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Daily News Stuff 28 September 2024

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  • What is going on in the WordPress war, from a former WP Engine employee.  (Josh Collinsworth)

    Matt Mullenweg is a co-founder of WordPress, and now heads up both WordPress.org, the open-source foundation that creates the WordPress application, and WordPress.com, the company that commercialises blog hosting.

    WP Engine is a competitor that also offers blog hosting, and has done for nearly fifteen years.  This is entirely legal because WordPress is open source.

    So Matt, fed up with a competitor existing at all, has used his position as head of the open-source project to benefit his position has head of the commercial operation by carpet-bombing that competitor:
    Matt had a problem with the landlords, so he carpet bombed the neighborhood.  He didn’t like Alderaan’s leaders, and so he fired the Death Star.  And now it doesn’t really matter what his original point was; he’s made himself the bad guy.
    And I do mean carpet-bombing:
    That post, crucially, went up on WordPress.org, which on its own seems questionable. WordPress.org is ostensibly the website for the nonprofit foundation; it’s supposed to exist topreventany one for-profit company from having too much power over the WordPress ecosystem. It’s supposed to be agnostic.

    Not only was that boundary ignored, but since the post was published as WordPress news, it was then syndicated to each and every WordPress admin dashboard in the world.

    Now, the WordPress software is garbage - not as much as it used to be, but still terrible - but until recently they weren't notably a garbage organisation.

    Now they've fixed that, and there are growing calls for Mullenweg to be tossed overboard before he sinks the ship.



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1 7T to build new fabs?  What is that? 150B to construct the fab, and 6.85T for an army of genetically engineered midget slaves and a whole lot of champagne?

Posted by: normal at Saturday, September 28 2024 11:40 PM (bg2DR)

2 That SSD thing can apparently be mitigated by setting your m.2 slot to be Gen 4 in the BIOS.
The article I read--I dunno, probably on WCCFTech--about it had some moron doing the AMDumbs thing, because WCCFTech commenters, but considering what the 13th and 14th generation Intel CPUs are doing to themselves, and the problems Intel had with Z690 chipsets when the graphics card slot was set to run at Gen 4 like it was designed to, he didn't have much of a leg to stand on.
And by that, I mean he did, but the leg was made out of NZXT H1 PCIe riser assemblies.  (search for "nzxt h1 fire" if you'd like to know more.)

Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, September 29 2024 01:06 AM (pnaK4)

3 Network card inside my laptop apparently died. Neat that it's replaceable. In theory, upgradable, except all the high end replacements want Windows 10 or 11. Finding an old one, same brand but slightly better model, and replacing it will only be $5. Hopefully it will work with the original drivers.

Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, September 29 2024 12:16 PM (nk1Z+)

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