Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/stripe

I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters. https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives/

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#stripe #payments#eu#europe #europeanalternatives #tech#saas #startup #software#cloud #aws #gcp #digitalocean

Another reason to use the GPL software license, over MIT or BSD

In short, GPL uses copyright law to protect you, as an author of software, from exploitation better than MIT or BSD software licenses do. Here we have a case of the Anthropic corporation using MIT-licensed code in one of their software products, which is of course a for-profit product. The original author of that code received no compensation, as it is not required by the license. So the author applied for a job at Anthropic, and ironically, Anthropic responded with an AI-generated rejection letter. Corporations like Anthropic seem to have an allergy to GPL-licensed code however, due to the nature of how the GPL license grants much more specific rights and restrictions, both to the authors of the code, and the companies who use it.

Of course, nowadays LLMs can ingest GPL and MIT/BSD licensed code and spit it back out in altered form, essentially letting the makers of the LLM profit from your work without compensating you, so the GPL is probably due for an “upgrade” to prevent use for AI training. Unfortunately thanks to regulatory capture, and not-so-impartial courts of law mostly ignoring copyright law nowadays, it might not even be possible to use GPL or copyright to protect authors of software anymore. Probably a whole new legal framework is required first, and I don’t think this will be happening any time soon.

#tech#software#AI#GPL#MITLicense#BSDLicense#GPLLicense#FreeSoftware#FOSS#FLOSS

Hey #foss advocates and lovers of #opensource #software and projects. What #repos are you using to share your work? It seems #github is getting controversial with #copilot Are people somewhat content with the fact that open source projects are being used for training data and just keep using github because it's useful and that's where people are or are folks looking at self-hosting or other options? @jorge curious about UBlue's position. Thanks!

Also: Shit. One of my recordings for this #bonsai and #software video is not usable. So, there's a longer sequence of me working off-camera. Not nice, but I'll release it anyway. And maybe record another video about this topic later - I think I have not yet said everything that could be said...

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Installing lisp for beginners.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/installing-lisp-etc/

So much computing is predicated on having this or a conscious alternative decision to it. Here is my attempt to help beginners get this far. What do you think?

#commonLisp #emacs #beginners #lisp #programming #setup #software #developer

Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/stripe

I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters. https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives/

edit/added couple more tags for visibility.

#stripe #payments#eu#europe #europeanalternatives #tech#saas #startup #software#cloud #aws #gcp #digitalocean