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keikobadthebadon WordPress: Joost/Karim Fork

> None of the banned people mentioned a fork

Steady on, at least one of them wrote a big blog post on his own site Dec 20 basically prematurely accepting the honour.

https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/

I can imagine the excessive smugness there about 'taking back the commons' triggered the purge.

keikobadthebadon Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress

Bro, you did read the article you are commenting on, right?

keikobadthebadon WordPress: Joost/Karim Fork

Reading it I'm not sure if this is just a unilateral communist-style purge or an actual fork launch (or both). Here's hoping the fork gets off the ground and removes most of the pressure creating this nastiness that isn't helping anyone.

Just pointing out with gpl forks, if egos will allow it, code can be shared both ways. That's much easier if bridges are still standing.

keikobadthebadon Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress

The guy is refusing to spend money on what you think is in "the [best] interests of wordpress users", presumably that is what you think is in your interests, and you're complaining about that.

It's a gpl project, if the people complaining about how it is maintained care, they are granted the right to step up and do something about it. For example fork it, either wholesale or a light version with things you don't like stripped.

Collectively, users have these rights. I don't think they have any right to expect the guys doing to work to do it for them, or even give the time of day to some leech-only "community" that shows no gratitude or useful contribution, just demands and entitlement, and doing as much as possible to blacken the name of the guy producing the work they are relying on.

keikobadthebadon Photographing Art

Correct link: https://zedshaw.com/blog/2017-12-30-photographing-art/

keikobadthebadon Returning to Office Is Great and Everyone Should Do It

Article itself actually hates rto, and the author found > 60% - that's 3 days a week - untenable.

keikobadthebadon Embedded TLS Library for Applications, Devices, and the Cloud

See first, mbedtls and openssl with $0 FOSS licensing. Wolfssl needs a 'commercial license' to ship it in a proprietary product:

> Businesses and enterprises who wish to incorporate wolfSSL products into proprietary appliances or other commercial software products for re-distribution must license commercial versions. Commercial licenses for wolfSSL, and wolfCrypt are available for $7,000 USD per end product or SKU. Licenses are generally issued for one product and include unlimited royalty-free distribution. Custom licensing terms are also available.

https://www.wolfssl.com/license/

keikobadthebadon A vision for a new WordPress era

No argumentation, just downvotes... as I said, seems a lot of people bringing out their worst.

keikobadthebadon A vision for a new WordPress era

Really seems a lot of people bringing out their worst.

If you want to fork it, fork it, leave the wordpress name and trademarks, do your better thing. Just drop anything that belongs to someone else who has no reason to join this effort.

Is it really a better thing to have a 'board' to direct FOSS activity? Yeah? You've thought that through...?

keikobadthebadon Mullenweg Pauses WordPress Services – Hopes to Reopen Next Year

It sounds like with the surprise ruling to force service provision to wpe, and this response, there's little desire to be the free provider of dev infrastructure on the part of wp any more. Which is understandable if you're being compelled to do it.

AIUI the compulsion is just to leave things as they were while the case proceeds, I hope the judge has better criteria for understanding the situation than brought out at the summary judgement.

keikobadthebadon Britain's bright and ambitious are running out of reasons to stay

If only the torygraph could put the sackcloth and ashes down long enough to use data to contrast the same metrics under tory and labour.

keikobadthebadon Tell HN: Tonic (.to registrar) took away my domain without notice

... why write on HN about it? What do you think the people here can or will do? There's an endless trickle of these kind of posts, I have never seen one with a resolution that satisfied the OP.

keikobadthebadon Ask HN: Asking for implementable advice for taking ownership of Software Product

The only way in this situation (which sounds like private capital took it over to run it into the ground taking the last profits) would seem to be 'up your game' by moving to a new company.

Then 'the system' is not your problem.

keikobadthebadon How to Scare Your Contributors Away: A Veteran's View on the WordPress Turmoil

The article seems to gloss that WP is made available under GPL2+. What's the point attacking Automattic for making money when they fund the core development and make it available to everyone? It's even still available to WP Engine, the lawsuit is about trademark usage, not copyright.

From the perspective of GPL distribution rights, what exactly from Automattic 'scares [your] contributors away'?

The article says you stopped contributing because you weren't getting paid and it's demotivating to see Automattic were making money and yourself not. That's certainly understandable, but it's the same as, eg, linux kernel work. Huge numbers of devs are well-paid to contribute by companies and other devs not. You do have the option to try to get a gig being paid, as well as the option to stop or continue unpaid contribution. But it's not really valid to blame either project if some can make money from it.

keikobadthebadon Let's not Encrypt

> Update 2023-11-05 Yeah, I've got an LE cert now. And I don't want to talk about it.

