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Is that a unique feature to GitHub?

No, Gitlab has it too (don't know about the others offerings). Gitlab integrates Advanced Search via Elasticsearch, last I checked they had plans to make zoekt available as an alternative.

Putting a registered trademark in your project's name is quite a brave choice. I hope they don't get a c&d letter when they get traction...


Maybe a rename to Barra. Everyone will still get the pun :)

... or Baccaruda or Baba-rara-cucu-dada (https://youtu.be/2tvIVvwXieo)

Or bacaruda.

I wonder if they could change the name to Barracuda if pressed. The capitalization is all that keeps it from being a normal English word, right?

Are you thinking of Seagate Barracuda?

They mean the CUDA part

Calling the company specialising in cyber espionage, data theft and generally human rights violations just an "analytics company"... Call it what it is cowards...

Is that the Peter Thiel dinstancing himself from the homophobic student the author calls brave (referring to the newspaper article scan).

Imagine being such an asshole that even Peter Thiel condemns you...

Oh and it also makes it very obvious that the author and I apparently don't share an understanding of what brave and daring is...


Unless you're paying you are not entitled to anything apart from forking and fixing it yourself.

You are especially not entitled to bullying maintainers as has been unfortunately the standard in infosec.

Open source is not about you.

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...

IMO more projects have to explicitly state this for example in a terms document, like https://github.com/mhoye/maintenance-terms/blob/main/MAINTEN...


> Open source is not about you.

You know a social movement went full circle when a criticism that is so scathing, you couldn't have possibly come up with it and make it trend before, even if you gave it your all, is now a motto and a point of pride for those who follow it.

This is happening at the same time where hundreds of millions of regular variety consumers are being fed propaganda daily about how it's "finally time to switch to Linux", because it's so much better for them, the individual. If only they knew it's apparently not actually about them, never has been, and never will be.


When exactly is 'before'? Before Github existed to put front and center your code and its issues? Before it became an expectation to have a a rich Github profile when you're considered for a job position?

Of course I wouldn't have been able to come up with this statement because the perverted view of OSS devs owing free work to the users of their software was not so pervaisive.

On your edit: a bit rich saying the calls for switching to Linux propaganda, especially with the downturn of UX of windows and macos... Also why just hundreds of millions.. Go for hundreds of billions if you're just going to pull out numbers. Apart from that - even if Linux is not about the users, it is in many cases better for them as-is. Funny how that works with no conflict.


> When exactly is 'before'?

"Exactly"? I'm afraid that's not a very physically sound request. But let's say, prior to 2026-02-14T03:46:03Z then. I hope that suffices.

> Of course I wouldn't have been able to come up with this statement

That would make sense, because you specifically I never expected to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you

> Also why just hundreds of millions.. Go for hundreds of billions if you're just going to pull out numbers

You see, that would be because I did not just pull out an arbitrary number. "How many Windows users there are" is a reported fact you can just search for, and even the total is not "billions" (plural). I know, I was surprised too. From the horse's mouth: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/24/stay-...


My first comment on this site pointing out that a FOSS user sounds entitled is from 2021. I've been saying it outside the site for 10+ years, spanning back to the time when it wasnt cringe to have a Github sticker on your laptop.

Nothing wrong? Does minio grant the basic freedoms of being able to run the software, study it, change it, and distribute it?

Did minio create the impression to its contributors that it will continue being FLOSS?


Yes the software is under AGPL. Go forth and forkify.

The choice of AGPL tells you that they wanted to be the only commercial source of the software from the beginning.


> the software is under AGPL. Go forth and forkify.

No, what was minio is now aistor, a closed-source proprietary software. Tell me how to fork it and I will.

> they wanted to be the only commercial source of the software

The choice of AGPL tells me nothing more than what is stated in the license. And I definitely don't intend to close the source of any of my AGPL-licensed projects.


> Tell me how to fork it and I will.

https://github.com/minio/minio/fork

The fact that new versions aren't available does nothing to stop you from forking versions that are. Or were - they'll be available somewhere, especially if it got packaged for OS distribution.


The only packages I find of aistor, are binary packages. Not only that, the aistor license agreement explicitly states the following:

> You may not modify, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or create derivative works of the Software.


Do you consider this a breach of the AGPL?

> And I definitely don't intend to close the source of any of my AGPL-licensed projects.

If a commercial company has "core" version under AGPL, it usually means their free version is an extended demo of the commercial product.


So fork the last minio, and work from there... nobody is stopping you.

aistor is proprietary software[1]. Having an old version of your software be open source does not make your software open-source. Why does this need an explanation?

[1] https://www.min.io/legal/aistor-free-agreement


You aren't entitled to the product of someone else's work even if they gave away older versions of that work... What is so hard for you to understand about that?

No, I no longer am, because aistor/minio decided they no longer respect their users' freedom. It's as simple as that -- aistor is unethical and borders on malware.

You guys use the debit card linked to your primary bank account??? There's been virtual cards for online shopping for 10+ years now. They're meant to be linked to an empty or low amount bank account. Now with Revolut you can schedule auto top-up to keep this low amount up to date.

Not to mention the per-purchase (online/in-person) limits, mandatory PIN entry, and daily maximums...


We don't use any cards for online shopping, what do you mean? In most European countries online shopping uses a payment API that takes you to your bank's payment portal where you can review the transaction amount before confirming. It's no longer the 20th century, we're not handing out any card details to online merchants.

Banking in the US feels like it's stuck in the 90s. Heck, half the time, it's not even chip+PIN, it's chip+signature (which is a relativelyrecent change from carbon copy or swipe and signature).

I've never had a web shop use an API to deduct from my bank account - the closest thing is PayPal, which as far as I can tell is basically ACH under the covers, just though an intermediary. Pretty sure more Americans use their CC or debit card for online shopping.


Of course all online merchants in Europe take card payment. Some of them also offer payment by bank payment portals, such as you've described. These have zero benefits for the customer.

Ah yes let me forego the chargeback protections (and convenience of one tap Apple Pay) to reduce merchants fee by 0.2% of transaction value, sounds great

We have virtual cards as well, maybe used it once. But we also have a lot less fraud and typically require 2fa for online purchases and chip+pin every x purchases.

Thanks for the advice, but I predominantly use vi on remote systems for rudimentary config editing. It is perfect for this, as is tiny, present out of the box on many distros, and I do not need to switch my brain between nano and vim navigation.

What are the ones spreading blatant disinfornation financed by?


state sponsored and "wealthy benefactor" are definitely two more sources


Ads for protein powders, scam gold coins, Bitcoin scams, scam "doomsday" equipment ... there is a whole industry around such products for people falling for disinformation.

And by foreign state actors.


Don’t forget extremely expensive vitamins!


MyPillow


Don Jr has one too, how would we classify that one?


Ethics is a topic I would never trust HN on.


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