<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@flargh" class="u-url mention">@<span>flargh</span></a></span> I can’t use it on my work computer b/c of the ownership change and Ice is great and OSS but sort of jank. I want an OS-level solution!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> leave bartender alone</p>

<p>I am about as big a fan of music as you can find, but I have never understood the draw of music festivals (even when I was younger).</p><p>Outside of the pure physical problems of bad facilities, expensive food and drink – they are also an awful way of experiencing music, where artists play mediocre sets to disinterested crowds through questionable sound systems.</p><p>Maybe I just don’t do enough drugs. 🤷‍♂️</p>

<p>Amid all the gloom right now, perhaps you could use an event that celebrates the joy of programming, and making the world a better place for people who have to write code every day AND the people who are affected by that code?</p><p>We&#39;re that event. It&#39;s next week, and if you&#39;re in the Bay Area, we&#39;re quite close.</p><p>Check out our program at <a href="https://northbaypython.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">northbaypython.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and join us: <a href="https://nbpy.link/tickets" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">nbpy.link/tickets</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> I&#39;m forever surprised Apple didn&#39;t buy Bartender when it was for sale.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> no, I know they don’t typically acquire… but they could and it wouldn’t cost them much in the grand scheme of things. Even if they toss all the code and rebuild the feature, it would just be a nice gesture… and I’m not talking crazy Silicon Valley VC acquisition prices, but enough to give the devs a few years of runway to figure out their next project. The other option is to Sherlock them and leave them hanging which leaves a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths.</p>

<p>Hot take that is fresh off the brain-press, and that wisdom would probably dictate that I edit first:</p><p>Using technological products and services that can unilaterally enforce arbitrary policies against you without you having the ability to dissent or choose differently *is* a form of obedience in advance. In particular, if your choice of products and services means that you cannot meaningfully disobey in the future, you have already preemptively obeyed.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@jackbrewster" class="u-url mention">@<span>jackbrewster</span></a></span> yeah and that’s great to know — I just don’t think it’s a tangible solution. The Apple people prob assume the solution is to not have apps in the menu bar but like, fuck off.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@covercash" class="u-url mention">@<span>covercash</span></a></span> I mean, that isn’t historically true at all. They don’t acquire many but they do acquire some. I don’t think a thing like a way to manage menu bar overflow is a thing that needs to be an acquisition tho. Apple could build that feature in a much more integrated way that wouldn’t require the overhead and I don’t think the idea itself is so novel it necessitates an acquisition.</p>