JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 21 minutes ago:
Correct. They’re bad. And if someone releases code under CC0 that has patented stuff in it you may be liable for using their patent without permission because CC0 says in section 4a,
No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document.
Compare that to MIT which is considered to implicitly grant patent rights by saying you may deal in the software without restriction. Apache specifically gives you explicit patent rights in section 3.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
So the problem is that CC0 ik it’s public license fallback specifically says that it does not grant patent rights.
CC0 is a trap for software. Please avoid it. Please encourage others so avoid it.
To the extent of my knowledge, the only public domain dedication with permissive license fallback that is approved by both FSF and OSI is the WTFPL. Which is also a crayon license. Public domain is a weird concept and not all jurisdictions have it and not all jurisdictions allow you to manually put things into it. This is why they need the permissive license fallback. You’re better off using a well known and well understood permissive license.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 31 minutes ago:
You would’ve been 16 years old on launch if you’re 39 now though.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 9 hours ago:
One pedal driving just sounds like motion sickness city.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 9 hours ago:
I feel like if your car is doing anything to actively slow itself down (as in apart from just cruising) it should turn the brake lights on.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 12 hours ago:
I did play Obra Dinn! I loved it.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 13 hours ago:
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 14 hours ago:
I love id.me, I’m so glad I had to give my facial data to them to collect unemployment insurance!
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 14 hours ago:
CC0 is a horrible thing to use for software. It seems great, but it specifically does not give patent rights. Compare that to MIT which implicitly does so. CC0 specifically says it does not.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 14 hours ago:
Remind me and I’ll look into it. I have BL2 but never ever played it back in the day.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 14 hours ago:
What are you arguing with? I don’t see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 14 hours ago:
BLUE PRINCE! IT IS SO GOOD!
It’s a puzzle game like Myst, and a puzzle game like a board game sort of. So it has short term and long term puzzles. It’s so good! I’m obsessed.
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 14 hours ago:
It’s energy efficient and quiet 🥺 it’s romantic because it takes longer 🥺
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
No, if you think of censorship as a sliding scale with total freedom to say anything on one side and extremely rigid and locked down on the other, it doesn’t take much moving away from the anything goes side to want to block racists.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
is my account and all its posts, comments, activity and bookmarks just gonna be gone?
No. Your account and it’s posts, comment, and activity will live on because they’re copied to other instances. You won’t be able to log on though. That’s why the post suggests making a new account and updating your bio before the shut down. Exporting and importing your settings will probably carry over bookmarks.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
I mean, yeah, any instance could be gone at any time. Anything can disappear at any time. Don’t overthink it. Just pick a new instance at random like you did before. Export and import settings. Leave a note on your profile where your new account is. Once lemm.ee is gone, your account’s info page will forever say where your new account is. This instance shutting down doesn’t mean your old comments and posts disappear. Sure, you won’t be able to directly respond to them, but they aren’t vanishing.
It sucks, and it’s an annoyance, but it’s hardly the end of the world.
Think about if this were a non-federated platform. You’d be shit out of luck. All your posts and comments would be gone forever. All of everyone’s content from your instance would just be lost to time when the server shits down. But with federation it gets copied to other instances. It will live on there. The only time it won’t be is if someone makes a new instance after lemm.ee is gone, they won’t be able to pull in old lemm.ee stuff.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 1 day ago:
People aren’t reading Wikipedia articles with the intention of getting better at reading.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
Reddit arguably has no reason for it because if you’re banned you’re not supposed to make a new account. I would never do such a thing!
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 day ago:
Reminds me of the Homestar Runner one where Marzipan kept saying this the whole episode.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 day ago:
⅔x > ¾y when x > 1⅛y. The question helps you parse word problems.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 day ago:
No it’s not, it’s rage bait.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 days ago:
How is this failing? If lemm.ee was a traditional forum it’d be over, but because of federation everything lives on.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 days ago:
Yes officer, this one right here.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 days ago:
good
Was it?
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 days ago:
It’s a joke. Trolling implies intent to deceive or get a negative reaction.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 days ago:
No, I don’t. But I do find it humourous you moderate a community called “how to sell drugs online fast” lol. And I genuinely don’t mean that in some sort of “you’re biased” way, truly.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 days ago:
Someone could say crypto “is a scam” in that proof of stake algorithms (like Ether) is just a plot for the rich to get richer and favor early adopters who have more coins.
You mean just like stocks, and banks, and real estate, and investing? Doesn’t make it a scam either. Find better algorithms. Crypto works because people use it. If something is better for everyone, it’ll end up gaining traction.
No, stocks, banks, and real estate do not give you more of themselves by mere fact of owning them. Some stocks pay dividends, but you don’t get more stock for owning it, setting something up to buy more with dividends is your own decision. Banks give you interest, but that is not a function of how money works, that’s something the bank does. Owning property does not give you more property over time. None of these are like how a proof of stake algorithm works.
Do I think it makes it a scam? No, not really. Do I think people saying it’s a scam because of that are wildly off base? Fuck no. It’s valid to be concerned about it. Do I think it’s better than proof of work? Yeah, probably. The arms race of increasing hash rate so long as it’s profitable energy wise is pretty nasty.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 days ago:
No, it’s your accusation.
I never said it was a scam. I’m asking what people’s response to others who feel it is a scam is.
You tell me why you think this FOSS software protocol is a scam
I listed many reasons why many people might view it as a scam here: programming.dev/comment/17292659
You’ve got a navigator avatar, dev in your username, and a programming home instance. I imagine you’re capable of educating yourself enough to make some sound arguments on the topic and a bit of factual contribution to the discussion.
No need to be so condescending.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 days ago:
What’s the criteria for some something being a scam in your opinion and why do you believe others whose criteria is different from yours don’t have legitimate reasons and make invalid accusations?
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 days ago:
Right, but definitely not a ponzi scheme. Also, proof of stake is also definitely not a ponzi scheme.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 days ago:
I think you’re doing a disservice by saying everyone who calls it a scam doesn’t understand it well enough. It’s not like everyone saying it is a scam are doing it for the same reason. There’s a variety of reasons people have for doing it.