[HN Gopher] Zeit v1
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       Zeit v1
        
       Author : surprisetalk
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2026-01-03 14:50 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
        
       | overflyer wrote:
       | Zeit should have been written in Zug *badums
       | 
       | Jokes aside this looks Like a very neat tool. I will check it out
       | definitely.
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | Took me a bit to find to figure out what Zeit is:
       | 
       | "Zeit, erfassen. A command line tool for tracking time spent on
       | tasks & projects."
        
       | nailer wrote:
       | off topic, from the site footer:
       | 
       | > If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.
       | 
       | I'm stealing that.
        
       | tumblen wrote:
       | Anyone else remember when Vercel was called Zeit? Thought this
       | was related somehow.
       | 
       | I loved that branding for them.
        
       | comex wrote:
       | The license ([1], based on [2]) prohibits use by law enforcement
       | agencies (of any kind), tax collection agencies, suppliers and
       | contractors of law enforcement agencies, the military,
       | multinational corporations that participate in mass surveillance
       | programs (only multinational ones for some reason??), and any
       | entity offering goods or services whose supply chain involves any
       | such entities. Among other categories!
       | 
       | On my reading, the wording is ambiguous as to whether it includes
       | use by employees of these entities, or only by the entities
       | themselves.
       | 
       | Either way, it would seem to put anyone in violation who has ever
       | distributed a copy of any large open source project (e.g. Linux
       | kernel), since the "processes involved in the production" of
       | those projects involve large companies that have violated various
       | of the provisions.
       | 
       | In practice this software seems to be usable only by people who
       | do not take license compliance seriously.
       | 
       | [1] https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/segv/
       | 
       | [2] https://firstdonoharm.dev
        
         | aidenn0 wrote:
         | In TFA the author states that it "won't have any practical
         | impact for the average user" but it would surprise me if the
         | average user _didn 't_ violate at least one of those terms. I
         | found an article that (uncited) claims that 75% of the US has
         | admitted to littering at least once in the last 5 years, which
         | violates 3.1.16 (maintaining a license requires "ongoing
         | compliance")
        
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