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Craig Grannell craiggrannell@mastodon.social

UK: “It’s still illegal to rip a CD you legally own to MP3!”

Also UK: “Hey, let’s exempt those AI guys from copyright law!”

FFS.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence

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Maybe I'm late, but I just noticed my ISP #bredband2 now offers me native #ipv6 via dhcpv6, including prefix delegation. Now have ipv6 enabled my local network. Can't find any info online about this change which has been requested for many years already. Why not announcement one might wonder.

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@hrw can we while at it also stop talking about gdisk now that (c)fdisk has GPT support (since many years)?

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@dusnm @ariadne @BrodieOnLinux I think company backing of Linux is great, but lets remember the companies are backing Linux because they have to and because it makes them money very much despite GPLv2. If a viable MIT licensed alternative shows up to be used in place of Linux, companies will dump Linux in a heartbeat (which I find very unfortunate, copyleft ftw).

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@b0rk_reruns there's no need for 644, just use chmod u=rw,go=r foobar.txt ... You can even do relative changes like chmod u+r foobar.txt ... No need to mess your brain up with manually thinking of bits.

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tiny-dfr (and dependencies) now available in #debian ticking off having another one from the #asahi stack of tools offered from the official Debian archive.

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I'm old enough to have lived through the struggles of everything being proprietary and free software fighting its way up which made me an avis supporter, but in my experience younger people came in to the game when Open Source was already well established and thus take its existance for granted without ever thinking much about it. Companies also encouraging the workflow of building on top of and never contributing made this natural for them... Atleast thats how I see it.

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@juliank "The implication graph building allows us to implement an apt why command, [...]" 🎉👏🥳

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@mjg59 @neverpanic @TonyYarusso isn't that just one of the fundamental flaws of apparmour though? IIRC paths instead of inodes being the main reason apparmour was rejected from mainline for multiple years.

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Given recent online discussions I feel the need to share: My opinion on Code of Conducts is that they should not be needed, but if you are anti-CoC then you are the problem and the reason they exist.

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@agrantler @bagder from my debian involvement I can attest to that users do expect people to have time machines!

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Been offline and according to my ISP bredband2.com there was an "upgrade" of the Metropolitan area network (MAN). This caused BB2 to again put me behind #CGNAT (always these unannounced things happening when I'm away from home). As a nice surprise when this was addressed I noticed they started giving out native #IPv6 (finally!) via #DHCPv6, except their router is silently dropping all traffic that needs forwarding (so actually worse than nothing).... Why are all ISPs so incompetent?

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@bagder this sounds like something which should have a name that ends with law. Stenbergs law maybe? :-)

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Similar experience: pointing out where the bug is, being asked to submit PR to fix off-by-one (adding -1), being asked to sign CLA for something which is obviously not copyrightable work: https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger/pull/1205
"Our repository settings doesn't allow us to merge otherwise" <-- then go fix those settings!

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@mjg59 If I've learned anything from my decades of professional experience helping build products with yocto it is that the "correct" way to use yocto is to download the vendor built image, mount it, copy binaries inside. "What's patches? What's bitbake? Btw can you fix my broken manual cross compiler setup so I can build and statically link GPLed Qt into my proprietary application?"

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@janne thanks!

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Actually u-boot v2024.01 (final) is now in unstable (and should migrate to testing in >= 4 days)....

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I can't help but think about the boot DING sound when I read about controlling "boot volume" via nvram tools, before next second remember what your actually talking about... Any chance someone has figured out how to disable the boot sound on M1?

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#debian experimental now has u-boot-asahi. This together with already available m1n1 and asahi-fwextract you can now run update-m1n1 command and have all the bootloader parts from official debian repos. (Missing kernel and dtbs.)

BEWARE: This is a pure mainline u-boot, missing Asahi tree functionality like: M2 keyboard, multi-(Linux/BSD) booting and some USB parts.

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A quick note that the new year started with asahi-audio being accepted inte the #Debian archive and swiftly updated to latest version. This means testing/unstable now has a complete userspace #Asahi audio stack! Still lacking an Asahi kernel in the official archive though, so check out https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Bananas for usable third parties (while we wait for mainlining of kernel parts)!

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