxious and loud sound in the world because otherwise people wouldn’t leave the flaming building.

HonoraryMancunian,

TIL the xkcd main character(s?) is (are?) called Cueball

Jakylla,
@Jakylla@sh.itjust.works avatar

Cueball is the main character; others have their own names; for example Megan (appearing a lot as the main Feminine character)

More recurring characters are listed on this page: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Characters

Sotuanduso,

It’s unofficial, but yeah. People call him that.

nomecks,

I have a great idea for a program! I should describe it in agonizing detail to an AI owned by some company so it will spit out working source code. Nothing can go wrong with my plan!

aesthelete,

This is a flawless plan, especially since they pinky swore that they wouldn’t keep around the information you put into the black box AI. So we’re all safe!

chicken,

If you make it open source they can’t steal your idea

dustyData,

I mean, they can still steal your idea, fork it, repackage it and charge for it while refusing to upstream their development. But now it’s a licensing discussion and not a personal attack.

TheCraiggers,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Apple and Google have stolen plenty of ideas. They don’t care if it’s closed or open.

chicken,

If they can’t prevent others from using it, seems fine to me.

TurtleTourParty,

If AI will stop people from telling me their “amazing” app ideas when they find out I’m a programmer then I’m all for it.

Datas_Cat_Spot,
@Datas_Cat_Spot@startrek.website avatar

One thing I’ve learned over the years: the scruffier looking the IT guy, the more they should be listened to.

negativenull,

Richard Stallman is rarely wrong

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