Notices by sjvn (sjvn@mastodon.social)

Henry #cat wants it to be understood that he'll be joining me for my first post-Helene business trip.

Tesla CyberTruck: Solving problems that aren’t problems since 2024. Yep, no question about it, Elon's worth every penny of his $56-billion pay package,

The sands have covered the ancient ruins of Ciscolan, but archaeologists are sure that it once carried many weighty packets of data.

I love Elle Cordova and her clever, funny videos. This one is for all my writer and editor friends.

@nixCraft I used to run that. I'm not sure I ever met anyone else who did, though.

Do you put your milk or serial in first?

Since both my laptop and smartphone were stolen, I'm working from the fridge today.

Odds are, I had Internet on my phone before you did.

Never buy a PC with a power button on top. N E V E R.

The cat printer ran out of toner!

@webmink @dirkhh @osi @lightweight @msw @larsmb

From where I sit, I see few people who believe that "open source" means "no copyleft." The exception, of course, is RMS and other 'free software" fanatics. Over the years, their "my way or the highway stance" has hurt FLOSS adoption. The reasons most people tend to avoid copyleft licenses are a "perception" that the license will somehow hurt their business, e.g. Google and AGPL or that it's somehow "messy."

@webmink @dirkhh @osi @lightweight @msw @larsmb Here's an example of the messiness factor: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-free-software-how-google-killed-gpl-annette-hurst/ IANAL, but from where I sit this was so, so wrong, but I still see this argument trotted out.

@msw @webmink Oh! Bionic! I hadn't thought about that in ages. I can't find my story about it, but Linus, back in the day, didn't think it was a big deal, and I'm inclined to agree with him. https://web.archive.org/web/20160113121530/http://www.itworld.com/article/2744480/open-source-tools/android--sued-by-microsoft--not-by-linux.html