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The driver’s license documents in Germany now have an expiration date. You have to renew them every 15 years. (Not the license itself, just the documents.)
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@bender@twtxt.net A renewed vision test might be a good idea for some people. 😅 I mean, it is kind of curious that you get this license as a young person and then it lasts a lifetime, without any further tests. As long as you don’t screw up really bad, it remains valid …
The driver’s license documents in Germany now have an expiration date. You have to renew them every 15 years. (Not the license itself, just the documents.)
I just got my renewed documents. Their expiration date says something like 01.09.40. Huh? That looks super weird to me, like an error. But no, it’s 2040 … Just 15 years away.
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The bots have begun to access my website way more often. I’m getting about 120k hits on https://www.uninformativ.de/git/ now in a couple of hours.
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“But all your stuff is MIT licensed! They are allowed to do that!”
Haha. As if they would care. They crawl everything they get their hands on.
Besides, that’s not true, the license states that the copyright notice must be retained. “AI” breaks that. They incorporate my code and my articles in their product and make it appear as if it was their work.
think i’m gonna use this license on my git repos going forward. it kicks ass https://anticapitalist.software/
20 Years of the Open Invention Network
The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating
its 20th anniversary.
The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license
that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel
with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source
has accelerated, OIN has proactively expanded the scope of the OIN
license’s benefit by including more than 4,500 software components … ⌘ Read more
[$] Nyxt: the Emacs-like web browser
Nyxt is an unusual web
browser that tries to answer the question, “what if Emacs was a
good web browser?”. Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full
web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD
three-clause license. Its target audience is developers who want a
browser that is keyboard-driven and extensible; Nyxt is also developed
for Linux first, rather than Linux being an afterthought or just a
sliver of its audience. The philosophy (as described … ⌘ Read more
When I chose the MIT license for all of my software, I thought:
“Should I use GPL, which I don’t really understand? Is that worth it? Yeah, there is a theoretical possibility that some company might use my code in their proprietary product … and then what? Should I sue them to enforce the GPL? I’m not going to do that anyway, so I’ll just use the MIT license.”
And now we have those LLM scrapers and now it’s suddenly a reality that these companies (ab)use my code. I can see it in my logs. I didn’t expect that back then.
GPL wouldn’t help, either, of course. (Regardless, I now think that GPL would have been the better choice anyway.)
I’m honestly considering taking my code and website offline. Maybe make it accessible through some obscure protocol like Gopher or Gemini, but no more HTTP.
(Yes, Anubis might help. Temporarily.)
I’m just tired.
[$] OpenH264 induces headaches for Fedora
Software patents and workarounds for them are, once again,
causing headaches for open-source projects and users. This time
around, Fedora users have been vulnerable to a serious flaw in the OpenH264 library for
months—not for want of a fix, but because of the Rube\
Goldberg machine methodology of distributing the library to Fedora
users. The software is open source under a two-clause BSD license; the RPMs are … ⌘ Read more
[$] Out of Pocket and into the wallabag
Mozilla has decided to throw in\
the towel on Pocket, a social-bookmarking
service that it acquired in 2017. This has left many users scrambling
for a replacement for Pocket before its shutdown in July. One possible
option is wallabag, a
self-hostable, MIT-licensed project for saving web content for later
reading. It can import saved dat … ⌘ Read more
[$] Allowing BPF programs more access to the network
Mahé Tardy led two sessions about some of the challenges that he, Kornilios Kourtis,
and John Fastabend have run into in their work on
Tetragon (Apache-licensed BPF-based security monitoring software)
at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. The session
prompted discussion about the feasibility of letting BPF programs
send data over the network, as well as potential new kfuncs to let BPF firewalls
send TCP reset packets. Tardy pre … ⌘ Read more
[$] A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions
Those of us who have spent our lives playing with computers naturally see
the appeal of deploying them though the home for both data acquisition and
automation. But many of us who have watched the evolution of the
technology industry are increasingly unwilling to entrust critical
household functions to cloud-based servers run by companies that may not
have our best interests at heart. The Apache-licensed Home Assistant project offe … ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 8, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Debian and essential packages; Custom BPF OOM killers; Speculation barriers for BPF programs; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage.
Briefs: Deepin on openSUSE; AUTOSEL; Mission Center 1.0.0; OASIS ODF; Redis license; USENIX ATC; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
Deepin Desktop removed from openSUSE
The SUSE Security Team has announced the removal of the Deepin
Desktop from openSUSE due to violations of the project’s packaging
policy.
