Amazon says it’s going "water positive" — but there’s a problem
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/06/says-its-going-water-positive--but-theres-a-problem_partner/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Because Republicans fucking suck, seven days a week!
Cook Political Report shifts six House races toward Dems, two to GOP
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@mike is there anyone at the #flipboard team that could help me to get better Fedi integration with #Lemmy?
I am wondering if we could get a map between flipboard magazines and Lemmy communities, which would mean that any article flipped by (AP enabled) flipboard account gets announced to the group. Would that be interesting?
The first step for integration with Lemmy would be to implement github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu…
I didn't mention flipboard exclusively, but the way I see it we could have moderators of Lemmy communities that set it to auto-track curated that type of integration could make comments/"flips" visible on Lemmy and interactions from the Lemmy side would lead to reactions on flipboard.
Powerful account of the costs of SLAPP suits, from legal fees to insurance spikes to lost time to reputational harm. Charles Ornstein even lost out on a mortgage.
All states and the fed gov should pass anti-SLAPP laws. Those that have should strengthen them.
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HONEY MOON. The first month after marriage. A poor honey; a harmless, foolish, goodnatured fellow. It is all honey or a t--d with them; said of persons who are either in the extremity of friendship or enmity, either kissing or fighting.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang @histodons
This is true: "In context, the Tenet Media episode shouldn’t be blown out of proportion. It was one channel with a bit more than 300,000 subscribers that got a lot of money from Russia for a questionable ROI. It didn’t swing an election or meaningfully change public opinion on the Ukraine war. But it wasn’t alone. And in time, we’ll likely find out where else Russia was distributing its money." cc: @KamalaHarrisWin
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Updated Patches Allow Compiling The Linux Kernel From Within macOS
Back in 2022 were a set of patches that allowed compiling the ARM64 Linux kernel from Apple macOS hosts. The intent was for developers just wantign to do some build/smoke testing from under an Apple Silicon device running macOS to see at least any kernel changes are successfully compiling on macOS with its LLVM/Clang-based toolchain. An updated form of those patches …
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World sees hottest summer recorded for second consecutive year
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#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
Man pages maintenance suspended
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx-AT-kernel.org>
Hi all,
As you know, I've been maintaining the Linux man-pages project for the
last 4 years as a voluntary. I've been doing it in my free time, and no
company has sponsored that work at all. At the moment, I cannot sustain
this work economically any more, and will temporarily and indefinitely
stop working on this project. If any company has interests in the
future of the project, I'd welcome an offer to sponsor my work here; if
so, please let me know.
Have a lovely day!
Alex
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Bruce Perens is currently working on a new licensing model called Post Open requiring that business with sufficient revenue to pay up.
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I believe it's 1% for access to the "entire post-open ecosystem", rather than 1% per project which would be unreasonable. So you could use one or thousands of projects under the Post-open banner, but still pay 1%.
It will take years to develop the post-open ecosystem to be something worth spending that much on.
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It's criminal to let someone do the thing he actively volunteers to do? It's criminal to use software that someone intentionally puts out into the world as free?
If you're willing yo do something for free, people are going to let you 🤷♂️
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The idea that all that work must be paid for by whoever uses it is exactly the opposite of what free software is about.
The free software as a passion project idea became untenable long ago. It works for UNIX style utilities where the project stays small and changes can be managed by one person but breaks down on large projects.
As a user, try to get a feature added or bugfix merged. Its a weeks or sometimes months/years long back and forth trying to get the bikeshedding correct.
As a maintainer, spend time reading and responding to bug reports which are all unrelated to the project. Deal with a few pull requests that don't quite fit the project, but might with more polish. Take a month off and wait for the inevitable "is this being maintained?" Issues reports.
I contribute back changes because I want those features but don't want to maintain a longterm fork of the project. When they're rejected or ignored its demoralizing. I can tell myself "This is the way of open source" but sometimes I just search for another project that better fits my needs rather than trying to work on the one I submitted changes to.
That is the happy path. The sad path of this is how many people look at the aforementioned problems and never bother to submit a pull request because it's too much trouble? Git removed most of the technical friction of contributing, but there is still huge social friction.
Long story short: the man pages maintainer deserves something for all the "work" part of maintaining. He can continue to not be paid for the passion part.
