TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 3 hours ago:
If your elephant needs pain relief, make sure to administer Tylenol orally.
- Comment on Where is heart?! 3 hours ago:
Sulfer should be labeled “hell”.
- Comment on Wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids? 21 hours ago:
The famous violinist. Yes.
- Comment on Best way to keep everyone safe 1 day ago:
Honestly, still better than working sick with an office full of coworkers.
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 1 day ago:
- Comment on Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers 1 day ago:
Paid for by Nvidia.
- Comment on CompSci freshmen will relate 3 days ago:
Why you gotta do my man Mandelbrot like that?
- Comment on Me and Grandpa, we believe 3 days ago:
Why all the downvo- oh shit this is an AI-generated image, isn’t it?
(Seems like the shoelaces are fucked up, the buttons are kindof inconsistent, the eyes are a little weird.)
Yeah, in that case it gets a downvote from me as well.
- Comment on Winding down my day off the right way 3 days ago:
No, the ketchup goes on the keys and the fries on the touchpad.
Too bad you don’t have a CD tray. I’m guessing that’s why you didn’t order a drink.
- Comment on Why? 3 days ago:
Share an example or two?
- Comment on Parking police 5 days ago:
Are rear view cameras really “fancy” these days?
- Comment on what do you use to add weight? 1 week ago:
Not exactly the densest material out there, but pennies are cheap and easily procured. May not be quite what you’re looking for for your use case. (You asked about “cost/weight ratio” which makes it sound like you’re looking to add a lot of weight.)
I’ve been known to make a fully-enclosed cylindrical cavity and set my slicer to pause at exactly the right layer to where I can drop a few stacks of pennies into the print before upper layers seal the cavity closed.
- Comment on New thing to ponder just dropped 1 week ago:
I prefer cubic for easy stacking.
- Comment on US | Missouri seeks federal help in pressing China for $25 billion in COVID damages 1 week ago:
Any time Missouri comes up in (inter)national news, it’s just embarrassing.
- Comment on Evolution at its finest! 1 week ago:
The redneck version of Raven from Snow Crash.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 2 weeks ago:
Guy in the front row: “hey, walk forward the same number of steps as there are R’s in ‘resurrection’.”
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on How does one learn or start to manage thair life better? 3 weeks ago:
That sounds like exactly the sort of thing therapy is for. I’m no kind of expert, but it’s very likely there’s a lot of deeper things keeping you from developing achieving the kind of skills you’re wanting. And it sounds very much like it’s a problem in your life that’s causing you a lot of anxiety and pain. I think if there’s any way you can do talk therapy, that’s the place to start.
- Comment on How does one learn or start to manage thair life better? 3 weeks ago:
Wow. Huge topic. And it depends on a ton of things. And I definitely don’t feel like I’ve got it all figured out myself.
If you’re young and just for the first time having to manage your own affairs rather than depend on parents to help with that, then self-help kind of stuff might well be a fine place to start. (Just avoid Jordan Peterson.) If you’re older and feel like you’ve had the time needed to develop those skills and still don’t have them, it’s likely there’s something deeper going on that might benefit from therapy.
I personally cared for my ailing grandmother for a long time. And that shit’s hard work, and takes a lot of time. In the process, I let a lot of things go by the wayside like yardwork, home repair, and organization. Now that she has passed, I find myself with a lot of remedial work to catch up on. I feel like I’m making progress. It’s frustrating and slow, but it is progressing and that’s the important part.
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 3 weeks ago:
Send help.
- Comment on Superman is a terrible person who wants to take away people's freedom. 3 weeks ago:
Every time you see a Grimreaper thread, I want you all to remember…
spoiler
You just lost the game.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Well, 50% is “at least 15%”.
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- Comment on [Discussion] These 10 Anime Masterpieces Are a Rite of Passage for Every Fan 4 weeks ago:
I sometimes think I ought to start One Piece, but every time I think about starting, I’m reminded that:
- I’ve kindof got a completionism problem and…
- IT’S GOT LIKE 1,150 EPISODES HOLY FUCK
- Comment on Concerned about claiming warranty for homelab with Linux 4 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine you’re the only one in this situation. If I were in your shoes, I’d search for similar stories online and see if I could get a sense of how friendly the company is to swapping OSs. For some companies, changing the OS is a complete deal breaker. Other companies are pretty willing to assume the issue was indeed strictly hardware and had nothing to do with changing the OS, and thus will go ahead and do the repair.
If you find that company is more like the former, install Windows. If not, just start the warranty repair process.
