David From Space

There are a couple ‘Other - Please Specify’ fields I definitely filled out with ‘Do not do AI’.

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Supply chains are literally chains of suppliers, e.g. vendors. Your ‘simplest electronic product’ could absolutely be constrained by whom you choose to work with.

If your vendor locks you into buying from a certain source, and their vendor requires the same, and so on up the chain, how would you describe that dynamic to differentiate from a single vendor being the point of restriction?

To your point that the phrase didn’t exist, here are three supply-chain oriented papers that directly reference the phrase: This paper is exploring the social dynamics of buyers and sellers:

Lock-in situations in supply chains: A social exchange theoretic study of sourcing arrangements

Specifically, we believe that the examination of lock-in situations between a manufacturer and its supplier, i.e., instances where for all intent and purposes, one party is heavily dependent upon the other party, with few alternatives, under social exchange theory, can provide new insights into controlled self-interest behaviors (e.g., strategies) in on-going supply chain relationships.

This paper is about supply chains in plastic management, but the phrase is here:

Business models and sustainable plastic management: A systematic review of the literature

Barriers frequently mentioned were high costs, complexity of new systems, supply chain lock-in and low customer buy-in.

And here’s a paper about optimizing your supply chain where it is referenced as something to avoid:

Orchestrating cradle-to-cradle innovation across the value chain

This one even has a handy definition:

Supply chain lock-in:

Contracts and strong dependencies with suppliers not supporting circularity (e.g., either due to non-willingness or lock-in in production facilities optimized for linear concepts). 

I suppose if you would like to be super extra pendantic Wikipedia does have you covered with “Collective Monopolistic Vendor Lock-in”.

Try another search engine: https://xo.wtf/search?q=what+is+supply-chain+lock-in

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This particular ‘elder god’ is more of a mantle, you see. This entity does wield great powers, but is also beholden to a horrible and cursed collection of duties. During the summoning, they accidentally, somehow, kill this elder god; due to the nature of the summoning they must now assume his mantle and fulfill his obligations, with all that entails, lest the cosmos fall. A Satan Clause, if you will.

what a dirtbag

He did THIS

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/users/70121%3A1ccab27d-4147-479d-98fe-598695691aca

“This is why we can’t have nice things.” The license change sucks but makes total sense. I guess Dave Kinne there fucked around and found out, to the detriment of everyone.

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https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/31/digicert_certificates_extension/

In order to convince you she should be spayed, please look up what you need to do with a q-tip to a queen in heat to get any peace and quiet. It’s no fun for anyone involved.

Valve has moved the Linux Agenda pretty far forward. I would not be surprised if some of the pressure is from Valve’s ARM based improvements. I can see why vGPU pass-through support would be desirable for certain computing applications…or just emulation.

Don’t worry, the authorities already have the slightly less convenient way to backdoor things. Why make a fake release when you can just include it in the real release for the price of just a little coercion?

I feel very positive about this, Mongoose seems to have done a good job with their Traveller stewardship so far.

Congrats! Glad y’all’s teamwork paid off!

That was an enjoyable read!

As Principal, teaching Juniors should be like handing out a boon from your deity of choice. “Here, young one. Here is what you do, and why. Have an easily consumed meme to easily illustrate the concept.” Then you return to the ether, to watch with benevolent eyes.

What would you recommend learning instead?

Watch out bot, the Times might come for you next…