[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

you could edit your post title

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Have you tried https://mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster/ ?

I have not, but I think it does what you're looking for.

The demo video emphasizes its use as an emoji picker but it was originally created for typing Indic languages.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 23 points 5 days ago

i figured this was likely astroturfing by one of the many shitty companies it is advertising, so i went looking for the source. somewhat to my surprise this image was apparently created by reddit user u/theFallenWalnut who's actually been posting there for over 10 years 🤔

if you check their account you'll see they've actually updated their recommendations to remove several companies (including proton and spotify) which are included in the older version of it posted here.

but, they're still suggesting lots of garbage.

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_consumerism#Criticism

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

Can a country “choose” the ambassador of another country? That’s counterintuitive to me

Countries choose their own ambassador to another country. The nominee this article is about is from the US.

Separately however, countries can choose to accept or reject the ambassadors other countries send to them. It's very uncommon to reject them, but actually South Africa’s ambassador to the US was expelled earlier this month. I wouldn't be surprised if South Africa doesn't accept Bozell.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

if that is the case I choose upper-left of the political compass for you (:

i'm curious, where do you place yourself on that compass? if you've got 20 minutes I highly recommend this video about it.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Brent_Bozell_III

He had been nominated in January to head the US AGM but now that it is being dismantled he's nominated for ambassador to South Africa instead.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

as a mod/admin, i would appreciate being able to edit post titles. there have been a fair number of times where i asked a poster to do so, and then waited a while for them to before deleting the post if they don't.

and/or, it would be nice to have a way for us to temporarily semi-delete a post while waiting for OP to make requested changes to it; that is, to hide it from the community view but leave it visible to people with the URL, or people who find it via the user profiles of the poster or commenters in it.

editing titles would be awkward without an edit history or, at the least, a way to see that some 2nd party had edited it, and editing post bodies would be even more so. but it would make sense and be useful with an edit history, i think.

i would also appreciate having content addressability, portable identity, composable moderation, and... perhaps a pony 😂

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago

and here i does it for free 🤡

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

still of Obi-wan Kenobi in Star Wars with subtitle "Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time."

At first i thought, wow, cool they're still developing that? Doing a release or two a year, i see.

I used to use it long ago, and was pretty happy with it.

But looking closer now, what is going on with security there?! Sorry to be the bearer of probably bad news, but... 😬The only three CVEs in their changelog are from 2007, 2010, and 2014, and none are specific to claws.

Does that mean they haven't had any exploitable bugs? That seems extremely unlikely for a program written in C with the complexity that being an email client requires.

All of the recent changelog entries which sound like possibly-security-relevant bugs have seven-digit numbers prefixed with "CID", whereas the other bugs have four-digit bug numbers corresponding to entries in their bugzilla.

After a few minutes of searching, I have failed to figure out what "CID" means, or indeed to find any reference to these numbers outside of claws commit messages and release announcements. In any case, from the types of bugs which have these numbers instead of bugzilla entries, it seems to be the designation they are using for security bugs.

The effect of failing to register CVEs and issue security advisories is that downstream distributors of claws (such as the Linux distributions which the project's website recommends installing it from) do not patch these issues.

For instance, claws is included in Debian stable and three currently-supported LTS releases of Ubuntu - which are places where users could be receiving security updates if the project registered CVEs, but are not since they don't.

Even if you get claws from a rolling release distro, or build the latest release yourself, it looks like you'd still be lagging substantially on likely-security-relevant updates: there have actually been numerous commits containing CID numbers in the month since the last release.

If the claws developers happen to read this: thanks for writing free software, but: please update your FAQ to explain these CID numbers, and start issuing security advisories and/or registering CVEs when appropriate so that your distributors will ship security updates to your users!

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nope.

Nope, it is.

It allows someone to use code without sharing the changes of that code. It enables non-free software creators like Microsoft to take the code, use it however they like, and not have to share back.

This is correct; it is a permissive license.

This is what Free Software prevents.

No, that is what copyleft (aims to) prevent.

Tired of people calling things like MIT and *BSD true libre/Free Software.

The no True Scotsman fallacy requires a lack of authority about what what constitutes "true" - but in the case of Free/Libre software, we have one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

If you look at this license list (maintained by the Free Software Foundation's Licensing and Compliance Lab) you'll see that they classify many non-copyleft licenses as "permissive free software licenses".

They’re basically one step away from no license at all.

Under the Berne Convention of 1886, everything is copyrighted by default, so "no license at all" means that nobody has permission to redistribute it :)

The differences between permissive free software licenses and CC0 or a simple declaration that something is "dedicated to the public domain" are subtle and it's easy to see them as irrelevant, but the choice of license does have consequences.

The FSF recommends that people who want to use a permissive license choose Apache 2.0 "for substantial programs" because of its clause which "prevents patent treachery", while noting that that clause makes it incompatible with GPLv2. For "simple programs" when the author wants a permissive license, FSF recommends the Expat license (aka the MIT license).

It is noteworthy that the latter is compatible with GPLv2; MIT-licensed programs can be included in a GPLv2-only work (like the Linux kernel) while Apache 2.0-licensed programs cannot. (GPLv3 is more accommodating and allows patent-related additional restrictions to be applied, so it is compatible with Apache 2.0.)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27423396

American Dr Mark Perlmutter, who has volunteered in Gaza, says one of his Palestinian colleagues was taken by Israeli occupation forces, had his fingers shattered and was told to confess to being a member of Hamas or have his wife gang raped in front of him.

Soldiers 'crushed' his fingers, Perlmutter explains, adding that they also threatened to 'send a drone to your bedroom window and incinerate your children.' The doctor did not confess and spent 11 months being tortured in Israeli detention.

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GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

  • 54k commits
  • 9.5k issues
  • 4.3k pull requests
  • 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

🥂 to the United States' sanctions regime for helping get people to migrate off of GitHub!

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