scraping content is mostly legal, redistributing content is not.
if you started doing the same to, say, instagram content both meta and individual creators would sue you as well.
sites like archive.ph are in a similar bucket btw, and yet nobody's complaining (except websites seeing people evading their paywall). but at the end of the day it's not really fair to apply laws differentially on the basis of whose political ideas we like more.
Meta has no exclusive rights to the content on Instagram, and X has no exclusive rights to the content on X. They have a non-exclusive license to republish it, etc.
I don’t believe it’s purely “screen time” but rather a mix of what is on that screen as well as the standard that students are kept on at school.
I used to come back from school and spend my day in front of the computer (crt screen and everything) but my screen time was much higher quality that modern day kids. Also, back in my day there was no moronic “no child left behind” kind of policy: if you needed to repeat a year of school, you just did. It felt harsh in the moment but looking back oh boy it was the correct thing to do.
Actually the second part was my argument. But gestures everywhere isn’t a bad backup.
look I admit a sort of charming romance in the idea
Of a stricter more conservative education system, I just don’t think the data supports such simple remedies.
Yeah, I didn’t read a lot of books in high school (do read a lot more books as an adult!), but I did read a lot of information while sitting at a desktop computer.
I do the same but you have to understand that some people just can’t get over the fact somebody else has different opinions, different takes on life or software and decide to chart and walk their own path at their own pace.
Btw ggwp to dhh and omarchy’s team.
Ormarchy/arch is not my cup of tea but kudos to them for doing their own thing.
I believe multigress is the similarly aged open equivalent from Supabase. Haven't used it myself and don't know what the differences are in usability, but I'm a bit more interested in that since it's open.
Hey, just to clarify: i’m not the person you’re responding to (my comment is gp comment) and i’m not criticising your product and your work. It truly is a great achievement.
However, in general i would not trust a product that is not open source (foss).
I do like what grafana has been doing for example, with licensing options at the two extremes: gpl/lgpl v3 on one side and proprietary hosted saas version on the other.
We run our own grafana/lgtm stack at work, we’re outgrowing it and we’re evaluating the saas offerings.
But then again, not criticising your work and product, you know better than me about it and about your business, just writing down my proverbial two cents.
I get that PlanetScale has the currently superior product, and I listed the closest thing to it. You're right it's not ready, but in the case that the parent had mentioned of closed-source making it a deal breaker, it's the best alternative.
Neki looks like a good product, and I trust that something coming from the folks behind Vitess is going to be a damn fine offering, but some of us don't love tying our workloads to fully proprietary products. I wouldn't even want to host something like this myself, but knowing there's a path out of the proprietary hosting (which we've seen time and time again is something we should plan for) is critical for a lot of us when choosing solutions as important as our data layer.
If I needed a truly sharded PG at the moment, Neki is probably the best option I could find.
As for the "alternative" argument specifically, it's not on par at the moment, you're right, but that's their goal and they're attempting to fill the same void. In the case of someone who has a requirement their solution be open source, then Neki is flat out of the running too.
I'm rooting for a good Postgres sharding solution to come out. Your team appears to be doing some good work. I would also like to see where both Neki and Multigres are in five years.
Not being rude, I just do not like the work of my company being written off and under appreciated with comments like yours. Saying it's an open source alternative when it is clearly not is incredibly disingenuous.
Anyone can start a project and say it's an alternative until it achieves the same results is not an alternative. They have raised 10x more venture funding than my company, and we have out executed them with hard work. I will absolutely defend that work.
> I just do not like the work of my company being written off and under appreciated with comments like yours
Not sure how I wrote your product off. I spoke about how it wasn't open, which it isn't.
> Anyone can start a project and say it's an alternative until it achieves the same results is not an alternative. They have raised 10x more venture funding than my company, and we have out executed them with hard work. I will absolutely defend that work.
Good on your team. I believe the animosity here is mostly in our differing opinions of the word "alternative".
> This is who you are carrying water for.
I am not "carrying water". I listed another company. I've never used a Supabase product.
All this because I mentioned something that was open and in the same lane as your new product.
How's this: I won't refer to it as an alternative because it isn't up to at feature parity yet. That's fair. I will however say that you've taken multiple angles unrelated to the original core of my first reply's parent that was that Neki is not open source. That is true and many of us will see it as a downside when chosing a product. That isn't bad. That's just a thing that is.
It appears to be under active development, but you're right that sharding doesn't appear implemented. I'm excited to see what they can build out over the next few years.
Someone posted a twitch conversation yesterday about this, I poked around on the page realised there was no open source version and noped out immediately.
I'm sure it's a great product (it seems like planetscale do good engineering and the folks I know who use them seem fine with it) but I don't do vendor lock-in as a service personally, I'll use whatever employer uses because that's the deal but for personal stuff, well this isn't designed for that really, wrong order of magnitude on scaling.
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