Phoronix: "100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code
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GNU Boot is a "100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software" and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS. While priding itself on being "100% free", last December they had to drop some motherboard support and CPU code after discovering they were shipping some files that are non-free by their free software standards. Today they announced another mistake in having inadvertently been shipping additional non-free code.
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Migrants held in Albania transferred to Italy after court ruling
SHENGJIN, Albania, Oct 19 (Reuters) - An Italian coastguard vessel collected migrants that were held in reception centres in Albania and transferred them to Italy on Saturday, after a court ruling dealt a blow to Rome's plans to house migrants picked up at sea outside the EU.
The Italian government vowed on Friday to push ahead with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's flagship project to divert asylum-seekers abroad, saying it would appeal against the legal decision that migrants in reception centres in Albania should be taken to Italy.
A cabinet meeting will be held on Monday to decide on the government's response.
The migrants were taken to Albania earlier this week by an Italian navy ship. They originally numbered 16, but four have already been brought to Italy for health reasons or because they were minors.
The court said the 12 migrants in the new Albanian facility of Gjader had to return to Italy because their countries of origin -- Egypt and Bangladesh -- could not be considered safe.
The Post Open project asks Open Source developers: would you please fill in a short survey on the current issues of Open Source?
This survey is from the Post Open project ( postopen.org [will open in separate tab or window]). Please help us by filling this out, even if it's to say you don't approve of our project. You will have a chance to tell us anything you like at the end of the survey.
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Two of the "questions" are just statements
Unpaid Open Source developers will have trouble fulfilling increasing government requirements, for example the EU Cyber Security Act.Emerging companies like Tidelift, which pay developers, will solve the current problems of Open Source.
Reading their solutions is interesting; wanted to call out the following because it plays nice if you don't agree with their whole prescription:
Don’t dilute the Open Source brand. Post-Open will never call itself Open Source, because it has different rules. The Post Open license actually enforces that.
Drew DeVault noted the same in So you want to compete with or replace open source.
I think having 'Open' in the name muddies the waters a bit though. The full name almost makes the project sound anti open source, which it isn't.
I think it could be a great solution. I've never considered it before. That said there's one sticking point for me:
Apportion payment to developers based on software use by paid users and the size of their contribution to that software.
That^ . That needs a lot more detail. If they provide solid details -- details that most can agree on -- then I will actually be on board with the solution.
Ohhhhhhh... That's way the Juicy Media Honest Government ad use it that much !
I like it and use it sometimes myself !
I'm not entirely sure what it means enough to give a summary.
The first usage that pops into my mind is when someone has said a silly joke regarding your situation and you want to acknowledge the joke but also move on quickly.
Second usage is someone has suggested something, you want to say you understand but you have a different opinion.
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draw.io no longer open source since August 27, 2024
License Change from standard Apache 2.0 license · jgraph drawio · Discussion #4623
From today the license applied to the project will be the Apache 2.0 license with an extra line forbidding usage of the codebase as an integration or app to Atlassian's Confluence or Jira products....GitHub
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draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024
License Change from standard Apache 2.0 license · jgraph drawio · Discussion #4623
From today the license applied to the project will be the Apache 2.0 license with an extra line forbidding usage of the codebase as an integration or app to Atlassian's Confluence or Jira products....GitHub
The AI bubble is currently grinding my gears on this. "XXX is an open source model". No, it's not. Do I have access to all of the information necessary to recreate it? No, I don't as nobody releases training data.
Training data is the source of these models. Without it, they are just free use.
US Can’t Decide if Israel Is Blocking Aid – But It’ll Send Bombs Either Way
Early Thursday morning, I was woken by a distressed call from a doctor in Gaza, telling me of an Israeli strike on a school in the Jabalia refugee camp that killed dozens of Palestinians and injured scores of others.
Hours later, I asked the State Department whether the US is actually enforcing its laws regarding military aid to governments committing violations of international humanitarian law.
The response from State Department spokesman Matthew Miller?
He accused me of wanting to end all US support for Israel.
US Can’t Decide if Israel Is Blocking Aid – But It’ll Send Bombs Either Way
The US State Department can’t decide if Israel is blocking aid – but it’ll send bombs either way.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
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That video was a mess. Miller trying his best to not allow an actual question.
To be fair though, that reporter’s gotta step it up. You can’t give these guys an inch of wiggle room.
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CRINK: It’s the new ‘Axis of Evil’
CRINK: It’s the new ‘Axis of Evil’
An informal alliance of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea is forcing NATO to tighten links with Indo-Pacific countries.Stuart Lau (POLITICO)
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I like how Pakistan is striped as if they didn't just throw away billions of dollars of chinese investments for some IMF loans because the US told them to lol.
Also Afghanistan being green which actually happened right before Pakistan's thing
EDIT: Also India which always gets refused US arm tech sales because they exclusively buy from Russia lol. It's like enemy of my enemy but also friend of my other enemy.
think that is an absolutely absurd rule that can only stand to benefit the far-right.
Lol no you can still call fascists fascists. We are just asking you to use more accurate language.
