Hacker News: lloydde

New comment by lloydde in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

lloydde — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 20:18:51 +0000

Starting with comma is also a common technique in the text expander / text replacement community.

New comment by lloydde in "Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack"

lloydde — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 05:23:05 +0000

MPL 2.0 has been the preferred license for CTO Bryan Cantrill and crew for more than a decade:

“And because any conversation about open source has to address licensing at some point or another, let’s get that out of the way: we opted for the Mozilla Public License 2.0. While relatively new, there is a lot to like about this license: its file-based copyleft allows it to be proprietary-friendly while also forcing certain kinds of derived work to be contributed back; its explicit patent license discourages litigation, offering some measure of troll protection; its explicit warranting of original work obviates the need for a contributor license agreement (we’re not so into CLAs); and (best of all, in my opinion), it has been explicitly designed to co-exist with other open source licenses in larger derived works. Mozilla did terrific work on MPL 2.0, and we hope to see it adopted by other companies that share our thinking around open source!”

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2014/11/03/smartdatacenter-and-...

Also discussed around 38 minute of https://youtu.be/Zpnncakrelk?si=DkSW6CM_MS-q1Gyd

Although not explicitly stated there are like deeper roots here “The one important exception to these generalizations is Sun Microsystems' CDDL, which was a true improvement on MPL 1.1, and which continues to cover a substantial amount of important open source software. … I encourage Oracle, the current CDDL steward, to consider relicensing its CDDL code under MPL 2.0, which is as worthy a successor to CDDL 1.0 as it is to MPL 1.1.” from Richard Fontana’s article at the time of the MPL 2.0 release, https://opensource.com/law/12/1/the-new-mpl

With its compatibility with strong, older copyright licenses I’m surprised the license has not had more widespread adoption. It is a not too hot, not too cold porridge of a file level copyleft and CYA OSS license with the strong backing of Mozilla.

New comment by lloydde in "Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)"

lloydde — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:52:44 +0000

The topic, but not this exception, is touched on in “Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS“ Episode 2 of a two-part series, premiered May 24, 2023. Both episodes are fascinating and eye opening.

08:36 Anesthesia and the Brain

https://youtu.be/yQ6VOOd73MA

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/your-brain-whos-in-contr...

New comment by lloydde in "Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened"

lloydde — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:52:01 +0000

December 2005 article:

"So, the GNOME people have started to focus on questions such as universal access, so if you have motor difficulties or other disabilities, software still should be usable. Likewise, it shouldn't matter what language you use or character set you need, software should be usable.

Part of Galago and Telepathy comes from getting beyond questions of windows, menus, icons and pointers and focusing on the things people really care about. In Jeff's view, these things are people, events, documents and sex. When questions of when GNOME 3.0 will be released arose, people have suggested it was a stupid idea. So Jeff came up with TOPAZ, taking the first letters from Three Point Zero and inserting some vowels. TOPAZ is not planned for release at this time."

An Evening with Jeff Waugh Linux Journal by Colin McGregor on December 27, 2005 https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8752

New comment by lloydde in "Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened"

lloydde — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:46:06 +0000

I am going from memory. I can anchor the memories as September 2005 till early 2006 as it was a memorable time for me. I spent that time working out of a Palo Alto garage working on a "web 2.0" web browser, Flock, with a small group of people that included a few who had previously been at Eazel and were still passionate GNOME participants.

Thinking further on it now, unrelated to that work, Jeff Waugh @jdub would be person I'd go to for receipts.

If I was searching the web, I'd be looking for references to Gnome ToPaZ with topaz being a play on ThreePointZero:

"When the prospect of GNOME 3 was first discussed by developers in 2005, the concept took on a life of its own among the users who imagined that it would be an audacious reinvention of the desktop with completely new interaction paradigms and a new kind of user interface. This pie-in-the-sky vision was referred to as ToPaZ, word play on the phrase three-point-zero. " https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/07/gnome...

