yep, the concept of a “personal carbon footprint” was literally invented by an advertising agency working for British Petroleum https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook

I really don’t get how its different than a search engine

Neither did this guy.

The difference is that LLM output is (in the formal sense) bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_3D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Programming_Language

br0

ip -br a

(-br is short for -brief and makes ip’s addr, link, and neigh commands “Print only basic information in a tabular format for better readability.”)

this isn’t remotely how this meme is used lol

because i thought the situation described by the post was tragicomic (as was somewhat expressed by the line from it quoted in the post title)

As the image transcript in the post body explains, the image at the bottom is a scene from a well-known 1998 film (which, according to Wikipedia, was in 2014 selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”).

This meme will not make as much sense to people who have not seen the film. You can watch the referenced scene here. The context is that the main character, The Dude (played by Jeff Bridges) has recently had his private residence invaded by a group of nihilists with a pet marmot (actually portrayed by a ferret) and they have threatened to “cut off his Johnson”. In an attempt to express sympathy, The Dude’s friend Walter (played by John Goodman) points out that, in addition to the home invasion and threats, the nihilists’ exotic pet is also illegal. The Dude’s retort “what, are you a fucking park ranger now” is expressing irritation with that observation, because it is insignificant compared with the threat of the removal of his penis.

This meme attempts to draw a parallel between this humorous scene and XZ developer Lasse Collin’s observation that the XZ backdoor was also a violation of Debian’s software licensing policies.

Thank you for reading my artist’s statement.

that was predictable

i wonder how waydroid is these days. i still haven’t gotten around to trying it but I just looked again and I see its downloads are still hosted on Sourceforge 😖

apparently there was a proof-of-concept of it working on windows before Microsoft’s thing that died today had even been released. if many people actually used Microsoft’s thing I imagine some will turn their attention to waydroid now.

It’s not GNUIMP it’s GIMP

what do you think the G is for

(before it was Kool, KDE was a reference to CDE, the Common Desktop Environment)

No, this is a server-side vulnerability. Clients do not need to update, instances do.

The lack of details in the advisory is only a minor impediment for a malicious person who wants to figure out how to implement their own exploit for this vulnerability. Anyone can read the patch that fixes it and figure it out.

TLDR: if you run your own instance, update it ASAP. If an instance you rely on hasn’t updated yet, consider asking its admins to do so. And if they don’t update it soon, you might want to reconsider your choice of instance.

as they said in the post: “Because fediverse software does not support domain migrations”.

(by “fediverse software” they actually mean the ActivityPub protocol.)

I don’t agree with all of your conclusions here, but I think it is important to note another problem:

Mammoth’s AGPL 3.0 license is currently incompatible with Apple’s AppStore because Apple imposes restrictions which are explicitly forbidden by GPLv3 (specifically, the paragraphs in the license about “installation information”).

So, while the source code is released under this license, the binaries that Mammoth distributes via Apple are not under a free software license at all. Recipients of the source code are allowed to distribute it (and their own modified versions) under GPLv3 only, which means not on Apple’s App Store (which is the only place most iOS users get software).

This may be an oversight, or may be intentional. Other projects like Signal messenger have for years been using the GPLv3-iOS incompatibility to appear to be free software while actually maintaining a monopoly on the right to distribute binaries to iPhone users.

See NextCloud’s COPYING.iOS for an example of how to release an iOS app under GPLv3 in a way that does not restrict that right to a single entity.

Returns a if a is truthy and then checks if b is truthy. If neither are truthy, it returns b.

Not quite. If a is not truthy, then the expression a or b will always return b.

So, there is never any reason to check the truthiness of b.

class C:
 def __repr__(self): return [k for k, v in globals().items() if v is self][0]
 def __bool__(self):
  print(f"{self}.__bool__() was called")
  return False

a, b = C(), C()
print(f"result: {a or b}")

a.__bool__() was called
result: b

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