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       title: January 17th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-01-17, 20:56:15 -08:00

     

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         - GPL

     

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         - opensource

     

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         - licensing

     

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       link: https://blog.tidelift.com/will-the-new-judicial-ruling-in-the-vizio-lawsuit-strengthen-the-gpl

     

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       [Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?](https://blog.tidelift.com/will-the-new-judicial-ruling-in-the-vizio-lawsuit-strengthen-the-gpl) 

     

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       The TLDR; is treating the GPL as an issue of contract law rather than copyright, and because of contract law, a third party can sue instead of just the author. 

     

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       Vizio makes smart TVs that use GPL code and they haven’t shared the source. 

     

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       > In October of 2021 the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) decided to launch what is believed to be the first significant open source lawsuit based in contract rather than in copyright. Critically, the SFC’s case argued that anyone who benefits from the General Public License (GPL), not just the authors of the software, should be able to bring a lawsuit to enforce the terms of the GPL.

     

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       Open source and AI related copyright, licensing, and contract arguments all in one year!

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       title: January 17th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-01-17, 21:04:59 -08:00

     

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       link: https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-facets

     

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       Paul Frazee from the Bluesky team writing on his personal blog about the design of [RichText facets](https://pfrazee.com/blog/why-facets) that are used to include mentions and links in posts.

     

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       And, other custom things that can be defined and read by different clients and servers.

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       title: January 17th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-01-17, 21:09:08 -08:00

     

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       New Public made a directory of “digital social platforms”:

     

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       > The Directory is a list of spaces that have taken at least some notable steps to build a public-spirited user experience, embody at least one of New_Public’s [Civic Signals](https://newpublic.org/interactive), and/or implement creative new design patterns.

     

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       I love the words on the [directory landing page](https://newpublic.org/directory). Seriously, go read the intro, it’s great.

     

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       I am annoyed that the [directory listing](https://airtable.com/appgA6QrWMpXmDp9X/shr7JFPTJt1C9j0qA/tblwlRhU0Icd8p5iJ) is a bare listing of Airtable records. 

     

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       The [Landscape maps made in Figma](https://www.figma.com/file/hIXr7RpUBaCo1IOcUjn5uv/Digital-Social-Spaces%3A-Landscape-Mapping?type=whiteboard&node-id=0-1&t=xiapreoUzezlLN80-0) are much more engaging.

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       link: https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473

     

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       [Individual initiative, corporate inertia and good bad advice](https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473)

     

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       > I did my job with love and belief. This was always obviously risky. I had no illusions that the love was returned, or that it is even possible for a public corporation of non-trivial scale to behave in human ways at all.

     

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       I’m quoting the first paragraph. I could post any sentence and it would make you think. It’s a long read about working at Spotify, and being fired, and many other things.

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       link: https://localfirst.fm

     

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       [localfirst.fm](https://www.localfirst.fm/) is a new podcast about local first software development. LoFi as we like to call it.

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       link: https://norman.life/posts/ipfs-bittorrent

     

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       [What's IPFS and how it compares to BitTorrent](https://norman.life/posts/ipfs-bittorrent) is an article by Daniel Norman correcting and explaining many of the details about IPFS as a response to [a blog comparing the two](https://liamz.co/tech-blog/2023/08/10/comparing-ipfs-and-bittorrent.html). 

     

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       It’s really well written. I should quote pieces of it on my [[IPFS]] notes page.