Posts by t0k@social.tchncs.de
(DIR) Post #AJDRbrWoJFzlFwEyMi by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-05-07T17:33:17Z
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@Shamar Thank you, I really appreciate your comments and share your view. It's consistent with what I observe.
(DIR) Post #AJGgSV1Ei7encpLSV6 by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-05-09T04:14:39Z
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@klaatu It's a real scenario.That's the repo: https://codeberg.org/librecell/lctime(here it was originally, but I'm reorganizing the code base https://codeberg.org/tok/librecell)'lctime' very specific to the design of digital integrated circuits. lctime does 'characterization'. This means simulating the signal propagation speeds in logic cells (inverters, AND gates, flip-flops and the like).
(DIR) Post #AJGgSWeybr2WiMwi5A by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-05-09T04:19:09Z
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@klaatu lctime is a command-line tools. That may not sound like a typical case for the AGPL. But I observe a growing trend towards cloud-based services for electronic design automation.'Characterization' is very compute intense because it runs tons of circuit simulations. Therefore it is very interesting to wrap that into a service. That's why I chose the AGPL.
(DIR) Post #AJdhaI9X01qGczaCiu by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-05-20T08:51:59Z
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#Google does not fund research groups if they'd work on software licensed under #AGPL.Use the AGPL to incentivize people not to get funded by Google.
(DIR) Post #AJdiZMVlPPCVoJ6Q0O by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-05-20T08:58:22Z
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AGPL: "Anti-Google Public License"https://web.archive.org/web/20220516135116/https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy
(DIR) Post #AJwKJfY7YRBgYo2ZuK by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-05-29T09:13:34Z
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@Shamar Thank you for fighting Google Analystics :)
(DIR) Post #AJwLFA4yiX8Xkmp8vg by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-05-29T09:23:57Z
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@Shamar I find it interesting that the Hacking Licence mentions 'mask rights'. Seems like you give some thoughts to integrated circuits. Regarding free and open-source licences I know of only little work related to ICs. I'm only aware of the CERN OHL.What was your motivation to mention mask right? Did you have more thoughts about crafting the Hacking Licence to be suitable for silicon chips or is it more a side effect?
(DIR) Post #AMHpatMNBN8rp18ce8 by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-08-07T13:56:45Z
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@tk If you're already familiar with C-like languages, Python or Java then Rust will require you to think differently about certain things (for example ownership and lifetimes of references). For me it helped to sharpen my mind. I suspect Go teaches you less new concepts.Also, Go is quite googlish. Rust at least is a mix of amazonish, googlish, metaish, huawaish, microsoftish.
(DIR) Post #AMihvyQRz36TZNqOC8 by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-08-20T11:00:42Z
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@humanetech In my opinion Microsoft doesn't deserve that the FLOSS community advertises in some way their products.VSCodium is still a MS product. Advertising it or contributing to it still helps MS to build a better image and a better product.True, true, MS may contribute to open-source but mostly knows how to *exploit* open-source.The vast majority of their products are still proprietary and not human friendly. And I think this is getting worse.Let's not fall for the PR.
(DIR) Post #ANL4vJLCz2OTRBDhTc by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2022-09-07T08:11:45Z
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@ArneBab @humanetech Exactly that: "Use a copyleft-licensed project with outside contributors if you want the project to stay free."And as mentioned, the outside contributors must remain copyright holders of their contribution. So there should not be any transfer of the Copyright upon contribution.
(DIR) Post #ARjczDJtm9iZ89jU2a by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2023-01-13T22:03:35Z
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@satan @godpod You might get along better than you think.
(DIR) Post #ASDBZXc4pp7OWGZDYe by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2023-01-31T19:20:24Z
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Google was building Trumps 'wall' along the Mexican border.It's a virtual wall made from drones, sensors and surveillance towers.Did not know until recently.https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/google-cbp-border-contract-anduril/#google #dontfeedthegoogle
(DIR) Post #ASFRmgNKYL9K3SjYKe by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2023-02-01T20:23:39Z
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@rysiek https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage(there's a mirror on MS Github)"Garage is an S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at a small-to-medium scale.Garage is designed for storage clusters composed of nodes running at different physical locations, in order to easily provide a storage service that replicates data at these different locations and stays available even when some servers are unreachable. [...]"
(DIR) Post #ASwRKB7td1xmxH5gUC by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2023-02-22T15:19:02Z
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@marcel @Jain @adfichter @exception Wie @adfichter sehe ich oft wie Diskussionen rund um Überwachung abdriften zur Frage ob die Technologie denn gut genug dafür ist. Das hilft den Überwachern. Denn es lenkt von der grundlegenden Frage ab: "Wollen wir überhaupt überwacht werden?"Zumal kann Technik verbessert werden. Auch können Rohdaten oder Zwischenresultate langfristig gespeichert werden um eine nachträgliche Auswertung mit besseren Algorithmen zu erzielen.
(DIR) Post #AVJBBvERmoRT2guFQO by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2023-05-04T10:22:35Z
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@nitrokey @chrichri @biktorgj @martijnbraam DivestOS has some interesting summary about navigation systems including Qualcomm chips:https://divestos.org/misc/gnss.txt
(DIR) Post #AYr6U0Qla8TYpxzuiG by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2023-08-18T11:53:43Z
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@aral Is this a generally accepted meaning of 'startup'? I always thought the term refers to any type of new company, but have no clue.
(DIR) Post #AhDzWMd2Bg3CQtZIH2 by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2024-04-24T20:43:09Z
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@aral 😆
(DIR) Post #AhHg7S99EurljKR4j2 by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2024-04-26T15:24:37Z
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@aral "We have 40+ billions for the Chips Act but cant afford paying somebody a couple hundert Euros a year to run two servers for us."
(DIR) Post #B2nrkV6s9hUHmuatV2 by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-29T21:25:04Z
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#FOSDEM is funded by Google.Good night. Hope you can sleep.
(DIR) Post #B2nrkX5WnfbHvJyqgK by t0k@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-29T21:34:32Z
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@jzakotnik Well-spent money for their image indeed and a nice gift to the community who also has the option to challenge BigTech.I don't blame Google for doing that.