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C and C++?

They’ve checked in my code in their own repository, using an automated tool that keeps track of its origin so they can still check for updates. (The build tool knows to check this directory before trying to pull in dependencies from elsewhere)

One benefit to them is that their build won’t break if I decide to delete that specific repository (see also: the left-pad incident) or do silly things with version tags (deleting versions, or re-tagging a different commit with the same version number, that sort of thing).

But more relevantly for this thread, it also means that if I release a new version and they upgrade to it, the PR on their repository won’t just be incrementing a version number in go.mod and adding an unreadable hash to go.sum: the diff will show all the changes I’ve made since the version they previously used.

I may have slightly misremembered the license text (subsection 4c):

You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files;

So I guess technically you only need to indicate that you have changed the files, not what you’ve changed in them. I suppose that’s less burdensome because it only needs to be done once per file at most.

I don’t think so, no.

Leaving aside the fact that I don’t want to do that:

They’ve quite sensibly vendored my library, so I’d have to hope they pull in updates without checking the code changes: since it’s such a tiny library (excluding tests but including fairly extensive comments, it’s less than 100 lines of quite readable code) I don’t think it’d be easy to get it past their code review system if I tried to sneak in enough code to take down entire companies.

Also, my GitHub account is tied to my real-world identity, so I’d probably be in a lot of trouble if I somehow succeeded.

For MIT, why do you care? That’s perfectly fine and explicitly allowed by the license. Same for Apache, but with a few extra requirements (like keeping a list of changes in the source code and preserving licensing information etc.).

As for how I know big corporations are using my code: the fact that a prominent project (publicly used by several tech giants) took a dependency on one of my tiny (permissively licensed) library packages is probably a clue.

[EDIT: removed now that the original is fixed]

Have you considered putting alias htop=btop (or equivalent) in your shell profile?

This was my immediate suspicion as well, as soon as I read that it would leak for a GET but not a HEAD.

Somehow my .gitconfig seems to have grown by about 20 lines after reading this article. How mysterious…

If this is something you run into often, it’s likely still only for a limited number of servers? ssh and scp both respect .ssh/config, and I suspect (but haven’t tested) that sftp does too. If you add something like this to that file:

Host host1 host2
  Port 8080

then SSH connections to hosts named in that first line will use port 8080 by default and you can leave off the -p/-P when contacting those hosts. You can add multiple such sections if you have other hosts that require different ports, of course.

Assuming they went to signed 64-bit time, it should be about 3:28:32 pm UTC on Sunday, December 4, 292277026596. Yes, that last number is a year.

If they have the root access typically needed to reboot a server¹ they could also just wipe the logs without rebooting.

¹: GUIs typically have a way to reboot without such privileges, but those are typically not installed on machines just used as servers.

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Two words: underfloor heating.

When walking around barefoot, warm tiles are so much nicer than cold ones.

Is that why I haven’t had any problems? I thought it was either Google A/B testing again or my ad blocker updating often enough to keep up, but I do have a user-agent changer installed in Firefox that’s configured to tell YouTube I’m on Chrome…

They have a tag in the main page to point to it but browsers don’t really surface that anymore I guess?

There’s a Firefox addon to fix that. It’s called RSSPreview, but besides providing previews it also adds a little button to the address bar on sites that have tags like that so you can find the feeds in the first place.

If a deaf person decides to get an implant, or their (hearing?) parents decide for them, and later decides they no longer want it then it’s pretty much reversible, right? They can just not turn it on, or perhaps even have it removed again?

This article is talking about gene therapy, not an assistive device. It’s probably a much more permanent decision.

Given the state of US politics, what are the odds a “commitment” like this will survive the next election cycle?

According to Halioua’s post, breeding large dogs for their size caused elevated levels of IGF-1, a hormone that promotes cell growth. Though this hormone contributes to the animals’ great size, it also hastens their aging. LOY-001 reduces the levels of IGF-1 in large and giant dog breeds, extending healthy life spans.

Would that also cause them to grow to smaller sizes? (I suppose that may depend on whether this drug is administered before or after the dog is full-grown though)

The Tasks.org android app (and Astrid, its predecessor) have been my external brain for over a decade now. Reminders which automatically repeat on a configured interval (if necessary) are just extremely useful.

I don’t use it for actual appointments with other people (dentist, game night with friends, etc.), those go in a calendar app¹. But one-time reminders and everything that’s even remotely on a timed interval (household chores, paying bills, scheduling car maintenance², “check if a new book is out in that series I like”), those live in my tasks list.

I then use the Todo Agenda widget to show both calendar appointments and tasks in a single overview.

¹: Google Calendar in my case, which is not open source. But something like NextCloud would probably work too.

²: The task is to make an appointment with my car guy. The appointment itself then gets put in my calendar app.