404media.co is a shadowbanned domain on HN due to paywalls, meaning any new submission from the domain will automatically be killed. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co (w/ showdead on)
Since this post doesn't have a paywall and it's good/newsworthy, I vouched for it.
This is pretty laughable. HN has had it's quirks and completely hidden behavior pretty much since the beginning.
For example: YC alums can see other YC alums, but none of us plebs are allowed to see their special group. You can never know if you are arguing against a few individuals or a bunch of people with very aligned interests.
No. Although I may not have the exact reason the domain was banned, I've been around long enough to observe that everytime a 404media.co article is posted and gets traction, the comments unanimously complain about the paywall and it gets flagkilled.
Vouching is intended as a corrective check on things that shouldn't be automatically killed.
Shadowbanned means "in the sense that the server sees the domain and automatically flags the post," as you said, which is the behavior described in my original comment.
> Although I may not have the exact reason the domain was banned, I've been around long enough to observe that everytime a 404media.co article is posted and gets traction, the comments unanimously complain about the paywall and it gets flagkilled.
So I thought this is what you meant by shadowbanned.
I suspect it’s more some threshold of vouching required, because I know for a fact some of the other dead submissions got vouched.
Still, this apparently completely undocumented standard behaviour seems a little bit troubling? It’s not like 404media is a spam content mill (and I doubt it is the ability to bypass the paywall - those methods don’t work on 404?)
That would be the regular GPL. The "Lesser" GPL allows you to use it as long as you release any changes you make to the LGPL'd code (and keeping the LGPL license) and allow users to replace the LGPL'd code, which typically means using it as a shared library.
I've never understood the hatred towards pineapple on pizza. I like it. I can certainly think of much weirder things I've seen on pizza with no public outcry.
This reminds me of my favorite Allrecipes exchange of all time: Tailergate Boilermaker Chili^1:
>This boilermaker chili is the one the gang eats at Purdue Boilermaker football games. I always prep and cook the chili the night before and then reheat it the next day. This is a combination of many different tomato-based chili recipes.
In 2007, a guy from Texas makes it, then complains it's not Texas chile:
>Very disappointed. I hope he didn't make this down here in El Paso last year when Purdue played in the sunbowl and try to pass it off as authentic. Most of the ingredients are from a can and taste like it. If you want it truly hot, better add more "hot sauce" as he puts it. Not trying to be critical, but this isn't authentic chile. Pass on this and try another chile recipe that has the word "Texas" in it.
Two years later in 2009, another guy reviews it, complaining about the Texan:
>Don't listen to the condescending reviewer from Texas. This is a great chili. All Texans think they're stringy meat and watery sauce chili is the best and they have to make fun of other chilis...
Fifteen years later (and even after the Texas guy's review has been removed), people are still upset at him:
>Listen, I am from Texas, and I have won a ton of competitions with this spice mix. Whoever the tool from Texas was that gave this a 1 star couldn't tell his chili pot from his own rear end, just sayin. In Texas, they don't allow beans or veggies, so I cook them all down and blend them, then add the meat at the end so as not to over cook the meat. I also use a blend of smoked pulled pork, brisket and ground venison for the meat. It's a winner, I use my crawfish pot to cook enough to stock the freezer, and I add a lot more chilis for heat, however, the original spice mix was so interesting that I could not resist making a pot and experimenting. It has made all the difference.
the point is that pineapple on pizza is just as polarizing as beans in chili.
based on the polarizing nature pretty much implies that some people will nonsensical beliefs supporting which ever side they are on when viewed by a neutral but especially when viewed from opposing side.
It's just a trope, like "arguing" about Die Hard being a Christmas movie. Or maybe a little closer to home, "is a burrito a monad?" and other low-effort fodder.
For context, this is revenge to a court forcing him by injunction to remove the previous version of the checkbox (which required stating you are not affiliated with, or using, WP Engine).
Which is just childish because the court doesn't give a damn about this. As long as the court's orders were followed, that's all they have domain over.
I wonder if all these outbursts continue to hurt his case, since it’s making it exceptionally clear that it was all a deliberate attempt.
That or he’s trying the reliable old, cancelled-by-the-courts censorship grifting treadmill, to try and use it to spin into into politics (for which I suspect the boat has sailed already).
