@hexaheximal mmap! (but even without that, why do you need to load the entire song into a buffer at once?)

@kemona_halftau nini!

@mkljczk that sounds easy to change by just biting yourself

(unrelated but why is the language of this post set to de?)

@kemona_halftau good thing you have the last generation of thinkpad to have a mechanical docking port, and those docks are really cheap now (like £10 or less) because they're not compatible with anything newer

I like expanding abbreviations like "techbro" ("technology brother") and "aibro" ("artificial intelligence brother") fully

@hexaheximal the only thing is, if you're not in SEPA (which is not the same as the EU - I am in SEPA but not the EU), it might be more expensive/difficult to pay your membership fee (but the fee waiver amendment also passed, so that can be waived if you cannot pay (for example due to high bank fees))

@hexaheximal you do not need to live in the EU to be an e.V. member (I am and I do not)

morning

nini fediverse

@niko @maddy is a circuit breaker being rated for equivalent power to the outlets on it normal in places with radial circuits (i.e. almost everywhere but the UK)?

at home I have three ring circuits (downstairs, upstairs, kitchen and back bedroom) which are on 32A circuit breakers, but each outlet is only rated for 13A individually

@kemona_halftau nini

@kemona_halftau installing qtquick3d made it work (I still don't know why it froze though)

Air to Ground Message:

WHY DONT FOLKS PRONOUNCE THE MEOW IN HOMEOWNER Q

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Type: Airbus A220-300
A: #a52c6fd2e8c
F: #f242de3d091

#acars #vdlm2

@kemona_halftau I didn’t know about this. I tried enabling it and meta-c does nothing completely froze my desktop (except I could still move the mouse but that was it) with seemingly no way to recover other than to kill kwin (but I can’t reproduce that, it just does nothing again now).

@doctormo @rakoo @aronowski @mrmasterkeyboard @lumi I know that the free software definition does not require publication (and in fact licenses that require modifications to be published are non-free, notably the Sybase Open Watcom Public License (which is actually considered open source by the OSI and is one of the few cases where the free software definition and open source definition (or more specifically the FSF and OSI’s interpretation of their respective definitions) differ, the other being the NASA Open Source Agreement, although that is irrelevant)), but nevertheless, if there was no publicly available free software, this would practically kill the free software movement by raising the barrier to entry too high and making it likely that most people would simply continue using proprietary software.

I also know that selling free software is allowed, but that is not a restriction. You can sell copies of free software, but you cannot restrict further distribution.

@rakoo @aronowski @mrmasterkeyboard @lumi

Outside, code can be shared to trusted entities but that’s it

Free software cannot have restrictions on distribution. If this is enforced by license, then this is proprietary software. If it’s just everyone with whom source is shared simply choosing not to publish it (even though they have the right to), that’s fine, but that does not scale. With a large enough group of people having access, someone will likely eventually exercise their right to distribute it publicly.

Also, I think this is definitely not the way to go, even as a last resort. All software should be free and everyone has the right to software freedom. The eventual goal of the free software movement is the complete elimination of proprietary software and software freedom for all. If most free software was distributed only to trusted entities and not publicly available on the internet, that would significantly raise the barrier to entry for new people, who would most likely simply continue using proprietary software and maybe never even find out about free software. Widespread adoption of free software is absolutely essential in order to succeed in this goal, and for this to happen it must be publicly available with minimum barriers to entry.

I think non-public free software is fine in limited cases (perhaps when it’s not ready to be published yet), but the right to distribute it further without restriction must be preserved (or it is not free software), and if all free software was distributed like that it would be extremely harmful to the free software movement.

@mrmasterkeyboard @lumi @aronowski fsfe is using the same free software definition as the fsf.

I used to not like that the fsfe used github for reuse-tool (it was also on git.fsfe.org, but you can't get an account there without being a member and an account is required in order to open issues or PRs), but it seems that they've moved to codeberg since then so that is no longer an issue.