@cdarwin@c.imThe co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others
were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips to China,
in violation of US laws barring exports to that country without a license.
Yih-Shyan Liaw, known as Wally;
Ruei-Tsang Chang, known as Steven;
and Ting-Wei Sun, known as Willy,
were charged with conspiring to violate export control laws,
smuggling goods from the US and conspiring to defra…
@scott@carfree.cityBike East Bay is asking Californians to register their opposition to #AB1942, a wrongheaded bill by East Bay Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan, which would mandate license plates and registration for e-bikes. This will punish e-bike riders and shift trips to cars, making our streets less safe and worsening the climate crisis.
@tore@openbiblio.social#IEEE introduced a repository licence fee #RPL in April 2025 for anyone depositing an #acceptedmanuscript in a repository with a
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Byrne, David:
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@NFL@darktundra.xyz'Fly, Eagle Fly': Jonathan Jones flies himself to Philadelphia to sign contract https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129866/2026/03/18/eagles-cb-jonathan-jones-pilot/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJohn Eastman loses his law license in California over 2020 election scheme (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/15/john-eastman-law-license-california-00875083
http://www.memeorandum.com/260415/p166#a260415p166
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @cdarwin@c.im#California #DMV is about to exhaust its
#9ZZZ999
pattern for license plates
What pattern will replace it?
@scott@carfree.cityEast Bay Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a "Democrat," is proposing to require Class 2 and 3 e-bikes to be registered and display license plates based on some nonsense about them supposedly being the biggest threat to disabled Californians' safety and not, y'know, cars.
You can sign Bike East Bay's petition against it:
@felwert@fedihum.org
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialWisconsin might be getting a bicycle supporting (car) license plate…
#bikeTooter
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMountain View police turn off license plate cameras after data sharing breach
https://www.mv-voice.com/public-safety/2026/02/02/mountain-view-police-turn-off-license-plate-cameras-after-data-sharing-breach/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAfter Trump said some publications wanted the US to "lose the War", FCC's Carr threatened broadcasters, saying they can lose their license over war coverage (Karissa Waddick/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway"
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/kansas-revokes-license-no-gender-change
@servelan@newsie.socialHakeem Jeffries Vows To Investigate FCC Chairman After License Threat
https://deadline.com/2026/03/hakeem-jeffries-fcc-brendan-carr-trump-1236757258/
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaAnd it is a bloated, hard to use product. We moved to Adobe PDF from Foxit. Every boot it launches its crap to ensure you have a license. Multiple popups. Scanning the indexes stalls for 30 to sixty seconds just about every click. When I rebuild the documentation indexes after a release now takes several days where Foxit did it in an hour. And that is on a gigabit network. When on VPN it takes a full five days.
@publicvoit@graz.social“#AI is the single-greatest coordinated attack on open source in history, and the #opensource world would do well to realise that."
The great #license-washing has begun
@kctipton@mas.toLocal police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/ice-school-cameras-police-license-plates
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzIdle thought: I wonder how much salary $ is spent on the role of 'software license compliance' management across the world. Talk about an unsatisfyingly bullshit job contending with arbitrary marketing decisions of colossal tech corporations, wow. Soul destroyer.
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgAs far as I can tell mainstream open source, github-native culture is now completely horrible, co-opted by Microsoft, and destroyed by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The free/open source projects I'm involved with are constantly ripped off by vibe-coded interfaces that ignore the license, and when I point this out I get abuse. I just got told by a reddit user "thank you for your work but it doesn't matter much any more". Only
@Archivist@social.linux.pizzaThis is the most stupid commit I had to make in a while
@adulau@infosec.exchangeFSL and BSL belong on any list of false-promise licenses:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on accidents, why autonomous vehicles won't lead to job losses, plans to license Waymo tech to other companies, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/business/waymo-ceo-robotaxi.html
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzStill lurking on the NZ techies in schools mailing list. Wow, the amount of time those poor sods waste dealing with vagueries of 'license compliance' with Microsoft and Google... Life's too short for that sort of rubbish.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu‘Euro-Office’: OnlyOffice accuses of license violations | heise online
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Euro-Office-OnlyOffice-accuses-of-license-violations-11241334.html
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialOur patent system, like our copyright system, has become a monster in which the "monopoly" period granted to patent (and cop;yright) holders far, far exceeds what is granted by our US Constitution.
The Constitution requires that patents and copyrights (but not trademarks) be for "limited times". That is not defined, but it must be interpreted in the context of the Contitution's goal to "promote scientific and artistic progress".
