Those were the days where if you knew someone’s real name and town that they lived, you could just go and get the telephone directory for that area (the library had all of them) and look up their address and phone number. It would have to be quite a big town before you found multiple people with the same name.

This is just an ad for proprietary software. Where is the source? The github repo just has some small utility but not the source for the whole platform.

what licence can we use to force any entity using a library to make their project open-source

GPL requires this, since linking with a library is considered a derivative work even if the library is dynamically loaded.

This is why the LGPL exists, which makes the library copyleft but does not extend the derivative work classification to programs linking with the library.

Interesting, but ultimately a roundabout justification for why the author chose a non-FOSS license for their startup Slack-clone built on ATProto.

They talk about “pro-labor licensing” but what they mean is pro- their -labor, not pro- anyone else’s -labor.

GPL is already the most pro-labor licensing since it respects the work of anyone who contributes in equal measure, and does not hold the “original” founding author in higher regard.

It’s really quite something to rail so unequivocally against the “fascistic mega-corps” and “autocratic corpostates” in your licensing justification blog post and then build your commercial product on top of Bluesky .

The GPL doesn’t place any restrictions on selling or profiting from GPL licensed works. It only requires that anyone distributing the work provides the recipients with the same rights under the GPL, ie. the right to view, modify and redistribute the source code.

This means that a company cannot take a GPL licensed work and turn it into a proprietary product.

GPL is the only thing standing between us and Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.

There’s a reason that “Stallman was right” is a meme in the FOSS world.

Do you think IBM wouldn’t make Red Hat completely proprietary if they had the chance? They already tried to use their customer licensing to restrict source access!

It only takes one successful proprietary product to gain mind-share and market-share and become a new de-facto standard, and then all of the original FOSS has to play catch-up and stay compatible to stay relevant.

See Jabber/XMPP for an example.

“I only sleep for 2 to 4 hours a night”

The post is about NixOS. The intro paragraph about Arch is just a preamble to provide the motivation for switching.

The data also shows that the number of people living in Britain who applied via the ‘Foreign Births Register’ reached 23,456 last year, the highest number since the Brexit referendum in 2016.

I calculated the chance of getting that exact number of applications and it’s 1 in 1234567

For humans with red-green colour blindness? I don’t know, you’d have to ask them! There are two types of red-green colour blindness though, people who lack red cones and people who lack green cones. I think the lack of red cones would make the perception more like the image above, whereas a lack of green cones would make the red light very visible but the green light a dim purple-like colour.

To make this image I used a website that was specifically for seeing a dog’s vision so who knows how accurate that is.

Green traffic lights are slightly blue and this makes them easy to distinguish from the red light which will only ever trigger the yellow cones.

> Joined 3 hours ago
> first post is concern trolling

You are mostly correct it’s (possible char values) ^ length.

You wrote this shit with an LLM, didn’t you?

the broadcom module is always significantly behind the kernel

Right, but if it’s not unmaintained then you only have to wait a finite amount of time before you get to update your kernel again yes?

but held packages like your kernel impact other software as well

Well… I’d be interested to hear what user-space impacts you’ve experienced from running a kernel that’s “weeks or even months behind the latest kernel .”

Do you use a browser extension for this? Can you share it? Thanks!

Ironically, I had to turn on reader mode to read his website because the black text on white background is just too harsh on my eyes. My reader mode settings have a contrast ratio of 6.16 according to the site that he links.

Remember when “Chia coin” came for our HDDs too?

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hard-drive-prices-skyrocket-asia-scalpers-making-bank