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the footnote doesn't say that's the reason osxfuse went close source
Let's all wait for BSD license apologists to insist true freedom is the freedom to blackmail your users.

Props to the OS Xfuse maintainer, he does deserve a fat payout so begrudging him. Still, it paints the clear picture of how BSD is an inferior license when it comes to freedom for users.

Maybe this comment is too slashdot 2006 era, but still, licenses matter.
If you could discharge student loans via bankruptcy nobody would get a loan. No financial institution is going to hand out 5 figure loans to a teenager with no credit history, no job, and no marketable skills.
Alternatively, A drone was struck by a suspected news helicopter, causing substantial damage.
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It’s incumbent upon everyone here to consider how powerful that can be for the people who’re trying to sell Kong.
>I'm not sure why you are stating these things like they are facts. These are still just allegations that Apple has put forth.

True, but even before these allegation it is also widely believe to be the case on HN [1].

I am not surprised not only because designing and selling chips is hard, but also because Apple has a history of acqui-hire startup with previous employees. Tim Cook mention they make nearly close to 1 acquisition per week, since the value is so small ( compare to Apple's cash holding ) they dont even need to disclose it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21547850
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A lot of comments here don’t understand why Keybase added a crypto wallet, or chat, or git, or file storage, etc.

It’s about user growth and attracting more people to the platform. Yeah git repos seem a little random, but you can’t have huge user growth from just offering identity verification.
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That's the bitrate of a codec to transmit speech that humans can hear and understand... but the actual rate of data communicated by speech is about 39 bps -- and that's pretty universal, regardless of language:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/human-speech-may-hav...
Yeah I’m in NYC and I find it frustrating when people force a bartender to deal with cash at a busy spot.
Correct me if I'm misinformed, but I don't see your point? The original author of code is always free to stop publishing their software as FOSS, regardless of which license they use, as long as they don't try and stop the re-distribution and forking of existing FOSS releases?
They may use GIS now to do it, but cartographer is still very much a job in its own right. That may not always be the job title (though it still is in many places) but just as there are loads of front end developers who aren't any good at design, there are plenty of GIS engineers who can't design a great map. Likewise, whether they're called cartographers or geospatial data visualisation specialists, there are probably more people designing maps now than there ever have been.
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I'm also not a fan of emoji here. Though, I do like some systematic prefixes for commits, such as the ones proposed by Conventional Commits: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0-beta.2/
Well, they allow one blessed developer to have a cert, only for historical reasons, leading to exactly this situation. That doesn’t seem like something to cheer about to me. Like it said in the article, a fork is impossible because they won’t get a cert.

Also, my complaint is mostly that apple keeps changing their API’s, as you can also read in the article.

All together this kind of stuff makes life needlessly hard on third party developers, so yeah, fuck apple.
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As discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174418, with comments from devs represented in that "Software below poverty line" article, the interpretation from the article is seriously flawed.
KDE neon is downloadable as a LiveCD with an installer, it shows as "neon Linux" in the bootloader, and you use pkcon rather than apt as a package manager.

You could add the repos yourself to Ubuntu and have something very similar, but the way it is distributed, it is absolutely a distro.

It is certainly not the official, canonical KDE distro in any way, it is just a good distro with phenomenal KDE integration.
This is a truly unbelievable answer to the question you were asked.
SGX is Intel's TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) platform, where an isolated memory address space (aka enclave) can host applications which give certain guarantees:

* No outside code can gain access to any part of it - not even the host OS
* Applications run precisely as executed (binaries need to be chryptographically signed)

You could generate cryptographic keys inside the enclave and ensure that the private key is never seen in cleartext outside it.

Let's say you're building a SaaS product to host sensitive data and expose an API. Using SGX, the remote endpoint can be ensured of the above.

Root keys are signed by Intel (and recently delegated to cloud providers) - so there is some element of trust there.

This attack uses power management interfaces to the hardware to induce faults in computations in the enclave, leading to data leaks. In the example above, the machine operator (or someone who gained privileged access on their machine) could abuse this to get access to sensitive data that's supposedly only inside the enclave.

In any case and even in the absence of these threat vectors, SGX and similar solutions should be used as a layered security approach, not something to rely solely upon.
At which point do US student loans start to resemble indentured servitude?
I had a short discussion about them just yesterday. It’s not a yay for me but also not a nay. I use icons for change lists in pull requests and release notes. But I use my own set of svg icons to have better control over the icons themselves.

