I do not understand why would a developer (or development team) change the licensing terms of their software for something stricter, like Redis did. Could someone tell me what the factors are?

Yeah right. The name literally reads "sue you". So funny.

If you don't pay for WinRAR, the only thing it will do is show up notices to buy it. This is intentional, meant to prevent piracy. So it's more like a donation rather than a purchase.

It's good to learn about some cultural differences, for both me and you. In Poland, Santa is believed to bring the naughty kids bundles of rods (as in, leafless twigs). We call that "rózga", even though the same word can just refer to a single rod as well.

Lately, I've been seeing a lot of trucks in my country have a "dead angles" sticker that shows something similar.

This just goes to show you that Google will do anything for money.

Pokémon FireRed

Seems really scary against the Internet as we know it. Saying that also because the word "kosa" means "scythe" in my language.

Passwords are a very simple system that has been used since antiquity, its distribution in the Roman military having been described by Polybius.

Passwords found use in early computing. The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) developed at MIT in 1961 implemented a PASSWORD command, which only hid the characters to be typed.

The notion of hashing passwords was created in the early 1970s by Robert Morris. He also invented the crypt(3) algorithm, which used a 12-bit salt and invoked a modified form of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm 25 times to reduce risk of pre-computed dictionary attacks.

The ease of implementation is why password-based authentication is used everywhere. But I might argue this is too simple and can be exploited by attackers. Year after year, a new hashing algorithm becomes considered not secure enough.

Okay, so Apple still has some time to think about the design of a phone with a replaceable battery because they haven't released one yet.

The main reason batteries couldn't be replaced in newer phones is because that made designers of the internals not care about the battery's shape, which meant they could insert more good tech inside. The battery normally had to be rectangular for easy insertion/removal. Even though this was the real main intent, manufacturers started capitalizing on this.

I'm pretty sure that, under the hood, they become evil towards their users and don't change from that. And will never reconsider rescinding the things we're grateful to not have in the fediverse: profits fueled by advertising rather than donations, tracking sensitive information (including that one can and will use against you), selling that information, and obscure, closed algorithms.

But what you said may be right. Those goddamn C&D orders backed by powerful lawyers...

Same here! Though my Reddit escape is going to be slow, it's sure.