Shamar @Shamar@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined May 2019
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There are two orthogonal forces at work in the Squeak team [...] the incremental improvement plane (which #AlanKey calls the "pink" plane) and the paradigm shift (or "blue") plane. [...]
The forces in the pink plane have to do with making an ever-better Smalltalk-80 system [...]
The forces in the blue plane have to do with [...] an exquisite personal comuputing environment. [...]
One aspect is that things must stay small and simple enough that they remain comprehensible and accessible to a single person.
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From http://web.archive.org/web/20050406063507/http://squeak.org/about/headed-prev-vers.html
I'm always amazed to see how ancient is the quest for #simplicity.
#Jehanne, #Wirth's #Oberon, #TempleOS, #Squeak... we are all looking for the same Holy Grail, dreaming the same dream but in a different way...
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Sure: read here about the need to give G. your private key, it is the official docs: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9842756?hl=en
It will not directly affect #fdroid, as #fdroid can only build apks, as far as I got it, and not app bundles.
But, as a dev, you end up with two distribution formats, should you also be on the Play Store.
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Being a developer, I never published my apps at the Play Store but only on #fdroid .
To use app bundles, you need to give them your private key.
This gives them technically the ability to inject any code into your app.
But hey, what could go wrong?
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Hi @tindall@cybre.space, just read your thread at https://qoto.org/web/statuses/106500375406792092 and I totally agree.
#GitHub Copilot's models are derivative works (and derived works) of the sources used to calibrate them and thus can violate #copyright (and patents?!) encapsulated in those sources.
I have a question though.
You wrote:
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If you trained it on MPL code, you are in violation of that license.
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What clause are you referring to?
In this days I'm finalizing the #HackingLicense (see http://www.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt ) and I was thinking about this specific problem.
Assuming it could be expressed properly in legalese (without turning the license in a software-only one), I'd be very happy to explicitly impose that any work automatically built out of a covered work would be covered too. If you know a license that impose such terms, I would be eager to learn more about it (MPL is not one... o maybe I'm missing something?)
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courtroom, fantasy; (thread missing CW) software licensing, corporations
@tindall .hg
prosecutor: What is the project's licensing model?
Google employee: It's open-source.
prosecutor: Where is the source code located?
Google employee: The code is in a git repository at android.googlesource.com.. There are instructions for building it on the website at source.android.com..
prosecutor: Very well. Please download the source code onto this laptop and build the project.
Google employee:
prosecutor:
Google employee: *sweating bullets*
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IMPORTANT: We're seeing a large scale attempt to bulk-register bot accounts across the public Matrix network (including captcha bypass) in order to perform spam flood attacks. If you're running a public homeserver please disable open registration, or require email for signups.
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So GitHub copilot… correct me if I’m wrong here: it was trained on open source (including GPLed & AGPLed code?) by *spit* Elon Musk’s OpenAI and now it regurgitates said code and this doesn’t violate the GPL/AGPL because…?
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@aral Whether it does or doesn't produce derivative works in violation of copyleft is being debated. My expectation is that it does, but there is sufficient murkyness introduced by ML that maybe they'll get away with it.
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"What Windows 11 means: We'll be stuck with millions of Windows 10 zombies
Some machines will be left behind despite owners' preferences. Many others will be abandoned because their owners either don't know how, don't care, or refuse to upgrade.".
I will repeat myself, but... If you use Windows anywhere in your infrastructure, you will get hacked.
It's just a question of time.
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The TL;DR is: email is not going away, and it is being used for some important things. So it would be negligent to give up on protecting email, just because we have Signal.
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New blog post: Yes, We Want Cryptographic Protection for Email https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/06/29/202106-yes-we-want-cryptographic-protection-for-email/
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I think I've never been more forcibly struck than today with the realisation that today's Web developers have never used 1980s BASIC systems and just have no awareness that computers used to be things you could both use and program interactively, in the same session.
We've deprived an entire couple generations of children of a basic formative mind-expanding experience of cognitive freedom, and now they're making tools that restrict other people's thought lives and see nothing wrong with that.
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RT @nilocram@twitter.com
La traduzione italiana di [RÉSOLU], la guida all’utilizzo del #softwarelibero per le organizzazioni che lavorano nel campo dell’economia sociale e solidale, completata da #LinuxTrent, ha attraversato le Alpi ed è arrivata su #Framablog: https://framablog.org/2021/06/29/resolu-desormais-en-italien/
Joined May 2019
