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My real name is Ben Royce. I frequently shoot my mouth off on Mastodon. I don't fucking care

That's a luxury many people don't have

Some are trans and live in the USA

Some are in sensitive domestic or work situations

Some are exploring themselves and don't want humiliation or regret following them if they fuck up

Lots of valid reasons for #anonymity

So no Mr. #Merz, that's a stupid idea, fuck off

"#Germany's Merz calls for real names on the Internet"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germanys-merz-calls-real-names-211340863.html

#Deutschland

Jack Dorsey skipped ActivityPub, built AtProto, lost Twitter, funded Bluesky, watched it become a company with VCs and a board, said it was "repeating all the mistakes," left, and now funds Nostr.

The fediverse is the only one in this story that never needed a billionaire to survive.

And it never will. 🔥

Here's a thought experiment.

Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.

If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?

If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one would you buy?

(Please retoot this #LLM #poll for wider reach)

So I just learned about the 1986 airplane hijacking attempt in #Oulu, #Finland, and now you too are going to. Because I burst out laughing in a train reading about it. It has: ✔️beer (lots)! ✔️hijinks! ✔️weird occult Nazis! ✔️✔️✔️"HYPNOTIC-MAGNETIC GAZE!" Why oh why this isn't a movie yet! (a THREAD.)

I really feel like a straightforward self-hostable (ideally something like a single static Go server binary), simple small group (10-1000ish users) Discord-ish (text) chat system should only be a few weeks to MVP at the outside.

You know, accounts, channels, messages, basic ACLs, some limited image attachments, and the like. Sort of a midway point between IRC and Discord. Enough to get going.

Mobile clients (which I expect many would want) would be the biggest pain point.

#ChatSystemThoughts

Vielleicht wird es doch einfach ne Synology, die DS925+ sieht ja gar nicht so schlecht aus. #nas #allesNasLang

Pour les geeks qui sont branchés là dessus : ce serait quoi le meilleur choix en imprimante 3D pour un budget autour de 300 € ?

Voir un peu plus si ça se justifie (c'est dingue n'empêche à quel point les prix sont tombés (un peu comme avec les graveurs de CD à une époque (le premier que j'ai connu il coutait 10 000 francs (ça te donne une idée sur mon âge ^^))))

/ping @dada, me semble que tu es client...

#imprimante3d #question

I wrote ~5000 words on what 40 hours of studying drawing can do. I know my drawing is not great, but it has improved considerably, and I believe it is a story worth sharing.

https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/iseeidraw/

GPLv2 affirmation…

I don’t generally post here as people have probably noticed, but here’s a pdf of a recent court ruling, and this turns out to be the easiest way for me to link to a copy of it, since I don’t really maintain any web presence normally and I don’t want to post pdf’s to the kernel mailing lists or anything like that.

And the reason I want to post about it, is that it basically validates my long-held views that the GPLv2 is about making source code available, not controlling the access to the hardware that it runs on.

The court case itself is a mess of two bad parties: Vizio and the SFC. Both of them look horribly bad in court - for different reasons.

Vizio used Linux in their TVs without originally making the source code available, and that was obviously not ok.

And the Software Freedom Conservancy then tries to make the argument that the license forces you to make your installation keys etc available, even though that is not the case, and the reason why the kernel is very much GPLv2 only. The people involved know that very well, but have argued otherwise in court.

End result: both parties have acted badly. But at least Vizio did fix their behavior, even if it apparently took this lawsuit to do so. I can’t say the same about the SFC.

Please, SFC - stop using the kernel for your bogus legal arguments where you try to expand the GPLv2 to be something it isn’t. You just look like a bunch of incompetent a**holes.

The only party that looks competent here is the judge, which in this ruling says

Plaintiff contends the phrases, “machine-readable” and “scripts used to control compilation and installation” support their assertion in response to special interrogatory no. 4 that Defendant should “deliver files such that a person of ordinary skill can compile the source code into a functional executable and install it onto the same device, such that all features of the original program are retained, without undue difficulty.”

The language of the Agreements is unambiguous. It does not impose the duty which is the subject of this motion.

Read as a whole, the Agreements require Vizio to make the source code available in such a manner that the source code can be readily obtained and modified by Plaintiff or other third parties. While source code is defined to include “the scripts used to control compilation and installation,” this does not mean that Vizio must allow users to reinstall the software, modified or otherwise, back onto its smart TVs in a manner that preserves all features of the original program and/or ensures the smart TVs continue to function properly. Rather, in the context of the Agreements, the disputed language means that Vizio must provide the source code in a manner that allows the source code to be obtained and revised by Plaintiff or others for use in other applications.

In other words, Vizio must ensure the ability of users to copy, change/modify, and distribute the source code, including using the code in other free programs consistent with the Preamble and Terms and Conditions of the Agreements. However, nothing in the language of the Agreements requires Vizio to allow modified source code to be reinstalled on its devices while ensuring the devices remain operable after the source code is modified. If this was the intent of the Agreements, the Agreements could have been readily modified to state that users must be permitted to modify and reinstall modified software on products which use the program while ensuring the products continue to function. The absence of such language is dispositive and there is no basis to find that such a term was implied here. Therefore, the motion is granted.

IOW, this makes it clear that yes, you have to make source code available, but no, the GPLv2 does not in any way force you to then open up your hardware.

My intention - and the GPLv2 - is clear: the kernel copyright licence covers the software, and does not extend to the hardware it runs on. The same way the kernel copyright license does not extend to user space programs that run on it.

Maladies, accidents, bagarre meurtres, le coût des méfaits de l’alcool : 102 milliards d’€ par an en France, bien plus que ce qu’il rapporte. Sans compter ses répercussions négatives sur la société, notamment en termes de violences contre les femmes, viols, féminicides

https://www.sudouest.fr/france/maladies-accidents-viols-bagarres-l-alcool-coute-trop-cher-a-la-societe-et-alimente-les-violences-faites-aux-femmes-27332624.php

Les hommes boivent, les femmes trinquent