IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, April 18, 2024
beginning of new day, April 18
00:31 schestowitz; > Hi Roy,
00:31 schestowitz; >
00:31 schestowitz; > > The bad ones are most "memorable".
00:31 schestowitz; >
00:31 schestowitz; > Ain't that the truth! My highlight last month was someone saying they
00:31 schestowitz; > knew where I lived, and wanted to "teach me a lesson". But I got five
00:31 schestowitz; > other comments saying I'd encouraged them to try NetBSD. No prizes for
00:31 schestowitz; > the one that affected my day the most.
00:31 schestowitz; >
00:31 schestowitz; > > Sometimes it is possible not to even read it
00:31 schestowitz; >
00:31 schestowitz; > Yup, that's what I have to work on for sure. My "blocked sender" filter
00:31 schestowitz; > in Thunderbird has been getting a real workout (reminds me that I need
00:31 schestowitz; > to go back to mutt or Alpine at some point too).
00:31 schestowitz; >
00:31 schestowitz; > Thanks again for the civil words and constructive feedback, it's meant a
00:31 schestowitz; > lot.
00:31 schestowitz; >
00:31 schestowitz; > Thanks,
00:31 schestowitz; The quiet/silent readers matter.
00:36 schestowitz; > Good exchange with him.
00:36 schestowitz; >
00:36 schestowitz; > Yes, at any given moment there are people having a bad day and some
00:36 schestowitz; > outright pricks that with a wide enough audience, a great many in
00:36 schestowitz; > absolute numbers will turn up even if they are only a small percent.
00:36 schestowitz; >
00:36 schestowitz; > However of that small percentage there may be agent provacateurs egging
00:36 schestowitz; > things on or even throwing verbal stones of sorts. Those provacateurs
00:36 schestowitz; > are certainly going to take issue with a fine FOSS oriented blog like
00:36 schestowitz; > his and have for decades pushed a wedge between people espousing the
00:36 schestowitz; > non-reciprocal licensing approach and the copyleft folks, if possible.
00:36 schestowitz; >
00:36 schestowitz; > I wrote him once some months ago about a quirk in his feeds
00:36 schestowitz; > construction, short and polite (I hope), but never heard back. However,
00:36 schestowitz; > as you know, from what I've experienced for decades in regards to
00:36 schestowitz; > technology and workplace politics there are no legitimate circumstances
00:36 schestowitz; > under which Windows (or any other m$ products) may be tolerated, ever,
00:36 schestowitz; > and that lesson keeps getting strengthened as time passes.
00:36 schestowitz; >
00:36 schestowitz; > Back to the licensing dispute, what has been protecting the
00:36 schestowitz; > non-reciprocally licensed projects, has been the intense organization
00:36 schestowitz; > and long term planning of the FreeBSD and OpenBSD projects. That is
00:36 schestowitz; > mainly FreeBSD though. OpenBSD still runs on the BDFL model like Linux
00:36 schestowitz; > used to, so let's set that one aside. In comparison to FreeBSD, Linux
00:36 schestowitz; > has not had even remotely the same level of planning or organization and
00:36 schestowitz; > a a code base has grown write-only organically. As a project,
00:36 schestowitz; > eventually Linus let himself be distracted by stuff which is not code
00:36 schestowitz; > and let that non-code stuff enter the project resulting in his
00:36 schestowitz; > displacement and a shift away from being code-focused. Strong copyleft
00:36 schestowitz; > has helped Linux grow more than non-reciprocal licensing has helped
00:36 schestowitz; > FreeBSD grow. However, a very well organized and rather well vetted and
00:36 schestowitz; > very code-focused leadership has protected FreeBSD so much more than the
00:36 schestowitz; > Linux leadership has protected their kernel that it almost makes up the
00:36 schestowitz; > difference.
00:36 schestowitz; >
00:36 schestowitz; >
00:36 schestowitz; > PS. One of Lunduke's last coherent posts was about the write-only nature
00:36 schestowitz; > of Linux as a kernel.