The discovery of the bypass of the security whitelistings via the
deepin-feature-enablepackage marks a turning point in our assessment
of Deepin. We don’t believe that the openSUSE Deepin packager acted
with bad intent when he implemented the “license agreement” dialog to
bypas … ⌘ Read more
my cat finally got her damn license ⌘ Read more
Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license (Redis blog)
After a somewhat tumultuous switch to the\
Server Side Public License (SSPL) in March 2024, Redis has backtracked
and is now offering Redis under the\
Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) starting with Redis 8, CEO Rowan Trollope
announced. The change back to an open-source license was led by Redis creator Salvatore\
”antirez” Sanfillipo, who also contributed the new Vector Set … ⌘ Read more
使用 Go 實現 License 認證
在軟件授權管理中，License 機制可以有效防止未授權使用，確保軟件的合法性。本篇文章將講解如何使用 Go 生成機器碼、創建 License、驗證 License 及防止時間篡改，並提供完整可運行代碼示例，以讓您理解其中的邏輯。License 機制概述在軟件授權體系中，License（許可證）是用於驗證軟件的合法使用權限的一種機制。常見 License 設計包含以下關鍵要素：機器碼：用於唯一標識 ⌘ Read more
Bit of an update, there is now a general licence for all my stuff:
“Unless projects are accompanied by a different license, Creative Commons apply (“BY-NC-ND” for all art featuring the Canine mascot and “BY-NC” for everything else).”
It’s even included on my website, where most of the demand for a clear licence originated from:
In practice this changes nothing, as I was never enforcing anything more than this anyway and given permission for other use too. Now it’s just official that this is the baseline, of what can be done, without having to ask for permission first.
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@doesnm Threema is also known to be crippled to state actors and the five eyes. It has known crypto protocol weaknesses that can leak metadata.
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@Prologic@twtxt.net Threema states the findings of that security research are all plugged. Still reading on it. Truth is that my family is difficult to get away from WhatsApp. And yes, I plan to buy them a license key.
iPhone Driver’s License Support Coming to Illinois
iPhone users from Illinois will soon be able to add their driver’s licenses and IDs to the Apple Wallet app on iPhone and Apple Watch, the Illinois Secretary of State announced today [ PDF].
An Illinois state law that went into effect on January 1 legalizes mobil … ⌘ Read more
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Forcing social media to open their algorithms: hostile to corporations
Forcing young people to not use social media: hostile to young people, helps prevent them from organizing
You think they did this for the benefit of the young people?
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Btw about social: found very interesting thing about twitter:
The legal basis that X asserts in the filing is not terribly interesting. But what is interesting is that X has decided to involve itself at all, and it highlights that you do not own your followers or your account or anything at all on corporate social media, and it also highlights the fact that Elon Musk’s X is primarily a political project he is using to boost, or stifle, specific viewpoints and help his friends. In the filing, X’s lawyers essentially say—like many other software companies, and, increasingly, device manufacturers as well—that the company’s terms of service grant X’s users a “license” to use the platform but that, ultimately, X owns all accounts on the social network and can do anything that it wants with them.
[ANN] Monero Remote Node Monitoring project updates
Since my last post on Reddit in June 2024, there have been some major changes and new features.
* updated the license from GLWTS to a more widely recognized and permissive one (BSD-3-Clause)
* UI: switched from SvelteKit to Templ+HTMX to reduce external dependencies
* added support for monitoring both IPv6 and I2P nodes
* set up a Tor Hidden service for the web UI
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- GitHub repository
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@bender Gave it a try on
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Termux same thing @doesnm uses and it worked 👍 Media
@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt No it’s all good… I’ve just rebuilt it from master and it doesn’t look like anything is broken:
~/GitRepos> git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt.git
Cloning into 'htwtxt'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 411, done.
remote: Total 411 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 411 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (411/411), 87.89 KiB | 430.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (238/238), done.
~/GitRepos> cd htwtxt
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> go mod init htwtxt
go: creating new go.mod: module htwtxt
go: to add module requirements and sums:
go mod tidy
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> go mod tidy
go: finding module for package github.com/gorilla/mux
go: finding module for package golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt
go: finding module for package gopkg.in/gomail.v2
go: finding module for package golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal
go: found github.com/gorilla/mux in github.com/gorilla/mux v1.8.1
go: found golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt in golang.org/x/crypto v0.29.0
go: found golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal in golang.org/x/crypto v0.29.0
go: found gopkg.in/gomail.v2 in gopkg.in/gomail.v2 v2.0.0-20160411212932-81ebce5c23df
go: finding module for package gopkg.in/alexcesaro/quotedprintable.v3
go: found gopkg.in/alexcesaro/quotedprintable.v3 in gopkg.in/alexcesaro/quotedprintable.v3 v3.0.0-20150716171945-2caba252f4dc
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> go build
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> ll
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 330 B Fri Nov 22 20:25:52 2024 go.mod
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 1.1 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:52 2024 go.sum
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 8.9 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 handlers.go
.rwxr-xr-x aelaraji aelaraji 12 MB Fri Nov 22 20:26:18 2024 htwtxt <-------- There's the binary ;)
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 4.2 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 io.go
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 34 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 LICENSE
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 8.5 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 main.go
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 5.5 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 README.md
drwxr-xr-x aelaraji aelaraji 4.0 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 templates
iPhone Driver’s Licenses in Wallet App Rolling Out in Seventh U.S. State
As noted by 9to5Mac, Apple recently started rolling out the ability for Hawaii residents to add a digital version of their driver’s license or state ID to the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, providing a convenient and contactless way to display proof of identity or age at select airports, businesses, and venues.
