Notices by Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org)

@kkarhan named one anti-AGPL company & then speculated wildly.
Also, your narrative about BusyBox cases isn't accurate. Landley wasn't involved in the later ones — as those were not about getting cash to the upstream devs. Landley said his goal was upstream code that helped him, not downstream users' ability to rebuild the software & get involved w/ FOSS.
He admitted he just didn't care about the latter.
& if you think AGPL is toxic,why are you using software under it?
CC: @eruwero @maybeanerd

🤔…Fascinating that @kkarhan claims sponsors & corporate contributors will “never get involved” with an #AGPLv3 codebase by *using* an AGPLv3 codebase — namely #Mastodon — to make these false claims.

Plenty of people getting sponsored & are starting businesses around Mastodon (including @mastohost, which I use), & Donald Trump himself — Truth Social is a (now) AGPLv3 compliant fork of Mastodon.

Perhaps Google+ would be a replacement for Mastodon you'd prefer?

Cc: @eruwero @maybeanerd

@theleftistlawyer

Facts like this always remind me of the propaganda found in my high school 'Merican history text book. Gosh, I wish I had kept it so I could prove it said this, but I recall it distinctly, at least paraphrased. The summary at the end of the colonial period chapter said:

“Never before in human history was a large land mass like North America so sparsely populated that European settlers found fertile land mostly unoccupied. ”

1989 … they taught me this … in high school. 🤦

2FA message says:
“Do not share this code with anyone. We will never ask you for this code.”

The only reason I have this code is because you're currently asking for it.

🤦

Also, are you not in the class of people that includes “anyone”.

Meanwhile, tangentially, as Homer Simpson once asked, where *is* the “any” key on my keyboard?

@hperrin All important (& some unimportant) decisions are political.

Everyone who insists otherwise is merely the person/entity in power in the given situation.

Cc: @cwebber

@cwebber Thanks for talking about this. Ironically, I was in a thread before this mess started choosing between @mntmn & #Framework:
https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/115288857091836217

Folks have been mentioning @novacustom a lot, & some have said it may be fewer proprietary blobs than MNT Next will likely need.

Do you have any thoughts on them?

I just can't survive on these X200's & T500's anymore (despite having a big stack of them).

& man will I miss track points😔

@lanodan it seemed so but it was not completely clear. The announcements for the two were different.

Again, transparency should be demanded? Why doesn't Framework post a clear list of grantees and amounts and frankly have a competitive RfP process for grants?

@lanodan I didn't mention DHH because it was less clear whether DHH got a grant personally from Framework as Vaxy did or if DHH was merely promoted once by Framework.

I.e., I read the whole thread and it was still unclear what money if any DHH got from Framework.

It relates to another problem: Framework is a privately held for-profit entity & therefore they have absolutely no requirements to disclose where that huge pile of VC cash is really going.

Thanks, @downey, for bringing this #FrameworkLaptop scandal to my attention. I read the whole thread in its entirety. I have since seen others' post that indicate they don't know how bad the situation is. Other TL;DR summaries are now making the rounds, but the big problem is Vaxry of Hyprland was given a grant by #Framework recently, but the receipts exist that show in past the Hyprland Discord & Vaxry himself encouraged anti-trans rhetoric in an extremely unprofessional sexually explicit way…

…BTW, NB: Vaxry was ≈ 19 years old when he made/encouraged the toxic statements & is today only ≈ 22 years old.

I also held some problematic views at Vaxry's age;(I was, e.g., way into Ayn Rand, whom I now find risible).

Young folks have throughout history made woppers of mistakes at ages 17-25. The situation *is* different & worse if, say, 55-70 year old person says these things.

Rewarding the behavior as #Framework did won't improve it, but ∃ room for them to help Vaxry in a productive way.

Over next 1-2 weeks,I'd appreciate an extended thread re: #FrameworkLaptop, #mntreform, & #FOSS.

TL;DR on my idiosyncratic needs:
* minimize binary firmware blobs¹
* Having 2 disks in RAID-1²
* Runs stock Official #Debian stable³
* Understanding best current replacement keyboard options⁴
* Form factor that works for my travel needs.

