Posts by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AVXOJ5SmeGdez65Sd6 by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2023-05-11T06:55:35Z
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@tante The answer is that they’ll get someone who has a day job in those fields and can actually benefit from the exposure (because they’re not trying to live off it). The teacher gets kudos at work and a cool entry on LinkedIn that helps them stand out from their peers; their employer gets their brand out there and an opportunity to shape the thinking of students. The money is a nice extra, and may even end up getting donated instead.
(DIR) Post #AYPqlA4PRkQhytfFUO by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2023-07-26T10:22:00Z
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I am sure I am not the first to point out that a vendor-controlled backdoor is exactly what governments around the world are asking for (whether they realise it or not) in consumer E2E-encrypted messaging services. But when it’s in #TETRA and the users are the police, it’s a problem? https://www.wired.com/story/tetra-radio-encryption-backdoor/
(DIR) Post #AZBcYue1bZSG2BmUls by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2023-08-28T10:20:01Z
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@tante The (a) problem is that any departure from fully-free licensing is met with rejection from the FLOSS community. See e.g. the brouhaha around "source-available" licenses like SSPL, that insert conditions about not hosting the software in the cloud for profit, but are in all other respects open. Sure, in that case it's a commercial criterion rather than an ideological one, but the principle is the same.
(DIR) Post #AZBrCpBeiKtC38RBCa by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2023-08-28T10:59:25Z
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@ghisvail @tante Well, that’s the part that I disagree about: I think it’s perfectly legitimate to have such a clause. The software remains free to use, including for large companies; they just can’t directly host it for money. Redistribution is still okay, which means the classic OSS business model of selling support, consulting, and perhaps add-ons remains valid.Should it be the only choice? No.Should it be *a* valid choice? I would argue yes.
(DIR) Post #AZBrCqvQFf5nRMrFB2 by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2023-08-28T12:41:34Z
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@ghisvail @tante To me, this is one of those situations where scale meaningfully changes the nature of what is being discussed. Hosting something at the scale of one company is a question of the freedom to use the software. Hosting it at the scale of AWS is a question of the viability of, and control over, the entire project. Maybe this should be a fifth freedom, along the lines of the Zeroth Law of robotics?
(DIR) Post #AZpIxL6G73dhcsZD8K by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2023-09-16T13:48:51Z
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@tante Yeah, even as an Apple fanboy, that claim about offsets rang false — and it risks overshadowing all the actually good stuff that they really are doing.
(DIR) Post #Akshgp8g37fe5BSNay by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2024-08-12T05:43:16Z
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@futurebird @OrionKidder @michael_w_busch My micro-review is that it did what it had to do to make its point — and that point is well and brutally made. https://findthethread.blog/Babel-R-F-Kuang/
(DIR) Post #AmciuzPkJnn0lJhK9A by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2024-10-03T08:25:29Z
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@aral And today there was an explosion on one of their planes, fortunately on the ground. The passengers were all evacuated safely but Brindisi airport is closed: https://www.rainews.it/tgr/puglia/articoli/2024/10/incendio-a-motore-aereo-ryanair-in-scalo-brindisi-nessun-ferito--b4710af1-4f6c-4e00-9e7b-0fe6ad82996e.html (doesn’t seem to have hit English-language news yet, sorry, but I assume Google Translate or whatever can give you the gist)
(DIR) Post #Amvs5pglGTsHAzSx8q by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T14:08:10Z
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@futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss This would be why I just bought a brace of new gigantic HDDs for my NAS, because it was full (again). It’s not *all* media, it also hosts TimeMachine backups of three MacBooks, but it is very very full.
(DIR) Post #AmwIsdwQpiJEauPI24 by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T19:08:23Z
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@futurebird @ramsey @mogul Surely if you are going to add bone elements to one skeleton to affirm gender, one is way BONER than the other…Sorry, sorry, I’ll see myself out!
(DIR) Post #B2z0VCGAzdzBJBHZIG by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2026-02-04T15:28:01Z
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This report from China shows solar panels actually reversing desertification: http://english.scio.gov.cn/m/chinavoices/2025-10/23/content_118137637.htmlA local university here showed a similar result: raising the panels higher above the ground allowed plants and animals to flourish below. It’s not a choice between #solar and crops!