I don’t like these icons in commit message subject lines because they're too ambiguous. If you adopt the imperative subject line style (Add class X, Fix issue XYZ, etc.) you have all the same benefits plus a clearer meaning. Also using a emoji plus a description like ‘:bug: fixes issue’ makes the whole benefit of short one character icons go away.
> So often it just seems callous: this regulation is inconveniencing me, so let's remove it. If that harms other people, that's their problem.

Given that the rules are nominally in place to benefit occupants, I don't see where you're getting a conflict of interest. It's offering to suffer the alleged harm yourself in exchange for not having to pay significantly higher housing costs.

> But that's the point: regulations are removed by the same processes that create them

The problem is that they're not. As you say they're often imposed following some fatality. But even if the new rule is ineffective garbage, it's unlikely to be traceable to any specific deaths. The way regulations kill people is much more indirect, e.g. by making housing more expensive so that people who can no longer afford it freeze to death on the streets, or die in car crashes because they have to live somewhere with a longer commute and the additional vehicle miles turned them into a statistic.

What that means is that there is a process for getting individual rules added in practice but no equivalent process for getting individual rules removed, so they accumulate over time.

> Only then can you create a better regulation that solves the problems that need to be solved.

A huge part of the issue is that some problems don't have cost-effective solutions. If you can prevent one death every ten years by raising housing costs by $1/month, notice that in a city with a million homes you've just spent $120M to save one life. If the value of a statistical life is something like $10M, well, we just overpaid by >1000%. And we may not know of any way to prevent that death for the less than $0.10/month cost increase it would take to make it cost effective. (You also need to verify that the rule is actually effective and not just speculate that it might work when it might not.)

But local zoning boards are hardly doing that kind of cost benefit analysis every time they add a new rule to their thick book of rules, so consequently huge swathes of the existing rules come out on the wrong side of it.

And since nothing ever really gets people excited about any given individual minor regulatory inefficiency until they stack up to be killing thousands of people on net, fixing that problem characteristically comes in the form of a mass culling of existing rules.
Likely the best outcome for the project barring company sponsorship that pays him to continue working on it as OSS.

He's been the sole maintainer on the project since 2012 [1] and has never been compensated for it, he says it will always be free to end users but wants companies that are financially benefiting from it to help sponsor continued development [2]:

> I will never ask end users for financial support. FUSE will always be free. However, what I'm asking for is for companies, that are selling FUSE-based products or rebrand FUSE and bundle it with their apps, to re-invest some of the profits in the continued development of FUSE on macOS, if they can afford it. I don't think that is unreasonable.

So he's just exercising the same BSD rights that all the other companies who have been taking and commercializing his work and not contributing back any fixes or funding for continued development.

Given that the alternative was to abandon the project [3], the only way it was going to see continued development as an OSS project was is if others took over maintenance/development of it, which anyone is free to do by creating and maintaining a fork.

[1] https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/graphs/contributors

[2] https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/590#issuecomment-5...

[3] https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/590#issuecomment-5...
Well I read this as more of an agreement to your OP rather than disagree.

He told the board he was leaving to set up a new computer company, and that he would be taking several Apple employees from the SuperMicro division with him

and

He also intended on licensing the tech to Apple, according to those sources.

i.e The board were both acknowledged and have a common interest.
Extremely curious to see a blog post explaining the story behind rewriting the editor in Canvas/GL.
VeraCrypt is for Windows. This is a FUSE implementation for macOS.
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What do you mean obsolete, I've got an Alewife right here next to me.
Neon is KDE over Ubuntu, with a completely stock KDE packaging rather than the slightly Ubuntu-modified KDE in Kubuntu.

So hardware support really should be identical.
The model hasn't ever picked up or held a hammer. How is it ever supposed to recognize a hammer in an unfamiliar context (e.g., when given a new image that is not representative of what it was trained against?). You can't train intuition.
It does commit deletions. It doesn’t commit untracked files. If you really want to track every new file unprompted, an alias can be made for `git add --all && git commit`.
From what I understand it is a side effect of people trying to add curvature to the Earth's flat surface.
Yikes, guess I struck a nerve. Sorry; you're not fragile at all.
How is "...then stop" different from "Taking your marbles and going home"? They didn't remove previously-published source code. So you can use the last open release in both scenarios, and the license change only adds the option of getting the maintained version under a commercial license.

The commercial version probably isn't useful in many scenarios, but by the simple rules of logic, having any additional option(s) can never be worse than having fewer options.

It is, however, somewhat shady to implement this license change without announcing it. Indeed I seem to remember being quite confused by this recently. I also just don't understand why that tactic was chosen? If you want to sell software, it tends not to hurt to make people aware of options to give you money.
> Why?

