Notices by Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud)

With the FTC and FCC gutted and no-one left to ensure the US end of the adequacy arrangement with the EU, surely it's time for the EU to ban data sharing with the USA?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/18/two-democratic-commissioners-fired-ftc/

The ISO/IEC lawsuit against the @EUCommission to undo the finding that we have a right to know all of the law that binds us is a threat to digital human rights. #Standards should serve humanity, not enrich private corporations.

https://circleid.com/posts/a-threat-to-europeas-digital-human-rights-stewardship

/cc @carlmalamud

@nparafe @kirschner @osi did post https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source and this revision seems to change nothing.

@nparafe OK, I'll investigate. But you can be confident that it's not an open source license.

@nparafe OSI posted this:
https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-license-is-still-not-open-source

and I just posted this: https://meshed.cloud/@webmink/114025966275341199

@nparafe @osi Meta does not give OSI money, as far as I know. I would be interested to know the source of that allegation.

Meta may have announced #LlamaCon but the real Llama con is them continuing to call it #OpenSource. https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-license-is-still-not-open-source

Is #OpenSource ever written with a hyphen? Not when it's used in connection with #SoftwareFreedom

https://opensource.org/blog/is-open-source-ever-hyphenated

Will Trump cause the EU to declare use of US #cloud services illegal for #privacy reasons?

https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal

All #OpenSource licenses are permissive.

https://meshedinsights.com/2021/01/27/all-open-source-licenses-are-permissive/

@craiggrannell I swear there is something deeply broken in the brains of many tech liberals that prevents them from seeing Zuck, Andreesen, etc for who they really are. C.f. Gruber's inane take on this.

@dneary Word processors are not the target for consumption of articles, so no.

Code is only speech if compilers are sentient.

@Edent
Mine took several days.

Whatever you do, don't say Lizz Truss "crashed the economy" as she claims saying it harms her reputation. Whatever that is...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/09/liz-truss-sends-legal-letter-ordering-starmer-to-stop-saying-she-crashed-economy

@Edent Are you a member at https://forum.octopus.energy/ yet?

@Edent For example, https://api.octopus.energy/v1/products/AGILE-BB-24-10-01/electricity-tariffs/E-1R-AGILE-BB-24-10-01-H/standard-unit-rates/ seems to track the same prices as the tariff the API reports for us.

@Edent Try:
curl -u "sk_live_Your_API_Key" "https://api.octopus.energy/v1/accounts/A-YourAcctNumber/" with the obvious substitutions.

This will return JSON with all your location details - look for the active tariff in the result.

@kcoyle I don't believe there is, not least because organisations like ETSI and OASIS flourish without it. But ISO and the rest of the national standards organisation hierarchy take it as given.

Note that, like the equally dodgy example of academic publishing, the funding of de jure standards development is not connected with the funding of the publication mechanism. I suspect this is the thing that's about to have to be brought blinking into the daylight.

@carlmalamud

@carlmalamud I have sensed no appetite for voluntary compromise of any kind, and the lawsuit signals that. That attitude mirrors the view among SEP-dependent legacy corporations (who also seem to support ISO's view) that any accommodation of open source is a step too far. Heck, if you can read the standards for free you might want to implement them for free too.