#license — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #license, aggregated by home.social.
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🚦 Oh no, #Florida is pulling the plug on its trusty #license plate peeping toms! Apparently, Big Brother has been downsized to Little Brother—just in time for those highway-speed #privacy invasions to hit the brakes. 🚗💨
https://www.wusf.org/transportation/2026-08-31/fdot-revokes-permits-for-flock-cameras-installed-on-state-land-next-to-roads #Plates #BigBrother #LittleBrother #HighwayInvasion #HackerNews #ngated -
🚦 Oh no, #Florida is pulling the plug on its trusty #license plate peeping toms! Apparently, Big Brother has been downsized to Little Brother—just in time for those highway-speed #privacy invasions to hit the brakes. 🚗💨
https://www.wusf.org/transportation/2026-08-31/fdot-revokes-permits-for-flock-cameras-installed-on-state-land-next-to-roads #Plates #BigBrother #LittleBrother #HighwayInvasion #HackerNews #ngated -
🚦 Oh no, #Florida is pulling the plug on its trusty #license plate peeping toms! Apparently, Big Brother has been downsized to Little Brother—just in time for those highway-speed #privacy invasions to hit the brakes. 🚗💨
https://www.wusf.org/transportation/2026-08-31/fdot-revokes-permits-for-flock-cameras-installed-on-state-land-next-to-roads #Plates #BigBrother #LittleBrother #HighwayInvasion #HackerNews #ngated -
🚦 Oh no, #Florida is pulling the plug on its trusty #license plate peeping toms! Apparently, Big Brother has been downsized to Little Brother—just in time for those highway-speed #privacy invasions to hit the brakes. 🚗💨
https://www.wusf.org/transportation/2026-08-31/fdot-revokes-permits-for-flock-cameras-installed-on-state-land-next-to-roads #Plates #BigBrother #LittleBrother #HighwayInvasion #HackerNews #ngated -
🚦 Oh no, #Florida is pulling the plug on its trusty #license plate peeping toms! Apparently, Big Brother has been downsized to Little Brother—just in time for those highway-speed #privacy invasions to hit the brakes. 🚗💨
https://www.wusf.org/transportation/2026-08-31/fdot-revokes-permits-for-flock-cameras-installed-on-state-land-next-to-roads #Plates #BigBrother #LittleBrother #HighwayInvasion #HackerNews #ngated -
Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516929
#HackerNews #Florida #License #Plates #LicensePlateReaders #FlockCameras #Transportation #News #Privacy
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Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516929
#HackerNews #Florida #License #Plates #LicensePlateReaders #FlockCameras #Transportation #News #Privacy
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Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516929
#HackerNews #Florida #License #Plates #LicensePlateReaders #FlockCameras #Transportation #News #Privacy
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Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516929
#HackerNews #Florida #License #Plates #LicensePlateReaders #FlockCameras #Transportation #News #Privacy
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Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516929
#HackerNews #Florida #License #Plates #LicensePlateReaders #FlockCameras #Transportation #News #Privacy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spn-mOg_cS8
Well... I'm not migrating to a BSD soon.
Honestly, I want my next jump be to a microkernel-based OS, written exclusively in memory-safe languages, and with a non-permissive license that doesn't allow big companies to privatize the code and profit from it using monopolist tactics, without contributing back.
Maybe in my next life, I suppose 😝
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spn-mOg_cS8
Well... I'm not migrating to a BSD soon.
Honestly, I want my next jump be to a microkernel-based OS, written exclusively in memory-safe languages, and with a non-permissive license that doesn't allow big companies to privatize the code and profit from it using monopolist tactics, without contributing back.
Maybe in my next life, I suppose 😝
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spn-mOg_cS8
Well... I'm not migrating to a BSD soon.
Honestly, I want my next jump be to a microkernel-based OS, written exclusively in memory-safe languages, and with a non-permissive license that doesn't allow big companies to privatize the code and profit from it using monopolist tactics, without contributing back.
Maybe in my next life, I suppose 😝
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spn-mOg_cS8
Well... I'm not migrating to a BSD soon.