Why Apple's not decoupling from China
Why Apple’s not decoupling from China
Apple has opened a new research and development (R&D) center in Shenzhen, the iPhone maker’s latest bid to counter a resurgent Huawei and bolster itsScott Foster (Asia Times)
Why Apple's not decoupling from China
Why Apple’s not decoupling from China
Apple has opened a new research and development (R&D) center in Shenzhen, the iPhone maker’s latest bid to counter a resurgent Huawei and bolster itsScott Foster (Asia Times)
Antares Fishing (Whalsay) Co Ltd är ett av många shetländska fiskeriföretag som har LHD Ltd som delägare och manager för den fiskebåt de äger.Formellt har företaget en adress i Lerwick men egentlig hemvist är den lilla ön Whalsay.
Lemmy Federate - tool to help communities sync across instances
Just found out about this and thought it was neat. For those of you that don't know, a Lemmy instance won't automatically federate everything everywhere all at once. It'll federate only what local users are subscribed to. So someone made a tool that will let you increase visibility of smaller communities that might not be synced to every instance.
Looks like it's opt-in, and instances can avoid using it. Some do because it's a lot of server cost for stuff they don't care about.
I've created a few communities, and wondered why I was immediately getting ~30 subscribers, and this is probably why
Lemmy Federate
Lemmy Federate is a tool to federate new communities in the Lemmyverse.lemmy-federate.com
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Det högerextrema våldet ökar. Våldet från diverse extrema våldsfixerade grupperingar ökar kraftigt i Sverige. Det handlar om sådan grupper som Pedo hunting Sweden (PHS), No Lives Matter och mindre lokala grupperingar
New mRNA Vaccine Created to Prevent and Treat C. difficile
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Anti-Zionist views are 'worthy of respect', UK judge says
UK: Anti-Zionist views are 'worthy of respect', judge says
An employment tribunal in the UK has concluded that holding the belief that Israel's actions against Palestinians amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are "worthy of respect in a democratic society".MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Hell, Israeli intellectuals are starting to realize it and emigrate.
P2P Social Media
P2P Social Media
As a proof-of-concept app, id like to explore social media functionality to our app. the app is already able to create p2p connections and share multimedia. the next step is to add a social media UI to the app.xoron (positive-intentions.com)
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I don't think this kind of app could be an alternative to instagram because of it only being P2P with only people you know.
The app is using webRTC which exposes IP addresses, so you wouldn't want something like a global feed on this.
Immich sounds interesting. I'd like to make time to check it out.
I don't want an exact clone of Instagram server. Only publishing content to my friends instead of strangers is exactly what I want ;)
Btw, how does the others find a new client? Exposing ip to strangers from internet sounds horrible. Can we only allow connecting via links invitation with expiration?
Also check out getaether.net/ although this project is dead and it always don't have enough ppl. They also have to implement a feature for removing illegal content.
I am glad we have Lemmy now.
My app is different because the auth is handled between peers. So it could only every be people you shared your ID with. Security is important for me on this project. Its more important than the app being popular. reddit.com/r/CyberSecurityAdvi…
People should not connect to strangers on this app because of the potential risks of IP exposure... But between people you trust or between your own devices, it should work as expected for testing.
As for allowing links with expiration, you basically have that already with what looks like the login/logout functionality. There is no actual registration, it's just a UI for creating and deleting crypto random ID profiles.
Lemmy and the fediverse is a good idea. The federation makes it so I can see Lemmy posts on mastodon. Etc... id like to draw a parallel in my app with the chat-view and the inteagram-view
How are you planning to deal with the removal illegal content?
I like the idea of a decentralized web but when I tried ZeroNet I saw some despicable stuff on there.
If you do nothing about such content then your platform lost likely will end up as a pedofile haven.
Are we implying that we should tap every phone call?
We can say a lot of very bad stuff over the phone too. Should we have a way to prevent this?
Wow... That's quite a reach... I don't understand why you would think that is what I am implying. I am just saying that there needs to be a way to deal with abusive content. Every platform has it, even 4chan and 8chan and other degenerate places on the internet.
I'm all about free speech and the right to privacy but that does not equal free reign to post whatever the fuck you want without consequences. I am not saying we need to persecute or track people but there has to be a way to remove stuff that is inappropriate or illegal.
Do you really want a social media platform where someone could spam CSAM and it would stay on there forever?
P2P allows for a fairly unexplored infrastructure for content moderation. In this app, the feed of images would only be from people you connect to. For people to connect to you, you have to share a crypto random id.
As a webapp you can clear the site data by logging out. Basically, people cannot randomly connect to you and share things you don't like.
I won't be adding anything like a global feed. Only content that you shared or received.
This doesn't remove the risk of people sending you things you don't like so I'm all ears for an approach to that. I didn't make much progress on the following. If there are any hard features you think would help, let me know. I'd like to make some time to create a "block contact" but it'll take time and consideration to do it properly (so I don't expect it soon). Things like logging out and being able to backup your profile might be enough, but not as user-friendly as it could be.
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