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vorlon

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Portland, OR. 1312. Exiled from Twitter before it was cool. I was there at the dawning of the Third Age of Free Software.

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juliank, to random
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It's very hard to find stuff about SAT solving, you just get "how to master your SATs"

vorlon,
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@juliank bonus points if your SAT solver ranks solutions in a range of 400 to 1600

juliank, to random
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apt-cache can't tell you here why pbuilder is installed:

$ aptitude why pbuilder
i ansible-role-devel Depends ubuntu-dev-tools
i A ubuntu-dev-tools Recommends pbuilder | cowbuilder | sbuild

$ apt-cache why pbuilder
pbuilder:amd64=0.231build1 -> pbuilder:amd64

That's because pbuilder is autoremovable under the current solver3 regime, so it didn't find a reason to keep it - it picked sbuild to satisfy the Recommends above (as sbuild is manually installed).

vorlon,
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@juliank it recommends what now

<Prepares upload>

vorlon,
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@juliank exactly

juliank, to random
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Getting triggered each time I go to an Italian place and they pronounce pistacchio wrong. It's pi-stak-kio (/piˈstakkjo/).

Sorry but if you work in an Italian restaurant you should learn to pronounce the words correctly.

As a helper, this is the Italian version of πιστάκιον. That might make it more clear to you if you can't follow the Italian pronunciation from the spelling.

vorlon,
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@juliank this is great, because a Google search for the etymology turns up results claiming both pistacchio and pistaccio for Italian, pistacium for Latin which is hella ambiguous, and "pistatxo" in Catalan which is NOT ambiguous.

The English pronunciation is definitely with ʃ

juliank, to random
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Why is Boulogne-sur-Mer not a partner city of Bologna, this is a missed opportunity

vorlon,
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@juliank eew wet bologna

juliank, to random
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One thing that becomes really interesting are versioned Recommends. Consider

X Recommends: A (>= 2) | B

Let X become available before A=2. The solver will install B.

Arguably a better solution is to ignore lower bounds on Recommends and instead optimize for "eventual satisfaction". i.e. we install A=1 now because A=2 will become available later and then satisfy the Recommends.

vorlon,
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@juliank edge case: A=2 gets stuck in CI and misses a release, installing A leaves the recommends unsatisfied for a complete stable cycle

vorlon, to random
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Ahahaha happy 16th birthday to CVE-2008-0166, still going strong
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112428503842956186

juliank, to random
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The whole "illegals vote I'm US elections" discussion is funny as a German because here

  • everyone needs to register their home address with the city within a week or two of moving there, you are automatically "registered to vote" by this and assigned the closest place to vote when an election happens.
  • to vote, you need to present ID and it's checked against the people allowed to vote in that place.
vorlon,
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@juliank s/funny/a transparently false claim used to justify voter ID laws which are a form of voter suppression because the state does not provide IDs for free in the US, thus representing a poll tax to disenfranchise poor and rural voters/

vorlon,
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@juliank so if you can't pay, you can't vote? Sounds like voter suppression there too, then

vorlon,
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@juliank oh unemployment benefits, see, so it IS subsidized by the state there

(US: what unemployment benefits?)

vorlon,
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@juliank "they could address that" - they fundamentally don't want to?

tzimmer_history, to random
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This is the type of comment I’ve been getting a lot for my latest piece: Always from self-regarding liberals who never want to grapple with the fact that the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 60s – the legacy of which they surely want to claim – clearly violated those principles.

vorlon,
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@shansterable @tzimmer_history yes? This is the correct answer. Do not ask the government for permission to protest.

vorlon, to random
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For Ubuntu 24.10, we should patch bash so that when it's given content on stdin, it checks the process tree and if the sending process is curl, launches x-www-browser with a page on basic Internet safety instead of executing the command.

dangillmor, to random
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Whatever you don't like about the Biden record, you should understand that when it comes to the rights of workers, and regaining some actual competition in markets, this administration has been mostly awesome -- leagues ahead than Clinton and Obama, and in a different (way, way, way better) universe than Republicans since, well, TR.

