I think that would be progress in a different direction... Not that I support making species go extinct (and I live with huge numbers of large mosquitoes) or anything like that. Though I am forced to wonder - what extinct species has a negative impact because of their extinction? I mean negative in the overall sense of things. I really do not recall any.
I am actually greatly hoping for a day when I can have my brain interface with a computer and the internet. i will even let them put a wireless antenna on my head and an ethernet jack into my neck. I would even volunteer to be an early adopter. I figure my brain can handle any malware but I fear my brain is closed source - or at least obfuscated code.
No spoilers from me but I want to point out that that movie had a completely mind-fuck ending. I enjoyed it a great deal. I was not expecting it to end like it did and the twist was well done. I do recommend this movie.
If you have spent 2/3 of your job doing those two things and still have not figured out the nuances then I suggest that you may actually be the problem. But no, of course, it is the tools you use.
I believe the nomenclature is that you should have used preview... If you are too new to understand then either surf the site without JavaScript or just open the reply option in a new tab.
What defines social media, really? Albeit a bit archaic in today's web this site, right here, could be considered social media - could it not? I realize this will not be a popular line of thinking but, really... What defines social media? I have come across lots of sites that include links to 'Share on Slashdot.' We exchange posts. We have journals. What more do we need to be social media? I think this site already classifies as such.
Obviously I have no idea if you have an account here or not but, well, I guess you do but it is not specifically your account but one for anyone who wants to use it. What is more social than that?
Because your premise is flawed to begin with. It is like saying that we should ban alcohol because people under 21 (or some certain age) are not allowed to drink it. It is not beneficial to them. It does not have to beneficial to all. It need only be beneficial to some. Not to mention, this is optional. There is no inherent right, or anything, to have access to all of your wants regardless of age.
I thought the.NET NTP server was grabbed from the system default? If that is true - and you indicate it is not - then wouldn't changing to NIST NTP work? Also - can one not change (I have never had a reason to even look into this).NET to NIST?
Well, okay, it did not happen because some of us (most?) store the date as mm/dd/yyyy (here in the US) and not mm/dd/yy. You can display it anyhow you want - you can even display it in binary. How you store it matters. mm/dd/yy is a bad idea - even if you will be long gone by the time the company crosses 3000.
You got no bites, even after obviously missing the entire point to which you were replying, but I still think you showed true professionalism with that post and I award you a score of 6/10. I would have given you a 7 if you had replies. I would have awarded a solid 7.5 or 8 if the other AC had replied with anger and/or vulgarities.
Anecdotal but still data - just a single point of data: I have burned discs since burning disks was a thing. Burning at, what was it, 4x was a slow process even back then. Anyhow, I have burned a great deal of content to optical media and I have a large number of professionally crisped optical media discs. I have yet to have anything go bad, ever. I have a Don McLean CD that (his Greatest Hits album - glad you asked) we took a fork and scratched all to hell. This was intentional, it involved a fork. The disc still played then and it still played on May 14th of this year. I know the date only because my brother came up for his birthday which was, by the way, the same day we scored the disc in the first place. The year of the original scratching was 1996 to 1998. I can not be more precise than that.
Anyhow, my point is only that there are certainly discs that fail over time. The odds seem really low even when the discs are subject to severe abuse. This includes many brands of factory burned and home burned discs.
I am not suggesting that people avoid making verified copies of their data over time. I am just suggesting that more time may be needed before we can accurately state a storage life and that more things need to be investigated, perhaps, before we decide they have a failure rate that is known and are ruined by more than a specific climate area or specific severe abuse.
I am not an expert so I am relying on you - who seemingly is an expert. My question is this: Can one be a pedophile and not be a pervert? Again, I defer to your judgment on this but it seems a bit redundant to say, "perverted pedo[philes]." Also, how does one acquire this knowledge? Is there a class at the Adult Ed or something? How do you spot them when you know so little about them? Are their pixels different? I want to know because I want to protect myself from perverted pedophiles. You did mean pedophiles, right? I guess you could be talking about perverted pedometers.
When I was more heavily into punk, really post-punk or "alternative" before "alternative" was a thing (think early Misfits to early Jane's Addiction and even early Red Hot Chili Peppers but after The Ramones or The Dead Kennedys), there were only two ways to get an album from many bands. You either had to go to one of their concerts and hope that they sold the albums you wanted or you could trade, buy, or be gifted a copy of the album from another fan.