Because education is not a luxury service that can be postponed or outright skipped, like lifestyle-tailored tourism, and education costs in the US have become a major societal and economical problem.

> In fact, with almost every purchase that involves a loan, the company offering the loan is different than the company offering the product / service.

That's a tautology, and entirely misses the point. The point is that student loans are a colossal problem for the US, not only economical but also societal, and the problem is caused by the disconnection between the vicious cycle that leads to hikes in cost and the consequences of complying with the requirements to have an education.

Complaining that universities should not feel any consequence for the need to take massive loans they force onto their student body is like complaining that petrochemical companies should not feel any consequence for the need to decontaminate the environment.
You can easily infer it if you read the whole article.
Instead of grep for :sparkles: etc you can also just grep for any other prefix style. The biggest turn down for me is the fact that these emojis render differently on each platform. It’s hard to transpose meaning for an icon that is not static in its visual.
I used OpenLayers back in 2008-2011 for mapping-heavy web application. It was of very high quality, and had great API documentation (using DoxyGen, iirc). Taught me some things about pre-modern-craze Javascript programming (i.e. how to correctly implement inheritance in JS)
I think copyright makes it more complicated than that. If more than one person has ever contributed to the codebase (and if there's not some explicit copyright assignment), then under copyleft licenses no one person would be allowed to distribute anything containing anyone else's copyrighted code without also making the source available. (Perhaps technically it is the case that that's not "allowed" even in the case of a single copyright owner, but then you'd only have to worry about being sued by yourself?)
VeraCrypt is not limited to Windows, v it runs fine on macOS
In this case the original author was an employee of Google and is not the current maintainer.

Google then released their implementation under the BSD. It was forked and worked on, and eventually it now comes to the maintainer. Had GPL been used at any point the current maintainer would not own full copyright and thus not have legal grounds to distribute binaries without source.

Original authors can only unilaterally change licenses if they were the sole authors, or with agreement of all other authors. Or with copyright assignment contracts as you see in GNU projects.

My comment is also not about the maintainer. My comment is about how BSD as a license is often framed as an equivalent choice to GPL or other copyleft licenses.

Years ago this was a topic hackers cared a lot about. Not so much anymore I imagine, but there was indeed a time when hackers cared if their software was open source/copyleft or BSD. Most of the online chatter was hypothetical, today it is practical.
>The lowest-level employees don't owe their employer anything when their shift ends. They're free to work for a competitor for the next 8 hours if they choose.

May be in CA, but many part of the world this is not true.

>Only executives might owe undivided loyalty, and even then that is a provision of the employment contract that must be explicitly negotiated and paid for by the employer.

Which is exactly what is happening. He was only two or three level below Tim Cook.
If only they would actually use this cryptocurrency integration for something useful, like, I don't know, maybe spam prevention.. I can't understand their their thinking at all, it's such an obvious use case for an app that doesn't require identity.
It's far from impossible, or I wouldn't have to try to figure out which developer accounted for which kexts and whether I should just remove them instead of granting permissions for something like twenty developers when I upgraded to macOS Catalina.
The current maintainer is not the original author of osxfuse/macfuse/whatever, Google is.
Russel Brand, eh? Sounds like a contribution from Sponsoring Brand ;)
If the options are

a) pay $200 more to have off-street parking, or

b) pay $200 less and fight to the death for on-street parking once or twice a week

Lots of people with cars will choose b. This presents a problem for the municipality, because now street parking is >100% full all of the time.
Plus the benefit of not being ambiguous like a lipstick emoji :)
I don't see the problem. Each branch has its own desired state as necessary. A different database version is going to need a different migration script, no matter what your approach. Only difference is whether you generate those scripts by direct comparison with prod directly or with a crude reconstruction of it.
Well, by default, nothing is available on windows.
That was because one of the contributors made a (legally sound if unsporting) copyright claim though wasn't it?
apple kept changing/breaking Api’s to try to kill vlc so that they could try make money of the paid version of the QuickTime player which then existed.

I must admit it was just comments made by VLC devs, so it’s anecdotal.
He doesn’t call google out by name but what grandparent says explains this:

> Starting with this release, redistributions bundled with commercial software ...

The question is, is google going to call his bluff and pay up or reassign some internal resources? I’m assuming they’d want their gdrive fork to work on Catalina.
Cool! What GUI toolkit do you use?
Historically speaking, common law is what we call precedent; in other words, past judicial rulings informing current ones. This tradition is strong in the US, but not without exception. English case law, however, is barely taught anymore and even Supreme Court justices can have entire careers being blissfully ignorant of it.
Why isn't a better solution to enforce an aggressive towing policy with parking fines sufficient to pay for the enforcement?

