You have good points, sir. And I have read the blog post. It sounds sincere. I do agree that somebody has to pay "shipping costs" and since I'm the one on the sending end...
Actually, as long as they didn't nickel-and-dime me with a separate fee for each contribution I make to each of my beneficiaries, I'd be OK with it and happy to see my beneficiaries getting more money in a more reliable fashion. That's the whole point of being a patron.
But for G-d's sake, they had better warn me next time!!!!!!!!
They didn’t ASK. Instead, they simply said “All your wallets are belong to us.”
They forgot that trust, once broken, is damn near impossible to repair. I am reminded of an exchange in the British Parliament after Dunkirk, when an admiral was being upbraided for risking the fleet. The admiral replied, “We can rebuild the fleet in thirty years. We can rebuild the tradition in three hundred.”
We trusted them with our wallets and they have told us that OUR wallets are THEIR property. It follows from that that Patreon cannot be trusted. I've canceled my smaller donations and am going to contact them about alternatives, since I do want to support their work. I'm also going to be contacting my bigger beneficiaries about alternatives.
Patreon is toast as far as I'm concerned. There is NO way they can apologize their way out of the attitude they have demonstrated.
Every "provider" seems to think that offering what THEY want to offer instead of what their customers/citizens/serfs want is a road to $uce$$ and riche$. In the modern era, they want us to watch what they want us to watch, read what they want us to read, and listen to the music they want us to listen to.
If that's not a recipe for inciting rebellion, they haven't bothered to study history from bunchteen years B.C. to now.
I use KeePass. The database (including backup copies) are encrypted. The password is in a sealed envelope inside our family safe deposit box, and both my wife and son have access.
buy laws that legalize whatever they want. create products for short-term profits that have long-term bad consequences. respect the environment even when it reduces their profit margins. and on and on and on.
It is said that when there are cheaters in a game, nobody wins. When the PROVIDER is cheating, that goes double. But as Cory Doctorow has pointed out, if you can't check the source code, how do you know for certain?
I realize that while there are some major douches out there who would pirate a movie if it cost only a dime, there are many of us who would happily pay if you stopped screwing us over.
It's funny how things work. I know people who have the exact same attitude toward the Big 5 publishing companies.
Everything on their servers. Nothing anywhere else.
Next step after that, buying a law making it illegal to have movies, music, etc. etc. on your own hardware, with government-mandated spyware, sorry, MSFT calls it "telemetry," to make sure the law is enforced.
Either let nobody review the code, or let everybody in the world who wants to look at it review it. I rather suspect that crowdsourcing security reviews might actually make all code safer and more secure, if only because there WILL be friendly eyes going through it and proofreading the code.
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You have good points, sir. And I have read the blog post. It sounds sincere. I do agree that somebody has to pay "shipping costs" and since I'm the one on the sending end...
Actually, as long as they didn't nickel-and-dime me with a separate fee for each contribution I make to each of my beneficiaries, I'd be OK with it and happy to see my beneficiaries getting more money in a more reliable fashion. That's the whole point of being a patron.
But for G-d's sake, they had better warn me next time!!!!!!!!
Are they going to break power-line neutrality?
They didn’t ASK. Instead, they simply said “All your wallets are belong to us.”
They forgot that trust, once broken, is damn near impossible to repair. I am reminded of an exchange in the British Parliament after Dunkirk, when an admiral was being upbraided for risking the fleet. The admiral replied, “We can rebuild the fleet in thirty years. We can rebuild the tradition in three hundred.”
I may check in on Patreon in 2317.
We trusted them with our wallets and they have told us that OUR wallets are THEIR property. It follows from that that Patreon cannot be trusted. I've canceled my smaller donations and am going to contact them about alternatives, since I do want to support their work. I'm also going to be contacting my bigger beneficiaries about alternatives.
Patreon is toast as far as I'm concerned. There is NO way they can apologize their way out of the attitude they have demonstrated.
Amazon: "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
Google: "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
Every "provider" seems to think that offering what THEY want to offer instead of what their customers/citizens/serfs want is a road to $uce$$ and riche$. In the modern era, they want us to watch what they want us to watch, read what they want us to read, and listen to the music they want us to listen to.
If that's not a recipe for inciting rebellion, they haven't bothered to study history from bunchteen years B.C. to now.
1. I didn't think of it as bashing the US at all. After all, imitation IS the sincerest form of flattery.
2. We didn't invent protectionism, but the US has found more ways to implement it than the British we threw out in 1776.
It appears AliBaba (and other Chinese companies) have caught on to the American trick of using the government to guarantee their markets.
If they aren't required to know (and obey) the law, why should anybody else be held to that standard?
Looks like it's to drop using Google Drive as my go-to backup for my work projects, or much of anything else, for that matter.
I use KeePass. The database (including backup copies) are encrypted. The password is in a sealed envelope inside our family safe deposit box, and both my wife and son have access.
I only have to remember the vault password. The three keys to making it work in the long run are backup, backup, and backup.
Thank you for the clarification and the citation. The Soviet Union was the context in which I originally encountered the saying.
I think it originated in the Soviet Union:
"Nothing is verified until it is officially denied."
So.....
After all, we have the best government money can buy.
Just as responsibly as they...
buy laws that legalize whatever they want.
create products for short-term profits that have long-term bad consequences.
respect the environment even when it reduces their profit margins.
and on and on and on.
It is said that when there are cheaters in a game, nobody wins. When the PROVIDER is cheating, that goes double. But as Cory Doctorow has pointed out, if you can't check the source code, how do you know for certain?
I realize that while there are some major douches out there who would pirate a movie if it cost only a dime, there are many of us who would happily pay if you stopped screwing us over.
It's funny how things work. I know people who have the exact same attitude toward the Big 5 publishing companies.
1.86gigabucks sounds to me as if it's way mo' than they should get.
Wow, much sophistication in the Australian loginname/password scheme.
The article left out 'mate; mate' and 'That's not a knife;THAT's a knife'
Everything on their servers. Nothing anywhere else.
Next step after that, buying a law making it illegal to have movies, music, etc. etc. on your own hardware, with government-mandated spyware, sorry, MSFT calls it "telemetry," to make sure the law is enforced.
And, of course, if the network goes down...
Either let nobody review the code, or let everybody in the world who wants to look at it review it. I rather suspect that crowdsourcing security reviews might actually make all code safer and more secure, if only because there WILL be friendly eyes going through it and proofreading the code.
So you might go for Microsoft's instead? The Surface Pro 4 is in a similar price range.
I take it my sarcastic humor was not recognized? Maybe the "sarc" character has some use after all.
Yes. cf. Cory Doctorow: Demon-Haunted World
I think the above article should be mandatory reading.