I did not pay attention enough to participate but I understand that one of the many reasons the internet gained in popularity as quickly as it did (in the spheres that it did) was due to Grateful Dead "tapers" exchanging bootlegs and making use of the internet (not the same as the WWW) to facilitate such. I did not participate and can not vouch for the veracity of these claims but I have heard this from wildly disparate, multiple, sources who were otherwise seemingly credible humans. One source was a computer magazine whose name I cannot remember but I sort of think it was Wired way back when. I had already heard the claim when I read the article (in print format even - we had such things then) but, again, I make no claim of the veracity but I do share the anecdote.
As an aside, I once stumbled into an underground facility (I in my suit and tie with a business client from an unmentioned state government) that sounded loud and interesting. Inside this club, my client was initially mortified - much to my secret glee, there was a fairly small, but very densely packed, floor and a live band named, "One King Down." This sardine-dense floor was almost entirely occupied by an anarchic mosh pit (though it had somehow formed a bit of structure in and of itself, a bit like an envisioned AI or a swarm formed by otherwise unintelligent insects) which was a display of wanton, bloody, mayhem. It, in itself, was perhaps the most beautiful living art that I have ever encountered even if it was accidental - part of the art was my aging client's, in his business attire, vision of said spectacle. Indeed, he was a part of this art and, perhaps, even the reason that this random chance occurred.
He eventually acclimated to the point where he was able to bob a bit, as much as a bespectacled and balding man of the nearing senior age is capable, and had himself a delightful time. I, of course, had no intention of entering said mosh pit but was greatly amused by the entire event.
I was also drunk. As was he. Our business transaction had concluded and there was no risk of conflict at this point so drinking was a ritual adhered to by all.
We, in turn, became a part of the show - quite likely surrealistic to the hallucinating minds of our observers. We were prodded, investigated, questioned (verbally and with looks), and their curiosity (and eventual merriment) were well satisfied after they had determined we were not really poorly doing the job of undercover police officers. There was no threat of violence nor was there any prodding with sharpened sticks or the likes. We were, quite literally, actually physically poked as if those viewing us were not sure how far they had traveled from reality. I can not think of a place where we would be more out of place, so to speak.
My point is, and I have one, we eventually meandered towards the exit where we found a very attractive girl(ish) creature with clear elvish ethnicity. Her outfit, hair, and makeup assured us that she had been dressed by a blind kleptomaniac (one could never buy an outfit such as this - there are laws of physics which are in play). I can also assume that the person who dressed this beautiful creature was drunk. This critter, truly a specimen to behold, was both an attractive hominid and selling merchandise. Her attractiveness, by which I mean her jiggly bits were more or less in the correct place and correct proportions, gave us no choice but to interact with her. Her speaking voice was, I believe, angelic and contained an accent from a faraway place - that is what I am assuming, hearing her was
I have no idea why *you* would want to do that. I do know that people pay to stream music which imparts no license to make use of any additional copies at all and is, by definition, a limited access license. I can not, for the life of me, imagine myself paying money to stream music but people do it. No, I can think of paying for streaming content ONLY if there were a company that I would choose to support by doing so. In that case I might just as well donate the money to them as they would likely get a larger payment from me as well as a saving them the embarrassment of me paying and not using the product.
So, if there were a company that I wished to support then I would potentially make payments to them. If I just gave them a donation they would be able to keep all of the money as I would not be consuming royalty-payment-incurring content. (Hyphens are not just for children any more.) I would be doing so because I wanted a company that matched my ethics to have a better chance of success. I would rather just invest in the company, to be honest.
Without being specific, I have no problem gambling on certain ideas that have working models. This can often be done without any publicity, IPO, businesses/groups that specialize in venture capitalism, and usually without much legal hassle. In exchange for your gamble you get a potential service or product released that benefits you (and others), a return of your money without any strings attached, or - better, a share of future profits. You may even be able to help them out enough that they are willing to offer you a combination of the above. On top of that you may get to provide some advice or even some labor to the project if such is your cup of tea.
