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  • Perhyte@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.mlWait. Why is Reddit losing so much money?
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    4 months ago

    And, interestingly, they lost $91 million last year. If the CEO had instead earned $100 million last year, the company have made a multi-million dollar profit (if only just). If it had been $10 million (still way overpaid for any single person, I’d argue), they’d be nearing the hundreds-of-millions-per-year profit scale.

    I’ll never understand companies paying their CEOs hundreds of millions while they’re losing money hand over fist…




  • There are FOSS licenses (notably the GPL) that say that if you do resell (or otherwise redistribute) the software, you have to do so only under the same terms. (That is, you can’t sell a proprietary fork. But you could sell a fork under FOSS terms.) But none that say “no selling.”

    For many companies (especially large ones), the GPL and similar copyleft licenses may as well mean “no selling”, because they won’t go near it for code that’s incorporated in their own software products. Which is why some projects have such a license but with a “or pay us to get a commercial license” alternative.


  • Perhyte@lemmy.worldtoLemmy@lemmy.mlLemmy 0.19 Breaking Changes
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    9 months ago

    There’s a bit more to it than captured in the summary, which is why it’s just a summary of the spec and not the actual spec.

    From a bit further down on that page:

    1. Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

    Lemmy is still in major version zero, so it can make breaking changes without incrementing the major version and still be in compliance with the spec. This way, projects won’t have their first “real” version be something like v123.0.0.

    Lemmy still being v0.x also serves as kind of a warning to app developers that changes like this may be made at any time.


  • Perhyte@lemmy.worldtoPiracy@lemmy.mlPiracy > resellers
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    11 months ago

    Many piracy sites run ads though, don’t they? Unless everyone visiting runs ad blockers (unlikely) the people running those are making at least some money. Presumably it at least covers the cost of running the sites.

    It’s probably just as the comment you replied to said: “stuff bought with stolen credit cards (and resold on those sites) actually costs us money, as opposed to piracy which merely ‘costs’ us money”.


  • Perhyte@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlCorrection
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    11 months ago

    If you’re using OpenSSH, the IdentityFile configuration directive selects the SSH key to use.

    Add something like this to your SSH config file (~/.ssh/config):

    Host github.com
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github_rsa
    
    Host gitlab.com
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitlab_rsa
    

    This will use the github_rsa key for repositories hosted at github.com, and the gitlab_rsa key for repositories hosted at gitlab.com. Adjust as needed for your key names and hosts, obviously.


  • I’m from Europe (and studied CS there). My classes for some courses were about a third Indian, a third Chinese, with locals and other foreigners combined being the final third.

    Of course, I’m pretty sure this photo wasn’t taken anywhere near me either. For me, the clue to that was the Cyrillic on the slides.