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One thing I didn't know about the beautiful FediMeteo service is, that it is running on a fantastically low budget ENV that looks like it runs from a Server Park that has more than 60.000 of those servers purring along.

This is all that I shall default from the podcast you're smart and you're curious just like me so you will find the podcast yourself I will not put any links and then you will download it listen to it learn and enjoy

Open Source History: Why Didn't BSD Beat Out GNU and Linux?

「 the BSD license did not force developers who borrowed or tweaked the BSD code for their own projects to share their source code publicly. That was good news for commercial companies wary of sharing their code, but bad for hackers who valued openness and transparency 」

channelfutures.com/connectivit

Git is a tool I like, a lot. Before git, you could do RCS {& some others} which is a totally different tool set.

In this video Linus Torvalds talks about the way he created Git two+ decades ago.

What immediately Springs into view, is the fact that Linus gave control of the git project to someone else, as soon as he could he did not want to stay with the project for too long.

Git was created because of pure necessity; it was vital for kernel revision control

youtube.com/watch?v=sCr_gb8rdE

#Git#Linus#Torvalds
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@stgl I think you'd have to ask the re-seller (I am assuming! since this is eBay) for the code, not the manufacturer since the re-seller is re-distributing the device and not the manufacturer. So to hold the manufacturer responsible here is unfair.

I.e., if you get a copy of some #GNU #GPL program from me, I'm not responsible if you re-distribute it later and refuse to provide the source code.

@zeewox

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@naatschn Den werbefreien #GPL-Klassiker (gab's schon für PalmOS :-) gibt's nicht mehr im Playstore, aber als WebApp: eehouse.org/wasm/rel/main.html oder als native App bei #FDroid:
f-droid.org/de/packages/org.ee
Melde Dich, wenn Du's gut findest und testen willst - ich habe zwar die App, aber mir fehlen Spielpartner - und der Computergegner ist frustrierend spielstark ... 🙂.

eehouse.orgCrossWords webapp prototype
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@LillyHerself In fact, #AI systems are being caught left and right trying to #viralize their shit, breaking out of systems, and copy themselves like a #worm to the point that they are more "#viral" than the #AGPLv3"* and certainly more than the #GPL as per #Microsoft's #HalloweenDocuments.

  • At best all those "AI" tools are just #WastefulComputing that shits out #AIslop that is worse than the most demotivated & unpaid intern can come up or they literally want to break out of their "#containment" as if they were sentient (which they ain't - at least almost all are)!

I recently visited Munich and the people at ISB Bayern who look after the #Moodle used by 1.5 million students in Bavarian schools. They have an #AI Back end that can be used as an alternative to the core Moodle AI Subsystem.

Apart from the impressive functionality and UI, I was veryy impressed by the commitment to #privacy, data sovereignty and most of all, making the code publicly available under the #GPL license.

You can see the AI Manager here
github.com/mebis-lp/moodle-loc

Usually, what makes a #programming language special to a #programmer is not syntax, semantics, paradigm, tooling, ecosystem, performance, the big idea, nor other factors that are frequently touted by the language designers.

The programmer—the user of a language—adores it, because it suits a majority of his daily "needs" and, as such, he became "proficient" in it in due course.

In that sense, the notion of a #GPL is somewhat malleable; every language is essentially a #DSL to someone, somewhere, at some moment.

Если набрать GPL в русской раскладке (QWERTY-ЙЦУКЕН) - получится ПЗД, то есть нельзя тащить в коммерческий продукт.
MIT превращается в ЬШЕ, значит норм, только не забывайте указывать авторов использованного кода.
AGPL, соответственно, ФПЗД, то есть совсем нельзя!
А вoт LGPL будет ДПЗД, то есть в принципе ничего страшного.