In some cases it works, in some it doesn’t. PostgreSQL for example for huge support after Oracle got control of MySQL, despite the license.

There are some red flags for me:

• first I doubt anyone compiled the code themselves and use what’s in the app store
• the insistence to be tied to the phone number
• refusing to work if you don’t update (in the app store)

Did you compile and use that on your phone or are you using the app in the app store?

Do we know how it does that. Signal is praised for security, but a lot of things it does feel iffy and don’t make me trust it.

To add to that. Russian government was demanding to be able to access messages or will ban Telegram in the country.

Did not hear anything beyond that, but Telegram continues to operate there.

Why not take the v-chip approach have standards where sites report what kind of content they contain and have browsers implement a filter. If a filter is enabled and a site doesn’t have designation then it will be filtered by default.

Then have a law with teeth to go after anyone who misreports the content.

This feels like it could accomplish the goal without jeopardizing privacy.

If I had this requirement I would just generate a file of specific size, place it on one server and on the other I would have a shell script running via cron and measure the time it took to download the file.

It seems like a relatively simple problem.

BTW are you sure you want to test download speed and not latency? I think some routers might have the later built in.

So first of all, your mom is reluctant in letting others know where she lives. It has nothing to do with rights but with decency and respecting her wishes.

As when it comes to your rights, actually you have very little as an adult. Technically now your mom could say that you have to move out and if she did that you would be on your own even if that would mean being homeless.

Since you are so eager to go on a date, asking about your rights wrt your mom I think you likely don’t understand why your mom is concerned and sound like an easy prey to someone that can just use you and you will deeply regret shortly after.

Why not meet someone in normal circumstances (like school, work etc) instead dating strangers?

Remember that having additional privileges is a small part of being adult, much bigger are responsibilities that you get and consequences of bad decisions that you make.

Don’t start your adult life with something you might regret.

It’s funny that kids wish they were adults while adults wish they were kids again.

I guess no one offered anything for .internal

I didn’t think about it, though if that makes it harder to track it (can’t they just check the user agent?) could that actually be good, as the sites will never know exactly how many users they will lose, so might be more hesitant to pull the trigger?

Absolutely. If you think you can switch when chrome will be completely hostile it will be too late.

The reason they are trying those things in chrome is because the market share of Firefox is currently low. They are counting that you won’t have the option to run Firefox anymore, because sites will stop supporting it. Don’t let that happen.

For writing an application GPL is fine if you don’t want anyone to profit from your work and if they make changes, contribute back.

Things are a little bit more complex if you are writing a library or code that is meant to be included in another application.

If you use GPL you might get rejected even by other open source applications, as GPL might be understandable as it will change license off the application or be outright incompatible.

This was the case with cursor library after author changed license everyone stopped using it: https://github.com/GijsTimmers/cursor/commit/885156333ac9ca335a587b1dd08964074313f026

The most ironic thing is that he created package from stack overflow answer:

https://github.com/GijsTimmers/cursor/blob/master/cursor/cursor.py

The original author never said they are releasing copyright or are making it public domain.

We saw other similar news from China which turned out to be a bunk. I wouldn’t hold my breath. I would love to be wrong though.

This is not “perfect is enemy of good” it would be if I was arguing about MIT vs GPL etc.

By signing CLA you’re surrendering copyright to the company and this allows them do do whatever they wish with your contribution, including switching back to closed source.

Hashicorp was able to change license of their products exactly thanks to CLA.

Yes, thanks for pointing it out. As long as it is some organization that can’t be bought it should be fine. I didn’t included that because it makes my response more confusing.

Essentially CLA gives the entire copyright to specific entity and that entity in case of FSF it likely could use it for fighting violations, while some startup likely intends to change license when their product gets more popular to cash out on it (for example what Hashicorp did recently before selling to IBM)

They just want to get profit from the purchase but they are no longer competitive.

Looks like they are looking for suckers to contribute to their code base for free without even making it actually open source.

IMO at this point WinAmp does not offer anything beyond name recognition and nostalgia. Isn’t qmmp essentially an open source version of WinAmp?

I disagree.

CLA gives them total ownership of the code (all contributors are surrendering their copyright), and allows them to change license at any point in time, including making it closed source.

If you’re contributing code to a project with CLA you’re not contributing to Open Source, you’re working for a company for free.

That’s how I understand Mastodon’s meant to work. You have your instance like you do a mail server, then you have full control over it.

Is it possible that the suggestions Windows is giving you don’t perceive them as ads?

Don’t you have any news, and other suggestions on the taskbar, lock screen etc? Also, are you in the EU?