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tskguaranteeon Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

Adafruit sells a $15 board to let you use spi, i2c and gpio over USB. It also has their connector for easy i2c expansion with their family of sensors and breakouts.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264

tskguaranteeon The EU proposed CRA law may have unintended consequence for the Python ecosystem

I find it interesting that the EU does not define "free and open-source software" in either of the proposals. I think they need to define the terms as used. There isn't complete agreement in the software world as what that applies to. For example MongoDB and the SSPL license.

tskguaranteeon Ask HN: Is there a reason every language comes with it's own package manager?

Maybe this doesn't matter as much as I think it does, but a lot of languages have duplicate tooling because developers who make and work in a language want to write their tools in the same language.

As a fan of Eclipse at one time, I feel like the non-Java plugins always suffered because the developers didn't know or didn't want to work in Java.

tskguaranteeon We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult

Maybe this will be unpopular, but Hell is not that bad of a place. In my opinion, Hell is exactly what many people on earth are asking for.

Many people I know who dislike religion say that if there is a god, they wish he would leave them alone. They want to live in a world where god does not exist.

This is what Hell is. Hell is simply a place where god is not, completely separate from god and his influence.

The reason Christianity describes Hell as a place of suffering is because god is the sole source of good in the universe. So Hell, a place without god, is a place without any good.

tskguaranteeon Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

Ink from Inkle[0] can output to JSON. It has a Unity integration and I have used the JSON format in a custom game engine. Their editor (inky) makes it easy to play through the story as you write it. I used it for NPC dialogs for game.

[0]https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

tskguaranteeon Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

Appears to have been flagged by google. Links are show Deceptive Site warning in Google Chrome on Android due to possible Phishing.

tskguaranteeon Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

Microsoft does. OneDrive for storage, Outlook webapps does email and calendar. Office online has Word, Excel, etc. All accessed with one Microsoft account. All free.

You might not want to be tied to Microsoft but Google is not the only option.

Edit: Overlooked the comment about Apps. Microsoft offers apps for mobile, but not Linux. Although even on Windows I use the browser to access the services which will work on Linux.

tskguaranteeon Ask HN: ZOS/Cobol Development in Canada?

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