neptune22222

neptune22222, 2 months ago to foss

MongoDB's SSPL (Server Side Public License) sounds like an extremely strong copyleft form of free software license. It sounds like MongoDB took the AGPL and made it much stronger.

Respected "open source" groups have rejected MongoDB's copyleft open source free software license, such as the OSI, RedHat, and Debian.

The criticism of the SSPL do not seem to recognize that it is a copyleft free software license. Is the OSI really a protector of copyleft free software? The politics of these organizations seem to leaning anarcho-capitalist "libertarian".

I don't believe the SSPL will harm any specific field of endeavor. Databases are used in all fields of endeavor. They are usually one of many provided cloud computing services. Cloud computing services are used in most every field of endeavor these days. Even my toothbrush has a cloud database.

By rejecting the SSPL, the OSI, RedHat, Debian have appeared to have ignored the copyleft freedoms that the SSPL guarantees.

#foss #freesoftware #libresoftware #floss #copyleft #agpl #sspl #mongodb #capitalism #owners #cloudservices #redhat #debian #osi

aral, 3 months ago to Israel

Israel—a terrorist state committing genocide in Palestine backed by the US, Canada, and the UK—has just destroyed the office building of the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation in Gaza as retaliation a day after Belgium announced it would continue to fund the vital humanitarian work of UNRWA.

Belgium is a member of the EU and NATO.

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/111859218913958892

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/belgium-to-summon-israeli-envoy-after-its-development-agency-in-gaza-completely-destroyed/

#israel #gaza #palestine #genocide #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #enabel #belgium #eu #nato #unrwa #un

neptune22222, 4 months ago to OMEGA

Just received my new gift to myself, a bmx bike.

I finished putting it together this morning and rode circles in a parking lot for ~1 hour today.

I am so out of shape, but I love the wind in my hair.

https://www.flybikes.com/product/fly-omega-bmx-bike

#bmx #omega #flybikes #flatlander

jerry, 6 months ago to random

To those people celebrating a year on the fediverse, I’m glad you’re here and I’m honored to be part of this community we’ve built together.

It’s someone saying “I’m glad you’re here”

neptune22222, 6 months ago to business

Enjoyed this video on the benefits of worker-owned cooperative business structures.

https://youtu.be/yZHYiz60R5Q

It makes a good point that democracy for workers doesn't solve the problems of the unemployed, but it is still an important step to gain democracy for workers.

#democracy
#workerowned #cooperative #business #employed #unemployed

neptune22222, 8 months ago to Humor

Really enjoyed this short video by comedian Trae Crowder wishing for more white trash representation in congress, lamenting the failures of congresswoman Boebert to represent her underrepresented southern US white trash people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIcqkzVN6Dw

#traecrowder #whitetrash #underrepresented #southern #comedy #humor

neptune22222, 8 months ago to opensource

Open source artificial pancreas software has gotten FDA approval! And open source hardware solutions are coming!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02648-9

#opensource #fda #diabetes #t1d #foss #fosh

neptune22222, 10 months ago to generativeAI

@fsf Where can I read about the legal licensing and copyleft issues surrounding generative AI algorithms like LLMs (Large Language Models) like Chat-GPT or Copilot, trained on GPL'd source code?

I wonder if there is a need for a new license that explicitly makes training generative AI on open source code requires the AI model to be open sourced?

Does the FSF have any written opinions or educational materials related to this topic of the relationship between copyleft and generative AI trained on copyleft source code?

#gpl #copyleft #generativeai #chatgpt #copilot #foss #floss #libresoftware #freesoftware

neptune22222, 10 months ago to opensource

Are there software licenses out there that guarantee to the user the ability to receive updates and improvements to a piece of open source software?

I don't know of any license other than the GPL that provides this guarantee to the user.

I know that I'm more motivated to learn a new tool when it is protected by the GPL because of this guarantee that future versions will also be open source.

When I license my own software, I choose the Affero GPLv3 because it provides this extra guarantee to the users, even if the software serving the user is on a webserver.

#foss #fosh #floss #flosh #freesoftware #libresoftware #opensource #proprietary #userrights #users #userfreedom #affero #afferogpl #gplv3 #afferogplv3 #gpl

Free_Press, 11 months ago to climate

Forest decline surges despite climate action vows to end it

Tropical forests destroyed last year released 2.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, equivalent to the fossil fuel emissions of India – the world’s most populous nation.
#climate #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #climatechange #news

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/27/forest-decline-surges-despite-climate-action-vows-to-end-it

neptune22222, 11 months ago to programming

#introduction

I fight for the users.

I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.

I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free and open source software.

I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.

I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.

I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.

I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.

I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.

I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.

I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.

I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).

I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.

I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.

I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.

I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.

Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we named Tyoma.

I'm currently working at Apple on the Vision Pro headset team.

#users #fightforusers #userrights #programming #thinking #thinkingaboutthinking #ai #artificialintelligence #neuroscience #journalism #science #scientificprocess #peerreview #foss #fosh #flosh #floss #freeandopensource #freedomsoftware #libresoftware #ls #academia #privacy #security #democracy #internet #socialnetwork #distributed #cnc #3dprinting #locallabor #localmanufacturing #coop #workerowned #democracyatwork #regulation #laws #money #corporations #government #socialagreement #boycott #controlcapital #nonviolent #plantbased #vegan #climatecrisis #animalindustry #animalcruelty #extinction #animal #plant #ecosystem #environment #retinituspigmentosa #rp #agerelatedmaculardegeneration #amd #bci #games #computergames #ageofempires #rimworld #gamedev #music #bassguitar #rageagainstthemachine #enya #religion #reading #books #readingbooks #buddhism #baby #apple #visionpro

ben, 11 months ago to random

“BUT WE DON’T WANT TO GO VIRAL. WE JUST WANT THE BASICS: TO MAKE WORK WE’RE PROUD OF WITH PEOPLE WE RESPECT AND WHO RESPECT US THAT’S TRUE TO OUR INTENTIONS AND WHO WE ARE AND ARE NOT” #Culture https://www.newcreativeera.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

lightweight, 11 months ago to random

In another thread on Mastodon, someone has pointed out that "Free and Open Source Software" is almost always misunderstood by non-practitioners as meaning "free of cost software, i.e. freeware, & open source software", where the latter (aka #OSS) has in recent years been undermined in the mainstream by Github, Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, & other corporate interests to mean 'weak' open source licenses like MIT, Apache, & BSD, which do far less to protect the 4 Freedoms, not Copyleft. 1/3