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ilariel··on Defold: cross-platform game engine
At least they mention that it is source-available, but they still mix "open source" into the mix on their site.

It is a really nice and fair source-available license and there should be more of this, but a license like theirs also restricts what kind of software you can make in a rather harsh way.

Since you can't commercialise game engine products and they are defined in a broad way. You could land in legal issues. Game engine products are defined in the license as:

“Game Engine Product” shall mean software used for video game development. This includes both the content authoring software and the software used to show the created content.

IANAL, but map editors, modding tools and many other kind of tools that can be used for developing video games could be in violation of the license.

Since meaning of "commercialise" isn't being defined or narrowed in the license small creators using Patreon or the like while asking donations could be classified as a violation too.

ilariel··on Combian 64 – Boot Your Raspberry Pi to C64
I'm not a lawyer, but it sort of seems like the author is breaching licenses for multiple GPL and LGPL licensed software with his "Terms of use and distribution."
ilariel··on Ask HN: Bitter-Free Coffee
I hope someone more knowledgeable also answers, but you could for example try lighter roasts and reducing the amount of coffee to water ratio (You might be using too much grounds).
ilariel··on On Apple's 30% App Store Commission
The whole problem is that you CANNOT effectively serve your application which requires native functionality outside the App Store. So this causes Apple to act as a gatekeeper that can also act as your competitor who can offer lower prices, abuse their market power and/or use features on the device which you cannot. If there was an official way to sideload applications/storefronts on a normal consumers device in a way that isn't hostile towards alternative sources there would be no issue with this. (Android has the problem with hostility towards alternative sources)