...and it's worth noting that trying to take revenge on a court for an unfavourable ruling is one of those things that most rational people would agree is unlikely to end well. We'll see how this one goes.
You can change your taste for a while then change your mind. No one can say you are lying.
You can't change whether you have/had a connection to wpengine, which was the issue with the previous checkbox.
Pineapple is objectively the best pizza topping because it's one of the only toppings which makes pizza into a fully rounded scientific flavor experience. The five flavors which we can detect are sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami (savory). A basic cheese pizza covers two, maybe three of these flavors — salty, umami, and maybe sweet, depending on the sauce used. Pineapple covers three flavors — sweet, sour, and bitter (if it's fresh). This means that pineapple pizza fully features all of the five flavors.
What other topping can you say that about? Not pepperoni, nor olives, certainly not mushrooms or sausage. No other pizza topping as perfectly rounds out the flavor profile of pizza as pineapple, especially fresh pineapple, and that is why it's the superior topping.
In my opinion - I think pineapple compliments every individual component of pizza. The acidity of the fruit cuts through the grease in the cheese and compliments the savory flavor like a wine platter. It goes excellent with a good sauce, and can elevate a can of store-bought marinara with a sort of tropical pico-de-gallo elegance. The bread tastes relatively inert and doesn't interfere with the whole thing.
If I just want a savory pizza, I'll probably lean more towards a pepperoni slice. But a Hawaiian option from a place that serves actually good pizza will tempt me on a regular basis. The ham is where they get you, it's typically a bigger issue than the pineapple at most places.
I've never thought as deeply about my love for pineapple on pizza as you have. Maybe I should grill some young pineapple and throw it on my next pie for that caramelized, charred flavour.
I like: Pineapple (fruity, sweet and sour), green olives (veggie, salty) and spicy Italian sausage (savoury, spicy). It comes with the added bonus of nobody stealing a slice either!
Tomatoes already have umami. I would say olive are good but could really place with anchovies or capers depending on if you favour those. They are good too. Anchovies has the advantage of packing salty and umami in one.
Tomato sauce is sour as is mozzarella cheese. The crust should also provide bitter notes, particularly if it has a decent char. There are loads of other topping that provide these notes but stronger, with a more congruous flavor profile to pizza; olives, balsamic vinegar, pickled artichokes and peppers, etc.
Then, while we are at it, why not put strawberries, mangoes, or bananas on pizza? Why stop at pineapples?
I also take issue with the idea that there are just five cardinal flavors. There are many, many more, which cannot be expressed in terms of these five, especially in the savory category.
Think of the flavor of meat, spices, and pepper. They are all fundamentally different, and yet would be bundled under savory in the 5-flavor scheme. The word "spicy" itself has two distinct meanings.
> I also take issue with the idea that there are just five cardinal flavors.
The five flavors model is an outdated model of what taste buds detect, a sixth has been established (oleogustus, associated with fatty acids and particularly with rancidity.) Furthermore, while not technically “tastes” in the detected-by-tastebuds sende, unctuousness (the mouthfeel of fats) and spiciness (detected by pain receptors instead of tastebuds) are part of what most people mean when they talk about “taste”.
The point of your sense of taste is to get you to eat the things you need. Your tongue must be able to detect whatever those things are.
Some such substances occur across a broad range of foods, or in varieties that differ from each other in ways that don't really matter to your digestive system, and you can pick them up and consider them to be a flavor common to those foods.
Some are unique. You can pick those up too.
In either case, your perception of the same taste will vary according to the current state of your nutrition. Steven Callahan noted that, when he was lost at sea and food was scarce, fish eyes tasted significantly better than the rest of the fish. That is because they contain important nutrients, which your tongue can detect, but which you don't ordinarily care about. You start to care as you develop deficiencies.
A model of a small number of "basic flavors" doesn't even allow for this phenomenon to exist. It is fundamentally misguided.
It's literally trying, and mostly failing, to digest your tongue.
One other very unique one is the Sichuan pepper, which is not a "spicy pepper" in the conventional, capsaicin sense, rather an idiosyncratic chemical that's... Wikipedia calls it "tingling, numbing":
Pineapple on pizza is in the same category as steak-doneness and IPAs. It's not about the food itself, but the social signaling of supposedly good taste.
