There is a “Commons Clause” that people can add but there is some controversy as to whether adding this clause is enforceable. It very much would violate the strict definition of “FOSS”.

That said, I very much am against corporations that make full use of FOSS without contributing anything meaningful in return. I personally believe companies that make over $1M in revenue should absolutely donate something to the FOSS products they use.

Not only that but developers need to stop using permissive licenses like MIT or CC0. Moving to something like GPL3 (and specifically version 3) would go a long way for companies to stop treating open source as a well they can exploit.

Or they see a bunch of billable hours and mistakenly think that he’ll pay.

Or smartly will demand that he pays a fat retainer.

Bare in mind that the government requires a warrant to obtain data against you, the barrier in which to get a warrant requires probable cause.

Obtaining data about you from a company only requires a subpoena if the company doesn’t cooperate.

BUYING data about you from the same company is completely allowed.

Until we get privacy laws, we are truly fucked.

If you all haven’t already, the next few days is a great time to rebalance your retirement accounts. Stop investing in US federal bonds and focus on international mutual funds and (if available) state and local mutual funds.

I rebalanced last year and my IRA is doing fantastic. (Not today but overall)

The issue with stuff like this is that it’s going to work like literacy tests that disenfranchised black voters.

Fascists will use them to be “alternative facts” and if you answer in any way that they don’t like, you’ll be bared from serving.

They’d rather have US citizens die than shame Trump.

ACAB

But also…police have qualified immunity. If the police get charged and convicted, it would be the one positive thing that this administration will have done.

“I’m so fucking pissed that you didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize that I’m going to go to war with you to teach you a lesson.”

There are communities across the US where citizens are requesting data centers. These forums are open to the public and often recorded. You can do a simple search and find countless articles and then from there find minutes and voting records.

I would start there

“Do Not Split”

Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast

But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.

And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.

If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.

It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.

Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.

take accountability

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As we push more average Windows users to Linux, we need to be prepared for these users to download and run completely untrusted code.

1000% agree.

If you’re in your 20s, start building good habits now. Your future self will thank you.

The problem isn’t necessarily standing.

The problem is that she got arrested in the first place. So now she has to pay an attorney to represent her, defend her from the shit charges, then countersue the police and the government, appeal it as necessary. It might be years before she sees a penny of any lawsuit.

Meanwhile the officer continues to be an officer. Politicians involved are usually gone.

This is a situation where justice is denied not once, not twice, but many times over.

Also, “That’s just locker room talk.”

These statements are often made in the same breath.

Because war is easy to sell to your mouth breathing electorate.

There’s a big bad guy causing all your problems! Let me be strong and kill him. And while I do, I’ll make sure immigrants don’t take your jobs.

The last time this was discussed, my understanding is that Article 5 of NATO would activate, with the US being the aggressor.

Whether the rest of NATO would actually attack US forces would be the question.

Unless your writing is going to be greatly different from FMHY, I’d partner with them on the hosting so you only have to focus on the writing.