Readit Newsdannyobrien commented on Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine byte.tsundoku.io... · Posted by u/chromy
This is amazing -- thank you for building this! Amusingly, I too ended up searching for British computers -- there's a good article here on the Cantabrian explosion here. https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198301-042
dannyobrien commented on Guile bindings for Sway window manager github.com/ebeem/guile-sw... · Posted by u/ducktective
See also https://github.com/engstrand-config/dwl-guile -- Guile bindings for DWL, the even more minimalistic Wayland compositor https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl
dannyobrien commented on VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project · Posted by u/marcjschmidt
It's fairly unusual for FLOSS projects to register any trademark, and (despite this lack of strict IP protection) it's also very unusual for the owner of a trademark to ask or require a FLOSS project to change their name because it violates a trademark. Not completely unheard of, but still rare.
I don't know why you decided to trademark your project name, but I think the biggest issue here is that trademark law is naturally the domain of IP rightsholders and an outlook that presumes and enforces scarcity when it comes to names, name spaces, and digital content.
There aren't that many reasons why FLOSS projects need to work within that same domain. My thought is that it is better to try and defend the environment of a digital commons that exists outside of them, than to enter into it and try to participate in a quite alien system of existing IP law, which has a lot of presumptions and standards that, as you say, don't really match the world you work within.
dannyobrien commented on Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why stayathomemacro.substack.... · Posted by u/paulpauper
> > the issue is that the GP's premise ("When super-rich people receive money, it goes mostly to tax havens, removing it from circulation.") is invalid.
> Is it?
Yes, it is an inaccurate belief. The super-rich don't take most of the money (did the person mean money or did they mean wealth?) they receive, remove it from the economic system, and stash it unproductively in a tax haven.
I mean, apart from the open question of whether the majority of money gets moved into tax havens, if the money is out of the economic system entirely, won't it just inflate away? I presume rich people want to put their money in instruments that return interest, which means that it has to be used /somehow/. I mean, potentially just speculative assets like gold or art, but those are high risk.
dannyobrien commented on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
For anyone interested in this author’s book on Tor, it’s available for free download! https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-D... (full disclosure: i work for MIT Press)
It's a really good book! I was on the very edges of this scene for a chunk of the time described, and I thought it managed to catch a lot of the complexities without picking one possible narrative over another.
Plus I learned a lot -- it came out of some academic research that pursued a unique angle: finding and talking to the Tor exit node operators about their experiences, rather than just say the developers, the executives, or the funders.
Can recommend. Always a little crazy, always insanely cheap. If it doesn't work out, you can just switch to another provider.