I’m in this comic and I don’t like it.

Canada. China. Point still stands ;)

A lot of companies require you to post on LinkedIn regularly for brand building and “presence”. Sometimes it’s built into your KPIs. So with the advent of AI you just post crap to get it over with. Even if it negatively impacts your personal brand… Game theory stuff I guess.

It’s been bad for a few years already but it is getting worse. A good chunk of the internet isn’t indexing anymore (places which require logins to get the content), and those that are largely exist to earn from the advertising, not to be helpful.

There’s actually an opportunity for a disruptive force here. If you can be better at search than Google, you could steal users. But duckduckgo and related are mostly trying to be old Google rather than better Google.

Solar panel?

This joke wouldn’t land today, due to smart phones, laptops, etc. So what would be the modern version?

Same way you teach a child. Start with basic nouns and verbs and use them in context. Demonstrate and interact and repeat.

Source: have a 25 year out of date “teaching English as a second language” certificate. ;)

Ask yourself which things you’re buying from a certain southern country with a regime that is hostile to Canada. And whether you can grow that at home. I’ve identified cabbage and carrots as a good fit for my zone (3b) which don’t have a Canadian supplier in my local stores. Looks like I’m having a lot of coleslaw this summer and freezing borscht for the fall.

And we haven’t had a lot of time to evolve or adapt to our new niche either. So most of our brains and bodies are still the hunter gatherer archetypes.

Considering how crazy fuel prices are, I’m surprised this isn’t higher actually.

Time to start lobbying within your industry I guess :)

Our small business just bought a server and installed NextCloud on it. We’re doing our part.

There’s a killswitch scenario where a malicious US executive order shut off our civilization by banning Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon from serving Canada. Almost every business would be immediately hamstrung and the economy would collapse in a week. This is too fucking dangerous.

Exchange rates vary. Cost of living varies. Purchasing power parity varies. Travel one year, and it’s cheap, and the next it’s expensive. Pick destinations accordingly.

(I recommend Chile).

If they’re the copyright holder, they are allowed to use any license they want. Including a modified AGPL. It’s up to the users to understand what license they’re getting the software under. In this case, it is a modified-AGPL.

This is like Qt when they used the modified GPL (Qt 2-3 era, before they went full LGPL). Qt was the copyright holder and can issue under terms they decide. Then it is up to the users to decide if those terms are acceptable. KDE decided these terms were acceptable, but some other users did not.

However, if a user decided to ignore the additional clauses in Qt and treat it as unmodified GPL, they would have been in violation of the license. Because Qt was the the copyright holder and can dictate terms. Qt would have won the court case. It never happened, so it wasn’t tested, and that’s ancient history now.

But here OnlyOffice is in the same boat. They can dictate the terms, and a court can decide if a user is in adherence of those terms. There’s no part of copyright law that OnlyOffice is violating here.

What will be up for legal debate is whether EuroOffice is willfully and maliciously violating it, or if they just interpreted differently. If the latter, then there will be a great deal of legalese. The real question will be: the AGPL as amended by OnlyOffice – does it permit forking, and are forks subject to the same modified clauses.

I suspect OnlyOffice wins this one if it actually goes to court. Which will be super annoying from an end user perspective.

The problem with this is that OnlyOffice owns the copyright and used attribution agreements from any contributions. Meaning, as owners of the copyright, they are allowed to set the license. So if they applied the AGPL wrong, they aren’t violating anyone else’s copyright. If OnlyOffice has used someone else’s AGPL code and then added these impossible restrictions, then I would agree.

The legal battle between euro office and onlyoffice is interesting. I actually hope it goes to european courts. I suspect onlyoffice will win this one, but then everyone will abandon their code.

Simultaneously TDF and collabora are having a spat.

Interesting things afoot in the FOSS hosted office ecosystem. Prediction: a third option emerges – clean room rewrite (maybe this is a good thing).

Arggggh

Sony Xperia Pro-I – a phone with a very nice camera :)

I honestly don’t know where else to post this. The first an only live performance of this track. Knocks my fucking socks off.

1991 Ford S10 pickup, on the farm, when I was 8 years old. I only crashed it on the farm once – in first gear, stopped. Took foot off clutch and lurched forward into the wall in front of me. In my defense, I hadn’t been instructed on how to turn it off yet ;)