Honestly, I want my next jump be to a microkernel-based OS, written exclusively in memory-safe languages, and with a non-permissive license that doesn't allow big companies to privatize the code and profit from it using monopolist tactics, without contributing back.
Maybe in my next life, I suppose 😝
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spn-mOg_cS8
Well... I'm not migrating to a BSD soon.
Honestly, I want my next jump be to a microkernel-based OS, written exclusively in memory-safe languages, and with a non-permissive license that doesn't allow big companies to privatize the code and profit from it using monopolist tactics, without contributing back.
Maybe in my next life, I suppose 😝
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Oil Things Must Pass
==================[Verse 1]
Our governments are always warring
Killing keeps gas price at bay
Poor people’s blood, rich man’s profit
I just don’t believe what they say[Chorus]
Oil things must pass
Oil things must pass away[Verse 2]
We’re destroying all the natural greenery
No place left, for the kids to play
They choke on toxic fumes, while coughing
It doesn’t have to be this way.[Chorus]
Oil things must pass
Oil things must pass away[Bridge]
Oil things must pass
No human beings can last
So we must switch to solar power now, without delay[Verse 3]
Sunlight doesn’t cost a penny.
Solar batteries get recharged all day.
Planet Earth heated up, despite all warnings.
Let’s cool it, before it’s too late.[Chorus]
Oil things must pass
Oil things must pass away
Oil things must pass
Oil things must pass away- Ashwin Dixit.
( Thanks to George Harrison )
#Earth
#Song #Music #Lyrics #Rock #RocknRoll
#ClassicRock
#GeorgeHarrison #Tribute #Beatles
#Solar #SolarPunk #SolarEnergy #Green #GreenEnergy
#Environment #Peace #Oil #OilAndGas#license : Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
New era of war begins: Ukrainian sea, ground drone team up for combat mission on Kinburn Spit . . . . . Ukraine drones struck 15 more Russian vessels as Sea of Azov campaign reaches 105 ships total . . . . . Ukraine, 9 European partners launch anti-ballistic missile coalition to support Freya air defense project . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/tuesday-july-14-2026/
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و بعد الجدل إلّي صار مابين ال
#Office #Suites
#OnlyOffice
قرّر باش يوضّح بعض النّقاط في ال
#License
متاعو
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-613456-onlyoffice-clarifie-sa-licence-apres-la-rupture-avec-nextcloud-voici-ce-qui-change-pour-vous.html
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/onlyoffice-9-4-released
كي العادة، كان ثمّة تعليق والا ملاحظة حطّوها كتعليق و ما تنساوش تعملولنا
Follow
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#Mastodon
باش تجي مساعدة
Live
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#Linux #OpenSource #News #theLinuxEXP #BanisraeliContributors #tech #Programming #Coding -
Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.
Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
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An interesting #licence war is happening in the #Python world.
The popular `chardet` package has apparently been re-written (by assistance of the Claude #LLM). Undergoing this *version* change to v 7.0.0 the current maintainer has shifted the licence away from the #LGPL to the more permissive MIT licence.
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't know about the deeper backgrounds. While a complete clean slate implementation may justify a different licence, I don't think that anyone who's been maintaining a package for years can claim complete lack of influence on the existing code base. So a licence change from one version to another without consent of the (original) contributors seems wildly inadmissible.
Additionally, if the author claims a complete re-write using Claude, in many jurisdictions (including the US) AI generated content cannot be IP protected. So in that case he'd have had to remove the #copyright (c) claim to his name as well to be at least consistent with the narrative.
This is completely independent of the authenticity of the supposed statement by Mark Pilgrim (original author) of `chardet`.
I'm interested to hear what others think ...
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/
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"AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.
What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.
Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a clean-room reimplementation from a bare spec for that, and LLMs *by definition* can't do that.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0
#FFS.
#AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation
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The proposal takes aim at the actions of #bar associations & similar professional organizations, not government entities, that investigate alleged #unethical conduct by #lawyers & consider actions such as #disbarment, which involves revoking a #license to practice #law [cuz, yeah, sane humans believe Rudolph Giuliani should still have legal authority /s].