New comment by lloydde in "Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened"

lloydde — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:59:54 +0000

I don’t doubt it, but the post does not lay out the timeline. Those events likely aligned the business interests to what the designers were already wanting to make happen. From what I recall, by 2004, Linux on Desktop designers were already looking to move on from mimic and displace Windows to win on their own terms. There seemed to be a lot of energy do something new and different by 2005. It seemed like there was a lot of wireframes and prototypes in both GNOME and KDE camps. Also around 2005, touchscreen tablets were also having a moment. I think I remember a popular Nokia model. 2006 had Sugar UI for interactive learning on OLPC XO.

New comment by lloydde in "1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company"

lloydde — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 04:12:55 +0000

Unfortunately, “telos” is misused when the author’s data is singularly focused on the US.

New comment by lloydde in "X"

lloydde — Thu, 21 May 2020 12:08:19 +0000

I have always assumed this related to achieving a differentiated character set for Math and science formulas.

New comment by lloydde in "Thunderbird’s New Home"

lloydde — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:11:03 +0000

I came here to ask the same thing. What were the disadvantages of using the Mozilla Corporation? Will Thunderbird be the only offering in MZLA Technologies Corporation?

New comment by lloydde in "What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?"

lloydde — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:07:41 +0000

I’m excited by the https://planetary.social/ announcement this week.

“We’re building an open and humane alternative to Facebook”

https://mobile.twitter.com/rabble/status/1220075601337315328

New comment by lloydde in "Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it"

lloydde — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 02:33:03 +0000

Flossing seems like an example concept for a different concept. The tiny task is a trick to get you to start. Once started you’ll floss them all.

New comment by lloydde in "Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium?"

lloydde — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:01:18 +0000

https://nomedium.dev/ is a new site, where the author describes what he doesn’t like about Medium including “ When sharing a Medium article, there is a high degree of uncertainty that the person opening the link will be asked to pay money to read the content.”

I learned about it at https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisShort/status/121849195514918...

New comment by lloydde in "1195725856 and other mysterious numbers"

lloydde — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 17:01:35 +0000

The link above doesn’t work for me, but the following one does: https://chrisdown.name/2020/01/13/1195725856-other-mysteriou...

New comment by lloydde in "Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit"

lloydde — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:55:19 +0000

Last year I went to refresh my memory on the status of the case and all pop press referred to “11,500 lines of code” copier. I couldn’t find any clarification of those are all API calls. Anyone know or better yet have a reference with analysis?

New comment by lloydde in "Go + Services = One Goliath Project"

lloydde — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 23:17:21 +0000

You may be confusing the adoption of Kotlin for Android. That happened more recently Kotlin has been open source since 2012 and designed as a direct (compatible) replacement for Java.

New comment by lloydde in "This Page is Designed to Last"

lloydde — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 08:54:10 +0000

macOS Spotlight became good enough

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)

New comment by lloydde in "Curl to shell isn't so bad"

lloydde — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 19:18:21 +0000

Homebrew is only as secure as the results of that first curl command

     /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

I get why https://docs.brew.sh/Installation doesn’t discuss the versioning or security practices. It is interesting that homebrew doesn’t seem to interface with macOS’s signing and installation practices.

Reminds me that there is still no official package manager on macOS. So https://nodejs.org/en/download/ has you comparing check sums.

New comment by lloydde in "Perfectly Cropped"

lloydde — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:00:25 +0000

Great article. It frequently occurs on iPhone SE for 3rd party apps with its smallest dimensions.

SE seems to also have the unique problem of cropping of instructions and phrases on the right of screen.

New comment by lloydde in "macOS Catalina"

lloydde — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 06:30:43 +0000

I’m always using Dashboard to pull up dates on the calendar and the time in different zones. What is the Apple way?

New comment by lloydde in "Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911"

lloydde — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:24:30 +0000

A search now for “Apple iPhone labor” brings up recent articles describing issues with Apple’s sub-contractors.

Size seems less relevant than the image Apple’s projected and its profits.