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NoahKAndrews··on DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently
OPNsense defaults to Unbound
NoahKAndrews··on The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)
The Bible is notoriously difficult to interpret, and depends on massive amounts of ancient cultural context. Trusting that to ChatGPT or even asserting that you absolutely have found the one correct interpretation is wild (even as someone who does not believe the Bible is special beyond its cultural influence).
NoahKAndrews··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
A few examples focusing on climate change, which I hope we can all agree is extremely critical.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/climate-disasters-th...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/trump-admin-may-be-t...

https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-contracts-seattle-la... (damage is being done even when programs aren't explicitly cancelled)

NoahKAndrews··on The Linux Kernel's PGP Web of Trust
It's not like that's even a common mistake, in my experience
NoahKAndrews··on More people are getting tattoos removed
Do you disagree with that?
NoahKAndrews··on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
AppImageLauncher improves the AppImage experience a lot, including making sure they get added to the menu. I'm not sure if it makes launching without the sandbox easier or not.
NoahKAndrews··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
As far as I know the commercial use restriction is pretty much entirely the honor system, with some risk of a lawsuit if they found out somehow.
NoahKAndrews··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
It'll be interesting to see what they do for PyCharm and IntelliJ, which already have free Community Editions. Long term, I doubt they'll want to have two types of free version that restrict usage in completely different ways, but if they kill the Community Editions, anyone using them for commercial use will have to either build from source (hopefully the end of community editions wouldn't mean the end of the open source parts), start paying, or switch to an alternative.

I'm making zero predictions about what they'll do, there's a lot of ways it could go.

NoahKAndrews··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
It's CLion, Rider, RustRover, and WebStorm, IntelliJ is not on the list.

So far they haven't muddied the waters for any versions that already had free Community Editions (IntelliJ and PyCharm). The Community Editions are more limited, but don't restrict commercial use.

NoahKAndrews··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
It seems like JetBrains may be giving up on Fleet. Honestly though, I think their established IDEs are good enough to be worth a few bugs and performance issues.
NoahKAndrews··on Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
Very cool, that definitely makes sense! I've edited my comment, apologies for that. Hopefully bringing attention to the fact that you guys are easily available for hire ends up doing more good than harm.
NoahKAndrews··on Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
Just discovered some of that myself, I'm glad everything's on the up-and-up.
NoahKAndrews··on Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
Edit: nevermind, they are in fact affiliated, and most of the core VLC devs work at VideoLabs. I've kept the original comment below.

This blog post links to the "VideoLab Store", hosted at https://videolabs.io, which prominently uses a logo extremely similar but not identical to the VLC (which stands for VideoLAN, not VideoLab) logo. Their homepage even goes as far as displaying "Hire the VLC team" as its headline.

As far as I'm aware, VideoLab has nothing to do with the VideoLAN non-profit, and it very much seems like they are intentionally trying to mislead people into thinking that they are the developers of VLC.

NoahKAndrews··on N8n is not open source and your project is gaslighting its users (2019)
The docs page Drew linked to now describes the project as "fair source", which I think is perfectly fine framing. Is this still relevant?
NoahKAndrews··on CONL: "Markdown" for your config files
The problem is when a config value includes a semicolon, and the rest of the line gets ignored unintentionally, especially because strings aren't quoted
NoahKAndrews··on Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants
See https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped for the minimums in each state
NoahKAndrews··on Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants
The $2.13 they mentioned is the minimum hourly rate the restaurant has to pay in that circumstance (federally, it varies by state)
NoahKAndrews··on People say plant-based meat tastes just as good–so why aren't they buying it?
*meat alternative
NoahKAndrews··on People say plant-based meat tastes just as good–so why aren't they buying it?
Fully agreed. Mushrooms are a much more appealing meat to me.
NoahKAndrews··on I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective
I think the vibes refer to the running software, not to the code itself. I hate the whole concept deeply.
NoahKAndrews··on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
The $10 plan has unlimited searches again.
NoahKAndrews··on Battle of the Mallocators
Ubuntu LTS releases come out every two years, so the latest one is 24.04.
NoahKAndrews··on China just approved flying taxis – no pilot needed
Airplanes already broadcast their position! It's called ADS-B.
NoahKAndrews··on Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely
It's not just that it won't crash, it means that an exploit in the unsafe code won't allow corrupting memory used by the rest of the program
NoahKAndrews··on Llama4
Nope
NoahKAndrews··on Where does air pollution come from?
The faster acceleration and tendency to be heavier do usually make EVs worse for tire pollution, which if nothing else is a really good reason not to pinch the accelerator if you own one.
NoahKAndrews··on How Silica Gel Took Over the World
If they're not getting hydrated slowly, they're not serving any purpose. The whole point is that water goes into them instead of whatever you're trying to keep dry.
NoahKAndrews··on Best Linux distro in 2025 for non-experts
Arch is not a beginner's distro.
NoahKAndrews··on Were large soda lakes the cradle of life?
I think im3w1l's response is valuable enough to be worth showing the original comment's text without reviving it entirely
NoahKAndrews··on What Is the Future of (Asahi) Linux on Apple Silicon?
Makes more sense regarding contributions. Are you using a NUC or something, or are you just referring to the CPU (and maybe GPU)?
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