kinduff's comments

On: Show HN: Get e-signatures & pay per signed doc

[kinduff]

> No hidden cost

I couldn't find the price per document in the home page.

[zackify → kinduff]

Same, that’s kind of funny actually

On: MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia

[kinduff]

I've been a contributor to the project and I've been using it for years. I love the community effort.

Similar projects are also the TMDB (The Movie Database) and TVDB (Television and Film Database).

[heyoni → kinduff]

The problem with those tv and movie databases are that they’re owned by Roku and you can’t download any data dumps…you’re also relying on the good graces of a corporation that can cut you off whenever it feels like it. That was the case with IMDb and I’m still upset about that :/

[BLKNSLVR → heyoni]

Dare I invoke the CDDB transition to Gracenote and their kidnapping and subsequent licensing and gatekeeping of a swathe of publically provided data.

[mmooss → BLKNSLVR]

Could CDDB and similar have prevented such things with better licenses?

[BLKNSLVR → mmooss]

I think the only way to avoid a CDDB is to make the entire database downloadable so that someone, or a group of someones, is able to re-create it in case of disaster.

I think in the case of "great, open service" selling, the new buyer can just change the licensing, and you're out of luck. If there is a license that compels them to maintain some level of availability, you can trust them to cut it down to the absolute minimum, including rate limiting access down to a level of pointlessness.

[sumtechguy → mmooss]

Yes, if I remember correctly it was one of the reasons the CC licenses were created? But I could be remembering wrong.

[aerozol → mmooss]

Yes, that is why the MetaBrainz Foundation was created - good luck “purchasing” the MusicBrainz database :)

[Shawnecy → kinduff]

A sibling comment points out Roku ownership. A more similar project might be the Open Media Database[0].

[0] = https://www.omdb.org

On: Furnace – the biggest multi-system chiptune tracke...

[kinduff]

This is a delight. I loved the intro, had a blast from the past with the keygen exes back when.

Looks very sofisticated, gonna give it a go!

On: Ruby in Jupyter Notebook

[kinduff]

There is also jupyter_on_rails [0] which integrates both. Using it feels so good, I love how an app can suddently become a playground or a sandbox.

[0]: https://github.com/Yuki-Inoue/jupyter_on_rails

[Alifatisk → kinduff]

That's so bizzare yet cool!

On: Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background...

[kinduff]

I wouldn't blame apt-get, there are a lot of command-line tools nowadays. I don't usually install these if its not going to be a frequent task.

Anyways, if you're looking for a cmd tool, rembg [0] is a pretty good one.

[0]: https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg

On: GitHub was down

[kinduff]

Reminds me of a repository I once found when searching for Prometheus exporters.

It stated this but with Twitter; it will monitor latest tweets searching for a custom word combo and raise a server alert when found. I found it hilarious. Will post the source once GitHub is back on.

On: GitHub was down

[kinduff]

They are flipping the switches now, status page just changed.

On: Show HN: The First Non-Smart AI Pendant (NotFriend...

[kinduff]

This is hilarious, very nice parody and timing is nice too.

[Yenrabbit → kinduff]

Thank you :D

On: Chrome will now prompt some users to send password...

[kinduff]

This is a big nope. Imagine the internal meetings and chats about this.

On: Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config ma...

[kinduff]

I really like how its implemented in Rails