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rustc··on Gumroad’s source is available
The founder of Gumroad is claiming that [1].

> 14 years ago, Gumroad launched

> Today, Gumroad goes open-source

[1]: https://x.com/shl/status/1908090697984426227

rustc··on Gumroad’s source is available
There's no guarantee that a commercial license will be available at a reasonable fee, or available at all. You'll have nothing to negotiate with because the alternative is to rewrite or shut down immediately.
rustc··on Gumroad’s source is available
It's risky if you have any chance of ever crossing $1M in company revenue because the license will terminate as soon as you reach that and you'll have to rewrite everything.

> The licensor grants you a copyright license for the software to do everything you might do with the software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright, but only as long as you meet all the conditions below.

> You may use the software under this license only if (1) your company has less than 1 million USD (2024) total revenue in the prior tax year, and less than 10 million USD (2024) GMV (Gross Merchandise Value), or (2) you are a non-profit organization or government entity.

rustc··on Gumroad’s source is available
It would be a bad idea to read any of this code if you're working on a competitor based on the license terms.
rustc··on Gumroad’s source is available
And at that point they can ask for anything because the alternative would be rewriting all your code.
rustc··on Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model
Reproducing the whole benchmark would be expensive, OmniAi starts at $250/month.
rustc··on Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model
The model with the best accuracy in the linked benchmark is "OmniAI" (OP's company) which looks like a paid model, not open source [1].

[1]: https://getomni.ai/pricing

rustc··on Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta
> they seem to intend to Embrace Extend Extinguish

What makes you think that? Limbo is MIT licensed and I don't see any CLA on [1].

[1]: https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/blob/main/CONTRIBUTIN...

rustc··on Free Output – AI output copyright status checker
What's the practical use of this? The AI doesn't know if the output is sufficiently different from the training material. If the output you get matches pre existing content, the license these AI companies give you won't save you.
rustc··on Show HN: An open source alternative to Wakatime
So this uses https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli under the hood. Is there any way to make wakatime-cli store all data locally in a file (like sqlite or csv)?
rustc··on Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent
So if I release an app on the Play Store I have to support it forever? That sounds unreasonable.
rustc··on Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent
> I asked them to delete my app. They said no.

Does the Play Store not allow deleting apps? What reason did they give?

rustc··on Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Removing elements that match `[hidden], [aria-hidden]` is the most trivial cleanup transform a crawler can do and I'm sure most crawlers already do that.
rustc··on Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it
LeetCode questions. They often give the memorized LeetCode answer even if you slightly modify a question so it has a different correct answer.
rustc··on Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
This would be terrible for accessibility for users using a screen reader.
rustc··on European Cloud, Global Reach
I wouldn't call pointing straight up lies as "nit picking".

This is from their FAQ: https://upcloud.com/products/zero-cost-egress

> What exactly does zero-cost egress mean?

> We are eliminating any concerns over data transfer fees. This means you’ll enjoy Internet traffic from our cloud services without any fear of accumulating costs.

> How does this differentiate UpCloud from competitors?

> By pioneering the zero-cost egress model, we’re not just changing the game for UpCloud; we’re challenging the entire cloud industry to reevaluate their pricing models and spearhead the industry towards predictable budgeting on cloud computing costs.

While the actual bandwidth limit (https://upcloud.com/fair-transfer-policy) is the same as DigitalOcean and at least an order of magnitude lower than other EU providers like OVH and Hetzner.

rustc··on European Cloud, Global Reach
Why not just say that 1TB is free and the rest is chargeable? The only reason to use "zero cost" every time and then hide the limits behind accordions is to mislead.
rustc··on European Cloud, Global Reach
The prices mentioned in the top comment are for a Hetzner VPS. A dedicated server (bare metal) on Hetzner with the same specs costs a fraction of that price.
rustc··on European Cloud, Global Reach
This is a strange page: https://upcloud.com/products/zero-cost-egress

There's "zero cost egress" mentioned all over the page but the limits on https://upcloud.com/fair-transfer-policy are comparable to other hosts like DigitalOcean: the cheapest 7 EUR VPS has a limit of 1TB of bandwidth. (For comparison, Hetzner offers 20TB on their EU VPS for under $5.)

> Say goodbye to unpredictable egress costs and hello to our zero egress fee initiative. Unlike other cloud providers, we don’t charge for outbound traffic (‘egress’). This gives you the freedom to distribute your content and scale your business without the constant worry of unexpected bills.

This has to be a joke.

rustc··on European Cloud, Global Reach
And they're also loading a script from googletagmanager.com.
rustc··on Claude can now search the web
What kind of results does Kagi give for "What rice cooker should I buy?"? (Not asking you specifically, but if any Kagi user could compare.)
rustc··on Claude can now search the web
The WAF rule matches based on the user agent header? Perplexity is known to use generic browser user agents to bypass that.
rustc··on Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
Can you post a link to the JSON file?

Try this (the placement of FROM was incorrect):

    ch "WITH arrayJoin(features) AS f SELECT f.properties.SitusCity FROM 'a.json' WHERE f.properties.TotalNetValue < 193000"
rustc··on GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price
> but they've been working around that anyway in practice

Working around how?

rustc··on Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours
From https://bunny.net/gdpr:

> How does bunny.net comply with GDPR?

> bunny.net is fully committed to complying with the GDPR. We have overhauled our user Privacy & Data policy and taken steps to ensure no personally identifiable data is stored from your users that access your services through bunny.net by anonymizing any data that could be used to directly or indirectly identify a user. [..]

Looks like they share personal data of Bunny customers but not the users of the customer's services.

rustc··on Go European: Discover European products and services
> Despite Plausible's claim of not requiring cookie banners, their processing still accesses data from the terminal equipment.

Since Plausible is selling a product that clearly claims this, who is on the hook in case a user of Plausible gets a fine?

rustc··on YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month
Oops, I meant disabling MV2 extensions. Unfortunately my comment is not editable anymore.
rustc··on YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month
They recently started disabling MV3 extensions automatically but you can still enable them back in Developer Mode (probably for a few more months until the code is fully dropped). On my machine they were disabled about 3-4 days ago.
rustc··on YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month
Can't YouTube change the ad serving domain every day making all MV3 ad block extensions useless (because of the hardcoded list + review delay)?
rustc··on Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data
GDPR does, but I was only pointing out that this scenario, as presented by my parent comment, is not normal:

> "hey, I need to collect data from your system, and said data will be shared with everyone else publicly in our bug tracker"

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