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by kemayo 2y ago
It's legitimately a pain to do, because most Wikipedia articles use a bunch of templates. So for anything outside the most-simple of articles you suddenly have to implement a lot of the more painful bits of wikitext. Then if you want t
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by kemayo 2y ago
It'd be more convincing if the "problems with Wikipedia" section referenced anything from the last decade. (Also, one of the three things that apparently warranted being called out as an example was pretty petty -- the ArbCom
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by kemayo 2y ago
Yeah, all of that Siri stuff you're trying isn't there yet. 18.1 (the current beta) has minor improvements to Siri for immediate follow up requests and parsing requests where you stumble over words. 18.2 is supposed to be picking
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by kemayo 2y ago
Fanfiction.net is trivial... apart from it having Cloudflare bot blocking turned up to aggressive levels. I've not seen an approach that works, other than using headless browsers to fetch the content.
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by kemayo 2y ago
Having written my own one of these, the interesting thing about this one is really the UI for iterating on extracting content from an arbitrary site. Having a full GUI for working through the extraction is much more flexible than the norm.
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by kemayo 2y ago
Similarly, I switched away from Castro when it was melting down, and I tried out PocketCasts and Overcast. PocketCasts is pretty great, but has one crucial flaw that makes it unbearable to me: at the time I was using it it was fairly slow t
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by kemayo 2y ago
You’ll often see “source available” used for that.
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by kemayo 2y ago
Tl;dr Wordpress.com has a sketchily-authorized copy of the Wordpress.org plugin directory that’s used as a funnel into signing up for a Wordpress.com hosting account. This was causing the author problems because it has better google ranking
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Regarding our Cease and Desist letter to Automattic(wpfusion.com)
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by kemayo 2y ago
Threadreader of the linked twitter thread with all the Slack discussion (since X was completely not working for me): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1843963052183433331.html ...Matt doesn't come across well in
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by kemayo 2y ago
It did all seem to blow up around when he came back from a sabbatical, presumably taken because he really needed a break. Though I guess that he also had a bit of a PR disaster with Tumblr during that sabbatical, so...
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by kemayo 2y ago
The checkbox on WordPress.org is such a bad look, and is dragging the theoretically non-commercial parts of WordPress into this big (stupid) licensing fight. It continues to reinforce that the entire WordPress.org / Foundation /
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by kemayo 2y ago
> I don't think we're going to agree on this one.
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by kemayo 2y ago
> Crucially, they're not giving up their right to fork, they're just agreeing not to use it so long as the trademark license contract is active.
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by kemayo 2y ago
Mostly, I don't think this contract qualifies as an attempt to restrict your rights for that clause. It's an offer to give WP Engine something that they're not required to be given, in exchange for WP Engine not doing somethi
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by kemayo 2y ago
I was referring to the fundamental question of whether conditioning a trademark license on behavior is allowed. I don't think it counts as restricting GPL rights in a way that'd trigger the clause, and you do.
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by kemayo 2y ago
I don't think we're going to agree on this one.
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by kemayo 2y ago
> The contract says the opposite – it states "you can use the trademark, but you have to forfeit your right to fork if you do" Those mean the same thing. It's implicit in the offer existing that you can choose not take t
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by kemayo 2y ago
I really don't think that's the way to interpret it. Automattic is saying "you have the right to fork, but you can't use the trademarks if you do". The GPL says that's allowed -- you're not required to g
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by kemayo 2y ago
WordPress is GPLv2-or-later. GPLv2 is silent on the subject of trademarks, and is a bit vague about additional restrictions -- section 4 would apply to trying to restrict usage of the code, but trademarks are a separate thing. GPLv3 explici
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by kemayo 2y ago
My understanding of Matt's position, and what that term sheet he posted is talking about, is that he feels that WP Engine needs a trademark license to cover what it's currently doing. He feels that their usage of the marks exceeds
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by kemayo 2y ago
I'm not defending his position, or talking about whatever's in the legal documents, I'm just trying to explain the distinction Matt seems to be drawing between the trademark license (and attached terms) and the software licen
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by kemayo 2y ago
I think what Matt's saying is that they absolutely had the GPL rights to fork and modify the code... but those rights don't include the right to use the trademark. So if they wanted to be able to market themselves as offering WooC
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by kemayo 2y ago
It's an okay comparison really, so long as you compare the right bits. WordPress.com has cheaper and lower-feature plans than WP Engine's lowest one ($20/month), but once you hit that same price tier ("Business" @ $
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by kemayo 2y ago
I have some domains with wordpress.com as their registrar (they had a good deal when Google Domains was getting sold off), and I'm definitely side-eyeing that relationship now...
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by kemayo 2y ago
It might be sketchy, but WooCommerce is a GPL project: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/trunk/plugin... This is explicitly the sort of thing that WP Engine would be allowed to do, and if
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by kemayo 2y ago
Newsom said he vetoed it because he didn't support legislating an implementation detail -- that all OS/browser makers were required to include support for sending a Do Not Track signal. It sounds like he'd have signed a bill
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by kemayo 2y ago
By the look of it, I think the answer has to be "no, and that's that point ".
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by kemayo 2y ago
Yeah, but the question is really about how the app was presenting it. If it was making anything that sounded like a health claim...
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by kemayo 2y ago
> 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? Every month. (Which is still annoying, but not the raw level of frustration that weekly would be.)

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