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Or host your backups on DigitalOcean.
Maybe not the best choice in light of them deleting this guy’s entire app, db, and backups the other day: https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089
BTW as was made clear by multiple HN commenters in other discussions about this incident, nothing was actually deleted, the customer's account was suspended for 30+ hours.
We need to hear 2 sides of a story. Github does not just 'delete' files. Author should contact them first and resolve any issues there is. And if github refuse that, than you can cry a river.
Is it not incumbent upon Github to contact the author before deleting his account?
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And how was there no system in place to prevent one disgruntled person from taking down someone else's entire project on a whim, without evidence?
And if they'd just found a few buddies to also spam Reports would that have made it any better?
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There are in fact people who are already trying to "federate" code collaboration https://nth.io/notice/7652
That's interesting. IIRC Linus Torvalds even came up with a tool to make "distributed/federated" code collaboration quite easy, avoiding any reliance on a single centralized host. Maybe we should start making use of it.
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Dandelions are fine, but for the sake of your neighbours it is kind to remove the heads before they seed. Having to continuously hand weed myriad young dandelion plants can be a pain, especially, I imagine if you are elderly. I have an allotment, and you'll certainly get frowned at if you let your dandelions seed all over a neighbouring plot.
Well, those are things to consider, but the details depend on the country and the particular neighbourhood. Fortunately there are also people who prefer meadows to "perfect" green deserts. I kinda enjoy both and I've found the hybrid model works best for me and my family (no complains from the neighbours, yet;).
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He's also idiosyncratic in the approach to the rest of his life. When he practiced ‘simple living,’ in his front yard he had (or still has?) a small wild garden with uncut grass, where he of course walked barefoot and his children played naked (iirc). He was taken to the court by neighbors on the issue of grass, and appeared there with a tome of paper citing local laws and research that says cut grass exudes harmful…
> cut grass exudes harmful substances Intriguing “fact” if true; I can’t reconcile this with so many animals eating grass. They’re both directly cutting it in their mouths, and also inhaling the volatiles from the part they leave connected to the plant. Is there some problem common to all grazers? Something like the way koalas are proposed to be as languorous as they are because the eucalyptus leaves they eat are act…
Everything's right there waiting for you.
The frustrating thing to me is that this guy will get this solved and we’ll all move on. He’s reasonably well known and had enough Twitter juice to get attention. All the small people who end up in this situation, whatever it truly is, without those resources will remain screwed.
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> as far as I could tell was dedicated to the public domain I recommend everyone to read this regarding that matter: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/ay0w64/one_hour_on... I don't think Jason really understood what public domain means when he released the game into public domain. Once people started using his work as PD work, he started to complain, file DMCA requests, etc.
Very interesting, thanks! Just to be clear, it looks like Jason Rohrer is still very much committed to putting his work in the public domain and, as far as I can tell, has been consistent in his commitment to keeping the work he's dedicated to the public domain in the public domain. What looks to be happening is more of a trademark issue. I think Jason Rohrer might be backpeddling on that. It looks like he clearly in…
"This work is not copyrighted.
Do whatever you want with it, absolutely no restrictions, and no permission necessary."
If you care about your fame, don't pick a license that literally states you are happy for people to do whatever they want.
I have no sympathy for somebody who writes a license himself (what's wrong with MIT), reassures people that they're allowed to base their livelihood off his work, then changes his mind once they start making more money than him.
He's of course welcome to have whatever restrictions he wants on his work. But don't claim to have some moral high ground when you're litigating against people who trusted you to be honest. At best he's doing it to satisfy his ego, at worst for money.