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digdilem, in OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you ( github.com/Andre0512/hon and github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn ) that are in violation of our terms of service

Did the guy explicitly agree to their Terms of service? If not, how can he be in breach of them?

cease and desist all illegal activities

What illegal activities exactly?

Feels like unenforceable scare tactics, but IANAL.

hexloc, in Tailchat - The next-generation noIM Application in your own workspace

This looks straight up like Discord and i like it.

deadcatbounce, (edited ) in Microsoft's Windows 12 is expected to be even worse than Windows 11, functioning as a paid "subscription service" or forcing users to watch ads in order to use it without paying
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First micro was an Acorn Atom around 1981. First home built PC in around 1988.

Used Windows from the very early days of 3.0 when (Xerox?) Gem became the less useful competitor.

Around Win 2003, XP era they started taking useful functionality out or burying it and taking the useful KB articles off the net.

About that time I wanted to look at VoIP and stumbled into VoIP@home which was hosted by CentOS and I, initially, ran in a Win 2000 VM.

Not long after MS bought Hotmail and found that Windows servers couldn’t keep it going and they had to replace it with UNIX. Maybe that timeline isn’t quite right.

Started transitioning away from Windows that that stage and am so glad I did. I think Win 12 will just consist of a start button and everything else will require daily subscription.

From being a Win fanboy to just wishing he’d have taken the whole thing to that Epstein island with him and left it there.

BlanK0, in OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

I really like seeing codeberg being used more.

Also I’m definitely keeping my eyes on this repo once in a while 👀🧐🍵

BlanK0, in Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?

Really good article, based af 😎🔥💯

wmassingham, in Witchcraft | A Minecraft server written in bash

I missed the word “server” every time and thought it was a client, and spent far too long trying to figure out how you’d play Minecraft in Bash. Text based? ASCII graphics?

Snoopy, in The issue to create a new main menu for Minetest has been open for 6 years.
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As a minetest player, the main menu screen work very well and only lack some option to filter servers by game and language.

So i understand if they prefer to focus on other issues.

lemmyvore, in Accessing NAS when not on LAN

If you have a public IP and can forward ports, exposing SSH (with key-based login) is quite safe. You can browse the server storage and copy files to/from your phone.

If you can’t open ports you will need something that punches out of NAT and intermediates a connection to your phone. Simplest way is to use a service like Tailscale, you install and start it on both the server and your phone and they will see each other from wherever they are.

rickyrigatoni, in OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

Do we even need to say nvidia?

wizzor, in Witchcraft | A Minecraft server written in bash

<span style="color:#323232;">What does not work
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">capitalism (IRL; I wouldn't want to try implementing it here)
</span>

I actually lol’d

And I gotta ask, what insanity drives someone to implement a minecraft server in bash…?

grue, in Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?

Reading this article made me giggle with glee.

Gooey0210, in OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

Hehehe, somebody really did it after Haier’s act of stupidity

rufus, (edited ) in The issue to create a new main menu for Minetest has been open for 6 years.

I think it’s just a larger undertaking. Like mentioned in the last comments. People either need to address that as the main focus for some new major release and work on it. Or subdivide it and find people to work on the individual components to make it happen (gradually).

Also there is always the thing with hobby / free software projects. Sometimes people focus on functionality and features and not so much on asthetics and the first impression. I agree the welcome screen is somewhat important as it’s the first thing a new player sees. But I also like the developers to work on features which enhance the actual gameplay because I just see that screen for 10 seconds and it’s kind of a waste of time to improve it for someone like me. The current screen works alright. There are several dynamics affecting projects: “Perfect is the enemy of good” (don’t make it too complicated) but also sometimes a makeshift solution or something that works “okay” stays inplace indefinitely because “it works” and people concentrate on other stuff. That’s just how things work. It takes deliberate effort to work against those dynamics.

So I’d say the cause is, their focus is somewhere else.

joeldebruijn, in OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

The new owner of Simple Mobile Tools? Buying it and then adware stuffing? ZipoApps?

ConstipatedWatson, in Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?

This was well written and makes me miss Groklaw once more

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