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nathas commented on Open Source Maintenance Fee github.com/wixtoolset/iss... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

rock_artist · 5 months ago

I've used WiX for a specific project in my work when I've needed MSI.

TBH, enforcing maintenance fee for anyone who makes revenue feels unfair.

There are other open-source libraries that has dual-license with some kind of GPL variant and a commercial license. but there's at least some threshold.

Imagine indie developer or someone who wants to try and create something but without much revenue (eg 1k / year). so 10% of your revenue goes to the installer of your product...

I'm all in sponsoring open-source and investing in software but part of being sustainable is making it accessible. so maybe that indie developer who used WiX for their indie project ended up going to 100k/year and now can contribute. But if originally it was capped, they might choose other solution that fits the "indie" tight budget better.

nathas · 5 months ago

> Small organization (< 20 people): $10/mo

If you went to 100k/year and still a solo dev, that's just 0.12% of your ARR. The percentages here are meaningless; $10/month should be doable for anyone that wants to run a business, even someone solo.

nathas commented on Microsoft's big lie: Your computer is fine, and you don't need to buy a new one technical.ly/civic-news/w... · Posted by u/FlipperPA

marcusb · 6 months ago

> Microsoft has a long history of playing fast-and-loose with the truth. And that’s again the case with Windows 10 coming to its supposed “end of life” this fall.

I can’t take an article seriously, whatever merits it might have, if this is the opening gambit.

“End of life” is a fairly common term of art amongst software and hardware OEMs. Windows 10 is going to be end of life. No scare quotes needed.

nathas · 6 months ago

This probably refers to the fact that Windows XP still has support contracts. Microsoft commonly calls their software EOL and then supports it for 5+ years. I don't think that's a bad thing, but they tend to use it more as a marketing term than a true hard line where security fixes stop going out.

nathas commented on Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS litdb.dev/... · Posted by u/crummy

mythz · a year ago

Right, it's effectively a spiritual port of our C# LINQ OrmLite library [1].

I've been using a lot of bun:sqlite [2] lately which has an amazing DX and lets you create lots of stand-alone .ts scripts (i.e. without deps) to access SQLite DB's. The only issue is that I didn't want all my SQL queries to be coupled to a single driver, so I created litdb to provide a RDBMS-agnostic API + Query Builders so all my queries could easily be run on different DBs.

TypeScript has an amazingly powerful type system which let me build the ideal abstraction I wanted where I could use expressive SQL Expressions but still have typed references to our App's classes (tables) / properties (columns) to benefit from static analysis/intelli-sense during development whilst making it safe to refactor / find references / etc.

Things that are hard/impossible in C# is easy in TypeScript, e.g. the QueryBuilders lets you have a variable number of generic args which isn't possible in C# also it was much easier to support composable queries [3] than trying to combine multiple LINQ queries with shared references.

[1] https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/

[2] https://bun.sh/docs/api/sqlite

[3] https://litdb.dev/#composable

nathas · a year ago

Thanks for the detailed explanation! I think it would be great to drop this (or something like this) in the project README.

nathas commented on Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS litdb.dev/... · Posted by u/crummy

nathas · a year ago

Hmmm I've recently been evaluating https://www.kysely.dev after finding that Prisma can't support foreign data warehousing (FDW) with Postgres.

I don't really know enough about Kysely yet to make an informed opinion between those two. If you know more than me, can you give me your take??

Edit: Hmmm perhaps based on the primary author's other repos (https://github.com/mythz) it looks like they're a fan of C#. Perhaps it's the LINQ-like syntax that separates them the most.

nathas commented on My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan watilo.com/my-domain-regi... · Posted by u/corywatilo

nathas · a year ago

Have you looked at FolioHD? It's geared towards photographers and artistic types that want a really nice portfolio website.

Paying an amount that is just-above-market-rate for a domain and not needing to understand how to configure DNS for someone non-technical seems like an absolutely worth-while reseller case.

nathas commented on Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/gmays

volkk · a year ago

i would pay so much money to never hear another one of the trite reddit retorts around russian bots as soon as someone hears something they disagree with

nathas · a year ago

Good news, I haven't been on reddit for years.

The bots are real, regardless of what either of our opinions are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y

It's odd when certain topics - vaccines being one of them - come in with a flurry of comments when it isn't even highly upvoted. Especially when you have some drivel as the top comment saying Gates flew on the "lolita express" and some link to Prince Phillip. Ooookay? What about the article?

nathas commented on Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/gmays

nathas · a year ago

Hear hear. Everyone arguing against this seems to want the permanent, forever solution. There isn't one. This isn't software - it's reducing harm over time as best we can, and it's a fight that will take approximately the rest of human time.

The argument that we created a bioweapon is like... and? We also have nerve agents and gas and nukes. It's like everyone posting here exists in some other reality where they never talked to another human in a grocery store. We all get along as best we can.

nathas commented on Nobody Cares About Security adatosystems.com/2024/09/... · Posted by u/mooreds

nathas · a year ago

Strong agree. I'll tell you the other reason not cited: it slows down organizations. Doing things right to avoid the (seemingly) small chance at being massively wrong is the inverse of the bet that doing many different things quickly has a small chance at a massive payout.

Let's say I'm an executive and I think there's a 1% chance of a breach that costs me 100x and a 1% chance of a 100x payout on every project.

I have 2 projects that each make $X. Let's say $X is $1000. 1 project will go from $X to $X/100 based on breach, so it's now worth $10. 1 project will go from $X to $X*100. It's now worth $100,000.

I went from making $2000 to $99,990.

This goes back to the argument about fines. They aren't NEARLY severe enough. If I'm an executive at a big company, I may enforce greater security on the "cash cow" projects (e.g. ad revenue and GSuite at Google [but not the Pixel or GCloud], AWS and Retail at Amazon [but not Alexa, Kindle, etc]) but the rest? I need to get ANOTHER cash cow. If my service that's only netting me $1M/year goes to $0, and I needed a service that would make $1B, I literally do not care.

If adding in-depth security to the $1M/year project makes delivery 2x slower, I've now spent 2x on something that probably wasn't even worth it. This is a game of stats; businesses and features as cattle not pets. I'd rather have 2 projects and another dice roll than 1 project that's just "meh".

That's not how I operate, but if you're playing this game as an executive, that's the most logical outcome.

nathas commented on UltimateAntiCheat github.com/AlSch092/Ultim... · Posted by u/skibz

Etheryte · a year ago

Just like any software, game cheats are build once, sell as many times as you can. If a game is popular, this can be a very lucrative business. The fact that game developers will play the cat and mouse game with you to block you out only adds to this fact, as so long as you can keep up, you can get repeat customers.

nathas · a year ago

Now I want to read an article about the economics of selling game hacks. I just assumed they weren't really worth the investment to build since the number of people that want to cheat seems low.

After typing that I realize this is like coming to understand just how many people are on steroids to get a physique they want. It's like nah no one takes steroids except EVERY HUGE PERSON you've ever seen, barring the extremely rare genetic outliers.

Fascinating.