Readit Newsmikeortman commented on Changes to the Kubernetes Slack kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/gmemstr
Can’t be a good sign financially or technically that Slack is unable to operate a 250 000 person instance.
I think technically they can. It’s because they’re downgrading them to a free service. I’m going to venture to say that it’s a money grab on a previously generous gift by slack.
mikeortman commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Apple claiming that Liquid Glass is a technique only Apple can achieve, will be replicated, or at least indistinguishably replicated, in pure CSS... within 48 hours of today, out of spite
mikeortman commented on Getting forked by Microsoft philiplaine.com/posts/get... · Posted by u/phillebaba
I initially was going to say:
Failing to abide by the MIT license is copyright infringement. My advice is to contact these guys: https://softwarefreedom.org/ They likely can file a cease and desist on your behalf.
However, I took a closer look at the files in question. The MIT license requires that they retain and provide copyright notices, but you never put copyright notices in your files. The only place where you appear to have placed a copyright notice is in the LICENSE file:
https://github.com/spegel-org/spegel/commit/23ed0d60f66dd292...
Things become interesting when I look at their LICENSE file. They appear to have tried to relicense this to Apache 2.0 before backpedaling and reinstating the MIT license:
https://github.com/Azure/peerd/commit/473a26c808907f2d9f7b7f...
Unless they forked from a very early version of the project that did not even have the LICENSE file, they removed the sole copyright notice you had in the repository. That brings us back to my original thoughts, which is that they have committed copyright infringement, and you should contact OSS friendly lawyers about it.
I am not a lawyer, but I do contribute to various OSS projects and all of the ones to which I have ever contributed have copyright notice headers at the top of every file to ensure proper attribution is maintained no matter where that code is used. Beyond having that sole missing copyright notice reinstated, I am not sure what else you could expect since none of your files have proper copyright headers in them. The SFLC guys would be in a better position to advise you, as they are actual lawyers.
Just the absence of a license generally means the creator has all right reserved by default. You don’t need a license in every file because in much of the world copyright is given by default to the creator. A licensed file is permission to do something with that copyright material.
If it’s left anywhere in the open at anytime, you can repossess it legally as well. This happens with auto repossessions all the time. You don’t owe anyone an explanation as it’s yours - just take it if you can do so safely.
Just be careful! In SOME jurisdictions, you can get in trouble for 'stealing' if you take back something that was stolen. Possession vs Ownership are 2 different things. For instance, the thief may have stolen something, sold it to someone who bought it in good-faith, and you take it back from that person, it's technically theft!
File a police report, go through the right channels. If you know its yours, call the police department non-emergency and explain the situation
mikeortman commented on Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/jihadjihad
Artificially aiming to increase natural attrition through requiring employees to make like-altering decisions (or else) is evil. At the bare minimum, it should be seen as a layoff.
It's wild to nitpick the licensing like this. I get why its conter-intuitive and in violation of Github's guidelines, but it's winamp, folk. It has no intrinsic value these days to update or fork outside of giving people the opportunity to learn from the tricks they had to do to make stuff work. There are solutions significantly better and open source today. 'Canceling' winamp in 2024 was not on my life's bucket list after the year 2000.
There is hypocrisy here around internet archive, it's totally OK to store copy-write content on the archive, but its not OK when a company does so on their own.
mikeortman commented on Zendesk: Email user verification bug bounty report retrospective support.zendesk.com/hc/en... · Posted by u/mmsc
I submitted a comment to this article but it's unclear if it's going to be moderated or indeed published, here's what I said:
I think it's a bit discourteous to shoo Daniel away due to an out of scope
report, then cry wolf when your clients do actually feel that this warrants
a response. The fact that you made changes to your systems in response
indicates that this wasn't as benign as it first seemed.
IMO Zendesk should do the right thing and issue a reward. An issue was
reported and ultimately resolved in some fashion. Continue to encourage
researchers to bother reporting things to you. Yes, you have a little egg
on your face due to the end-run via your clients, but that's life, Zendesk
will survive.Comments are disabled or moderated. I tried as well.
mikeortman commented on 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor gist.github.com/hackermon... · Posted by u/mmsc
Our team at Zendesk has posted some more details about this bug here:
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/8187090244506-...
You didn't provide details, you provided a defense, which is weak at best.
Its transcribing the meeting but hallucinates badly... both in fast and thinking mode. Fast mode only transcribed about a fifth of the meeting before saying its done. Thinking mode completely changed the topic and made up ENTIRE conversations. Gemini 2.5 actually transcribed it decently, just occasional missteps when people talked over each other.
I'm concerned.