theawesomekhan

One thing to point out is all the author's comments seem LLM generated and so does the README and the latest commit to the branch (large explanation in a comment and then change)..

“ While much of RTINGS.com remains free, our full test results and in-depth product analysis are now available only to members.”

“ RTINGS.com has historically relied heavily on organic search traffic from Google and affiliate links. That model is becoming less reliable. Fewer people click through from Google organic results than they used to. At the same time, AI actively scrapes and reuses our test results, often without attribution and without the context needed to interpret them correctly.”

Surprisingly in some languages such as in my mother tongue "Pastho" : we have the same one single word for Blue and Green. let's call it blue.

So we say "Blue like the sky? or blue like the grass"

Seems I'm geo-blocked. My Location is Turkey.

True, he writes blissfully

nonetheless, I found their library pretty easy to use and faster compared to the competitors. Sadly due to the licensing issues, I think I won't be using it for sometime ( or ever incase quote is above and beyond expectations )

Probably yes, because seems their licensing policy is not very user-friendly or straightforward. On their How-To-Buy Page (https://itextpdf.com/en/how-buy) the licensing model is pretty convoluted

We are awaiting a response from IText for the license, but for now Apache PDFBox got us the same results

I recently used the iText Library for PDF parsing in java. Everything was alright until I discovered their AGPL license.

https://itextpdf.com/en/how-buy/agpl-license

Since our product was proprietary, we had to remove the library since our product would also come under the AGPL license or we would have to buy their commercial version, for which we can get a "quote"(https://itextpdf.com/en/how-buy)

Google does not allow usage of AGPL code.

https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/

Half Life 3

Back Online Now I think

I think I have seen other articles about "The Thing" on HN before.

Nowadays, it's pretty hard to get bored as mentioned due to the stimulus economy. Though making my phone's screen turn gray-scale really helps with destimulation.