> sell
curl isn't sold.
Open-source projects still have to sell themselves to get users (marketing/"devrel"). curl's author definitely makes money from curl: https://curl.se/support.html
Readit Newsjohnsoft commented on No Easter Eggs in Curl daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
johnsoft commented on No Easter Eggs in Curl daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
Hang on, this exact situation is like if I make a cake, and as people walk by and see it, they want a slice too. So I say "sure have a slice, its free cake, I made it for myself but it's also free for you".
The person who decides that their steakhouse is going to make my free cake the centerpoint of their dessert cart and then expresses dismay that I like cream cheese icing on my free cake can fuck right off and bake their own cake.
In this case the author is saying that they don't do easter eggs because it would cause an erosion of trust, and that's fine, that's their prerogative and I get it. HOWEVER, let us not be fooled that there isn't an outrage contingent waiting to pounce every time someone dares to make free software the way it is most useful/accurate/fulfilling for themselves. This causes a chilling effect for a portion of us who write free software.
Quoting the article,
>curl is installed in some ten billion installations to date and we are doing everything we can to be responsible and professional to make sure curl can and will be installed in many more places going forward.
If you want to sell ten billion cakes and beyond, you better do your market research and listen to customer feedback
johnsoft commented on Zrythm: A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation zrythm.org/en/index.html... · Posted by u/Tomte
It's a grey area. There are quite a few open source audio apps that ship with ASIO support, some of them even GPL licensed. AFAICT, the problem is that Steinberg forbids redistribution of the SDK which would conflict with the GPL. Now, if you would get a license agreement from Steinberg and just don't include the SDK in your source code (to comply with Steinberg's terms), who is going to sue you for not complying with the GPL?
Once upon a time, Google copied the Java APIs. Oracle sued Google. Google won.
We now have precedent. What's stopping someone from copying the ASIO APIs and shipping a compatible SDK?
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johnsoft commented on CPython's main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly twitter.com/ethanhs/statu... · Posted by u/bobbiechen
I guess that would be prohibitively large for some uses.
I’d expect MicroPython (or Lua/mruby/etc) could be an order of magnitude smaller. Still larger (and slower) than just using JavaScript, though.
I once had to squeeze CPython down for embedding into a mobile app. I ran our workload under strace so I could include only the needed parts of the stdlib, and ended up with just under 3MB zipped. That's probably about the theoretical size limit.
Why are VMs so bad at virtualizing?
An ideal VM should be indistinguishable from a real machine.
For example a virtualized system running Android should generate fake IMU data, not sit at 0 linear acceleration all the time. And have a real-looking fake IMEI, not a string of 0s.
Real hardware is finicky and complex. It would be very slow to virtualize every hardware device in a system to a level not distinguishable to software. If you do shoot for complete accuracy (e.g. projects like 86Box), you take at least a ~100x performance hit, and also lose out on useful features like dragging files into/out of the VM.
SHA-1 as cryptography was broken in 2005. The first collision created by humans was in 2017.
See https://shattered.it for the practicals.
SHAttered is a collision attack. A collision attack is easier than a preimage attack. There are no known preimage attacks against SHA-1.
EasyOS might be targeted elsewhere? Compared to say debian/ubuntu/rhel
Even more interesting is EasyOS's official install instructions[2] seem to tell you to download a live CD ISO for an old version, and move from there to the latest version. I guess they're not completely free of needing ISOs just yet.
[1] Obviously excluding things like virt-install. I'm talking about live booting an interactive OS or installer.
[2] https://easyos.org/install/easy-frugal-installation.html, search for "Easy live-CD"