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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • We have a scanner that does that on every build.

    It blocks builds for dependencies with

    • licenses not acceptable to Legal
    • serious or critical vulnerabilities.
    • political messages, even if you agree with them
    • we may also add a criteria to block non-release dependencies.

    As a developer, you’re free to use anything that works

    I have yet to figure out how my company views contributing back to open source. I don’t know of anyone actively doing that, but it turns out we host a few originals of open source. I’ve been trying to improve development processes, get tools and dependencies up to date …… but then I ran into things where it’s a bigger change because of the downstream opensource dependencies and because it’s not really owned by the company


  • No one brought up ai yet? No, srsly ……

    My opinion on these licenses is theoretical since I haven’t actually developed any open source.

    However an analogous scenario which DOES affect me, and most people here ….

    • I’ve posted my opinion online in various places. Offered freely to the public to do as they please.
    • I’m fine with companies making money off providing the aggregate of such efforts to the public, such as by advertising. However my pseudonym retains credit and the audience is open

    All well and good until AI came along and everyone sees a potential jackpot. And there’s Reddit, wanting a bigger share of that jackpot. They’ve taken the idea a step farther and I’m not ok with it. I guess I don’t like the restrictions and I don’t like the extra levels of profiteering: Reddit makes money off providing my content in a limited form to private companies. They in turn make money off AI trained by my content, to a limited audience and there is no longer a portion credited to my pseudonym. Technically they’re in the right since I never thought to prevent this scenario, but they’re not using it in the way I expected/intended/ was told







  • I’ve been wondering about that, since my Firestick became so shitty that I actually prefer streaming apps on my TV. Most of my devices are already on Apple, so how about this one?

    • I like fewer ads
    • if it’s like the Apple TV app, there’s too much pressure to buy stuff I’m never going to buy.

    So, on the home screen, can you tell which Videos are to purchase without clicking into them? Are things you subscribe to easily distinguishable from god forsaken ad infested ones?