I hope you realised my comment was in jest lol (and I'm only partially Italian), but to get serious:
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
Sure, there are arguments against that. But when you see the manner in which American cuisine takes the opposite of that principle - especially when it comes to the creation of Italian-American cuisine - it's hardly like the laying of multiple beautiful, well-chosen instruments in an orchestra. Instead, it's a one-trick pony of: add cheese, cream and garlic. And lots of everything
Fettuccine Alfredo: Loads of butter, cream and cheese
Deep dish pizza: Tons of cheese. It's a meat/cheese pie
Carbonora: "Fixed" it by adding cream and garlic.
It's like believing you're improving an orchestra by always adding huge, loud crashing cymbals.
Trying to eat at Italian restaurants in the US as a lactose intolerant person was an exercise in frustration.
> the one thing that unequivocally makes me proud to be American is that we have improved pizza
Unrelated, but you might be openminded enough to enjoy the bizarre but oddly harmonious combination of banana and dill pickle. I was getting my electrolytes balanced impatiently and discovered that they're inexplicably complementary.
This and Elm show the issues of the BDFL management model. Good software projects can die due to a midlife crisis. Let's hope WordPress establishes some form of foundation.
You're forgetting the WordPress Foundation exists, with two other co-founders, and allowed itself to get into this mess in the first place without any fight or publicity about Mullenweg's real control. Those two other founders are currently MIA.
I mean yeah there are failure modes, the WP foundation devolved into a BFDL when other foundation members ghosted and so stopped being a minority of bad actors. Thems the brakes with low participation.
Yeah. I have a good track record with picking things to bet on the future, and the people involved often color that. I stopped caring about bcachefs after watching Ken's extraordinarily unprofessional, gas-lighting (yes, I know how to use that word properly) behavior on LKML. Similarly, I cannot fathom anyone betting the farm on WordPress right now. It will coast for a while, but this is some childish, unserious behavior.
Would be nice if this is the work of a skilled damage control team, who's going to help turn around recent troubles, including by poking fun at themselves.
I hope a BDFL isn't going through a rough time while not having to listen to anyone else.
If WordPress dies it'll be one of the best things to happen to the web in a decade. People will be forced to use something else, so a product with actual security, and a design from after 2001, can finally get traction.
A persistent annoying thing I've had to maintain for years has been WordPress sites. As a Systems Engineer, their design is particularly annoying to support, and the way they are changed and deployed leads to tons of predictable failures. It's possible to turn WordPress into a real, CI/CD driven, ephemeral deploys, with diffed, staged, tested database changes. But for some reason nobody has built that as a canned solution (I did long ago for a previous employer).
Fun fact: the reason you get a billion blog results when you try to Google for a recipe, is 1) a WordPress plugin that auto-generates recipe blogs, and 2) a Google Metadata thing in the page for encoding recipes. Google prioritizes all those blogs with the recipe metadata. End result: millions of garbage blogs churned out via WP, and nothing but garbage results. Not really sure why Google continues to prioritize garbage.
- "a judge ordered Mullenweg to remove a controversial login checkbox from WordPress.org that required users to pledge that they were not affiliated with WP Engine before logging in"
So, in short, he's mad at the court for ordering him to do something, and (while the lawsuit is still running!) is basically mocking the court order, and trolling the judge and plaintiff.
This guy has an attorney somewhere, and that attorney has this guy for a client. That poor attorney.
He won't be a poor attorney after milking Matt Mullenweg. The financial rewards of having to defend one of the most vindictive clients ever[1] are probably not small, especially when your client is so mentally stuck that they will see their delusional case to the last appeal.
If that’s genuinely an Automattic site, well… I guess I thought I couldn’t be surprised by the petty and spiteful depths Matt could sink to anymore. I was wrong. Infantile.
On what grounds? He changed the statement the box makes by the user. It's silly compliance but O think you really have to go further than this for contempt.
The issue isn't using WP. It's maintaining their plugin "Advanced Custom Fields" that automattic had taken over. It's roughly analogous to if the NPM maintainers took over React on NPM. Doesn't stop Facebook from publishing their own version elsewhere but a lot of people will moved over to the new non-facebook version without knowing what's going on.
