The problem is that some people are “so copyleft”… that they fall into the MIT honeytrap.

For me it got fixed in 1.20.0 from May 8, 2024.

2010 was already tainted by the iPhone walled garden.

Windows users call that “installing”… 😈

When was that?

The official F-Droid app had an issue with not deleting downloads on systems that didn’t run it correctly in the background. That has been fixed some months ago.

(TIL about “rice”… is anything in the US not racist? 🤦)

Last time SWIM used a patcher, it came with a malware dropper. Is that still how this “free” works?

Both:

dialog_error = Dialog_plain.create_modal(error_text)

Variable and class names go from more general to more particular, functions begin with a verb.

Global functions are either “main”, or start with one of “debug”, “todo”, or “shit”.

I’ve had to deal with this on the data collection end, and it’s a PITA to build in the mechanisms to fully follow the law. If you’re an EU resident, and especially if the server is in the EU or has to follow EU agreements, then they’d risk some quite high penalties if they didn’t follow it.

Ownership comes with both rights and responsibilities.

Platforms want as many of the rights as possible, without the responsibilities… which is why they have a contract (TOS) where they explicitly renounce to ownership, leaving it for the user, and only license the rights.

If platforms took full ownership, like in a “work for hire” agreement, they would be responsible for any illegal content a user could upload, since it wouldn’t be the user’s content anymore. Obviously they don’t want that.

A side effect of wanting as much content as possible without owning it, is that… well, they don’t own it. 😎

Fediverse where there’s no owner/seller/buyer of your data or anything else you contributed.

Incorrect. You get ownership of anything that’s yours, then upload stuff under whatever TOS your instance has… what’s that? it has no TOS? Then they’re in for a rough awakening some day. 🤷

Whether there are sellers/buyers… is something we’ll learn in time. For now, user generated content on the Fediverse gets shared with little regard or protection of anyone’s rights, so anyone can make a compilation, bundle it up, slap a price tag on it, and try to sell it.

places an undue burden onto the user to determine and explain why data might be personal

The other way around: all data originating from a person, is by default “personal data”, and the burden of explaining which one is not, lies with whoever is keeping it.

you can’t look at any messages in any rooms you’ve been kicked out of

If they’re keeping them, then you can request a GDPR export of ALL your data. Doesn’t matter whether some interface or application allows you access to the data or not, or even if you’ve been banned from the whole platform; as long as they keep the data, they have an obligation to honor your rights of:

• Access
• Correction/Modification
• Removal

Even during obligatory data retention periods, when they can’t remove the data and only make it inaccessible, you still have the right to get a copy of your own personal data.

IIRC, one of the LLMs (was it OpenAI?) that crawled Reddit, had to manually remove subs like r/counting because they were messing with the training.

As long as the link between data and user is severed, they are compliant with GDPR. […] As long as it’s not personally identifiable, it’s OK.

Wrong.

In the US, data protection refers to “personally identifiable” data, so severing the link is enough. Under the GDPR, all “personal” data is protected, doesn’t matter if it has a link or not to identify the person.

The test under the GDPR, will be whether a comment has any personal data in it. If it’s a generic “LMAO”, then leaving it anonymous might be enough; if it is a “look at me [photo attached]” or an “AITA [personal story]”, then the person can ask for it to be removed, not just anonymized.

The difference is: Reddit doesn’t own the content, they can’t stop anyone else from selling it, or giving it for free; only the users could (the actual owners).

There are Reddit content dumps out there, which Reddit can’t stop anyone from using… so not sure what they are selling, but if it’s just that, then they’re scamming people.

From the TOS/EULA, the content belongs to each user, they just license it to Reddit to use as it pleases.

Vibration has two components: frequency, and intensity.

The brain is “floating” in cerebrospinal fluid, so your question can be deconstructed into two parts: how much of that vibration would the fluid transmit, and how would brain cells react to the resultant internal vibration.

We know that high intensity vibration can cause the skull to directly hit the brain, and/or compress the fluid to a point where just the pressure can start causing brain damage. I think you can find the (mostly) safe limits in OSHA regulations.

With high enough frequency vibrations, you could induce cavitation in the fluid, making it behave like an ultrasonic cleaner. That could start popping brain cells like balloons. Don’t do that. You might search ultrasound imaging equipment frequency and intensity limits, to have an idea of what is safe.

If it’s low frequency and intensity, that “we would consider safe”… there is no reason for it to not be safe, for the brain. That doesn’t mean it would be equally safe for other structures not floating in cerebrospinal fluid, like eyes, ears, teeth, the whole skull, muscles, spine, neck blood vessels, and similar. Cells are elastic to some degree, much more than bone, so soft tissues are less likely to get damaged by “safe” vibrations.

If you strapped a tiny vibrator to a head, there shouldn’t be any damage to the brain. One kind of such “vibrator” that many people use, is headphones. You could probably check the energy output of most toy vibrators with a dB meter for a rough comparison.

Strapping a head to a road vehicle… would depend on the vehicle’s shock absorbers, but there is a reason why seats usually have some additional cushioning on them.

If you want to check on some more extreme vibration limits, look at NASA’s manned rocket launch parameters. They aren’t pleasant, yet are limited so to not cause damage. (Don’t look at fighter jet limits, those are a tradeoff between “getting shot down” vs “some brain damage”).

The kernel is fine, it’s been in the hands of pretty cool people since at least NT. As for the stuff running on it, well… 😗🎶

Windows…

Git is easy: the key part is picking a GUI you feel comfortable with.

Good. It’s better to have more instances, than larger instances (see: Reddit, Threads).