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pythonaut_16··on GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source
I strongly disagree.

GitLab is open core because I can run and use the software in a meaningful way under open source licenses.

MacOs is substantially different because I cannot take their open source kernel and run a functioning version of MacOs

pythonaut_16··on America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
What a bizarre requirement. Why should someone need 100 subscribers to do a simple action like changing their account name?

Why not limit how often you can change it, or make some other kind of limitation?

pythonaut_16··on GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
Unduly onerous to say you're not allowed to access the site if you're in the EU?

So the EU regulators can say my TOS have to allow EU citizens to access my site and my site must follow the GDPR.

That seems unlikely, and the fact that there's so much ambiguity around this is why so many websites are opting to block the EU rather than dealing with it.

pythonaut_16··on Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage
In a sense then you could say it's the Javascript of energy storage.

Not the best on technical merits alone, but good enough along with a massive force of investment and wide adoption.

pythonaut_16··on Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, According to SimilarWeb
I think a lot of "information" on the internet these days is little more than noise.

News site: "Click-bait headline about something that happened that doesn't really change things."

Reddit: "A picture or anecdote about something perfectly mundane that happens to everyone, presented in a slightly interesting way that ultimately doesn't matter"

Hackernews: "A random tech article that expresses someone's opinion, or a random release of software or announcement. Doesn't really matter."

The information most likely to spread is mundane information that appeals to the most people. Welcome to the viral internet.

At least Hackernews frequently surfaces interesting content with technical depth and merit. I've learned a ton here and gotten connected to interesting technologies.

pythonaut_16··on An Alphabet X concept from 2016 is an unsettling vision of social engineering
To me at least, the value of something like Google Duplex would be doing things like scheduling things over the phone, i.e. things that I should already be able to do on a computer anyways.
pythonaut_16··on An Alphabet X concept from 2016 is an unsettling vision of social engineering
As if businesses haven't been using robocalls and automated response systems for years.
pythonaut_16··on IBM bans USB, SD cards, flash drives and portable devices from every office
In context of the original post though, it's unlikely IBM engineers are doing much work on ocean going vessels with 64-512kbps satellite links
pythonaut_16··on Google One is coming soon
Sometimes you just want to share code between computers without committing it.

Does Git have an easy way to share "uncommitted" code that doesn't involve committing it on a branch and rebaseing it later?

I say this as a huge fan of Git, that's one scenario where a Dropbox folder is stronger than Git

pythonaut_16··on US Supreme Court strikes down federal law prohibiting sports gambling
The longer view is that if gambling should be illegal at the federal level then congress needs to pass a law making it illegal at the federal level.
pythonaut_16··on Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
This is the guide I used to set up my VPS: https://docs.traefik.io/user-guide/docker-and-lets-encrypt/

Basically you have all of your containers join the Docker network that your Traefik container is running on. Each container needs to expose a port (but not bind to the parent). The Traefik container will bind to port 80 on the parent. That guide should explain everything.

Let me know if you have any other questions or get stuck, I'd be happy to try and help!

pythonaut_16··on Subscription Hell
You also get the perpetual fallback license if you pay month to month for a year, for whatever version you had 12 months ago.

E.g. I start paying month-to-month at 2016.2, after 12 months I have a license to 2016.2. But say after the first month, 2017.1 comes out. Then after 13 months I now have a license for 2017.1.

pythonaut_16··on Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
Check out projects like Traefik (https://github.com/containous/traefik) as well. Traefik is a reverse proxy that can automatically configure routes based on labels on your docker containers, and automatically setup Let's Encrypt certs for your subdomains.

E.g. I add a label to my Gitea container to say "Serve this from git.mydomain.com", and Traefik will start redirecting requests and automatically configure a Let's Encrypt cert.

pythonaut_16··on Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
Honestly it makes a lot of sense. Gogs/Gitea are developed and shared for people to be able to host their own Git instances.

GitHub is free for public repositories and has huge engineering teams dedicated to uptime, security, and availability.

