Hacker News: NoahKAndrews

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently"

NoahKAndrews — Sun, 11 May 2025 20:07:57 +0000

OPNsense defaults to Unbound

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)"

NoahKAndrews — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:17:31 +0000

The Bible is notoriously difficult to interpret, and depends on massive amounts of ancient cultural context. Trusting that to ChatGPT or even asserting that you absolutely have found the one correct interpretation is wild (even as someone who does not believe the Bible is special beyond its cultural influence).

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions"

NoahKAndrews — Sat, 10 May 2025 01:47:41 +0000

A few examples focusing on climate change, which I hope we can all agree is extremely critical.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/climate-disasters-th...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/trump-admin-may-be-t...

https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-contracts-seattle-la... (damage is being done even when programs aren't explicitly cancelled)

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "The Linux Kernel's PGP Web of Trust"

NoahKAndrews — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:37:03 +0000

It's not like that's even a common mistake, in my experience

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "More people are getting tattoos removed"

NoahKAndrews — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:53:39 +0000

Do you disagree with that?

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "Void: Open-source Cursor alternative"

NoahKAndrews — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:58:10 +0000

AppImageLauncher improves the AppImage experience a lot, including making sure they get added to the menu. I'm not sure if it makes launching without the sandbox easier or not.

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

NoahKAndrews — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:18:03 +0000

As far as I know the commercial use restriction is pretty much entirely the honor system, with some risk of a lawsuit if they found out somehow.

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

NoahKAndrews — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:14:35 +0000

It'll be interesting to see what they do for PyCharm and IntelliJ, which already have free Community Editions. Long term, I doubt they'll want to have two types of free version that restrict usage in completely different ways, but if they kill the Community Editions, anyone using them for commercial use will have to either build from source (hopefully the end of community editions wouldn't mean the end of the open source parts), start paying, or switch to an alternative.

I'm making zero predictions about what they'll do, there's a lot of ways it could go.

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

NoahKAndrews — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:10:24 +0000

It's CLion, Rider, RustRover, and WebStorm, IntelliJ is not on the list.

So far they haven't muddied the waters for any versions that already had free Community Editions (IntelliJ and PyCharm). The Community Editions are more limited, but don't restrict commercial use.

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

NoahKAndrews — Wed, 07 May 2025 17:07:02 +0000

It seems like JetBrains may be giving up on Fleet. Honestly though, I think their established IDEs are good enough to be worth a few bugs and performance issues.

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC"

NoahKAndrews — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:00:39 +0000

Very cool, that definitely makes sense! I've edited my comment, apologies for that. Hopefully bringing attention to the fact that you guys are easily available for hire ends up doing more good than harm.

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC"

NoahKAndrews — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:53:50 +0000

Just discovered some of that myself, I'm glad everything's on the up-and-up.

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC"

NoahKAndrews — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:45:01 +0000

Edit: nevermind, they are in fact affiliated, and most of the core VLC devs work at VideoLabs. I've kept the original comment below.

This blog post links to the "VideoLab Store", hosted at https://videolabs.io, which prominently uses a logo extremely similar but not identical to the VLC (which stands for VideoLAN, not VideoLab) logo. Their homepage even goes as far as displaying "Hire the VLC team" as its headline.

As far as I'm aware, VideoLab has nothing to do with the VideoLAN non-profit, and it very much seems like they are intentionally trying to mislead people into thinking that they are the developers of VLC.

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "N8n is not open source and your project is gaslighting its users (2019)"

NoahKAndrews — Mon, 05 May 2025 15:47:12 +0000

The docs page Drew linked to now describes the project as "fair source", which I think is perfectly fine framing. Is this still relevant?

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "CONL: "Markdown" for your config files"

NoahKAndrews — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:26:27 +0000

The problem is when a config value includes a semicolon, and the rest of the line gets ignored unintentionally, especially because strings aren't quoted

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants"

NoahKAndrews — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:40:12 +0000

See https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped for the minimums in each state

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants"

NoahKAndrews — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:38:47 +0000

The $2.13 they mentioned is the minimum hourly rate the restaurant has to pay in that circumstance (federally, it varies by state)

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "People say plant-based meat tastes just as good–so why aren't they buying it?"

NoahKAndrews — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:22:25 +0000

*meat alternative

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "People say plant-based meat tastes just as good–so why aren't they buying it?"

NoahKAndrews — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:20:06 +0000

Fully agreed. Mushrooms are a much more appealing meat to me.

New comment by NoahKAndrews in "I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective"

NoahKAndrews — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:18:25 +0000

I think the vibes refer to the running software, not to the code itself. I hate the whole concept deeply.