Notices by Pixelcode 🇺🇦 (pixelcode@social.tchncs.de)

@amszmidt @vazub Thank you! I found (find) the actual licence text really hard to comprehend. 😕

#Legal question regarding #Copyleft: I own several electronic products that run GPL firmware and have successfully requested the source code from their manufacturers. Am I allowed to actually publish the source code?

The reason I'm asking this is that the company only sends the source code to actual customers. I'd intuitively think that the #GPL-granted software freedom 3 is limited to distributing copies among those that are entitled to receiving copies (i.e. other customers).

At their 50th party convention, the Green Party just passed motion VR-06 with an overwhelming majority (almost unanimously!), advocating a prohibition of the German Fascist Party (#AfD) due to its unconstitutionality. Let's go, democracy! 🚀
https://antraege.gruene.de/50bdk/afd-verbot-v-17-v-95-geeint-17254

#bdk2024 #bdk24 #bdk50 #grüne

@jwildeboer What did it cost?

#Ukrainians when being asked by putin and his Western understanders to surrender unconditionally: https://youtu.be/sa_tPLHC6go?t=38

@evan I find the question quite weird because we're all just citizens, and as such we can't “recognise” a state – we can only demand our governments to do so. If your question was whether we *think* that it is a state, my answer would be no, as it lacks a proper government and sovereignty.

Taiwan, on the other hand, de-facto is IMO a state, as it has a functioning government and considerable sovereignty. The fact that it isn't recognised by the int'l community doesn't influence my view.

#Iran has launched dozens of kamikaze drones at #Israel. Their flight time is estimated to be several hours, allowing air defence and the civilian population to thoroughly prepare for their arrival. Let us all hope that this will remain the only wave of attack and that there will be no casualties. A great war in the middle east is the last thing we, as humanity, currently need.

https://www.dw.com/en/breaking-israels-military-says-iran-has-launched-dozens-of-drones-at-israel-and-that-israeli-forces-are-prepared-to-shoot-them-down/live-68812759

@georgetakei well, technically HB² = B²H ≠ (HB)² 😉

@evan Regarding Israel being forced to stop its military operations or regarding a verdict over whether genocide has been committed or not?

Two weeks ago, I prophesied that #Tutanota would rename themselves to just #Tuta, but none of you listened. Now, here we are! 😉

Anyway, congrats to @Tutanota, Tuta is a cool, modern-sounding and beautifully short name ☺️

🔗 https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-is-now-tuta

#QT @pixelcode
https://social.tchncs.de/@pixelcode/111302775533443145

@aral Also, I still do not understand why people are so aggressive about a company hiring a former police officer. Neither is that practice uncommon nor do I see a particular reason why the state would be so much worse as an employer than truly evil companies are, such as GAFAM, the oil industry, Chinese tech giants, car manufacturers etc.

Every time I asked I just received the same hateful replies and was blocked.

@aral If you really think that people didn't care about that incident, then you must have been on a mission to Mars for a couple of months.

Raspberry Pi was hit by a massive wave of negative comments, including some criticism, but mostly hate speech and aggressive threats. Many Fediverse users and servers blocked Raspberry Pi, and they still sometimes receive cynical replies to random posts.

That's anything but “shut up and take my money”.

@thilo @aral It's not too hard to determine whether a given string of non-Latin characters resembles a word in the post's language. You just need a morphological lexicon and basic understanding of NLP, which anyone who works on screen readers definitely has.

@odddev @thilo @aral When writing a mathematical expression, you make sure that it's as unambiguous as possible, for example by putting multiplication symbols between variables.

@aardrian @odddev @thilo @aral

My approach would be this:

If there are any non-Latin characters present, tokenise. For each non-Latin token, use a pre-defined hash table to rewrite each symbol to its Latin equivalent (if there is one). If the result is a purely Latin token, lemmatise it to determine whether it's an existing word in the post's language. If so, read the natural word instead of the non-Latin token.

@aardrian @odddev @thilo @aral I'll file a feature request with a more detailed explanation of my suggested approach once I've passed my NLP exam next week 😬

Cooooool, the #Bundestag, Germany's parliament, has joined the German state's #Mastodon server, hosted by the Federal data protection officer! Welcome to the #Fediverse, dear @bundestag! 😎 🥳

@aral @tripleo @ramsey @glitzersachen A law that doesn't apply to everyone equally wouldn't be constitutional ;)

@tripleo @ramsey @glitzersachen @aral When arguing that any possible interaction is (and should be) a copyright violation, you should consider:

Websites could force browsers not to allow ad blockers, because reading text and altering images would be a copyright violation. Scientists would need to pay publishers for citations. Criticising politicians' speeches would be illegal without explicit permission.

You probably don't want to hear it, but copyright law should be limited, not extended.

Can anyone explain the reasoning behind #F-Droid's classification of apps into “contains anti-features”?

PixelDroid, a FOSS client for Pixelfed (FOSS), has no anti-features. Several Mastodon clients, however, “promote closed-source cloud services”, although Mastodon is FOSS too.

FOSS clients for Tutanota and ProtonMail (closed-source servers) do have anti-features, but regular IMAP clients don't (although the typical mail server is not FOSS).

To me, the classification seems random at best. 🧐