Hacker News: ddevault

New comment by ddevault in "Kagi raises $670k"

ddevault — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:54:05 +0000

I dunno, names are scarce and if a project fails then I don't see too much wrong with reuse of the name.

New comment by ddevault in "Tinyx – Resurrected Xvesa from the depths of Git history"

ddevault — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:08:57 +0000

That's not quite how it works, you can relicense stuff under GPL and your distribution and any changes you made are GPL'd but the original remains MIT.

https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/participate/derived-work...

https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/participate/copyright-ow...

New comment by ddevault in "The damaging results of mandated return to office"

ddevault — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:06:54 +0000

It's just such a pointless distraction. Don't make it about you? It reminds me of men who hear that women get paid less and start complaining about their own salary.

"Hey, we have this problem." "To each their own but it doesn't affect me!"

Why waste your breath to say this?

New comment by ddevault in "The damaging results of mandated return to office"

ddevault — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 09:45:50 +0000

Really done with this take. Show some solidarity for your peers. So you like working from the office -- good for you! Do that! But also stand up for your colleagues who don't want that. When your colleagues have fewer choices, when things like this are imposed on them, well, your preferences are not far behind from being managed themselves.

New comment by ddevault in "Happiness is a reward from our ancestors"

ddevault — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:07:38 +0000

Evolutionary psychology is psuedoscience.

New comment by ddevault in "Reforming the free software message"

ddevault — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:06:04 +0000

Not sure that "copyleft" is confusing or falling into disuse, I hear people talking about it without confusion pretty often. First time I've heard "reciprocal licensing".

New comment by ddevault in "Write Free Software"

ddevault — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:48:17 +0000

I dunno, it's just a place to store the code, and SourceHut is itself free software. I could put it on Codeberg or something, I guess, but it doesn't really seem like a big deal. Never heard anyone criticize the FSF or GNU for their use of savannah.gnu.org.

New comment by ddevault in "Write Free Software"

ddevault — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:38:35 +0000

I feel like it's pretty explicit:

> You are entitled to the use of any free software for any purpose, including commercial use – counter-intuitively, you can sell free software.

There are also sections which go into the utility of copyleft to mitigate some of this.

Might be worth going into more detail in a blog post.

New comment by ddevault in "Write Free Software"

ddevault — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:29:14 +0000

This is addressed a bit here:

https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/free-software-games/#but-...

tl;dr: access to the source code will help people develop cheats but it's not really required, your game's gonna have cheaters unless you do server side cheat mitigations.

New comment by ddevault in "Write Free Software"

ddevault — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:28:21 +0000

Not sure how this comes across as self-serving or what the nature of this protest is, but if you explain it in more detail perhaps I can make a correction.

New comment by ddevault in "Write Free Software"

ddevault — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:27:10 +0000

Commons Clause is non-free. It does not meet freedom 0:

https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/four-freedoms/#0-use-the...

There are also specific comments about non-free source-available software here:

https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/#what-is-source-availabl...

New comment by ddevault in "We've been targeted with a credit card testing fraud attack on Stripe"

ddevault — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:05:04 +0000

Mollie.

New comment by ddevault in "We've been targeted with a credit card testing fraud attack on Stripe"

ddevault — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:19:13 +0000

I had the opposite issue -- something like 90% of genuine payments on my account are rejected by the fraud detector on the first try and have to be retried daily for several days before going through. I exchanged over a hundred emails with support in which they read the card testing script to me, tried to upsell me on "better" fraud management tools, disregarded any details I provided to show that the activity was non-fraudulent, gave me no insights into how the fraud detector worked or why it might be giving false positives, and refused to escalate my ticket anywhere. I had to beg to be put through to an engineer who knew anything about it, and still I couldn't get past front line support. Long gone are the days where you can talk to a Stripe engineer on IRC. Really badly soured me on Stripe and I started working on plans to move away from the platform entirely.

New comment by ddevault in "ROFL: An open-source license that promotes fun in coding"

ddevault — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:21:57 +0000

I have also written a more comprehensive resource here:

https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/participate/choose-a-lic...

Write Free Software

ddevault — Wed, 17 May 2023 10:07:09 +0000

Article URL: https://writefreesoftware.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973288

Points: 4

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New comment by ddevault in "The core problem with hamburger menus"

ddevault — Fri, 05 May 2023 19:36:47 +0000

I take pride in making my websites accessible for everyone regardless of the monetary incentive to do so, and to make inaccessible websites simply because you don't think there's money in it is very shameful.

Not saying that hamburger menus can or cannot be accessible; just saying that, as an engineer, you really have an obligation to make something that is accessible. This is a basic, non-negotiable requirement for all software.

New comment by ddevault in "Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request"

ddevault — Fri, 05 May 2023 13:54:17 +0000

https://www.polygon.com/23695923/mtg-aftermath-pinkerton-rai...

New comment by ddevault in "Astrophysicists Spot Einstein Rings That Boost Case for Axionic Dark Matter"

ddevault — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:58:52 +0000

This website's GDPR pop-up is unlawful.

1. More clicks to opt-out than in

2. "Legitimate interest" is made up

3. Having to untick options one a time is illegal

New comment by ddevault in "Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour)"

ddevault — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 11:24:09 +0000

It would range from unfortunate to a non-issue. The entire flight is not expected to be successful, the purpose is data gathering. The worst case scenario is that it fails on the pad and damages the launch infrastructure, which would be a huge setback to the project. If it fails anywhere else it's probably fine.

New comment by ddevault in "Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour)"

ddevault — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:39:02 +0000

The cheapest and most popular rocket today in terms of cost per kilogram sent to low-earth-orbit is the SpaceX Falcon 9, which is estimated to cost about $2700/kg. If the Starship meets its goals, it will cost $10/kg to LEO. It has a payload capacity and infrastructure which can economically deliver massive payloads to any solid surface in the solar system. It could send three full-sized bulldozers to Mars in a single trip. This is the largest scale space project ever conceived and portents a major shake-up to the space industry and a big step towards establishing a permanent human presence off Earth.