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Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by washt »

derwiki wrote: post #10

I learned of a similar site yesterday, http://www.ifixit.com/

A computer repair shop I worked for used ifixit everyday. Big pictures, warnings when you can easily break stuff( I severed many a flex cable when a started), and clear instructions. The only setback is the range of devices well documented. Once you get outside of mainstream devices, or something made a year or two ago, the docs get skimpy.

Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by Spittie »

It's probably standard legalese, but I find it funny that in the TOS (https://www.takeitapart.com/terms-of-use) there is

    You acknowledge that (i) you own and are solely 
    responsible for the content that you submit, post, or 
    transmit
And

    You grant TakeItApart a non-exclusive, royalty-free, 
    transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, 
    store, display, delete, reproduce, modify, create 
    derivative works from, perform, and distribute your 
    user content for the purposes of operating, developing, 
    providing, promoting, and using our Site. Nothing in 
    these Terms shall restrict our legal rights to user 
    content.
Pretty much a "we own the content you submit, but if this bother someone, it's your fault and you'll face the aftermatch".

That said, it looks like a nice site, a crowdsourced iFixIt. Maybe the next time I take something apart I'll remember to take some photos (I'd me more willing to contribute if the TOS wasn't so restrictive, but since I still own my content I don't mind so much").

Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by webmaven »

Spittie wrote: post #13

It's probably standard legalese, but I find it funny that in the TOS ( https://www.takeitapart.com/terms-of-use ) there is You acknowledge that (i) you own and are solely responsible for the content that you submit, post, or transmit And You grant TakeItApart a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, delete, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, p…

Not quite 'own' as the license is non-exclusive. Also interesting that the usual word 'perpetual' is missing.

Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by grinich »

Spittie wrote: post #13

It's probably standard legalese, but I find it funny that in the TOS ( https://www.takeitapart.com/terms-of-use ) there is You acknowledge that (i) you own and are solely responsible for the content that you submit, post, or transmit And You grant TakeItApart a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, delete, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, p…

This is so they can generate thumbnails of images.

Yes, seriously.

Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by tomkinstinch »

6d0debc071 wrote: post #11

Secure connection: fatal error (1066) https://www.takeitapart.com/ Unable to verify the website's identity (OCSP error). The response from the online certificate validation (OCSP) server was too old.

One of the TakeItAparts here. We've seen this in browsers where the OCSP request fails (on the Comodo side), but the browser does not fall back to a CRL check. What browser were you using when saw the error?

Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by tomkinstinch »

dten wrote: post #5

Why does it keep refreshing the page?! 0.7082894736842106 f39efb125de9.js:922 "scaled container width: 566.6315789473684"

OP here. If you saw that on a guide page, that's an experimental script we're trying to rescale image containers to the viewport. A window resize would trigger a refresh. It's not clear if we'll keep the behavior. If you make an account, there is a profile option to turn it off (as well as the always-on hover over notes).

Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by tomkinstinch »

Spittie wrote: post #13

It's probably standard legalese, but I find it funny that in the TOS ( https://www.takeitapart.com/terms-of-use ) there is You acknowledge that (i) you own and are solely responsible for the content that you submit, post, or transmit And You grant TakeItApart a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, delete, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, p…

One of the TakeItAparts here. We're certainly open to refining our Terms if others have been down a similar path before and have advice. My personal belief is to grant the user permissive rights, but we still need to worry about liability. We're certainly open to revisions.
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