However, I personally can not possibly come up with a reason why I would like to rent the music. Note that that is a personal "I" and providing a use-case where YOU may want to purchase streaming service is entirely irrelevant. (I should not have to add that but, sadly, experience insists that I do.) I do not believe anything could motivate me to rent music that I could just as easily purchase a more expansive license for.
My musical taste is varied and large, I do not need to expand it with new artists. Quite frankly, I would just use a free streaming service or find an unauthorized source if I felt like adding to my experiences and potentially increasing the number of works that I would like to permanently have access to. I own a number of CDs, DMCA be damned, and I use the data encoded on them how I wish to. I am not a rebel, I am a realist. I am not sure why I would want to pay to be subjected to ads in the form of links to content I may be interested in, or attempts to upsell an additional feature, or similar. Paying to be marketed to is just backwards to me. I can, and will, exchange my potential market value for services in the form of utilizing free services if I want to stream music.
On the other hand, if the *entirety* of the various studio's content (including the small and indies) were made available to download (or to stream) in a DRM-free, multiple formats, an easy to use/intuitive/flexible interface, global in nature, AND/OR a decent client that let me grab entire discographies as well as albums and tracks (even allowing for aggregate data that truly shows other content that may pique my interests) then that service would easily be worth a few hundred dollars a year - to me. Hell, it may even be worth MORE than that to me. They can offer tiered content, they can make it regional, for example, or they can offer x-amount of bandwidth. There are many ways they can split it up and I should be able to expand or contract my requirements as desired without a lock-in to a certain plan.
I want the artists to be paid based on what I (and other people) download as individuals. I do not want some crappy abusive system that does not accurately represent the way the data was consumed. I want the appropriate percentage paid, regardless of how small - though we can all likely agree that the pe
Heh... You do not want to know what they do to your groceries. They will leave the package the same size but decrease the weight. Packages are all designed (pretty much all) as a relative to the perfect number. Water is added to your meat. The sprinklers on the produce are not just there to keep the vegetables fresh. Your meat is probably dyed - ground burger should, probably, not be red. Obviously you may shop at better places but I am sure you are still getting fucked behind the scenes with everything they can get away with. They can get away with it - that is why they do it.
My solution is to buy a half cow and a pig (I have the bandsaw to butcher as well as a lot of the other equipment but I do not feel comfortable so I get "rough cuts") and to harvest a deer every year. I also harvest a moose every few years (it is via lottery so it takes a few years between permits). I also fish but I do not do ice fishing. (I have done ice drinking, I have done that a lot of times. Sadly I had to quit drinking. I was too good at it.) Additionally, I grow a large garden and have the time (it takes a lot of time and effort - this is not something most can do on any real scale - I even have a lady that comes to help with it and her kids come help with the harvest) to can, freeze, jam, jelly, pickle, smoke, and dry.
I have strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, choke cherries, pears, apples, and blueberries. The apple and pear trees, of which there are scant few but I am told they are likely a few hundred years old, I have no idea, were part of a larger orchard in poor shape. As in they were surrounded by other trees and not even in anything remotely like a field. After the orchard was cleaned up there were still a couple of dozen trees left and an arborist came in and basically just cut off dead stuff and trimmed them up. Two years later they were producing, he returned a few times and now they do better than my ignorant ass would have expected.
The same with the blueberries (but not the bush berries) and strawberries. Set them bitches on fire in the spring, wait a year, clear out around them with a brush hog or tractor with a mowing attachment, and you have berries. There is no need to water them, you do not pay attention to them except to torch the hell out of them every other year - alternate them, and the crazy bastards even increase in scope. I can now, well not literally now, step off the back of my deck and *tada.wav* I have me some berries for my greedy maw. Watch out for bears. That is an important step. I will not digress further...
If you do decide to go that sort of route then I recommend finding a nice older couple or a younger couple that lives on the family farm. I did not know how to grow a whole lot (weed does actually count) nor how to preserve it. I had always taken my large game out to be professionally cut up. Canning was something that old ladies did and I did not know the difference between jellies and preserves. I have a couple of fields where I am interested in planting wheat and rye. Off-years I would do potato and corn. Those are all rather intensive to harvest without specialty equipment and knowledge I am afraid. I do understand that there are locals who will rent the equipment and labor as well as have it processed in exchange for a flat rate or a percentage (I would not likely be large enough to negotiate a percentage deal) but I have not looked into it much.
