JackbyDev

I think you’re putting a lot of faith in people when you say that. When’s the last time you properly obeyed a license when copyijg and pasting from Stack Overflow? When’s the last time you think the average dev did?

Also, no hard feelings about the presumptuous thing. Idk why I got defensive.

And as an aside, I think I’ve heard that in some jurisdictions there is no concept of public domain and in others you cannot willfully put things into it. So licenses like CC0 or the awfully named Unlicense are better alternatives. (Bad name because Unlicense and Unlicensed are so close in spelling but wildly different.)

Wait, people give other people the right to make proprietary variants of released source code and then are surprised when they exercise that right?

It’s more like being angry when people try to abuse charities and get money when they don’t need it. Like growing an apple tree in your yard and telling people they’re free then being upset when someone comes and takes all of them. Or a better example, being angry about people taking all the candy from a Halloween bowl.

No, other licenses don’t protect against not understanding which rights are granted.

That’s not what I meant, I meant protect against people taking advantage of your code in a way most people would view as wrong. (Just because something isegal doesn’t mean people believe it is right.)

Also, that’s why I use AGPL.

People generally aren’t surprised by the effects of the MIT license, they’re surprised by the behavior of other humans. Less permissive licenses protect against that.

I’ve seen this a few times with various distributions. People always say stuff about checking news files or whatever their distros call them. I have no idea what those are or where to find them. It would seem extremely prudent for the update tool to print relevant information.

Brew does this. (I am not using Brew as an example of a perfect package management tool.) It also has “caveats” that get printed for some packages. It seems much more useful this way.

Printing the entire change log is overkill, but at least breaking changes and such would be extremely useful.

I’m not paying for Lemmy.

Finally, a use for the * * * * * * cron expression!

Why can’t it print into as part of the update? Why is it a separate command?

For truly small random pieces of code I’m putting online, yes, that is what I generally want. (Also, that’s sort of presumptuous to believe you know what I want better than myself.) I’m not going to hunt down people who are infringing on projects like this: https://github.com/JacksonBailey/julian

I made that because I was bored and thought I could easily solve a problem my wife described having at work. If someone copies and pastes it into their own project do I care? I mean, sort of? Not really. It’s just too small to worry about. Specifically leaving it unlicensed gives me.the freedom and flexibility to license it as I choose in the future and also pursue people using it if they refused to stop. (Although this example is particularly trivial. I probably wouldn’t do that. But that’s my whole point, I’m only choosing to do this with trivial code.) Applying a license doesn’t give me that flexibility though.

(Apologies for typos, I just woke.uo.and don’t have my glasses on either.)

My personal philosophy:

1. Is this trivially small? Don’t bother licensing. People will just copy and paste regardless of what I do and I don’t care. But it gives you the option to change your mind later. Licenses are irrevocable. (I specifically mean not applying a license and maintaining all rights.)
2. Is it a small part of a whole that people need to use? LGPL. But take this with a grain of salt. FSF says to prefer GPL.
3. Otherwise, AGPL. If there was a more strict but also commonly used license I’d use it instead.

and all cases where the author’s intent is considered (Tanenbaum doesn’t mind).

I think you’re ignoring that most people wouldn’t want their code used like that. Just because the author doesn’t mind doesn’t make that typical. Look at Mongo and Elastic. They felt the need to use an arguably non-free license for their code because of perceived abuses. AppGet is another example of something similar.

Yeah, I was like wtf do you mean you use it to move windows and control Spotify 😭❤️

I didn’t say they did.

EDIT: OH MY FUCKING GOD. I’m blind.

I’m confused. I don’t have a steam deck. Your steam deck is Linux. But it also sounds like you’re using you steam deck like a Wii U Gamepad for your Windows Desktop? I can’t tell if this is a shit post or a complaint about (seemingly) niche functions of a steam deck.

My TV and PS4 Pro have HDR. I’m sure it helps make brightness better, but it just makes everything look yellow.

Also, I don’t even think my TV’s HDR works with its apps. I distinctly remember House of the Dragon and trying to see something. I accidentally closed the app and reopened and suddenly it was super clear. It’s like it turned the HDR on (or off) and suddenly everything was visible in an otherwise dark scene.

Saw this in my inbox and thought it was replying to this lol https://programming.dev/comment/10451457

Oh god, you’re zip bomb won’t fit in my drive 😩

Reminds me of when I started using git lol.

HDMI? Don’t you know HDCP is proprietary? Best to just log out. Stallman was right and all!

“Hey boss, the display in the corner office automatically updated. Can we get IT to switch everything to Linux?”

.zlib