Notices by Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social), page 2

There are licenses that won't work with either scheme, but I don't think any of them are widely considered "open source". At best they're called "source-available". Those projects should probably just be avoided.

Most "open source" teaserware schemes either use a permissive license or use a copyleft license and rely on copyright assignment to enable dual-licensing.

If they use a permissive license, just create an AGPL fork and encourage people to contribute there instead of upstream.

If they use a copyleft license that's not AGPL compatible, you don't need any license change, because contributions to your fork won't require copyright assignment.

The easiest to use 3d modeling software I can think of is SketchUp. But I'd prefer to have them use Free Software. The primary use case would be 3d printing, but just

All other things being equal, the two parties are still better off, but all other things are not equal, and that's the problem.

This failure to consider context is the fundamental error of libertarianism, and I want to make sure my kids learn it as early as possible.

So all this stuff about interference patterns and slits...

To make a hologram, you take a laser beam and split it, then illuminate the object you want to holograph with one beam and the film with the other beam and the reflected light on the object. The thing the film is recording is the interference pattern. Illuminate the developed film with the same wavelength laser and you see a 3d image of the original object.

People have warned against a big player setting up shop in the Fediverse and taking over, but it's already happened. That's what mastodon.social is. The fact that it's not yet owned by a surveillance capitalist company is irrelevant. Github wasn't either. They're just gonna buy Eugen.

"Edit" information? INSIDE the computer?

Don't.

'In its Maps API, Google has long offered a free or very cheap product, allowing it to achieve market dominance. Now it’s making a classic monopolistic move: Google announced last year that it’s raising its mapping prices significantly, leading developers across the web to freak out because Google Maps is “light years ahead of its competitors.”'

Dear developers: you made your bed. Now lie in it.

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-up-everything-1830565500

If IMAP weren't so lousy, we'd probably all still be using email.

DRM on USB-C is just an extension of attempts to change the business model of consumer electronics from ownership to rental. Planned obsolescence and locked down operating systems wasn't enough. Now they want to lock down the accessory ecosystem as well. And it all comes straight out of the consumer's pocket, because more power for vendors means less power for you.

It's almost 2019, and every application that wants to share stuff via "the cloud" must still implement support for each cloud provider separately, even though WebDAV has existed for over a decade.

In other words, "the cloud" is really just a lie told by people trying to trick you into handing over your precious files and locking yourself into their walled garden. If it ain't standards-based and interoperable, it's not "the" anything. It's "a" piece of shit.