#LegalEthics #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ABA #Federalism #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Our next #HamRadio license exam will be on Saturday, August 26th at 1 PM
our exams are open to the public
All details can be found here: https://w8ltve.team/exams/2023-08-26-exam.html
#AmateurRadio #Columbus #Ohio #OhioState #Westerville #LaurelVE #license #radio #exam
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Our next #HamRadio license exam will be on Saturday, August 26th at 1 PM
our exams are open to the public
All details can be found here: https://w8ltve.team/exams/2023-08-26-exam.html
#AmateurRadio #Columbus #Ohio #OhioState #Westerville #LaurelVE #license #radio #exam
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Attorney who challenged Trump's 2020 loss gives up law license as states weigh disciplining him
Attorney #Lin #Wood, who filed legal challenges seeking to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, is #relinquishing his #law #license, electing to retire from practicing rather than face #possible #disbarment.
Multiple states have weighed #disciplining him for #pushing #Trump’s #false #claims that he defeated Joe Biden.
https://apnews.com/article/lin-wood-donald-trump-lawyer-e7a926bf24d3c846296c62448c2395f9
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Poll Workers’ Lawyers Bill Rudy Giuliani $89k for Missing Evidence
Faced with a potentially costly #defamation #lawsuit for spreading conspiracy theories about two Georgia poll workers following the 2020 election, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney #Rudy #Giuliani is already facing consequences for refusing to turn over evidence in the case.
Following a federal judge’s order #sanctioning Giuliani last month—and ordering him to #pay legal fees #for #wasting #everyone’s #time—the poll workers’ lawyers on Wednesday submitted a legal bill in court totaling $89,172.
It's less than half of what they say they normally charge for the time they spent dealing with Giuliani's antics.
The final bill is up to U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who previously wrote that Giuliani “#arbitrarily #limited his #search” of an email server and “conducted only an imprecise ‘manual search’ of his text messages,” causing a #ten-#month #delay—only to later #surprise the opposing side with another 4,000 pages of evidence.
Giuliani was once Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor but is now facing #disbarment in the nation’s capital for having “#weaponized his #law #license to bring a #frivolous #action in an attempt to #undermine the #Constitution” in the service of former President Donald Trump.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawyers-bill-rudy-giuliani-dollar89k-for-missing-evidence -
Oh, this goes on in the world of #aviation, too. Just not in countries that have functioning governments and #regulators and #inspectors and #paperwork...
You go to various remote or isolated or primitive parts of the world, and you can definitely find the local equivalent of Billy-Jo Bob's Real Flying Airline, with a #plane that is held together with hopes & dreams, a #pilot who hasn't seen a #license form since 1978 and smells of #booze, and desperate passengers...
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I fight for the users.
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free open source software, specifically software with a copyleft license, i.e. GPL or Mozilla.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I am a pacifist. I am against violence. I am against citizens keeping guns in cities and towns with children. I am against war.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.
I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.
I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.
Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we call Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc. on FOSH assistive consumer electronics.
I'm sober.
#users #fightforusers #userrights #programming #thinking #thinkingaboutthinking #ai #artificialintelligence #neuroscience #journalism #science #scientificprocess #peerreview #foss #fosh #flosh #floss #freeandopensource #freedomsoftware #libresoftware #copyleft #gpl #agpl #mozilla #license #ls #academia #privacy #security #democracy #internet #socialnetwork #distributed #cnc #3dprinting #locallabor #localmanufacturing #coop #workerowned #democracyatwork #regulation #laws #money #corporations #government #socialagreement #boycott #controlcapital #nonviolent #pacifist #antivolence #antigun #noguns #schoolshooting #antiwar #plantbased #vegan #climatecrisis #animalindustry #animalcruelty #extinction #animal #plant #ecosystem #environment #retinituspigmentosa #rp #agerelatedmaculardegeneration #amd #blind #lowvision #bci #games #computergames #ageofempires #rimworld #gamedev #music #bassguitar #rageagainstthemachine #enya #religion #reading #books #readingbooks #buddhism #baby #sober
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I fight for the users.
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free open source software, specifically software with a copyleft license, i.e. GPL or Mozilla.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I am a pacifist. I am against violence. I am against citizens keeping guns in cities and towns with children. I am against war.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.
