Hacker News: randoramax

New comment by randoramax in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

randoramax — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:54:54 +0000

Possible answers: Maybe because the Apache Software Foundation spent over two years debating a feather versus a leaf? see https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/11/native_american_apach... Or because the Open Source Initiative wasted over a year debating election rules? https://lwn.net/Articles/1056376/ Or because the Document Foundation has been locked into a fight with its own members? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157999 Looks like a pattern, doesn't it?

New comment by randoramax in "Non-thoughts on the Open Source Initiative (2020)"

randoramax — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:42:12 +0000

This is from 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://yakshav....

New comment by randoramax in "Ownership of debian.community domain"

randoramax — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:18:10 +0000

https://lwn.net/Articles/814508/ Lots of the history is here

New comment by randoramax in "Big Time Public License"

randoramax — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:49:58 +0000

Afaik AWS re-implemented a subset of the mongodb API in DocumentDB, didn't use Mongodb code. The agpl was never an issue for AWS.

New comment by randoramax in "'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale"

randoramax — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 03:03:28 +0000

Sharks have teeth, they bite and shred their prey. Sharks don't need to swallow you

New comment by randoramax in "Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing"

randoramax — Sat, 22 May 2021 03:38:56 +0000

Yeah, but if you hire a fascist and you know they're a fascist in a company where the majority of your workers is not a fascist, you're going to have problems. Even if you discover after hiring them that they're fascist you'll have unhappy workers. You'll find a way to fire that fascist or lose the rest of the company.

New comment by randoramax in "Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing"

randoramax — Sat, 22 May 2021 03:35:40 +0000

Ex-Felons have paid their debt to society, or at least get should be considered as such. And still, it's harder for them to get jobs.

New comment by randoramax in "“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”"

randoramax — Sat, 01 May 2021 02:18:51 +0000

Not necessarily work for a ngo, but volunteer for one, join a union, join the local political groups that actually make a difference locally in your community. So many options, besides the work place.

New comment by randoramax in "Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average"

randoramax — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:48:55 +0000

I think it's a legitimate question: we all have a large chunk of savings stuck in this game because of perverse incentives set by corrupt/inept US gov. Now what?

New comment by randoramax in "Why Lichess will always be free"

randoramax — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:03:32 +0000

> Where do you live that the middle class doesn't have to worry about paying for college?

Europe, most likely... You know, those socialist countries where there is still a middle class.

New comment by randoramax in "Has UML died without anyone noticing?"

randoramax — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:55:13 +0000

It's weird to read this because building's architects and designers do exactly that: they have to make tremendous efforts to design complex systems (think an airport or a hospital) before they lay down a single brick. Somehow this idealization and planning step is impossible for software developers.

New comment by randoramax in "Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons"

randoramax — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 03:06:33 +0000

> at least can answer FaceTime calls because the answering interface is so easy to use.

This! I can't believe how shitty every single other video call apps are! Who invented swipe-to-answe? How did they test that? It's the most anti-intuitive move I've ever experienced and it took me months of frustrations to teach my 80+ old parent when he has an Android tablet... I ended up giving him an iPad just to use FaceTime

New comment by randoramax in "Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4B in profits out of Ireland"

randoramax — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 03:00:13 +0000

Think of it as tax engineering: companies build devices to avoid paying too much taxes. It's a thing, you'd do it too if you had enough money to justify the investment in such engineering :)

New comment by randoramax in "New York Times tech workers form a union"

randoramax — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:07:11 +0000

> What about "stop putting me on call without compensation or I will leave the company"

Says the dude without kids and a mortgage who can afford a couple of months without a salary :)

New comment by randoramax in "GIMP PyDev"

randoramax — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:29:13 +0000

Qgis and Grass, and the whole suit of geospatial open source tools. https://qgis.org/en/site/ for more

New comment by randoramax in "Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco"

randoramax — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 02:55:38 +0000

Did you vote at past elections? If you didn't, you're partially responsible for the shit we walk on.

New comment by randoramax in "30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server"

randoramax — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 02:42:39 +0000

You mean sysadmins, not developers right? :)

New comment by randoramax in "30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server"

randoramax — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 02:41:12 +0000

They don't follow the rfc if they don't. Email protocol is resilient to servers not being teachable for a few days. Humans forgot that though and came to think that email is like slack

New comment by randoramax in "Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet"

randoramax — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 04:00:24 +0000

Attacks from cats and rats, most likely.

New comment by randoramax in "The GPL-Violations.org Project (2016)"

randoramax — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 06:34:39 +0000

That site came out and was popular when D-Link and Cisco were brought to court for violating Welte's copyright, IIRC.