⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

#FreeSoftware #fediverse, I need your help:

I'm trying to find **a _very comprehensive_ web page that I saw this summer about #copyright and copyright notices in software** (perhaps specifically in #OpenSource). It seemed to be maintained by someone with a strong legal background, had lots of sections and subsections, and was intended for techies to help them understand all the #legal ramifications and options they have.

Does that ring a bell?

Thanks!

(Perhaps I got there via some post by @neil?)

Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay’s numbers (from 2008): https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/can-solar-and-wind-power-britain

TLDR: in 2008 MacKay’s calculations suggested renewables wouldn't suffice. But in the past decade the price of PV cells has dropped 90% and wind turbines 70%, while public opposition has faded. New calculations suggest the UK could run mainly on renewables by 2050.

I close so many websites within seconds these days.

Look at this one. To read one (probably) crappy article there would be 322 organisations keeping track.

Three hundred and twenty-two.

Nah, I'm good thanks.

#enshittification #website

This from @cabel is just fantastic

https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/

I watched a video on how to install a specific toilet gasket and YouTube recommended I install the YouTube Kids app.

Good idea, make some kids do plumbing instead of us adults! They've got little hands, I'm sure it'll help them reach all the little parts.

LEGO BORG CUBE 🖖

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#LEGO #StarTrek #LegoStarTrek
#StarTrekLego #TNG #Borg
#BorgCube #Micromachines
#USSEnterprise #StarshipEnterprise
#MOC #AFOL #OneHourBuild

The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.

It is a period of great productivity.

The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

@glyph @vrsamuk these sorts of crosses? Yes! Today is a day about burning Catholics in very particular. (Not condoning actually burning Catholics, but this is what it’s about)

Today’s #ukPol #spicyTake

The horrifying “anyone undermining the UK is an extremist” thing emerging from the government is indeed completely fascist. Obviously.

But what’s really going on? (A thread 🧵)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Once again, "AI" is revealed to be an army of mechanical turks in a call center.

Cruse "autonomous"vehicles require 1.5 drivers, and manual intervention every two and a half miles:

Half of Cruise's 400 cars were in San Francisco when the driverless...
https://jwz.org/b/ykFs

Surprising fact: no major professional scientific organization has flipped from a paywalled publishing model to 100% Open Access.

The @ACM the world's foremost professional computing organization, is going to be the first on January 1, 2026, when its entire digital library will become freely available to the public.

Do any electronics buffs know how/if I could buy a small number of very small, custom color e-ink displays somewhere? Is there any company that let's you specify desired dimensions of the display?

Why stop there?

Severely physically or mentally impaired? Lifestyle choice

Living in an abusive environment? Lifestyle choice

Literally drowning right now? You should have chosen a lifestyle with better access to air

Don't have to fund support for anything if everything is a choice, after all.

I wasn’t sure how much credence to give to that article about how it’s worth catering to Linux users because they file overwhelmingly more and higher-quality bugs but here I am at seven AM on a weekend trying to figure out how to file a startup race condition bug against my car that I just spent 20 minutes reproducing so I guess it’s legit.

Love is….

Your wife bringing you a surprise bacon butty to the hot tub…

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Morning.

Here it is, several thousand years in the making: the protostellar jet HH212 as seen in the infrared by #JWST.

We discovered this jet in 1993, glowing in the light of shocked molecular hydrogen at 2.12 microns, as gas emerges symmetrically at about 100 km/s from the two poles of a young protostar not far from the Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

Our new JWST image spans six wavelengths & is ten times sharper than any previous infrared image.

#Astronomy #SpaceScience #Astrodon

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"The police told me I can't be a doctor, but whenever they show up I just go into the Google Maps settings page I found and change the house to 'Police Headquarters' and then they have to do what I say."
https://xkcd.com/2850/