pabs3

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by pabs3 3mo ago
They should classify the ICANN and the RIRs as gatekeepers too, they are the biggest ones.
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by pabs3 3mo ago
I've been a FOSS contributor since the early 2000s, I've stopped contributing and stopped maintaining projects completely in recent years, except for when I am paid, or where there is a problem that affects me directly that I can&
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by pabs3 4mo ago
They are likely pretty busy with their lawsuit against Vizio, which is going to trial in August and would set a very interesting precedent if won. https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
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by pabs3 4mo ago
I feel like that is quite unlikely. Both the hash and bitwise comparisons read both files in both cases. In the not-equal case the hash reads the entirety of both files, so its slower than a start-to-end bitwise comparison, which exits at t
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by pabs3 4mo ago
The OpenMoko Freerunner only had 128MB RAM, it was able to run a Linux desktop of the time, Englightenment/E16. There were lots of apps for it too. IIRC the cut down QtMoko distro ran best though. https://wiki.openmoko.org&#
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by pabs3 4mo ago
Indeed, the Reproducible Builds community is working on fixing non-deterministic build output https://reproducible-builds.org/
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by pabs3 4mo ago
Build reproducibility checks usually use bitwise comparison, not hash comparison. The Reproducible Builds project also wrote diffoscope, which goes quite far with helping identify where differences occur and how to fix them. https:/&#
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by pabs3 4mo ago
That sounds like a GPLv2 violation: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
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Megalodon: Mass GitHub Repo Backdooring via CI Workflows(safedep.io)
2 points by pabs3 4mo ago|0 comments
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by pabs3 4mo ago
There were 5G towers being attacked during COVID, because of delusional conspiracy theories: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53285610 https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/5g-health-concerns-and-c..
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by pabs3 4mo ago
There is a copy of it on Software Heritage: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...
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Achiving 900M Lines of the OIN Linux System Table(softwareheritage.org)
2 points by pabs3 4mo ago|0 comments
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Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial(arstechnica.com)
8 points by pabs3 4mo ago|8 comments
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by pabs3 4mo ago
Some links about GPL & TiVo: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t... https
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by pabs3 4mo ago
I don't know what the solution to slop is. Maybe the bubble will implode at some point. Until then, just close down issues/pulls or remove projects from GitHub I guess.
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by pabs3 4mo ago
The xz incident was only discovered by accident, not by someone actually verifying the tarball and test cases were not malicious. We still don't have verification of tarball build reproducibility anywhere. The closest you can get to ve
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by pabs3 4mo ago
Thats the entire history of companies right there though? They have always socialised costs, privatised profits.
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by pabs3 4mo ago
Under the LGPL, statically linked Qt is also fine, as long as the user can relink your proprietary code with a modified Qt library.
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by pabs3 4mo ago
> someone (or something) who's concealing their identity has nothing to gain from recognition The xz supply chain attacker hid their real identity, created fakes one and gained recognition over time in order to gain more access and
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Peter Neumann has died(tuhs.org)
316 points by pabs3 4mo ago|25 comments
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Google: Continued commitment to Chromebooks, and looking ahead(cloud.google.com)
4 points by pabs3 4mo ago|0 comments
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Language Registries Are Unstable by Default(nesbitt.io)
2 points by pabs3 4mo ago|0 comments
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by pabs3 4mo ago
Tesla is full of open source software, including the Linux kernel. They probably are GPL violators though. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/may/18/tesla-incomplete-... https://sfconservancy
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by pabs3 4mo ago
Related post from GamersNexus: https://gamersnexus.net/fk-you-bambu-lab
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Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us(gamersnexus.net)
123 points by pabs3 4mo ago|19 comments
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Fossier – GitHub spam prevention for open source repositories(github.com)
1 points by pabs3 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Cults of TDD and GenAI(drewdevault.com)
4 points by pabs3 4mo ago|0 comments
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by pabs3 4mo ago
Don't get me wrong, Amazon are evil for sure, and worse than those companies.
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by pabs3 4mo ago
That is incorrect, the FSF licenses would require Amazon contribute code forward to their users, not back to the project. Also, Amazon were already contributing code back when these companies changed their licenses, the companies don&#x27
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by pabs3 4mo ago
The dbase.com domain now appears to be down too.

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