I wonder if we should have #GPL 4 that would cover machine learning. Something like "if this code is used to train an LLM, then the code produced by the LLM must be released under the same license". I know there are many challenges, such as effective enforcement, but if this issue remains unaddressed, I believe LLMs may become a way to evade license virality.

#freesoftware #OpenSource #licensing

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@mirek that is very curious, i'm wondering how familiar the lawyers were with the actual technology.

i don't use llms too much, so i'm not familiar myself -- but to me it looks like some creative work goes into writing the prompt?

i don't use these tools too much, but just a few days ago i ended up using one and it turned out that a good way to avoid shit output is feeding in pseudocode or commanding it to make the very same sort of edits as one would otherwise make manually. it'd be surprised if someone considered this not a creative process?

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Copyright licenses are not a magic spell. If LLMs are adjudicated to be derivative works of their inputs, no additional license is needed; existing GPL (or indeed, even Apache or MIT, given the lack of license text reproduction in LLM output) is fine. If LLMs are adjudicated to be fair use, no additional license will help.

Focusing on licensing is fighting the last war. Public communications and movement-building is what is needed now.

Given that there are new people to fedi, if you are interested in chinese webnovels and chinese dramas, this account sometimes organize watch parties and read alongs!

Currently, we are doing a Panguan readalong, details in this post:

blorbo.social/@watch_read_toge…

We're currently reading chapters 26-30 this week.

Feel free to join!

#cnovels #cnovel #panguan

LibreOffice turned 15 years old in September! We also had our annual conference, an update to the software, guidebook translations, news about migrations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

So many stories of suffering in Africa are told by others; so few by the people living them. 'The World Was In Our Hands', an oral history of people living through the Boko Haram conflict, aims to correct this. @hrb has the review. continent.substack.com/p/revie…
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@bagder Yeah, I suspect the stats are odd because those countries are pretty low traffic so a small number of modern computers probably skew their stats.
Looking at yesterday's stats for DPRK, the main client we saw was an iPhone running iOS 18.5 & using Chrome. There's a couple of Macs, a Windows machine and a couple of Android phones and that's about it.
This is all assuming no GeoIP errors & ignoring VPN usage with out-of-country exits of course...

Today, we at Tuta unite with European tech companies to call on EU Member States:

🚨 Vote NO on Chat Control! 🚨

Read our Open Letter: 👉 tuta.com/blog/open-letter-agai…

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Maybe things will work out well now:

Former minister of Justice, Marco Buschmann on X:
"#Chatkontrolle ist so, als wenn man Briefe vorsorglich öffnet und man nachschaut, ob nicht etwas Illegales darin stehen könnte. Sowas hat im Rechtsstaat keinen Platz. Diese Linie habe ich als Justizminister durchgesetzt. Ein Kurswechsel wäre ein Jammer!"

x.com/MarcoBuschmann/status/19…

Maybe he only dares to say that because the proposal will fall ?

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🐘 Nový web Mamutovo.cz je online!

@cynik_obecny připravil přehlednou stránku 👉 about.mamutovo.cz , kde najdete informace o instanci Mamutovo.cz, odkazy na služby, kontakty a první návody pro uživatele.

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Každé zmínění, boost nebo odkaz na web pomůže. 💚

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Dovolím si odemknout a sdílet vzpomínku na paní Drábovou od Petra Koubského na Nku

denikn.cz/1860331/vzpominka-na…

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@mischievoustomato so far ... screen brightness buttons, probably fingerprint reader? Everything else is working fine, but wifi is slow until my replacement wifi card comes in the mail

even Thunderbolt is working. I didn't understand the non-Mac world where there's a security model and you can choose authorization requirements before using Thunderbolt devices. I turned the auth off in the BIOS and all that started working.

Years ago I knew of a phone number in the US that you could call, and if I recall correctly, you'd hear a man and a woman talking seemingly to each other, reading the Harvard sentences (cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/proj…). I think this was used for telephone company technicians to test circuits, audio quality, etc. My dad and I were actually looking for something like this a few days ago, a phone number you can call and it will continuously make noise at you for as long as you kept the call up. Does anyone have that number or one similar? Please boost for reach. Thanks.

“OpenAI and Ive [are] working on a device roughly the size of a smartphone that users would communicate with through a camera, microphone and speaker. One person suggested it might have multiple cameras.”

So… like… a phone?

“…designed to sit on a desk or table but can also be carried around by the user.”

So… like… a phone?

“…sensors would gather data throughout the day that would help to build its virtual assistant’s ‘memory.’”

So… like… a phone?

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/ope…

Today was spent writing user stories from your feedback, but my god can we please talk voiceover on macOS 26?

In VSCode, voiceover read single characters instead of whole lines when arrowing up and down, and arrow left / right too quickly caused letters to be read out twice.

Voiceover flat out ignored set preferences. I cannot stress this enough, mouse cursor was set to ignore voiceover cursor, and speak object under mouse was set to off, those toggles were broken.

3. Trillion. Dollars.

in reply to André Polykanine

Ох, я и забыл о существовании такой платформы. Может цензуру ввели, или наоборот. История с твиттером хорошо показала сколько идейных оттуда побежали когда нафиг разогнали всех этих красноволосых модераторов.

👋 Hello! GNU Guix is on @hachyderm - yay!

If you haven't heard of #gnu #guix we're a free software project that's created a hosted package manager (think homebrew or flatpak) and a GNU/Linux distribution.

GNU Guix uses the functional packaging approach pioneered by #nix and adds a user-experience and system configuration system. It uses a DSL that's based on Guile Scheme. You can use it configure your home environment, dev environments or the entire system using a declarative and transactional definition.

We hope to tell people about the project and our latest news. We'd love to engage with people around #freesoftware #guile #scheme and more general #linux topics!

Tried to change my default terminal emulator to foot, as seen by #GNOME software (e.g. #GNOMENautilus ), and found out that GNOME uses a #hardcoded list of terminal emulators. After looking on Stack Exchange, it appears you can't change it.
Such a botch, are the answers I was reading out-of-date or can you just not change your default terminal in GNOME software?