Olivier Mehani

Licensing question: I'm re-implementing an encoding scheme in Rust. I have a GPL-2 reference implementation in C that I check against.

The C source is 50-ish lines, the Rust reimplementation is 70-ish lines. Both are mainly a switch/match logic.

How free am I to choose another permissive license for the reimplementation?

As it's reimplementation of the algorithm, rather than copying the code, I don't think I'm bound by the GPL. I also haven't gone clean-room, as I was eyeballing the reference when writing the other, but I think that would only be relevant for patents.

Not looking for binding opinions, just discussion.

#freeSoftware #licensing

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I recently built a new antenna cable for my RTL-SDR with a piece of SMA+RG58 cable taken 14 years prior from the in-laws' old 3G home Internet. I knew it would be useful one day. That day came. It's not hoarding.

uwat?

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-says-power-data-centers-can-sidestep-pollution-laws-2026-07-27/

The EPA said if the power plants are not supplying electricity to the grid then they would not be subject to the federal Clean Air ​Act's Acid Rain Program, which has been key to the ​dramatic reduction of smog and soot pollution from industrial ⁠facilities.

#artificialIntelligence #environment #pollution #EPA

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place But what if Fred promises not to lose it?

@davidgerard@circumstances.run “ex culo” 👌

@futurebird .

@anon_opin@mastodon.social “That's. Not. Pie.” https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFf4ByiJTet/

@ozeng@aus.social @paninid@mastodon.world @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I went looking, too. There are a few articles https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/epstein-email-alleges-bill-gates-212612006.html

@foone@digipres.club Why stop at one middle name? I have several and, as a bonus, their combined length regularly overflows forms, both digital and analog.

@thibaultmol@en.osm.town AFAIK from a past academic life, this provides grant-like funding for research projects. Should be alright. @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org don't answer until they send you an SMS to tell you they sent you an email.

@mralancooper @mhoye “You're absolutely right, no override is needed”

@pkirn@mastodon.social I had this https://evilgeniusrobot.uk/posts/a-simple-bot-gatekeeper-for-nginx.html in my bookmarks. Not tested, but sounds promising.

@anubis2814 I'm sorry, but some of the things you say are factually incorrect (morbidity vs. flu, self innoculation, ... ). And some of the other replies have already called it out. Noone asks anyone to mask all the time. But masking does work. And it does work, as you say, for any airborne disease. And it's not an all or nothing choice, which I think you also mention. I masked for the last 4 years, and, I've been thoroughly enjoying never getting sick. This rocks, particularly when everyone wonders why they're sick all the time. You're welcome to make your own choices, but please don't misrepresent facts to make yourself feel better. @leechindustries@zeroes.ca

@paoloredaelli It's “neutral” now https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webserial and a discussion here https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/687 @balloob @mozilla

@eestileib @brianvastag @jilleduffy I wouldn't hold my breath. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-022-00540-0

@nyanbinary 😂 we all think the same... I did this a few days ago https://piaille.fr/@shtrom/116102707985636075 then found a few earlier ones when I went looking. Maybe the piece of insight we can get out of it is which ones we think are the most well known!

@dave@puz.fun I think we all are. We contain multitudes points of failures. @kornel@mastodon.social

@musevg @mralancooper @mhoye Nah, you wouldn't. Why? That said, I was wondering how much of the Artemis II mission's code was LLM generated... Given the success, probably very little...

@robpike@hachyderm.io @foone@digipres.club the zeitgeist this morning https://digipres.club/@foone/116320096630256445

@ratsprite@cathode.church other detrimental effect: cannot just shrug the thing off as broken. Urge to fix.

@ralfmaximus@mastodon.social You sure it wasn't just one person repeatedly travelling back to the same time? @weirdonwheels@social.chinwag.org

@nyanbinary one of us! One of us! tbh, I'm surprised sudo sandwich doesn't get more mentions.

@ebalsa@mas.to Doesn't work on the noai version ): https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=guybrush+threepwood&noai=1&ia=web

@Aznorth@framapiaf.org autodidacte+IUT+école d'ingé (+doctorat) Rien n'est strictement nécessaire, mais ça aide, et ça ouvre d'autres voies.

@pewnack@aus.social Road? I bet where they're going they don't need... roads. @weirdonwheels@social.chinwag.org

@evan no, but maybe on a side channel if I knew them well enough.

@vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz wow! https://spacenews.com/sixth-varda-mission-successfully-returns/

@Ooze oh ffs

@abstractcode@eigenmagic.net how many fingers can be seen, though? @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@nicosomb@piaille.fr @curseurs@tchafia.be Et les Webrings! https://fediring.net/

@luna Ooooh! Comment tu transfères du papier imprimé au lino? Tu repasses avec un feutre gras ou un truc du genre?

@paolo_e@freeradical.zone Abbreviating enshittification to e14n always makes me wince because I was using Pump.io before it was cool @evan@cosocial.ca

@mxchara@seattle.pink Other. GNOME is great on my single-screen side-of-lounge personal laptop, but it just doesn't work for work purposes. I tried all the tiling add-ons, and non work as I want them (mainly lacking deterministic window placement). I'm using Sway there.

@Ooze Wait. What? He's sending troops?

@jacob@social.jacobian.org I think this misses the effect of persistence. After a while, you have all the tools. You're still bad at it. But man, this shed has half the inspirational glow as a Bunnings aisle, and that's something.

@mikrotik@mikrotik.social Neat! It would be great to have Back To Home in there, too!