Unfortunately newyork.style is taken
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I will be speaking at BSides SF in a couple of weeks! It will be about git, certificates, SSH, and, obviously, TPMs. bsidessf2026.sched.com/event/2E1g3/...
Right? In a universe where everyone could just create the software they wanted then and also explain how it worked, free software would be irrelevant because everyone has those freedoms regardless of the license
I'm concerned that we're fighting the old fights instead of pivoting to the new threats here
Mm ok so imposing copyright protection over an aggregate that includes uncopyrightable material
Yeah, it feels like the focus is on what the status of the model itself is instead of what its output is
Free software as a traditional movement arguing that copyright is an attack on freedom, and free software as a modern movement arguing that LLMs are stealing copylefted software and laundering it into something else
Simultaneously providing every other nation an incentive to develop nuclear weapons and an incentive to ensure nobody is aware that you are doing so until they are functional does not feel like an overall enhancement of stability
I have, for an absolutely bewildering array of reasons, been sleeping like shit for some time now, and every time that happens I (a) assert that I will nap later and it will all be ok and (b) fail to nap and then decide it will be ok anyway and it is ok! Do not accept defeat.
Can someone explain to me how www.gnu.org/philosophy/w... is incompatible with the idea that training LLMs on copyrighted free software is fine as long as the output isn't copyrightable?
Weird how quickly that changed
You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.
I feel like we shouldn't normalise a senator breaking the arm of someone who was clearly not presenting any form of danger to anyone?
A niche free software thing is whether or not it is acceptable to interact with proprietary blobs on an otherwise entirely free software system or whether you need to assert that they're immutable hardware, and I Have Opinions: www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...
I feel like that's a job for the duvet cover, not the duvet
Someone sell me a portable togmeter I am begging you
A thing nobody tells you about the USA is that there's no spec for how insulating a duvet is here, it's all just "Summer", "Winter", "All seasons" and this country spans a continent, winter in California is not winter in Maine, please give me something quantifiable I am begging you
Everything about the Noem private jets thing just gives me incredible Enemy at the Gates vibes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK4r...
The right are furious that a white, English tradesperson got elected.
Screenshot of text reading: "Speaking to journalists as he arrived at the count, Goodwin blamed his loss on “a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives” he said had “come together to dominate the constituency”. He accused the Green party of “playing sectarian politics,” in part by writing to constituents in Urdu: “This kind of campaign, in different languages appealing to specific groups based on their characteristics, is unacceptable in modern Britain”. Asked whether he was claiming the result was illegitimate, he did not respond as he was whisked away."
No, this is totally normal
I haven't been to 1806 since 2019, but have fond memories of it if you are minded for cocktails at any point
Jake showing up on the IETF lists
Ah good now we have a rapist showing up with TLS opinions
Non-hybrid PQC never being an IETF spec and also no other crypto being an IETF spec and now we're just giving our crypto primitives
djb managing to just destroy the IETF's credibility is likely not on anyone's bingo cards and yet this is a plausible outcome
A thing I think about a lot is an incident where a prominent academic behaved inappropriately at a conference, and the head of the operating organisation refused to take any action because it might hurt the perpetrator's academic career
Hallmark Christmas movie in which a big city mixologist returns to his small rural hometown and learns that true joy comes from pouring Coors Light
they call it open source davos, they call it the HOA of open source foundations
FOSS Nerds: We are announcing today an exciting project, the Hurtsume Nexus, an AGPL fork of the closed source Torment Nexus
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source