Now, you can (and may) apply this same sort of philosophy to your software needs. In my case it took retirement, funding, and a lot of education to do this - as well as a lot of help. It was much easier to do this with software. Well, not easier, but less difficult manually and less time as I already have the skillset. SourceForge can be a part of this process, I would not give up on them entirely yet - stupid people do stupid things and businesses are run by stupid people. I would not light the torches and stampede the castle with pitchforks. I would wait patiently and observe. I would make educated choices and v
Ads? I see the option to turn them off but I am like, "Umm... Thanks? I have that taken care of already." The only times I have used that feature it was when it was an option in the paid service and I did not feel right just remaining a paid member so the way to reduce my time (in other words, actually let them benefit from my donation/fee) was to disable ads. I think I may have drunkly spent a bit on this. It was some time ago. It may have been Fark that I "donated" a few hundred dollars to. It gets worse... I will spare you the details except to say I do not drink any more. (9/29/15 will be three years. I hate it.)
Well, nutcase is in your name. Not that I trust them but I am not saying that it is impossible for me to trust them in the future. Something, I should check, that I was playing with (I found it from a link here on this site) was downloaded from another site but it was a wrapped of sorts. It installed some software and then downloaded some stuff from SF during the install. I watched and let it run and then checked everything. I probably should have used the sandbox in Acronis. I also should check to see what app it was so that I can remember it to tell other people to be aware of this when I see it mentioned.
That was... That was beautiful! I am not sure why you did not get more bites. It is truly well done. Minimal effort, done. Clear and concise? Done. Quick and barbed? Yes, ma'am. It was a classic that was seen by nobody. I am sorry for your loss but you can truly tell tales of the one that got away - AND be correct.
Also, you are not really a female. No female is capable of good quick wit like that.
There was a short outage and then the CHANGE occurred. I thought it was one of the script/ad blocking add-ons but I was wrong. I refreshed and refreshed and hoped my eyes were wrong. They were not. I found the comment section links and all was good again.
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I think that would be progress in a different direction... Not that I support making species go extinct (and I live with huge numbers of large mosquitoes) or anything like that. Though I am forced to wonder - what extinct species has a negative impact because of their extinction? I mean negative in the overall sense of things. I really do not recall any.
I am actually greatly hoping for a day when I can have my brain interface with a computer and the internet. i will even let them put a wireless antenna on my head and an ethernet jack into my neck. I would even volunteer to be an early adopter. I figure my brain can handle any malware but I fear my brain is closed source - or at least obfuscated code.
Make a version of /. in Greek. Put it out there and let it take the time to grow. If enough people like it then they will go to it.
No spoilers from me but I want to point out that that movie had a completely mind-fuck ending. I enjoyed it a great deal. I was not expecting it to end like it did and the twist was well done. I do recommend this movie.
I should have scrolled down prior to my last comment. Well said...
Is it murder what Dice is doing to SlashDot?
If you have spent 2/3 of your job doing those two things and still have not figured out the nuances then I suggest that you may actually be the problem. But no, of course, it is the tools you use.
I kid... Or do I?
Isn't that criticism of bad ideas?
It would almost be awesome if ACs could edit other AC posts.
I believe the nomenclature is that you should have used preview... If you are too new to understand then either surf the site without JavaScript or just open the reply option in a new tab.
What defines social media, really? Albeit a bit archaic in today's web this site, right here, could be considered social media - could it not? I realize this will not be a popular line of thinking but, really... What defines social media? I have come across lots of sites that include links to 'Share on Slashdot.' We exchange posts. We have journals. What more do we need to be social media? I think this site already classifies as such.
Obviously I have no idea if you have an account here or not but, well, I guess you do but it is not specifically your account but one for anyone who wants to use it. What is more social than that?
Because your premise is flawed to begin with. It is like saying that we should ban alcohol because people under 21 (or some certain age) are not allowed to drink it. It is not beneficial to them. It does not have to beneficial to all. It need only be beneficial to some. Not to mention, this is optional. There is no inherent right, or anything, to have access to all of your wants regardless of age.
I thought the .NET NTP server was grabbed from the system default? If that is true - and you indicate it is not - then wouldn't changing to NIST NTP work? Also - can one not change (I have never had a reason to even look into this) .NET to NIST?
Do you know why that did not happen?