They don't want to pay for all that. They want to make money. That might save Mullenweg in the end, despite himself. He might be ordered to help them set up an alternative plugin directory, but the court probably can't or won't force him to continue doing business with them. Keeping up their mirror of the WP infra might cut into profits too badly. All of the huffing and puffing on their side doesn't change the fact that they're basically parasitic. They do nothing for Mullenweg, and he was doing everything for them.
There could be an outcome where he's about to be forced to pay damages for all of the harassment and help with some complex remedy that still requires them to fork, and instead they come to a settlement beforehand where they (quietly and confidentially) pay him something slightly less than 8% of their revenue and he pays their legal costs and publicly apologizes.
> When I initially saw it I assumed my friend was trolling me but yeah it’s there and has a value attribute filled out, which leaves me suspicious that he’s gonna use it as a proxy for the previous field,” she told me.
Great time to be learning other CMSes. I tried Payload 3 this week. It was refreshingly easy to configure! Needs a little more polish (the textarea expansion logic seems broken in Safari) but I know a good team is behind it and they'll figure it out.
First they insisted I like pineapple on pizza, and I did not speak out—because I didn't mind it. Then they insisted I like mushrooms, and I did not speak out—because I was indifferent. Then they insisted I like anchovies, and I did not speak out—because I could tolerate them. Then they insisted I like every topping, and there was no one left to agree with my actual taste.
To let you into the pizzeria, they assured you they didn't mind which topping you like with the Gourmet Pizza License v2. Now they tell you you have to like a specific topping and shouldn't be allowed to eat the pizza of you don't like it.
It definitely is. I can't think of a single person in the last 100 years who is both rich enough that they don't have to work for a living and is still kind to others. Maybe MacKenzie Scott? But I guess that just goes to show it is specifically the pursuit of wealth that corrupts.
Schema deletions usually have to be rolled out in two phases. Maybe this is just a light-hearted approach to be immediately compliant w/ the ruling without making a breaking API change.
I guess I have enough FU money to say things like this, but I can't fathom getting to this login page and continuing. Do I think I'm actually making a legal agreement with these checkboxes? No. Do I think Matt is going to come after me, personally? (LOL, I don't think he has much of a grasp on the rest of our's shared reality right now, so...) no. But also, I have a low-bar of tolerance for insulting or abusive BS and this far, far exceeds it.
Nope, they already rolled back the checkbox within 72 hours of the court order. This was added this week, a few days after the original checkbox was removed.
Also, the value of the checkbox is "yes-it-is", which would break the API anyway if that were the reason.
For some reason - maybe it's a nostalgia hit - a deep pan from pizza hut with pineapple, pepperoni, jalapeno, and chicken just hits that right spot for me.
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[ 1.6 ms ] story [ 183 ms ] threadSince this post doesn't have a paywall and it's good/newsworthy, I vouched for it.
For example: YC alums can see other YC alums, but none of us plebs are allowed to see their special group. You can never know if you are arguing against a few individuals or a bunch of people with very aligned interests.
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
Vouching is intended as a corrective check on things that shouldn't be automatically killed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co&next=3932...
I'm not sure what you are getting at.
> Although I may not have the exact reason the domain was banned, I've been around long enough to observe that everytime a 404media.co article is posted and gets traction, the comments unanimously complain about the paywall and it gets flagkilled.
So I thought this is what you meant by shadowbanned.
Still, this apparently completely undocumented standard behaviour seems a little bit troubling? It’s not like 404media is a spam content mill (and I doubt it is the ability to bypass the paywall - those methods don’t work on 404?)
There's not really much news here, I think. It's just gossiping at Matt's public meltdown, which, eh.
> Would be comedy for the EU to go after WP for only having one App Store. I mean plugin store.
https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/blob/main/LICENSE.md
Everything else...eh. I prefer pulled pork in KC tbh. The Carolinas can get out of here with that vinegar they call BBQ sauce.
Source: >30 years living in Texas and traveling most of the South several times.
>This boilermaker chili is the one the gang eats at Purdue Boilermaker football games. I always prep and cook the chili the night before and then reheat it the next day. This is a combination of many different tomato-based chili recipes.