Not really. The problem with FOSS licensing is that it was too altruistic, with the belief that if enough users and corporations depended on the code, the community would collectively do the work necessary to maintain the project. Instead, capitalism chose to exploit FOSS as free labor most of the time, without any reciprocal investment. They raise an enormous amount of issues, and consume a large amount of FOSS developer time, without paying their own staff to fix the bugs they need resolved — in the software their products depend on. At that point the FOSS developer is no longer a FOSS developer, and instead is the unpaid slave labor of a corporation. Sure, FOSS devs could just ignore external inputs, but that's not easy to do when you've invested years of your life in a project. Exploiting kindness may be legal, but it should never be justified or tolerated.
Sure, FOSS licenses legally permit that kind of use, but just because homeless shelters allow anyone to eat their food, and sleep in their beds, that doesn't make the rich man who exploits that charity ethically or morally justified. The rich man who exploits that charity (i.e. free labor), and offers nothing in return, is a scummy dog cunt; there are no two ways about it. The presence of lecherous parasites can destroy the entire charity; they can mean the difference between sustainability and burnout.
FOSS should always be free for all personal, free, and non profit use, but once someone in the chain starts depending on FOSS to generate income and profit, some of that profit should always be reinvested in those dependencies. That's what FOSS is now learning; to reject the exploitation and greed of lecherous parasites.
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I'm a single dude who sells custom electronics with open source software on them. I sell maybe two PCBs a month. It just about covers my hobby, I'm not even living off of it. I can't afford commercial licenses. There has to be tiers.
In return, I've made every schematic, gerber file, and bill of material to my stuff freely available.
I would draw the line at shareholders.
You may use my software free of charge if you are a student, hobbyist, hobbyist with income, side hustler, sole proprietorship, LLC, S-Corp, non-profit, partnership, or other owner-operator type business.
Corporations with investors or shareholders will pay recurring licensing fees. Your shareholders may not profit from my work unless I profit from it more than they do. If you can afford a three inch thick mahogany conference table you can afford to pay for your software.
I might be misunderstanding the licenses so correct me if wrong.
Can companies use GPL code internally without release as long as the thing written with it doesn't get directly released to the public?
.. or does GPL pollute everything even if used internally for commercial purposes?
I think it kicks in when you distribute. For example, let's say I have a fork of some GPL software and I'm maintaining it for myself. I don't need to share the changes if I'm the only one using it.
The point is that people using a software should be able to read and modify (and share) the source when they want to.
IANAL and all that good stuff
I think its this site? kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
I don't see any option to give money. So he does not accept donations from users like you and me and only asks for sponsorship?
An alternate website can be found here: linux.die.net/man/ However, I don't know how much they differ.
Edit: What I don't like with both of these sites is, that they are powered by Google. I would like to see an alternative engine, at least an option to set it up. That's probably a reason why I never used it and actually wouldn't want to support it.
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You do realize that man pages don’t live on the internet?
What part of my reply is this an answer to? I know we have our man pages offline. But the website here is online and they use Google as a search machine. My critique is using Google and not providing an alternative search machine setup.
The few times I've needed to man [app name] on a system without internet access or on an obscure utility, I've always been able to find what I need in the included docs
I hope the dev eventually gets sponsored, this is one of those utilities that you don't think you need until --help doesn't cut it
Back in the day with dial-up internet man pages, readmes and other included documentation was pretty much the only way to learn anything as www was in it's very early stages. And still 'man ' is way faster than trying to search the same information over the web. Today at the work I needed man page for setfacl (since I still don't remember every command parameters) and I found out that WSL2 Debian on my office workstation does not have command 'man' out of the box and I was more than midly annoyed that I had to search for that.
Of course today it was just a alt+tab to browser, a new tab and a few seconds for results, which most likely consumed enough bandwidth that on dialup it would've taken several hours to download, but it was annoying enough that I'll spend some time at monday to fix this on my laptop.
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10k for a company making millions annually is nothing, 1% or less. But split between some of these projects, especially the less appreciated or funded ones, can be life changing.
But you're unfortunately right
That is part of why you're not a tech CEO. You're not supposed to have compassion! No investor would want that.
P.S. This is an attack on CEOs and investors, not on you :)
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Unfortunately it is still not enough. There have been many instances of people using these licenses and still corporations using their software without giving back, and developers being upset about it.
And unfortunately there are no popular licenses that limit that. I've seen a few here and there, but doesn't seem to be a standard.
AGPL is the most restrictive OSI approved license (of the commonly used ones), but it is still a free (libre) open source license. My understanding is just that the AGPL believes in the end-users rights to access to the open source needs to be maintained and therefore places some burden to make the source available if it it's being run on a server.
