Notices by Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette (archivist@social.linux.pizza)

@icedquinn oh, I didn't think of that. I generally adjust font size to get 10 to 13 words per line. But I also read pretty fast (~150 pages per hour). I didn't mod it yet, but I plan to add a bigger battery and a solar panel to it. I didn't get to it because despite my reading habits, I rarely run out of battery despite forgetting to charge it most of the time

@icedquinn my clara lasts for about 40 to 50 hours of reading (I keep the back light at 2%)

@icedquinn tbf, if it is Hector, expected. He has been a dick to everyone not doing things his way for a long while so people didn't want collaborate with him.

Rip, I hope he finds something to work on he enjoys

@icedquinn what kind of equipment got that terrible review? I am curious now

@icedquinn currently I am scheduling everything manually across 3 mismatched calendar services, 2 belonging to customers and my own. It is a special flavour of hell

@icedquinn I may implement my own calendar system using the weird variant of Prolog I am making. All the calendar software I ever used have been nightmarish around recurring events and manipulation of them (for example, to shift them out of holidays and such)

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@munin Microsoft Recall automatically breaks any NDA you could have too. I think many companies have yet to realise this and, while it is a point that can be argued on the argument that Microsoft is a prerequisite to operation for most of those companies, it can be abused by large corporations that do subcontracting under NDAs into smaller companies by arguing that the subcontractor needs to pay reparations for breaking the NDA.

I am currently terrified of that

@SuperDicq @stripey @report_press

7 of 250 have been retracted

@SuperDicq @stripey @report_press

I am pretty sure that a report grouping 250 occurrences over 20 years (that is around 1 per month) is factual enough to warrant more than a glimpse of attention and action

@lanodan @SuperDicq @wasabi @eris alcohol too

@icedquinn wanna do Cyberpunk 2020?

@SuperDicq @apophis @celestia I license everything I do under MIT, I do not give a fuck about rich people. I give a fuck about poor people and people that are trying to build things at the bottom of the ladder. If you think GPL makes it hard for a megacorp to use your code, you are sorely mistaken, it is just a minor inconvenience to them

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@SuperDicq @celestia as far as I know, ERA does not manufacture any weapons, they only make radars. Not everyone is Raytheon or some other bullshit

@SuperDicq @celestia

open-source software is much more profitable to mega-corps

Also, yeah, stat is indeed from my ass, but I would argue that it is very optimistic. Of all the developers I personally know that have tried their hands at making a living wage from working open-source software, I know 0 that succeeded. It may be anecdotal, but that is a sample size of between 300 and 400 given the people I trained, that trained with me or worked with me. A few are still trying, I do what I can to support their projects, because I was there. Unless you were there for so long your software is infrastructure (eg curl, sqlite...) success is nigh impossible nowadays. Open-source was a career choice 20+ years ago, but nowadays if it is profitable it is generally because the free version is open-source freemium

@SuperDicq @celestia let me reformulate, military Radar installation have saved far more people than they will ever cause the death of

@SuperDicq @celestia yeah, that is why 99% of the software has been open-sourced and costs of software development are so low...

Come on, models that revolve around open-source generally revolve around offering support for the open-source software, selling it and praying no-one sells it for cheaper than you do, and donos. I see open-source devs working of software used by thousands of people collect 300-400 bucks a month and now hesitating to just abandon it

IT doesn't have a lot of ways for small actors to profit from it. Saying that everything should be GPL because otherwise it is unethical is just ignoring the 99% of open-source developers that want to try and make it their work, and fail

@Suiseiseki for your formulation, you seem to think that not respecting license terms is OK, noted

Edit: substituted "agree" with "think" because it does not reflect my point of view on the question

@Suiseiseki @SuperDicq yes, but these people can just then sell back your software as per the same licence, and they can sell it for cheaper than you, always

@SuperDicq @celestia as far as I know, Radar has saved more people than it has killed over the past 80 years it has existed for

@SuperDicq @celestia are you saying that software companies that survive off of something else than donations are always unethical?