zirconic @zirconic@mastodon.bida.im

Teen’s driving killed someone, but he can’t be forced to give up passcode https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/court-teens-driving-killed-someone-but-he-cant-be-forced-to-give-up-passcode/ #apple gives them back doors anyway, they'll figure it out

in the future banksy makes artgames and sells one that uninstalls itself and deletes its own install files as soon as the buyer installs it

RT @mattruffoni@twitter.com: h5p il sostituto di qualsiasi software autore per lavagna: un esempio
https://h5p.org/node/336729?feed_me=nps

ed è libero!!!!! https://h5p.org/node/336729?feed_me=nps

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mattruffoni/status/1057202130682068992

Burn Some Time with this Arduino Reddit Browser https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/burn-some-time-with-this-arduino-reddit-browser/
#internethacks #3Dprintedcase #arduino

Replacing a #marketing stunt with #gnu #linux would work for #ibm only if it quits its #patent aggression, otherwise #freesw people will distrust this bully still https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/forget-watson-the-red-hat-acquisition-may-be-the-thing-that-saves-ibm/

Why computers aren't for normal people, #10334:

Me: apt upgrade

Computer: OK upgrade, upgrade!

Computer: (stops working)

Me: Hmm. Why are you doing nothing, computer?

Computer: (no reply)

Me: <presses enter>

Computer: Upgrade, upgrade, done!

InspiroBot™ exists to serve mankind.

Mortola Inferiore, Frazione di Ventimiglia (IM) - un tratto dell'antica Iulia Augusta

Dolceacqua (IM) - una vista sulla Val Nervia da Località Rouchin

"In Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Hawking’s final thoughts on the universe, the physicist suggested wealthy people would soon be able to choose to edit genetic makeup to create superhumans with enhanced memory, disease resistance, intelligence and longevity."

Not if we guillotine them first!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/14/stephen-hawking-predicted-new-race-of-superhumans-essays-reveal

"Torvalds’ insults, which numbered in the thousands during a four year period. According to Squire’s analysis, most of this abusive language wasn’t gendered." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw43kj/what-happens-if-linux-developers-remove-their-code

« On a national scale, NotPetya was eating Ukraine’s computers alive. It would hit at least four hospitals in Kiev alone, six power companies, two airports, more than 22 Ukrainian banks, ATMs and card payment systems in retailers and transport, and practically every federal agency. “The government was dead,” summarizes Ukrainian minister of infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan. »
https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/

Another thing we don't discuss when it comes to licensing really is the ongoing threat of WSL.

Microsoft very clearly want to reinvent the Linux environment as something running on Windows, instead of an OS in it's own right.

The Commons Clause and AGPL are meant to prevent exploitation of FOSS in the cloud, but we need a license that stops Microsoft capitalizing on our work to advance their own agenda of reinventing the FOSS environment as something running on Windows.

For example, lets look at this Alpine Linux bug.

Quoting that bug:

To make this topic somewhat more urgent, I’ve received a mail from my contact at Microsoft asking for permission to publicly announce it at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando on September 28th.

This means Microsoft want to announce that Alpine is now on the Windows Store.

Why would Microsoft care that one of the fastest growing distributions is now on Windows?

Because it helps them to advance the message and vision that Linux is now an “app” you download from the “Windows Store,” and run on Windows. The actual Linux OS itself no longer matters, Microsoft will provide that part for you.

Needless to say, I commented on that bug very strongly voicing my non-support, which will probably kill it since it’s somebody on core saying no.

But we need to do better, we need to design a license that allows us to fight back. WSL is the threat we face today, and it’s the one we need to deal with now.

The clock is ticking.

"desktop effects might be making their way BACK to the Ubuntu desktop, all thanks to a new project by a former Compiz developer." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/09/wobbly-windows-new-libanimation-linux-library

@bluberrycookie Geniale. Specialmente con immagini degli stati uniti come sottofondo