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In private practice. North Carolina Certified Specialist in Trademark Law, Former board member of OSI. Opinions are my own. #Fedora #BeefyMiracle πŸŒ‰ bridged from ⁂ https://fosstodon.org/@pchestek, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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You ever think to yourself β€œbut I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?”

It turns out that β€œwear an inflatable frog costume and go downtown” is actually a really reasonable answer.

#portland #portlandfrog #uspol

11.10.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 209    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1
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Stolen from a pirate website?

15.10.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm surprised that there wasn't more noise around the license change of #Liquibase from Apache License 2.0 to Functional Source License (FSL) in Liquibase 5.0.0.
https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/releases/tag/v5.0.0

Is just nobody using it anymore? πŸ˜…

#Java #OSS #licensing

05.10.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"Open core is just a trial version and a proprietary version" (paraphrase), Frank Karlitschek, NextCloud #ato2025 #ato

13.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A photo of five inflatable costumes worn by five Portland residents. Among the characters represented are a panda, some kind of lizard, and a unicorn.

Text follows.

LA: We will fight you.
Chicago: We will fight you.
Portland: We will make you endure week after week of improv theater.

A photo of five inflatable costumes worn by five Portland residents. Among the characters represented are a panda, some kind of lizard, and a unicorn. Text follows. LA: We will fight you. Chicago: We will fight you. Portland: We will make you endure week after week of improv theater.

Lifted (gently) from Reddit this morning. #PDX

12.10.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Suno & Udio Sound Fair Use Alarm in Yout vs. RIAA YouTube-Ripper Appeal * TorrentFreak Suno & Udio say a decision under appeal in a YouTube-ripping case, jeopardizes fair use and undermines their defense against the RIAA.

Suno & Udio Sound Fair Use Alarm in Yout vs. RIAA YouTube-Ripper Appeal
https://torrentfreak.com/suno-udio-wade-into-youtube-ripper-circumvention-lawsuit-appeal-251008/

12.10.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
 Background image features a variety of people putting their hands into the center. A white box with the Side with Love logo is superimposed over it, with text that reads: "Our faith demands we demilitarize all communities. We must work with one another to build pockets of safety through organizing and mutual aid." There is a small round white heart in an orange circle at the bottom of the quote.

Background image features a variety of people putting their hands into the center. A white box with the Side with Love logo is superimposed over it, with text that reads: "Our faith demands we demilitarize all communities. We must work with one another to build pockets of safety through organizing and mutual aid." There is a small round white heart in an orange circle at the bottom of the quote.

09.10.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Original post on meshed.cloud

The #European #standards being developed to allow compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act have unusually high participation from #OpenSource community members. As a result many of the draft standards are being developed in markdown and are available for public review in ETSI's Gitlab instance […]

07.10.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oy Google, which is it? (PS, AI was right)

03.10.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Study of the European Commission: Survey on the Governance and Sustainability of Critical Open Source Software

The @EUCommission would like to hear your views on the governance and sustainability of critical open source software. The survey closes October 5th.

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FOSSEPS_Governance_and_Sustainability_Survey

#OpenSource #Governance #Sustainability

30.09.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nominet opens $500,000 fund for open source projects - Domain Incite Nominet plans to grant almost half a million dollars worth of funding to DNS-related open source projects. The .uk registry said it has opened the Nominet DNS Fund, which will make up to Β£370,000 available to eligible projects in its first year of operation. In a press release, Nominet explained the need to fund such

Nominet opens $500,000 fund for open source projects
https://domainincite.com/31364-nominet-opens-500000-fund-for-open-source-projects #foss #OpenSource

27.09.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

25.09.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 35620    πŸ” 8720    πŸ’¬ 1029    πŸ“Œ 356
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Piracy Over-Blocking Victims Turn to the Blockchain Hoping to Make LaLiga Pay * TorrentFreak The Immutable Domain Monitor, a new blockchain-powered platform designed to empower victims of pirate site overblocking, is taking on LaLiga.