Well, okay, it did not happen because some of us (most?) store the date as mm/dd/yyyy (here in the US) and not mm/dd/yy. You can display it anyhow you want - you can even display it in binary. How you store it matters. mm/dd/yy is a bad idea - even if you will be long gone by the time the company crosses 3000.
Who said it was beneficial?
You got no bites, even after obviously missing the entire point to which you were replying, but I still think you showed true professionalism with that post and I award you a score of 6/10. I would have given you a 7 if you had replies. I would have awarded a solid 7.5 or 8 if the other AC had replied with anger and/or vulgarities.
Anecdotal but still data - just a single point of data: I have burned discs since burning disks was a thing. Burning at, what was it, 4x was a slow process even back then. Anyhow, I have burned a great deal of content to optical media and I have a large number of professionally crisped optical media discs. I have yet to have anything go bad, ever. I have a Don McLean CD that (his Greatest Hits album - glad you asked) we took a fork and scratched all to hell. This was intentional, it involved a fork. The disc still played then and it still played on May 14th of this year. I know the date only because my brother came up for his birthday which was, by the way, the same day we scored the disc in the first place. The year of the original scratching was 1996 to 1998. I can not be more precise than that.
Anyhow, my point is only that there are certainly discs that fail over time. The odds seem really low even when the discs are subject to severe abuse. This includes many brands of factory burned and home burned discs.
I am not suggesting that people avoid making verified copies of their data over time. I am just suggesting that more time may be needed before we can accurately state a storage life and that more things need to be investigated, perhaps, before we decide they have a failure rate that is known and are ruined by more than a specific climate area or specific severe abuse.
I am not an expert so I am relying on you - who seemingly is an expert. My question is this: Can one be a pedophile and not be a pervert? Again, I defer to your judgment on this but it seems a bit redundant to say, "perverted pedo[philes]." Also, how does one acquire this knowledge? Is there a class at the Adult Ed or something? How do you spot them when you know so little about them? Are their pixels different? I want to know because I want to protect myself from perverted pedophiles. You did mean pedophiles, right? I guess you could be talking about perverted pedometers.
When I was more heavily into punk, really post-punk or "alternative" before "alternative" was a thing (think early Misfits to early Jane's Addiction and even early Red Hot Chili Peppers but after The Ramones or The Dead Kennedys), there were only two ways to get an album from many bands. You either had to go to one of their concerts and hope that they sold the albums you wanted or you could trade, buy, or be gifted a copy of the album from another fan.
I did not pay attention enough to participate but I understand that one of the many reasons the internet gained in popularity as quickly as it did (in the spheres that it did) was due to Grateful Dead "tapers" exchanging bootlegs and making use of the internet (not the same as the WWW) to facilitate such. I did not participate and can not vouch for the veracity of these claims but I have heard this from wildly disparate, multiple, sources who were otherwise seemingly credible humans. One source was a computer magazine whose name I cannot remember but I sort of think it was Wired way back when. I had already heard the claim when I read the article (in print format even - we had such things then) but, again, I make no claim of the veracity but I do share the anecdote.
As an aside, I once stumbled into an underground facility (I in my suit and tie with a business client from an unmentioned state government) that sounded loud and interesting. Inside this club, my client was initially mortified - much to my secret glee, there was a fairly small, but very densely packed, floor and a live band named, "One King Down." This sardine-dense floor was almost entirely occupied by an anarchic mosh pit (though it had somehow formed a bit of structure in and of itself, a bit like an envisioned AI or a swarm formed by otherwise unintelligent insects) which was a display of wanton, bloody, mayhem. It, in itself, was perhaps the most beautiful living art that I have ever encountered even if it was accidental - part of the art was my aging client's, in his business attire, vision of said spectacle. Indeed, he was a part of this art and, perhaps, even the reason that this random chance occurred.
He eventually acclimated to the point where he was able to bob a bit, as much as a bespectacled and balding man of the nearing senior age is capable, and had himself a delightful time. I, of course, had no intention of entering said mosh pit but was greatly amused by the entire event.
I was also drunk. As was he. Our business transaction had concluded and there was no risk of conflict at this point so drinking was a ritual adhered to by all.
