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lauretas

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lauretas··on Show HN: Minimal build system using just /bin/sh
"notabug.org"... interesting.

Anyway, how does this compare, features-wise, with GNU Make? For example with make you have `./configure` files, do I also have them here?

lauretas··on Show HN: Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor
License?
lauretas··on Show HN: Anonymous Discussion Platform For Any Topic (think Reddit meets Slack)
If they advertise a software as an "Anonymous Discussion Platform", the minimum standard that I think of is a P2P network built on top of GNUnet, Tor, or other similar networks.
lauretas··on Show HN: Anonymous Discussion Platform For Any Topic (think Reddit meets Slack)
What does "anonymous" mean in this context? Simply because I get to post a message without registering a nickname, it doesn't mean I'm anonymous...
lauretas··on Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
RSS, email subscriptions (mailing lists), and content aggregators for specific topics like HN or www.freepo.st

I used to read reddit years ago, but nowadays it's just too much noise and bad content (even the slower subreddits).

lauretas··on Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia
I think the idea behind the new "WebExtensions" is precisely "write once - run everywhere". But I don't know if this add-on is one of them.
lauretas··on Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia
How does this work? Where does the audio come from? Does it use some database of recorded IPA sounds, or does it convert from text to speech on the fly?
lauretas··on Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia
Is this add-on also available for Firefox?
lauretas··on So long, farewell and goodbye
[The reply](https://freepo.st/post/xeipt6x9xu#comment-5l6f7qdlfk).
lauretas··on MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
Looks like GraphBrainz stands for "MusicBrainz + GraphQL". Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with RDF.
lauretas··on Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database
But it's not a "native" store. It's just a layer on top of other RDBMSes.
lauretas··on MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
What about http://linkedbrainz.org ? Is it a dead project?
lauretas··on Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database
According to [this page](https://neo4j.com/editions/) it's not. In fact, they are restricting important functionalities to their Enterprise Edition exclusively. Which means, the codebase is not the same.
lauretas··on Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database
So, are you saying that Neo4j is 100% free as in "100% AGPL, otherwise Commercial License if you don't want to use the AGPL"? In other words, the code is exactly the same, only with a different license?
lauretas··on Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database
I agree. This is not the point though, nor what I said.
lauretas··on Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database
The Enterprise Edition is not AGPL. It's under one of "Neo4j Commercial License", "Neo4j Evaluation License", "Neo4j Educational License", or "Fair Trade Licensing". In other words it's not free. Why would I want to use the "Community Edition" of a company whose interest is to force me into buying their Enterprise Edition? The more people use this "Community Edition", and the more they are encouraged to force their "Enterprise Edition" under my throat, because "it will be easier to buy a proprietary plugin than change database". They are already restricting the use of important features such as "Unlimited graph size", "Database storage reallocation", "Schema constraints", "Runtime to accelerate common queries", "Role-based security", "Kerberos Security", "Load balancing", etc. Why would I want to get into this?! I'd rather spend my time learning and contributing to Jena or Janus than a bait "Community Edition".
lauretas··on Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database
There isn't a lot of competition in the "free/libre database" market though. The only serious players are Jena/Fuseki (an RDF store) and Janus (a graph store).
lauretas··on A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab
No you're not the only one :) I quote 100% what you said. Also I think you don't hear much complaints simply because people quit GitLab once they try it and just move to GitHub instead (or something else for self hosting).
lauretas··on PostgREST – A fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database
Is there anything like this for SPARQL endpoints?
lauretas··on Show HN: Discopedia
Where do you get the data from?
lauretas··on New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-source works
> I'll move on to things like GitLab or IPFS for transmitting projects I'm working on.

Or NotABug (https://notabug.org) which is a lot more friendlier toward open source projects. IPFS sounds good, I'd love to see something P2P in this space, but nothing P2P seems to be mature enough.