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Comment · 3 years ago
I dunno, names are scarce and if a project fails then I don't see too much wrong with reuse of the name.
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Comment · 3 years ago
It's just such a pointless distraction. Don't make it about you? It reminds me of men who hear that women get paid less and start complaining about their own salary.

"Hey, we have this problem." "To each their own but it doesn't affect me!"

Why waste your breath to say this?

Comment · 3 years ago
Really done with this take. Show some solidarity for your peers. So you like working from the office -- good for you! Do that! But also stand up for your colleagues who don't want that. When your colleagues have fewer choices, when things like this are imposed on them, well, your preferences are not far behind from being managed themselves.
Comment · 3 years ago
Evolutionary psychology is psuedoscience.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not sure that "copyleft" is confusing or falling into disuse, I hear people talking about it without confusion pretty often. First time I've heard "reciprocal licensing".
Comment · 3 years ago
I dunno, it's just a place to store the code, and SourceHut is itself free software. I could put it on Codeberg or something, I guess, but it doesn't really seem like a big deal. Never heard anyone criticize the FSF or GNU for their use of savannah.gnu.org.
Comment · 3 years ago
I feel like it's pretty explicit:

> You are entitled to the use of any free software for any purpose, including commercial use – counter-intuitively, you can sell free software.

There are also sections which go into the utility of copyleft to mitigate some of this.

Might be worth going into more detail in a blog post.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is addressed a bit here:

https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/free-software-games/#but-...

tl;dr: access to the source code will help people develop cheats but it's not really required, your game's gonna have cheaters unless you do server side cheat mitigations.

Comment · 3 years ago
Not sure how this comes across as self-serving or what the nature of this protest is, but if you explain it in more detail perhaps I can make a correction.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Mollie.
Comment · 3 years ago
I had the opposite issue -- something like 90% of genuine payments on my account are rejected by the fraud detector on the first try and have to be retried daily for several days before going through. I exchanged over a hundred emails with support in which they read the card testing script to me, tried to upsell me on "better" fraud management tools, disregarded any details I provided to show that the activity was non-fraudulent, gave me no insights into how the fraud detector worked or why it might be giving false positives, and refused to escalate my ticket anywhere. I had to beg to be put through to an engineer who knew anything about it, and still I couldn't get past front line support. Long gone are the days where you can talk to a Stripe engineer on IRC. Really badly soured me on Stripe and I started working on plans to move away from the platform entirely.

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