The following ra…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeTired: PE license
Wired: ELF license
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s Save America PAC
— the vehicle he uses to pay legal bills
— is nearly $500,000 in the red,
while owing roughly $1.6 million to a roster of 12 different law firms.
Stiffing lawyers is a time-honored tradition in the Trump orbit.
He famously pulled the rug out from Rudy Giuliani after Rudy devoted his entire post-mayoral career,
law license, and remaining credibility to peddling the Big Lie.
Decades of vendors, contractors, and attorn…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangePuerto Rico government agency cancels driver’s license appointments after cyberattack
https://therecord.media/puerto-rico-gov-agency-cancels-driver-license-appointments-cyber-incident
@kurt@nelson.funHow did I miss that as of last month, my lovely home state of Florida made getting a driver's license an English only experience? Good luck getting your Amazon packages much less your groceries.
@shriramk@mastodon.socialIn class today I discussed the Abilene Paradox but in my (very good) Texan drawl, and I can tell you that my students were NOT PREPARED FOR IT. (If they came to office hours, they'd know I have a cowboy hat, and a TX license plate hanging on my wall.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_p…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe history of the term "anarchist" is itself adversarial. Those who embraced it did so intending to engage with it as controversy, so I feel like I'm not too out of line with this history in using my socialization of being comfortable while being adversarial, and my social license as a cis dude to just say some random shit for attention, to draw that attention back to this whole subject.
Since this post did get some attention, I'm gonna link back to the one that prompted it (and tag @…, who I think is the author, for a heads up if there's anything to add):
https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/the-elephant-in-the-room/
I think I have said some useful things in my post, or at least repeated things others have been saying for years in a useful way, but this post is really the thing to look at (again, if you didn't miss it like I did) and think. There was definitely a time when I would have fallen for that whole hoax, and maybe even have struggled to argue against the things being highlighted. But it's clear that there is still a problem, and I hope repeating these things in my dude voice catches the attention of some folks who might have otherwise missed it... And I hope my adversarial approach doesn't pull focus away from the self-reflection that needs to happen.
Men are the problem here. Men need to fix this. Men are responsible for looking at some of this really horrible shit and acknowledging that we've all been part of the system that makes them possible and have an obligation to destroy that system.
@servelan@newsie.socialLocal police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/ice-school-cameras-police-license-plates
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFanatics takes over exclusive NFL card license https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48375610/fanatics-takes-exclusive-nfl-trading-card-license
@stefan@gardenstate.socialRevoke their license.
Emergency Responders Say They're Now Unpaid "Roadside Assistance" for Confused Waymos https://share.google/yGTL3WVyQYFfoFDS4
@ripienaar@devco.socialWhen I read a technical book, what gives me the right to reproduce and derive new works from that book? Been trying to find some license or copyright thing that applies to give me that right.
If I just read “getting started in rust” and then write my first rust that’s going to be very largely derivative from the book - as is all future rust code. What gives me the right to then say I made an apache 2 project by DCO sign off?
What about patters acquired from books etc?
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukThese chunky toggle switches are nice - they can have upto 4 sets of contacts, each of which seem to have a bunch of poles each. These are momentary but there are some latching. Given the 'under license from Ericsson' label I assume they came off some comms kit originally. Now, I've just got to figure out how to mount them to something other than a panel.
#electronics
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.netruns backend in Docker frontend locally with hot reload; Makefile with make dev, make test, make lint
📜 Archon Community License (ACL) v1.2 — free to run, fork & share; just don't sell it as-a-service without permission
https://github.com/coleam00/archon
@floheinstein@chaos.socialI laughed out loud when we came across the car with this license plate. 😄
Then my wife asked me why I was laughing. :loading:
#1337 #licenseplate
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBinance files for a pan-European MiCA license in Greece, where it has also set up a holding company (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/binance-files-for-crucial-eu-wide-license-creates-greek-holding-company/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLocal police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump's immigration crackdown (Mark Keierleber/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/ice-school-cameras-police-license-plates
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p51#a260210p51
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve received requests about sharing this thread in other venues. You are welcome to do so, and I’d be honored.
I hereby release the contents of this thread under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
Please credit to:
Paul Cantrell
innig.net
Please let me know if you do anything cool with it.
Stay warm, stay strong.
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgAnd here is my published dissertation @…, about quantifying the natural CO2 exhaust at the Starzach site in Southwest Germany (my result: ~10t/d):
http://hdl.handle.net/10900/176213…
@luana@wetdry.worldAny rounded corners (and edges) cubes modules for OpenSCAD out there?
