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by ddevault 6y ago
There's a difference between "open source" and "source available". Open source specifically means software which meets the following criteria: https://opensource.org/osd
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by ddevault 6y ago
Trademarks are not a requirement for defining terminology. The word "cake" is not trademarked, but if I sell you a used car tire when you buy a "cake" from me, I still lied and misled you about the product.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Elastic was an open source project, and now it's not. This was done because they believe it will be more profitable. It does affect you, especially if you contributed to the project, in which case they're basically spitting in y
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by ddevault 6y ago
I don't know if it's a stretch , but I agree it's a presumption. It's not material to my point, in any case.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Maybe it wouldn't have worked, but saying so much is also an exercise in speculation. It was well-received by doctors and patients, there was interest in exploring it further, and even though it may not have panned out - we will never
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by ddevault 6y ago
Your case is a bit weird. You're looking for a specific niche codebase, whose authoratative source has disappeared, and end up at a non-authoratiative archive. That's Google on hard mode. If you knew you wanted the reference conve
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by ddevault 6y ago
Beats me. This is why SourceHut lets you pick and choose any number of repos, bug trackers, mailing lists, etc, including zero, to associate with a project. I suspect that some projects just use GH to shut the peanut gallery up; a lot of pe
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by ddevault 6y ago
This mostly happens, I think, on projects which don't care about bugs from the general public. This includes Angular, but also Go and Firefox, for example. Their teams are working at a level too far detached from the general public to
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by ddevault 6y ago
What a spit in the face to anyone who contributed to Elastic's codebase. This is an Oracle-grade move.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Author here. I would not have written this if it weren't for GitHub's actions. Because we're in the same space, I felt it was necessary to speak up. I would prefer that the original article, not a follow-up discussion on the
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by ddevault 6y ago
Alpine Linux is a system which appeals to those who want to know how their system works (and to be responsible for it as such). If you don't want to know how your system works, and don't want to be responsible for it, then much of
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by ddevault 6y ago
An important philosophy to adopt as a user of Alpine is to take responsibility for the software you want to use on it. If you need a particular window manager or desktop environment, take responsibility for packaging it and making it availa
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by ddevault 6y ago
I use Alpine as my daily driver on desktops, and in production on bare metal servers (and in production VMs). musl libc is much easier to debug and understand, which pays off in spades regardless of compatibility with broken (i.e. non-porta
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by ddevault 6y ago
The main concerns are: lack of federation, the persistent phone number disclosure requirement, and its absence on F-Droid, and its hostility to forks.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Bleh. I don't really appreciate this. User entitlement and harassment are major problems in FOSS, and I don't endorse it, even for Signal. But, coming from Signal in particular, this seems pretty weak. It almost feels exploitative
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by ddevault 6y ago
Did you register a new account just to issue whataboutisms?
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by ddevault 6y ago
This presumes that the stock market, and capitalism itself, are both a net good. Not everyone would agree with that.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I think Aaron would have been proud to see the rise of Sci-Hub today. I am disappointed that we haven't learned from our mistakes, and that the powers that be are attacking Sci-Hub with as much, or even more, vigor and evil.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I asked Terry about Super Hexagon a while ago. His reply: Hey! This is something I'm thinking about! Super Hexagon's 10th anniversary is in 2022, but it's possible I'll end up doing it sooner than that... - Terry
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by ddevault 6y ago
No taking responsibility for it, no promise to investigate the failure and prevent the like in the future, and an obvious lie: “The FBI was prepared,” the official said. Nice.
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by ddevault 6y ago
This kind of behavior should be illegal. Remind me again why anyone here is using proprietary chat software? Just use IRC, or if you simply must use something else, use Matrix.
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by ddevault 6y ago
>I just don't see the average Whatsapp user ever switching to IRC. The participants of this thread are not the average Whatsapp user - they're self-identified "hackers".
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by ddevault 6y ago
IRC. IRC has been around for the rise and fall of everything else on your list, and a dozen more that we've already forgotten. I have used IRC for my entire life and I see no reason to switch.
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by ddevault 6y ago
It's easy enough to run $nconversions / $nrequests without spying on anyone.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Open source does not make it okay. Do not spy on people. It's just that simple.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying, and for working to open things up for all platforms, I really appreciate it.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Hey Nat, since you're on the line here, can I ask for more details about how this process might apply to other software forges? Were you able to secure a general exception for your line of business, or is it specific to GitHub? If the
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by ddevault 6y ago
This reminds me of the Harvard architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture Perhaps most familiar to the typical HN reader via Arduinos, and contrasted with von Neumann: https://en.wikipe
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by ddevault 6y ago
Nether X11 nor the web are stable. They are hulking behemoths that require the constant effort of lots of skilled programmers to keep working and up-to-date with the rapidly moving ecosystem around them. X11 cannot keep up with new hardware
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by ddevault 6y ago
Slightly more entertaining: http://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint This is an IOCCC entry for the world's smallest quine, sizing up at 0 bytes of C. Some C compilers will compile an empty source file into a program wh

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