They'll probably move onto mass producing weaponry, which, depending on the sophistication and scale, could be big issues for the rest of the world. They already partner with terrorist groups and other unsavory orgs as-is. Any group worth mentioning these days interfaces with the cartels
I don’t think weapon production is in their wheelhouse. Arms dealing maybe but not manufacturing. Facilities like those are permanent locations. Permanent locations tend to get raided and attacked.
I think controlling municipalities like they are is working fine for them. No need to mass produce weapons when you can just buy them.
They do have expertise in manufacturing and managing manufacturing facilities and logistics though. Likely the production equipment is not very sophisticated/ hard to reproduce if destroyed. I don’t expect them to produce state of the art F35s anyway.
Funny how the most advanced anti cheat just gives version info and executables in one nicely human friendly package. No need for gimmicks when you the work speaks for itself
fwiw I couldn't find the endpoint in question for vanguard, but I did find for all the riot games
Holy shit. I’ve also been similarly creeped out by this behavior as well, and did the same setting changes as the original commenter. This comment made me remember I signed up for a Delta/Lyft promo way back in college. In my case in explicitly signed up to link both accounts, but I wonder if they have other methods
Someone has taken up the work on this though there are some foundational steps first.
1. We need to delineate intermediate and final build artifacts so people have a clearer understanding in `target/` what has stability guarantees (implemented, awaiting stabilization).
2. We then need to re-organize the target directory from being organized by file type to being organized by crate instance.
3. We need to re-do the file locking for `target/` so when we share things, one cargo process won't lock out your entire system
4. We can then start exploring moving intermediate artifacts into a central location.
There are some caveats to this initial implementation
- To avoid cache poisoning, this will only items with immutable source that and an idempotent build, leaving out your local source and stuff that depends on build scripts and proc-macros. There is work to reduce the reliance on build scripts and proc-macros. We may also need a "trust me, this is idempotent" flag for some remaining cases.
- A new instance of a crate will be created in the cache if any dependency changes versions, reducing reuse. This becomes worse when foundation crates release frequently and when adding or updating a specific dependency, Cargo prefers to keep all existing versions, creating a very unpredictable dependency tree. Support for remote caches, especially if you can use your project's CI as a cache source, would help a lot with this.
Best case scenario they were thinking of that one person (0.01% er) who worked on a project that absolutely wowed them. But then even the homebrew creator couldn’t get his foot in the door
How much (in dollars) do you think the contributors of ffmpeg have made due to their work on the project? How much (in dollars) has that project contributed to the media ecosystem? The correlation is probably off by several orders of magnitude
I find it easy to hold these two thoughts in my head:
Some FOSS projects are unable to extract a "fair" share of the economic value their product creates.
Some FOSS projects have marginal or non-existent economic value.
Looking at the article, I see more of the latter than the former. If this had been an opinion piece from Fabrice Bellard, I probably wouldn't have the same critical read. Also, Fabrice has had no problem finding gainful employment. Coincidence? Who knows.
There is a screenshot of his profile in the article. You can pretty easily find those projects by typing in the org and username into GitHub. This was the route to check myself before responding.
I don’t know how to articulate properly it but the comment in the parent is a response does not address the specific essay. Maybe the writer had another, related essay in mind but nothing they respond to is present in the essay I just read
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