John can’t catch a break

The logo, the UI, or the code?

I have no idea how impactful this is. How many people does Image employ?

Microsoft over here dropping 9000 people in their second round of layoffs.

A ten-gallon hat on a one-quart head.

In terms of common consumer products?

Dryer sheets, which are typically made from polymer fibers. Use wool dryer balls instead.

Single-use water bottles - just buy a water bottle.

Ziplock bags for food storage - buy some solid, washable food containers with rubber seals. They’ll keep food better for longer.

Also stop using the plastic bags in the produce section at the grocery store - get some reusable produce bags instead. The ones I have are thin mesh that doesn’t block the barcode scanner at the checkout. The only produce I don’t recommend this for is stuff that is typically wet like lettuce.

Basically try to avoid single-use plastics, many are unrecyclable (soft plastics like bags frequently just end up in landfill) or just dump extra plastic fibers into the environment (like dryer sheets). There are good reusable options for most of them.

Now there are three of them!

Of course…

accept no substitutes

Yes, but as long as there was public and political drive in that direction - even just the appearance of it - then the companies had to make some effort to look good.

Without the external pressure, then the pledge becomes worthless to the company, so they dispose of the expense.

To put it another way… the pledges become worthless if public sentiment does not force companies to maintain them.

Do you know someone who does trust printers?

Yes, it is part of the problem… the symptom part.

You’re saying, “There’s a monster that’s killing people.” I’m saying, “Yes, but you’re pointing at its foot. We need to aim for the head.”

You’ll never get rid of the problem by trying to address capitalism in isolation. Even if you were successful, the problem would simply return under a new label.

Capitalism is not a cause, it is an effect. It is not the disease, it is a symptom.

The root problem is selfishness. Capitalism is like a Plato’s cave shadow of selfishness - a projection of selfishness onto politics and economic policy.

I suspect that declining attendance at public parks will be used as justification to fund them less, then shut them down, then sell off the land to resource exploiters.

There is no paradox.

Tolerance is a social contract.

If you abide by the terms of the contract (e.g. tolerance) then the contract applies to you and you are protected by it.

If you do not abide by the terms of the contract then it is broken, and you are not protected by the contract.

Arch often seems to ignore the fundamental rule:

don’t break userspace

Linus is in the right. Arch developers are frequently in the wrong.

It didn’t create a return for VCs fast enough.

Now VCs are throwing money at anybody who slaps a “now with AI!” sticker on the side of their shovelware. All aboard the money train! Who cares if it does anything useful as long as we can convince somebody to pay for it.

Try.

People who can buy their way to success give up when they have to put in some effort of their own.

A disk is just a very short tube.

Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road…

And the best way anyone has come up with for letting people live their lives is to set the system against itself in perpetuity, lest it become so enamored of its own existence that it comes to believe itself more important than the people.

Ah yes, finding the rotting corpse of a long-dead rat, maggoty and moldy, bones and fur and decay… much less disturbing.