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endigma··on Show HN: BrowserBox – do stuff with browsers that you can't normally
> Are you a lawyer?

No, but I have learned a bit about software licensing to be able to meaningfully engage in making run of Minio, so this is real info.

Specifically, most open licenses have a clause like this:

(from GPL3) ...and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met ...

Which is the bit that means you can't decide after the fact that at this point in time the software was not licensed under GPL3, this is to protect from I guess license-entrapment, which is sort of what you'd like to do.

However, even when this irrevocability is unmentioned, there's US precedent[1] that consideration is exchanged in the use of a FOSS license, which TLDRLEGAL means that a license not mentioning irrevocability is likely revocable only for violation of its conditions.

More details: [2]

1: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=177761825741712... 2: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4012/are-lice...

endigma··on Show HN: BrowserBox – do stuff with browsers that you can't normally
Probably should have licensed it properly from the get-go then, they can and probably will just use old commits.
endigma··on I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
No, it's not.
endigma··on WEKA Responds to Allegations Made by MinIO Regarding OSS Licensing
It sucks how they try to use their license as a weapon rather than a shield, these things are designed to protect projects from unattributed use or modification without releasing the improvements, not meant to be used as a big stick to force people into a corporate dual license to be able to use it for anything real.
endigma··on I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
Jellyfin is an emby fork, not Plex.
endigma··on Show HN: I collect domain names to help build them
Is this really a "help build" situation? Or is this a "I own the domain, you build the app" type deal where somehow the domain squatter gets a cut?
endigma··on Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
In compiled code? Just moving assembly around to move tabs from one part of the screen to another? This seems nonsensical, you'd have to have your magic AI bullshit not only understand the abstractions at play in, say, chromium, i.e. skia and xorg or wayland or whatever, but also be able to surgically affect not the code from skia, but specific instructions that (dynamically) position elements.

This abstraction, compiled away, into machine code that does one thing. Compilers also tend to take all kinds of shortcuts to make programs a lot faster, and therefore changing them might not be as straightforward as you think.

If you think I'm wrong, I'd like to see what "fundamental reasons" you've considered and how you've reasoned that they aren't an issue for this sort of system.

endigma··on WEKA Responds to Allegations Made by MinIO Regarding OSS Licensing
I recall minio previously playing fast and loose with the terms of their prized infectious foss license, a github issue perhaps? I recall they believed that interfacing with their AGPL minio through a standard s3 interface with no source changes mandated open sourcing of the client application.
endigma··on Show HN: Tracking Sargassum Free Beaches
Your coordinates google maps thing doesn't appear to work, just some ocean off the coast of Africa.
endigma··on Show HN: Kepler Book – A Way to Document and Share Errors
What does this do? You need a demo page or an explanation or something, I'm not just gonna give my GitHub info and email away to figure out what your thing does.
endigma··on Show HN: Cursor – IDE built for coding with GPT-4
Why would I use this? GPT isn't some magic revolution to how code is written, copilot is already a thing as is tabnine and copilot x or whatever, I don't see why anyone would choose this over their everyday editor + some extension
endigma··on Show HN: Supercharge Engineering Onboarding
Another service wrapping OpenAI and giving them copies of all the source code we write?
endigma··on Solo Female Traveller Thinks Pakistan Could Be Worlds No1 Tourism Destination
It almost reads as ignorant to me, to pretend as though all the issues women can face are "western propaganda". The middle east is often demonized in western media for sure but it's not like the women's rights index rates it 4th lowest out of 170 because of the war on terror.
endigma··on Solo Female Traveller Thinks Pakistan Could Be Worlds No1 Tourism Destination
(2019), title is awfully long
endigma··on Show HN: vore – a simple RSS/atom feed reader
You may want to look into the... Alternative... Usage of this term.
endigma··on Greece adopts new rules on Router Freedom
I wish lol, bell has moved the GPON inside their shitbox.
endigma··on Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
Hiring not you with that attitude. Plenty of others have emailed and I've answered all kinds of questions. I'm not going to pollute some guys thread about layoffs with info about the company I work for, it's not a hiring thread.
endigma··on Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
I suppose? We aren't in particular for hiring in tech. We aren't doing layoffs and we aren't under VC thumbs.
endigma··on Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
We're a Canadian company making hiring software using Go, Svelte and Typescript. We offer fully remote positions. I'm not the founder or hiring-person, but I will reply to your emails if you ask other questions. Coincidentally, we actually make a product that aims to get rid of the whole hiring, ghosting, no-reply, 7 rounds of interviews shenanigans; which is a problem a lot of people seem to be mentioning here.
endigma··on Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
If anyone is looking for remote/Canada, email me at endigma@fastmail.com, we may have a position for you.

I will reply to every person, no ghosting here.

endigma··on Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
email me @ endigma@fastmail.com, hiring, interested in what you say, in Canada
endigma··on Brazil seizing Flipper Zero shipments to prevent use in crime
With action this severe I don't think party allegiance would have much to do with it, unless you're purely referring to ownership statistics.
endigma··on Brazil seizing Flipper Zero shipments to prevent use in crime
I love how these people think banning a hobbyist redteam tool will prevent real RF related crime.

Silly criminals thwarted again by not having access to legally purchased hobbyist tools!

Owners of Tesla charging port covers and garage door openers rejoice as their harassment is finally ended.

endigma··on [dead]
Chill out with the keyword packing my guy
endigma··on Show HN: DIYnDNS – I Don't Want to Pay for a Static IP Address
Why diy instead of ddclient, duckdns, I think CloudFlare has a 1st party solution too
endigma··on Show HN: My personal medical knowledge system
What's the source for all of this? Citations are lacking.
endigma··on Show HN: Guess the animal by looking at a limited amount of pixels
It's Snoop Dogg, I hope /s
endigma··on Ask HN: At 45, I can't seem to read as well anymore
> Yet you participate in society. Curious!

You didn't say "the internet sucks", you said "I'd get rid of it if I could".

> Definitely not true yet. Maybe some day. Maybe never

Medicine has come further since the internet than it did in 50 years prior, imagine the hit COVID would have had if nobody fucking knew about it until someone they knew got it.

So many things depend on global information sharing, saying "blow it all up" because you don't like TikTok or Instagram is so ignorant it's unreal. The internet isn't just cat videos and short form content, it's the backbone of the last 50 years of innovation.

endigma··on Ask HN: At 45, I can't seem to read as well anymore
They said, on the internet, using a device likely paid for by a job that depends on the internet, likely alive due to medical knowledge that could only exist through the internet, ... and so on....
endigma··on Ask HN: Most informative SWE interview questions?
I think asking a question like this largely depends on domain, what sort of (even exceptional) lets say, rails developer is going to know in-depth information about hash table implementations off the top of their head?

I'd expect anyone who knows how to code in anything to understand the concept of an associative array, but not necessarily the nuances of hashing and performance, especially not the performance of specific hashing algos. Most of that work is handled by language designers/compiler designers for you in the majority of use cases.

I suspect you work in a field where this sort of information is far more well known/common to deal with in day to day?

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