We, in turn, became a part of the show - quite likely surrealistic to the hallucinating minds of our observers. We were prodded, investigated, questioned (verbally and with looks), and their curiosity (and eventual merriment) were well satisfied after they had determined we were not really poorly doing the job of undercover police officers. There was no threat of violence nor was there any prodding with sharpened sticks or the likes. We were, quite literally, actually physically poked as if those viewing us were not sure how far they had traveled from reality. I can not think of a place where we would be more out of place, so to speak.
My point is, and I have one, we eventually meandered towards the exit where we found a very attractive girl(ish) creature with clear elvish ethnicity. Her outfit, hair, and makeup assured us that she had been dressed by a blind kleptomaniac (one could never buy an outfit such as this - there are laws of physics which are in play). I can also assume that the person who dressed this beautiful creature was drunk. This critter, truly a specimen to behold, was both an attractive hominid and selling merchandise. Her attractiveness, by which I mean her jiggly bits were more or less in the correct place and correct proportions, gave us no choice but to interact with her. Her speaking voice was, I believe, angelic and contained an accent from a faraway place - that is what I am assuming, hearing her was
I have no idea why *you* would want to do that. I do know that people pay to stream music which imparts no license to make use of any additional copies at all and is, by definition, a limited access license. I can not, for the life of me, imagine myself paying money to stream music but people do it. No, I can think of paying for streaming content ONLY if there were a company that I would choose to support by doing so. In that case I might just as well donate the money to them as they would likely get a larger payment from me as well as a saving them the embarrassment of me paying and not using the product.
So, if there were a company that I wished to support then I would potentially make payments to them. If I just gave them a donation they would be able to keep all of the money as I would not be consuming royalty-payment-incurring content. (Hyphens are not just for children any more.) I would be doing so because I wanted a company that matched my ethics to have a better chance of success. I would rather just invest in the company, to be honest.
Without being specific, I have no problem gambling on certain ideas that have working models. This can often be done without any publicity, IPO, businesses/groups that specialize in venture capitalism, and usually without much legal hassle. In exchange for your gamble you get a potential service or product released that benefits you (and others), a return of your money without any strings attached, or - better, a share of future profits. You may even be able to help them out enough that they are willing to offer you a combination of the above. On top of that you may get to provide some advice or even some labor to the project if such is your cup of tea.
However, I personally can not possibly come up with a reason why I would like to rent the music. Note that that is a personal "I" and providing a use-case where YOU may want to purchase streaming service is entirely irrelevant. (I should not have to add that but, sadly, experience insists that I do.) I do not believe anything could motivate me to rent music that I could just as easily purchase a more expansive license for.
My musical taste is varied and large, I do not need to expand it with new artists. Quite frankly, I would just use a free streaming service or find an unauthorized source if I felt like adding to my experiences and potentially increasing the number of works that I would like to permanently have access to. I own a number of CDs, DMCA be damned, and I use the data encoded on them how I wish to. I am not a rebel, I am a realist. I am not sure why I would want to pay to be subjected to ads in the form of links to content I may be interested in, or attempts to upsell an additional feature, or similar. Paying to be marketed to is just backwards to me. I can, and will, exchange my potential market value for services in the form of utilizing free services if I want to stream music.
On the other hand, if the *entirety* of the various studio's content (including the small and indies) were made available to download (or to stream) in a DRM-free, multiple formats, an easy to use/intuitive/flexible interface, global in nature, AND/OR a decent client that let me grab entire discographies as well as albums and tracks (even allowing for aggregate data that truly shows other content that may pique my interests) then that service would easily be worth a few hundred dollars a year - to me. Hell, it may even be worth MORE than that to me. They can offer tiered content, they can make it regional, for example, or they can offer x-amount of bandwidth. There are many ways they can split it up and I should be able to expand or contract my requirements as desired without a lock-in to a certain plan.
I want the artists to be paid based on what I (and other people) download as individuals. I do not want some crappy abusive system that does not accurately represent the way the data was consumed. I want the appropriate percentage paid, regardless of how small - though we can all likely agree that the pe
Heh... You do not want to know what they do to your groceries. They will leave the package the same size but decrease the weight. Packages are all designed (pretty much all) as a relative to the perfect number. Water is added to your meat. The sprinklers on the produce are not just there to keep the vegetables fresh. Your meat is probably dyed - ground burger should, probably, not be red. Obviously you may shop at better places but I am sure you are still getting fucked behind the scenes with everything they can get away with. They can get away with it - that is why they do it.
