I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

I take that more as a rumination on the futility of vanity and self-aggrandizing rather than "ruling the world " which in the modern day comes down to politics. Yes, there is considerable overlap with ego, but there's more to that topic than pure self-worship.

I agree with your overall sentiment, but there are a few areas that the public clouds excel at despite this: geoscale and startups.

The seller should be banned under the Namecheap TOS. Furthermore, Namecheap should offer this buyer assistance and credit towards a future purchase of a domain as a good will gesture.

Your level-headed and reasonable position clearly indicates you are not Namecheap management material.

Where is the tldr? Anyone familiar…what does this do and why do we care about it being standards based?

This is a “standard” SDK for feature flags, allowing you to avoid vendor lock-in.

i.e., using feature flag SaaS ABC but want to try out XYZ? if you’re using ABC’s own DDK, refactor your codebase.

I appreciate that you can use the OpenFeature SDK with environment variables, and move into a SaaS (or custom) solution when you’re ready.

and the use of "we" to somehow give the impression that this person speaks for everyone

He has 100% been coached by their legal counsel to distance himself from this as this is likely going to court soon (being it’s likely very illegal). That’s why he repeats “we’ve never clawed back” twice…the chilling effect intended had a real effect, at a crucial time for the company, the likely motivation being to defraud investors who may have otherwise been more careful in their support if internal malfeasance around data set sourcing practices were revealed.

I hope ex-employees sue and don’t contact him personally. The damage is done. Don’t be dumb folks.

Can you elaborate on how they supplement their income?

Every other source of income? So other, art-unrelated jobs.

OP here. I use Ansible a lot in my day-to-day work, and the day the OpenZiti Python SDK came out, I wrote a wrapper around the Paramiko connection plugin to secure the connection to the target. It was so easy, and worked so well, I wrote a small demo so you all can try it too. Happy to answer any questions, and if you try it, share whatever feedback you have!

Shit article with hidden agenda: shake confidence in GNOME, which is free and is becoming the defacto GUI on Linux distributions that matter (and loved by millions).

And cui bono?

"It sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws - for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not on poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chest. We built great, big things, made ungodly technological advanced, explored the universe, cured diseases and we cultivated the world's greatest artists AND the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to intelligence, we didn't belittle it. It didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn't scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed... by great men, men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.”

― Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom Script Episode 1