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chikei··on Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
It's made by Eclipse Foundation which was created to host projects around Eclipse the IDE. Kind of like project under Apache brand, Apache foundation and Apache the HTTP server.
chikei··on French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid
Um, no. The enforceability about third parties discussed in this paper is about following situation:

1. A released the work under CC 2. A then transfer his economic rights of the work to B 3. then C used the CC licensed work in 1.

Under Taiwan's law, if we treat CC as traditional license then C has the right to use the work due to 1., but if we treat CC as contract then C can not invoke CC in 1. to claim usage rights from B. The author then proceed to argue that in the contract case, base on (1) If the type of use is unspecified, we should consider original intention (2) Principle of abuse of rights. Either B can only seek compensation from A by (1) or the transfer is invalid by (2).

chikei··on PepsiCo sues Indian farmers for growing trademarked potatoes
Registered new variety of potato. PepsiCo invoke section 64 of this act https://indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/1909/1/200153.p... while farmers counter with section 39.
chikei··on Tests of General Relativity
Yes, it's common for large scale collaboration experiment like this. Papers from ATLAS/CMS have about 15 pages for authors (for example https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.00425.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02610.pdf).
chikei··on Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares
Um, sorry, no. Long time (since 1.0) FF user here, on some site it's same as chrome, but on picture & JavaScript heavy site (such as Facebook) FF is simply not smooth as chrome. Also if you don't regularly restart FF (my experience is between 3 days to 1 week), whole FF instance just starts being unresponsive. This whole experience is the same before and after e10s introduction and is consistent across lots versions. (I just use TreeTabStyle and uBlock Origin in case someone wonder if it's due to add-on, and remade a clean profile around version 51.)
chikei··on M.M.A. Fighter’s Pummeling of Tai Chi Master Rattles China
I think the problem is that china is lagging behind the whole "modernized, scientific fight training is way better than romanticize traditional fighting technique" thing and the KungFu novel just increased the myth. Which leads to that certain percentage of people joining the club/learning martial art because they thought they can be real strong after training. One can image that it may cause this industrial collapse if they admitted "this is nothing more than your typical jogging/yoga/whatever sport" publicly.
chikei··on M.M.A. Fighter’s Pummeling of Tai Chi Master Rattles China
The only problem is, chinese martial art keep claiming that they're great at combat. When they quote the "art" part, generally they just want an excuse to say that "it's not we martial art not as good as modern stuff like MMA. We're just sparing people."
chikei··on A new home for Google Open Source
Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.
chikei··on Australian software engineer got asked algorithm question when entering US
Except that this thing happens many times long before Trump and not limited to US. comments in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741746 tells lots such story happens years ago.
chikei··on Why do you use Firefox?
Fortunately (at least for now), Firefox uses N:M process:thread model instead of 1:1 like chrome (I am typing this in Firefox with 40+ tabs but using only two processes and with a chrome with single OneTab's tab using 10+ processes....) and it allows you to turn off e10s in about:config.
chikei··on Zhou Youguang, creator of the Pinyin writing system, has died
It's slightly more complicated. Besides WG and HP, Taiwan actually once used 3rd system called "Tongyong-Pinyin" (Tongyong means general/univeral usage), I'll use TP for abbr..

- In Taiwan, it's officially using TP during 2002~2008, the reason was to unify romanize/pinyin system for Mandarin/Taiwanese Hokkien/Taiwanese Hakka.

- It was then switched to HP at 2008 for English-friendlier environment.

- It is 100% Bopomofo in education. For most Taiwanese people we use Bopomofo as computer input method, but there are alternatives like Cangjie (based on how we write characters), Ziran (means natural literally, which is a mix of Cangjie and Bopomofo plus some heuristic). The alternatives are invented because there are too many characters sharing the same Bopomofo, you still have to choose characters after typed Bopomofo. Most alternatives have low market share in general public, but high market share in typing heavy jobs.

- Because WG was officially translation rule of ministry of foreign affairs before 2002 and they only recommend instead of forcing switch to TP/HP, so name of most city and people are still based on WG. So does those widespread words (like, Peking Duck).

chikei··on New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation
You're allow only to input using their custom screen keyboard AND randomize the position of each key.

Banks: this is to prevent attacker use keylogger or mouse position logger.

I was like, are you fucking serious ?

chikei··on IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 GA: Java 8 and ES6, Debugger and UI improvements, more
I use git worktree as a workaround for this case.
chikei··on Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
Like 5 min install it, ~30 min configure it, then about every two weeks spend 5~10 min check any new release and release notes, then just "docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d" to upgrade.
chikei··on The Foolproof Dock Connector
Actually they did, in USB 1.1 spec. 6.5.1: "The USB Icon is embossed, in a recessed area, on the topside of the USB plug. This provides easy user recognition and facilitates alignment during the mating process."