In general, companies run away from anything AGPL, however, some companies will get creative with it and make their source available but in a way that is useless without the backend. And even if they don't maliciously comply with the license, they can still charge for their services.
As far as documentation goes, you could license documentation under AGPL, and people could still charge for it. It would just need to be kept available for end-users which i don't think is really a barrier to use for documentation.
some companies will get creative with it and make their source available but in a way that is useless without the backend. And even if they don't maliciously comply with the license, they can still charge for their services.
What is wrong with charging for your services?
Open source licences aren't meant to make it impossible to earn money or anything. As long as companies comply with the licences I don't see anything wrong with it.
If a licence wants to make it impossible to earn money they should put that in the actual licence.
No. I said even if they don't maliciously comply with the license [by making the open sourced code unusable without the backend code or some other means outside of scope of this conversation] then they can charge for it.
The malicous part is in brackets in the above paragraph. The license is an OSI approved license that allows commercialization, it would be stupid for me to call that malicious.
Yes, but how is it malicious to comply with the license? If the license doesn't require the code to be usable without a backend they have fully complied. Does the license even require usable code at all?
As long as they give the source code they are required to give I don't see any problem with it.
The difference is that commercialization is inherent with a free (libre) open source license. Whereas going against the intent, but still legally gray area, is imo malicious compliance because it circumvents what the license was intended to solve in the first place.
But that's all i really care to add to this convo, since my initial comment my intent was just to say that the AGPLv3 license does not stop corporations from getting free stuff and being able to charge for it-- especially documentation. Have a good one
It is my understanding that the only difference applies to hosted software. For example, Lemmy is AGPL. If it were GPL, then a company could take the source code, modify it and host their own version without open sourcing their modifications. AGPL extends to freedoms of GPL to users of hosted software as well.
A real example of this would be truth social which is modified Mastodon and as AGPL those modifications are required to be open source as well.
My old employer used to have people on staff just for technical writing. Some of that writing became the man pages you know, and some of it was 'just' documentation for commercial products - ID management and the like.
Then we sued IBM for breach of contract, and if you ask anyone about it they'll parrot the IBM PR themes exactly, as their PR work was brutal. People in Usenet and Forums were very mean, and the company decided to stop offering much of the stuff that it was for free. It was very 'f this'.
If man pages needed a volunteer to maintain, I know why ours tapered off.
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So, ich war Euch noch die Einzelheiten zu meinem neuen Mini-PC schuldig. Hier die Daten:
Kosten: ca. 180 € (habe ihn für 150 € bei Kleinanzeigen erstanden)
Beelink MINI-S12 Pro
16 GB RAM (erweiterbar auf 32 GB)
Prozessor: N100 bis 3,4 GHz
512 GB M.2 SSD (errw. auf 2 TB)
Schacht für 2,5 Zoll Sata-SSD (bis zu 2 TB)
4 x USB 3.2*2
2 HDMI
Vorteile aus meiner Sicht:
1. Leicht erweiterbar - RAM oder M.2-SSD einfach reinknipsen.
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Joomla’s Official Facebook Page Suspended by Meta: Unfounded Impersonation Claims Leave Global Open Source Community in Limbo
Nathaniel Forde: Discrete Choice and Random Utility Models in PyMC @ PyConIE 2023
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Coming soon to the #XeroLinux toolkit. An option that will allow you to build an up-to-date #Arch ISO.. #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource
Welcome to the submission thread for the #BandcampFriday edition of #FairtradeMusicFriday.
As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist - it doesn't even need to be new.
Just make a direct public comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!
Make a muso's day and buy/boost their stuff 💙
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Let me start by plugging @etherdiver's excellent weekly review of Other People's Music.
etherdiver.com/2024/09/06/opm-…
Also, check out his album Metaphysical Shitposting at etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/… or read the liner notes in this thread: ravenation.club/@etherdiver/11…
After hearing the preview of @socool's ambient cover of Radiohead's "Blow Out", I just *had* to preorder. Soo lush!
What about some relaxing Rhodes improvisation?
@Jazzaria's got you covered:
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For tons more fresh CC-licensed music released *every Sunday* give them a follow or head to jazzaria.com/
Or what about some sleek, shimmering #Synthwave?
Check out @jonnyfallout's "Unknown Unknowns" at jonnyfallout.bandcamp.com/albu… and thank me later!
I think it's time to go a bit more upbeat again - it's #Friday after all!
