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by smashah 4y ago
As is your right. It will need to start from the individual level so I will be encouraging everyone around me to limit their exposure to Indian businesses.
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by smashah 4y ago
neutrality in the face of bigotry seems like alignment, or at least it's a sign of a larger problem which you've very clearly laid out. I think it's time to consider Boycotting, divestment and sanctions of India since it&#x27
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by smashah 4y ago
It's concerning that YC is funding companies that are so aligned with BJP bigotry that they comply with invasion of privacy requests without a court order.
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by smashah 4y ago
open source is not just one thing. I think of it like a bunch of tribes loosely operating in amongst each other with some shared tenets (followed as necessary) and their internal own cultures. But that's the same as any organization. I
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by smashah 4y ago
Hopefully one day they find out who aimed the bullet.
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by smashah 4y ago
YES! Imagine trying to do all that while maintaining and growing the source project. This is why I've never been able to get there with my project. Instead I have to make deployment buttons where DO makes all the revenue and their brok
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by smashah 4y ago
Maintainers should be given the tools to monetise their projects using a cloud offering early on so they don't burn out on the way to learning what control plane/data plane nomenclature actually is! Unfortunately there are limited
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Predatory UK Investment Terms(twitter.com)
3 points by smashah 4y ago|0 comments
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by smashah 4y ago
It's open source and designed to be built on top of and to easily deploy at scale. Every instance is linked to an end users number, licenses are sold per number per month. Self-hosted SaaS.
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by smashah 4y ago
Most of my revenue comes from companies that basically resell my product with some cherry on top specializations for their local markets. I have managed to develop a mechanism (also just the nature of the product) that charge per end user s
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No Tech for Apartheid(notechforapartheid.com)
3 points by smashah 4y ago|1 comments
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by smashah 4y ago
You'd be surprised what kind of automations people build on top of WhatsApp. Also, you can use free alternatives to the Twilio API to do more than just text-based automation.
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by smashah 4y ago
Love this! Thankfully I've managed to get sustainable growth as a solo open source maintainer by offering licenses for advanced features only businesses would need.
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SafeGraph abortion location data broker and their investors(twitter.com)
5 points by smashah 4y ago|0 comments
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by smashah 5y ago
UAE hacks UK give officials using Israeli cyberterrorism software and there are no consequences? I'm sure Abraham would be proud to have had his name attached to essentially a weapons contract masquerading as a peace deal between two e
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by smashah 5y ago
I was alluding to casual racism, not a shadowy conspiracy.
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by smashah 5y ago
I've never pitched any of my OSS projects to VCs. Hope I didn't touch a nerve. Prevalence of MLMs doesn't make any of them any less impractical. Are you doubting that VCs can be victims of their own in-group biases?
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by smashah 5y ago
Really quite infuriating as a founder hearing stories of nonsense projects getting handsomely funded while meeting with time-wasting VCs that insist on taking less-than-zero risks on you. Can't help but think the famous VC concept of &
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by smashah 5y ago
I understand that all of this may seem annoying to those that like to bury their head in the sand but where's this energy and label of "weaponisation" when OSS is LITERALLY used to build weapons e.g openCV being used for mass
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Node-ipc supply chain attack: peacenotwar(github.com)
113 points by smashah 5y ago|91 comments
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by smashah 5y ago
Not exactly, this is just a guide on how to host the existing self-hosted version on the cloud itself and written for discourse users (aka forum owners). I mean how does discourse itself provide the discourse-hosted version ( https:/&#
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by smashah 5y ago
I commit anytime the staged code can have a logical commit message. So I go for the smallest possible change per commit. Push when an issue can be closed/new release can be built or I leave my computer for any reason.
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by smashah 5y ago
I was contracted to make a legal document generation service for a client. I looked at all of these tools and decided to just use HTML/CSS and then print to PDF via puppeteer on a serverless cloud function.
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Show HN: Payitfwd.dev – Donate to Dependencies of Dependencies(payitfwd.dev)
1 points by smashah 5y ago|0 comments
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by smashah 5y ago
Great post with a lot of good advice around sponsorship + support. Is there some sort of how to forum/guide on setting up a hosted versions of open-source projects? Googling this specific thing is quite difficult. A good alternative to
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by smashah 5y ago
Sponsorship is not a panacea unfortunately as corporate use of a project is not proportional to the maintainership burden. Hopefully the industry can fix this one day.
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by smashah 5y ago
I literally print out a mostly pre-filled github link with most repro context, all they have to do is fill the rest of it in. They still don't do it. Nowadays a non-templated bug issue is autoclosed.
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by smashah 5y ago
Would you allow someone to buy out your repos? I'm a full-time maintainer that has luckily made it work. Donations don't work. Carving out business specific features and paywalling has worked for me. But it's not a tenable so
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by smashah 5y ago
Congrats!
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by smashah 5y ago
The UK Government is not serious about climate catastrophe as evident by the laws around personal electric micro-mobility, amongst other things.

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