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francois@jlai.luto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I used wget on Ubuntu to clone pages from piefed to build Zyke, a Reddit alternative
1·4 months agoThis is ethically wrong and in violation of the GPL, but the thing bothering me is that it was badly executed
Piefed UI is open source, there was no need to use wget to retrieve the generated UI files, their source is available on the public repo
I guess that’s why other folks are thinking OP scraped content
francois@jlai.luto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing
4·5 months agoIt wasn’t a false alarm but she’s back https://chaos.social/@sleepyowl/116257348164580770
francois@jlai.luto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•SMS2Email: app that forwards SMS messages to SMTP Email server—has anyone tried this?
3·7 months agoFor OTPs you might not want to send them by email, emails are a little less secure than SMS (it’s easier for a third party to hack your email than to intercept your SMS)
francois@jlai.luto
Technology@lemmy.world•For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditEnglish
30·2 years agoThe GPL is enforceable, as far as the courts in the US are concerned, but the time and expense of doing so means such cases are rare. One such claim against Vizio, filed in 2021 by the Software Freedom Conservancy, is expected to be tried in September 2025.
Hill pointed to a series of posts he made in June 2024 about “sleazy rip-offs in the Chrome Web Store” that simply rewrap “uBlock, uBlock Lite, or other content blockers with their own user interface,” and some monetization scheme, often removing the copyright and licensing information
If a pretty large project such as ubo doesn’t have the means to enforce the GPL license, I think pretty much all open source projets, that are usually lacking funds, wouldn’t be able to enforce their license either
I didn’t realize that before, I thought copyleft licences like GPL really offered something but unless the project is backed by a for profit company or has enough funding, permissive licenses like MIT/FreeBSD achieve kind of the same result in practice… And all the contributions I did on copyleft projects could be (and probably were) stolen to make profits, while the maintainers of the original project struggle to pay for coffees… I feel a lot less guilty for my media piracy
But I wonder, are there means to enforce this license from outside the US ?
francois@jlai.luto
Technology@lemmy.world•A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own gameEnglish
35·2 years agoAnd scammers will create AI chatbots to try and scam people, we’ll end up with a lot of computing power and bandwith lost for endless conversations, everything is fine
francois@jlai.luto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•We need to stop the attacks against those who are trying to level up their privacy
7·2 years agoHere is the story OP might be thinking of https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/10/06/the-beginning-of-the-8-december-trial-is-also-the-judgement-of-the-right-to-privacy-and-encryption/
So nobody was arrested for using signal, however it was considered as incriminating evidence during the trial that they protected their privacy and didnt want to give their im encryption keys to law enforcement
The cli controls the computer while the GUI controls the user

Even if I think there could be nice advantages using AR for specific use cases, for example in construction jobs, we should not invest in those technologies in any way as they would become more popular and reduce privacy overall