Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

@freemo @Counsel I was just reminded of a couple of Martin Luther King Jr. quotes which apply very well to this.

First, on terminology:

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.
-- Speech to the Negro American Labor Council (May 1965), as quoted in From Civil Rights to Human Rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice (2009), by Thomas F. Jackson, p. 230

The second, more fitting one is, unfortunately, from sources not available online, so the closest I can get to a proper citation is as follows:

In demanding jobs and income, therefore, "we are going to demand what is ours." Lest anyone object that this amounted to "welfare" or "socialism," King pointed to the enormous sums which the government pumped into agriculture and industry. "When it's given to white people it's called a subsidy. Everybody in this country is on welfare. Suburbia was built on federally-subsidized credits. And the highways were built by federally-subsidized firms to the tune of ninety per cent." America already had "socialism for the rich" he insisted; only the poor had to endure "rugged, free enterprise capitalism."

-- To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference By Adam Fairclough p. 360-361

(It's the likely origin of the popular paraphrases "We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor." and "This country has socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.")

@alexbuzzbee Yeah. It's sort of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance situation.

...I think they also did the same trick as Creative Commons and trademarked "GNU GPL" so they can withhold permission to use it to describe anything other than their version.

@alexbuzzbee Because, otherwise, someone could remove the prohibition on adding additional restrictions, call that GPL, and put their offering under it.

(For GPLv2, clauses 6 and 7 become unsatisfiable if you add additional requirements on top of it. For GPLv3, Section 7 explicitly grants you permission to ignore any additional restrictions applied on top of it outside a whitelist of things like prohibiting misrepresentation or declining to grant trademark use rights.)

@alexbuzzbee It's missing a lot. Various jursidictions have consumer protections and legal obligations which aren't disclaimed by terms like "everything" unless you enumerate them.

That's why there's that big chunk of boldface text at the bottom of even short licenses like https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause

(And, even then, 2-clause BSD isn't ideal because it's US-centric enough to be questionable about whether it protects the developer from certain obligations present in the EU but not the US)

@tomosaigon @claudiom If you mean these, they offer a new license which overrules the old one and allows you to set a snapshot (recommended) and reset the trial period all you want, but you're only allowed to use them for testing things.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

@brown121407@fosstodon.org You could do as I do. Get pissed off at pieces not working the way you want, rip them out, and replace them with improvised shell scripts.

http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2017/08/24/homebrew-update-notifier-update/

(TL;DR: When I upgraded to *buntu 14.04, I got pissed off that the update notifier no longer had an option to turn off the "reboot to update your kernel" nags, so I ripped it out and replaced it with something homemade. In 2017, I rewrote it in Python for nicer UX.)

@vordenken @skunksarebetter I'm not sure what the Linux-based stuff is doing these days, but ESP32 microcontrollers (which do have OTA updates and a partitionable filesystem on top of their Flash) require you to partition two app partitions and OTA is done by downloading into the spare one, verifying, and then flipping the bit which indicates which one to boot.

Further ideas for when I'm feeling like working on it again:

1. Write a custom web remote for my existing Audacious Media Player setup and install https://github.com/masmu/pulseaudio-dlna

(audman exists, but appears to intentionally make design decisions I don't like.)

2. Write a Firefox extension and helper daemon to expose open YouTube tabs to DNLA for on-the-fly youtube-dl-ing and playback.

3. Combine all three prior options into a really polished web remote to supplant my use of Yaacc.

I finally did phase 1 of putting proper entertainment in front of the exercise machines:

1. Install https://www.gnu.org/software/gmediaserver/ on my PC and wrap a shell alias around `gmediaserver -p <PORT> --profile=ps3 <FOLDER>` on my PC.

2. `ufw allow <PORT>` on my PC

3. `Settings → Services → UPnP → Allow control of Kodi via UPnP` on my https://openelec.tv/ box.

4. Install these two packages onto an old phone for a remote:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.yaacc/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.xbmc.kore/

@VikingKong@fosstodon.org @hund@linuxrocks.online Just making sure that we're on the same page.

Beyond that, I'm in no position to influence policy, so I try not to get emotionally involved in decisions I can't affect. It just stresses you out.

@skunksarebetter Generally negative. This has cropped up under various whitewashes over the decades since open-source became a thing ("Open Core" is the one I remember most clearly).

The #1 thing that never changes is that it presents an economic incentive to cripple the open-source version.

An example of a healthier model would be "free for self-hosting, subsidized by the vendor's cloud-hosted offering".

@VikingKong@fosstodon.org @hund@linuxrocks.online You called it a movement. That inaccuracy made me question how much you knew about it.

Also, the number of deaths isn't the whole story. There's also the people who recover, but with permanently diminished lung capacity.

@lupyuen Reminds me of how the Confederacy was key in making Egypt a supplier of cotton by trying to strong-arm Britain into joining their side of the U.S. civil war.

If you squeeze off trade patterns with people, they'll establish alternatives and, once set up, those alternatives stay.

@crackurbones The synopsis sounds interesting but, for stuff on livescience.com, I only see the article for a second before I get dumped into 404ed page that reloads once every second or so.

...I'm assuming they never tested their site under the influence of tools like NoScript or uMatrix.

@floppy My first impression was that it's built on the same Dash docsets that https://zealdocs.org/ uses but it looks like they wrote their own scraper.

(Dash is a paid offline documentation browser for macOS and its creator allows Zeal (an open-source clone for Windows and Linux) to piggyback on Dash's docset repository on the condition that Zeal not try to support macOS.)

@vordenken I'm preparing to rethink things but, currently:

1. Mirror non-blacklisted stuff in my /home to my four other drives (one external, only two of the same age and model) nightly using rdiff-backup with a two-week retention window

2. Mirror all of four drives to the fifth (a 6TB WD Red) nightly using rsync (rdiff-backup can't expire just some large files early)

3. Put my creations on GitHub (public) or BitBucket (private) ASAP

4. Manual DVD+R backups (with dvdisaster) for bulk stuff

@VikingKong@fosstodon.org @hund@linuxrocks.online It's not a movement.

The idea is that a lot of people are going to get infected either way but, if it happens too quickly, it will overwhelm the healthcare system's ability to keep up with demand and doctors will have to choose who lives and who dies when there isn't enough to go around.

Spreading it out over a longer period of time allows:

1. Hospitals to scale up by doing things like acquiring more ventilators.

2. Some people to recover (or die despite doctors' efforts) and free up space for new arrivals

There's an old verbal joke that goes "Perl is like a pair of vice grips. You can do anything with it, and it's the wrong tool for every job."

A family member just asked if we have any vice grips. I asked what size. He said "small".

Without thinking, I responded "Yeah. There's a pair hanging off my desk with a tag on them that says 'Perl'".

@david @dropdan Unfortunately, the DOS/Win311 side of the dual-boot is currently non-functional but I haven't had time to pull out the SD card and figure out what's fouled up the boot process.