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Khem and Cliff
Quote for the week
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. -- Lao Tzu
Simple IoT Release v0.16.0 -- System update support 🚀
The SIOT v0.16.0 release contains a new System Update client designed to be used with the Yoe Updater. This is a easy way to deploy updates to your system with a simple web server. The process can be executed manually, or there are options to automatically download and install new updates.
Perplexity.ai
I've been using Perplexity more in recent months. I don't have the Pro subscription yet, but considering it. Perplexity seems seems really good at summarizing search results. Not sure exactly why I like it, but it seems to provide me the information I need in a form that is very usable
Apparently, I'm not the only one:
Founded less than two years ago, Perplexity has become a many-times-a-day-use product for me, replacing many of my Google searches—and I’m not alone. With fewer than 50 employees, the company has a user base that’s grown to tens of millions. They’re also generating over $20 million ARR and taking on both Google and OpenAI in the battle for the future of search. Their recent fundraise of $63m values the company at more than $1 billion, and their investors include Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, Andrej Karpathy, Garry Tan, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Naval Ravikant (but sadly not me 😭). Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he uses the product “almost every day.”
Are you using Perplexity? If so, what do you think of it?
Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project
This article discusses the balance between consideration for your project users and legal protection. It does not always make sense to go for maximum legal protection.
The question then becomes, if the project’s open source license isn’t sufficient enough for maintainers to feel comfortable accepting code, why should end users be expected to feel comfortable enough to do so? Put another way, why should project maintainers be granted rights and protections beyond those granted to end users (and other contributors)? Most often, this is a sign that the license the project’s using isn’t sufficient for the project’s industry or the maintainer’s legal posture, and moving to a more patent-aware license like Apache, may resolve the need for a CLA entirely.
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