Cool idea. Just a heads-up that the Demo link at the bottom of the page leads to a 403.
Readit News> We’re building an open-source chat that works
As long as you have Pricing on your website your product is not open source in the true spirit of open sourceness. It is open code for sure but it is a business and so incentive is to run it like a business which will conflate with how the project is used by the community.
Btw, there is nothing wrong with that but let's be honest here if you get this funded (perhaps it already is) who are you going to align your mission with - the open source community or shareholders? I don't think you can do both. Especially if a strong competitor comes along that simply deploys the same version of the product. We have seen this story many times before.
Now, this is completely different from let's say Onyx being an enterprise search product where you create a community-driven version. You might say that fundamentally it is the same code but the way it is presented is different. Nobody will think this is open-source but more of "the source is available" if you want to check.
I thought perhaps it will benefit to share this prospective here if it helps at all.
Btw, I hear good things about Onyx and I have heard that some enterprises are already using it - the open-source version.
> As long as you have Pricing on your website your product is not open source in the true spirit of open sourceness.
It's an MIT license. That IS open source.
If they have a commercial strategy - that's a GoodThing. It means they have a viable strategy for staying in business, and keeping the project maintained.
MIT == OpenSource. Pricing == Sustainable. That's a horse worth backing IMO.
The license on this project is pretty confusing. The license at the root of the project links to backend/cc/LICENSE.md which says you need a subscription license to use the code.
Can you call it open source if you need a subscription license to run / edit the code?
It's not really confusing at all.
Content under backend/ee requires a license, everything else is MIT Expat. Pretty standard stuff.
> Can you call it open source if you need a subscription license to run / edit the code?
MIT is open source, their other stuff isn't. Pretty clear.
I was doing some client work recently at a bank
Having worked for a bank I will add my jaded opinion. Throw logic out of the window. Banks have their own regulations, history and internal policies. Finding a job is hard right now so one may have to grin and just accept it. Don't think too much about it.
Ask them if you can use VMWare or VirtualBox in the virtual desktop and get a VMWare license assigned to you. It's clunky but something they might actually have and may save some headaches. If this is an option ask them which Linux ISO is permitted and where it is.
How common is this?
Very common for a bank especially for offshore or remote employees.
Also, curious what kinds of workarounds people are using?
Nobody outside of the bank will like this answer. Ask them what work around is permitted within the policy. If your questions are always without emotion and always centered around policy they may grow to like you and with time you may earn more trust than others making your job just a little easier.
Thanks!
I've finished up there now, so this is purely retrospective.
For them - the workaround (sadly) was -- a lack of testing.
I was really surprised that in a heavily regulated environment (this project faced off to a regulator) Integration testing (which has gotten really easy on the JVM thanks to stuff like TestContainers) just didn't exist.
That could be symptom of a broader lack of a test-driven culture though.
If they run in one dev env, (for cost reasons), it is preferably in Docker is VERY expensive if you are not using it for personal, noncommercial usage now ...
VDI VM in VM often not ideal aswell,
Docker is paid per seat monthly subscription for commercial usages
The block was not for docker license cost reasons - it was part compliance, and part an issue with the underlying VDI VM they were using.
The onshore team were able to use Docker, but not offshore.
Forcing the head of your news organization to resign every time a politician criticizes your reporting, doesn't seem like a great way to build trust in the media.
That's not what happened here. The BBC edited footage to make it appear that Trump said something he didn't in the leadup to the Jan-6 riots.
My personal biases are pretty strongly in favour of the BBC, but what they did here was really bad. It's appropriate that heads roll. I wish more orgs would have the same level of accountability.
martypitt commented on Show HN: A fast, privacy-first image converter that runs in browser imageconverter.dev/... · Posted by u/wainguo
Congrats on shipping.
However, the "Privacy First" and "No Ads" claim gets eroded pretty quickly by cookies, and requests to trackers like n.clarity.ms, google-analytics and adtrafficquality.google.
Note - I don't actually have an issue with any of those things - if you wanna monetize this service through analytics and ads, that's up to you. But it's at odds with your privacy first claims.
> “It’s never about replacing craft, it’s about expanding the toolbox. The vision, the taste, the leadership … that will always be human,” she said.
> “And here’s the part people don’t see: the hours that went into this job far exceeded a traditional shoot. Ten people, five weeks, full-time.”
That response sounds like it was written by ChatGPT, which is a fantastic piece of tone-deaf irony from the creators.