Notices by Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se), page 92
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Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 18:14:31 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
This is reminding me that I need to improve my PC <--> FT-817 interface so I can run more narrowband modes on HF/VHF -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 18:13:08 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
We used to have that back in the Wicket days. You wrote the logic in Java and it would transpile to JS. If the user had JS enabled then it would run whatever it was on the browser, else via the server. -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 18:10:23 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
Wouldn't that just be a traditional LETS just with a more visible ledger? -
Sir Bøøps (sirboops@mastodon.sergal.org)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 13:05:41 EDT Sir Bøøps
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Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 13:45:02 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
That's one way yes. I depends I think -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 11:55:37 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
It's @rms's birthday! https://social.umeahackerspace.se/attachment/302128 -
Official Hoofboy (masklayer@slime.global)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 10:07:46 EDT Official Hoofboy
backup you're data
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Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 11:24:32 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
But black box interaction is what dealing with proprietary software is all about. Software licenses also can't apply to humans, for obvious reasons.. Or can they? Is a human computer subject to software licenses? Fun philosophical questions ahead. Someone get Vsauce in here :)
I'll put forth that it is at least possible to write a license that makes an RPC using program a covered work. After all, why does it matter where the computation is actually performed? If from the users's perspective it's a function call either way, why does it matter if the piece of silicon it's running on is in the metal box under the user's desk or in a metal box halfway across the world? -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 09:27:56 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
I went and read the entire text of AGPLv3. The bit about "intimate data communication" looks almost pertinent, but it only applies to the work itself and not other works making use of it. So the RPC loophole is probably not closed yet. -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 08:41:11 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
Hmm. I guess we'll find out in time, if there are court cases. I skimmed through some FAQs on gnu.org and the answer seems to be "it depends" -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 07:01:49 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
Yes and no. As a user I'm allowed to mix and match licenses however I please. If I provide the combination as a service to other users however, the combination may either be AGPL or illegal, depending on the licenses involved. Or that's what I suspect at least.
A traditional comparison would be linking GPL code with proprietary libraries. The combination is not redistributable, but as a user I am of course allowed to infringe my own rights.
Contrived AGPL example: Mastodon App as a Service (MAaaS). Transpile a Mastodon Android app to JS, maybe modify it to only work with one instance and add some features. Serve to users. I would argue the result is AGPL even if the app itself it GPL. -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 06:35:19 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
Typo: "de facto AGPL" should have a question mark at the end -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 16-Mar-2018 06:33:36 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
I've had a thought about #AGPL. If a provider uses non-AGPL software to federate with one or more AGPL servers, does that software then become covered by the AGPL? Seems to me such a service would make what amounts to function calls to the AGPL server(s), similar to the RPC loophole the AGPL is designed to close.
Put another way: is it possible to write an implementation of OStatus or ActivityPub that is not de facto AGPL. It most likely would have to interact with/make function calls to GNU Social, Mastodon, postActiv, PeerTube etc, all of which are AGPL -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 15-Mar-2018 18:35:23 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
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Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 15-Mar-2018 13:49:45 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
Because they're free software and they work -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 15-Mar-2018 10:14:40 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
@clacke Myeah, being on the receiving end of state oppression doesn't really foster as much gung-ho about the handing more power to the state as you may think -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 15-Mar-2018 07:01:43 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
@clacke The word I was looking for is manufactroversy -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 15-Mar-2018 06:53:53 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
@clacke Gay or trans people not wanting to be discriminated against is not some kind of nefarious plot. Hence why I say it's entirely one-sided - the side doing the culture warmongering in the U.S. is the power majority. -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 15-Mar-2018 06:17:05 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
@clacke @pettter That polarization is pretty one-sided. It's just another round of U.S. right-wingers trying to create political wedges out of non-issues. Like Bill O'Reilly's conspiracy theory about a War on Christmas, only more stupid and damaging -
Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 15-Mar-2018 04:43:05 EDT Tomas SA2TMS
I had a second thought about this one. So the daughter specifically set up for her to watch her mom bang her boyfriend? Like some weird cuckold incest thing? That's the real wtf here