TAForObvReasons

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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
I'd like to propose a "golden rule" test. If Copilot was truly not at risk of regurgitating large blocks of code verbatim, why didn't Microsoft train it on proprietary Microsoft code as well? Why was it limited to user
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Even license holders benefit from using the pirated versions of games: > Denuvo DRM Outage Leads to Major Games Being Unplayable [0] https://gamerant.com/denuvo-drm-outage-major-games-unplayabl... > The cracked versio
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Customer support, at a company that is not obsessed with customer support and satisfaction, is typically "check the box". They have to provide some sort of support. It is seen as a cost center rather than as a face of the compan
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Frontline support is oftentimes outsourced to firms like Arise Virtual Solutions [1] and workers typically have very little authority to escalate or fix more complex issues. Social media people usually have channels to marketing and other
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
IMHO it is a worthwhile discussion, but not according to @dang's understanding of HN: > HN is not a site for discussing legal matters per se, but only the ones that gratify intellectual curiosity, and only to the extent that they do
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
There are plenty of proprietary source code leaks, and those are technically "source available" since the source is available, but that is not a recommended practice.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
n8n is not open source and many of the projects are using a hybrid licensing model. Code on GitHub is "source available", not necessarily "open source"
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
If Apple is distributing free and open source software as part of the base operating system, certainly they should be taking on some of the support burden. This would be a different story if Apple wasn't shipping curl directly.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
https://twitter.com/AppleSupport/status/1461330383425970180 > Thanks for contacting us. To get help with this issue, please reach out to Curl: https://curl.se/gethelp.html The original tweet wa
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Rust : Cargo :: Haskell : Hackage . It's extremely easy to add dependencies and that problem is independent of purity. As an example of an "impure language" with security in the form you envision, Deno allows you to specify
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
the current fragility of the "software supply chain" stems from package managers and their perverse economic incentives, and this is just as true for "pure languages". Vendoring and auditing dependencies greatly reduces
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Artificial scarcity model is definitely not "done", given that the author is still selling copies. The benefits (exposure) on Amazon is not worth the cost for the author.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
In the lens of vendor diversification, using multiple providers is good business sense.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Is it "abused by anyone who has a stripe problem" or is stripe support so woefully unresponsive that HN "escalation" is the only way to get a response?
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
or the core ideas from mold [1] make their way to gold and other linkers. [1] https://github.com/rui314/mold/blob/main/docs/design.md
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Investment. There are multiple VC groups trying to fund products in this space and using GitHub and other metrics to pick targets
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
VC-backed startups have a very different "lifestyle" from bootstrapped startups. Building the business is harder but running the business is much easier since you don't have the weight of exit strategy bearing down on you.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Look at software you use and identify underlying libraries. SVGO https://github.com/svg/svgo is used by many graphics software but hasn't seen donations commensurate with usage https://opencollective.co
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
VSCodium, aka VSCode without the Microsoft proprietary bits, uses https://open-vsx.org/ as the extension registry. The hard problem is convincing devs to cross-publish
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Gabe Newell (co-founder of Valve) said it best: > One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue ... The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by givi
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/wiki/Ryujinx-Setup-&-Conf... > Your Switch keys and either your dumped firmware or recent game cartridge untrimmed XCI > Your dumped Nintendo Switch games or homeb
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
From March: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel/wordle-with-exc... 4.5MB XLSX https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel/wordle-with-exc... It uses the full information when g
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
There was an interesting comment a few months ago [1] > Not mentioned is that the full test sqlite test suite is proprietary and you need a super expensive sqlite foundation membership to get access to it. According to Dr Hipp [2], no on
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Stick to .com domains
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
the "more" is that it depends on the actual term. For example, setting.dev is $180/yr https://domains.google.com/registrar/search?searchTerm=setti... It is likely that there was no premium pricing in the
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
That breaks backwards compatibility since a rule line can start with spaces: nonws: <tab>echo nonws ws: <tab>echo ws
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Amazon used Oracle until a few years ago, Google accounting teams used Excel, etc.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The hard truth is that these "for profit businesses" wouldn't use many of the projects if they weren't free and open source in the first place. This is why the moral argument falls on deaf ears. Relicensing is an increa
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Read the sentence in its entirety, dropping the parenthetical comment: > If you follow the above, you’ll see the supposed “free rider” problem is simply a natural consequence of open source being free as in beer: it’s not a problem to be
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Google is the worst of the worst. At least you can easily choose not to play Activison games. It's much harder to choose not to participate in the Google ecosystem, and actions in one service or account can have deep repercussions to

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