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Does someone know a lawyer that understand the difference between and ( vs permissive licenses)? I need to help an AGPL project that is being fooled by Google employees to switch to a permissive license when it's not really needed.

Reshare welcome. It's OK to DM me and I will make a contact with the devs. Thanks @aral and whoever helps.

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Doc Norton

Your culture is shaped more by the toxic behavior you tolerate than by the healthy behavior you espouse.

#leadership

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@stefan

I hope this will turn into a more general lesson of not depending on proprietary closed-source silos.

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Does someone know a lawyer that understand the difference between and ( vs permissive licenses)? I need to help an AGPL project that is being fooled by Google employees to switch to a permissive license when it's not really needed.

Reshare welcome. It's OK to DM me and I will make a contact with the devs. Thanks @aral and whoever helps.

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@gruber @jeromechoo

@Gargron said they are thinking to introduce quotes in Mastodon but the feature has been there for a while in some instances and backward compatible as I said. This is how people solved it in the spirit of this ecosystem.

So it doesn't justify clogging servers with images (you can use text + links instead) and moreover without captions, which is an accessibility feature deemed important on Mastodon.

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@EpiphanicSynchronicity

I wouldn't call being closed-source an ideological red line, it has pretty practical consequences:

1. You can't check Obsidian code to fix something by yourself
2. You can't modify Obsidian code to meet your needs
3. If the company behind Obsidian disappears or the development takes a direction some users don't like there is nothing they can do about that

Instead Logseq is distributed with a license i.e. "all rights *reversed*": you can read, study, modify and redistribute Logseq code and no one can lock it behind a proprietary service and sell it. Free Software and Copyleft are meant to turn software into heritage of humanity forever.

And I don't think anyone would call Wikipedia "ideological" so what's so ideological about people being in control of their *Personal* Knowledge Management systems?

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@jeromechoo @gruber

Oh no, don't tell me this is an app that turns a toot into an image to post it and call it a "retoot" because the main branch of Mastodon doesn't support quotes...

Images take much more space than text and it seems it doesn't even add the caption...

Please no, use an instance that support quotes if you need them (they would appear as a normal toot with a link to the quoted one).

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@gizmo

Sorry to hear that. I don't remember if I mentioned it but just in case: be aware that Obsidian is closed source proprietary software. If the company disappears or takes the project to a direction some users don't like there is nothing they can do.

Instead since is (and ) the community is free to improve it independently from the company and even if no one will care about it, if you need a feature or a bug fix and have no programming skill you can always pay someone to develop the code for you. This would be impossible with Obsidian.

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Raptor :gamedev:

@foonathan I remember when java came out and people talked about how it was better in every way and it would replace both c and c++ within a few years. Then this same conversation about D, go, rust, etc, etc

I think what we see now will just continue, lots of the higher level "glue" code for stuff like the gui/etc will continue moving to various other languages while C/C++ will continue to be used for shared libraries/system/renderer cores/etc, the newer languages change too often for these

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Jonathan Müller

I've been reading "C++ has become a legacy language" a lot recently; I'm curious what you think.

Has or will C++ become a legacy language in the near future? For this poll, "legacy language" means a language that is mostly driven by inertia and enthusiasts and does not or should not be used for new projects.

Please boost for reach.

#cpp #cplusplus #rust #safety

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@philandstuff

Google Docs at 🤷‍♂️

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@yarmo @aral @laura

I'm a bit skeptik on non-commercial as an intrinsic feature: it sounds like ideologically turning against market economy as a whole, even at a small scale.

With a legal analogy, it would be like rejecting the licenses that protect you as just because the norm is Copyright (I think we all agree that laws are meant to limit power, even though they are currently used to protect it unfortunately).

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ricardo :mastodon:

#KDE's Screenshot Tool Can Now Capture Screen Recordings :kdenew:
omglinux.com/kde-spectacle-add

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Alex 🇮🇹 💛 🇷🇺

@ednico

Thank you for the summary, without it it would be impossible to keep up with all the stuff.

But have you heard #Logseq wants to move away from AGPL licence? But what worries the most is that they are doing it without understanding it and perhaps manipulated by Google employees:

discuss.logseq.com/t/on-the-ag

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Ed Nico

Hi Everyone, #Logseq Times for this week has been released.

logseqtimes.com/logseqtimes-20

This week we will look at the new website, Logseq Updates update, workflows and what it is like contributing to Logseq.

Thanks for reading

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@Oceane@social.coop

Do you have a link at hand?

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

@admitsWrongIfProven the issue you are talking about though isnt "bad people being seen causes bad people"... what you are describing is engineering the information in its totality or near totality. Controlling the narrative, preventing the ability to get accurate information. Thats a different problem but we agree is problematic.

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

@admitsWrongIfProven You havent actually made the case that being exposed to ideas can do harm. Your example is a bad idea, sure, but you havent made the case that it was exposure to the idea that is the cause rather than the predisposition of the people to draw such conclusions on their own. It is very likely such ideas would largely have developed independently of exposure.

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

The idea that bad people having a voice on social media causes other people to become bad people (often the argument as to why we must defederate from bad servers) is equivalent to:

Thinking violent video games cause people to become violent.

Thinking explicit song lyrics cause people to become criminals

Allowing people to be openly homosexual will cause others to become homosexual

Banning books

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nilesh

Why did nobody tell me this about category theory?

#mathematics #physics #categorytheory

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