On my blog: Open Source Characters https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/11/open-source-characters.html #freeculture #licenses #rant
Porting my JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason
high_impacttl;dr: high_impact is small game engine for 2D action games. It’s written in C, compiles to Windows, Mac and Linux as well as to WASM for the Web. It’s “inspired by” my original Impact JavaScript game engine from 2010. The name high_impact is a nod to a time when C was considered a high level language.
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Porting my JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason
high_impacttl;dr: high_impact is small game engine for 2D action games. It’s written in C, compiles to Windows, Mac and Linux as well as to WASM for the Web. It’s “inspired by” my original Impact JavaScript game engine from 2010. The name high_impact is a nod to a time when C was considered a high level language.
MIT licensed, source on github: [github.com/phoboslab/high_impact](https://github … ⌘ Read more
iPhone Driver’s Licenses Now Available in Ohio
iPhone and Apple Watch users in Ohio are now able to add their digital IDs and driver’s licenses to the Wallet app on the iPhone, providing a convenient alternative to a physical card.
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On my blog: The Rise and (Likely) Fall of Anti-AI Licenses https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/03/03/ai-licenses.html #art #harm #rant #technology
Feedback on why I didn’t choose Mattermost (lack of OIDC) · mattermost/mattermost · Discussion – My discussions/feedback on Mattermost’s decision to have certain useful and IMO should be standard features as paid-for features on a per-seat licensed basis. My primary argument is that if you offer a self-host(able) product and require additional features the free version does not have, you should not have to pay for a per-seat license for something you are footing the bill for in terms of Hardware/Compute and Maintenance/Support (havintg to operate it).
I’d love to read the original source code of this:
https://ecsoft2.org/t-tiny-editor
This was our standard editor back in the day, not an “emergency tool”. And it’s only 9kB in size … which feels absurd in 2023. 😅 The entire hex dump fits on one of today’s screens.
Being so small meant it had no config file. Instead, it came with TKEY.EXE, a little tool to binary-patch T.EXE to your likings.
GitHub Copilot is generally available for businesses
GitHub Copilot for Business is officially here with simple license management, organization-wide policy controls, and industry-leading privacy—all for $19 USD per user per month. ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net @jlj@twt.nfld.uk @movq@www.uninformativ.de
/p/tmp > git clone https://www.uninformativ.de/git/lariza.git Mon May 24 23:48:18 2021
Cloning into 'lariza'...
/p/tmp > tree lariza/ 12.5s Mon May 24 23:48:32 2021
lariza/
├── BUGS
├── CHANGES
├── LICENSE
├── Makefile
├── PATCHES
├── README
├── browser.c
├── man1
│ ├── lariza.1
│ └── lariza.usage.1
├── user-scripts
│ └── hints.js
└── we_adblock.c
2 directories, 11 files
Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses
Every piece of software I write I license under the GNU Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) unless I have forked it from something else.
The GPLv3 is the premiere copyleft license, meaning that it not only allows users to run, modify and distribute their own versions of what I write, but it also requires that no one in that chain of development restrict and close-source that software: it and sof … ⌘ Read more
Bell Labs has now transferred Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation, who has in turn re-released all releases under the MIT license. I am very excited about this. 🐇🎉
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a collection of high-res wavetables with a !CC0 license: [[https://waveeditonline.com/]] #links #samples
added some pages on #permissive #publicdomain licenses that I often reach for: !CC0 and !unlicense.
!weewiki is now MIT licensed! can’t believe I forgot to add it, considering the fact that it already has !janet in there. #updates #weewiki
thinking of moving my personal projects to the Parity Public License, but then I see that the developer appears to be abandoning them?
a minimal MIT licensed chain loader for multiple architectures, including pi4. found via raspi3 baremetal tutorial link (same author): [[https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/imgrecv]] #pi4 #baremetal #links #pi
Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model | VentureBeat ⌘ https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/22/microsoft-gets-exclusive-license-for-openais-gpt-3-language-model/
On the blog: Wanted — Ethical Media Consumption https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/02/ethmedia.html #media #license #ethics #rant
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: A Free Culture License Wish List https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/29/copyleft.html #license #meta #opensource #freesoftware #gpl #creativecommons #copyleft
MPEG1 Single file C library
If you want to play videos in a native app or game you basically have three options:
GitHub - Flaque/quirk: ✨🐙 A GPL Licensed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy app for iOS and Android https://github.com/flaque/quirk
The History of the GNU General Public License http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/
To distribute or not to distribute? Why licensing bugs matter | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/06/25/to-distribute-or-not-to-distribute-why-licensing-bugs-matter/
Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.
So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.
Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more