Is @frameworkcomputer or @mntmn better for me?

I'd be glad if ∃ active engagement on this!

#AskFedi #AskFediverse #Framework #OpenSource

Just 8 days after I began this thread re: maybe switching to a #FrameworkLaptop, a scandal broke that #Framework directly funded toxic individual FOSS developers.

It's not clear to me yet whether an outright boycott is warranted, but what's already obvious is Framework acts like a classic VC-funded tech startup in making foolish unforced errors in policy decision-making b/c they're too busy “moving fast & breaking things” to pay attention to important details (such as past CoC violations)…(1/3)

(3/3)…I've spent my entire career using #IBM laptops knowing this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
…& then after IBM sold #Lenovo, I was then using laptops made by people w/ strong ties to a human-rights-violating regime.

So, let's have perspective: IBM has still never apologized for *literally* helping the Nazis & #Framework may still be the “least evil” of *traditional* laptop companies.

But, this incident does make me wanna desperately find way to make @mntmn's #MNTReform suit my computing needs.

@mntmn yes, it is so silly: #Framework received ≥ US$30 million in VC. Since they aren't a public company, we don't *know* Nirav Patel's compensation package, but his salary is surely ≥ US$1mil that could greatly advance MNT Reform in the ways you mention.

I'm sure Patel believes that they is “doing good by doing well” — but to do good, we need multiple options for repairable laptops. Capitalism demands MNT Reform *competes* w/ Framework. FOSS principles say Framework should cooperate with you.

If you design an on-hold audio loop, you shouldn't put it into production until you spend a day trying to do your regular job while on hold. If so, you'll learn:
1st: offer a callback queue if possible.
2nd: offer user the *choice* of pure silence or audio loop while holding.
3rd: the audio loop should:
* have completely consistent volume level.
* never break in w/ human voices in the loop (eg: “Remeber our website…”) once loop starts. It *will* sound like live agent every time to most users.

As you might guess, I get #copyleft questions all the time, & #FOSS developers being an inquisitive & intelligence bunch, they are sometime complex.

After 30 years, though, I have mostly “heard it all”, & I only get a truly novel & difficult question once every few years.

@giomasce just asked me an excellent question re: LGPLv2.1 (also applies to #GPLv2) that is novel & I'd never considered before.

I'll say what it was publicly when I figure out what the answer is.

@richardfontana

I seen London, & I seen France, but I never seen no queen in her damned undies, & I definitely I seen stupifying stuff in Los Ange-ales …
& I'm a hard working man. Possibly the hardest working man who ever lived in Boston, NYC, then Portland …which would put me in the running for hardest working man worldwide.

But, sometimes there's a guy — and I'm talking about myself,Bradley Maximiliano Kuhn, here — who is just the right person for his time &place. I just fit right in here.

@Ashedryden if you are willing to TL;DR me , is there anyone reporting my experience: regular migraines my whole life (from childhood) on east coast of USA and almost completely gone after moving to west coast USA?

I have yet to meet anyone who has had that experience.

For various reasons, I'm seriously considering changing my middle name. Not legally, since the only place it appears in full is my birth certificate (Although I don't have my long-form birth certificate, so who knows if it's right or even if I was born at all? 🤔

Anyway, all other official documents have just “M.”.

So, I can go wild & unilaterally declare the M now stands for something else.

But, I can't think of anything cool… best I came up with is that it's just “M” period. Ideas welcome.

I've been looking to change my middle name, but to one still starting with ‘M’. I decided:"Maximiliano".

I know it seems a haughty choice—but HMO:

I was reviewing my high school papers & remembered in Spanish class, my 1ˢᵗ teacher gave everyone a name of Spanish origin (eg, “John” ⇒ “Juan”).

She (apparently) couldn't think of a Latin-origin equiv. to “Bradley” & said
> «Tu será Maximilano»

I stopped using it when I graduated HS, but — just like The Big Lebowski — “it fits right in there”.