Notices by Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)

Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 11:35:04 UTC Patrick Georgi

Only saw that now, might be very old news, nevertheless:

That open source privacy champion "Signal" asks for legal information (name, address, phone number, email address) before you get to contribute: https://signal.org/cla/

(It also requires a copyright license covering all their uses of your code under an "OSI-approved open source license", so the terms of the GPLv3 apply for you but not for them.)
In conversation Saturday, 03-Dec-2022 11:35:04 UTC from georgi.family permalink
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1. Contributor License Agreement
  
  from @signalapp
  
  In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with Contributions from any person to us (Signal Messenger), Signal Messenger must have a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) on file that has been signed by each Contributor, indicating agreement to the license terms below.
Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 14:04:56 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
@codewiz Is that the Snooping Security Super Special?

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 11:21:30 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
@codewiz Even moving to git, they wouldn't have moved to GitHub (or GNU would have lost all meaning) and that's what the current generation is interested in. There's a big reluctance to go for other git hosts or other workflows: As coreboot admin I hear that rather often (we use Gerrit)

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 10:47:31 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
- MarvinFreeman
@codewiz @MarvinFreeman They probably own the place (and probably for generations), at least that's how the tiny shops in my area can survive.

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Sunday, 30-Oct-2022 23:34:29 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
In 30 years: "A rapidly spreading invasive species endangers what is left of the LA ecosystem. Historical records show that some '@codewiz@mstdn.io' may have brought it in." 🤪

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Sunday, 04-Sep-2022 22:27:55 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
@codewiz Those Nest things are supposed to be "smart" so they might not only have temperature curves (to figure out how the building heats and cools) but also behavioral/location data of you to make guesses when to pre-heat so the home is comfy right when you get there?

But since you're downloading the data, you could take a look ;-)

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Monday, 29-Aug-2022 16:40:09 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Elias Mårtenson
- Bernie
@loke It's over two years old so maybe he already fixed it. It just supports @codewiz's claim that XEmacs has no advocates anymore when even jwz went to GNU Emacs.

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Monday, 29-Aug-2022 16:38:49 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Elias Mårtenson
- Bernie
@codewiz @loke Not even jwz: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/very-much-do-not-have-my-emacs-setup-just-how-i-like-it/
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1. Very much do not have my Emacs setup just how I like it
  
  from @jwz
  
  Dear Lazyweb, subset Emacs people: Since I finally had to switch to RMSmacs, I find the behavior of display-buffer both incomprehensible and intolerable. It doesn't match my decades of muscle memory. I have tried tweaking the contents of display-buffer-fallback-action and various other things and still can't tell what the fuck it thinks it is doing. I can't characterize exactly what it's ...
Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Wednesday, 04-May-2022 06:20:00 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
- Dashtop
@codewiz @Dashtop Webbrowsers that don't automatically promote to https? Linux users probably have a lower chrome market share, for example.
This should change though: Firefox 100 just enabled https by default in various situations.

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 19:57:16 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
- cos
@codewiz @cos Once stuff is on archive.org, it can be streamed via webtorrent. For example, enter https://www-dweb-cors.dev.archive.org/download/NesSuperMarioBroswarpedIn0457.31ByHappylee/NesSuperMarioBroswarpedIn0457.31ByHappylee_archive.torrent on https://btorrent.xyz/view and see the (not quite optimal) presentation of a Mario Brothers speed run hosted on the archive.

I wonder if PeerTube (which is also using webtorrent) could make use of that, presenting videos that are backed by archive.org webtorrents only, only taking care of the fediverse side of things.

But PT also does transcoding for different bitrates - I guess that would be missing, but other than that, archive.org would be the instance providing unlimited quota ;-)
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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 07:39:57 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
- cos
@codewiz @cos Everybody can upload whatever they want to the archive, so that problem already exists in a way. Of course, a PeerTube instance might make it too easy and lead to capacity issues that way...

