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openthc commented on Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal   cnbc.com/2026/02/24/paypa... · Posted by u/nodesocket
sieep · 19 days ago
Someone new will arise to fill the market gap if there is demand. Saw it firsthand here with the Marijuana industry in Michigan shifting around payment providers to accept credit card transactions after it was legalized. A lot of hoops had to be jumped through. I think it still has the potential to be bad, but it does give opportunities.
openthc · 19 days ago
If you had any pointers I'd be grateful
openthc commented on Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal   cnbc.com/2026/02/24/paypa... · Posted by u/nodesocket
openthc · 19 days ago
Not good. Stripe rejects anyone even close to the regulated cannabis space (with no room for appeal) but PayPal will accept these tranctions. So, this would put a non-zero amount of businesses (that don't even touch that deadly, deadly plant) in a tight spot with this monopolisation of the industry.
openthc commented on Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress   theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/beardyw
inversetelecine · 8 months ago
Does Linux have a stable and reliable remote desktop server yet? Using Wayland.

I love being able to remote into my home PC and experience near lag-free use via RDP. I've tried the Gnome and KDE implementations but they aren't that great as a user who just wants to connect and use the PC.

I found the gnome one confusing, as it had two options. One had to be logged into locally and unlocked first. The other didn't I believe but there was some other gotcha. Maybe having signed in once but then locked the session. I do remember not being able to RDP from a fresh reboot which made me think the machine failed to boot. KDE's implementation I think also suffered from having to log in locally first.

I've made use of Sunshine and Moonlight for now. It works, but it's meant more for gaming. No copy and paste, more bandwidth or more cpu/gpu cycles, etc.

openthc · 8 months ago
Have you checked out https://github.com/selkies-project/selkies ?

""Open-Source Low-Latency Accelerated Linux WebRTC HTML5 Remote Desktop Streaming Platform for Self-Hosting, Containers, Kubernetes, or Cloud/HPC""

openthc commented on Gumroad’s source is available   github.com/antiwork/gumro... · Posted by u/philipjoubert
udev4096 · a year ago
What a joke of a license. This is not open source. Why the fuck is everyone in VC land trying to change the true definition of open source?
openthc · a year ago
Which is super bullshit; cause now offering open source solutions many folk see it as a trick!
openthc commented on Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law   fedscoop.com/agencies-mus... · Posted by u/speckx
openthc · a year ago
We create open-source software and attempt to get government agencies to adopt/use it. It's crazy how alergic these agencies are to open-source. Some will even create their own, with legacy style implementations (csv uploads, broken parsers), complete with bugs/flaws that are predicatble rather than use someone elses code.

When responding to RFPs, the open-source stuff has an a higher level of scrutinty than the closed systems. Like, if it's open then you have to show it's good but if it's closed the vendor just says "yep, we are perfect" and the agency could move on. It feels like the agency, and the employees don't want any responsibility. But I've never seen anyone lose their government job from some incompetence.

openthc commented on Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States   nature.com/articles/s4159... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
to11mtm · a year ago
Wouldn't composting risk having the pesticides go into the next crop further contaminating?

Although, to your point, they can just sell it to the nearby farms growing stuff we eat that isn't tested the same way...

openthc · a year ago
Typically, and USA specific, the rules are to grind it up, mix with equal parts existing dirt/compost and then it's OK. So that dilutes it by half; then this compost is spread around and, like you said, can be used for other crops. Also, as the material sits in the compost pile, which should be agitated, the pesticides will leach out/break down.

I just got a message from WA-LCB today with updated pesticide information, working with WSU, so here's some details -- https://agr.wa.gov/departments/cannabis/pesticide-use

And here's the Action Limits defined in WA law: https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=314-55-108

openthc commented on Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States   nature.com/articles/s4159... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
openthc · a year ago
Another thing that happens to outdoor grown cannabis is pesticide contamination. Even if your farm is a good distance from some commercial agriculture, if they spray it can, and does, contaminate your crop -- which for regulated cannabis requires destruction. Literally burning (or composting) thousands of dollars of product.

And if the pesticides test are hot on the cross-contaminated cannabis; how much is on those apples three fields over?

openthc commented on From where I left   antirez.com/news/144... · Posted by u/tilt
openthc · a year ago
Another thing that kinds of sucks about this whole "license rug-pull" kind of business is that other teams (like ours) who are publishing open-source software/tools are now suspects too.

Folk ask themselves, why contribute to this thing (MIT/GPL licenses) if there some for-profit entity involved?

Folk can't take us at face-value (I'd argue demonstrated value) and level (unfounded) accusations at us; because some other player did things "dirty".

Well, other folk wanted to pay for support/customisation and in USA you make a for-profit entity to do that. So the corporate part of the open-source project is, nearly, a requirement.

openthc commented on Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned   theverge.com/games/2024/9... · Posted by u/nickcotter
umanwizard · 2 years ago
Every time I hear it I think of the restaurant on Capitol Hill in Seattle.
openthc · 2 years ago
Bong shop in Berkeley, CA

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