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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Australian man successfully receives titanium heart after 6-hour operation.English
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    12 hours ago

    what’s the particular license about?

    These links can explain it better than I could …

    By default, everything you write, from a novel to an Internet forum shitpost, is not only copyrighted by you but also “all rights reserved.”

    What that guy is doing is (a) making his writings more available for reuse than they would be otherwise, and (b) making a point about how fucked-up it is that corporations treat stuff posted to social media as if it were a free-for-all they could use however they want.

    the license is actually a Creative Commons license for Non-Commercial uses. Creative Commons is a copyleft license that’s “free to use with some restrictions”. Mostly used in art, literature, audio, and film, for my part I’m using it to license my comments. Anybody can cite with attribution, but commercial use is forbidden by the license.

    The why: I just don’t like non-opensource commercial ventures. Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Facebook, Apple, and so on are harmful in many ways.

    Enforcement and legality: Microsoft’s Github CoPilot (a large language model / “AI”) was trained on copyrighted text source code. A few licenses clearly state that derivatives should also be opensource, which CoPilot is not. So there is a big lawsuit against it. Many artists, non-programmer authors, musicians, and others are also unhappy that AI was trained on their copyrighted works and have sued for damages. Until these cases make it out of court, it will not be clear if adding a license to comments could even jeopardize commercial AI vendors.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    This link shows that ProPublica also licenses their content here on Lemmy.

    I want to license my content to be available to non-profit open-source, and restricted for for-profit.

    I understand that its not my responsibility to enforce laws, and that just because laws are not enforced currently that I should still be able to avail myself to them, as well as that enforcement of the laws may not be happen currently, but that enforcement will catch up to the reality on the ground.

    Also, that laws trump ToS’s. And “Safe Harbor” laws that corporate social media companies/sites protects themselves with state that we own our content, and not them. And that they can’t use a ToS to strip away our ownership, and hence, our content licensing.

    Finally, if the license link looks weird, it may be that your app/client does not support Lemmy.World’s formatting text. You would have to speak with the devs of the product you use to view Lemmy to get that corrected.

    A mods response to the usage of a license to a third-party.

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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•FDREnglish
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    4 days ago

    I really want to like FDR more, but the whole Japanese internment thing really puts a bad taste in my mouth.

    In those times, the WHOLE WORLD was at War. Nobody knew if they themselves, or their loved ones, or their countries, was still going to be around when its all said and done.

    People do stupid/bad/wrong things when they are afraid/scared. Thats not restricted to just one person.

    FDR did ALLOT more good than bad. Cut him some slack, as he’s as homo-sapien as the rest of us, and his results were a net-positive.

    And also, there was a Congress and a Supreme Court back then too. It wasn’t just him. It was just the times. People were stupid-racist back then.

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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devicesEnglish
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    4 days ago

    From the article …

    The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023

    From the person I’m replying to …

    I’d kind of like to know whether these can be used against an unpaired device or not. That’d seem to have a pretty dramatic impact on the scope of the vulnerability.

    Don’t see how that would matter much. The “scope of the vulnerability” is sufficiently large enough that it should not be partially or otherwise discredited as a risk.

    If someone owns a Bluetooth device, then its fair to think that at some point they’d actually use it, being vulnerable to the backdoor access. That’s billions of uses right there, on a regular basis.

    From the article …

    The researchers warned that ESP32 is one of the world’s most widely used chips for Wi-Fi + Bluetooth connectivity in IoT (Internet of Things) devices, so the risk of any backdoor in them is significant.

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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•[Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 DisasterEnglish
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    15 days ago

    The default driver used by Fedora is RADV.

    Alright. I remembered them switched around, but there was a migration a year or two ago from one to another, default wise.

    Help me with >THIS< then?

    This suggests that both (most/all??) are bundled, and you could even run one program in one driver and another program with the other driver.

    This was mentioned in that post/thread as well …

    Also if you use AMD card RADV is the best for gaming and it’s the default for most distros so it’s an out of the box experience

    Its also mentioned that environmental variables can be set at runtime to switch on the fly (at program startup) which is used. I just don’t know if Proton does any of that for you under the covers at startup or if you have to manually add the parameters to the properties for the Steam game to force it to use another one.

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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•[Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 DisasterEnglish
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    15 days ago

    You’re missing my point. AMD’s official Linux drivers are ALSO garbage. Try it. Go install AMDVLK and check how well games work. You’re almost certainly using RADV, which was not developed by AMD.

    I’m using whichever one Proton/Steam uses. I’m assuming its AMDVLK because its the ‘official’ one. I think I remember RADV being switched away from in Proton a year or two ago, but don’t hold me to that. I checked my enviromental variable “AMD_VULKAN_ICD” but didn’t see it set to anything.

    Whichever one I’m using, I get 120fps on my 3D games (playing No Man’s Sky and/or Baldur’s Gate 3 on the second monitor while typing) running them through Steam/Proton without a hiccup. Never a problem.

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