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ensignavenger

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ensignavenger··on Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis
The poster said proper garbage collection, not recycling. Recycling may or may not be part of the disposal picture, but properly containing the plastic in a properly managed landfill is also a perfectly acceptable solution.
ensignavenger··on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
Fat fingered fax... faxes, not faces!
ensignavenger··on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
Email may not be secure, but neither are faces and phones, and yet medical professionals use those all the time.
ensignavenger··on GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders
How do you download the games? I tried logging in to download cyberpunk which I purchased on gog, and they wanted me to download tons of files individually! I couldn't even just click a "download all" button.
ensignavenger··on Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups
If there were competition for App Stores, we could discover what the correct market price for App Stores is, but Apple doesn't want that.
ensignavenger··on Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups
If you think 3% is too much, there are plenty of other payment processors... the thing is, most of that 3% is not set by the processor (or kept by them) but is set by the card networks. It is the card networks that should be targeted by antitrust laws.

If there anyone could make an App Store, then we would have a better idea of what the market rate for app stores should be.

ensignavenger··on Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer
Were you using v2?

Pydantic docs do clearly state that multple levels of nesting of Pydantic objects can make it much slower, so it isn't particularly surprising that such models were slow.

ensignavenger··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
It is possible that 7 figure number included the offer to join Google, and since this engineer didn't accept that offer, they would not have recieved the compensation for doing so. It sounds like Garry Yan was getting his information second hand, so it may not include all of the context.
ensignavenger··on Let me pay for Firefox
What do you mean by "pulling another Rust Foundation"?
ensignavenger··on Let me pay for Firefox
The Linux Foundation also runs several other projects, none of which do I see being ran terribly poorly from a corporate meddling point. I can only hope that is a strong signal of things to come.
ensignavenger··on Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model
The OSD does not allow for discrimination:

"The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons."

"The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

By having a clause that discriminates based on revenue, it cannot be Open Source.

If they had required everyone to provide attribution in the same manner, then we would have to examine the specifics of the attribution requirement to determine if it is compatible... but since they discriminate, it violates the open source definition, and no further analysis is necessary.

ensignavenger··on Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver
I had a Vizio tv that just gave up the ghost on me. The remote had a full keyboard on the back! Best remote I have ever had. It ran the Yahoo connected TV platform. It was fantastic. (except the whole vizio spying on its customers thing... but the hardware and YTV platform were great!)
ensignavenger··on Denmark Is Switching to Linux
Thats not what international law is, and the US isn't part of the ICC treaty.
ensignavenger··on Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court
Oh look, the NYT got a picture to spin their yarn! Maybe watch the NYTs own video clip just below it?
ensignavenger··on Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court
Perhaps, but the comment I was replying to was claiming "not wearing uniforms" which isn't what was going on. I have no idea if badges were displayed at any point, but this was a federal courthouse, one would hope that they would be asking for identification. It should also be noted that according to the article, NYPD was present at the time.

I don't think, given the facts I currently have, that claiming he didn't know they were real ICE agents is going to hold much water.

ensignavenger··on Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court
They were wearing uniforms, I watched the video. Badges were not clearly visible in the video, but they certainly had uniforms.
ensignavenger··on Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?
I don't think the pandemic was a good measure of the impact UBI would have. People were being laid off before the payments started. There were certainly those who quit or decided not to work as a result. And there was a lot of inflation. But it is hard to draw any conclusions from the random panicked temporary approach vs a more well thought out implementation.
ensignavenger··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
I can't speak for others, but it is absolutely true for me. If I spend $1-3 on some item of food and it is so bad I can't or don't want to even eat it- it is pretty bad... and I am incredibly bummed out over it.
ensignavenger··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
The AGPL won't prevent anyone from adding some subscription plan, hosting it, and advertising it. It does require them to license derivative works under the AGPL.

There are many different goals for developing software, and different ways to make money doing it. The AGPL can be useful for some of them, but can be rather limiting too.

ensignavenger··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
Generally speaking, yes, you can immediately deduct the non depreciated value. Most machines will be scraped, giving them a "scrape value". You would immediately deduct the difference.

In fact, sometimes when you dispose of an asset, you get more for the scrape than you have left in depreciation- and you have to take that difference as a profit.

ensignavenger··on My first attempt at iOS app development
Reg B... Will they? From what almost everyone I have heard from says, most of their users come thru their own marketing efforts, not Apples.
ensignavenger··on My first attempt at iOS app development
At 3 days to develop, the author could make 100 of these apps a year. Of course, they will probably spend additional time developing and fixing bugs, IF the app gets any traction. And if it becomes something more substantial, they could up the price or release a preium in app purchase to upgrade with new features.
ensignavenger··on Rents fall in most U.S. metros since 2023, demand struggles to match supply
Sure... if you could actually find something to rent, as the article makes clear.
ensignavenger··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
Thank you, that helps understand the wider picture. However, article 48 only to deal with transfers and disclosures, not with storage and retention.
ensignavenger··on Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
I did a test in the app, and it is pretty obvious you are posting the chat. You click share, then you are given a preview, and you have to hit post to actually post it publicly.
ensignavenger··on Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
I did a test to see how it works, the app make it pretty clear. You click share, it then shows you a preview of exactly what you are posting, and you have to hit a post button to actually post it.
ensignavenger··on Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
Seems odd to me, I use the app and it has never once nudged me to share anything?
ensignavenger··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
Do you have a refference for where the GDPR limits it to only EU law compliance?
ensignavenger··on Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
FerretDB looks like a great alternative, thanks! I'll be keeping Ferret and ClickStack on my radar!
ensignavenger··on Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
Really interesting, Unfortunately, it looks like HyperDX depends on Mongo? I wonder if there are any open source document stores (possibly a mongo compatible one)( that could work with it?
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