I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.
I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.
Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we call Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc. on FOSH assistive consumer electronics.
I'm sober.
#users #fightforusers #userrights #programming #thinking #thinkingaboutthinking #ai #artificialintelligence #neuroscience #journalism #science #scientificprocess #peerreview #foss #fosh #flosh #floss #freeandopensource #freedomsoftware #libresoftware #copyleft #gpl #agpl #mozilla #license #ls #academia #privacy #security #democracy #internet #socialnetwork #distributed #cnc #3dprinting #locallabor #localmanufacturing #coop #workerowned #democracyatwork #regulation #laws #money #corporations #government #socialagreement #boycott #controlcapital #nonviolent #pacifist #antivolence #antigun #noguns #schoolshooting #antiwar #plantbased #vegan #climatecrisis #animalindustry #animalcruelty #extinction #animal #plant #ecosystem #environment #retinituspigmentosa #rp #agerelatedmaculardegeneration #amd #blind #lowvision #bci #games #computergames #ageofempires #rimworld #gamedev #music #bassguitar #rageagainstthemachine #enya #religion #reading #books #readingbooks #buddhism #baby #sober
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I fight for the users.
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free open source software, specifically software with a copyleft license, i.e. GPL or Mozilla.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I am a pacifist. I am against violence. I am against citizens keeping guns in cities and towns with children. I am against war.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.
I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.
I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.
Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we call Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc. on FOSH assistive consumer electronics.
I'm sober.
#users #fightforusers #userrights #programming #thinking #thinkingaboutthinking #ai #artificialintelligence #neuroscience #journalism #science #scientificprocess #peerreview #foss #fosh #flosh #floss #freeandopensource #freedomsoftware #libresoftware #copyleft #gpl #agpl #mozilla #license #ls #academia #privacy #security #democracy #internet #socialnetwork #distributed #cnc #3dprinting #locallabor #localmanufacturing #coop #workerowned #democracyatwork #regulation #laws #money #corporations #government #socialagreement #boycott #controlcapital #nonviolent #pacifist #antivolence #antigun #noguns #schoolshooting #antiwar #plantbased #vegan #climatecrisis #animalindustry #animalcruelty #extinction #animal #plant #ecosystem #environment #retinituspigmentosa #rp #agerelatedmaculardegeneration #amd #blind #lowvision #bci #games #computergames #ageofempires #rimworld #gamedev #music #bassguitar #rageagainstthemachine #enya #religion #reading #books #readingbooks #buddhism #baby #sober
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I fight for the users.
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free open source software, specifically software with a copyleft license, i.e. GPL or Mozilla.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I am a pacifist. I am against violence. I am against citizens keeping guns in cities and towns with children. I am against war.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.
I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.
I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.
Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we call Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc. on FOSH assistive consumer electronics.
I'm sober.
#users #fightforusers #userrights #programming #thinking #thinkingaboutthinking #ai #artificialintelligence #neuroscience #journalism #science #scientificprocess #peerreview #foss #fosh #flosh #floss #freeandopensource #freedomsoftware #libresoftware #copyleft #gpl #agpl #mozilla #license #ls #academia #privacy #security #democracy #internet #socialnetwork #distributed #cnc #3dprinting #locallabor #localmanufacturing #coop #workerowned #democracyatwork #regulation #laws #money #corporations #government #socialagreement #boycott #controlcapital #nonviolent #pacifist #antivolence #antigun #noguns #schoolshooting #antiwar #plantbased #vegan #climatecrisis #animalindustry #animalcruelty #extinction #animal #plant #ecosystem #environment #retinituspigmentosa #rp #agerelatedmaculardegeneration #amd #blind #lowvision #bci #games #computergames #ageofempires #rimworld #gamedev #music #bassguitar #rageagainstthemachine #enya #religion #reading #books #readingbooks #buddhism #baby #sober
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I fight for the users.
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free open source software, specifically software with a copyleft license, i.e. GPL or Mozilla.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I am a pacifist. I am against violence. I am against citizens keeping guns in cities and towns with children. I am against war.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.
I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.
I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.
Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we call Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc. on FOSH assistive consumer electronics.
I'm sober.
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