Doesn’t npm have this already? I’ve definitely gotten requests for donations and various political messages when installing dependencies.
I guess this highly depends on package maintainers, Node already provides
fundinginpackage.jsonfor much less invasive funding requests (and that can also be disabled) and you might also block executing the scripts during package instalation which are sometimes used for advertisement. I think this was a lot worse in days NPM didn’t supportfunding, especially for projects depending on a huge number of dependencies. But I’m not that old Node/JS dev to tell how things were back then in reality.Ew, I’ll pass on node then.
That’s the reason you pass on node? Compared to all the others?
It’s the final straw.
npm is waaaay ahead of you
OMFG!! Don’t give them ideas!
Stop! Don’t give them ideas!
I don’t need to imagine.
Remember when Canonical used to give away installation CDs to anyone who asked? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Still have those CDs. Getting a package from South Africa was exciting.
Damn, and people complain about Windows …
I bet if they could have added pictures to this ad, they would have.
You haven’t seen the best part yet. They’re holding back security updates, if you don’t do this whole Pro-shit. I really don’t know how much pot their executives smoked to get that awful idea.
And like, to be fair, for personal use, you can get Pro for free, so you ‘just’ need to create an account to get a secure OS.
But yeah, you basically don’t really hear people complaining, because we simply don’t use Ubuntu. Plenty better Linux distros to choose from. I only know this shit, because my work laptop unfortunately comes with it and I’m not necessarily allowed to change it.
Security updates for packages that are so old that they aged out of official support.
Who determines how old a package needs to be before they start charging money for it?
Well they do, of course.Tune in next year when they turn off free Snap patches.
expired
wget actuallygooddistro.org/install/2023-09-x64.iso && cp *.iso /mnt/ventoy/ && rm -rf /*
You didn’t unmount your ventoy… uh oh!
just unplug it real fast when you notice while rm’s still hanging in your extensive /home
I replied this to someone else gonna put it here:
Kinda a shit take. Canonical is very generous with licensing. They give you 5 free personal licenses per account AND they license per physical host which is practically unheard of now. Like everything is per VM or container or CPUs or sockets etc now. One pro license on an ESXi host could have hundreds of VMs and Canonical is OK with that.
Source: I work with and use ubuntu pro. Canonical’s alright in my book. More than I can say for the RHEL team
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what in the fuck.
DELET THIS
Since this week I get some form of ad in the github diff viewer. “Copilot is available for purchase for you organization”. Horrible.
there’s a dismiss button under the hamburger menu right next to it, it removes all of these copilot ads permanently.
Yeah they’ve put them in a couple places, It’s pretty bad. Had to work out how to create a custom uBlock Origin rule to block them.
In my free time I develop ways for advertisers to reach as many platforms as possible. I hate ads as much as I hate people who say things like “just skip it if you don’t like them” so I spend my time trying to fill every inch of their lives with ads as possible.
Why would you try to make the world a worse place just to spite people?
I can get behind this flavour of evil. Keep doing satan’s work, lad!
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I just added
clear && neofetchto my .bashrc, works great
i could see that as a powershell “feature”, which allows microsoft to sell adspace in the command line that reaches technicans and administrators
edit: fixed link
If you write [email protected] instead the link is usable for any instance.
i always forget. i am just to used to markdown. Thanks for the reminder.
Good lord, I hope no one employed at Microsoft reads this. I would bet they institute it if they think of it.
Maybe for the first time Ubuntu could get to sue them for infringing on their innovation.
I was going to say, I’m surprised this isn’t a Windows 11 “feature”
cut them some slack, they can’t put every annoyance into one version … got to leave something for future “upgrades”
Ahhhh…THANK YOU! r/boringdistopia was one of the few subreddits I have been still missing.
no problem … enjoy … kind of … maybe.
“ls” sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends.
Ooh. What about fdisk? Or parted. You know. 'cause raid.
Already have ads with node / npm “looking for developers / donations / funding” messages
Don’t give Microsoft ideas
No. Just no.
I mean… I already use ubuntu, so…
Wicked self burn
Those are rare.
