Comment on Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.

• Pro@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And he’s got it under some cringey edgelord “unlicense” license which basically appears to be MIT just with a different name.

  Bro, Public Domain.

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  • Eldritch@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He used different terms in different places. And to be frank, I'm not sure I'd heard about unlicense before. But upon closer look it does seem to be a the goal. Despite not being valid or applicable in a few jurisdictions.

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    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      spdx.org/licenses/Unlicense.html

      opensource.org/license/unlicense

      these two institutions endorse the license

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• sit_up_straight@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  youtube-dl and yt-dlp are under unlicense. it’s just standard legalese for public domain

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One thing I personally like more about this than about Briar - routing of messages.

  It seems Briar exchanges state of the groups with the neighboring devices, they with their neighbors, and so on.

  That might take a few iterations (thus delay) to propagate a message from, say, one side of the crowd to another, and leave different members with different state all the time.

  While here, apparently, messages are routed further immediately. From my own toying around - not the best thing too, but initiating synchronization by sender\relay and not by recipient seems sane.

  Maybe should rewrite the toy to be nicer. It seems to be closer to real world things than I thought.

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