You can still get paid certs, but the max validity period is shrinking, to 45 days in 2027 https://blog.nameshield.com/blog/2024/10/17/ssl-tls-certific...

keikobadthebadon WordPress Engine and Trademarks

From Sept 26

keikobadthebadon WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim

It's hard to square 'antitrust' with continued availability to use and ship stuff based on GPL core code, and continued right to fork and do their own development.

Trademark rights are real and separate from copyright, it's also hard to see the judge being impressed with posturing about it.

It all feels like a code of conduct situation, the project unilaterally decided they won't work with an individual any more and withdrew credentials for working together. WPE's position is Automattic just can't do that to them, perhaps doesn't have the right to cancel anyone, 'cos antitrust. I guess we will all find out.

keikobadthebadon WordPress's Automattic openly tracks websites bailing from rival WP Engine

That site has a count of sites moved off WP Engine (currently 17K) and a graph showing the total rising over time. And some JS highlighting individual sites. So it obviously is recording sites that moved off WP Engine.

It looks like they have a list of ones not moved from them too... that doesn't change the fact they are recording the ones that moved. Either list... how is it 'anticompetitive'? If they moved, they moved; if they didn't, they didn't.

keikobadthebadon WordPress's Automattic openly tracks websites bailing from rival WP Engine

https://wordpressenginetracker.com/

... they seem to be recording sites that already moved from WP Engine... how is it 'anticompetitive' exactly?

keikobadthebadon Vance: US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Musk platforms

Shouldn't you deploy your grasp of young generation vernacular against the VP-elect who miserably failed to tell his 'cool story'?

keikobadthebadon Vance: US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Musk platforms

> I forget who it was

OK bro

keikobadthebadon Using WordPress Is Risky

There are two separate, distinct, things here.

Are you 'justified' to decide to use your granted rights to step up and do something about what's bothering you? Yes. If you have enough energy, you can fork and gather people behind your version, to the point the original folds. Of course, you'll have to have a meaningfully different strategy about withdrawl of development services, otherwise no point. It's absolutely open to you to walk that walk.

Are you 'justified' in complaining you are no longer getting free services from a project you leeched? No. It's not even useful to you to do so.

keikobadthebadon Ask HN: GitHub shadowbans accounts for no reason now?

I had a thing where github for some reason no longer accepted my email was trusted for the github account. It required setting the email again and going through the validation again.

Then it started talking to me as usual.

Not sure if your prob, but worth trying.

keikobadthebadon Using WordPress Is Risky

What do you think happens if it's decided (by the service provider) you or your company failed to abide by a code of conduct... your access to the services are revoked.

It seems right to say if access to what the free service does is important to you, you should take steps to make your own arrangements to ensure it can't disappear arbitrarily. And not, eg, leech off free, revocable, provision and then complain your freebie went away.

keikobadthebadon Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake

> It will be tapped out [sic] in 2025

So... won't exist until end 2025 and suffer yield difficulties. Nobody can test it. It doesn't sound like it's on the top 10 of Intel's problems even.

keikobadthebadon Ubuntu Rockchip Project Notice

Looks like a lot of work, basically it's the unsupported bsp pieces on all the different physical platforms, on Ubuntu.

This is a very thankless task if the board vendors (who will have access to Rockchip support) won't help either.

When there are a lot of different platforms, it's very easy to get your energy drained simply by an endless parade of small things, without getting to the point of completely solving anything. And there is no payoff since the vendors and rockchip lock up any profit.

keikobadthebadon Ask HN: What happens if you die, but your SaaS still run?

If it's something other than a static site, most likely the platform it is on will go eol and no hands left to keep it alive.

keikobadthebadon The EU Throws a Hand Grenade on Software Liability

Today it really boils down to the buyer accepts the work (usually work done in the period) as reasonable and pays for it, or not. Sometimes there are contractual requirements to make good on bugs afterwards on your own time. But often the hirer accepts the risk of bugs needing solving.

This sounds like there might be extra requirements for an unending? unspecified? period, I don't see how anyone can make a living if so.

keikobadthebadon The EU Throws a Hand Grenade on Software Liability

But in FOSS the original project is not under any requirement to care, and may use a license that explicitly disclaims caring.

Maybe it means the original project will get forked (or perhaps helped) if it doesn't take care of everything itself.

keikobadthebadon The EU Throws a Hand Grenade on Software Liability

It's possible... but if it's open-ended what you're supposed to solve (eg, "security") it seems hard to be confident you won't be run into the ground trying to satisfy unlimited demands.