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Not actually the case. GPL’s “viral” nature depends on copyright prohibiting the use of the code you publish without agreeing to the GPL’s conditions. Without copyright you could take GPLed code and use it in a closed-source program without publishing your own version or licencing it under the GPL. Most copyleft licenses are like that, including stuff like the Creative Commons.

Ooh, they’re offering free database hosting? Put me in touch.

It’s been funny over the past year or two seeing threads in piracy forums where people were upset with AI trainers scraping pirated material to train their AI with. I’m curious where the general consensus will eventually land.

Open source generally depends quite heavily on copyright, though. None of the copyleft licenses work without it.

He was 88, a stiff breeze would have been as effective an assassination method.

Giving answers on that is exactly what this community is for.

Aha! You were the hacker known as “Four Chan”!

Canada and Mexico are part of North America and are not drifting away. The opposite.

Regardless of how you feel about it, you’ve now discovered something very important; your wife is the sort of person who would lie to you about something very important. I’d recommend contacting a lawyer to make sure that you’re ready to protect your interests just in case some kind of escalation happens. Her behaviour hasn’t changed now, while she thinks you don’t know, but who knows what could happen if she finds out you do?

I’m not saying you should do anything vindictive preemptively, just things like making sure the titles for your property are properly registered or your pension plan is fully in your name, that sort of thing.

I don’t know of any “men only” instances, the fact that it’s gender-specific is niche rather than the specific gender.

Google recently opened their ecosystem up to find-my-device tags like this, they’re available from providers like Chipolo. Last I heard they weren’t very good yet because despite there being tons of Android phones around for them to work with they’d put some restrictions on them that made them ping less frequently.

They’re also not GPS tags, they ping nearby Android phones via Bluetooth and the Android phones report their location to Google. But if you’re worried about a bag being stolen (as opposed to, for example, being located if you’re lost in the wilderness) then that might be enough.

Those aren’t exclusive or contradictory to each other.

Amazing Grace is always a good one. The story behind it helps with the impact, IMO; it was written by a former slave trader who had an epiphany and realized just how irredeemably evil he was, and was doing his best to turn it around.

I’m also a big enjoyer of Simple Gifts. It’s a Shaker song and I find it very soothing.

There was another comment in this thread about exactly that situation, a female police officer that noticed a creepy guy following her around during her patrol. But there’s lots of other potential negatives to having open immediate police comms, like criminals monitoring to see whether there are police around before doing whatever criminality they were planning on doing.

Same goal of body cameras, but we all see how that turned out.

Sounds like “we tried it once and it didn’t work, therefore we should never try again.” Instead, we should take into account how the body camera situation has failed and modify the approach to account for it.

Mandate that the buffer be operated by an independent body the police have no control over, for example.

One possible compromise that leaps to mind is to have the radios be encrypted, but they all feed into a several-hours-long buffer and get automatically decrypted and published after that delay. You wouldn’t be able to stalk police or whatever, but they wouldn’t be able to hide malfeasance or incompetence from the public.

It’s not perfect, there are still good transparency reasons for knowing what the police are doing right now, but it might be a good enough balance.

By which country’s standards?

I don’t consider it something to be “fixed.” I like that the Fediverse is fully decentralized, with no authority over who gets “in” and who doesn’t. Once you’ve got some kind of authority that can decide who’s allowed on which instances, with some kind of global registry of individual users that can exclude you if the wrong people don’t like you, we’re basically back to being Reddit with some fancy extra steps.

Sure, it risks allowing assholes to continue getting new accounts. But we already have a Reddit, I’d rather try something new even if that comes with downsides.

Reddit is able to do global IP bans. The Fediverse is not able to do that because there’s no “global”.

“Asshole” is a broad term. It includes racists, abrasive personalities, anger-management problems, and so forth. Ie, people who have a tendency to get banned from other places. It’s not just trolls.

Being banned from Reddit is a unitary action. They can’t get back into Reddit, they’re just gone. Whereas in the Fediverse you can just go to a different instance and sign up afresh each time you get banned. This is part of the Fediverse’s design. And so I am concerned that the Fediverse will accumulate the worst users.

One thing that has been concerning me lately is that the Fediverse is being treated as a refuge for people who get banned on Reddit or other social media. Sure, sometimes those bans are based on arbitrary power tripping nonsense. But people actually do get banned for being assholes, and so I’ve got some worry that this is distilling the population of the Fediverse in an unfortunate direction.