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bussieremon Monetizing open-source is problematic

So he made a useful service, put it behind an extremely permissive license, another company tried it, copied what they wanted to copy, and then utilized the permissive license to use his service for the rest. Then, "Retool is offering this new service for free".

So let's review the title:

> Retool is reselling our API...

According to TFA, they are not selling it.

> ...without permission

Except that your MIT license is permission.

I noticed the CEO has shown up here to say he's looking into it. I genuinely feel bad for him. Imagine that conversation.

"Guys I hear we are using this open source project and people say we shouldn't"

"....yeah? It's open source. It has an MIT license. What's the issue?"

"Apparently that person didn't REALLY mean for it to be open source, and now a bunch of people on an internet forum are upset."

"Do any of them pay us?"

"A couple I think? Two said they might stop paying us."

"....I'm confused boss, what did we do wrong?"

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Now imagine that conversation having to happen and this worry happening every time someone decided they want to use a FOSS library or API for their work.

Can't imagine why OSS is having trouble.

bussieremon A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more

And for those ALSO thinking "what does THAT mean":

He got criticized for it.

bussieremon The Third Thumb Project

Fantastic, thanks for the link! I will take a look into him as well.

bussieremon The Third Thumb Project

Hey there! Would you mind talking to her on my behalf?

I am actually missing a thumb entirely on my right hand and had at one point reached out to both her and the researchers she worked with on it. She never responded and the researchers said she held the rights to it so I would have to talk to her.

I would be EXTREMELY interested in speaking with her about either testing or even purchasing one if I find it is something that could help me!

I have an email in my profile she can reach me by.

bussieremon Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire

Parent does have a point here. His point is not that you can or should compare the two. We know they are different. But the LAW doesn't. How do you define in LEGAL terms how apple and WalMart are different? You can't use the word "ecosystem" like we throw around for apple because it is meaningless in legal terms. So first you need to either find an existing legal term and apply it or you need to make a new one. If you make a new one (because obviously Apples thing doesn't have a normal analogy) then you have to be VERRRRRY CAREFUL how you define it and what exact terms you use because whatever that is will be used and abused by precedence for decades to come.

bussieremon Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Why doesn't this article fall under this category?

bussieremon Show HN: PrivacyBot - A simple way to delete your data from all the data brokers

This is such a fantastic idea and it seems like you put tons of thought into privacy for it. I have made my own small PR to it for some readme updates and already used it myself! Worked great.

Huge congrats!

bussieremon SEC Charges 1inMM Capital, LLC with Operating a $690M Ponzi Scheme

>The Medallion fund is considered to be one of the most successful hedge funds ever. It has averaged a 71.8% annual return, before fees, from 1994 through mid-2014.[33] The fund has been closed to outside investors since 1993[34] and is available only to current and past employees and their families.

bussieremon Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?

Absolutely agree I doubt it was on purpose. I bet there's a cheeky browser plugin in that "feature" somewhere that helps you disconnect from an argument by literally frustrating you until you stop trying haha

bussieremon Ask HN: Why is Reddit so awful?

    The other day I typed out a huge response to an argument I was having only for me to be redirected upon clicking submit to the page that says something like, “logging you in,” which redirected me to the front page where I was logged out. When I’d click on the login button I would then be looped through the same “logging you in page,” until I just gave up and decided the conversation wasn’t worth it.

I totally agree that this is annoying but I can't help read this situation and think that I would look back at it like "hm I'm kinda glad it did that", hahaha

bussieremon Netflix to start testing warnings for people borrowing login info

> $240 per year from me and my family

bussieremon Unsuck It (2010)

This reminds me of https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

bussieremon Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone

I know you're not the OP, but this is a very fair point. I would imagine though that if you're in such a situation you don't see your online time or phone as much of a detriment; You would see it as a lifeline and most likely be quite happy to have it. The GP does not seem happy with the idea of phones in this case.

bussieremon Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone

I think that needs to be specified even further, because although this seems to surprise many people on this site, the vast majority of programming jobs do not require you to be "constantly contactable if something breaks". I have been a dev for almost 10 years now and never had a job that required anything to this level of "ability to be contacted", and neither have none of the people in my social circles. I genuinely feel bad for the people who end up stuck in jobs where this is the case, and in that way perhaps I would be more privileged than the GP

bussieremon Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone

I'm really curious what you mean by "privileged" for a person to be able to say "just shut your phone off".

