Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

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I’m not even pro se let alone a lawyer, but this seems to be the key. They can do the needful to provide the services you ordered.

It doesn’t sound like “we own everything you did forever” but boilerplate to cover mirroring or caching on servers anywhere.
That's an explanatory phrase that does nothing to eliminate the "we own everything forever" language that it is "explaining."

A more well-known example is the "well-regulated militia" preface to the Second Amendment, when the actual functional language is "shall not be infringed."
 
Sounds like a recipe for trouble, especially if one of their customers is hosting illegal content.
If they host illegal material they would be in trouble even if they don't claim copyright on it, it's on their hard drives and if they don't remove it in due time or contact authorities, they are complicit in the crime. At least that's how it should work, because the amount of CSAM that's allegedly on WhatsApp and Facebook groups in shithole countries like India proves otherwise
metal outlaw being a literal nigger
He is on my do-not-click list for the name alone. If you want some real quality tech videos check out Janus Cycle, among others. His video about SIM card cloning, or Nokia DCT3 phone hacking actually gives the good stuff and explains it in layman's terms.
For example, the video about OpenWRT. It doesn't feel like he has any practical experience with OpenWRT, or even uses something OpenWRT based. It feels like he pulled some old router out, found out it has OpenWRT packages, and then just did a live reading of OpenWRT's wiki without any sign of him knowing all the little fuckery involved with setting up OpenWRT, and then the best part, he ended the video on logging into the LuCI and doing zero configuration
Thanks for summing up that twat, now I know my gut was right. I don't need to watch some moron talk about something he has no idea about, just to hit that magic 30 min video length to insert enough Raid Shadow Legends and shady VPN app adverts.
 
A major warning has gone out against the huge cloud provider known as Vultr (The Constant Company) which the provider can now claim full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content on their servers.
One of these days, I'm going into colocation.
It doesn’t sound like “we own everything you did forever” but boilerplate to cover mirroring or caching on servers anywhere.
I read RamNode's terms of service, since I use that provider, and I don't recall reading such a thing therein.
Sounds like a recipe for trouble, especially if one of their customers is hosting illegal content.
No, no, the idea is they win everything, but if something like that happens then they totally aren't responsible. The applicable saying is "Heads we win, tails you lose".
 
Niggers we have a genuine chinky supply chink attack!

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 https://archive.is/omFvA

Attacks sshd via xz/liblzma through systemd

fuck systemd, all my niggers hate systemd

Seems it only triggered if building for debian/RPM based systems, so all my gentoo faggots get a pass on this one
This is a remarkably long con; that Jia Tan character has been working on XZ for about two years now. It's not some sort of compromise of his account either since he's been filing reports in compilers about things that would have alerted people to the backdoor for a while.
 
This is a remarkably long con; that Jia Tan character has been working on XZ for about two years now. It's not some sort of compromise of his account either since he's been filing reports in compilers about things that would have alerted people to the backdoor for a while.
Yeah, and apparently there's some Hans Jansen (which is basically John Smith for Norway?) pushing really hard to get this shit in fast: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067708

HN thread: https://archive.is/4AV8T https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
 
How bizarre, a HN thread that 1) contains (some) sane posts, 2) shits on systemd (with only minimal pushback from the usual Poettering fellators) and 3) is actually fairly cordial and not hipster/faggy like most HN threads are.

Guess when they get scared by a core utility getting threatened they sober up a bit.
They're interested in what is going on (perhaps it's the most original HN style thread in years) and they're actually trying to dox the fucker lol

everyone is KiwiFarms when the mask slips
 
I've always said systemd was a giant security hole, and refused to run it on any of my systems

> openssh does not directly use liblzma. However debian and several other
distributions patch openssh to support systemd notification, and libsystemd
does depend on lzma.
 
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Very angry mechanical engineer made something copy-pasta worthy. The context is that Roblox banned wine, so whatever this vinegar is will have to be discontinued. Someone suspected this was related to their Byfron anti-cheat which might be easier to reverse-engineer, which caused this gem.
Unfortunately they DFE'd really fast, didn't have time to check other comments they might have made

https://github.com/vinegarhq/vinegar/issues/397#issuecomment-1976619316 (archive https://archive.ph/wip/EVaUy)
 
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Very angry mechanical engineer made something copy-pasta worthy. The context is that Roblox banned wine, so whatever this vinegar is will have to be discontinued. Someone suspected this was related to their Byfron anti-cheat which might be easier to reverse-engineer, which caused this gem.
Unfortunately they DFE'd really fast, didn't have time to check other comments they might have made

https://github.com/vinegarhq/vinegar/issues/397#issuecomment-1976619316 (archive https://archive.ph/wip/EVaUy)
Bro took the old 'software as craft vs engineering vs science' debate and dropped a fucking asteroid on it. Amusing.

Also 'this Jia Tan person was optimizing code for LoongArch so I don't think they have to worry about being anywhere near the US', my sides.
 
The takeaway from this should be to reduce the amount of code in a system very aggressively, but that won't happen anytime soon. Everything needs to be written in the C language, with a complicated build system, so that things can easily be hidden in the tens of thousands of lines of code.

At a glance, the code for xz compression shouldn't be more than a few hundred lines at most, in a proper system. It's been shown time and time again that a better use of time is to optimize compilers to work from higher level code than it is to write low level code, but retards get comfortable at their level of abstraction. This will only continue to happen; the Linux kernel maintainers proudly masturbate over an attempt they thwarted, and don't think twice about how one line out of tens of millions is enough to fuck everything up.
 
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Very angry mechanical engineer made something copy-pasta worthy.
Excellent find, that guy is so mad, it’s as if he was born to make pasta. If I was in that thread with him, I’d make sure to mention percussive engineering. Hitting the monitor is in fact, engineering. Percussive engineering. Doesn’t matter what he thinks as he hits his monitor, he becomes a true & honest engineer:
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