[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago

More than just "being an asshole"

Yeah, might be true, their discord is a toxic cesspool. And yes, there was that case of the power tripping transphobic mod. But c'mon, "nazi"... If anything, it weakens the nazi tag of a literal nazi.

Not sure if you are aware, but hyprland even has a code of conduct now (check on github) due to those events. It could be argued that it is a bit lax or not as enforced as we would want, but it is a step in the correct direction. Compare that to DHH who seems to be on a straight downward trend with no signs of stopping...

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You keep linking this URL without any context or explanation, could you please point me to what you are trying to say? All I see is an asshole dev with a toxic discord being a crybaby, not a nazi like in the case of Omarchy...

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

I read through all the comments here, and at time of writing I kind of don't like that Hyprland and Omarchy are both labelled as nazi software... It is mentioned in multiple comments that being an asshole developer is not the same as being a nazi, yet people still call Hyprland "nazi software". Why? Vaxry is an asshole, but according to this nazi<->asshole categorisation, I don't find it accurate that people here (with many likes on each such comment) rightfully call Omarchy nazi software and give examples why that is true, and then just casually attach Hyprland into the nazi category because... (???) the dev is an asshole?

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago

I think there is quite a wide political spectrum finding your comment distasteful way before we arrive at tankie territory...

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think you misunderstand the CCP part a bit. This guy used to be a minister of foreign affairs, so he had access to critical, secret information from inner circles of the EU. His boss is now Wang Chuanfu, a member of the CCP. Even if you contest the fact of this having any strategical consequences for the EU, I hope we all agree that this pairing is at minimum: awkward :)

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Great! Now put all the pieces together :)

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

You had to scroll through a lot on your linked site to get to the part that you copied... It is not a service, it is more of a donation. Hence the name "Patron" I assume.

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have to be honest, reading this article gave me a bit of a bad mouth taste, but let's see if someone here in the comments sees it otherwise. We anthropomorphise so many things as part of language; not because we think they are human, but simply because it eases the use of language. When I say that a vending machine gave me an error code, I don't literally mean that it handed something to me... Critisizing "AI" as a piece of terminology is not critisizing AI, it is critisizing natural language. Changing language around "probabilistic automation" (the proposed terminology to replace "AI") will not change anything about the moral, ecologic and legal problems that people in this lemmy channel take issue with.

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't really categorise it as a fuckup. These are unofficial packages from the AUR. You should trust them as much as random install scripts from a no-name website or git repo.

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Copyleft in the EU (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by KexPilot@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Hello!

As some of you might be aware, copyright law and precendence in the EU show a bit of a difference in the FOSS license landscape compared to for example the US. Particularly, I am talking about linking in the context of derivative work. I tried to do some research here, but I didn't manage to find any conclusive articles or discussions on the matter.

As both dynamic and static linking in the EU is generally considered as a question of interoperability rather than derivative work, linking-wise virality of licenses like GPL are basically void over here. The EUPL license (my license of choice) as per my understanding even explicitly claims that "derivative work" is a definition out of scope of the license text due to this. I today read about additional possible AGPL violations uncovered from BambuLab regarding not opensourcing a .so library that the software uses. This made me wonder: what stops someone from taking a copyleft project in the EU, and adding all their heavy modifications basically as callouts to a proprietary dynamic library? Do I only have to publish the modified source full of single line callouts, without the library source?

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It might be not this simple in case of notification providers, the notifications are somehow sent in the name of the app I guess. And don't forget: in general, this principle is true for most of your apps that send notifications. I.e. if you are getting Signal or Facebook notifications, it uses the same principle.

Btw, google is not the only notification service for android. Check up on Unified Push, there are many alternatives to do this, and there are some apps that support these alternatives in their non-play-store builds.

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In general, notifications on Android don't go through apps, that would require apps to run all the time and consume too much battery. They instead are going through a notification provider (google in the default case). This is why your notifications arrive, but you have no other connections to your HA.

Edit for clarification: HA uploads it to google servers (which of course doesn't need port forwarding) and your phone then polls them from google.

[-] KexPilot@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's my turn to do the obligatory mention of SourceHut :)

It is in alpha, but it is really promising. It is going all-in on email based git workflows (which was the original way of doing it before the github-style PR based workflow). I love the style and it's minimalism - but don't let that fool you, it has many features that you might not see at first glance. Imagine if cgit or gitweb was extended into a software forge with built-in support for email patches, mailing lists, issue tracking and CI.

If you are the type of person who attracts garbage issue tickets and often has to reject low-effort PRs on your projects, it forces a really good minimum entrance bar. Of course this comes at the cost of visibility of your projects, less networking effect, so I would suggest to not use it if you want easy visibility and 3rd party contribution on your projects.

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