I recently broke my phone and it took ~10 days to get a replacement. During this time, I had my wife text my family that I had no phone and wouldn't be responding to anything for a while. I felt no urgency, nobody got upset that they couldn't reach me, and thankfully there were no emergencies.

What level of privilege do you consider me having (or lack thereof that you apparently have) that doesn't let you do this? Genuine question btw, not trying to be facetious. I found the use of "privilege" here to be an interesting word choice and was hoping you could expand a bit.

bussieremon Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar

I gotta say, while I appreciate the sentiment, and outside of all the valid criticism laid on this by other commenters, does anyone else not notice that their "after" picture is NO BETTER than the "before" picture...? They just made bigger black boxes over multiple meetings rather than on each individual meeting, and their "work time" was still scheduled over.

I feel like maybe they didn't do a great job on this, or should have like...at least faked a good result on their calendar...

bussieremon Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

A totally fair point but in this case I wouldn't consider "famous person" being the shocking part of this. The shocking part, as others in the thread have pointed out, is that this is a business partner of Google's.

bussieremon Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

As someone who recently did this, you can link a Fastmail account to your existing Gmail account, and it will load in any email data you have into Fastmail. I think from there you can delete your google account provided you have Fastmail all setup properly. It took maybe 2 minutes and was part of the guided setup Fastmail did for me.

bussieremon NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework

Sure! Didn't want to self promote.

https://dex.3digit.dev

bussieremon NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework

Oh man I love this framework. I actually ended up using it on a "Pokemon Sword/Shield helper app" I made back when the game released. Made it feel very authentic!

bussieremon Zoom: Activation of end-to-end encryption is currently broken (no-op)

So I've lost track now, how many times has Zoom promised E2EE and then it's been discovered they lied/did it badly/didn't do it/etc?

It feels like maybe it's been a lot of times.

bussieremon Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

Not that I necessarily condone the parent, but to be fair dang, the GP probably deserves the same reply at the very least.

bussieremon Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment

I can understand what you mean, but let's be fair -- preventing things like "all white UI" can easily be coded into the configurability. Yes, the full iteration of possible situations you could get into are quite large, and maybe you miss some -- but there are also options for coding in some kind of "reset" quick-switch that doesn't require the UI.

Also, I'm not sure I buy the claim that "things like that are tolerated a lot less". Are they? Or has it just been so long since we've had anything like that, that we just assume people would hate it even more?

bussieremon Enterprise UX is amazing. Change my mind

Gonna save a whole bunch of you some time and downvotes when you comment:

This post is not about whether Enterprises design good UX. This is about the author enjoying designing UX for Enterprise applications.

A good example of why you shouldn't make a comment without clicking through.

That said, the article could easily lose many people who just read it and assume they know better than the author and don't bother to click. Oh well.

bussieremon Major Incident at Fastly

PyPi is hosted through Fastly, and pip installs were all failing in our automated builds this morning, so I would call that pretty major.

bussieremon Show HN: Dexter, a Voice Controlled Assistant

In response to a few things in your comment:

I was actually in the same opinion as you about remote storage and always on wake detection, and I actually found out that it's possible to make one without all of this!

There are "offline wake work detector libraries" like Snowboy.ai that prevent one of those things, and you can also get self hosted versions of even popular language parsers like the Azure Speech Recognition that you can run in a docker image and have everything stored locally (or not at all!)

Not suggesting you have to go make your own. It just makes me hopeful for the future where we can build useful assistants that don't need all this privacy l-destroying crap in them :)

bussieremon “This is the worst documentation I have ever seen in my life”

This actual exists in some places! Check out moduledocs and "doctests" for languages like Elixir. Was something really cool I liked while I have been learning Elixir.

bussieremon The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire

An algorithm doesn't write or tune itself. This is unnecessary pedantry.

bussieremon DoorDash from Application to IPO

I think the implication wasn't that DD was pouring fuel on to the fire of "restaurants closing", but rather that when they, a company that works with restaurants (many of which are closing) are doing so well that they can IPO to the tune of $60B and make their founders/investors VERY rich, this can pour fuel onto the fire of "tech companies making money at the expense of others".

I feel that regardless of your feelings on the truth of that last quote, the connection can still (and will) be made by many people.

bussieremon AirPods Max

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand

Pretty sure this wasn't B2B