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New comment by openthc in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"

openthc — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:30:01 +0000

If you had any pointers I'd be grateful

New comment by openthc in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"

openthc — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:24 +0000

Not good. Stripe rejects anyone even close to the regulated cannabis space (with no room for appeal) but PayPal will accept these tranctions. So, this would put a non-zero amount of businesses (that don't even touch that deadly, deadly plant) in a tight spot with this monopolisation of the industry.

Selling open source technology to the government

openthc — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:38:39 +0000

Article URL: https://openthc.com/blog/2025/210-how-to-sell-open-source-government

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44735631

Points: 3

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New comment by openthc in "Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress"

openthc — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:34:35 +0000

Have you checked out https://github.com/selkies-project/selkies ?

""Open-Source Low-Latency Accelerated Linux WebRTC HTML5 Remote Desktop Streaming Platform for Self-Hosting, Containers, Kubernetes, or Cloud/HPC""

New comment by openthc in "Gumroad is now open source"

openthc — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:15:24 +0000

Which is super bullshit; cause now offering open source solutions many folk see it as a trick!

New comment by openthc in "Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law"

openthc — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:04:46 +0000

We create open-source software and attempt to get government agencies to adopt/use it. It's crazy how alergic these agencies are to open-source. Some will even create their own, with legacy style implementations (csv uploads, broken parsers), complete with bugs/flaws that are predicatble rather than use someone elses code.

When responding to RFPs, the open-source stuff has an a higher level of scrutinty than the closed systems. Like, if it's open then you have to show it's good but if it's closed the vendor just says "yep, we are perfect" and the agency could move on. It feels like the agency, and the employees don't want any responsibility. But I've never seen anyone lose their government job from some incompetence.

New comment by openthc in "Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States"

openthc — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:01:09 +0000

Typically, and USA specific, the rules are to grind it up, mix with equal parts existing dirt/compost and then it's OK. So that dilutes it by half; then this compost is spread around and, like you said, can be used for other crops. Also, as the material sits in the compost pile, which should be agitated, the pesticides will leach out/break down.

I just got a message from WA-LCB today with updated pesticide information, working with WSU, so here's some details -- https://agr.wa.gov/departments/cannabis/pesticide-use

And here's the Action Limits defined in WA law: https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=314-55-108

New comment by openthc in "Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States"

openthc — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:49:46 +0000

Another thing that happens to outdoor grown cannabis is pesticide contamination. Even if your farm is a good distance from some commercial agriculture, if they spray it can, and does, contaminate your crop -- which for regulated cannabis requires destruction. Literally burning (or composting) thousands of dollars of product.

And if the pesticides test are hot on the cross-contaminated cannabis; how much is on those apples three fields over?

New comment by openthc in "From where I left"

openthc — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:02:37 +0000

Another thing that kinds of sucks about this whole "license rug-pull" kind of business is that other teams (like ours) who are publishing open-source software/tools are now suspects too.

Folk ask themselves, why contribute to this thing (MIT/GPL licenses) if there some for-profit entity involved?

Folk can't take us at face-value (I'd argue demonstrated value) and level (unfounded) accusations at us; because some other player did things "dirty".

Well, other folk wanted to pay for support/customisation and in USA you make a for-profit entity to do that. So the corporate part of the open-source project is, nearly, a requirement.

New comment by openthc in "Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned"

openthc — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:44:08 +0000

Bong shop in Berkeley, CA

New comment by openthc in "HTML5 Differences from HTML4 (2014)"

openthc — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 04:04:05 +0000

If you're looking for something similar still you may want to checkout https://aframe.io/ -- it's JS library(s) and you load them, then use custom tags in HTML to create VR worlds. it's rad.

New comment by openthc in "PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key"

openthc — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:59:08 +0000

Collision Calculators:

- https://alex7kom.github.io/nano-nanoid-cc/ - https://devina.io/collision-calculator

New comment by openthc in "PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key"

openthc — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:56:48 +0000

With UUIDv7/v8 (and ULID) there are some timestamps in the front half. I've seen spots where the query was in the style of `uuid_col >= 'SOME_UUID_0000' AND ulid_col <= 'SOME_UUID_FFFF'` When one is using them ast the timing for record create/insert these things happen.

New comment by openthc in "PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key"

openthc — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:48:55 +0000

I love ULID too; but it's really just UUIDv7 (or v8) with a mustache (it's all just 128bit IDs). And in the PG world, where there isn't native support for ULID one can use UUIDv7/8 and bridge that gap. We use ULID extensively in exposed IDs, it's very URL friendly, copy/paste friendly, etc -- but it's a UUID datatype in the DB. (ie: ULID => UUID => DB)

New comment by openthc in "Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store"

openthc — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:23:47 +0000

I thought the Apple platform had the best consumer experience and that's why folk love it -- it "just works" -- cause they keep the riff-raff out of their gated community.

Perhaps they let this one slip through because their team was too busy dragging out the review process for our cannabis compliance application, they can only afford so many reviewers after all. We wouldn't want children accidentally getting their hands on regulatory compliance data for deadly deadly cannabis. (which could happen with our application, after they had signed up and verified their agency cannabis license (which only takes many months/years and $$$$$s to get))

New comment by openthc in "YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads"

openthc — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:25:03 +0000

Really frustrating as folks can advertise that crap but, regulated cannabis is blocked. Heck, we can't even mention our product/protocols on these $BigCo sites or they'll kick us off forever! Trying to publish in the AppStore along side all that scam-ware -- nope, sorry can't have that deadly cannabis around here.

New comment by openthc in "An HTTP Status Code to Report Requester Impairment"

openthc — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 04:12:58 +0000

I'm here for the 420 jokes. This one wouldn't be good even on April 1st (or 20th)

New comment by openthc in "Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed"

openthc — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:13:40 +0000

Another unfortunate thing of their Open Source Program is that companies that make open-source (MIT, GPL) and have a commercial offering as well (eg: GitLab themselves) are not allowed to use their Open Source Program.

New comment by openthc in "Cory Doctorow: Freeing Ourselves from the Clutches of Big Tech"

openthc — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:27:53 +0000

We make software for the regulated cannabis space; we work with government agencies. Despite years of folks indside and outside the industry telling these government regulators to NOT use expensive single-use RFID tags -- they've been plowing forwared with it since 2014. The lobbiest and industry had their ear and the indivudual voices of reason couldn't effect change. How can government make good choices for the citizen when their is money in their ear? How can the citizens become a louder voice than the money-in-the-ear?

In one case; we spent like a year with an agency working on design goals for a track-and-trace system. At the end, they had only one conclusive finding -- use algorithimic IDs for a distrubted/federated type system; they even stated in the findings to use 128bit IDs (eg: ULID/UUID). Then when they implemented their system; that wasn't indidcated as a requirement and the other soft-findings from their year long study were completely ignored.

New comment by openthc in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

openthc — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:13:54 +0000

Snoop tweeted that he was giving up smoke which was a stunt to advertise a fireplace.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2023/11...

Why not shake-up CEOs of AI if the "CEO of cannabis" is doing wild thing?