In 2007, a guy from Texas makes it, then complains it's not Texas chile:
>Very disappointed. I hope he didn't make this down here in El Paso last year when Purdue played in the sunbowl and try to pass it off as authentic. Most of the ingredients are from a can and taste like it. If you want it truly hot, better add more "hot sauce" as he puts it. Not trying to be critical, but this isn't authentic chile. Pass on this and try another chile recipe that has the word "Texas" in it.
Two years later in 2009, another guy reviews it, complaining about the Texan:
>Don't listen to the condescending reviewer from Texas. This is a great chili. All Texans think they're stringy meat and watery sauce chili is the best and they have to make fun of other chilis...
Fifteen years later (and even after the Texas guy's review has been removed), people are still upset at him:
>Listen, I am from Texas, and I have won a ton of competitions with this spice mix. Whoever the tool from Texas was that gave this a 1 star couldn't tell his chili pot from his own rear end, just sayin. In Texas, they don't allow beans or veggies, so I cook them all down and blend them, then add the meat at the end so as not to over cook the meat. I also use a blend of smoked pulled pork, brisket and ground venison for the meat. It's a winner, I use my crawfish pot to cook enough to stock the freezer, and I add a lot more chilis for heat, however, the original spice mix was so interesting that I could not resist making a pot and experimenting. It has made all the difference.
Truly, the Internet forgets nothing.
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1 - https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/78299/boilermaker-tailgate...
based on the polarizing nature pretty much implies that some people will nonsensical beliefs supporting which ever side they are on when viewed by a neutral but especially when viewed from opposing side.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42382829
That or he’s trying the reliable old, cancelled-by-the-courts censorship grifting treadmill, to try and use it to spin into into politics (for which I suspect the boat has sailed already).
What other topping can you say that about? Not pepperoni, nor olives, certainly not mushrooms or sausage. No other pizza topping as perfectly rounds out the flavor profile of pizza as pineapple, especially fresh pineapple, and that is why it's the superior topping.
If I just want a savory pizza, I'll probably lean more towards a pepperoni slice. But a Hawaiian option from a place that serves actually good pizza will tempt me on a regular basis. The ham is where they get you, it's typically a bigger issue than the pineapple at most places.
My go-to pizza is pineapple and jalapeno
This is nonsense. Your tongue is far more sensitive than that.
How would you characterize the flavor of butter?
Caramelized onions (sweet), sun-dried tomatoes (sour), roquette salad or kale (bitter), olives (salty), and mushrooms or tempeh (umami)
I’m hungry now
I also take issue with the idea that there are just five cardinal flavors. There are many, many more, which cannot be expressed in terms of these five, especially in the savory category.
Think of the flavor of meat, spices, and pepper. They are all fundamentally different, and yet would be bundled under savory in the 5-flavor scheme. The word "spicy" itself has two distinct meanings.
The five flavors model is an outdated model of what taste buds detect, a sixth has been established (oleogustus, associated with fatty acids and particularly with rancidity.) Furthermore, while not technically “tastes” in the detected-by-tastebuds sende, unctuousness (the mouthfeel of fats) and spiciness (detected by pain receptors instead of tastebuds) are part of what most people mean when they talk about “taste”.
Some such substances occur across a broad range of foods, or in varieties that differ from each other in ways that don't really matter to your digestive system, and you can pick them up and consider them to be a flavor common to those foods.
Some are unique. You can pick those up too.
In either case, your perception of the same taste will vary according to the current state of your nutrition. Steven Callahan noted that, when he was lost at sea and food was scarce, fish eyes tasted significantly better than the rest of the fish. That is because they contain important nutrients, which your tongue can detect, but which you don't ordinarily care about. You start to care as you develop deficiencies.
A model of a small number of "basic flavors" doesn't even allow for this phenomenon to exist. It is fundamentally misguided.
It has a very unique bite because of this *proteolytic* enzyme it contains (when fresh),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain
It's literally trying, and mostly failing, to digest your tongue.
One other very unique one is the Sichuan pepper, which is not a "spicy pepper" in the conventional, capsaicin sense, rather an idiosyncratic chemical that's... Wikipedia calls it "tingling, numbing":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper
We regret to inform you that you are henceforth and forever denied entry into the Italian Republic
Cordially,
Ministro della Giustizia
We improved burritos, and sushi too. We even put sushi in a burrito and Indian food on a pizza.
