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I agree with B. Gates and hopefully the crypto bubble will burst again with massive bank ran to sell their assets (it will happen but no-one knows when). Good luck


I hope to see some more alternatives to Google as the search results provided by Google last six months contain in most of the case some phishing/scam sites.

Not sure why these pages aren't removed from the result lists?


About the smart home space, there is also Home Assistant which basically provides all the tools to keep everything isolated from internet.


Did they figure out who were behind these attacks? These seems to be quite sophisticated and quite long taking attacks to dig so deeply into SO system.


I liked the pre-popup era, then the popups appeared, then browsers/extensions tried to kill these. Now EU created Cookie law which brought again back these awesome popups which you need to confirm on every page in a different way. Seems like popups is the solution to everything to get your attention. :)


For me Apple Watch is missing the key features

- Always on display

- I would like to charge the watch only once a month

Nice to have list:

- GPS tracking possibility

- Mobile notifications

Currently Amazfit Bip fills the checkboxes for all the requirements so I continue using that :)


I don’t care about the display, they should make a version without it. I would love to be able to have just the sensors and Health integration, but I don’t wear watches and the Apple Watch is to expensive and intrusive if you just want the health tracking.


The Apple Watch has had an always-on display for 2 generations now.


It seems the repeating topic which get's heated up again this time release of a documentary.


Would be good if someone adds an explanation why this new approach is better, is it that the OCaml is faster, more efficient algorithms were used, etc?


I tried to explain it on the Performance section and on the report

https://github.com/davesnx/query-json#performance https://github.com/davesnx/query-json/blob/master/benchmarks...

But all explanations aren't based by any evidence, just asumptions.


I have been using a single text (markdown) file for at least five years instead of the todo list I usually write what is done during the day and sometimes add important tasks that need to be done. I try to keep everything fairly plain and avoid overcomplicating the structure. For me this provides an easy way to go over the history, usually try to document more complex devops operations, decisions etc.

I use Sublime to keep the document open there, works really well with larger files.

Each day begins with separating section: # 08.02.2020 # ... # 09.02.2020 #


I have been using ZeroTier(https://www.zerotier.com/) much simpler solution to setup.


Doesn't sound like it's Open Source to me.

"A commercial license is only needed if you want to offer a paid network management service or embed it into a proprietary device or app."

I would stay away from software that wants to restrict how you use it.


From their site:

> commercial license is only needed if you want to offer a paid network management service or embed it into a proprietary device or app.

A cursory look suggests that it's open source, with restrictions that they clearly list on their site here[0]. I get your point, but I personally don't mind if a business open sources their software and allows free use of it for non commercial cases.

[0] https://www.zerotier.com/pricing/


That's not open source. They make the source available but open source does not restrict what you can do with it other than sometimes requiring that you share the source for your binaries.


Open source just means you have or can get access to the source. FOSS Free open source software also gives you the rights to use the source.


>Open source just means you have or can get access to the source.

No, that is "source-code available". "Open source" was defined over 20 years ago by this document and that is still how most software people still use the term: https://opensource.org/osd


RMS wrote about free software and open source (which is different):

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....


RMS has basically single handedly tried to push "Open source can be proprietary, only free software is good" Every other orgs definition has had Open source mean the actual license is open.

"Free software" is also an absolutely awful term because for 99.9% of the population "free" means it didn't cost them any money. This will never change no matter how hard RMS tries because its a very common and understood word.


According to RMS, in the link posted above:

> The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the same range of programs.

and he definitely doesn't claim that open source is proprietary.


FOSS implies restrictions on the developer in the service of end-user freedom, eg. copyleft and anti-tivoization.

Open source implies nearly unlimited rights for the developer, like BSD, MIT, or Apache.

With these idiosyncratic restrictions (noncommercial, research only, do no evil, etc) we typically say “disclosed source.”


>Open source implies nearly unlimited rights for the developer, like BSD, MIT, or Apache.

Wrong: the GPL for example is defined as open-source by the Open Source Initiative (source: https://opensource.org/licenses) -- a fact that has not changed since the coining of the term "open source" over 20 years ago.


> FOSS implies restrictions on the developer in the service of end-user freedom

No it doesn't. You're thinking of copyleft licenses. FOSS is not synonymous with copyleft; many FOSS licenses (recognized as such by RMS and the FSF) are not copyleft.


Whoa, you’re right. I definitely remember reading a tirade against permissive licenses that I thought was FSF’s position, but I see they do explicitly recognize permissive licenses as Free Software.


Thats RMS's fringe definition of OS but the widely accepted OSI definition is that open source software does not restrict your rights to commercial use.


Open source and the developer's choice of license that let you do or not do something are two separate matters.


They aren't. The open source definition requires allowing commercial use https://opensource.org/osd

Many closed source programs and libraries allow the users to see and modify the source code for their own use but that doesn't make them open source.


Their library version is GPL-3.0, so I'd say while everything might not be open source, some of their utilities are: https://github.com/zerotier/libzt


> Doesn't sound like it's Open Source to me

Your parent's comment didn't even mention the open source issue here. Stop harassing startups with open source products just because you make 6 figure merely doing nothing all year.


You could also use https://tailscale.com which has, subjectively, a much nicer UI and iOS integration.


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