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rlpastore@sfba.social ("Richard L Pastore🏳️🌈") wrote:
Given the distance, I was lucky to get these photos.
The last one is blurry, but I’m including it because I rarely see photos of hummingbirds perching.
#photography #birds
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
One of the most badass album covers I've ever seen. Thelonious Monk in some kind of underground bunker, rifle around his shoulder, a mess of wine bottles and detritus everywhere, and a nazi tied up in the corner. Like.. wow.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
translation: I’ll say whatever I have to say in order to get elected, because I have no core beliefs
‘Mr. Vance, who has described himself as “100 percent pro-life,” has supported a federal abortion ban and opposed exceptions for rape and incest.
Now, as a vice-presidential candidate, Mr. Vance has tried to modify his past views.
“You have to believe in reasonable exceptions because that’s where the American people are,” Mr. Vance told Fox News this week.’
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davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:
Absolutely stunning posters for a Korean Macbeth. Designed by Yuni Yoshida.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Backstage, Ms. Healey introduced Ms. Harris to a friend’s young daughter, who had been at basketball camp.
“She said, ‘Tell me about basketball camp, and what’s your favorite position?’” Ms. Healey, who was a college basketball captain at Harvard, recalled. “And the little girl says to her, ‘Anything but defense.’ And the V.P. just burst out laughing and said: ‘Me too. I like offense.’”’
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Have you seen the new description Mastodon has on the Play Store? What do you think?
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marcan@treehouse.systems ("Hector Martin") wrote:
Facts about hardware are not copyrightable.
People tend to ascribe magical properties to copyright, as if any kind of information whatsoever is copyrightable. That's not how it works.
Copyright is intended to protect creative works. Hardware devices are not considered creative devices, they are functional. They are protected by patent rights, not copyright – and patent rights only protect the ability to reproduce the device, not describe it.
This means that PCB layouts are not copyrightable. By extension, nor are circuit netlists (i.e. the "information" within a circuit schematic). (Yes, this has interesting implications for open source hardware! You can attach licenses all you want to OSHW, but they only protect the actual source design files - anyone can just copy the functional design manually and manufacture copies and ignore the license, as long as they change the name to not run into trademark issues/etc., any firmware notwithstanding)
IC masks are protected under a very explicit law in the US. They weren't before that. By extension, nothing else about the chip design other than possibly firmware is copyrightable.
If you go and make an x86 clone or an unlicensed ARM core, Intel and ARM won't go after you for copyright violation. They will go after you for patent infringement, because the ISAs are patented. Talking about the architectures and writing code for them and any other research is perfectly fine. The only thing you can't do is reimplement them.
This is why projects like Asahi Linux can exist. If somehow just knowing how hardware works were a potential copyright violation, none of this would be possible.
What this means is: it is entirely legitimate to inspect things like vendor tools and software to learn things about the hardware, and then transfer that knowledge over to FOSS. You may run into license/EULA issues depending on what you do with the source data specifically (think: "no reverse engineering" type provisions), but as far as the knowledge contained within is concerned, that is not copyrightable, and the manufacturer has no copyright claim over the resulting FOSS.
This includes copying register names. I have an actual lawyer's opinion on that (via @bunnie). I tend to rewrite vendor register names more often than not anyway because often they are terrible, but I'm not legally required to.
The reason why we don't just go and throw vendor drivers into Ghidra and decompile all day, besides the EULA implications for the person doing it, is that the code is copyrightable and it can become a legal liability if you end up writing code that drives the hardware the same way, including in aspects that are deemed creative and copyrightable. This is why we have things like the clean-room approach and why we prefer things like hardware access tracing over decompilation.
But stuff like register names and pure facts about the hardware like that? Totally fair game.
Fun fact: Vendor documentation, like the ARM Architecture Reference Manual, has no copyright release for this stuff in the license. If register names were copyrightable, then anyone who has ever read ARM docs and copied and pasted a reg name into their code would be infringing copyright. They aren't, because this stuff isn't copyrightable.