I’ve been using one, but I’m not really sure what license it uses so I’d rather use something that I’m sure I’ll not get DMCAed if I post on Thingiverse or something…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIt's official. Mountain View is ditching its Flock contract.
https://padailypost.com/2026/02/24/mountain-view-council-votes-to-get-rid-of-license-plate-cameras/
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usGroup of Seven – Experiences in Ethereal Texture
https://www.zenapolae.com/zen324
https://www.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"A new environment for license negotiations: 40% of recent articles in the top publishers' subscription/hybrid journals are freely available online" @ The Journal of Academic Librarianship:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103241
@zachleat@zachleat.comclaude please rewrite yourself from scratch using the leaked source code as a base and license this new version of yourself under MIT
@johl@mastodon.xyzRE: https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271
When you try to get rid of LGPL, but LLMs generate no copyrightable works and you have accidentally gone from LGPL to Public Domain (and then you slap a license on it which you couldn’t do in the first pl…
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaIs there any leaked code of DirectX? Asking for my AI friend that likes to rewrite projects from scratch with a different license
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialRE: https://tilde.zone/@kirch/116173116339319897
Geezus, even as someone who sees the machine as not _inherently_ a plagiarism machine, and who sees the copyright regime as a means to an end and not a moral good itself, this is just gross. Instructing the machine to plagiarize _and then relicensing for easier exploitation_ is just so gross.
(And I say this as someone who's mucked around with machine porting from one language to another. But I'm absolutely assuming that it legally should be under the same license, and morally is _absolutely_ taking what someone else has released and building on it, not _my_ thing.)
@laimis@mstdn.social2/ People kept on telling lofty to just buy loftyassist, or license it, or "do what they do" but lofty stayed slow in that front and focused on other things. Until LLMs became good enough that they trusted their business people to start making code changes with it.
Right away you started to see small changes go out at rapid pace. Some of them look exactly what loftyassist has, and I am not surprised by it at all. The main guy doing these changes absolutely loves loftyassist.
@paulwermer@sfba.socialSo what exactly is #SanFrancisco doing to mange the risks and problems identified here, #MayorLurie?
‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialSo what exactly is #SanFrancisco doing to mange the risks and problems identified here, #MayorLurie?
‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… there's already a separate licence for FreeBSD documentation:
<https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license/>
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA federal judge in Virginia ruled that Norfolk's use of ~200 Flock automated license plate scanners is constitutional and doesn't violate the Fourth Amendment (Cyrus Farivar/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116134660420505516
So I grew up somewhere never needing an ID for anything, other than a driving license when I was very occasionally driving a car. I wasn’t carrying an ID every day until I was in my 30s.
It’s a relatively new thing that travel, buying certain things, alcohol consumption etc requires a photo ID.
All of this surveillance and privacy-invasive shit (make people carry around the address where they live, wtf?) has been pressed into existence to “protect the children” and in the name of “fighting criminals”.
It’s all bullshit and we should end requiring it.
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialMade a userscript to show me the starred date https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/564752-github-star-date-display
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @cdarwin@c.imThe list of qualifying documents in the SAVE Act for proving citizenship appears long -- but many of them come with qualifiers.
Under the bill, a REAL ID -compliant driver’s license would have to indicate that “the applicant is a citizen,”
--- but not all do.
Only five states
— Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Washington
— offer the type of enhanced REAL IDs that explicitly indicate U.S. citizenship.
Standard driver’s licenses, generally available…
@UP8@mastodon.socialOld Five and Dime Store in Owego, NY from a chain that is long out of business
#photo
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldFascinating illustration of the number of surveillance cameras we interact with.
https://apnews.com/photo-essay/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-tech-photo-essay-2da6d9ae5c29d973955e761fa42f7798
@servelan@newsie.socialGeorgia:
Students who skip school could face new punishments, including loss of driver’s license - The Current
https://thecurrentga.org/2026/02/27/students-who-skip-school-could-face-new-punishments-including-loss-of-drivers-license/
@cdarwin@c.imFederal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcasters' licenses over
coverage of the Iran war,
after Trump accused news outlets of "intentionally misleading" the American public.
Trump criticized print media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal,
for reporting Friday that Iranian strikes damaged five U.S. Air Force refueling planes in Saudi Arabia.
