2026-07-25T08:15:02+02:00 https://nostr.ae Bradley M. Kühn https://nostr.ae/npub1p8fw3gm5ejz5yzscznf7hlplclsmn3t9jnswqdvdytm88uutesnsvetcuc https://cdn.masto.host/fedicopyleftorg/accounts/avatars/114/797/464/859/441/527/original/b89c05cf89b57d57.png https://cdn.masto.host/fedicopyleftorg/accounts/avatars/114/797/464/859/441/527/original/b89c05cf89b57d57.png https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst822pkj4h7adm9qmlrr8g67hf7qevtt7n55ypcd9dzusr3k9nnlszyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzwsrlk6y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgk7cztpv6avx6a23vc4t7fh5w6amjgemj7c2p3u2syxlmqq7m9jg7d8fhk'>nevent1q…8fhk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(2/2) <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1juzmcp2ud36d9c6zpd6r9st0jgv76ufecmknq4r9dk2zy7e259sqjjeyat" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>moody</span> (<span class="italic">npub1juz…eyat</span>)</a></span>, pls. don&#39;t conflate *technical* caretakers of a particular codebase w/ the caretakers of #GPL (or its enforcement). I&#39;m heavily involved in enforcing #copyleft for #Linux. Success in the #Vizio case will establish 3ʳᵈ beneficiary right to complete, Corresponding Source code not just for Linux, but for all code under #GPLv2 &amp; #LGPLv2_1.<br/><br/>It&#39;s #disturbing some in the billionaire-class conscripted #LinuxFoundation to confuse everyone about what copyleft means, but they&#39;ve not won yet. 2026-06-28T23:39:19+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszjxw4da98cwj0y2lnz4repj3nw2unzmer4s9u0y0ztm6vhqh0kwszyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzw2fqktp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrky2wegs6dg9pahstkh8e5ndglfyksyfnwahwr4652yx7hyf6axq24trqy'>nevent1q…trqy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m surprised at the assumption that because a specific strategy didn&#39;t work perfectly, it&#39;s therefore a failure. I have spent decades being annoyed that #copyleft&#39;s inventors didn&#39;t factor in the capitalism power that <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1juzmcp2ud36d9c6zpd6r9st0jgv76ufecmknq4r9dk2zy7e259sqjjeyat" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>moody</span> (<span class="italic">npub1juz…eyat</span>)</a></span>&#39;s mention that would cause those challenges.<br/><br/>Yet, *despite* that, we have situations (such as #OpenWrt even *existing at all* because of #GPL enforcement) that show it made (&amp; continues to make) a real difference in the struggle against software proprietariness<br/><br/> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Liam Proven</span> (<span class="italic">npub19yg…w8um</span>)</a></span> 2026-06-28T21:30:39+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrpe0mxs75ht00r2gneu6he3e4muth8mmv2rgwdy7neu6rtzdlkpgzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzw9qstkr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst4xy9m9pg8dhqm42tem6737keajzgulfny9m7wccwsrmmzpn89ccenplll'>nevent1q…plll</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Note too that *even if* all the Courts decide artifacts output by an LLM-gen-AI aren&#39;t copyrightable (we&#39;re far from that now, and no one knows for sure what will happen), it *is* certain that human-performed modifications to a yet-uncopyrighted work *are* copyrightable.<br/><br/>I recommend licensing such under a copyleft license.<br/><br/>Anyway, per elsewhere in thread, LLM-gen-AI artifacts always require human improvements to be useful to FOSS.<br/><br/>Cc: <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1s55eh7vswxaatty0tfasqptdp3sshqc0fepmy59e8rj724pc3ryqq8up8m" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>sounddrill :verified_dragon:​</span> (<span class="italic">npub1s55…up8m</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1tra3pvjmnn005gkvws58j368lqeds4qgstjh47hwq36ns352p43qv3q9a6" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>NLnet Labs</span> (<span class="italic">npub1tra…q9a6</span>)</a></span> <br/>[@alexband](<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@alexband">https://hachyderm.io/@alexband</a> ) 2026-06-26T19:39:42+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstw70dr6eqca2zmhp73eqcwvtz0f7kkmzhnh7fe54vsatyqxtxp6qzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzw5wvwgr (1/2) This won&#39;t surprise anyone: I can&#39;t make it through breakfast without pondering ethics &amp; moral imperatives.