Still, the original poster could just upload them to archive.org, and present them there, but that's just as centralized as YouTube (but with different management), but at least it has a torrent backend already. I asked if they'd consider that, or if they'd mind somebody else doing it for them.

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 06:38:35 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
- cos
@codewiz @cos I wonder what it takes to add archive.org as webseed for peertube

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Monday, 14-Feb-2022 00:37:17 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
@codewiz It's a replica. I think Stefan is still working on getting "fastest" to work again.

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Sunday, 13-Feb-2022 10:53:13 UTC Patrick Georgi

For the #Amiga fans: https://nitter.poast.org/stefanreinauer/status/1492699464729079812
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  https://twitter.com/StefanReinauer/status/1492699464729079812
  
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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Saturday, 05-Feb-2022 20:24:40 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
@codewiz AMD being AMD, again :-/

There are a few non-Chromebook projects out there, I suppose they have their own "give us the FSP" contracts in place.

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Saturday, 05-Feb-2022 20:18:27 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
@codewiz You need both. The coreboot side is covered now due to Chrome OS firmware supporting it (same as with Intel post-Sandy Bridge) - but if the first impulse of any device vendor is to go for Intel because it's easier to crank out devices with them, even "highly visible" stuff like coreboot (only highly visible in certain bubbles in my experience) doesn't help.

As for AMD contributing more: https://review.coreboot.org/61045 (following https://review.coreboot.org/58190) indicates that they've been looking for a coreboot developer for half a year... (those are editing https://coreboot.org/jobs.html btw)
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  https://review.coreboot.org/c/homepage/+/61045/
  
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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 22:28:27 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
- ▁jayrope
- Nanook
@jayrope @codewiz @nanook Bandcamp seems to be incorporated in Oakland, CA, USA.

What makes you send your visitors to that service (same "IP address is being transferred by default" situation as with Google Fonts, and obviously Bandcamp is tracking users or they wouldn't add telemetry service code to their widget) without getting consent first?

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 22:28:26 UTC Patrick Georgi
- Bernie
- ▁jayrope
- Nanook
@jayrope @codewiz @nanook
Popularity and a good deal explain why you use the service, sure. It doesn't explain why you're embedding it into your own site (which makes it your responsibility) without first asking for consent for the data transfer.

(I can confirm that facebook isn't part of your embeddings. Must have mixed up the two links, sorry.)

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 22:27:06 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
- ▁jayrope
- Nanook
@codewiz @jayrope @nanook As already argued in that thread, CDNs typically provide data processing agreements in which they agree to abide by GDPR rules. As soon as it's a paid service, expect such an agreement to be part of the paperwork.

There's some uncertainty about US companies being able to give such guarantees given that US feds consider non-US-resident non-US-citizens to be fair game with no legal recourse, why is how the US/EU Privacy Shield was shot down, but I didn't see the court discuss that situation because there is no Google Fonts data processing agreement and so the defense didn't bring up the matter.

There _are_ tons of services that are non-compliant and are flying under the radar (unlike Google Fonts which simply by being Google, has a huge target on the back, but CDNs are the wrong place to look for examples simply because they work under contracts.

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Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 22:27:03 UTC Patrick Georgi
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- Bernie
- ▁jayrope
- Nanook
@jayrope @codewiz @nanook
Your profile links to bandcamp sites which import the facebook SDK (e.g. on https://jayrope.bandcamp.com/releases) by loading it from connect.facebook.net.

https://www.jayrope.com/music/ at some point tries to load some google analytics bits, through the embedded bandcamp players, probably. (I don't know where bandcamp is located so no idea if embedding them is by itself a problem or not)

No consent dialog anywhere to be seen, and the notion of "Learn, how to deal with that yourself." as found on your imprint page was quite specifically shot down by that court when they remarked that visitors can't be expected to "encrypt their IP addresses" (they probably meant using a VPN?)

So, good luck, but I don't see how you "serve faster & more efficiently locally" when you don't seem to serve locally in the first place.
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  Expert for nothing. Jayrope is a composer from Berlin.

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