Notices by Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус (jschwart@mas.to)

@tange @aral @svuorela @davidgerard @prosaole in general it is quite commendable to remind people of events/people outside of the IT sphere that should not be neglected/forgotten and deserve attention. I looked over several names and I think they do fit that purpose as one can easily figure out the context and truth behind them.

In this case however, it is not easy to figure out what is behind the name and my initial searches let to the report itself and did not provide the right context. As others mentioned it can also be seen as a nazi dog-whistle.

We should pay attention to white-supremacy and all the horrible things coming from there, but that does require context such that people understand what is going on. In this case I think the risk is big that someone will find this report itself and not understand its origin and purpose. It would be right to find a way to address this. Misinformation such as this report and nazism are very dangerous and should not be underestimated.

@tange I see. Thank you for replying. Maybe it would be an idea to review the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines. Imagine that you are a person who is a victim of an event that is used as a release name or possibly you are a close relative of a victim and you are bringing up your own GNU system. At some point you run into GNU Parallel. What thoughts might someone have at such a moment. And what if more packages would adopt a naming style like this.

We live in an era with extreme news events, so much that we may become numb to headlines. At the same time there are still human beings behind these events who may end up using your software. It seems best to find ways to make it as comfortable for them as possible. As such if it is not commemoration, the risk is that it may be confrontational, triggering negative emotions. That would be unfortunate and I believe something you may not want either.

@ryanc I recently started using it in addition to XMPP, SIP+SIMPLE (through Linphone) and Jami.

In the end it's about whether you have a need to reach particular people and what they happen to use. I hope at some point there will be good multi-protocol clients again or maybe Matrix servers could implement XMPP S2S. (Jami does have SIP support, but I couldn't get SIMPLE going with it as smoothly as Linphone.)

@dalias @bkuhn @skyfaller @next from what I understand, today it depends a lot on what is copyrightable (this is not the same everywhere) and whether one work resembles another (which is also not the same everywhere). A generated work would be judged by the applicable rules to determine whether it is a derivative or not and whether licensing would be needed.
Generally when you write code, there can always be inspiration from other code and generative AI is treated similarly now in that sense.

@bkuhn @skyfaller @next "if you used this work as part of the training data for a generative AI model, any work generated from that model is covered by the terms of this license" :D

@jbqueru @fairphone I think unobtainium is Roman/Latin, in Greece it would be unobtainios I guess ;)

@SuperDicq we had these mice in university. They were horrible as they were sending phantom clicks all the time. At one point we ran xev and just lifting up the device already showed it was sending button presses.
We often had compilation errors because the mouse had been randomly pasting stuff from the clipboard (through middle clicks).
As all these mice had such issues we ended up disabling their buttons when needed to do coding.

I presume some revisions of these mice didn't have that problem

@libreleah @Natanox @janethemotherfucker generally that makes sense, but I don't think your 25 year old userspace in emulation would be depending on an nvidia driver or similar non-free driver? Or I've been missing what's going on in the emulation scene :) :)

@libreleah @Natanox @janethemotherfucker but to your point, it should be possible to take a 25 year old distro and run it with a modern kernel. I remember I've seen instances where people did things like this.

@Natanox @libreleah @janethemotherfucker there are different ABIs involved in that case. Linux as in the kernel Linux has a stable ABI.
GNU however focuses on API/source compatibility and this is reflected in the libraries you mentioned.

GNU and Linux are often combined for a full system, but you have to consider them independently to be able to understand where choices related to ABI stability come from and the consequences of those choices.

@lanodan if you switch your network over to IPv6, then you can even have it dynamic and without DHCP. Also things like DNS will just work in such case. (I was impressed myself the first time I saw everything working just like that :)

@SuperDicq @fence that could be, I don't remember to be honest.

What would your advice if I try it again? I'm now running Triskel. I was also thinking that possibly I don't really need disk encryption and avoiding that might make things faster too.

@SuperDicq @fence alright, 15 minutes seems quite ok. At some point I was playing with Guix and somehow it was takes hours as it needed to build all sorts of stuff.

I might try it again at some point. Thanks!! :)

@SuperDicq @fence it's an X200 I guess? How's the performance? How long does it typically take to install updates?

@Eetschrijver if that doesn't work out, maybe we could petition Elon Musk instead to rename Xitter to Hitler. Or HitlerX or something like that.

@Natanox at one point I discovered there is a huge amount of videos on glitching in games. Maybe they were just trying to be part of that hype?

@janvlug @knmi Oneerlijke concurrentie lijkt mij een onzin argument. Dat zou een overheidsinstelling verbieden om informatieproducten van haar eigen data te maken, terwijl die data met belastinggeld tot stand zijn gekomen. Het zou betekenen dat de overheid een monopolie geeft aan commerciële partijen met belastinggeld. Bovendien zijn de KNMI data openbaar. Waarom mag de KNMI daar niet zelf een app van maken?

https://www.knmidata.nl/open-data

@lynchantropen het is opnieuw een voorbeeld van de wetenschap negeren. De duidelijkste situatie is die van intersekse personen die niet zomaar onder man of vrouw te plaatsen zijn op basis van aangeboren uiterlijke kenmerken.

@LiefhebberV veel van het geld voor die sigaretten die gebruikt zijn als bron voor de peuken, zit natuurlijk wel in de accijns ;)

@bert_hubert yes, it's a big privacy and security issue with Microsoft's mail hosting. I have to use https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/unmangle-outlook-safelinks to avoid Microsoft learning about links/URLs that I click on, also many that are used within the corporate intranet and should not really be exposed to the outside. (Doesn't really matter when Exchange isn't on-premise anymore though.)