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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/l2dy; my proof: https://keybase.io/l2dy/sigs/_fjgvP19U9P4UUtHkTVkN8JTCajGUSqJPCElFL0Br4U ]
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l2dy··on MongoDB switches up its open source license
> Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes […], or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Software or modified version.

Would this apply to independent implementations compatible with MongoDB?

l2dy··on Misskey, a decentralized microblogging platform with ActivityPub support
No, it's a separate project that got ActivityPub support this year.
l2dy··on Krypton: phone-based U2F Authenticator
> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking).

We are granted a license to use it on GitHub by the GitHub ToS.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#5-...

l2dy··on Redis will remain BSD licensed
The abbreviation "CC" will be confusing if Commons Clause got popular… We already have Creative Commons licenses.
l2dy··on Firefox 61.0 Released
Also https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/06/firefox-61-quantum-of-sols....
l2dy··on Node.js Creator Blasts Node.js, Offers a Secure TypeScript-Based Alternative
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17247135
l2dy··on Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web
> No phone number necessary.

How did you sign in without a phone number? It's not possible on https://web.telegram.org/#/login.

l2dy··on Show HN: Graphite – A decentralized and encrypted Google Docs alternative
Also clashes with a "smart font" system: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=projects...
l2dy··on Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
https://about.d.tube/ - A landing page presenting and explaining DTube

https://github.com/dtube

l2dy··on Electron 2.0.0 beta
See https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-2-semantic-boogaloo.

As of version 2.0.0, Electron will strictly adhere to Semantic Versioning.

Major Version Increments

* Chromium version updates

* Node.js major version updates

* Electron breaking API changes

l2dy··on React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook
osquery was also relicensed (to Apache 2.0 and GPLv2) in https://github.com/facebook/osquery/pull/4007.
l2dy··on Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
Source (Google): https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/better-ads
l2dy··on Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235#277225 points to the disclosure posting.
l2dy··on Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse
Do we now need WPA3?

No, luckily implementations can be patched in a backwards-compatible manner.

l2dy··on DragonflyBSD v5.0 released
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release50/

> Preliminary HAMMER2 support has been released into the wild as-of the 5.0 release.

l2dy··on Gitter is open source
I'd suggest using Riot.

See https://opensource.com/article/17/5/introducing-riot-IRC, https://about.riot.im/ and https://matrix.org/.

l2dy··on Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
> 2) Is there any costs associated with this. Do i ever need to pay

See https://ngrok.com/product#pricing.

l2dy··on OpenBSD 6.1 released
New syspatch(8) utility for security and reliability binary updates to the base system.
l2dy··on Go 1.8 is released
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13661865.
l2dy··on Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

> Unlike software-specific licenses, CC licenses do not contain specific terms about the distribution of source code, which is often important to ensuring the free reuse and modifiability of software. Many software licenses also address patent rights, which are important to software but may not be applicable to other copyrightable works. Additionally, our licenses are currently not compatible with the major software licenses, so it would be difficult to integrate CC-licensed work with other free software. Existing software licenses were designed specifically for use with software and offer a similar set of rights to the Creative Commons licenses.

l2dy··on What happens when you dump the App Store?
Office 2011 for Mac dmg: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=273962
l2dy··on VLC 360° Technical Preview
I didn't downvote you, but here's the source[1].

[1] https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak

l2dy··on The X3DH Key Agreement Protocol
That document is placed in the public domain. If you hate Signal that much, write another one yourself.
l2dy··on Grsecurity? Anyone use this?
It breaks some executables (like "denied RWX mmap"). Security costs usability in this case. Also it degrades performance.
l2dy··on Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (1998)
One of April Fools' RFCs.
l2dy··on Apple to begin distrusting new WoSign certificates
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617659
l2dy··on Apple's response to the WoSign incidents
I came across this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204132 earlier today.
l2dy··on Gmail outage
"Google for Work Gmail outage" is better.
l2dy··on ​Linus Torvalds' love-hate relationship with the GPL
A permissive license would allow Android phone manufacturers to legally keep their kernel closed-source. Not so good for custom ROM developers.
l2dy··on Bitcoin 0.13.0 Binary Safety Warning
I believe there are two of them: "CNNIC Root" and "China Internet Network Information Center EV Certificates Root".
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