You can’t stop us. We will continue to disrespect your narrow ideas of what it means to make your national dish by making it far more delicious.
You want to deny anyone entry into your food republic? Give us back the tomato. You don’t deserve it.
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
Sure, there are arguments against that. But when you see the manner in which American cuisine takes the opposite of that principle - especially when it comes to the creation of Italian-American cuisine - it's hardly like the laying of multiple beautiful, well-chosen instruments in an orchestra. Instead, it's a one-trick pony of: add cheese, cream and garlic. And lots of everything
Fettuccine Alfredo: Loads of butter, cream and cheese
Deep dish pizza: Tons of cheese. It's a meat/cheese pie
Carbonora: "Fixed" it by adding cream and garlic.
It's like believing you're improving an orchestra by always adding huge, loud crashing cymbals.
Trying to eat at Italian restaurants in the US as a lactose intolerant person was an exercise in frustration.
> the one thing that unequivocally makes me proud to be American is that we have improved pizza
Gosh...
I eat it with hot peppers and blue cheese. The sweet/spicy combo is fantastic and the blue cheese brings a fantastic complexity to the mix.
For good management, no real system is even necessary. For bad management, no system is immune to their incompetence.
Well run foundations (like Debian) can keep chugging along even with stakeholders who bitterly hate each other.
I hope a BDFL isn't going through a rough time while not having to listen to anyone else.
A persistent annoying thing I've had to maintain for years has been WordPress sites. As a Systems Engineer, their design is particularly annoying to support, and the way they are changed and deployed leads to tons of predictable failures. It's possible to turn WordPress into a real, CI/CD driven, ephemeral deploys, with diffed, staged, tested database changes. But for some reason nobody has built that as a canned solution (I did long ago for a previous employer).
Fun fact: the reason you get a billion blog results when you try to Google for a recipe, is 1) a WordPress plugin that auto-generates recipe blogs, and 2) a Google Metadata thing in the page for encoding recipes. Google prioritizes all those blogs with the recipe metadata. End result: millions of garbage blogs churned out via WP, and nothing but garbage results. Not really sure why Google continues to prioritize garbage.
No I read the article. That is why wrote here. My company is also very professional corporation, yet they do "dog jokes".
So, in short, he's mad at the court for ordering him to do something, and (while the lawsuit is still running!) is basically mocking the court order, and trolling the judge and plaintiff.
This guy has an attorney somewhere, and that attorney has this guy for a client. That poor attorney.
He won't be a poor attorney after milking Matt Mullenweg. The financial rewards of having to defend one of the most vindictive clients ever[1] are probably not small, especially when your client is so mentally stuck that they will see their delusional case to the last appeal.
[1] https://wordpressenginetracker.com
remove means gone, not altered or replaced. i think clarification comes next, offering a chance to demonstrate lack of contempt before being jailed.
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=contempt%20of%20court
this would be indirect contempt, of court order to the prejudice of the courts authority to mandate injunctive relief
The lawyer he retained for this case, Neal Katyal, is not a sympathetic figure to a lot of people: https://newrepublic.com/article/160481/neal-katyal-depravity...
Is an account on Wordpress.org the only way for someone to use WP?
They don't want to pay for all that. They want to make money. That might save Mullenweg in the end, despite himself. He might be ordered to help them set up an alternative plugin directory, but the court probably can't or won't force him to continue doing business with them. Keeping up their mirror of the WP infra might cut into profits too badly. All of the huffing and puffing on their side doesn't change the fact that they're basically parasitic. They do nothing for Mullenweg, and he was doing everything for them.
There could be an outcome where he's about to be forced to pay damages for all of the harassment and help with some complex remedy that still requires them to fork, and instead they come to a settlement beforehand where they (quietly and confidentially) pay him something slightly less than 8% of their revenue and he pays their legal costs and publicly apologizes.
Great time to be learning other CMSes. I tried Payload 3 this week. It was refreshingly easy to configure! Needs a little more polish (the textarea expansion logic seems broken in Safari) but I know a good team is behind it and they'll figure it out.
Also, the value of the checkbox is "yes-it-is", which would break the API anyway if that were the reason.