Posts by BrBill 7 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Aug 2023
I don't agree with your assumption of how people use OSS source control. We often publish them there not just to share, but to invite the community to help us make it better. It's difficult for one person to know how to do everything, and having a good idea doesn't mean that one is capable of bringing that idea to fruition all by oneself.
I wish I could say that I liked the PST files, it would have made my admin jobs much better for the last 20 years.
But the PST file is so easy to corrupt, and just one misplaced byte can render the whole file unreadable. Users can and will have a 20-50 GB PST file that suddenly goes belly-up, and then you've got to find yourself a decorrupting tool and hope it works, or tell them that their mail is gone forever.
I'm not usually a hedonist when it comes to schadenfreude, but when it comes to crypto I make an exception. What great joy I keep getting out of saying to the world, I told you so. You're buying nothing backed by nothing. Sure, our national monetary systems are also nothing -- but they're backed by at least intent and a promise. Something is infinitely bigger than nothing.
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