Yeah the title of this post is confusing.

It reads as if piefed blocks anti-Musk content, not blocks Musk content.

There is a “Commons Clause” that people can add but there is some controversy as to whether adding this clause is enforceable. It very much would violate the strict definition of “FOSS”.

That said, I very much am against corporations that make full use of FOSS without contributing anything meaningful in return. I personally believe companies that make over $1M in revenue should absolutely donate something to the FOSS products they use.

Not only that but developers need to stop using permissive licenses like MIT or CC0. Moving to something like GPL3 (and specifically version 3) would go a long way for companies to stop treating open source as a well they can exploit.

1000% agree.

If you’re in your 20s, start building good habits now. Your future self will thank you.

I’m proud I made it to day 8 I think

libvirginity has a sev9 vulnerability due to its dependency on the unpatched version of libpatriarchy.

Reverse engineering prohibitions are the dumbest things.

Let’s say I do this. Arduino sues me. Okay. Now what? What money are they going to take?

Hell, this would be a perfect time for everyone to form an LLC and purchase Arduinos as the LLC and then release your research under your corporate name as CC0. If your LLC has no revenue, you as an individual are legally protected.

Arduino can try to put the genie back in the bottle but good luck.

Better companies than Arduino have tried to prevent hardware reverse engineering and have failed. Apple being the biggest company I can think of that have tried to sue people for releasing schematics of their motherboards.

Wait what’s wrong with MariaDB?

It’s FOSS, it’s compatible with MySQL libraries.

sudo apt --update upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y

no worries. it was a deep cut!

I was kidding. Making the same joke he made about Julia Roberts in episode 309.

The stakes may not be high for me but if it has value to someone, all I have to do is build my bot net and then hold their ledger ransom.

Huh…I’ve only known him as the guy that really cared about building a highway for wolves.

Good to see he’s getting work.

Honestly, I don’t mind that kind of preachy. “Don’t be a shitty person” seems to be in short supply these days.

permanent immutable logs

My understanding of current blockchain technology is that it’s only permanent so long as someone is online maintaining the block integrity. If enough machines go down, or if enough machines come up that refute it, then anyone can push an alternate history.

Define “cheap”.

https://bdon.github.io/cng-storage-guide/

Note that this isn’t a one-to-one guide.

Some have a minimum storage amount but with 12 TB you’re fine.

I think cloudflare may be the most cost effective since they don’t have egress costs like AWS.

I’ve gone backwards. When I had nothing but time, I did fedora bleeding edge. Moved to ubuntu for almost 10+ years. Moved to Linux Mint last year and debating moving back to Ubuntu.

Depending on the size of the repo and number of contributors.

Small ones, yeah probably a simple “don’t be an asshole” is fine.

It gets harder when your contributors start scaling way up and go international. What might be customary in one culture may be considered rude by another. Allowing for people to be different while also maintaining decorum is important.

I worked on a FOSS project that was very small (~5 devs) and I really had to get used to how upfront the German devs were. We knew each other enough but still.

You’ve gotten good answers from other folks but I’ll provide a ELI5:

Basically a set of rules in the database to make sure that it is immediately consistent.

NoSQL databases offer eventual consistency in exchange for speed so they are generally not considered to be ACID compliant.

Most traditional databases (MySQL, postgresql, etc.) are.

There are a couple of emerging companies that try to tackle speed for traditional databases. CockroachDB offers a postgress-based database that scales more like NoSQL while still offering ACID transactions.

TiDB is a similar company but for MySQL.

It’s weird how kids get accustomed to how a food should look and how that affects its taste to them.

There was a study where scientists wrapped home made hamburgers in McDonald’s wrappers and the same hamburgers in similar but unbranded wrappers and asked which tasted better. McDonald’s wrappers won.

Isn’t that what Elon did when he bought Twitter? Just randomly started unplugging shit?