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by amenod 7y ago
> I am hopeful, but also I must say in my opinion Firefox is nowhere near Chrome when comparing performance, developer tooling and quality. I have the opposite experience. I use FF on all my computers and mobile, and when I sit behind so
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by amenod 7y ago
This! Also the concept of Intents is pure genius.
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by amenod 7y ago
I made it - and quickly rewrote it to use canvas. With many points the performance of SVG is simply not acceptable. On the other hand, for canvas they are just pixels (once they are drawn) - no difference in performance if they are white or
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by amenod 7y ago
Interesting, I didn't know this - thank you! Here is a brief history if anyone else is interested [0]. [0] https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
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by amenod 7y ago
That's a good point - but of course I wasn't arguing that Commons Clause is "free software" (as defined by OSI/FSF). I do however believe that it solves a true problem that free software evangelists keep pretending
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by amenod 7y ago
> Can you run it? Read its code? Redistribute it verbatim? Make modifications to the code for private use? Redistribute the modifications? Then it's free software. Your answer proves that GP has a point: Commons Clause (on top of Ap
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by amenod 7y ago
Nice example how price anchoring can be put to practice though ($300,000). So you're saying it didn't work on you? ;)
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by amenod 7y ago
This is an incredible advice - from my experience I know it works, though I never formulated it this way (or even thought about this). Thank you for spelling it out!
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by amenod 7y ago
I don't think that's an indication that their CAs will be removed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they are not less safe than other certificates, they just don't add any additional value. So they will probably be treated
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by amenod 7y ago
Interesting way of thinking - hooks _are_ a new framework, they are just marketing it under the same name. I guess I'm old too. When someone shows me what (real) pain hooks solve on non-Facebook-size codebases, I'll be all ears. U
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by amenod 7y ago
I am bit more cynical about this. Google and others have simply shown Microsoft how to make loads of money by opensourcing the project, while still keeping the upper hand on it. How to "opensource-but-not-quite-opensource" (Chrome
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by amenod 7y ago
> It would make everyone more comfortable if OpenSSH let us see the how close we were to hitting MaxStartups at any point, rather than having to go in blind and only find out we were close when the limit is breached and connections are d
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by amenod 7y ago
> I believe this is mainly down to the FAT16/ FAT32 filesystem on the SD cards. Well I lost some to power failure, and they all had ext4 on it. Anecdotal I know, but I'll be avoiding RPi for anything that needs to persist data
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by amenod 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification - this is all acceptable in my eyes then. Of course I never use Google Search (prefer Qwant, StartPage and DDG) and location services are never running in my browser. Safe Browsing - I prefer not to have it en
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by amenod 7y ago
This! I hope it costs them dearly. I have never (willingly) given them consent to have my data, yet I know they have loads of it, just because other people I know are careless with data about me .
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by amenod 7y ago
> ...and then slapping Google tracking into everything they do... Huh, I must have missed that - if true, this is a huge breach of trust for me. Do you have a link?
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by amenod 7y ago
Not that I want to defend them, but it does have a nice side effect that web developers must run their sites in some browser other than Chrome (even if they ignore Firefox).
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by amenod 7y ago
> You could either stop using these services or ... Are you serious? Have you tried not using their services? Try blocking Google Analytics, Tag Manager, ReCaptcha, fonts, gstatic,... What you will see is that you can no longer access
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by amenod 7y ago
Ha, ha, very accurate observation. And if Google keeps the pressure and nothing hits them back, soon the answer will be "Number 17 of 312 still using Firefox". I still can't believe how Google has changed their tune - from &q
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by amenod 7y ago
I always understood the term "full stack" to refer to a developer who has tried (and mastered some of) many different technologies and roles, including embedded, system, sysadmin, backend, desktop frontend, web frontend, DB stored
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by amenod 7y ago
True. Though in this case it's very admirable how cleanly they have specified the exception case. But yes, it is a harder sell, and this is the main issue that these licenses must solve if they want to be successful.
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by amenod 7y ago
Sure - except that under their definition of freedoms you are allowed to share software with anyone, so while you can sell it to the first person, they can freely share it with anyone. But truly, I don't think looking for holes in defi
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by amenod 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure of that. For AWS it is risky to not support popular platforms, because it gives their customers a reason to move elsewhere. AWS is not the only cloud provider around (and certainly not the cheapest). There is a re
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by amenod 7y ago
Not really. The limit is clearly defined (if you are using it as DB, there is no change). If you allow users to create schemas, then it's a different thing, but I'm guessing there is no such project.
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by amenod 7y ago
That is a valid point. Of course the question is, how big the contributions from the random people were. Judging by the list of contributors [0] a relatively small core contributed most, but I wasn't involved at any point so this is no
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by amenod 7y ago
The way I understand it, the whole idea of this relicensing is that you can no longer take someone else's work and build your business competing with them. So no, you can't do that. Seems fair enough to me.
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by amenod 7y ago
It's still not free/open/libre source anymore, because you are discriminating against someone, so it's not in-line with the set of freedoms as defined by both OSI and FSF. Whether this matters to you or not is another qu
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by amenod 7y ago
Hm, wasn't one of the conditions to use BSL (the name of the license) that one of the "Change licenses" must be GPL? I remember distinctly because while I liked BSL, I never understood why I couldn't use AGPL as fallback
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by amenod 7y ago
Genius! Very clear line! I wish you all the luck on this endeavour, I really believe the time has come to move a bit away from strict open-source.
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by amenod 7y ago
The timeline seems a bit short, but ok. :) (the problems with runners and the UI started at least at 2019-06-02 7:48 UTC, though they were hit-and-miss at the time) Still, happy this is solved and we can use the (fantastic otherwise) servic

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