- Comment on Is Louis Rossmann a fascist like futo? 5 weeks ago:
Depends how he responds now that that article came out, I’d say.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 5 weeks ago:
As others have said, you’re changing the topic talking about FUTO’s license in a response to a comment about the AGPL.
But to continue your thread:
If you ask them to articulate their concern, I haven’t heard one that isn’t on the lines of “I want to be able to use this code in my paid product”…
I specifically want anyone to be allowed to use any and all FOSS software I write (and I do write and publish some) commercially, so long as they abide by the terms of the license I choose. (Typically the AGPLv3.)
If, for instance, a mainstream commercial consumer electronics device incorporated my code into the firmware and because my code is under the AGPLv3, end users had the legal right to demand the means to modify the behavior of their devices to better suit them, I’d be thrilled.
Plus, if they’re distributing a modified version of my code, that might well include some improvements generally useful for all/most/many users of my project. And if it’s under the AGPLv3, I can demand a copy of the code and incorporate those improvements back upstream into my project so all users of my FOSS project can benefit from it.
Commercial redistribution is more of a feature than you think. I think you’re missing the point of copyleft.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 5 weeks ago:
Nothing about copyleft causes the “owner” to not hold the copyright on a work.
Copyright gives the holder (either the author or the party to which the copyright is assigned) a few specific (but broad) exclusive rights to the work: reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution, public performance (which probably doesn’t so much apply to software), and public display (also not applicable to software, so much). (And then there’s circumvention, but that’s yucky and irrelevant to this case, so we’ll ignore it.)
“Exclusive” means nobody is allowed to do any of those things except the copyright holder (unless the copyright holder licenses those rights to others, but we’ll get to that.)
The copyright holder can give/sell/transfer the copyright to someone else (in which case the previous holder is now excluded from doing with the work all the things in the first paragraph above because someone else now holds all those exclusive rights), but that’s not what the AGPL does.
The copyright holder can also license any or all of the exclusive rights in the first paragraph to some person or party (or in the case of an “open license” like the AGPL, to everyone).
The AGPL licenses rights like distribution and preparation of derivative works to others (under certain conditions like “you can only distribute copies if you do so under the same license as you got it under”).
So, if some hypothetical party named “Bob” started a project, they’d hold the copyright. If Bob put the AGPL on that project and also required any contributor to assign copyright on their specific contributions to Bob, Bob would hold the copyright on the entire project code, including all contributions. Someone else could take advantage of the terms of the AGPL allowing derivative works and redistribution to create their own fork (so long as they abided by the conditions in the AGPL), and if they did so, they could omit on their fork any copyright assignment requirement, in which case the fork could end up owned by a mishmash of different copyright holders (making it hard to impossible for the administrator of the fork to do anything tricky like changing what license future versions were under.)
However, on Bob’s original (non-fork) version, if Bob, as the copyright holder, changes the license file to something proprietary, Bob has (arguably?) created a new work that is not the same work as the previous version, and Bob can license that new version under a different license. (I suppose one might be able to argue that changing just the license file isn’t legally enough to make a new version, but the very next time a nontrivial change was made to the codebase, that would qualify as a new version, so it kindof doesn’t matter.) Bob has already licensed previous versions of his non-fork under the AGPL, so Bob can’t really rescind that license already granted on older versions. But new versions could indeed be put under a different license. (Mind you, there are licenses that have specific terms that make them rescindable on old versions. Take for instance the Open Gaming License fiasco that WotC tried to pull not terribly long ago. But I don’t think the AGPL is a license that can be rescinded.)
Since Bob can’t rescind the license on older versions, if Bob made a future version proprietary, the community or any particular party that wanted to could take the last AGPL version of the non-fork and make a fork from there that remained under the AGPL.
The moral of the story is: if you don’t want the copylefted code project you start to be changed to a proprietary license later, don’t do any copyright assignment agreement. The codebase being owned by a diverse mishmash of different copyright holders is a feature, not a bug.
And, as mentioned elsewhere in this post, Immich is owned by a lot of different copyright holders as it has no copyright assignment requirement.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 5 weeks ago:
Can you name one other personality with a large following that comes even close to Louis Rossmann in bringing stuff to light and fighting back against enshittification?
Well, there’s Corey Doctorow, of course. He literally wrote the book on Enshittification.
There are definitely more “behind the scenes” folks doing a lot for that particular cause who don’t so much have the following, but nonetheless do fight enshittification in big ways. Bradley Kuhn comes to mind.
- Comment on This is called an oopsi 5 weeks ago:
Grandpa?
