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Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that provides support and legal services for open source software projects, has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub after quitting the code-hosting and collaboration platform itself. "We will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural..."
I kept reading the organization's name, and wondered why does the San Francisco Conservancy worry about this?
Welcome to the latest round of, "Beware Micro$oft"
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Are they for software that is unencumbered by honorous licenses?
Or are they a phony front for non-Microsoft corporate interests?
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Certainly #1, maybe #2 as well
TTFN - Kent
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I think it's pretty clear from the paragraph quoted below:
Quote: Software Freedom Conservancy is financially backed by a number of big-name companies, such as Google, Red Hat and Mozilla, and its members span more than 40 projects, including Git (which GitHub relies heavily on), Selenium and Godot.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. There are certainly some valid concerns about Copilot. On the other hand, GitHub has improved considerably since MSFT acquired it.
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Quote: It’s also worth noting that Microsoft’s old foe Amazon recently debuted its own incarnation of Copilot called CodeWhisperer, which rolled out in preview last week. And it’s clear from its launch that Amazon is trying to address some of the copyright concerns that have arisen from Copilot — for example, if CodeWhisperer generates a code suggestion that is similar to an existing snippet found in its training data, it will highlight the license associated with that original function. It’s then up to the developer whether they use that code or not.
Another recent article on co-pilot claimed that this sort of traceability was beyond what current generation AI could do. So did Amazon make a low-key announcement of a breakthrough, or did the other article writer not know what they were talking about?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Like smart glasses, the idea is to put helpful AR graphics in front of your eyes to help accomplish daily tasks. "Fill my eyes with that double vision"
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Or "She blinded me with science!"
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Dang, but that is so much better. I hate it when I’m reminded at how much all of y’all out-class me.
I’m tempted to update the blurb for the mailing.
TTFN - Kent
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Go for it. But I can't compete with you except for a very limited subset of topics. Your range of quotes exposes my crappy memory banks for being an empty shell, comparatively speaking. And you may possibly be more sarcastic than me. Maybe.
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I freaked out trying to put in and remove regular contacts. Didn't help that I reacted badly to every solution I tried.
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Don't worry. These will be 'light' contacts. They are the 'solution.'
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Consumer group: One click grants permission to “exploit everything you do.” Is 'deceptive' evil? Asking for a friend
Happy Google theme day!
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"All your base are belong to us!" - just because
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The case was initially filed in 2020 when the plaintiffs accused Google of anti-competitive practices with the 30% fee Google takes on in-app purchases on its Google Play Store. So about three hours revenue? Seems fair and equitable.
At least according to the 2021 revenue.
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Bill Gates, Microsoft cofounder and fourth-richest man in the world, returned to his humble roots on Thursday: He shared his résumé from nearly 50 years ago. The guy might be a worthy hire
Seems like a bit of a go-getter, but FORTRAN, COBOL, LISP and BASIC? Needs more JavaScript
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Whatever you do, don't follow the example of the guy worth $121 billion.
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This is how HR sabotages IT.
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"Going to deep", I do not know the 70s USA expectations of a resume, so maybe height and weight expected.
I mean, id put on, lifting power for 70s servers. Sure you can program, but you will be responsible for taking out the 20lb backup disks daily, so we need to know if you will be strong enough.
Age or at least date of birth was still common till the early 2000s.
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There are still ways to run DOS apps under 64-bit Windows and Linux, and a lot of free apps to choose from. As nature intended
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At least eight robotaxis from the General Motors subsidiary navigated to the same street corner and then stopped in the middle of the road, blocking traffic. This is how civilization falls...with traffic jams
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Are we sure the cars were confused? Maybe they were waiting for the homeless camp, of which San Francisco is notorious for, to move out of the way.
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Microsoft says that a recently spotted Windows worm has been found on the networks of hundreds of organizations from various industry sectors. Beware of USB bearing gifts
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USBs - the modern Pokeball, but never the one you want.
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A high-severity Linux vulnerability capable of granting abusers root access to target endpoints is being exploited in the wild, researchers have warned. They wanted Linux to be as popular as Windows...
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