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A classic returns and my hand is loving it! Anyone else have, and is really enjoying the new #Microsoft #Pro #IntelliMouse? Is it the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 reborn?? #mouse #oldschool

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

US technology employment is contracting:

The tech sector lost -43,000 jobs over the last year, the biggest YoY drop since early 2024.

This exceeds the declines seen during the 2020 pandemic and the 2008 Financial Crisis.

Technology employment has fallen for over 2 years straight now.

Since the November 2022 peak, information technology jobs have declined -330,000, to 2.79 million, the lowest since mid-2021.

This is now below pre-pandemic levels, returning to levels last seen in 2016.

Tech sector employment is dropping sharply.

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@Goodereader I am really disappointed in the store and your brand. I made a purchase from The GoodEReader store in December and I was sent the completely wrong item. I have been trying to start the return process with your shipping team with no success. Do I need to report this?

[This Does Not Compute @ThisDoesNotComp]

Which was the best Internet?

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@ChrisLAS @LinuxUnplugged Right. Thanks for covering this important topic. It was great having Red Hats view on the issue. I hope they can continue to be successful financially and find a way to win back the trust of the community. Personal opinion -- time for more GPL 3+ code to avoid ambiguity.

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@LinuxUnplugged @ChrisLAS What brings users? The free and ease of distribution and REDISTRIBUTION. None of the success of Linux, Jupiter Broadcasting etc, would exist if the code were just strictly legally available thanks to the GPL. It exists because it was redistributable.

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@ChrisLAS @LinuxUnplugged This feels very reminiscent of the TiVo situation from years back...we in the open source community know what the letter of the GPL 2.0 law is, but we would hope that good faith companies like Red Hat would respect more than just the hard letter of the license.

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@ChrisLAS @LinuxUnplugged You are right, spirit is vague because the GPL 2.0 is outdated and was not written to address today's landscape. This is why the GPL 3.0 exists, to address an issue like this more directly. It is just unfortunate that a good company would subvert the clear intentions of GPL.

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@LinuxUnplugged @ChrisLAS IT ALWAYS, has been about free and easy distribution... not so much the open code that has made FOSS and FOSS companies successful... Available sources matter for devs, but devs don't contribute to software that have no users

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@LinuxUnplugged @ChrisLAS Why? Because in all reality, the success of Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Firefox, Chromium, etc and other FOSS projects has not been due the source code being available, it has been because of the mostly free and ease of distribution and REDISTRIBUTION.

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@LinuxUnplugged @ChrisLAS I cant believe what I am hearing in Linux Unplugged 517! Red Hat is completely within their legal GPL 2.0 right to restrict access to their source, but it goes against the spirit of FOSS and the very principles that have made Red Hat successful...

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@rpilocator Same here sadly. The most annoying thing is I can hear the actuators seeking all the time it never stops lol.

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@rpilocator It is sad when the HDD is the loudest part of your desktop PC...but my problem is I need 8TB of mass storage and an 8TB HDD is only $100 vs $400 for an 8TB SATA SSD...still quote a discrepancy there.

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@FlipperLocator @flipper_net @flipperlocator instock United States

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@FlipperLocator Any word on US stock of this dev board? Do they ship to the US?

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@rpilocator I hope we see some Pi Zero 2W in the US soon

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@John_automates @FlipperLocator Which site?

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@FlipperLocator By main store do you mean US stock?

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@FlipperLocator Wow...sold out in minutes..