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ambigious7777··on Ask HN: How to license an OSS so that only commercial use is paid?
I see that MongoDB has a license, which I'm assuming is similar to the AGPL. Since companies don't want to release all their code, they also provide a Enterprise edition, which probably is under a non-copyleft license. This edition is then paid, so they make money. This also requires all PR contributors to sign a relicensing agreement.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how I'm understanding it currently.

ambigious7777··on Ask HN: How to license an OSS so that only commercial use is paid?
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant I personally don't understand to use dual-licensing, and what is does; not how dual-licensing actually does something.
ambigious7777··on Ask HN: How to license an OSS so that only commercial use is paid?
Someone mentioned[0] that this requires contributers to sign some sort of agreement. I did read somewhere that this discourages a lot of possible PRs, but if this is the only way I guess I don't have much choice then (if I want some money, that is).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39532917

ambigious7777··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
Man, the US copyright system is broken :^(
ambigious7777··on Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
This stuff is pretty similar to the Hacktoberfest incident. Well intentioned projects/events being misused.
ambigious7777··on Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
When the stuff was announced, I liked the concept of being able to just like send someone money, sort of like wiring but way easier.

What I didn't like is that only maybe 3 people out of 200 people really knew what was going on. 100 of those people were people screaming that it was good, "haters just gonna hate". 90 of those people are marketing people who use magic words[0] to say that the product is good. And the remaining 7 are clueless investors.

[0]: <https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/>

ambigious7777··on Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
I wholeheartedly agree that the problems Tea mentions do need to be solved, I maintain several large-ish OSS projects; it's not easy, takes a lot of effort.

Unfortunely, anything with crypto kinda just flops. Crypto was a decent idea, but there were too many uneducated people who didn't know what it was, and now it's turned into this dumpster fire.

I think another problem is also how no crypto project actually explains how it helps. Sure, I'm all in if I can earn some money for maintaing my OSS, but how does that work? What are the details? Literally every crypto thing just does some hand-waving and says, "don't worry 'bout it, it'll just work magically, trust me".

ambigious7777··on Shittier: Code formatting tool that makes your code look terrible
I found this while browsing the web a few days ago, exactly what you wanted :O

https://dimden.dev/beautifier/

ambigious7777··on Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting
I think you can also use Discord without an account (sort-of). If you get an invite you can use a temporary account.

From my recent expirenence though, it seems like this feature is a little broken with it requesting email verification.

ambigious7777··on Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)
I didn't see that "xor game" (probably becuase I went on vacation), would you mind linking it for me?
ambigious7777··on Mistral Large
I feel like that Mistral is removing the commitment to OSS from their branding, and their company culture in general.
ambigious7777··on Apache Superset
AFAIK YC startups don't get any more boost on the front page than normal posts.
ambigious7777··on Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game
This is a great game, one question: what does ghost mode do?
ambigious7777··on Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
There's a lot of web developers, becuase the entire development process of web is much easier compared to other platforms, including setup, debugging, and distributing. Also, with a web app you can access it from several devices, instead of just one.
ambigious7777··on Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
I can't imagine the black magic they have to do to scrape that data.
ambigious7777··on Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
I think OP just wants to have map results based off geolocation, not a full-fledged map service.
ambigious7777··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
First time I've heard Windows being more stable than MacOS, haha. I do own a Pro M2, and the experience is alright. My terminal is fine, but I also do get the crashes, and there's a lot of things that just bug me about the system.
ambigious7777··on Every default macOS wallpaper
Might it be Microsoft Bing's wallpaper[0] app?

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/bing-wallpaper

ambigious7777··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
Yes, so rather than allowing other browsers to have PWAs with a warning, they instead don't allow anyone to do it.

Allowing so may be insecure, but at least provide a way.

ambigious7777··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
I feel like that maybe Apple's ideas or innovation has begun to run dry. Now they're just trying to milk every single penny before they become a background player.
ambigious7777··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
Obviously, those considerations must be considered. However, as I said, adding a simple confirmation prompt would be plenty enough.

I think what is happening here, is that Apple is going like, "I don't get my market control, you don't get your shiny new features." Other phone platforms allow you to do things, that may be unsafe or insecure, but still plenty useful.

Also, running a PWA really isn't that unsecure/unprivate as visiting a website. They both can access and ask for the same information or permissions. Really not that different.

By your logic that PWAs are unsecure, then should iOS not support rendering webpages due to "security concerns"?

ambigious7777··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
Apple could just say something like, "This app comes from a 3rd party browser engine, and it may not be secure. Are you sure you want to install this app?". Not too much effort, but still keeping the functionality.
ambigious7777··on Ask HN: Why Are the Layoffs Happening?
Wow, this really explains a lot. Thanks!
ambigious7777··on Ask HN: Got Cloudflare Staging 'Billing Email Changed' Alert – You Too?
I have several sites using Cloudflare, nothing from them yet (I checked Spam too). Just as a security precaution, have you double checked your actual billing email on your dashboard?

Anyways, looks like that one Starbucks incident where someone (probably an intern again) sent out

  Test1 from seank
to all (most?) mobile app users.
ambigious7777··on Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)
I think the solution to this problem would be to have a indicator on your profile that say is green when you can talk, but red or gone when you can't.
ambigious7777··on Aho – a Git implementation in Awk
This is incorrect.

First of all, GitHub is a service built upon Git. There is no requirement that you need to use GitHub. And there are other options, what you call "hubs", such as GitLab or SourceHut.

Git as a VCS, has the feature to sync with other repositories elsewhere. These can be somewhere else on your computer, someone else's computer, or a server. GitHub happens to be one of those servers.

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edit: if this was sarcasm, mb

ambigious7777··on OPML is underrated
XML is such a versatile format, and I wished it was used so much more. It doesn't have exactly the cleanest syntax, but it would be so much better than JSON in some of the cases I've seen. Especially when you are transfering document-type data. Why use JSON to represent rich text, when XML is infinitely better?
ambigious7777··on ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
> What does the const line do ?

To declare variables?

> The best thing however is that it's not suppported by Google

That's the case with many things like zx.

ambigious7777··on ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
Yes, but this isn't made for general scripting. This project seems to be aimed at JavaScript projects, for example calling zx from package.json/scripts/start

If I had a JavaScript project, and I wanted to migrate my scripts away from Bash, I wouldn't pick Python. Not only would it be another language, I would also have to configure Python to run correctly, ie add it to my Docker image.

Simply installing another NPM package, rather than include an entire other language is a much better and simpler solution.

ambigious7777··on Concrete.css
water.css[0] and pico.css[1] are some of my favorite classless css libraries.

There's a full list of them here: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

[0]: https://watercss.kognise.dev/ [1]: https://picocss.com/

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