@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-02-09 18:16:13
A Canadian minister says the country plans to ban devices that copy wireless signals for remote keyless entry, like Flipper Zero, to combat auto theft (Lucas Ropek/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/canada-moves-to-ban-the-flipper-zero-over-car-hac…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2024-03-07 07:45:57
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#OpenRC […] has been in a state of bureaucratic decay for a decade now, having all been hoarded by a random corporate contractor about as responsive to the outside universe as OpenOffice (while taking up as much space; they're the entire reason for the farcical metadata/AUTHORS file in the main package repo).
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#Gentoo copyright policy (AKA #GLEP76) has been a long time in the making. More specifically, as you can guess from the author list, it has been a long time in fruitless debate, followed by a short period of creative activity. In its original form, it has been unanimously approved both by the Council and the Trustees in September 2018.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/653118
Not a month later, once we've actually started requiring signoffs per the new policy, one of the Council members requested a "transitional period", to give their company's legal team more time to approve it. Like, they've actively influenced the policy, they've actually voted for approving it, but they didn't mean for it to actually apply at the time — and they've never bothered telling anyone about the problem earlier. Fortunately, they've managed to get a quick approval and started using it.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/667602
As a side effect of using it, attribution lines to said company started popping up in random ebuilds that their employees touched (malicious compliance or just corporate bullshit?). This heralded a maintenance nightmare. Two months later, metadata/AUTHORS was proposed as a compromise to stop that.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/672962
All these years later, I'm thinking that we had a simpler solution to all these, and many later problems, at our disposal back then…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2024-05-09 10:36:17
How AI can be an "online WMD" to wipe out the commons by @…: « the internet moved from self-governance by members of the commons to acts of wanton destruction committed by despicable, greedy assholes who shit in the well over and over again.»
The example of copyleft trolls using Creative Commons to destroy the commons seems timely when CC itself keeps waiving the "AI is fair-use"-flag…
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/09/shitting-in-the-well/
@protecttruth@mastodon.online2024-02-09 16:18:56
I'd go further than this.
Don’t engage with the content of the Hur statement.
Instead, engage on Hur himself.
He’s a Fed Soc hack! He is ideologically in on a pro-billionaire, anti-Biden agenda.
Remember, “pivot to agenda.”
@servelan@newsie.social2024-05-08 02:33:38
Good luck with that, Mikey.
Johnson demands all Trump prosecutions cease, vows to use Congress 'in every possible way' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/johnson-trump-prosecutions/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2024-03-09 10:26:05
Direct outcome from a recent GitHub discussion with @…, a new https://thi.ng/webgl multi-pass example to interactively draw to & read from an offscreen render texture using sh…
@outer@mas.to2024-05-08 14:32:20
Yes! Me, too! I think I inherited it genetically from both parents, and culturally from Walt Disney. It sustains me. #Thankful
@adam@windbag.org2024-04-09 03:24:55
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-02-09 17:02:03
Sources: Meta considers flagging more uses of the term "Zionist" as antisemitic, a move some say could suppress legitimate debate about the Israel-Hamas war (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/09/meta-zionist…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-03-08 16:40:49
