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by growse 3y ago
Which way round is this causation though? Are they the only contributors because they're the only people who care, or are they the only contributors because they're hostile to any external contributors?
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by growse 3y ago
"If you run an open source project, I'm entitled to have my contribution accepted" _This_ is the sense of entitlement that people (rightly) disparage.
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by growse 3y ago
That's a very absolutist view. In reality, some PRs are good quality and worth paying the ongoing cost to maintain. Others are good quality, but not worth the ongoing cost. Maintainers get to decide, and they're not obligated to
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by growse 3y ago
You can solve (b) by hiring people to do this for you.
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by growse 3y ago
Both things can be true. The wealth of comments in this very discussion from people who aren't sure what exactly is and isn't permitted under the GPL shows that it is vague. I'm just not convinced that the lack of clarity w
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by growse 3y ago
I think I'm with you on this in general > 1. If you’re not touching the core code, it’s not under the GPL. I try and get them to LGPL license the extension points but they don’t see the benefit in trying to relicense it with all the
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by growse 3y ago
100% agree that containerising on VMs is ridiculous.
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by growse 3y ago
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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by growse 3y ago
shrug You originally said "I don't see how it's useful", and I observed that some people find it useful. I'm sorry you've had a bad experience, but it's a bit short-sighted to extrapolate from that to &q
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by growse 3y ago
I find it hard to believe that you've considered this for more than than two seconds and can't think of a single reason why k8s might be a good fit for someone's requirements. But here's one: It's a curated, extensi
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by growse 3y ago
Counter-take: I never understood the appeal of virtualizing the hardware. Is that complexity really necessary? Of course there's tradeoffs, but I think it's a specific perspective that says that Kubernetes is any more complex than
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Ask HN: Best way to store, index and categorize audio recordings
16 points by growse 3y ago|7 comments
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by growse 3y ago
Great point. (Y) this feels like a gauge / counter distinction? You could get pedantic at this point and say that because computers are fundamentally discrete machines, it is technically possible to sample the CPU usage at every tick :
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by growse 3y ago
With metrics, you're always sampling. It's impossible to know the value of the measurement at every point in time . When you collect any form of metrics, something is choosing that sample rate.
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by growse 3y ago
If you think of a metric as an event representing the act of measuring (along with the result of that measurement), then it becomes the same as any other event.
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by growse 3y ago
The people feeling the pain of (and paying for) the expensive data swamp are often not the same people who are yolo'ing the sample rate to 100% in their apps, because why wouldn't you want to store every event? Put another way, yo
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by growse 3y ago
If them installing malware had zero impact on the rest of us, sure. Meanwhile, in the real world, externalities exist.
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by growse 3y ago
I remember being surprised to learn a while back that all writes over NFS were treated as sync, so putting a ZIL on an Optane (for example) helped with NFS performance enormously. This would have been on FreeBSD, I don't know if the sa
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by growse 3y ago
> Not for Amazon I would guess If you're worried about Signal's hosting provider seeing your device's IP address, use a proxy. Personally, I'm not, because there's no trivial way to go from "Here's some
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by growse 3y ago
I'm no Apple fan, but "Don't use things you don't like" seems... perfectly reasonable?
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by growse 3y ago
No, they're not. It's a pretty long stretch from IP traffic analysis to "who's talking to whom".
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by growse 3y ago
If we're widening the definition of "manual intervention" to "I have to configure my device to do what I want", then yes. Setting up backups is a task that requires a manual intervention. You want signal to fully au
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by growse 3y ago
I don't think that's a safe assumption at all. And even if it were, there's eleventy billion different ways to have the data leave the device and wind up somewhere else. Should Signal support/implement all of these? Some
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by growse 3y ago
There's a big difference between "collecting and storing" and "collecting and storing an encrypted version of". If there was such a hoo-hah and it was trivial to patch out, I expect we'd have a thriving patched
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by growse 3y ago
If you got the physical device and the data on it (unencrypted), then what do you need the server for?
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by growse 3y ago
Nope. https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
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by growse 3y ago
> They could at least BSL the server code and allow others to verify the server code and host but not compete. This is exactly what they do (except they use AGPL): https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
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by growse 3y ago
It doesn't "require" Syncthing, I just choose to use it. I could choose to keep it on my device, or upload it to Dropbox or something else. Even keeping it locally is still a backup that protects against the device corrupting
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by growse 3y ago
> As if you can't get a whole lot of information on most people with just their phone number. The number of people whose Signal ID is built off a burner phone ad no longer traceable back to them is miniscule. Yes, but what are you g
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by growse 3y ago
Eh? My Signal auto-backups every night to a device folder which I then replicate off with Syncthing. How is that requiring "full manual interaction"?

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