Are we great again yet?

On one single repository.

Do they still use Repo? If so, whether it really qualifies as “one single repository” is a bit open to interpretation.

Admiral 1: “That Tuvix thing was kinda fucked up.”

Admiral 2: “But she wanted her morale officer back.”

Admiral 1: “But… that was murd-”

Admiral 3: “I say we make her and admiral.”

Admiral 1: “…”

Admiral 2: “Agreed.”

Admiral 1: “Admirals, this is a seriou-”

Admiral 3: “Oh lighten up. It’s not like she violated the Temporal Prime Directive.”

I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.

Based.

8.153e-53 cubic parsecs.

81Oz so far today.

But the Internet says it’s true, this is molting not mites.

The person you responded to was referring to why his beak looked weird, not to the lack of feathers on his head. But I didn’t see anything in the article you posted about beaks.

Seriously. Why are we still calling him a Democrat?

Just because he hasn’t formalized switching parties, I guess.

If he still caucuses with Democrats, that shit has to be super awkward.

Schiff: “We’d better capitulate even more to the Republicans. It’s always worked out so well for us in the pa-”

Fetterman: “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!!! <mocking voice>‘I wanna steal your 3-year-old son’s testosterone.’</mocking voice> That’s what you sound like right now.”

Everyone else: “…”

“By not drinking antifreeze, you’ve just re-sensitized yourself so any antifreeze you drink will be impossible to metabolize.”

How so? Like, is the content super gritty in South Korea? Is the EULA super fucked-up there? Does it cost an arm and a leg? Is it unavailable without a VPN? Something else entirely? All of the above?

You might dig James Boyle. I haven’t read “The Public Domain” (book by him) yet, but I have read the IP Caselaw textbook he coauthored. It’s really meant to be a textbook for law students, not a treatise on anticapitalism, so it mostly doesn’t go into the kind of stuff in this article, but it does have excerpts from The Public Domain (which is a lot more about the kind of stuff in Nesbitt’s blog post) throughout and the final chapter in particular is very much on that topic.

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag

But they repeat themselves.

No matter how low it goes I’ll never understand how it isn’t zero. (As much as it should be zero, it unfortunately never will be. Well over a hundreds of years from now, I imagine right-wingers will romanticize Trump the same way they romanticize Reagan and the Civil War and… you know… Hitler.)

FOSS reimplementations of proprietary software feel like possibly the most effective way to wrest back all that companies like Microsoft have taken from everybody. (And it serves as a pretty effective “fuck you” in the process.) So it always thrills me to see such projects reach major milestones like this.

They’re unfortunately super labor-intensive. And progress on this one has been slow. But it’s good to see they still happen.

Totally valid. And I tend to think CC BY-NC-SA is probably used more commonly than CC BY-SA. And I’d imagine folks tend to see that NC option and wonder why anyone would ever want to not do that. (I can certainly see why people would be like “Great. That’s all permissive licenses need: more Capitalism /s.”) Just to explain why I don’t usually use the NC (and please don’t take this as shade by any means):

When Linksys took a bunch of GPL’d code (including the Linux kernel), compiled it, stuck it on hardware, and sold that hardware to end users, they violated the terms of the GPL. The GPL has no non-commercial license terms, but it does require that the source code (or at least a written offer of source code) be conveyed along with any compiled versions – including compiled versions on devices sold. Copyright owners for some of that GPL’d code were able to go to Linksys and force them to release the source code of much of what was running on the devices, which enabled the creation of the first versions of OpenWRT (As well as off-shoots like DD-WRT and such).

Something similar is going on in the courts now with regard to smart TVs. With luck, we’ll have open source software distros for TVs similar to what OpenWRT is to routers.

If the GPL had forbidden commercial use, we wouldn’t have the cheap routers that an ordinary consumer could run OpenWRT on that we do. (And cheap devices and greater availability means more people engaging in the community, submitting PRs, and otherwise contributing and enjoying the freedoms afforded.) In short, commercial use can be a feature in service to end-user freedom. It’s not always strictly a bad thing for permissively-licensed works.

So, that explains why I almost always go for GPL licenses when writing software, but of course that doesn’t speak to 3D models.

With regard to 3D models, I’m just hoping that by allowing commercial use, it ends up raising some amount of awareness about things like Creative Commons and intellectual property reform in general. If I ever found someone was selling my models, as long as they give me attribution and inform recipients of the license, I’d feel good that at least a few normie non-nerds would have a chance of being exposed to the whole idea of Creative Commons and intellectual property reform in general.

Again, no shade. Just thought it might be germane.

I don’t sell anything.

Good on you. In the realm of 3D printing, if I were to start a business based on 3D printing stuff, I wouldn’t feel bad about, say, commissions for printing something the client found elsewhere on demand or commissions for designing a model. (I suppose theoretically a “3d printer repair service” would be something I’d be ok with charging for as well.) But I definitely couldn’t feel good about selling models or prints (as opposed to selling my labor and potentially a little bit for raw materials and wear/tear on my printer) that I’d previously designed/printed. I think probably one of my conditions for model design commissions would be that I could publish the model under a CC BY-SA license.

“Information wants to be free.” Something I deeply believe.

Making it possible to vote up and/or down while preventing double-voting for the same account in a distributed application like Fediverse sort of applications seems challenging at best unless every instance knows exactly who voted which way on what. What I wish is that Lemmy would make it a proper feature that it was public information who voted on what.

I dunno. Maybe it would be possible to implement some zero-knowledge proof sort of thing that would keep people from double-voting (purposefully or accidentally) without anybody but the voter knowing who voted for what. But absent that, I’d rather that seeing that information wasn’t limited to an elite group of users composed of just mods/admins. I’d also rather that I didn’t have to go to a separate site to see information about upvotes and downvotes.

I suppose the argument could be made that we could get away with not having votes. Just make how high it shows up high on the “hot” sort by how many comments it has. Though I do feel like there are “good” posts that I’d want to see with few/no comments.

Ha! I don’t mod many communities, but I like to think I’m pretty reasonable about it. I definitely try to err on the side of not taking mod action.

I have a very selective list of “I want to see all the posts that get posted to this community” communities that I’m subscribed to that gives me like 5 posts per day at most, and I sort that by subscribed/new. Once I’m done catching up with those, I go to all/new, and I block communities I don’t ever want to see again. It’s nice because 1) I get to see all the posts I really want to see, 2) I can block the “crap I don’t want in front of me for no reason”, and 3) new communities that I might be interested in make it in front of my eyes without me having to go search for them or hope the ones I’d want to see happen to come up in a “new communities” community on my feed.

Thanks for this! I’m not sure it’s working correctly for me. It’s only showing five downvoted posts. (And according to lemvotes.org, I’ve downvoted over 300 posts.) After that it gives me an error: TypeError: can't access property "data", W.value[r.feedId] is undefined and the “retry” button doesn’t do anything. But it still gives me something to try if I can figure a way to fix that somehow.