The correct way to get someone to move to FOSS is to show them how to do it, not tell them it exists. OP already said they can do the YouTube -> captioned gif in 10min so you need to provide a simple tutorial that identifies the tools to use, how to set them up, and how to create a workflow to achieve the goal of some format with captions in under 10min.

Notice how I explained what was wrong and how to do it? That’s what’s missing from most “you need to use FOSS” posts, including yours.

Looks like there is now a subscription program. imo that’s much better than it used to be at least for Insta (apologies for the link; not sure when it changed so that’s the best quick search).

Are you sure it was set up correctly before? Kibana is the tool I’ve provisioned for dev log access for years so I don’t have to give them k8s perms. I have trained teams on debugging via Kibana and used Kibana myself for figuring out where prod errors were happening.

Your first paragraph is super shitty devX. That’s not okay. Your penultimate paragraph is really what I’m asking about.

I really struggle with the justification present in the article. “I need to emulate to do my job as an academic” is pretty hollow. “I want to emulate because I want to learn” is the real reason and, as an academic myself, I don’t feel like there’s a higher ground that gives me access to literally anything I want just because I want to learn.

If the argument was “the copyright system is fucked and knowledge needs to be more open” I would be 100% behind that. I feel that way. I just don’t think someone should get to say “show me your secrets because I’ve arbitrarily decided to make my next publication about your secrets.”

OP has copied over the first three paragraphs of the blog post. Read the rest of it.

I have a full JetBrains sub paid out for five years. I have dropped JetBrains for VS Code because I got tired of switching editors for everything and dealing with a Java-centric setup when I tried to streamline. Their decision to drop community Rust support in favor of only paid more recently also doesn’t sit well with me, especially given the PyCharm setup.

I swore up and down I would never leave Sublime for JetBrains.

This was a component of a messaging app. I started using Jamboard at a company that used Google Workspace because it was integrated into Google Meet. Real nice and easy way to keep a whiteboard going. They’ve replaced it with other solutions like Figma and Miro now, but that means I now have to create new accounts for my org and unless we pay a premium, the tools don’t have SSO, just social auth. It’s not a personal inconvenience; it is a huge business inconvenience.

That’s why I started by saying it’s pretty far from open. I refuse to touch SSPL projects at work because they’re not open. You have rights until you want to sell something the licensor might misconstrue as theirs. Terraform’s BSL is a new iteration of this bullshit.

AWS is closed source in some areas because they have not released the software they use to manage their platform. In other areas they have released the source code. It’s actually a pain in the ass that tools like LocalStack have evolved to fix.

Their license, the SSPL, is actually pretty fucking far from open. That being said for anyone not a platform provider it’s basically open source so you can consider it as such. You just have to deal with SSPL callouts when you do compliance reviews.

Edit: the meme says “closed source” which is patently false for Mongo

This is incorrect. Vim and neovim can reach the same level of functionality as VS Code through plugins and extensive configuration. An experienced vim user with plugins is as fast as an experienced VS Code user with plugins.

Getting vim experience and customizing it has a much steeper initial investment. That’s where the disconnect is.

There is an argument to be made that completely mouseless development is faster. This also requires a steep initial investment to pan out.