This has been called a “vendor lock” for as long as I can remember. Congratulations, you’ve put yourself in a position where you can’t do your job without a single tool that can degrade or disappear at any moment.
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il-b commented on Please do not A/B test my workflow backnotprop.com/blog/do-n... · Posted by u/ramoz
Yep, that’s why my forks of all their libraries with bugs fixed such as https://github.com/pmarreck/zigimg/commit/52c4b9a557d38fe1e1... will never ever go back to upstream, just because an LLM did it. Lame, but oh well- their loss. Also, this is dumb because anyone who wants fixes like this will have to find a fork like mine with them, which is an increased maintenance burden.
> Also, this is dumb because anyone who wants fixes like this will have to find a fork like mine with them
Or a human will provide the fix?
il-b commented on Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better skir.build/... · Posted by u/gepheum
Impressive. Some interop with established standards such as OpenAPI or gRPC would make it an easier sell for non-greenfield projects
il-b commented on No right to relicense this project github.com/chardet/charde... · Posted by u/robin_reala
Look, forget the details, step back and consider the implications of the principle.
Someone should not be able to write a semi-common core utility, provide it as a public good, abandon it for over a decade, and yet continue to hold the rest of the world hostage just because of provenance. That’s a trap and it’s not in any public interest.
The true value of these things only comes from use. The extreme positions for ideals might be nice at times, but for example we still don’t have public access to printer firmware. Most of this ideology has failed in key originating goals and continues to cause headaches.
If we’re going to share, share. If you don’t want to share, don’t. But let’s not setup terminal traps, no one benefits from that.
If we flip this back around though, shouldn’t this all be MPL and Netscape communications? (Edit: turns out they had an argument about that in the past on their own issue tracker: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/36)
Fork it?
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il-b commented on Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-na... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Somehow, a CAD program, a 3D editor, a video editor, broadcasting software, a circuit simulation package, etc are all native applications with thousands of features each - yet native development has nothing to offer?
I think mc (Midnight Commander) is still one of the best TUIs available - it's very close in capability to the GUI versions (like Double Commander) and it has the benefits of tuis - like that you can run it on a remote system.
It looks outdated, but I'm actually now working on a new skin that will hopefully be included in the next release of mc.
Kudos to all mc developers!
Corporate management is full on FOMO and pushes agents down onto teams