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Reddit
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/111k9aq/corejs_maintainer_so_whats_next/?sort=controversial
https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/111hyme/the_future_of_corejs/?sort=controversial
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Frick me those redditors are insufferable, even for reddit. Constant moaning and bitching about muh russia and muh manslaughter and each trying to out-moral-grandstand the other.
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Barely people. Stalin had the answer.
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Russia = Empire
Ukraine = Rebels
Simple as. Dont be stupid chud.
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/r/EmpireDidNothingWrong
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Uh... no. Russia = voldemort. Ukraine = Hermione.
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wagie wagie back in cagie
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Wow. This is actually amazing. This fricking guy apparently built the entire world economy and did it FOR FREE. Can you imagine trillions of dollars running through your annually, maybe even monthly, when you made it for these globohomo megacorps out of the kindness of your heart?
This dude is so cucked that it’s unfathomable.
How can someone be so fricking pathetic? To write and maintain the code that makes Adobe’s main product work, and do it for free because you feel responsible for Globohomo Inc success? Is this whole thing ragebait?
I’m still reading this sperg and the story keeps getting wilder. This is top tier drama honestly
I finally got to the end. Spoiler, dude finally grew a backbone and said frick you, pay me. Super based tbh. I feel for him (but not enough to pay him lmao)
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Yes and he’s not lying either. It’s 100% true that his code is an essential part of trillion dollar companies websites lol
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I’m pretty close to normie by dramatard standards and even I know how important core-js is. Learning that apparently one Russian has been starving himself and working prison camps (allegedly) to make enough money to maintain it for free is unreal
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It's wild how random Slavs end up being disproportionately influential in programming and computer science.
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russians made some pretty significant findings. check their medical history
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Check our any history, Russians have influenced the world greatly in the past and continue doing so. Surprise for burgereducationcels I guess
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The entire Ford modding community is thanks to slavs reverse-engineering Ford's dealer programming system.
Though it helps Ford doesn't lock down vehicle information like Chevy does. Ford even makes vehicle-specific AsBuilt data publicly accessible so people could figure out "ok this bit corresponds to tow package being installed, this is if a heated steering wheel is present..."
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Just stop maintaining it and let the entire web fall to pieces until either some other cuck starts doing it or you start getting paid. It'd be funny and you'd either escape your self-imposed servitude or finally start pulling down an income.
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Atlas Shrugged
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Unironically a good example this time.
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Sure but that's like saying some easy slut has dated every successful student at her alma mater.
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It genuinely sucks that this guy is in this situation.
The first thing to do is to use him as a warning so OTHER PEOPLE STOP GETTING INTO THE SAME SITUATION.
He could easily license the software and bill those alexa-top-1000 websites $10,000 a year. But then he is asking for money, and they might say no, and rejection hurts.
He is the nerd in the corner angry that he's done so much to help and yet a girl has not thrown herself at him.
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License for commercial use, personal use is free. Easy.
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But the company might say "no"
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No it's opensores
tbh I maintained a project forever for the same reason, but at least I can say it was for the user base of like 30 South Americans who still used it
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Open source is based if you have twenty users and cucked if you have twenty thousand
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Open source doesn't necessarily mean free software.
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What a fricking r-slur, he should have just went to the FSS and told them he could insert minified code into half the West's top websites and cost them millions, how much will you pay me?
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I read it as escapism. Whatever problems he encountered in life, he ignored, 'cause he had core-js to play with
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Somebody is going to get a visit from friendly guys with a private key decryption soldering iron.
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Genuinely happy for him!
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It's still nothing compared to how much he deserves, he should easily be a multi-millionaire, but at least the cost of living is lower in Russia.
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The system works folks!
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so your telling me that comunism (even in software) isn't sustainable...
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It’s probably the thing closest to a post-scarcity economy we have, the jury is still out on how best to sustain this.
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Humans suck. Stalin solved this issue.
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People develop work ethic real quick when you point a gun at them.
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Imagine donating just to pay for some random Russian foid's new iphone
This whole thing sounded like a misunderstanding of open source anyway. Don't start an open source project expecting to get paid for it. Non-paid open source is exclusively autism powered and if you don't have that desire then just drop it and get a job. I guess the real reasoning is that it's much more interesting to do this kind of personal project stuff rather than work for some soulless corp on their financial backend or whatever and so he's trying to do the fun thing and get paid for it.
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I think people keep coming down hard one way or the other but there does need to be a solution to the unpaid FOSS software the world runs on.
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The world doesn't owe you a solution to your personal lack of foresight. You should have thought about this before you decided to rely on free and open-source software. Now you're just whining because you're too cheap or too lazy to pay for the software that you need. Grow up and take responsibility for your own choices.
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I thought this was a well thought out comment but then I saw that it was from you and that you do no thinking.
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You obviously don't know how to read if you think my comment was well thought out. Perhaps you should learn how to before you make any more comments.
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There is. Don't make it FREE for everyone.
FOSScels need to be realistic.
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why do they keep winning.
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There were foids playing in the streets that he ran over. That is what he has to pay for.
Bio foids ruin everything.
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Common open-sourcelet L
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I’ll take having to donate his bail vs. sending an email requesting new licenses every six months
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He's just living his best life, sounds like a real-life action hero
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Are all FOSSlets this cucked to support trillion dollar corporations and gov for free?
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That’s kind of the issue. No one is sure how to make this financially viable but it’s still succeed.
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It's easy to get a big software company to send you money.
You send them a bill for the stuff they agreed to buy.
I've done it a bunch.
If he were to actually bill them, he is afraid that they might stop using it, or decide they don't need it, or tell him that he sucks, or just pirate it and do it anyway.
That is how you get paid. If you are so afraid of rejection that you won't ask Google.com for $50,000 a year, why should I do the lifting for you?
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Having them being paywalled behind patreon and groomercord servers seems the wrong approach as well, that isn't stable either. Maybe you pay for a license to own the software/source and you can do whatever with it besides sharing it?
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Yeah, pretty much like everything else. He's just having an internal conflcit because he's an uppity FOSScel.
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there's that one license that requires you to keep the license in it that has the N word in it so HR departments seethe and burn like the vampires they are once they hear about it
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That was made by crunklord420 a friend of Null who helps him with codecel work
https://plusBIPOC.org/
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Crunklord actually hangs out on the rDrama Fedi instance these days I think.
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The kiwi fedi instance was pretty much broken by all the ddos attacks, think crunk washed his hands of it trying to maintain during those attacks.
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Chudbuds seems to have mostly replaced the purpose of the kiwicel instance anyway.
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Jesus Christ. Poor guy. Kill Redditors.
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Keep on doing, it codecel. Or else.
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I got an aevann pin
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Snapshots:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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lmao just brake maybe he should have replaced the brakes' shoes of his Lada and upgraded those 1960s headlights. but he's russian ofc he doesn't give a shit
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Idk, there’s probably more to the story but sometimes shit things happen to people.
I’m extremely surprised he wasn’t compromised by the FSB though lol
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I'll make sure he'll keep doing it for free.
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Idk what this is
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And having gone to jail for killing a dude (probably deserved it if its russia) then that makes him cooler than 99% of programmers by default.
So this is where the FOSS community should shine. Right? If he doesn't get a flood of donations he def should paywall his library and they'd fricking deserve it.
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chiobu posted he got a lot of donations. He’s got 3 BTC atm lol.
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Good. Techcels always need to be taken down a peg.
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