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]

If there happens to be some mental TLS handshake RCE that comes up, chances are they are all using the same underlying TLS library so all will be susceptible…

Among common reverse proxies, I know of at least two underlying TLS stacks being used:

• Nginx uses OpenSSL.
  • This is probably the one you thought everyone was using, as it’s essentially considered to be the “default” TLS stack.
• Caddy uses crypto/tls from the Go standard library (which has its own implementation, it’s not just a wrapper around OpenSSL).
  • This is in all likelihood also the case for Traefik (and any other Go-based reverse proxies), though I did not check.

There was some kind of incident between the artist and a camera woman. The exact details aren’t public, AFAIK.

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

It’s nice in theory, but I’ve had very little luck using it for the last few days.

I wouldn’t be surprised if whatever instances it picks to send people to are soon afterwards rate limited because demand is too high relative to supply.

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

Aurora is no longer maintained, but it still works just fine. It’s a Windows app, so not web-accessible or anything, but it’s free. It only contains the SRD content by default (probably for legal reasons), but there’s at least one publicly-accessible elements repository for it that you can find using your favorite search engine.

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.

That domain currently hosts a “this domain may be for sale” page, but it’s been registered since 2005 so it’s definitely not because of this post.

I assume it’s because the traffic laws were written so that it’s illegal for a driver to do certain things. If so, owners of driverless cars could (at least theoretically) fight the tickets in court due to the lack of a driver to ticket?

If I were a judge I’d be tempted to consider the driver to be the person (or company) that caused such a car to drive on the public street, despite them not necessarily being inside the car at the time of the offense. After all, at some point in this process a person was involved even if it was someone at the manufacturer activating a “drive to the person who bought you” feature. (If it was an AI, then whoever created the AI and allowed it to do that, etc.)

But then again I have no legal training whatsoever, so perhaps that ruling would get me kicked off the bench or at least overruled on appeal :þ.

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…

After reading the title I was like “So if they don’t pay the fee, do they just get a cash-stuffed envelope every so often?”

Honestly forgot checks were still a thing that exists. Haven’t seen one in decades…

There may not have been much to tell until it actually started, which was one day before the start of this month (modulo time zones, it was held in UTC+04).

It’s an annual thing apparently (except during the height of the pandemic) and this was the 28th time, hence the “28” in the name. Presumably they’ll hold COP29 next year, and now you’ve heard of that one about a year beforehand! 😛

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.

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