“due to bad experiences, I don’t work with scammers. I don’t want scammers to contact me.”
“but how do you know they’re scammers? what if the scammer does good work?”
every #foss discussion right now.
Vibed account verification.
(via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukehinds_sign-of-the-vibe-times-share-7438895731354066944-K7ox)
We've aleady been repeadetly DDoSed by these companies. Spending hundreds of
volunteers hours keeping our services running while the companies extract the
labour to sell back to the FOSS community, using their standing in the Linux
Foundation to further cement their usage in our communities.
Then the FOSS communities use these models without any care of the ethical considerations.
Is this depressing? Yes.
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Full context, from LWNDQoTW:
https://lwn.net/ml/all/aawYbre5_xvhfwKA@framework/
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/ai-can-rewrite-open-source-code-but-can-it-rewrite-the-license-too/
If banks and governments insist on checking devices for security they should define actual standards. It should be possible for any tiny project to be certified at no cost and the standards should be fairly enforced so a mainstream device without current patches is disallowed.
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/
https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/
TIL: @NetworkManager 's `nmcli dev wifi` shows available networks nicely, is colored and even has a small graph:
