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.

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.

Only those energy drinks that have artificially added caffeine or taurine are going to have their sales restricted to those over 18.

The OP meant "under 18-year-olds".

The API pricing was imposed to crack down on free training of LLMs with user data.

There were also other API changes like totally removing access to content marked as mature. I don't know if subreddits can disable setting a post as mature because automods can't detect it or see its content.

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.

Unfortunately, only Europe. Because manufacturers still want to capitalize on those "not easily removable" batteries in the rest of the world.