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by VoxPelli 6y ago
If they just wanted to stop AWS they would just put the BSL on top of their previous license: https://perens.com/2017/02/14/bsl-1-1/ That way Amazon couldn’t use their code to provide a SaaS until after
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Good explanation here: https://perens.com/2017/02/14/bsl-1-1/ It’s from the day that the code is released under the license and the four years is the max under BSL (so that people know roughly what the “
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
iOS almost allows this for geo-location nowadays, where one can pick whether to give ones exact position or a much less exact position, and for photos where one can select exactly what photos the app should get access to.
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Also, note that Google prohibits all use of SSPL just like it prohibits use of AGPL: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#agpl-aff... It also prohibits use of Business Source Licensed software,
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Not true that it doesn’t allow production usage, it just doesn’t do it by default. The intention is that it’s up to the one using the BUSL to specify to which degree production usage is allowed: “The Licensor may make an Additional Use Gran
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Seems like there’s no talk on why they picked SSPL over BSL? I like BSL because it always eventually transitions to an ordinary open source license. So over time all BSL licensed code will actually be open source. That seems to not be the c
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
I myself don't think it's necessary to host it locally at home. The most key thing to me is to control the domain name so that I can move from one provider to another.
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
It's different because the blogosphere was all about posting blog posts whereas social media, which started out being called "microblogs", is about posting other types of material and doing other kinds of social interaction.
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Micropub is a more recent alternative to XML-RPC: https://indieweb.org/Micropub
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
There are two approaches: * The federated approach, where many Twitter like sites can interconnect and exchange messages. One current example of this is Mastodon, older examples are Status.net/Identi.ca * An indie approach, where every
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Is it just me who dislike being incentivized like this to do something? By having someone do a totally unrelated donation to charity when I do something? I much rather do X because X itself is good than because X will have someone do Y and
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
I myself have only used it on MacOS, Chrome OS (and Android), so supported in most places?
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Yeah, was a pointless nitpick from me, had a smilie in there but Hacker News apparently removes those. On your comment though: I think maybe MacOS Big Sur disagrees with you: https://twitter.com/voxpelli/status/134
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
It’s a “progressive” web app though, so such a one is never all or nothing. Pretty much: Have a Service Worker and/or a Web Manifest and you are well on your way to claim to have a PWA
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
You are describing desktop PWA:s here, the “runtime” is the browser :) Chrome already supports it. You can install eg Twitter or GitHub Codespaces locally and they will appear as apps on your desktop system.
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
There are Electron like tools for mobile platforms though
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Well, those mobile platforms are yet to mature. So the “mobile Firefox” there isn’t really a mobile Firefox just the desktop browser used in a mobile context? Or does Mozilla support such platforms in any official way? Even the Android Fire
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Sorry, should have included that: https://developers.google.com/web/android/trusted-web-activi... Basically: It’s a way to verify that an app represents your site and then that app can open up the PWA inside it (a
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
You do know that one can publish PWA:s to Google Play Store by using TWA:s + that Google are experimenting with allowing plain PWA:s there + have recently launched a way to still allow in app purchases in such? Also – on desktop many apps a
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Installable PWA:s could in many cases replace Electron apps completely and would be superior as they would contain a much more up to date browser.
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Kind of misleading title – what isn’t planned to be supported is installing PWA:s as standalone apps on desktop Firefox: https://twitter.com/englishmossop/status/1344428028315590656... Service Workers, push notifi
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Loveliest part was the part right before that: “Just let me geek out for a second” Absolutely IBM storage person, the more geeking out the better!
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A vendor like what AWS does with Glacier
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It probably references the density within the data tape world, which is significant as there could be other ways to achieve a higher total storage, but this is one of the major components here it seems
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
The BSL strikes a good balance there: https://perens.com/2017/02/14/bsl-1-1/ As it always resolves to an open source license after a set amount of time + is always free in many other ways.
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Like the BSL? The Business Source License: https://perens.com/2017/02/14/bsl-1-1/
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
Do we know this?
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
The AGPL goes further than GPL in the requirement of providing source code, so in a way its more GPL than GPL itself and thus maybe "better". On the prisoner's dilemma – I see two major dimensions in BSD/MIT vs GPL: * S
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
The one who refuses to move to GPL3?
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by VoxPelli 6y ago
And Feross himself is a perfect example of one who is trying out different ways to be a full-time open source developer: https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/ Having companies and individuals supporting him: ht

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