For filtered funky fresh House look no further than @stefan's "Don't Sweat It":
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Ok, it's nearly bedtime, so let's slow things down a little:
Sonnensaiten by @tiredhorizon is a fascinating mix of #Folk and #Ambient utilising acoustic guitars, bodhrán, violin and ukulele. Lovely stuff!
And for everyone who still can't get enough, check out @thearcanecomposer's thread of albums I'm looking forward to exploring over the next few days:
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Jamelle Bouie thinks that, when it comes to the abortion issue, "Donald Trump is stuck."
And he has no idea how to get unstuck, because he has created the situation in which he's now stuck and which Kamala Harris is exploiting to show voters who he is and what he represents.
"Trump represents the movement to outlaw abortion, restrict contraception and severely limit the scope of reproductive health care."
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This is who Trump is, what he's bragged about, that he leads a movement to outlaw abortion, restrict contraception, and limit reproductive healthcare.
But these are wildly unpopular positions, as he knows. He has to dance with those who brung him — the evangelical and Catholic right — but dancing with those folks and to their tune is politically toxic. And he knows this and can't figure out how to do his usual transactional thing
"Trump and Vance have been trying to run away from the most extreme positions of their base, but the dilemma they find themselves in is a problem of Trump’s own making. Thanks to him, the anti-abortion crowd is the dog that caught the car, and now they want more."
~ Todd Beeton
"As [Dan] Pfieffer notes, with Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket, abortion has risen in saliency as a top issue on the minds of voters."
As Megan Messerly and Adam Wren report, Trump's white evangelical base are holding his feet to the fire on abortion:
“It’s disastrous that he’s attempted to run against his own track record. There is a real danger to the Trump campaign that pro-life voters just don’t turn out for him with the intensity that he needs.”
This is from super-right Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler.
#Trump #Republicans #abortion #ReproductiveRights #women #evangelicals
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But as Georgia Republican strategist Stephen Lawson says,
“Evangelical voters here and probably across the Sun Belt and the country are looking at some of these positions and statements that Donald Trump is making with a raised eyebrow. But at the end of the day, I just think those folks are probably going to come home for him.”
He doesn't add, but perhaps should, that they'd vote for the devil himself, promised power.
#Trump #Republicans #abortion #ReproductiveRights #women #evangelicals
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As an evangelical, or perhaps more accurately and exvangelical, I'll say they already have voted for a devil. The things evangelicals say they believe they put aside when it comes to the one issue they've decided is worth getting political over.
It's wrong.
I often think about how sometimes the best thing you can let your opponent do is get the thing they want / succeed in their short-term goals. Especially when the battle is so psychological, what will they have left? The reality of the thing itself isn't so great.
What really sucks is the millions suffering as a result while we gin up our ranks to make things better, though.
we've seen sort of an implosion of politics over both abortion and Israel: the GOP finally stacked the court and overturned Roe, and now what do their single-issue conservative moms have left? Trans people? Taxes? The GOP is campaigning on "mass deportation," is that really a mainstream top issue?
Israel finally got a self-proclaimed Zionist president who let them go gloves-off unlimited bombing and their state (and ours) may not survive the naked genocidal mania.
Smells like decay.
- The decision that the GOP made under Reagan to court the Evangelicals is finally hitting its end game.
- Most Americans disagree with the fundies about this; it's not a winning political position. Sticking with it is not an option.
- The GQP can't win without the fundies' votes, so abandoning them is not an option.
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Prior to tfg, the GQP leaders were smart enough to understand this, and limit their support for repealing Roe v. Wade to talk.
He was dumb enough to give the Christian Taliban what they wanted, and now they're going to set their next price.
And that's only going to make the GQP's problem worse.
- I don't think that's quite accurate. The fundies caught the car, and are perfectly happy about it. They're considering which car to chase next.
The GQP was expecting gratitude, or at least loyalty. Surprise!
It seems to me that the real reason #TFG is stuck is that he personally doesn't give a hoot about this (or most issues). He only pretends to be anti reproductive freedom because he assumes that is what the GOP base wants.
So, he gets trapped when his personal feelings ("I don't care about this") compounds with it being a losing political issue more globally.
Because he is cosplaying at being a politician he tries some mealy mouthed approach that he thinks will please everyone, which naturally pleases no one.
Good to see him getting this one all wrong, actually.
Each year, the Indian Health Service rejects tens of thousands of requests to fund outside referrals for medical care, forcing patients to go without treatment or pay daunting medical bills out of their own pockets.
#Tucson #Arizona
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