Curious on what languages have a hard time saying Libre.
Every latin-derived language (which are most of the western languages) can pronounce it naturally, and even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood (even though they're incapable of pronouncing the non-retroflex `r`).
The "bre" in "libre" is pronounced similarly to "zebra". Kinda. It'll get you in the ballpark, which is good enough for an Anglo.
"This Hour has 22 Minutes" had a great sketch where both a Francophone (Gavin Crawford impersonating Chantal Hebert) and an Anglo (I forget who) were stumbling over proper nouns from the opposite language. The joke was that both were trying too hard to pronounce things "properly". It came off as inauthentic and awkward.
On the inside, but not on the outside. Web Components standardize the interface for components to interact like MCP standardized the protocol but the server itself can be in and language. You can't just mix Solid, React and Vue components together but you can use any web component in a Lit app.
Airbnb, Uber and Amazon were already making everything worse. We're past the "bleak threshold" for over 10 years now.
Airbnb is inflating the real-estate bubble everywhere. Apartment building now are mass produced, tiny, and expensive, targeting investors who are only interested in Airbnb.
Uber/ifood and other transport/delivery apps are just working around labor laws, undoing centuries of progress towards worker rights and approaching slavery-like situations.
Amazon is just another monopoly, not sure why you put it beside the others, but it's one of the companies lobbying to make the world a worse place.
Then came crypto"currency", which started the "age of anything goes", where tons of money are thrown in the trashbin for the next speculative pseudo-tech bubble.
AI is just the bubble that came after crypto, little practical utility with lots of hype from billionaires who threw money at it.
As far as Uber, was it better when there was both a medallion system monopoly in cities like New York and less access to cabs? Where people had to rent overpriced medallions and couldn’t make any money
Or sometimes depending on what you looked like, where you were going or where you were coming from, you couldn’t get a cab at all.
I have used Uber all over the US and in a few other countries. Most Uber drivers I talk to like the flexibility.
Half the “benefits” that people bemoan that Uber drivers don’t get shouldn’t be the responsibility of any private employer. For instance health care shouldn’t be tied to your employee anyway.
Libresprite (since aseprite went evil) has been the only editor I can use for over a decade, glad there are others now.
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