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Starting tomorrow music is illegal, except for one song per person. What's your song? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Just break the law. You've not stated what the sentence is and it doesn't sound very enforceable

Is there a good OSS grocery list? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I've always just used note taking apps for this. Currently been using Notesnook for a couple of years and it's worked super well for me.

Why is my entire feed in this Lemmy server nothing but American politics and Reddit bashing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't see much of that stuff. I mostly subscribe to foss communities and I mostly see relevant stuff about foss and tech. Subscribe to communities pertaining to your hobbies/interests and your feed should reflect that

the perfect browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

If that's sincerely how you see plagiarism (ie allowing someone to use your work as part of their work without attribution) then all I can say is that I've never seen anyone else use the term plagiarism that way; and unless either of us knows of a survey quantifying how people use the term, that's as far as we'll get on that front.

Anyway, the conversation is still about BSD, and you keep avoiding the fact that BSD requires attribution. If you are using the Wikipedia definition then it does not satisfy

representation of another person's language ... as one's own original work

Do you or do you not think that BSD/MIT is plagiarism? You seem to be clearly dodging the question. If you don't think it's plagiarism then there's no major disagreement and we can end this conversation.

the perfect browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Ok, in that case your definition is inclusive of things which are not conventionally considered plagiarism. Ghostwriting is commonly looked down upon, but not considered plagiarism. A large part of a non-legalistic definition of plagiarism includes a lack of consent from the original creator; if you take a job as a ghostwriter, you agree to your writing being published under a different name. If I work as a developer for someone who wants to make their own app, say a YouTuber, and they publish the app I wrote as <YouTuber's> app, most people would consider that perfectly normal and not plagiaristic, since the developer was paid for a service in which it was understood their work would be published under a different person's name.

You are also avoiding the original question about BSD and MIT, and not explaining why that is plagiaristic. Do you still think they are plagiaristic? If so, how? Given that both the licensor explicitly wanted people to be able to re-use their code in proprietary software (i.e. consent/permission exists), and these licences require attribution (i.e. not only are you not taking credit for it, you are actively naming and crediting the original author).

How many days can I go consuming only soylent? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Multivitamins don't have much, if anything, by way of caloric value.

the perfect browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I don't have a legalistic view of the world; I am saying plagiarism is a legalistic concept. For context, I support the abolition of law and of intellectual property. Plagiarism is a particular kind of violation of intellectual property law, and without IP, it makes no sense. You still fail to define a plagiarism outside of the law, and you also fail to define a plagiarism that does not violate MIT/BSD. MIT/BSD both require attribution. You cannot claim MIT/BSD code written by someone else as your own without breaking copyright law.

the perfect browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (7 children)

No, actually, plagiarism is a legalistic term. If IP law did not exist, neither would plagiarism.

And if you give someone permission to use your IP, and they go ahead and use that permission, it is not plagiarism neither legally nor by any colloquial understanding of the term. That is what happens when someone uses BSD or MIT code in their proprietary software. It is explicitly allowed, by design, by intention.

without attribution

BSD/MIT also don't allow you to not attribute the author of the BSD/MIT code, so that doesn't even make sense. You are perhaps thinking of code released public domain, in which case, again, the author specifically chose that over BSD/MIT, and the main practical difference is not needing to give attribution, so that must be what the original author wanted.

Thoughts on deleting my Microsoft account, including my Minecraft license? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I know. It's a verbal shorthand.

Is it possibly to permanently blacklist websites on DuckDuckGo? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You could write a userscript to maintain a blacklist with eg greasemonkey

Am in the only one who cringes at install instructions that require piping some curl output into bash? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Just direct it into a file, read the script, and run it if you're happy. It's just a shorthand that doesn't require saving the script that will only be used once.

the perfect browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (9 children)

That is definitionally not plagiarising. It follows IP law, which is the opposite of plagiarism.

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Do you have any work of art (writing, visual, film, video game, etc) that you think is accidentally a masterpiece? e.g. a work with a lot of unintended powerful meaning? (lemmy.ml)
 

Meaning that the author is maybe not very good at their craft, but inadvertently created a work with a lot more meaning than they intended, or they accidentally did something quite clever that they didn't mean to. Or maybe a work which is good in its own right but there's a particular "unofficial" interpretation which makes it so much better.

Obviously a bit of this question involves knowing authorial intentions, but in a lot of instances authors have been able to state that they did or didn't intend a particular interpretation.

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Should I be concerned that my HDD, which seems to be working fine, is 8 years old? (lemmy.ml)
 

It appears to work fine (it contains my home partition for my main machine I daily drive) and I haven't noticed signs of failure. Not noticeably slow either. I used to boot Windows off of it once upon a time which was incredibly slow to start up, but I haven't noticed slowness since using it for my home partition for my personal files.

Articles online seem to suggest the life expectancy for an HDD is 5–7 years. Should I be worried? How do I know when to get a new drive?

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What are the staple foods of your diet? (lemmy.ml)
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Duck typing (web.archive.org)
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Self-hosting a mail server with zero-access encryption for all emails, similar to Protonmail (lemmy.ml)
 

I was interested in hosting my own mail server that provides a similar level of privacy for users as Protonmail, ie the server admin cannot read any emails, even those which are not E2EE with PGP. Is there a self-hostable solution to this?

I'm aware the server admin can't read emails that were sent encrypted using the user's PGP key, but most emails I get are automated emails from companies/services/etc without the option to upload a public key to send the user encrypted email. If you're with a service like Protonmail, the server admin still cannot read even these emails.

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How are controllers with Proton? (lemmy.ml)
 

I don't own any controllers.

I started playing Dark Souls 3 which I now understand has a controller strongly recommended. I may as well just look into getting a controller of some kind as I have a few games that have somewhat janky kbm controls and are better enjoyed with a controller.

I just wanted to ask for general advice about what controller to get in terms of compatibility. Also if someone has made a controller that's more in the spirit of foss that also works fine with Steam and Proton games that would be nice?

I know Steam is pretty good with Playstation controllers and I used to use a PS controller (don't remember what generation) with some native Linux Steam games, not sure how the whole PS vs Xbox controller thing is affected by running games through Proton if at all? If it matters let me know, and I'll see if I can procure a controller for myself.

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FOSS document scanning app for Android? (lemmy.ml)
 

Hi, was wondering if anyone knew of an app where you can use your camera to scan documents (like Adobe Scan) which is FOSS.

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Concept: beer that is free as in freedom, not as in gratis (lemmy.ml)
 

You still have to pay for it because it costs money to make. But it's completely open-source beer so you can recreate it yourself if you don't want to buy it pre-made, or you want to modify the recipe.

I have no idea how to make beer otherwise I'd have a crack at this shitpost myself...

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Trying out [SerenityOS] (imgur.com)
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What distro do you use for your servers? (lemmy.ml)
 

I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.

I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.

Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.

In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.

So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?

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The ICJ finds that BDS is not merely a right, but an obligation (mondoweiss.net)
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How do I change the font size of the address bar? (lemmy.ml)
 

I use a 14px bitmap font as part of my system theme. It is set to display at 14px in my gtk theme which works for tabs, bookmarks, right-click menus, and other parts of Firefox UI, but the Firefox address bar doesn't seem to be the same size and is blurry.

How do I change the font size of the address bar? Is there an element I can target in userChrome?

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