Hacker News: KZerda

New comment by KZerda in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

KZerda — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:37:00 +0000

Redis started off as Free Software, but was switched to a source available license in version 7.4. The community promptly forked to Valkey, which is still under the BSD license. Since then, Redis shifted to AGPL 3, with contributor agreements, to try to ensure that they're the only ones who can attempt to commercialize Redis.

New comment by KZerda in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

KZerda — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:24:55 +0000

The BSD license made forking Valkey easier because it ensures that everyone has equal footing. The GPL, especially with contributor license agreements and the like, makes it much more easy for a single party to control the direction of the product. For another example of this happening, look at MongoDB. It started out under the AGPL, but was rugpulled to a non-free license.

New comment by KZerda in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

KZerda — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:55:18 +0000

The BSD license is why we have Valkey and not a purely closed-source Redis. It would have been much easier to perform the rugpull if Redis had initially been GPLed.

New comment by KZerda in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

KZerda — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:55:39 +0000

The valve's jammed, so they can't really pump things in or out.

New comment by KZerda in "Startup founder behind San Francisco pro-billionaire rally"

KZerda — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:40:35 +0000

I was one of the dozen or so who photographed this event. The breakdown was about a third there for the march, a third there for counterprotesting, and a third there documenting the event.

New comment by KZerda in "Crime rates of undocumented-, legal immigrants, & native-born citizens in Texas"

KZerda — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:07:55 +0000

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117#fig01 there are multiple charts and graphs

New comment by KZerda in "Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)"

KZerda — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:32:22 +0000

Yes. Offline is how a lot of rootkits are analyzed after the admin notices peculiar behavior. There are a lot of other tells that could be run online to find this rootkit though, most notably, its behavior with ftrace. Disabling ftrace, and then running a program that uses ftrace would tell right away that something's wrong.

New comment by KZerda in "Laptops with Stickers"

KZerda — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:43:09 +0000

Do you say the same about someone who has a picture of their spouse next to their computer?

New comment by KZerda in "iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline"

KZerda — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:52:57 +0000

It also helps the developers of apps that Apple can't or won't approve. Apps like ICEBlock could still work just fine using alternative app stores that have backbone.

450 Blizzard Diablo developers vote to unionize under CWA

KZerda — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:11:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/450-diablo-developers-vote-to-unionize-under-cwa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055190

Points: 5

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New comment by KZerda in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

KZerda — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:08:38 +0000

I used Linux as my daily driver for years, before finally switching back to Windows, and then to the Mac. I got tired of things like wine breaking on apps, I got tired of the half-assed replacements for software available on Windows, like GIMP compared to Photoshop. I got tired of the ugly desktop that inevitably occurs once you start needing to mix QT and GTK based apps. Linux is not a panacea.

New comment by KZerda in "Redis is open source again"

KZerda — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:46:31 +0000

A copyleft license like the AGPL didn't stop MongoDB from rugpulling. I'd argue that the AGPL, and the copyright assignment that tends to go with it, makes it easier to rugpull because forking entities would be at an extreme disadvantage in keeping the lights on compared to the closed-sourcing company. A non-copyleft license, on the other hand, makes it much easier for a forking company to cover all the same niches as the original company, making a rugpull that much more difficult.

New comment by KZerda in "Pompeii experts back Pliny's account of Mount Vesuvius eruption date"

KZerda — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 01:09:44 +0000

The bread was found in the oven of one of the bakeries[1]. It wouldn't be in the oven if the bread was from the day before.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230406-arculata-the-bre...

Artists score major win in copyright case against AI art generators

KZerda — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:43:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/artists-score-major-win-copyright-case-against-ai-art-generators-1235973601/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41259131

Points: 123

# Comments: 135

New comment by KZerda in "Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users"

KZerda — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:36:33 +0000

Demographics are used pretty heavily in market research, etc. This could be used both in targeting ads to specific people, and also in providing aggregate data to business and marketing partners -- being able to say they have approximately x 18-24s is valuable to pitching partnerships, etc.

New comment by KZerda in "HR 899: A one sentence bill to eliminate the Department of Education"

KZerda — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 04:51:49 +0000

It's grandstanding. He knows it doesn't have a chance in hell in passing, but chose to write this bill with the sole purpose of currying favor. It'll die in committee and that'll be the end of it.

New comment by KZerda in "Earthquake strikes Southern California with preliminary magnitude of 5.1"

KZerda — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:37:54 +0000

A 5.1 isn't going to do much damage in socal, especially where it was epicentered. Probably the worst is going to be knocked over liquor bottles at the supermarket. Awkward timing, but not a disaster.

New comment by KZerda in "Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu"

KZerda — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:55:08 +0000

The apps are the ecosystem. If people can't run the programs they need to actually do things with their computers, then all the technical benefits in the world are useless. It was the biggest problem 20 years ago with Linux, and is the biggest problem now.

New comment by KZerda in "Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu"

KZerda — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:56:45 +0000

Apps still work horribly in Linux. Gimp still pales to Photoshop, Lightroom's still better than Darktable, etc. Same goes for video, audio, etc.

New comment by KZerda in "NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'"

KZerda — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:12:08 +0000

Or more to the point, with how much of twitter is owned by the Saudi government?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-hol...