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@ rezad @lemmy.world

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  • My thoughts on GPL vs. permissive licenses

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  • I have the opposite opinion about this issue.

    MIT-like licenses allow corpos to take over a project and make it private step by step (kinda like boiling a frog), first create a "open source" fork and fund it to the max. then step by step make it not open source. after a while (could be years) there is no open source influence and most of the project is under the command of the corpo.

    the most recent one being android.

    I have come to the conclusion that people that use MIT-like licenses don't care at all about software freedom (which is kinda obvious if you read MIT license itself).

    so I try to contribute to projects that are immune to that by using copy-left licenses ,so called viral licenses that "limit" the ability of corpos to take over a project with the intention of making private or even create a private fork of it.

    you are corporation and want to contribute to a project to make it better? cool, so it would not matter to you if the license is MIT or GPL? right??? you don't want to do a sneaky fork and make it private, right? so you would have no issue with GPL.

    when free software devs recommend using MIT-like licenses I am reminded of the meme cartoon about sheep recommending befriending the wolf.

    It is almost like they learned nothing from software development trends of rent seeking private sector.

    the beauty of GPL-like is that I can be sure when I help it make better I am not helping a private entity later take it over and privatize it. I want to help humanity not help private sector make money with propriety software.

    when you make your license MIT-like you are not saying I am maximizing software freedom. you are saying I don't care what happens to this software.

  • Fish Shell 4.2 Released with Improved Autosuggestions

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  • export does not work

    works for me in fish.

  • UN Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president

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  • now they are good (western) terrorists. cool.

  • The Fight Inside Amnesty International over Its Hamas Report

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  • Ah yes. That Free press. Bari Weiss's TheFreePress

  • Drinking water in Tehran could run dry in two weeks, Iranian official says

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  • I cant disable showing of posts in undetermined languages.

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  • for the life of me I can't make it be unselected. try it for your self. from web page select setting and then de-select the undetermined and select a language (for example english) and then press save at the bottom. come back to setting page and see undetermined be selected again. the English or other languages you selected are saved correctly but for the life of me I cant disable undetermined.

    it pollutes my feed with german french and other languages that I don't understand.

  • Trump Rips Out Presidents’ Historic Trees for New Ballroom

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  • gross but accurate.

  • Beijing Is Powering Russia’s Drone War, NATO Says—80% of Critical Parts Made in China

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  • rookie numbers. 99.99% or go home.

  • How do I stop certain communities from showing up in my feed?

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  • a bit late to the party but I was is the same boat as you so here it goes:I have not found an option to hide them without blocking but if your issue is mainly languages that you don't speak, in lemmy setting you can select to show only stuff that are in languages you select.also you can deselect "undetermined" option for language to not get non-selected language for post that don't set their languages.

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    Real Sleep

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  • found the zionist.

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    Tennessee GOP Proposes Bill Eliminating Age Requirements for Marriage

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  • a lot of meme level stuff that is going around on the net about Islam or Muslims is just that, bullshit memes.

    and a lot of actual text that are part of islamic history kept by muslim scholars are just straight lies, which muslim scholar know that are false but keep them for record keeping. like a lot of hadiths from prophet are fabricated. for example after death of prophet some dude wanted to sell his onions and he paid a mullah (imam in mosque) some money to say that prophet said that whoever eats these kinds of onions get rewarded in afterlife. you know... fake news.

    I am a (not a great) muslim from iran. the first time I heard about supposed 72 virgins was a stand up comedy from late comedian/actor Robin Williams that made fun of it.

    and this marriage of mohammed to a small girl is not corroborate in any text that is not fake. for example in one text the girl sister age IS mentioned and then it is written that her sister (the girl) joined islam. but is she was 9 (not even 6 mentioned here) she should either not be born at that time or in her mothers womb.

    the Revayats (saying of companions of prophets) point to her being either 19 or 17.

    having said all of this, at that time marriage was done very early age (though Muhammad first wife was 40). for example one jewish tribe wanted to make a partnership with the muhammed so they send people over to offer a jewish woman for marriage. she was a widow so she was married before that event. twice. to jewish men. that jewish woman was 8 years old. mohammed didnt accept it.

    I read somewhere that in history of England you see the first written record for enforcement of marriage age as follow. marriage : 7 years old. inheritance from husband in case of his death: 11 ( I think)

    I don't remember where I read that.

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    Tennessee GOP Proposes Bill Eliminating Age Requirements for Marriage

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  • mohammed didn't marry a 6 year old. sorry to ruin your fantasy.

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • yea, a lot of open source projects are done by people that don't see the point of copyleft software.I think a lot of people just go with the 4 freedoms that RMS laid out. when I read devs' reasons to use non-copyleft license, it boils down to "I don't want to limit freedom of later devs even if those devs are gonna fork it and make it private". even when they say "I don't care" they mean the same.

    and they have the right to see it that way. my thinking is that humanity used to not have copyright at all. and the reason we are not living in caves is that knowledge mostly was spread (even when going from father to son only).

    so I think software needs to go that way as much as it can.I understand that developing software needs money and I even understand patents to an extent. but shit gone mad and patents are gone crazy. android is THE shining prime example of what happens even with a company that at least pretended not to go this way (that was naive to think they wouldn't)

    that's why I going to write any software I write (even though I am just starting programing) in the most copyleft license ever I find.maybe even more stalman than gpl3.

    btw is there any site that explains the practical diff between gpl2 and 3? not tldr but not in details either, just maybe explain case base what happens?

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • as I said in last post, I only see copyleft as a viable alternative. too many dev efforts forked and privatized. android should have been a warning. but many devs just think open source is enough. and they still think getting adapted by big corporation will not change the direction of projects.

    I am personally going in the direction of testing and helping only copyleft projects. so I skipped RedoxOS. even-though I like rust and new microkernel OSes.

    If I am going to give my time to a project (small as it is) I don't want it to end up like android.

  • China retaliates in response to Dutch seizure of Nexperia, blocking chipmaker's exports following takeover — 861,000 square foot assembly site in Gaungdong affected as trade war spirals

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  • "Many Western nations have mirrored this in turn" sure.... "china" started this and west "mirrored"

  • He supported the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Now he may be deported to the Taliban.

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  • snitches get stitches.

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • my hot take: while this is good for users in short term, in long term it just prolongs non-copyleft android OS hold for google.

    my only hope for grapheneos is that they pointed that they may move from android too.

  • Britain should be wary of BYD: From Thailand to Brazil, imports from China's EV producer have the familiar pattern of being followed by the destruction of domestic jobs

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  • can't compete, ha?

  • EOL Router Question/ OpenWRT

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  • some router have some features that are not in openwrt. like (hard) speed limits per device and some other management apps. they are not magic apps married to hardware and if someone wanted he is free too create them in openwrt himself.

    but if you don't need any of those niche apps(features) then going to openwrt (if your device is officially supported) makes a lot of sense.

    if you use premade images from openwrt (I make images with their image builder) there is not much of learning curse besides some jargon (sysupdate, binray, repo).

    in last years I used openwrt and then added the apps that I usually install on it after an upgraede and just make an image and upload that to device. but that is in the future and is not noob way to do it (it is not hard but it is not just click-and-done)

    one of the reason that I went that way was because the default image didn't include webui (you heard that right) because of size constraints and wifi was disabled by default (for security so that user had to enable it and add custom password).

    now those steps are included in official image.