Armin Weigl @arminweigl@librem.one

#DIDit
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-die-kanguru-rebellion-digital-independence-day

Die Bundestags-Petition Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen wurde bis jetzt von 6737 Personen mitgezeichnet.

Baden-Württemberg hat längst Nägel mit Köpfen gemacht: Das CDU-geführte Innenministerium hat per Verordnung so eine Art „Rosa Liste“ mit trans* und nichtbinären Personen mitsamt früheren Vornamen und Geschlechtseintrag durchgesetzt. Andere Bundesländer werden, davon darf man ausgehen, nachziehen. Auch das Bundesinnenministerium hat im Bundesrat einen entsprechenden Anlauf gemacht, aber – zumindest vorerst – zurückgezogen, da man offenbar ein Scheitern befürchtet hat.

Abgesehen davon, dass solche Register nicht erforderlich sind, sind sie für die Personen, die daraufstehen, gefährlich. Nicht erst, wenn die AfD irgendwie daran käme und dann eine schöne geordnete Liste mit vielen Namen hätte. Was dann geschieht, lässt sich leicht vorstellen.

Das Quorum für eine Bundestags-Petition liegt bei 30000 geprüften Mitzeichnungen. Mit bis jetzt 6737 sind wir noch weit davon entfernt – und haben nur noch 16 Tage, also gut zwei Wochen, Zeit.

Wenn Ihr noch nicht mitgezeichnet habt, dann tut das bitte. Und für alle gilt: Bitte macht diese Petition bekannt.

Für trans*, inter*, nichtbinäre und agender Personen ist diese Petition wichtig. Wir sind sehr besorgt, dass solche Register verwendet werden können, um uns und unseren Familien Schaden zuzufügen. Es würde unsere Privatsphäre gefährden, uns stigmatisieren und uns ständig zu Outings zwingen.

Für Bundestags-Petitionen ist es notwendig, Euch mit Euren personenbezogenen Daten (zwingend Vor- und Nachname, Adresse, Land) zu registrieren. Dafür kann der Bundestag, wenn das Quorum erreicht wird, die Petition nicht einfach ignorieren, sondern muss sich im Petitionsausschuss damit befassen.

Eure persönlichen Daten werden nur einmal benötigt, nicht für jede Petition, die Ihr beim Bundestag mitzeichnet. Sobald Ihr Euch registriert habt, könnt Ihr damit jede Petition beim Bundestag mitzeichnen.

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_14/Petition_183950.nc.html

#Selbstbestimmungsgesetz #SBGG #RosaListen #RosaListe #Transfeindlichkeit

'South Park' writers create parody website for Trump Kennedy Center after snagging the domain names. Logo has redacted Epstein file snippets

"Welcome to TrumpKennedyCenter.org

A national cultural center dedicated to legacy, loyalty, and the careful presentation of history.

​Here, tradition is preserved, narratives are curated, and performances are elevated beyond mere art. What is remembered matters. What is omitted matters more.

We invite you to experience culture as authority, pageantry as truth, and excellence as defined by those in power." #USPol

https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org/

Related:11 - “answer shaped objects” or responses don’t always contain valid answers, “quelle surprise”?

“It has been unpleasant realising just how many people consider “answer-shaped objects” and “answers” to be the same thing.” - https://eigenmagic.net/@abstractcode/115795215226319814

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

The internet was not a mistake
Social media was not a mistake

Allowing Corporations to dictate and control both of these things was the mistake.

Rob [Pike] goes ballistic over AI-generated email thanking him for his work (and he's absolutely correct)

https://itsfoss.com/news/rob-pike-furious/

@robpike

> be delta chat
> make wild claims that always turn out to be marketing
> exist largely to create signal FUD
> have word salad in your FAQ which attempts to imply that signal's forward secrecy is not useful unless you never delete a message from your phone
> post about how gnupg is bad (unexplained)
> post link to a site that makes grapheneos vanadium respond in a way i've never seen before
> post mentions a rust pgp impl with inactive fedi account
> no devs mentioned but it has an artist-designed kawaii logo
> i just want delta chat to have a single interaction without triggering every single red flag

https://chaos.social/@delta/115796626066185436

Boost if you will never, ever, use AI in your writing.

I still can't believe #Brave is a thing. There apparently are just people out there who are like "I'm frustrated by the corporate bullshit in Chrome, so I think I'll try this crypto scam made by a homophobe"

Wer glaubt, dass eine #Klarnamenpflicht das Internet besser und höflicher macht, war noch nie auf #LinkedIn.

