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by cvwright 2y ago
True, but we are living through an obesity epidemic, and it’s not just the rich people who are fat.
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by cvwright 2y ago
Ah, yes you do have to run a service of some kind to interface with Apple. For example the Matrix project provides Sygnal https://github.com/matrix-org/sygnal which the owner of a Matrix client can run on their own sy
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by cvwright 2y ago
These prices make sense when you consider that the bulk of the cost of providing Zulip to you is not the cost of the compute and storage and bandwidth - those are fairly minimal. It’s the cost of the developers who fix bugs and keep the pro
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by cvwright 2y ago
I don’t think Apple charges for APNS do they? I have 500-600 users on my app and have never paid. Maybe it’s different at scale?
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by cvwright 2y ago
Also, that’s about half of what you’d pay for 11 users on most other group chat services. From what I can tell, the average is about $8/user/month. And no, I don’t understand it. For my former employer, a large public university
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by cvwright 2y ago
Your story supports the position that it's safer to take the FAANG job. This guy found an underserved market opportunity, built something, got some success marketing it, and made a whopping total of $40k. Meanwhile the FAANG guys are m
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by cvwright 2y ago
That's not bad advice - you just managed to overcome a lot of real obstacles. Humble brag.
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by cvwright 2y ago
The community has been trained over many years to believe that anything FOSS is immediately trustworthy, and that anything non-FOSS is immediately untrustworthy. This gets exploited all the time when companies use FOSS licenses to get tract
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by cvwright 2y ago
Many of them are going AGPL, including the one we're discussing. Also recently Minio and the Synapse Matrix server from Element.
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by cvwright 2y ago
It's not necessarily about being better. Sometimes a competitor can beat you just by being cheaper, or by being better connected. One example is that the Matrix project recently took a budget hit when the core team apparently lost a bi
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by cvwright 2y ago
Or give the money to a more “working class” med school that trains regular doctors to work in regular practices and hospitals. Hopkins is the elite - those doctors are going to be the best of the best, and they’re going to be well connected
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by cvwright 2y ago
So true! Copyrights that last 20 years would be completely reasonable. Maybe with exponentially increasing fees for successive renewals, for super valuable properties like Disney movies.
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by cvwright 2y ago
Lately it seems these are always revised down after the initial release. In a month we may find out that the real numbers are even worse.
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by cvwright 2y ago
Spring 2022, when spaces were coming out of beta. My boss tried to switch spaces and got a completely blank white screen. Not a good look. Personally I use Element every day to keep in touch with the Matrix community, and it works fine fo
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by cvwright 2y ago
Hey, thanks for trying Circles. We are doing a lot of work on improving the usability this summer, so yes please send us any feedback. If you’re a Matrix user, come chat in #circles:futo.org. Otherwise the Github repos all have issues enab
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by cvwright 2y ago
Unfortunately the usability of the available Matrix clients leaves a lot to be desired. When we evaluated Element I think it was in a particularly buggy state. In contrast, Zulip is fast, simple, and “just works”.
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by cvwright 2y ago
I think, rather than looking at the Source First license as something that’s “a replacement for OSI Open Source but less free” it’s more useful to see it as “a replacement for closed source commercial licenses but radically more open”. Open
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by cvwright 2y ago
You can backronym all kinds of things into it. But in reality it’s four letters that sound good together. (And for which a domain name was available, I assume.)
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by cvwright 2y ago
Not true at all. We do use the "Source First" license for a lot of things, but all of my projects are OSI Certified (TM) Open Source. For example: * https://github.com/futo-org/circles-android (AGPL) * htt
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by cvwright 2y ago
libjpeg 6 is pretty good. It's oldschool C so it's pretty spartan, but it's easy enough to read it and follow what it's doing if you have a basic understanding of the concepts. (Discrete cosine transform, Huffman codin
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by cvwright 2y ago
We had to contact them in order to add team members. Which still put them in the top 2 or 3.
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by cvwright 2y ago
But a lot easier to get started and do simple things. The "dedicated server" / "private cloud" market is a garbage fire of manual one-off hackery where you have to talk to a human in order to do relatively simple th
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by cvwright 2y ago
I spent 8.5 years teaching at a lower-tier, public "access" university in the US. Don't get me wrong, it was great for what it did, and I was fortunate to work with a lot of awesome people. But we were far from an elite, excl
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by cvwright 2y ago
They also get paid when you send traffic to free, ad-supported sites full of trackers. I’m not sure what your point is.
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by cvwright 2y ago
There were worries after 9/11 that terrorists were using stego to plot attacks, posting their messages “hidden in plain sight” inside images on public websites. Someone (Niels Provos?) did a pretty thorough search and analysis of image
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by cvwright 2y ago
Wow that brought back some memories! I knew I had gone to a pizza place with an animatronic band, and it definitely wasn’t Chuck E Cheese. I’ve never been able to figure out what it was. Yup, it was Showbiz and the Rock-afire Explosion. ht
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by cvwright 2y ago
“life is so miserable” and yet “so many children” was basically most of human history
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by cvwright 2y ago
It doesn’t matter to me if they “really care” about privacy or not. Megacorps don’t “really care” about anything except money. What matters to me is that they continue to see privacy as something they can sell in order to make money.
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by cvwright 2y ago
All of the new privacy declarations are silly, but this one is especially ridiculous. I'm pretty sure I can trigger a hit to the naughty API just by updating a @Published var in an ObservedObject. For those unfamiliar with SwiftUI, th
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by cvwright 2y ago
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