John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

The funniest thing to me about this case is the suggestion that Cox customers had any meaningful choice as to who their ISP was at all: https://www.engadget.com/appeals-court-overturns-1-billion-copyright-lawsuit-against-cox-130810427.html

Cox's defense should absolutely be "our customers didn't choose us because we were soft on copyright infringement -- our customers didn't choose us at all!"

(but also remember that Google has always refused to support efforts to actually abolish all software patents / make ideas implemented in software nonpatentable)

I guess I wasn't the only one to not know about this Google project to publish prior art, TDCommons: https://www.wired.com/story/google-tdcommons-dpub-patents-prior-art

Signal still requires phone number to get started, but supporting usernames as identifiers after that -- a significant improvement.

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-launches-usersnames-phone-number-privacy/

What a sport! https://www.npr.org/2024/02/10/1230605025/soccer-fans-can-now-bring-bagpipes-to-the-stands-of-the-euro-2024-cup

This is very sad news to me: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/373837-boston-pen-shop-closed/ -- I worked just a couple blocks away from there for many years, and after that, visited every time I was back in #Boston. A #fountainpen institution. I had hoped the change in ownership meant that it would be there for a while yet.

Completely unintentional that I made https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020453-crisp-gnocchi-with-brussels-sprouts-and-brown-butter for dinner tonight #fosdem #brussels

'They remind me of Kafka's injunction, in his diaries, to "use the attacker's horse for one's own ride."'
(Dwight Garner) #quote

A sentence I do not often hear myself say: "I agree with the president of Xbox." https://www.engadget.com/xbox-president-thinks-apples-eu-app-store-plan-is-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction-130551604.html #Apple

'And that the moves erode “the fundamental rights of users by giving #Apple the ability to review apps downloaded outside the App Store.”' https://www.engadget.com/apples-rivals-arent-happy-about-its-eu-app-store-changes-160032585.html?src=rss

Am I understanding this right? "Alternative" app stores that still themselves have to be approved by #Apple, and whose clients to install apps from the other marketplaces have to be available from the "official" App Store and approved by Apple? Also all only in the EU. Quite sad if this is correct and compliant with the DMA -- a small win for corporate competitive freedom but just about donut for individual freedom.

https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-details-how-it-plans-to-comply-with-the-eus-digital-markets-act/

@evan I thought Colorado removed 2020 from the ballot.

We all knew they'd figure out how to ruin it: https://www.engadget.com/apple-reportedly-plans-to-charge-developers-if-they-offer-sideloaded-apps-202345977.html?src=rss (also "sideload" is a ridiculous thing to call a much more direct route for installing apps.) #Apple

A serving of Nerds is 1 TBSP.