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by Kye 2y ago
Correction on 1: he forked a GPL project (b2/cafelog). He had no choice but to release it under GPL if he wanted to release it at all. It's a very long ago piece of history that, while acknowledged by WordPress in its history page
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by Kye 2y ago
Where is the invention? He forked b2/cafelog and continued work on it when the original project faded out. He had no choice but to give it away unless he wanted the only WordPress install in the world. Another fork like b2evolution or
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by Kye 2y ago
WCUS took place in Oregon where both sides of that phone call would have been located. As far as I know while Oregon is two-party consent in most cases, only one party needs to consent to record a phone call. Given the apparent escalation,
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by Kye 2y ago
Who built what business on whose business? It's not clear what you're referring to.
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by Kye 2y ago
Agreed. I'm confused by a lot of the discourse in this thread. The extortion seems like the important thing. I would think (paraphrasing) "I'm going to destroy your business if you don't pay me" is extortion regardl
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by Kye 2y ago
My slightly earlier submission with a direct PDF link for people who aren't able to view Twitter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631920
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by Kye 2y ago
>> "Stunningly, Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Con
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Re: Automattic's Actionable Misconduct Directed to WP Engine [pdf](wpengine.com)
41 points by Kye 2y ago|15 comments
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by Kye 2y ago
It's now a legal battle: https://old.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fn3mjr/matt_mul... >> "WP Engine has now filed formal legal action against WordPress.org, myself, Automattic, and we
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by Kye 2y ago
Twitter itself recognized there are levels of public early on. The original site was every post in one timeline. The things I say to a room or to people at a table are not meant for everyone at the event. The phrase context collapse came
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Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts(theverge.com)
231 points by Kye 2y ago|476 comments
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by Kye 2y ago
He didn't choose to keep it open source. He has no choice unless he tracks down all the contributors back to B2 and gets them to assign copyright. This would be the most controversial thing he's done so far and likely lead to a fo
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by Kye 2y ago
I love the confidence prosecutor types say this stuff with. They get up enough knowledge to stop one (1) crime then decide they've stopped all crime forever, then they're completely blindsided when their targets make some tiny cha
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by Kye 2y ago
The gist I get reading all the commentary is: a: There's no angle to analyze this attack from where he isn't a massive hypocrite b: It's not clear why he singles out WP Engine when so many major players in the WP ecosystem ha
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by Kye 2y ago
That's an hour long video. This detail should be in the post. A few sentences at most.
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by Kye 2y ago
This seems like a detail that could be covered in a few sentences in the post. In fact it seems central to his argument so it's weird that he didn't. Allegedly it's in the hour-long video, but that's asking a lot.
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by Kye 2y ago
This isn't the WP.org folks. This is Matt Mullenweg. Whether this is representative of the open source project is uncertain.
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by Kye 2y ago
Automattic's own managed WordPress platform severely restricts features all the way up to the top plan. I guess it's okay for them to do it. edit: I am referring to WordPress.com which is the offering comparable to WP Engine.
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by Kye 2y ago
This has the same energy as a spat between two Mastodon instances. Did he make any effort to work this out with them in private? I'd think he would mention that if he did. Actually, since WordPress supports ActivityPub now, it's a
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by Kye 2y ago
I borrowed a Laowa 100mm macro lens (Venus Optics) for a little while. The only reason I didn't buy one is it disabled TTL since it lacked the required electronics. https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-100mm-f-2
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by Kye 2y ago
It's always amazed me how much we can discover just by measuring the dances of distant stars.
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by Kye 2y ago
Stable around 1.6m. https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...
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by Kye 2y ago
I was talking about UX, not moderation.
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VPN Bypass Vulnerability in Apple iOS(protonvpn.com)
4 points by Kye 2y ago|0 comments
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by Kye 2y ago
It's also consistent with their other socials which is probably why they did that rather than ask the DNS people for the other Duolingo br domain to add it.
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by Kye 2y ago
Significant portions of Brazil's government and media are on there as well, including the president and one of the top news programs in the country. The latter caused a huge spike of growth all on its own by putting its handle in broad
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by Kye 2y ago
>> "Edit: how do you find out about such things?" Being there when the deep magics are written. These kinds of tools come up if you follow the developers and people interested in decentralized social media.
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by Kye 2y ago
Anyone can make a feed (algorithm). There are multiple independent projects that can access and put stuff on PDSes. There are lots of clients. They just added OAuth to make it easier for them. https://docs.bsky.app/showcase
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by Kye 2y ago
3.2 million https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/bluesky-day.html
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by Kye 2y ago
That's true. I do wish the Discover algorithm were open, but I understand that can open it up to abuse. So far it mostly just shows me nice things. There was no point with Twitter's algorithmic feed when I could say that. I can&#x

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