@pluralistic explains: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/25/capri-v-tapestry/

vorlon,
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@dangillmor @pluralistic apartheid is also a labor issue.

gabek, to random

I noticed the company who wanted to add their service directly into Owncast, and I said no, started releasing their own version of Owncast with their own changes in it to support this use case.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. It's kind of a fork, but it's really just another release of Owncast by somebody else. They're releasing something called Owncast with functionality and decisions that have nothing to do with the real Owncast. It specifically says stuff like "Owncast does X", and Owncast does not do X, and will never do X. Only their changes do X.

I fear this may confuse people. If something goes wrong with their version of the software, people are going to ask me for support, and might make the real Owncast look bad. But I don't know if this is wrong, or if this is completely acceptable. It's open source, and the name "Owncast" isn't owned by anybody, as Owncast is an open source project, not a company. So I guess they have the right to do whatever they want and call it Owncast.

But it feels wrong, and it seems like really bad things could come of this.

vorlon,
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@gabek @IzzyOnDroid @darnell but the question you asked was "who can hold a trademark", and the answer to that is clear? Any natural person or legal entity CAN hold a trademark

If what you meant was "who could hold a trademark for us so I don't have to and don't have to set up an entity", there are various non profits that do this for open source projects, such as SPI and the Software Freedom Conservancy

vorlon,
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@gabek @IzzyOnDroid @darnell so a few things.

  • a trademark is an exclusive right to trade on a name (i.e. do business using it). Under US law (and I think UK law), certain exclusive trademark rights exist whenever you have an established mark that you're using for business. However, unless you REGISTER the trademark, you can have a hard time making a case in court.
  • if you're not doing business under the name, then no trademark exists; it's not intrinsic to the use of a name.

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vorlon,
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@gabek @IzzyOnDroid @darnell

  • If MULTIPLE entities are trading on the name without a legal agreement governing its use, the mark is diluted and no one gets to claim exclusive rights.
  • the fact that a mark is already in use does not, in general, stop someone else from registering it. The trademark registration offices (in the US, the USPTO) are not incentivized to do a good job of searching for prior art before granting a trademark.

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vorlon,
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@gabek @IzzyOnDroid @darnell It is a lot more expensive to overturn an invalid mark in court than it is to defensively register one. If and only if you are concerned about such adverse registration does it make sense to register the mark and stash it with a trusted holding entity.
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juliank, (edited ) to random
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This is how apt 2.9.0 output would have looked like without empty lines. I think there's something awkward about the REMOVING: line if there's no separate blocks.

vorlon,
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@juliank I don't think "removing" should have different case rules than the other headers

juliank, to random
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Fedora fresh podman container like

dnf install firefox

[...]

dnf remove firefox

Error:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: systemd-udev

hmm

vorlon,
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@juliank I said Firefox, not systemd-browserd

Andres4NY, to Wikipedia
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I'm pretty irritated that I'm not allowed to edit (or even log into) because of who my ISP is. I even opened up a case or whatever with them, and haven't heard back.

vorlon,
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@Andres4NY I DID hear back and they refused to unblock the IPs that have been assigned to me for over a decade

vorlon, to random
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Makes a good story but expecting fiscal accountability for government spooks is like expecting criminal accountability for cops, when it happens it has no correlation with the severity of the offense
https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/112196180295212632

juliank, to random
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Some people buy ETF, other people buy ATF.

vorlon,
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@juliank exchange tobacco and firearms?
Alcohol traded funds

davidism, to opensource
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The OpenSSF is supposedly an important organization of experts, but I only know two things about them: the scorecard that has been unhelpful for Flask for years, and the terrible post about xz. Here's what overworked maintainers actually need from a group of security experts: direct long term contribution, to teach and improve a project's security. Don't just show us a big list of extra work, directly contribute to help us fulfill the list.

vorlon,
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@davidism "an important organization of experts"

Ok then how come I don't know the name of a single person who works there

josh, (edited ) to random
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Addressing indoor air quality saves lives and helps us achieve at work, in school, and in self-governance.

Brain function declines by 15% as CO2 levels hit 945ppm, and by 50% at 1400ppm.

Have you ever measured CO2 at your desk or a contentious City Council meeting? What you find might surprise you!

These scientists recommend mandating clean air in public buildings, with 800ppm as the upper limit. That's good policy: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0677

#IAQ #COVID #HealthAndSafety #PublicHealthPledge

vorlon,
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@josh after getting an aranet monitor and finding that our in home CO2 levels are consistently above 1000 in the winter when the windows are closed, I'm skeptical of claims about reduced "brain function" at these levels.

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