Have you even understood what I told you? Edit: Where did they say they follow semantic versioning? You know, not every versioning has the same system. In example the Linux Kernel does not follow semantic, Firefox does not follow semantic and so on.
A bit ballsy to release the 1.0.0 version immediately, isn’t it? :)
The initial version number doesn't matter, it matters how the follow up versions are handled as new numbers, if they follow a specific logic. For the first public release, it makes sense to have a v1.0. I don't mind that, I mean it makes more sense than 30 years stuck in 0.x releases.
Many websites are detecting tools like curl, wget and httrack and either rate limit or block them. Sometimes one can get around it when using more detailed configurations that mimick like a human using a real browser, but that is basically tricking them. The reason why they are blocking such automated tools is multifolded (if that is even a word): a) downloading pages and data in short amount of time creates huge stress for the servers, meaning its like an attack that halts their systems, b) that in turn also leads to higher server costs for them, c) they don't get visitors for the advertisements and engagement, as the tools download autonomously, d) is also sometimes seen as theft from Ai companies, so they do try to block automated mass downloads.
Besides these tools there are other ways, more sophisticated and requires more work to mimick real browsers. In some cases even using real browser engines, but changed the browser in a way to make automated work possible, such as https://www.selenium.dev/ . Especially needed when JavaScript and other dynamic content is involved. Maybe even programming Python with custom solutions. There is also a way to directly program in Typescript using https://deno.com/ . But these solutions are a bit advanced and only recommended if you want go deeper.
Soo, having all said that, this might not help directly solving your issue, but I hope its still helpful in why its difficult. Especially nowadays, because companies have better detection and blocking, because of Ai...
Well, it was completely down in the sense that no operation was possible on the webpage. The page was just a single error code, so nothing to sign in possible. At least for me in Europe, the page and servers was out of service for about 7 hours or so (I tried over and over again, matching the experience with the graph). Maybe there were servers that was not affected at the time you logged in.
We humans are not Ai. Don't mix that up. In example just because you can write a script to scrape data from all Github, does not mean you can use the scraped data as you like without giving credit and respecting the license. But that is what Ai programs do. LLMs are not human and have not the same human rights.
I don't think it is just propaganda. Most people (especially non coders) do not understand licensee and copyright, or Open Source and GPL at all. Or don't care anyway. Sure there is some propaganda, especially from big tech companies, who don't want to talk about the issues because they (think) to benefit from the tech. I just think its worse than "just" propaganda, with the previous mentioned issues.
XFCE is lightweight (low system requirements and resource usage) and stable (in the sense it does not do crazy changes, it stays relatively calm). And the modular approach by design also speaks to a lot of people. And also its from usability standpoint easy to use without getting in your way, but still customizable; kind of like KDE meets old GNOME. Its definitely more reasons to use XFCE than just a theme.
Being in full control of their own app, without conflict of interest from a competitor. Also they might use different programming languages, optimize for different environments they care about. And also to differentiate themselves from the competitor, to have an identity. Similar to how game consoles play the same games, but have their own identity behind it. And they want to sell their own subscription, so they only support and promote their own.
Just to name a few things that come to my mind. I don't use all those different tools, so I maybe wrong.
If recipes were copyrightable, then we couldn't sell anything on earth, because someone copyrighted it someday somewhere in the world. Recipes itself aren't creative work nor expressions of human thoughts, because everyone interprets (an expression) the recipe their way and is vastly different product. Writing a recipe is easy, there is no creativity needed either. I could write 1 million recipes and now they are mine and no one can use them if I don't allow? It does not depend which of the recipes make sense. See why this analogy does not hold up to other creative work which involves at least a little bit of creativity, such as characters or software code.
I didn't just decide to defend copyright, I just list why its needed and what positive effects it has. You just dismiss all the good reasons to have Copyright. Just ignore those parts if you got defeated and can't argue anymore. So should I stop discussing with people who disagree with me too? I think you don't even understand Copyright, as your obsession with the recipe example demonstrates.
Your recipes example is bad, because it is not an invention of creative act. I feel like people don't understand why Copyright even exist. The point is not that everything has to be Copyrightable. And those non related issues are not a reason for or against Copyright, because they are unrelated. Making money isn't even the only reason why Copyright exist.
The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form. Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself.
If there was no Copyright, then everyone can steal from everyone else. Why would anyone try hard to come up with something, build it out and sell it. Just so others steal it for free and destroy your shop because they have more money to advertise? And this makes Software licenses such as Open Source impossible. Maybe they make changes to the software code after stealing yours and make it proprietary. That means Microsoft could steal all Open Source software, make changes to them and built them into Windows. Then people depend on the variant from Microsoft. This undermines Open Source and would definitely destroy any competition to Microsoft.
There are many examples and reasons why Copyright is a good thing.
Copyright is what Open Source makes work. The idea of Copyright itself is not bad and we have no better solution, only people crying about criticizing it. Also because one company cannot steal others work means, they have to come up with their own. Money is a good reason for people to do stuff and invent and work on it. This increases competition. What do you mean by "arbitrary"? If yo do any work, it is automatically protected under Copyright laws. And you can decide how you license it. There is no arbitrary about it.
Having links to backup what you claim is always a good thing, so thank you for this. I have blocked X/Twitter, but do not care about the political statements anyway. So no need to lookup for me.
For the false information on the technical explanation, well I can't confirm what it is, because I never really understood Monads. Now that does not mean his his approach to how software should be thought off is wrong. But I understand why someone is careful after such statements (if its plain and simply wrong). The thing is, everyone makes mistakes and false statements at some time. It depends on how often this happens and how the situation is handled, if the person admits it and learns from the mistakes.
Therefore I wouldn't just say his books are dumpster fires. I personally didn't read his books, but there are people who seem to like it. The best is someone reads it themselves and finds out if its for them or not; provided its not false information.
Have you even understood what I told you? Edit: Where did they say they follow semantic versioning? You know, not every versioning has the same system. In example the Linux Kernel does not follow semantic, Firefox does not follow semantic and so on.