John Sullivan @johns@librem.one
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
@joeyh It might matter if you officially canceled your account at that time (there's a separate ToS section for that). But if not, they (and probably others) say that any continued use means agreement to the revised terms: "Customer's continued use of the Service after those 30 days constitutes agreement to those revisions of this Agreement. For any other modifications, your continued use of the Website constitutes agreement to our revisions of these Terms of Service."
@joeyh I think it isn't the case because the ToS say you agree they can be changed at any time. So part of this thought experiment would be that such clauses are not allowed.
The result of the thought experiment could be that ToSes would be even worse, since they would have even more incentive to be as broad as possible at the start.
I hope "Surrounded by Idiots" (a #book about #management ) starts by saying "don't keep this book on your office shelf".
What would the world look like if companies had to continue following the ToS version in existence at the time your data was generated? So every new ToS version would only apply to data generated from that point on?
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A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.
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Sourceware 25 Roadmap
https://sourceware.org/sourceware-25-roadmap.html
Preparing #Sourceware for the next 25 years.
In the last couple of years we have started to diversify our hardware partners, setup new services using containers and isolated VMs, investigated secure supply chain issues, added redundant mirrors, created a non-profit home, collected funds, invested in open communication, open office hours and introduced community oversight by a Sourceware Project Leadership Committee with the help from @conservancy
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My flight at gate 404 is delayed because... the plane isn't there.
I am not making this up.
Interesting to see the mad scramble of proprietary software / silo companies updating their ToSes to say you explicitly consent to your data being used to train #AI -- while also taking the approach that they don't need consent (or compliance) to train on copyleft licensed works.
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@RiverSongFox@packmates.org Voted medium but would have chosen 1.1mm stub, or italic, if available.
You wouldn't download a spinning jenny
lol "Signing in using your GitLab.com account without a pre-existing GitLab account is not allowed. Create a GitLab account first, and then connect it to your GitLab.com account."
I heard you like GitLab so
Very glad to see this well-written Engadget article encouraging @torproject use, but wishing it would have flagged the other challenges besides speed -- like getting blocked or captcha'd into submission -- and highlighted *that* as a reason we all need to use it more, in addition to making deanonymization harder.
https://www.engadget.com/tor-dark-web-privacy-secure-browser-anonymous-130048839.html?src=rss
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Boy Wonder just looked at a pile of new books and said "it seems like buying books and reading books are two very different hobbies" and like
Damn, kid
Good that the new Twitter logo is the close window icon
@webmink @kharijohnson @osi @ed I'm too quick to snark, but my frustration comes from this being a recurring thing -- editors never fully corrected https://www.wired.com/story/ofrak-iot-reverse-engineering-tool/either.
Does Wired not read the Internet? (Or the Open Source Definition) https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-upsets-the-ai-horse-race/
How will the Overture Maps Foundation affect or relate to OpenStreetMap? What is their reason for existence? https://www.engadget.com/amazon-microsoft-led-group-shares-data-for-open-alternative-to-google-maps-160001416.html?src=rss
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