@isotopp warum nicht gestaffelte Fahrerlaubnis wie beim Motorrad? Also nach Leistungs/Masse Verhältnis.

Würde viele Probleme und auch finanzielle Desaster von jungen Männern verhindern.

💯 justified outrage about AI slop. Source https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s

Who says we don’t tax #billionaires

'Twas the night of the moratorium, and all through the cloud
not a pager was beeping: no deploys were allowed.
The packages frozen on the servers with care,
In hopes that an outage would strike nowhere;

The developers still pondering code to embed,
While visions of monads danced in their heads.
The VM put to sleep, and I in this app,
Had just settled down for a long masto thread,

GPLv2 affirmation…

I don’t generally post here as people have probably noticed, but here’s a pdf of a recent court ruling, and this turns out to be the easiest way for me to link to a copy of it, since I don’t really maintain any web presence normally and I don’t want to post pdf’s to the kernel mailing lists or anything like that.

And the reason I want to post about it, is that it basically validates my long-held views that the GPLv2 is about making source code available, not controlling the access to the hardware that it runs on.

The court case itself is a mess of two bad parties: Vizio and the SFC. Both of them look horribly bad in court - for different reasons.

Vizio used Linux in their TVs without originally making the source code available, and that was obviously not ok.

And the Software Freedom Conservancy then tries to make the argument that the license forces you to make your installation keys etc available, even though that is not the case, and the reason why the kernel is very much GPLv2 only. The people involved know that very well, but have argued otherwise in court.

End result: both parties have acted badly. But at least Vizio did fix their behavior, even if it apparently took this lawsuit to do so. I can’t say the same about the SFC.

Please, SFC - stop using the kernel for your bogus legal arguments where you try to expand the GPLv2 to be something it isn’t. You just look like a bunch of incompetent a**holes.

The only party that looks competent here is the judge, which in this ruling says

Plaintiff contends the phrases, “machine-readable” and “scripts used to control compilation and installation” support their assertion in response to special interrogatory no. 4 that Defendant should “deliver files such that a person of ordinary skill can compile the source code into a functional executable and install it onto the same device, such that all features of the original program are retained, without undue difficulty.”

The language of the Agreements is unambiguous. It does not impose the duty which is the subject of this motion.

Read as a whole, the Agreements require Vizio to make the source code available in such a manner that the source code can be readily obtained and modified by Plaintiff or other third parties. While source code is defined to include “the scripts used to control compilation and installation,” this does not mean that Vizio must allow users to reinstall the software, modified or otherwise, back onto its smart TVs in a manner that preserves all features of the original program and/or ensures the smart TVs continue to function properly. Rather, in the context of the Agreements, the disputed language means that Vizio must provide the source code in a manner that allows the source code to be obtained and revised by Plaintiff or others for use in other applications.

In other words, Vizio must ensure the ability of users to copy, change/modify, and distribute the source code, including using the code in other free programs consistent with the Preamble and Terms and Conditions of the Agreements. However, nothing in the language of the Agreements requires Vizio to allow modified source code to be reinstalled on its devices while ensuring the devices remain operable after the source code is modified. If this was the intent of the Agreements, the Agreements could have been readily modified to state that users must be permitted to modify and reinstall modified software on products which use the program while ensuring the products continue to function. The absence of such language is dispositive and there is no basis to find that such a term was implied here. Therefore, the motion is granted.

IOW, this makes it clear that yes, you have to make source code available, but no, the GPLv2 does not in any way force you to then open up your hardware.

My intention - and the GPLv2 - is clear: the kernel copyright licence covers the software, and does not extend to the hardware it runs on. The same way the kernel copyright license does not extend to user space programs that run on it.

Holiday special

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

@Anwalt_Jun

Oder anders formuliert: @AuswaertigesAmt , wann wieder tröt?

Warum muss ich auf X gehen, um die Bundesregierung zu lesen?

Mit Europa kann man's ja machen:

Druck auf Banken, die daraufhin die Konten der roten Hilfe schließen (Unterstützung des "Antifa-Terrors"), und Sanktionen gegen HateAid, die sich im Rahmen des DSA um übelsten Social-Media-Mist kümmern ("Zensur").

Es gibt "breite Kritik," mit anderen Worten:
Europa lässt das mit sich machen.

https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/kontokuendigung-wegen-antifa-banken-vollstrecken-us-politik-deutschland

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/us-einreiseverbot-fuer-deutsche-aktivistinnen-stoesst-auf-breite-kritik-100.html