Notices by Leszek (makdaam@chaos.social)

So #FreeOurFeeds wants us to give 4M USD to already rich Americans some of whom already ran Mozilla into the ground, others pumping the AI bubble to

*double checks notes*

build an independent centralized instance of a social network apparently not designed for more instances (unless I underappreciated how rich all of the fedi developers and instance admins are). And this second centralized instance is supposed to improve decentralization of social media?

Feels like a scam.

@jwildeboer @mhd so it's anti-cloud in multiple ways?

@jwildeboer
Congratulations to Germany on finally arriving here a decade later. It's good they did, It's sad it took so long. Even sadder others didn't arrive yet.

Regarding the coal: it does and it makes me sad that Poland keeps using almost half as much brown coal as the biggest polluter in EU.
The move to renewables is slow and there's not enough investment in the grid infrastructure to handle individual producers. I wish both PL and DE did more in that area.

@jwildeboer Is the information about Germany blocking the 14th sanction package for more than a week (which among other things was supposed to block LNG imports from Russia across EU) untrue? Am I misinformed?

@jwildeboer I'm not questioning the effort it took to actually implement the zeroing off Russia's gas. It just wasn't Germany's decision. See https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-germany-prepares-crisis-plan-abrupt-end-russian-gas-sources-2022-05-09/ and https://www.ft.com/content/6c6352c3-cb60-48e5-aa5e-7cf02328f544
You could argue that connecting those two causally is just journalistic speculation.
Well, it would add up if Germany didn't block sanctions against buying Russian LNG in EU https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-blocks-first-ever-sanctions-russian-gas/
So answer to your actual question about NL & BE is: because it's legal and not an issue according to DE&HU.

@jwildeboer Because Russia closed the valve to Germany? Let's not give German government credit for something they were forced to accept.

Moving off the limited LNG coming in through channels other than the pipeline was just a logical next step after the pre-winter "oops a pipeline turbine is broken and we can't fix it with all those sanctions" blackmail.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62318376

@domi @wolf480pl @lanodan One of the big consulting firms used to have (maybe still has) a rule auditing tool which screams when it sees "Allow ICMP Port:Any" in cloud configs, where the port field means ICMP message type.

It's completely fine with listing all of the RFC defined values individually because it's just for show.

@lanodan @domi Amtlichdeutsch, but it's just a subdialect. It's not esoteric since it's in common use on dedicated hardware (faxes).

@Di4na One thing we can learn from the Horizon scandal is no matter how bad and harmful your software is, you can keep on doing what you're doing as long as your customer is ok with covering it up.

I prefer the Therac case mostly because it covers multiple mistakes (changing assumptions, ignoring user feedback, reuse of code outside of its scope) and it had actual positive outcomes. Dieselgate might be a better case, since it teaches the developer they're on the hook, not the C-suite.

@drewdevault 100% but I had to assume you mean "allowed in the USA" since trademark law is different where I live and a name of a product/software could be infringed upon without prior registration (but the process of proving that is usually more costly than just outright registering a ™).

@deirdresm @thomasfuchs Please read the Tesla manuals and let me know how to open the rear door in the newest model Y in case of a power cut off without a tool.

I'll wait.

@deirdresm @thomasfuchs Sorry for the tone of my message.

The thing is: Tesla doesn't provide a way to open the rear door without power. Having read the manual doesn't resolve the core issue of evacuating a car in case of an emergency.

@thomasfuchs If the first one was from US and the second one from Central or Eastern Europe - both have the same emotional load and sentiment.

@gsuberland @dalias @404mediaco Not exactly consumer law this time :(
However without going into legal minutae most (if not all?) Polish customers of Newag bought Impulse 2 trains with money from taxes in public tenders. There's an additional book of regulations to hit them with for defrauding the taxpayer which might have EU-wide consequences.

For anyone in #USA who's hiding a phone from other people in their home - it will ring even on mute on the 4th of October - turn it off: https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230803/fema-and-fcc-plan-nationwide-emergency-alert-test-oct-4-2023

Boost for reach please.

@thomasfuchs You're making the settling of Mars more and more attractive.

You're basically saying we could ship all of the Elonites to a place with latency larger than the TCP timeout and make them figure it out?

@thomasfuchs If you're saying that Elon would just give it to someone with all the followers, same logo and description. Then sure. It will go very fast to the "find out" phase of trademark law. In the morning I thought nobody would do that, but then again it's Elon so he probably would.

If he deletes the account and lets someone register it again with 0 followers. I'm not so sure.

@thomasfuchs Not quite, at least not yet. It depends a lot on how the new user would use the account. With 3 letter acronyms there's bound to be an unrelated NPR.
If someone impersonates them - sure, but even then you have parody accounts which can be legal.

Do people believe there's something official in private playground accounts (like twitter or meta)? Their ToS usually explicitly says any account can be seized at any time if they deem it necessary.