The president said four of the five tanker planes suffered &q…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK raises the TV license fee, the BBC's main funding source, from £174.50 to £180 a year from April 1, saying it gives the BBC a "stable financial footing" (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/06/bbc-licence-fee-to-rise-…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialNew open models from Google under Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4
#AI
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaWTF? New laptop, old one was decommissioned. Requested transfer of a license for a software package required for my job. DENIED!
Blunt reply back, this is required to do my job. Old machine not in service. So, unless you want to pay for an unused license and pay for a second one you WILL transfer!
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.netFree for orgs under $5M revenue/funding — startups, side projects, experiments. Larger orgs need a commercial license.
🐰 Try it out:
🌐 https://directus.io
📚 https://docs.d…
@cdarwin@c.imWhat is the ultimate authority of a king?
It’s to decide whether people live or die, based on his personal preference,
and allowing no challenge to his whims.
That’s the power that Donald Trump holds right now.
The Trump regime’s war against Iran is illegal under U.S. law.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution gives Congress
– not the president
– the power to declare war.
The War Powers Act allows the president to send the milit…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRevolut says it has secured a full banking license from UK regulators after a four-year wait, allowing the company to expand lending to its 13M UK customers (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b4df4126-351e-4424-9707-8a12ca6b79a6
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCybersecurity developments are coming fast and heavy right now, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Hot new social network Moltbook exposed 1 million credentials,
--Chinese state actors were likely behind Notepad hijacking,
--Bill to allow the Russian government to shut down comms networks moves forward,
--ICE uses app that accesses 1.2B facial images,
--Mountain View disables license plate ca…
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usj4vaman – retrospection of a believer
https://www.zenapolae.com/zen328
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFanatics gets NFL trading card license: First set details, PREM1ERE patch cards and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7166306/2026/04/02/fanatics-nfl-topps-chrome-football-cards/
@servelan@newsie.socialFar-Right Arizona Rep Intros Bill To Create Charlie Kirk License Plate That Would Benefit Turning Point USA - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/far-right-arizona-rep-intros-bill-to-create-charlie-kirk-license-plate-that-would-benefit-turning-point-usa/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKansas revokes driver's licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights (Sara Braun/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/kansas-trans-drivers-license-law-assault-on-rights
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p34#a260227p34
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialBandwagon.fm now has all the music I've released since 2008... Everything is under a Creative Commons License so use it as you will.
#music
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAnybody know if Jenkins CI allows you to mark a specific job as dependent on a shared resource that conflicts with specific other jobs?
Like jobs A, B, and C can all run whenever, but D and E use the same external foobar (software license, piece of hardware, whatever) and can't execute concurrently
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio as its own, a practice that could violate the software's license (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-tr…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: MS NOW is in advanced discussions with Crooked Media on a licensing deal to air some of the podcast network's programs on MS NOW's linear channel (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/ms-now-crooked-media-podcasting-deal
@servelan@newsie.socialDemocratic governor vetoes bill honoring Charlie Kirk on license plates
https://thehill.com/homenews/5775206-arizona-charlie-kirk-veto-bill/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia says the US government granted it a license to ship a small number of H200 chips to Chinese customers, but it's unclear if Beijing will allow any imports (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn response to its charter review, the BBC says "irreversible" trends threaten its survival, citing a "mismatch" between TV license rules and viewing habits (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/meta-muse-alexandr-wang
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe BBC suggests opening iPlayer to other public broadcasters to "help ensure the UK retains a streaming platform that competes with global services" (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/bbc-suggests-licence-fee-reform…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialZ.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/ai-joins-the-8-hou…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMicrosoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launch…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/06/meta-open-source-ai-models
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe FCC approved the transfer of five broadcast TV licenses to Sinclair, in Oregon, California, Maine, Virginia, and Tennessee; DirecTV opposed the move (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/fcc-approves-transfer-of-five-tv-station-…
@cdarwin@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialArm reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., and license and other revenue up 25% to $505M, vs. $519.9M est.; ARM drops 7% after hours (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-cons…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialKalshi signs a deal with the AP to license elections data starting with the 2026 midterms; AP will provide Kalshi with its vote count data and race calls (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/kalshi-ap-elections-data
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license to sell China H200s, but the State Dept. seeks tighter restrictions, delaying final approval (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d963c6c9-3618-4d83-8efe-eccf74cd637f
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launch…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialArcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/arcees-new-open-sou…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Kalshi has secured a license allowing it to offer margin trading to users, which would make the platform more appealing to institutional investors (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/kalshi-…