Then people who own a car without a parking space will get tired of having their car towed every single day and move into housing that has parking, and the housing without parking will be left occupied by people who don't have cars.
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I might the music interesting, sure. Then when you find out how it was created, you can discard any apparent or perceived emotional aspect of it if it wasn't created by a human, since you know it's just a simulation.
The article gives only nominal growth rates and does not mention if adjusted for inflation.
Capping the amount colleges raise tuition by each year might help.
I can recommend green tea. It has also a waking effect but not as strong as coffe and in my experience longer lasting. It is more subtle.

There are many green teas with different tastes and you have to infuse them the right way. Worth noting is that you should not use teabag green tea but loose one. The teabag tea usually has a bad quality.

If you infuse green tea you should not do it too long (usually about 1,5min) and the water should be lower than 80°C. You need to experiment there a bit to find your perfect timings.

TLDR
Green tea is worth a try, just don't use a cheap one (avoid teabags).
I did read it but didn't come to the same conclusion
Seems like an entire valid use case of BSD-licensed code. If you don't like it you shouldn't have chosen the BSD license in the first place.

Edit: Interestingly, from https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/blob/master/LICENSE.txt:

> FUSE for macOS is a fork of MacFUSE. MacFUSE has been developed by Google Inc..
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And if your phone storage use was near Max, your phone was now full. You couldn't delete the (partial) album, you you started trying to delete something else, and when it was noticed there was available space on your phone, more of the album was downloaded. Repeat, until full album was on your phone and now you're missing photos of your kids, apps you want to use, etc. Just so there's available space so your phone will run normal-like. But you can't take any new pictures...
You are mistaken. VeraCrypt supports Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. On macOS, it requires FUSE.
Most student loan is given to Women.

So only way to solve this issue today is to forgive it.
This is going to be a legal nightmare in near future.
Author is Matt Velloso, Technical Advisor to the CEO at Microsoft.

That friendly mask seems to have slipped.
Given that the main selling point of permissive licenses is that they make it easy for businesses to incorporate code into a project that can be closed-source for the sake of competitive advantage, this would seem to be an incident that might have been prevented with a license more in line with the author's motivations.
Put Trump’s face on it, call it Trump instead of King Kong, get rid off the laws.
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So does this mean his skin, hair, nails, etc now grow with the donor's characteristics?
If people are doing that, it’s fairly certain that there are marketers maintaining “humanoid” Reddit accounts which then chime in with opinions on Bluetooth headphones.
> Congress would define the militia as free, white males 18-45 in 1792 — hardly a broad application

It's a very broad application, when you consider that it is exactly the set of people who had any political rights at the moment (i.e. voting citizens), who were also deemed fit to serve.

FWIW, Congress eventually passed the Militia Act of 1903 (same one that established the National Guard and the State Defense Forces), which gave a revised definition that is still in force today, and which dropped the "white" requirement - but kept the "male" and the age range, because those were still deemed the basic criteria for any kind of military service at the time. It would make sense to update it again to remove the "male" part - but we'd probably have to fix the draft to apply to all genders equally, first.

Not that any of it matters. The point is that militia duty was the most important reason to protect RKBA from the states' perspective, hence why it was the one that ended up in the text - but that doesn't mean that it strictly defines the scope of the right. Again, looking at the state constitutions at the time, of those that are explicit about the scope of the right wrt individual self-defense, all include it, and none exclude it. The same people who wrote those, also drafted the national constitution. It would be rather surprising if they suddenly decided that it means the opposite in that case - and, indeed, from the minutes of the conventions, we know that they did not.
>(As a factual matter, I’m not sure anybody would consider customizing servers for internal use to be in competition with selling chips for commercial servers, but that seems to be Apple’s story.)

>it’s not clear what Apple’s beef is.

Consider this scenario, Apple has a Server / Mac Pro / High Power ARM Chip Design for their own use. Their employees quit and brought this design to a new company and sell it on open market.

Would this be clear where Apple's beef is?

( Hypothetically Speaking only )
Definetely a no for me. I also hate seeing commit message littering with emoji and feel like the author is too lazy to find correct words. I also disagree with the "visual cue" advantage, because the emoji looks different per machine/font/terminal/OS. Plain text looks consistent every where.
And college might start costing something reasonable.
I think this whole thing was a good idea, at least for me. I've had a Keybase account since back when they were invite-only. Once this whole thing launched, I finally convinced myself to take a closer look into this crypto currency thing. Certainly an interesting topic.