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  • Oh, yes it can. The license only changes what other people than the owner may do. It’s the rights and conditions they give you.

    For most projects that doesn’t matter because there are several owners of the code base. Every single person who contributed can enforce these rights on their part. However, to contribute to Zed you have to sign a cla. Signing away all rights and ownership of your contribution. So they have all the rights and can do whatever they want.

    They could close source everything tomorrow without any consequence and sell you a feature you made yourself.


  • Its timing based. When piped a script, bash executes each line completly before taking the next line from the input. Curl has a limited output buffer.

    1. Operation that takes a long time. Like a sleep, or if you want it less obvious. A download, an unzip operation, apt update, etc.
    2. Fill the buffer with more bash commands.
    3. Measure on the server if at some point curl stops downloading the script.
    4. Serve a malicious payload.









  • Git was Made for the Linux kernel. The kernel is pretty much only text files. For the complete decentralisation git achieves an easy diffing and merging operations needs to be defined. It is working for what it was made.

    Large files don’t work with git, as it always stores the whole history on your drive.

    For files that are large and not mergeable SVN works better and that is fine. You need constant online connectivity as a trade of though.

    Some build tools for software being the option to define a dependency as a git path +commit or a local path. That works quite well but is in the end just a workaround.





  • No, they are not. I really suggest you look at an European map. Algeria/Mali are in the center of the map, depending on how much Antarctica is included.

    Maps are normally centered roughly around the region you buy them in. European maps are centered on the 0 meridian, because it fits so nicely while keeping the European countries around the center. The 0 meridian was just defined by the Brits as going through Greenwich.

    The bottom is cut of more, because Antarctica is less interesting than Canada, Greenland and Siberia.