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smw··on CockroachDB license change
There are quite a few situations where running the (previously) open source core was a good fit for business problems which would become unprofitable if the enterprise license was used.
smw··on CockroachDB license change
That's _not_ what the enterprise license costs for reasonably large deployments.
smw··on Defense of Lisp macros: The automotive field as a case in point
Elixir livebook does this
smw··on Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte
I think you really want to let engineers start attempting problems without manual onboarding. Doesn't cost you much, and gets them the dopamine hit before committing anything?

I got job interviews from the original Triplebyte that I almost took just from investigating it as a source to hire engineers!

smw··on Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres
Any chance that works for crdb?
smw··on Why the hell is your Kubernetes API public?
Nah, it effectively auths you against whatever saml/oicd provider you're using to back tailscale, along with the acls you define. It's not just 'network access = auth'.
smw··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Doesn't work for FIDO-based tokens, they auth the site as well, so won't send anything to phishing site.
smw··on Why the hell is your Kubernetes API public?
The tailscale k8s operator actually does auth as well as vpn.
smw··on Spinkube: Running WASM in Kubernetes
Do you really feel that container overhead is a significant issue?
smw··on Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
I think you're discussing direnv, not devenv -- which appears to be a direct alternative to Flox
smw··on Go Enums Suck
Does 21 actually automatically schedule fibers? to open cores?
smw··on Go Enums Suck
I find go distasteful, but are there really many other languages with an m:n threading model? Only other popular one I can think of is Erlang/Elixir.
smw··on Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
Because if you don't agree to the GPL's interpretation of it, then you haven't agreed to the license for the library and you don't have permission to distribute it?

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I think this is the magic legal judo of the (L)GPL that makes it work. Regardless of your feelings about the license, it's extraordinarily clever!

Note that if the license said you had to, for instance, share x% of your revenue with the licensor, that's not part of copyright law either, but it's still probably a legal license.

smw··on AMD Unveils AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Graphics Card
Yes
smw··on Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support
It's pretty reasonable if you run windows in a vm on apple silicon! (This probably doesn't help)
smw··on Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?
Isn't that true in most common languages? Python and Ruby and Java and Go (panics) will all spit out the stacktrace?
smw··on Git rebase, what can go wrong
It doesn't. Reflog still exists.
smw··on Git rebase, what can go wrong
So does Github, but it breaks if you fix via rebase and push -f. Gerrit and some other competitors manage this better.
smw··on Git rebase, what can go wrong
A bunch of wip wip2 wip3 commits don't add any value, and make the log harder to read. But if you break a bigger PR down into "added feature x", "tests for feature x", "refactored y to support x" -- the commits are easier to read and provide valuable "why" history when you're trying to figure out what happened two years later.
smw··on Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident
If someone tries to send you more traffic than your link supports, your only way to survive it is if your provider can filter it. Cloudflare will actually do a decent job of that even on the free plans.
smw··on Why Async Rust?
If this isn't trolling, I worry about you.
smw··on Why Async Rust?
io_uring is an interesting effort to drastically reduce the context switch overhead by not context switching.
smw··on Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy
Does nix or devbox [1] do what you want? Technically installing on the local machine, but not in any way that effects you unless you ask for it?

[1] https://www.jetpack.io/devbox

smw··on The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city
Don't leave us hanging!
smw··on Show HN: OpenObserve – Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative
https://grafana.github.io/grafonnet-lib/
smw··on Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage
What are you talking about? There are ads on new tabs even if you configure it to just be a blank page!
smw··on The State of Serverless GPUs
Is it really useful to be pedantic about it? It's a useful term at this point because people in the community know what it means, no?
smw··on HuggingChat
I thought they were intentionally throttling GPT4 via the web interface? I don't know where I read that, however.
smw··on Windows on Btrfs
$20 if you're a home user?
smw··on PC Engines EOL
Could you possibly provide a link?

Thanks!

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