<br/>I&#39;m really busy professionally rn but I still gotta eat obviously.<br/>But, I have been shaving minutes here &amp; there off food prep time.<br/>I usually hand squeeze one fresh orange with breakfast. I started to think I didn&#39;t have time, then thought “I have a right one glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice”.<br/>Now I&#39;ve spent 8 minutes pondering if it really is a *right*.<br/><br/>#ethics #morality #Kant 2026-06-19T16:01:20+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrt90k77h5zqmnyf94nuc2crllhg9yj9ucerk2cjxpa4889z52whgzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzwhscec9 (1/2) ≈ every 6 months, I have trouble sleeping specifically because I think about how, circa 1996, I attended some sysadmin (probably SANS) event in Baltimore.<br/><br/>I went to a tutorial on #IPv6. I got there early as we knew it&#39;d be standing room only &amp; it was.<br/><br/>One of the first slides the instructor put up was a graph of how quickly #IPv4 numbers were being assigned. He said with complete confidence: “We all need to learn IPv6 as IPv4 will surely be deprecated by the end of the century”. … 2026-04-29T11:37:31+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx54zruvl0qx4q9fwfv6kd39pthe5vdycv2g0arl5xnxwa85cm6rczyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzwvtystz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy5zqszeqtak5s4pa9nzhtxg9duaa5tyq2e46glaqr4awhxkkpkps4s48cs'>nevent1q…48cs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I agree with <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1kmpkcs4v4v0c0yaz3wg4y362lf2ces7pna85nras0saqxufcnnjsewfar2" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Denver Gingerich</span> (<span class="italic">npub1kmp…far2</span>)</a></span> in particular because if *we* are copylefting our code (even if assisted by #LLM-backed gen-#AI), we won&#39;t face a copyleft claim later.<br/><br/>Furthermore, it is highly unlikely these LLMs are (a) trained on proprietary software, and (b) any proprietary software company that so-trained would later claim infringement.<br/><br/>#Microsoft has all but admitted they refuse to train Copilot on their own code anyway.<br/><br/>Cc: <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1r8k24et53nqgm66va9mc4d9jrm5uzwpymtgg4xmc9nl6pf44vkwqcwddv2" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC</span> (<span class="italic">npub1r8k…ddv2</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub14pccn5924rtydjn2e5q3y239jrq63rwzeup0gqv4d77ry9zxc9jqqm26fv" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Richard Fontana</span> (<span class="italic">npub14pc…26fv</span>)</a></span> 2026-04-18T17:34:05+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf0wskm7f2hwwsvx9p3f0lh8hmxh5jhm4r857lfextjcktj2m3ulszyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzwnlmszd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs884t025l0czml4726v8np8djczx57h9jk6r87770e9muhrsqxjzqn9459q'>nevent1q…459q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So fascinating: „der Slop”&#39;s already a loan word in German!<br/>Aber sagen keine Deutschsprecheren „Das Schmutzwasser aus KI”?<br/><br/>I love loan words in any language. My favorite English ones are Latin loan words, but my favorite German one is „Das Handy” — so inventive: a slang English adjective for “useful” gets borrowed as a noun for a *very specific* useful device.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been trying to bring Handy (n.) back to English for same usage as a loan word with poor results.<br/><br/>Cc: <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub14mmkmwpptcczqryxhr34arln3tsxdewheev9t0ta4sn2f6cg4s5ss76r4g" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>maybeanerd</span> (<span class="italic">npub14mm…6r4g</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1y2l9en3y09nprm9yxt2e5edya7r6v6vzkq9xrh02cgj8srnf8cwq3znuf9" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷</span> (<span class="italic">npub1y2l…nuf9</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1p8d3455m9tt0kkm7fnuykjjd0zenflzukurvg9s2yfd6m4vlfpgsccd8w7" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Felix Singer</span> (<span class="italic">npub1p8d…d8w7</span>)</a></span> 2026-04-14T22:53:19+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfrvuqkyd484vvwpn9yqxsknpdvxuf3nvqreqxvrflsg75tsedxngzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzw9uqtex 👩‍🎤…I still got some #punk rock cred! So, it&#39;s last session after 3 days of #UndoneCS. I admit I zoned out, had trouble concentrating on Nils Bonfils&#39; talk “Cultivating a Historicist Sensibility through Permacomputing”.