The license doesn’t mention anything about “personal” or “internal” use.
Again, IANAL, but I can see why a company might be cautious about using Bear as a self-hosted blog engine, since companies technically have “users.”
For comparison, the Elastic License v2 - which this license is apparently modeled on - explicitly restricts use by "third parties":
> "You may not provide the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service"
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The Bear license doesn’t include similar language, which could create uncertainty.
It might help to explicitly clarify that self-hosting for one’s own use is allowed, or to add “third party” wording to the limitations.
I only raise this because (a) licensing is tricky, and (b) if this feedback helps the author clarify their intended license terms, that’s a win for everyone.
But he chose not to use the exact wording from the Elastic Search license, which clearly says "third parties." Instead, he wrote his own license, and now it is not clear if I am allowed to self-host. In my opinion that is a bad decision.
Most websites don’t let users sign up with passkeys. You need to create an account using email/password and then go to their settings page and create a passkey. Now you can sign in with the passkey.
Claude trying to cheat its way through tests has been my experience as well. Often it’ll delete or skip them and proudly claim all issues have been fixed. This behavior seems to be intrinsic to it since it happens with both Claude Code and Cursor.
Interestingly, it’s the only LLM I’ve seen behave that way. Others simply acknowledge the failure and, after a few hints, eventually get everything working.
Claude just hopes I won’t notice its tricks. It makes me wonder what else it might try to hide when misalignment has more serious consequences.
The population may trust the government now, but totalitarian regimes are returning to fashion and love when they can skip the data collecting bureaucracy and go straight into building or offshoring their gulags.
I’d rather word that differently. High-trust societies with little expectation of privacy and valuing community tend to do well with social democracy. Otherwise people end up abusing the system and it’s hard to catch them if privacy trumps community needs.
Here in ex-USSR country people are very pro privacy and individualist. At the same time we try to copy a lot of Nordic stuff from our neighbors. It’s a shitshow how those cultures mesh. A lot of welfare abuse, hiding beyond muh privacy to avoid scrutinity.
That comment is 100% dislocated from reality. To be sure, entry dynamics vary by country, person and other circumstances. Law enforcement is different in philosophy and approach all over the world. For example, in the US you are not met with soldiers carrying machine guns, which is something you are likely to encounter in Italy. To some people, being met by soldiers with machine guns is terrifying, to others, it is normal. To some people being asked questions in a terse manner is rude and scary, others understand security theater and the role these people play. It's shades of gray, not black and white.
People and companies cannot host it and offer it as a service to other people or companies.
https://www.elastic.co/licensing/elastic-license/faq