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Was it released with it? Iirc they tried moving to such a license from bsd, which contains no patent grants whatsoever, and hence they thought it was a strict upgrade. The communit…

It requires the claim to be made with "willful disregard for the truth". Notifying someone, especially with a cease-and-desist on fancy letterhead, makes it legally clear that they…

A lot of these style of reframings seem to completely lack a theory behind them, as if reframing things will magically solve a problem. In this case, further vilifying or antagoniz…

People misunderstood your original reply. Correcting you is not pedantry.

Language is a communication tool. If you misuse language you will be badly understood. The solution is to use the correct word for what you mean, not to accuse others of sophistry.…

Having assets under management doesn't mean you have that money. You don't own it, you are just taking care of it for somebody. When describing a company as an $X billion company, …

> One of our developers was compromised by a recent supply-chain compromise on Tanstack ...which in turn was caused by bad design of github's CI pipeline. Funny how it all comes ba…

Interestingly fails as well, in two ways. First: > The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of whitespace (as determined by isspace(3)) Second is that it only applies to signe…

Some people would set up tooling to look for compromises the moment they get published. What's neat about this is that as an attacker you have no way to determine beforehand whethe…

open source does not mean open community. you can just throw tarballs over the wall

Missed the original. That seems like a reasonable way to highlight software that you believe is fundamentally insecure. Obviously you can't be on the hook to fix deep architectural…

There are no "defaults that work for everyone". Well designed tooling acknowledges that and makes it easy to tune the software to your preference.

Politics are generally off topic and tend to be flagged.

>How do they get money for free? market power >What is stopping everyone else from doing the same? see above

That's protection money, though trump so far hasn't demonstrated to be particularly worried about honoring those payments.

> tabs and spaces being mixed in the code Python banned this in python3. Problem solved.

Clearer for the computer, but not for the human. Many errors, some severe, have been caused by a human only looking at the indentation and not realizing the braces don't match.

> I would love to see a language try to implement a rule where only an indented line is considered part of the previous expression. After python, it seems like every language decid…

$ base64 -d

>Remove all ASCII tab or newline from input. the title is referring to inside html attributes, where they will be removed hence not affect where the link points.

Instead of making a sarcastic response, just state plainly what you mean. This prevents you having to get into dumb arguments that don't mean anything to people who don't already k…

This could just as easily be someone at the top saying "find a legitimate sounding reason to refuse this because we want to refuse it anyways". They will always give such a reason,…

As I explain, you can't perfectly reverse these filters because of quantizing. The more the signal is attenuated, the more information is lost when quantizing. So yes, it does matt…

> This nets us another original pixel value, img(8). This makes it all seem really too pat. In fact, this probably doesn't get us the original pixel value, because of quantizing de…