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jamestanderson
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Comment #39307355
In my experience, police officers leave voice messages.
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Comment #39130382
Huh, I never knew about this! It looks like it's still around. I'll try that next time. Thanks for the tip!
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Comment #39105740
It's really cool to see offline support done well. It can be very frustrating when it's done poorly, or not offered at all. One of my biggest gripes with the Spotify app is the poo…
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Comment #38659513
> But, we wouldn't have expected the manufacturer to do anything except officially discourage the use of the aftermarket tools. I think the issue here is that McDonalds was discour…
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Comment #37839398
I'm sad to see this comment, scoffing at an independent creator just selling something cool online. I wonder why this reaction? Is it the imagined profit margin? Or just the choice…
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Comment #37081972
I believe they require contributors to sign their CLA: https://cla.hashicorp.com/ That CLA grants HashiCorp full license over your Copyright, and explicitly allows them to sublicen…
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Comment #37081825
> companies like Amazon abuse FOSS licenses to stand up their own hosted versions of open source projects This is not an abuse of FOSS licenses. If developers have a problem with t…
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Comment #37081758
All that I get from this is that HashiCorp is no longer an open source company. > However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on …
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Comment #36683897
I got their 10gbps displayport switch to use with switching a single monitor between a Windows desktop PC and an M1 MacBook Pro. I have a 4k@144hz monitor and can get the full fram…
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Comment #34783677
I'm a big fan of this font, I use it every day and have never regretted the purchase. Unfortunately the OP noted they didn't like Iosevka, which I think is pretty visually similar.…
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Comment #33984380
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af
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Comment #33074490
There is - check out this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33065297
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Comment #31496291
What's your experience with group texting? I've been looking for a dumb-er phone, but I need good group texting support to stay in touch with my family. I've tried phones like the …
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Comment #31092504
Wow - really surprised at this move by Netlify. It looks like that's a new policy[1] where a "Member" is not just someone who can log in to the Netlify UI and manage a site, but an…
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Comment #30957330
I also don't put my predictions in writing, but I appreciate those that do. It's easy to look at the state of the world today and say, "Of course. How could it end up any other way…
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Comment #30953108
We're in agreement. :)
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Comment #30953085
> this is pretty egregious in that it removes freedoms The AGPLv3 protects freedoms - the freedoms of the users and recipients of the Software and the License, including other deve…
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Comment #30952990
Developers certainly can place restrictions on how their code is used. In my view, if developers want to add those restrictions, via the Commons Clause or otherwise, they should no…
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Comment #30952959
Wasn't the AGPL created to address exactly this loophole?
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Comment #30088145
I'm sure it's 100% worth it for them financially. Me not buying an iPhone because it doesn't have a headphone jack means nothing to them. I think what will hurt them in the long ru…
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Comment #30087904
For one thing, I'd buy an iPhone again.
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Comment #29168008
Same here on Firefox 94.0.1 on MacOS. I also have privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled, maybe the other commenter does too, and that might muck with things. Just tested and my repo…
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Comment #29167938
I might install an extension. I have the DuckDuckGo Privacy extension for instance, and use DDG as my primary search engine. But I use Firefox, and it doesn't seem like this compan…
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Comment #28763667
To be fair, that was under different ownership. One of the first things the new owners did after the acquisition was to stop that practice. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/co…
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Comment #28619038
Nothing in the MIT license prevents you from doing that. But the author could disable your access to the repo any time, and once that happens, your fork would be forever out of dat…