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  • Fuck that other site

    the GPL’s sweeping liability exclusions might not be enforceable in some EU jurisdictions.1

    Interfaces, protocols, and APIs are not always covered by copyright under EU law, depending on their functional nature.

    As for MIT licence: its brevity doesn’t reduce applicable laws—it merely omits explicit handling of them, which can create legal uncertainty in civil law jurisdictions.

    Especially hard is working in a community where everyone accepts a commiter’s agreement (contributers license agreement, I guess: CLA), and to handling all author metadata GDPR applies to anyone who handles the source code in a DVCS for non-private purpose. Having a brief licence when the CLA is typically 1 through 3 pages of A4 text is not that much of an upside.

    Disclaimer: IANAL.

    Footnotes:

    The rights holders (authors and/or licensors) shall be liable without limitation in the event of wilful intent, fraud, gross negligence, damage to life, limb or health and if liability cannot be limited or excluded by law. In case of a negligent breach of an obligation that is material for the execution of this osc license agreement (material duty), the rights holders (authors and/or licensors) shall be liable up to the amount of damage that is typically foreseeable at the time this osc license agreement is concluded.

    Any further liability is excluded.

    Writing this down has nearly no effect, since you implicitly have these responsibilities anyway









  • The real issue likely. Can’t vacuum up vast amounts of international messages to generate billions in revenue when you can’t read them (looking at you Meta and Google)

    I started donating a bit regularly, because I value them operating servers at the scale that my circle has a low barrier to entry, while I can still audit and even roll my own signal network (not that I have the time for that)




  • I feel this is a lack oft creativity. Protests need to be peaceful, but disruptive. In a car based society, protest by car? If 5,000,000 cars “meet up” in any given metropolitan area, that areas productivity goes to zero, those in power won’t even have any recourse, there aren’t enough police/towtrucks to counter this, and if so it would take days or weeks. Only coordinated driving and parking/traffic jam required.

    Effective protest should instill fear in those in power - the message is, with the sheer number of people right outside your building, could easily crush you if they so choose. A few guards can not offer protection in this case. The idea is, with this realization, that violence is not a good escalation, as in the end the powerful few will never come out on top.

    This only works if the powerful few actually believe the masses will go as far as needed to effect the demanded change.

    From outside, it appears the US protests favor comfort over conflict, thus are viewed as lacking credibility and therefore, pose no danger to the power class. As long as the individual prioritizes their selves before acting as a collective, including taking the risk of collective punishment, the protest remains unbelievable, therefore ineffective and easily ignored.