Notices by Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer), page 4

Also need to replace a 30A circuit with a 50A one and stick in a tankless water heater because using electricity to keep a big tank of water hot is something that England might think makes sense but fuck that noise, and then I think the water project is complete and I can concentrate on setting up a wireless ISP instead (seriously did you know you can just… run LTE in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands and nobody can tell you not to?)

Finally looking at Bruce Perens' "Post Open" licensing drafts and good heavens it's even worse than GPLv3 in terms of focusing on the perceived threats du jour rather than any coherent overall concept. The degree to which it goes beyond copyright law (various things that are plausibly fair use in the US are grounds for termination) is especially egregious. It's explicitly not free software, which I don't think is inherently bad, but it's also just a bad license.

Brands stop being weirdly horny challenge difficulty impossible

Less Tiny Train

The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.

Just got handed yhis

Fucking hell what will they DRM next

@ryanc Technically you can still use it for anything, as long as a specific technical requirement is met

I'm still curious whether the Free Software Definition's choice to require the ability to use free software for *any* purpose is entirely deliberate - is there any writing on why free software must permit being used to restrict people's ability to exercise the four freedoms?

(I agree with the argument that it would be extremely difficult to write a license that enshrined this without restricting legitimate use cases, but if someone were able to do so, /should/ it be free software?)

Yeah Twitter is fine

@mhoye @PastaThief @jwz

@penllawen I did not! Incredible

STOP DOING HARDLINKS

INODES WERE NOT MEANT TO EXIST IN MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES

YEARS OF FILES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for being in more than one directory

Wanted to reference files from more than one directory anyway? We had a tool for that: it was called "SYMLINKS"

"Yes please give me FIFTEEN paths that this file resolves to" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

"Hello I would like different permissions on this file based on path" They have played us for absolute fools

@hairyears they only have one?

We also went to extreme lengths to get Fedora 10 codenamed Cambridge purely because that was what the Red Hat 10 codename was going to be before the Fedora/RHEL fork meant there was no Red Hat 10

We did a release called Schrödinger's Cat and that was probably what killed release names because it turns out the problem wasn't the umlaut it was the apostrophe and the sheer number of things that didn't handle single quotes properly

We shipped a Fedora release called Beefy Miracle I do not understand the Uwubernetes complaints at all

Amazingly, https://github.com/mjg59/linux/tree/restrict_path_traversal actually seems to roughly work as expected do I attempt to upstream or not

"Is a TV show that makes use of hackertyper.com a derivative work of the Linux kernel" -- the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there