Piracy Over-Blocking Victims Turn to the Blockchain Hoping to Make LaLiga Pay
https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-blocking-victims-empowered-by-platform-which-aims-to-make-laliga-pay-250922/

22.09.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oklahoma’s big β€œTV nudes” scandal was… a Jackie Chan movie on a Samsung streaming service
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/09/oklahomas-big-tv-nudes-scandal-was-a-jackie-chan-movie-on-a-samsung-streaming-service/

21.09.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Terrifying. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/after-childs-trauma-chatbot-maker-allegedly-forced-mom-to-arbitration-for-100-payout/

17.09.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u2zs2typsklaohqmfyxiunvy/post/3lykxkyffcc2v

11.09.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Untold Saga Of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On Feb. 10, on the third floor of the Social Security Administration’s Baltimore-area headquarters, Leland Dudek unfurled a 4-foot-wide roll of paper that extended to 20 feet in length. It was a visual guide that the agency had kept for years to explain Social Security’s many […]

The Untold Saga Of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/10/the-untold-saga-of-what-happened-when-doge-stormed-social-security/

11.09.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.

09.09.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2318    πŸ” 426    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 26

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

08.09.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 8399    πŸ” 2677    πŸ’¬ 352    πŸ“Œ 192

@copyrightlately Shouldn't the allocation between publisher and author be a matter of the interpretation of the publishing contract, not a matter for the court? If the publisher doesn't have these rights (but what rights are they?), why should they get anything?

08.09.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@ephemeromorph GTK used to stand for GIMP Toolkit. GObject originated as GtkObject. GObject Introspection is abbreviated GIR (I think?). So… GIR ostensibly expands to:

GNU's Not Uniplexed Information Computing Systems Image Manipulation Program Toolkit Object Introspection.

01.09.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.
GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix.
UNIX stands for Uniplexed Information Computing System ('unics').

Therefore, GIMP's full name is GNU's Not Uniplexed Information Computing Systems Image Manipulation Program.

29.08.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Here comes some IP fun! As if these kinds of deals aren't complicated enough for only one artist, and here antagonistic ones at that
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/04/exhausted-by-malicious-associations-morrissey-sells-stake-in-the-smiths.html

05.09.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
List of non-water floods - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-water_floods

01.09.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Original post on fosstodon.org

Not sure why this isn't getting more press - issued on a Friday of a long weekend? "Judge Strikes Down California Deepfake Law as Unconstitutional" https://www.dailyjournal.com/article/387319-judge-strikes-down-california-deepfake-law-as-unconstitutional Decision at […]

01.09.2025 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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mathgrrl (@mathgrrl@mathstodon.xyz) Attached: 1 image CALLING ALL CROCHET GEEKS AND GRANNIES Do you want to crochet something that ends up in a mathematical art exhibit in Paris* next summer? Join the project at www.grannylifecrochet.com * We will find out in September if the project makes it into the Paris exhibit

Original post: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mathgrrl/114885729941050524
From: @mathgrrl
https://mathstodon.xyz/@mathgrrl/114885729941050524

29.08.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
From Book Bans To Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control The Whole State’s Access To The Internet If you’ve read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming enacted laws requiring any website that hosts any sexual content to implement age verification measures. These […]

From Book Bans To Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control The Whole State’s Access To The Internet
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/28/from-book-bans-to-internet-bans-wyoming-lets-parents-control-the-whole-states-access-to-the-internet/

29.08.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A cat sitting and looking at the camera in the wall-mounted cat bed made out of painting.

A cat sitting and looking at the camera in the wall-mounted cat bed made out of painting.

Now the cat is looking in the other direction.

Now the cat is looking in the other direction.

Now the cat is laying on the bed.

Now the cat is laying on the bed.

Photo of the cat bed from the other angle, this time without the cat.

Photo of the cat bed from the other angle, this time without the cat.

17.08.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
HELLO!
DID YOU LEAVE A PRINTER HERE THIS MORNING? (Monday, July 3)
I GOT IT WORKING AND PRINTED THIS BUT I CAN'T USE SOME OF THE FEATURES UNTIL YOU REMOVE IT FROM YOUR HP ACCOUNT.
CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LOGIN AND REMOVE THE PRINTER FROM YOUR ACCOUNT.
hpsmart.com
THANK YOU AND HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!

Written in marker: Done! Enjoy :)

HELLO! DID YOU LEAVE A PRINTER HERE THIS MORNING? (Monday, July 3) I GOT IT WORKING AND PRINTED THIS BUT I CAN'T USE SOME OF THE FEATURES UNTIL YOU REMOVE IT FROM YOUR HP ACCOUNT. CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LOGIN AND REMOVE THE PRINTER FROM YOUR ACCOUNT. hpsmart.com THANK YOU AND HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY! Written in marker: Done! Enjoy :)

12.08.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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I had the Blueberry talk with GPT5. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/08/07/blueberry-hill/

"Double B moment" πŸ’•
From: @kjhealy
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/114990301650917094

08.08.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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