My solution is to buy a half cow and a pig (I have the bandsaw to butcher as well as a lot of the other equipment but I do not feel comfortable so I get "rough cuts") and to harvest a deer every year. I also harvest a moose every few years (it is via lottery so it takes a few years between permits). I also fish but I do not do ice fishing. (I have done ice drinking, I have done that a lot of times. Sadly I had to quit drinking. I was too good at it.) Additionally, I grow a large garden and have the time (it takes a lot of time and effort - this is not something most can do on any real scale - I even have a lady that comes to help with it and her kids come help with the harvest) to can, freeze, jam, jelly, pickle, smoke, and dry.
I have strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, choke cherries, pears, apples, and blueberries. The apple and pear trees, of which there are scant few but I am told they are likely a few hundred years old, I have no idea, were part of a larger orchard in poor shape. As in they were surrounded by other trees and not even in anything remotely like a field. After the orchard was cleaned up there were still a couple of dozen trees left and an arborist came in and basically just cut off dead stuff and trimmed them up. Two years later they were producing, he returned a few times and now they do better than my ignorant ass would have expected.
The same with the blueberries (but not the bush berries) and strawberries. Set them bitches on fire in the spring, wait a year, clear out around them with a brush hog or tractor with a mowing attachment, and you have berries. There is no need to water them, you do not pay attention to them except to torch the hell out of them every other year - alternate them, and the crazy bastards even increase in scope. I can now, well not literally now, step off the back of my deck and *tada.wav* I have me some berries for my greedy maw. Watch out for bears. That is an important step. I will not digress further...
If you do decide to go that sort of route then I recommend finding a nice older couple or a younger couple that lives on the family farm. I did not know how to grow a whole lot (weed does actually count) nor how to preserve it. I had always taken my large game out to be professionally cut up. Canning was something that old ladies did and I did not know the difference between jellies and preserves. I have a couple of fields where I am interested in planting wheat and rye. Off-years I would do potato and corn. Those are all rather intensive to harvest without specialty equipment and knowledge I am afraid. I do understand that there are locals who will rent the equipment and labor as well as have it processed in exchange for a flat rate or a percentage (I would not likely be large enough to negotiate a percentage deal) but I have not looked into it much.
Now, you can (and may) apply this same sort of philosophy to your software needs. In my case it took retirement, funding, and a lot of education to do this - as well as a lot of help. It was much easier to do this with software. Well, not easier, but less difficult manually and less time as I already have the skillset. SourceForge can be a part of this process, I would not give up on them entirely yet - stupid people do stupid things and businesses are run by stupid people. I would not light the torches and stampede the castle with pitchforks. I would wait patiently and observe. I would make educated choices and v
Ads? I see the option to turn them off but I am like, "Umm... Thanks? I have that taken care of already." The only times I have used that feature it was when it was an option in the paid service and I did not feel right just remaining a paid member so the way to reduce my time (in other words, actually let them benefit from my donation/fee) was to disable ads. I think I may have drunkly spent a bit on this. It was some time ago. It may have been Fark that I "donated" a few hundred dollars to. It gets worse... I will spare you the details except to say I do not drink any more. (9/29/15 will be three years. I hate it.)
Well, nutcase is in your name. Not that I trust them but I am not saying that it is impossible for me to trust them in the future. Something, I should check, that I was playing with (I found it from a link here on this site) was downloaded from another site but it was a wrapped of sorts. It installed some software and then downloaded some stuff from SF during the install. I watched and let it run and then checked everything. I probably should have used the sandbox in Acronis. I also should check to see what app it was so that I can remember it to tell other people to be aware of this when I see it mentioned.
That was... That was beautiful! I am not sure why you did not get more bites. It is truly well done. Minimal effort, done. Clear and concise? Done. Quick and barbed? Yes, ma'am. It was a classic that was seen by nobody. I am sorry for your loss but you can truly tell tales of the one that got away - AND be correct.
Also, you are not really a female. No female is capable of good quick wit like that.
There was a short outage and then the CHANGE occurred. I thought it was one of the script/ad blocking add-ons but I was wrong. I refreshed and refreshed and hoped my eyes were wrong. They were not. I found the comment section links and all was good again.