Notices by Stefano Zacchiroli (zacchiro@mastodon.xyz)

@karen looks like it's a global trend, I've just received this SPAM in French (some translated keywords: non profit, social impact, digital solutions):

> Pour faire court, on aide les associations et ONG à à maximiser leur impact
social grâce à des solutions digitales sur mesure et accessibles, avec une
tarification adaptée aux budgets associatifs.

@karen so good that you might even want to meet them 🤣 (not)

Very important work by @conservancy , which tries to ensure the right of recipients of #AGPL (but more generally: *GPLs) software to strip disguised "Further restriction" clauses in free/#opensource software: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jan/13/neo4j-amicus/ . It is unfortunately something that happens quite often on the market (even here in France!), where such clauses are regularly used by vendors to turn standard #FOSS licenses into #badgeware ones.

@bremner regress is the new progress

@Gargron kudos!

@cwebber good random sampling

@cwebber do you need help to stop reading that (also incredible long) piece? should we send someone? *g* *hugs* (I, for one thing, thank you for saving me from reading it…)

@lxo if anything, the tempest comes straight from the FSF here, making a weird, full-blown "announcement" just to say « we will keep voting members »

@civodul they're also conflating two unrelated issues in that (super weird) "announcement": (1) the fact that supporter-elected boards are more prone to hostile takeovers than self-perpetuating boards (which is true as a general proposition), and (2) the FSF baroque voting/board members split, which does not protect against anything at all and is currently helping rms to stay in power. Total non sequitur.

@game yas !

#webgraphrs will be covered this year in the #Rust devroom at #FOSDEM by my colleague Sebastiano Vigna: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4773-huge-graph-analysis-on-your-own-server-with-webgraph-in-rust/

It's the next generation (in Rust indeed) of the best open source implementation of graph compression out there, and we're financing its development at @swheritage.

We have covered it in a recent WWW paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589335.3651581 . The talk will also present more recent development since then.

silly device that someone should invent: a physical/mechanical bookmark for paper books, that stays in sync with a digital bookmark of the same book on your ebook reader (I said silly!)

@p4bl0 yep 😕

@joey I'm unconvinced even for finding them. The traditional method of keyword search + visiting the citation graph still looks much better. And for the search part, in general a bibliographic search engine will be easier to keep up-to-date than a trained AI.

#peerreviewisdoinggreat

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@fasterthanlime oh wow, this is such a turn down. I used to be a fan of draw.io.

«Tagli a pioggia e precariato, la #ricerca [in #Italia] al tempo di Meloni»
https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/italia/universita-ricerca-tagli-legge-bilancio-precariato-governo-meloni-oas7n14h

@cwebber @simon I'm biased because I've the exact same main reference for this than Simon (the Reply All podcast episode from back in the days), but I find the more plausible explanation to be way more shocking than the theory of active listening. Advertisers, in all likelihood, don't even *need* to listen to us. And that's horrifying. (But yes, they could if it were cost effective to do so. It probably isn't.)

great read for my operating system students! #inf107

Happy belated Public Domain Day 2025 🎉

“Popeye, ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ ‘The Sound and the Fury’ and thousands of other captivating creations are finally free for everyone to use.” ©️

“Yesterday, January 1, 2025, copyrights expired for books, films, comic strips, musical compositions and other creative works from 1929, as well as sound recordings from 1924.” 📽️

Find out more 👇
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/happy-public-domain-day-popeye-rhapsody-in-blue-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-thousands-of-other-captivating-creations-are-finally-free-for-everyone-to-use-180985744/

#PublicDomain #PublicDomain2025 #Popeye #RhapsodyInBlue #TheSoundAndTheFury #Copyright #Tintin