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by pabs3 1y ago
The MIT license gives you the right "to deal in the Software without restriction", which sounds like an implied patent usage right, at least for patents held by the copyright holders that the software uses.
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Journalist obtained minister's ChatGPT prompts – what it means for transparency(theconversation.com)
4 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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by pabs3 1y ago
Personally, I only ever play FOSS games, they are more freedom and privacy respecting. Is that an option for you?
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by pabs3 1y ago
I only ever click Firefox's email link button, or copy the page link for posting on HN.
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by pabs3 1y ago
Then cheaters will be able to just patch the game startup code so it skips the TPM check. If the game executable were encrypted to the TPM somehow, that might work then though.
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by pabs3 1y ago
The proprietary software you run on top of your Free Software OS doesn't have to respect your freedom to modify though, it can break itself when you aren't using known versions, or when you attach debuggers, or when you are runnin
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by pabs3 1y ago
Giving users the freedom to customise the code running on their machine is literally the entire point of FOSS (Free Software & Open Source). Some of the FOSS licenses (like the GNU GPL) also include this as a requirement of the license.
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by pabs3 1y ago
Has anyone got files/formats that can't be decoded by ffmpeg?
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Germany's Ecosia proposes stewardship to run Google Chrome(reuters.com)
8 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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Ask a Socialist Robot: Socialist AI v1.0(socialist.bot)
2 points by pabs3 1y ago|1 comments
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by pabs3 1y ago
My favourite tech non-profit is Software Freedom Conservancy, I think it does quite well on these points. https://sfconservancy.org/
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by pabs3 1y ago
Rust supports dynamic linking btw. https://robert.kra.hn/posts/2022-09-09-speeding-up-increment... https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2024/08/27/rust-dylib...
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by pabs3 1y ago
Mitochondria can't live without their surrounding cells. Plants are also interdependent with fungi.
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by pabs3 1y ago
Developer tools really need to be more mindful of the fact that on developer machines, the current directory should not be trusted, and arbitrary code should not be executed from it. The git project has been learning this the hard way, and
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by pabs3 1y ago
Whisper doesn't list its training data (or code?), so can't be an open-source model, just an open weights model. Parakeet does list its training data, and at least one of those is not FOSS, but some of them definitely are FOSS. I
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by pabs3 1y ago
Might be best to not mow that lawn, think of the bees instead. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...
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by pabs3 1y ago
Thats going to be the case with almost any license, people even violate the MIT/BSD licenses. One possible exception is CC0, since it has no conditions.
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by pabs3 1y ago
The GPLv3 does allow profiting off his work though, so that might not be the best choice of license. Especially since hardware vendors often deliberately don't comply with the GPL, and the only recourse is an expensive lawsuit.
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PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks(blog.pypi.org)
136 points by pabs3 1y ago|52 comments
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by pabs3 1y ago
Are there any speech-to-text models that are fully OSS for everything from training data/code to model weights? https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy
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The State of Python 2025(blog.jetbrains.com)
5 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation (2021)(drewdevault.com)
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by pabs3 1y ago
> Open Source The CC-NC-SA-4.0 license isn't an Open Source Definition compliant license, since it discriminates against a field of use (commercial applications). https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower&#x2F
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by pabs3 1y ago
There is more to it than just reporting, "essential cybersecurity requirements" presumably would include fixing issues, hardening to reduce impact of issues etc.
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Playing With Fire - Are Russia's hybrid attacks the new European war?(investigations.news-exchange.ebu.ch)
6 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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Against SQL (2021)(scattered-thoughts.net)
1 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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Happy 100000th birthday, Debian(lists.debian.org)
128 points by pabs3 1y ago|22 comments
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by pabs3 1y ago
They are being added to web.archive.org, so you would access them through that.
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by pabs3 1y ago
https://academictorrents.com/browse.php?search=stuck_in_the_...
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by pabs3 1y ago
Viewer and stats for ArcticShift: https://photon-reddit.com/ https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/

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