At the very least for Gitea/Gogs to self-host the code they'd have to pay for hosting costs that GitHub is already willing to provide for free.

pythonaut_16··on Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
More active by commit active and releases.

I evaluated them both again a month ago and found that Gogs is as active or more active than Gitea by actual features developed, they just have less frequent releases.

pythonaut_16··on Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
Gitea does not have every feature that Gogs has.

Gitea has every feature that Gogs had at the point when they forked it, plus a few that they've ported over.

But there are still features that have been in Gogs for over a year now that Gitea does not have.

One example that burned me earlier this year, Gitea's backup/restore feature is still very underdeveloped. Gogs' backup/restore feature has been capable of backing up and switching databases for over a year, while Gitea still can only backup and restore to a database of the same type (e.g. Postgres to Postgres)

pythonaut_16··on 100 prisoners problem
That's an interesting follow up question. What is the minimum number of boxes the hacker/spy/secret agent needs to see to guarantee success?
pythonaut_16··on Amazon Key expands to deliver packages inside your car
I've found it to be interesting and useful, especially after having an Android phone for multiple years. I can easily go back and see where I went on a particular day, which is particularly useful when rediscovering travel spots
pythonaut_16··on Google Is Testing a New Chrome UI
The images posted in that article look pretty bad. Why are they adding so much wasted space above the tabs?

The current chrome UI is quite good at exposing necessary functionality without wasting space.

pythonaut_16··on Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook
I joined a pub but 90% of the messages in my feed were other people joining the pub and subscribing to topics. 9% were people introducing themselves as new to Scuttlebutt. 0.9% were either talking about Scuttlebutt or unreachable, and 0.1% were actual content.
pythonaut_16··on OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world
Have you seen this? https://pi-top.com/

I don't know how it compares to OLPC, but it's basically what you're describing.

pythonaut_16··on How to Decide What to Build
One of thousands of people entering into the highly competitive Indie Games market and hoping that you have the right combination of a desirable game and effective marketing that will get you enough sales that your time spent making the game is justified.

Or in other words, a gambler. Your profit from the game relies on convincing people that your game is fun and worthwhile; two ill defined concepts that vary from person to person.

With a business idea (shovels or middleman) your profit comes from convincing people that your product will help them make more money than they're paying you.

pythonaut_16··on Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest suspect at a pop concert
I think that's the point they're trying to make.

It's already easy to track someone down but it requires manpower, which limits the scope of tracking and requires the tracker to have a real motivation.

What's scary about mass surveillance is tracking of anyone and everyone for any reason at any time with very little required effort.

pythonaut_16··on Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
I really like Scuttlebutt but there are still quite a few rough edges.

I don't really like that pubs work by me following them and them following me. When I open Patchwork most of my feed for any given channel is filled with notifications of people subscribing to that channel rather than actual posts.

But I do really like the adhoc, decentralized nature of it.

pythonaut_16··on RSS is undead
Is there an active site for that?

https://tt-rss.org/ seems to be gone/down.

pythonaut_16··on Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You
Not to mention the early iPhone days generally meant making a separate mobile or iPhone version of the site rather than embracing diversity.

It's only been in the past few years that sites have started to work relatively well between mobile and desktop formats without a separate mobile site.

pythonaut_16··on Multi-user VR experiences with A-Frame (2017)
I guess Blender Python scripts come kind of close to this, but that's not really a markup language. (And 3D Modeling not a game scene file)
pythonaut_16··on The End of Windows
This is blatantly false. You're assuming that people only use Linux because they don't want to pay or deal with licensing complexities of Microsoft which is not the case.
pythonaut_16··on VPN leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC
It really seems like adding a permission handler with a warning on WebRTC would be an easy fix for this problem and/or browsers should respect proxies and such when generating WebRTC candidates.

And I say that as someone who thinks WebRTC has some pretty cool use cases.

pythonaut_16··on Uber disabled Volvo SUV's safety system before fatality
To be clear, I was specifically responding to the parent who somehow acted like Volvo was somehow complicit in this crash and thus wrong to distance itself.
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