We’re in the golden age of greenwashing. Corporations are horny to show like they are “doing something” for the environment without doing a fucking thing. But it can’t be too expensive and have it eat into their bottom line.

Just environmentally conscious enough to win over people who feel guilty for flying (bonus if you can get them to pay) but not so much that your shareholders wonder if you aren’t putting their short term interests first.

I’m sure someone much more talented than me can make it into a heiku

“That was a lone wolf.”

“Nobody saw that coming.”

“He was always so peaceful.”

“He’s an elder of my church.”

“Just one bad apple.”

“A rare occurrence.”

– any time a white male engages in domestic terrorism

I’m 100% torrents if I need it. Fmovies or other sites seem to have the majority of what I want to watch.

Is there a guide on how to use usenet? What does it offer that torrents does not? Is it nitch stuff?

Actually I heard that Netanyahu has some details about the maintenance practices of Boeing planes.

May I offer you a possible answer to at least your first question?

Open source software literally means that the source code is available to anyone. In GitHub, that just means that your repo is public rather than private.

You can make publicly available any code that is fully under copyright. The reader cannot compile, modify, or redistribute it. It’s called “source available”.

Open Source has a specific definition that has been tested in court, which means that you are able to make modifications, transform, etc. within the confines of the license that is provided with the code.

There are two types of “free”: free as in gratis (free beer) vs free as in libre (free speech). The OSS licenses very clearly dictate by which means that you are free.

Edit: added a source

If you simply want to allow people to view your code, you can just upload it to GitHub or something similar.

By default, your work is copyright and you hold all rights, excluding those you give up to GitHub.

Open-Sourcing your project is all about choosing the license that you want your users to use.

Please, for the love of God, choose an existing license. Don’t go out and try to make one yourself or mix and match. Not only do you open yourself up to liability but it just makes it harder for you to keep track of it.

Choosing a license is all about your personal preference and what your goals are. The two ends of the spectrum:

• MIT License: do whatever you want, so long as you attribute me. Most libraries use this license.
• GPL/AGPL: if you use my code, you must also release using GPL/AGPL or similarly appropriate license. Linux Kernel famously uses version 2. Linus Torvalds has issues with some of the terms in V3.

There is a lot of middle ground between these two philosophies. Most of the major licenses have seen some level of court cases. I personally use AGPL, which is often seen as one of the strongest, most restrictive, licenses.

I do not recommend releasing code to public domain. This often is a point of contention between OSS purists and OSS “spirit”. I personally believe we’re entering a new world of AI-driven content and I don’t want more code feeding that beast.

The license is then copied and pasted to a LICENSE file at the root of your repo and, boom. You’ve open sourced your code.

Keep in mind: that commit (and all future commits) will be available under that license until your copyright expires, so long as that license exists in your repo. You cannot claw it back.

One word of advice: you aren’t likely going to see a bunch of people downloading your stuff. So don’t get your hopes up that you’ll have people submitting bug reports or making PRs, etc. All of my projects are just for me to use with one or two people reviewing it for fun. All but one, anyway.

I remember back in the days of broadband being brand new. Comcast insisted that you had to pay for each device that connected to the Internet. Using a router was considered against the TOS.

I do not miss those days.

The CC requires copyright holders to contact companies that violate the license and give them 30 days to remediate.

I highly doubt:

• people who put the CC-BY-NC license in their comment will troll AI bots to see if their specific comments are being used
• those same people can prove to the company that their comment was used
• the company will actually take them at their word and remove their comments from their training data
• even if all of the above are true, can afford an attorney let alone sustain that attorney through the case
• even if all of the above are true, prevail in a court of law

I think people adding the license is fine. It’s your comment. Do whatever. I don’t think it’s as harmful as sovereign citizens using their own license plate for “traveling”.

Looks like they aren’t the first:

Bolivia broke with relations with Israel at the end of October last year while several other countries in Latin America, including Colombia, Chile and Honduras, have recalled their ambassadors.

Recalling ambassadors is a huge deal. I don’t know if Israel has followed suit or if those countries will expel existing diplomats.

I did a rewatch not too long ago. Yeah the paid advertising is a bit cringe now but the show itself holds up very well.

I’ll admit that it took me way too long to get it.

Keep in mind that a celebrity can send you and me, regular joes, a C&D and we’d likely comply simply because we lack the resources to sustain a challenge in court.

What stops celebrities and organizations from suing South Park creators is likely the opposite: they have money and a legal team.

The same thing happened with John Oliver when he talked shit about some coal mine owner that was notorious for suing people. The mine owner served them from a court that had friendly laws but they were ready. And they had insurance to pay for it.

I demand:

• Studios have exclusive rights to their respective works for 2 years, after which time they are required to license it to their competitors for “at cost” fees, similar to pole easements for cable/electric companies.
• Public Domain is reverted to 25 years after publishing
• Fan Fiction is added as a “free use” exception

If we had better politicians, these threats from the MPAA would amount to just whining.

They may not know how it works, which is why it’s fucking dangerous that they are getting “consulted” by the MPA.

Best case scenario: it’s just a DNS level block.

Worst case scenario: it’s a DNS level log capture so that the MPA can sue people who watch things on fmovies or similar sites, like the RIAA did in the 90s.