Notices by hydra & dragons & leah, oh my! (thamesynne@dragon.style)

@Parasite ah yes, the endless quest of capitalism to ensure that nobody's standard of living ever gets any better

...wait...

@inky_skink_art i'd suggest it's more why Android shouldn't be considered an operating system, but i see your point

the Post Office isn't an isolated scandal in the UK. TfL, it turns out, have been relying on illegally gathered personal data to serve huge fines on hundreds of thousands of EU citizens, many of whom were actually compliant with the ULEZ regulations in the first place, and usually long after the contest dates have passed.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/26/eu-citizens-ulez-fines-data-breach-tfl

and once again, it appears that they've given their IT contractor free rein and aren't asking too closely where the results are coming from. and in another parallel to the Post Office scandal, there's a good chance it all comes down to needing any revenue stream it can get, and not caring too much about the human cost involved

the difference, of course, is that TfL have essentially declared war on the EU. that... might well prove to be a costly mistake.

@noracodes for some reason the phrase "speculative fiction written in maths" is popping into my mind right now

one of the things i occasionally find myself wishing for on here is a way to reply to two threads at once, unifying them into a single thread going forward

ie. threads which are DAGs, not trees

@clacke yes for myself, more or less received pronounciation. and yes for where i have lived for the last three decades (all over Yorkshire)

but i grew up in North West Norfolk, and the accent there (uncommonly for an English accent) rhymes "news" with "booze".

@clacke @penguin42 i can say first hand that that isn't the case (see elsewhere)

re LB: I especially liked this bit:

> [M]y experience with the trans community as an ally has been one of openness, inclusivity and patience... We mess up each other’s pronouns, apologize and move on. We toss each other the same $100 like a hot potato every time someone needs to pay their gas bills, raise funds for a decent chest binder or grab some comfort food after a particularly hard day. In private homes and group chats, we soft-launch new names and outfits that we might never have the courage to don outside. If a friend announces that, actually, they tried out the whole trans deal and didn’t think it made sense for them? “Cool!” we say. “Thanks for telling us.”

ok, i found a recipe:

200g each of strong white / wholemeal flour (this is 50:50 bread, which is cool)
1tsp sugar, same of salt
300ml water
15g butter (or baking margarine)

select wholemeal program, wait 5 hours

the problem with that is that the breadmaker i'm looking at is rated 550W. 5 hours of that, as of July, is going to cost about 80p (obviously that might not be constant, but still) - that's for the electricity alone

ASDA sells an 800g loaf of wholemeal bread for 58p at the moment - now obviously that might go up soon too (their prices have been on the rise of late) but it's held there so far. so as far as i can see, a bread machine doesn't make any economic sense

@edavies @clacke @lightweight my god, the culture clash...

reciprocal licence = "viral" licence

just, you know, without capitalism toxicity

@edavies @clacke @lightweight as i understand it (and i've just spent the last hour checking), the LGPL only exists because there was some legal ambiguity as to whether linking to a dynamically-loaded library was derivation or not, which the LGPL resolves by explicitly saying "no, it isn't". but other than that, it *is* basically the GPL, and anything that does more than link to it is under the same obligations as a GPL'd program would be.

but in practice, one could take a GPL'd library, write a server around it that responds to incoming RPC requests by calling the exact functions and sending out their replies, release the code to that server, and use it to serve one's proprietary program with exactly the same results as an LGPL'd equivalent.

if only the industry had focused on making RPC/IPC fast enough that dynamic linking was seen as an unnecessary complication, the question wouldn't have arisen in the first place...