<br/>Through my mind haze, I hear Nils say the word “#anarchist”, then, “#anticapitalist”. Suddenly I&#39;m wide awake &amp; completely focused.<br/>#PunksNotDead<br/><br/>I&#39;m glad too as this #permacomputing stuff is extremely interesting &amp; definitely important to future of #FOSS.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.undonecs.org/2026/abstracts/UndoneCS26_abstract_47.pdf">https://www.undonecs.org/2026/abstracts/UndoneCS26_abstract_47.pdf</a><br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/fedicopyleftorg/media_attachments/files/116/290/575/714/654/039/original/d97b530bf5773666.jpg"> <br/> 2026-03-25T16:44:10+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsye476swlecce884wr8rcqdymx6przuntjlln6q6kl07vyf86dc3szyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzwjsvy9g An experienced developer said re: #LLM-backed #AI<br/>&gt; “things can move as fast as they want but the speed of my actual understanding is the only one useful to me”<br/><br/>They make an essential point: new tools aren&#39;t magically useful because companies are selling them.<br/><br/>Experienced people in the field have to spend some time to determine: “What Fresh Snake Oil”? This takes wall-clock time.<br/><br/>There are far too many PT Barnums and far too few Alan Turnings in our field today.<br/><br/>I fear for users&#39; rights. 2026-02-22T02:33:01+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswf62vsr5tcf52aw22a8wxn6kf4hety7qkx5mx42xe25ttkcym2nqzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzwva7arg Hey, weird Mastodon question to #AskFedi. If I post something &#34;Followers only&#34; and @-mention someone who *doesn&#39;t* follow me, do they get to see it? (What I am looking for *is* &#34;my followers, plus anyone I explicitly @-mention), but not sure if that&#39;s what #Mastodon&#39;s &#34;Followers only&#34; does or not.<br/><br/>(I realize this is a bit &#34;hey would you net.search this for me&#34; too, but I just worked an 18 hour day so give me a break. 😛 ) 2026-01-09T07:41:44+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrry74ra6ml05gasqy29rk40yr3yrz0alukxtuer48w2jrxhfg0mczyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzwkxr0gk I learned today YA set of records about me that are public &amp; I can&#39;t un-public them.😡<br/><br/>It&#39;s an open secret in #FOSS: those of us who are “FOSS celebrities” always live with a low-grade fear of doxing &amp; harassment. It&#39;s a perfect storm:<br/> * We are low-grade famous to *just* enough people to attract a few problematic folks.<br/> * Such folks — which are *very* few, to be clear — have tech skillz to do harassment efficiently.<br/><br/>My white male privilege makes it easier for me than others who face this. 2025-11-06T02:28:45+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0yhlstxadxhnjqly0u9gg27dmzq38vl5ycrlvedrxlu9ql2vectgzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzw9ddptx Age makes you more cautious. I used to carry Debian CD&#39;s with me &amp; do all my upgrades while in flight without electricity or Internet — just to test myself I could hack my way out of a screwed up GRUB or problematic #Linux build.<br/><br/>I&#39;m taking my spouse&#39;s laptop all the way from #Debian buster to trixie this morning (going through bullseye to bookworm first), &amp; I&#39;m actually nervous. I *think* it&#39;s just because it&#39;s my spouse&#39;s machine.<br/><br/>Ironic thing is upgrades are so much safer these days. 2025-10-26T17:02:27+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvmu2w8xhk5aeuh9khlmek8vzevuutkjj6qq9sx82dv56hylyp4ygzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzweavd4s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0k6wqslyaefa9snn079zshgaprrxavl369dmm5745f0l66u6492cu9zg3r'>nevent1q…zg3r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ST:LD is non spoilerly for newer #StarTrek &amp; written &amp; created by talented comedians who *get* our generation&#39;s Trek. It&#39;s every joke fans made but written by comedians.<br/>Start there.