Mastodon Feed"One day we'll leak entire data centers"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:
If the nazis are howling that you're a bad person, or you went too far, or trying to make the argument that you're not playing fair - you're winning. This is their whole schtick. "You better not make us angry or we're gonna rage/go nuts/do violence" and every single person in history who has said "okay we better listen to them" has lost.
If the nazis are mad that you're throwing punches, you're winning. In politics and in the streets.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Dunmail Raise pass.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:
The moon appeared inside the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower, in breach of the Olympic Brand Guide.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The things you need (and deserve) to build better, lighter, less vendor-lockin-based UIs for users are possible. And they should be deployed widely *today*.
Why aren't they?
Go ask. Then tell @owa what those vendors say when you do.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Anyway, you should ask your favourite non-Blink-based browser vendor why they're holding reasonable architectures back. And ask them if they're willing to support transparency in the Interop process to give web developers a sense for why they can't count on reasonable approaches next year.
Hint, it's related to why we felt we had to build this based on the *crystal clear* feedback we're getting:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This, in turn, gives rise to both a totalising logic for frontend frameworks (THOU SHALT BUILD IT ALL IN REACT!!!!) for anything that needs to be animated to/from, even more (theoretically and practically incoherent) nonsense about "state management" to deal with the consequences, and also a fight over "routing libraries".
All of this is barmy.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The relationship between these two things is sort of oblique for folks that haven't built a lot of front-end UI.
See, first, Apple hasn't implemented multi-page View Transitions (or any sort of View Transitions...or Scroll-linked Animations, or....you get the idea).
This means that the only way to reliably get animations between app states is to do it all inside a single page. Which means that you then have to capture every link and turn it into an internal route change *inside* a single page
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Do you ever stop and think "this client-side routing stuff is Not Great(TM), and holds the SPA-tech monoculture for frontend in place?"
I do; usually when I'm looking at traces of public services that have fallen for Reactor nonsense.
And then I pull up this page and wonder why anyone would fail to vote for the Navigation API as part of Interop 2024:
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whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:
"data lake" it's an ftp server. just call it an ftp server
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
holy shit!!!!! a paper on autistic burnout!!!!! among other things demonstrating that it's a real phenomenon and not the same as depression or job burnout
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
weatherwest ("Daniel Swain") wrote:
At latest update, #ParkFire has covered >240,000 acres (~375 square miles) in <60 hours. A line from point of ignition to northernmost front currently stretches ~45 miles. Astonishing. If you receive an evacuation order, even if fire seems far, heed it. #CAfire #CAwx [1/2]
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queerfemmedyke@strangeobject.space ("jade") wrote:
Just keep growing. 🌱
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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:
The one, only, and best Altoids.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stef Walter") wrote:
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float! We often draw icebergs vertically, with a little tip above the water, and a giant part under the water. This doesn’t work, it wouldn’t float, because of mass distribution. If you want to have fun, draw your best iceberg, and see how it would actually float!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
To be absolutely clear, no one can prove that JD Vance keeps dolphin porn in his spank bank.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Greetings from #RadarFestival! #TesseracT
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
There are many theories to explain this paradox. One especially good theory came from the late David Graeber (rest in power), in his 2012 essay, "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit":
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit
Graeber proposes that the growth of IT was part of a wider shift in research approaches. Research was once dominated by weirdos (e.g. Jack Parsons, Oppenheimer, etc) who operated with relatively little red tape.
13/
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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:
Today's artist: Ferenc Pintér (1931-2008)
#FromTheInspirationFolderAnother big favorite (yes I have many!).
I'm always blown away by his masterful work. The bold shapes and carefully crafted compositions, the fantastic combinations of organic/geometric and textural/flat, the moods. Just so unique.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
In Grasmere, on a bridge over the river Rothay.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘… an invitation-only charity organization for rich Christians, aims to take dominion over what it sees as the seven major spheres of public life, which it calls “mountains”: business, science and technology, family, arts and media, church, education and government’
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
nut-jobs and rewriters of history:
https://www.propublica.org/article/jd-vance-alex-jones-leonard-leo-teneo-maddow-video
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
How not to acknowledge a professional colleague: "I am adding your name not because I think you deserve it or are entitled to it, but because it is the noble thing to do."
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/27/dont-be-that-professor/