00:36 schestowitz; >
00:36 schestowitz; > PPS. You and I have discussed Peren's new beginning at post-OSS
00:36 schestowitz; > efforts. Non-reciprocally licensed projects owe it to themselves to at
00:36 schestowitz; > least keep an eye on that effort and, when ready, take a deep look at
00:36 schestowitz; > the result.
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08:00 schestowitz; <li>
08:00 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/torvalds_complicates_his_indents/">Torvalds complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig</a></h5>
08:00 schestowitz; <blockquote>
08:00 schestowitz; <p>However, the change that brought the most amusement to the face of the Reg FOSS desk is a configuration file change from Linus himself, titled "Kconfig: add some hidden tabs on purpose." He switched a space indent to a tab indent to catch out poor-quality parsers. </p>
08:00 schestowitz; </blockquote>
08:00 schestowitz; </li>
08:00 schestowitz;
08:00 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Torvalds complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig The Register
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08:37 schestowitz; <li>
08:37 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-council-implements-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/">Gentoo Council Implements Ban on AI-Assisted Contributions</a></h5>
08:37 schestowitz; <blockquote>
08:37 schestowitz; <p>Several critical concerns underpin the Gentoo Councils decision. Foremost among them are copyright issues. With copyright laws still catching up to the fast-paced evolution of AI, using AI-generated content could lead to legal entanglements and undermine the rigorous copyright standards that open-source projects like Gentoo strive to maintain. </p>
08:37 schestowitz; <p> Additionally, there are apprehensions about the quality of AI-generated content. While AI can produce work that appears convincingly accurate, it often lacks the nuanced understanding necessary for high-stakes or technically demanding projects. </p>
08:37 schestowitz; <p> For Gentoo, this risk is unacceptable, as it could dilute the quality of their projects and impose an undue burden on developers and users who would need to verify the accuracy of such contributions. </p>
08:37 schestowitz; </blockquote>
08:37 schestowitz; </li>
08:37 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Gentoo Council Implements Ban on AI-Assisted Contributions
9 AM, April 18
09:31 schestowitz; x https://variety.com/2024/shopping/news/best-microsoft-store-sale-deals-online-1235972619/
09:31 schestowitz; # spam. did not click
09:31 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-variety.com | Microsoft StoreSpring Sale Event: Best Laptops, Tatblets, Xbox Deals
09:33 schestowitz; "Microsoft Copilot AI Resumes Auto-Launch Testing in Windows 11 Startup"
09:33 schestowitz; x https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-copilot-ai-resumes-auto-launch-testing-windows-11-startup-1724320
09:33 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Microsoft Copilot AI Resumes Auto-Launch Testing in Windows 11 Startup | IBTimes UK
09:37 schestowitz; "Microsoft supports urllib3 with FOSS Fund 2024"
09:37 schestowitz; x https://sethmlarson.dev/thanks-to-microsoft-for-supporting-urllib3?date=2024-04-17
09:37 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-sethmlarson.dev | Microsoft supports urllib3 with FOSS Fund 2024
09:37 schestowitz; "What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet"
09:37 schestowitz; x https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/technology/tiktok-ban-internet-freedom.html
09:37 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.nytimes.com | What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet - The New York Times
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20:57 schestowitz; > Yo - It's getting close to that time. What do you want to do with
20:57 schestowitz; > this?
20:57 schestowitz; >
20:57 schestowitz; > You probably want to announce it a month ahead of time.
20:57 schestowitz; >
20:57 schestowitz; > I'm also going to want a list of questions if you're going to do an
20:57 schestowitz; > audio interview so I can be prepared to answer.
20:57 schestowitz; >
20:57 schestowitz; > No sandbagging, but I'm not expecting you to hold back, either.
20:57 schestowitz; Hi,
20:57 schestowitz; I did not forget this. I wrote down notes about it last week.
20:57 schestowitz; BTW, seems the trolls managed to get us to fight one another, diverting away attention from what mattered.
20:57 schestowitz; Can we do a multi-part interview about Freenode in text?
20:57 schestowitz; Can you help with an outline of theme for each part?
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