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New comment by Drdrdrq in "Google will soon ask Australian users to show ID to view some content"

Drdrdrq — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 20:26:13 +0000

First of all, I said privacy, not security. Huge difference.

That aside, I am not advocating for less choice, merely observing that in many cases users willingly give up their privacy (or other rights) for convenience. Your reaction to my observation actually proves my point.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Google will soon ask Australian users to show ID to view some content"

Drdrdrq — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:49:13 +0000

Convenience is often the biggest enemy of privacy.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Ask HN: Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?"

Drdrdrq — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:11:03 +0000

IIUC, you live sw development but you took the job you hate just because it is at FAANG? If I may ask, why would you want to be there and nowhere else? Asking because there are quite a few great jobs around for devs, so the decision seems pretty weird to me, which probably means I am missing something... :)

New comment by Drdrdrq in "On the Weaponisation of Open Source"

Drdrdrq — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:31:31 +0000

That's a nice idea, thank you! No more worrying about node versions either.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "On the Weaponisation of Open Source"

Drdrdrq — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:29:17 +0000

It is also awesome, easy to use and very convenient. If you are configuring anything through AWS web GUI, you should give Terraform a go, you won't regret it.

(not affiliated in any way, just a happy user)

New comment by Drdrdrq in "The Open Source Initiative Did Not Win Neo4j vs. PureThink"

Drdrdrq — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 06:58:23 +0000

What did they change the license to? If you have some examples, I would be curious to see how they handled that.

I was under the impression that it was Commons Clause that people started avoiding in favor of other "cloud protection licenses", both to avoid possible confusion and because Commons Clause got visceral reactions from some members of FLOSS community. Unfortunately, other similar licenses are less recognizable. The whole point of generic licenses is that they should be well known, widely used, and the legal departments already know their tradeoffs. If each company writes their own license then this makes it difficult for other companies to use their software, because legal departments need to check every license separately.

Is there a generic license that is the same (in spirit) as Apache + Commons Clause?

New comment by Drdrdrq in "How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M"

Drdrdrq — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 22:04:13 +0000

That wouldn't help much - there would still be neighbors bordering your (now bigger) property, just further away. You need to buy an island instead.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Ask HN: What is your Git commit/push flow?"

Drdrdrq — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:10:43 +0000

I try to make clean commits that do one thing only. If I have trouble writing a meaningful commit message, it means I have failed and should do a better job next time.

That said, I often make a messy "wip" commit that I push to my branch, just so that the work doesn't get lost. But I always undo such a commit and clean it up.

Also, I always use git add -p, so that I can break changes into multiple meaningful commits and review them one more time before pushing.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "SNMP Is Dead (2018) [video]"

Drdrdrq — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:56:29 +0000

So, 4 years later, and SNMP is still alive and well. It has (a lot of) rough edges, but it works, is ubiquitous and all sysadmins know how to work with it. Not even such a bad standard once you get used to it. I can't imagine anyone running a (smallish, not G-size) corporate network without it.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "SNMP Is Dead (2018) [video]"

Drdrdrq — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:50:38 +0000

So, like... SNMP Traps? :-)

New comment by Drdrdrq in "SNMP Is Dead (2018) [video]"

Drdrdrq — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:48:40 +0000

If using netsnmp, it will work without problems, always (in my experience). Anything that doesn't work exactly the same (bugs and all) - good luck. The reason is that everyone seems to use netsnmp when developing, and when it works, the work is done. Doesn't work elsewhere? Yeah, that's too bad.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "How our free plan stays free"

Drdrdrq — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:01:43 +0000

Thank you for providing such a great service! Especially love the fact that exporting to PNG allows embedding the diagram data into the image, so it can be still edited later. Genius idea and implementation!

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually"

Drdrdrq — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:10:20 +0000

Thank you for the link to your repo, this it the first time I heard about length extension atracks. TIL, appreciate it! This SO answer explains them nicely, if anyone is curious: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/3978/understandin...

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Can a $310M startup avoid due diligence?"

Drdrdrq — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:03:04 +0000

For the uninitiated, what happens in this scenario? Does the deal fall through, do the other investors need to cover for the missing party,...?

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Inkscape 1.1.2"

Drdrdrq — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 21:42:47 +0000

Sounds like a great idea to create a UI/UX fork of Gimp, I would love to use it or even contribute. Not sure if you can build a community around it, but if you succeed, either your fork leads the way, or core Gimp ups their game - both of which are great options.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Inkscape 1.1.2"

Drdrdrq — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 21:36:33 +0000

New contributors are actually in a much better position to judge UI/UX because they are not used to all the idiosyncrasies of the software yet.

I have used Gimp regularly and still like it, but it is... different, and not in a good way.

The fiasco that is exporting / saving for example, clearly shows that core developers don't care about users much. Which is fine, but it is a shame. I have stopped recommending Gimp some time ago.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?"

Drdrdrq — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:19:57 +0000

> The US government will never let its housing market fail,...

Maybe I'm totally missing your point, but didn't exactly this happen in 2008?

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?"

Drdrdrq — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:38:27 +0000

Really? For me it was the perfect way to stop asking this person for advice.

New comment by Drdrdrq in "Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?"

Drdrdrq — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:27:14 +0000

+1 on health, but especially fitness. There is no health without it. In last few years it was all too easy to stop doing sports, but there should be less excuse now. If you are afraid of getting infected, go outdoor!

New comment by Drdrdrq in "GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful"

Drdrdrq — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:16:41 +0000

My not-yet-completely-cynical take is that EU still puts people before corporations, so we still have a chance to win. Fingers crossed.