<br/><br/>ST:DIS is a product of early streaming TV &amp; has issues. If you can watch it for what it is, &amp; love the actors who are excellent, it&#39;s worth it.<br/><br/>ST:SNW is ST:TOS for 2025.<br/>ST:PIC is the true causality of the rights issue. It made me cry for what it coulda been. it&#39;s final season almost redeems<br/><br/> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1jv37xgzgnj3rhtnvk2lvu7ckccvrnahy7typzcxylz4delwye2fql9h844" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Luke T. Shumaker</span> (<span class="italic">npub1jv3…h844</span>)</a></span> 2025-09-10T15:40:27+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv9ldmzpu456nyg63q2gxgezjw47m9jspsts0mdew782qfz5dsxdqzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzw3n78nu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxkdj8exzka6cx8tvezd5e39k3055dqr2uyljeyw2evv853jcuggcysff5l'>nevent1q…ff5l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the goofy rights issues is sadly now sorted out thanks to the subsequent mergers but of course not enough to make ST:PIC what it should have been.<br/><br/>I also the obsession with canon ultimately is loyalty to a tiny group of writers who long since went to work on other projects. 2025-09-10T04:25:57+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0xl92q7xgceek6gmrngkt4hhgatpz7cpwknw5apu7q96ma87ujygzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzwd6n43d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp5a60xltly4glr42gv0gddkurkwupjaa928xddvcxhn58tfz8nvcgrkp3m'>nevent1q…kp3m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>… I was quoted in *The Register*:<br/>&gt; “The problems w/ #GitHub have been growing for some time. We at #SFC have always been concerned about the issue of using proprietary software to write #FOSS. However, the integration w/ #Copilot so deeply into the platform, and #Microsoft&#39;s flagrant use of content hosted on GitHub to train their own LLMs makes a departure from GitHub urgent for all FOSS developers.”<br/><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/codeberg_beset_by_ai_bots/">https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/codeberg_beset_by_ai_bots/</a><br/>I hope it inspires you to #GiveUpGitHub! <a href="https://giveupgithub.org">https://giveupgithub.org</a><br/>(3/3)<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/fedicopyleftorg/media_attachments/files/115/039/186/833/101/095/original/063034073241e6fd.png"> <br/> 2025-08-16T17:38:47+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspg3p5s3h3vw3a04nhtlu6h6ytxkxk5aty9lw84w2cccqsaeevjsczyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzw3tzpl7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw6767njvnmheedhaz04emmjlz0xe7wsf0h8evrwzpxrvgpaa3wms78sy23'>nevent1q…sy23</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I respond to this troll b/c it&#39;s an opportunity to say publicly why — in 2015 — I stopped saying “GNU/Linux”.<br/><br/>I say “Linux-based systems” — which I also recommended for SFC&#39;s stylesheet.<br/><br/>I ceased saying “ga-new-slash-lynn-ox” when RMS chastised me for saying <br/>“Linux” (but not “GNU”) in a post about VMWare&#39;s #GPL violation. I *had* mentioned the GNU GPL, but no GNU software was in their product.<br/><br/>RMS told me I harmed #GNU every time I didn&#39;t footnote the word “Linux” &amp; explain GNU/Linux.<br/>(1/3) 2025-08-05T00:14:08+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp3mtm8c4lh6ju98l878cp2dk5p4mrmtwls5fkrxgewnm9nwg336gzyqya969rwnxg2ss2rq2d86lu8lr7rww9vk2wpcp43530vuln30xzwq2545l 👀 … *huge* opportunity for travel to a key #FOSS event! Don&#39;t miss it…<br/><a href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/@conservancy@sfconservancy.org/114909678896224276">https://fedi.copyleft.org/@conservancy@sfconservancy.org/114909678896224276</a><br/><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jul/24/travel-grants-for-vizio-trial-to-foss-community/">https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jul/24/travel-grants-for-vizio-trial-to-foss-community/</a><br/>… #SFC&#39;ll cover travel expenses for select qualified individuals who produce blogs, “toots”, articles, videos, podcasts, etc. during the historic trial in the #SoftwareFreedom #Conservancy v. Vizio case.<br/>If you&#39;re available the week of 2025-09-22, &amp; have a little experience writing/broadcasting about #FreeSoftware online, apply by emailing &lt;travelforvizio@sfconservancy.org&gt;! 2025-07-28T21:32:06+02:00