B.S. Biology; M.S. in Bioinformatics. ❤️ tech, FOSS, Lana Del Rey, Linux, Fedora, KDE, but also ARM MacBooks & iOS.
Good @ Python, forced to use R, learning Rust.
🎮 Prey (2017), Bioshock, Portal & Dead Space.
Bi, more into guys atm.
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also ndr@beehaw.org
Maybe I’m wrong, but I had understood that the content on your instance would also not be pushed to them, after defederating. The only thing you can’t stop is having that instance see your comments and posts on another instance (not your own or the one you defederated from).
I have plenty of RAM and I run Linux on a VM. Works like a charm. You can even use open source hypervisors like UTM.
I wouldn’t bother running it on bare metal just yet.
This has the best explanation I’ve seen: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/
In particular, see the section “What Exactly Is the RHEL Business Model?”.
Or, if you want a short sentence to read only:
Whether that analysis is correct is a matter of intense debate, and likely only a court case that disputed this particular issue would yield a definitive answer on whether that disagreeable behavior is permitted (or not) under the GPL agreements.
The point is that it does not violate the GPL.
Yes. I just don’t know if it’s good to phrase it as “RHEL customers are legally allowed to share the code”, since as soon as they do it they won’t be allowed to be customers anymore lol (assuming Red Hat finds out)
It’s simple: they can redistribute it since it’s GPL, but if they do so, they break their business contract with RedHat, so they’re not customers anymore and can’t see the source code in the future.
GPL doesn’t mean that they must give the code to everyone, only that you have those rights as long as you have the software. So RedHat is not forced to have everyone as a customer, and according to them, distributing the code kicks you out.
They can still re-distribute the current source they have, but will not have access to future source code.
That’s not how I understood it. I think saying “closed source” is kind of misleading.
LMAO I just don’t want to encourage people to open the sketchiest .exe they find online without a second thought
You shouldn’t grant an executable admin privileges if you’re not sure what it does.
The Arch Linux pipeline is real, folks.
I’ve just finally caved in and visited lemmygrad for the first time and oh, boy! I’ve heard the sound of my grey matter atrophy
We are not supposed to do anything.
Everyone is free to join any instance they think it’s good. We can communicate freely (bar a few exceptions) throughout the fediverse, so it’s not dividing users. Furthermore, lemmy.ml is overloaded, so that’s a good reason to choose another instance. The admins themselves don’t expect the majority to join that server as the primary one (they run it as the ‘flagship instance’).
yes!
lemmy.world in particular doesn’t block any instances
see for comparison:
No one is saying that the US is good though.
Exactly because of what you said in your last paragraph, some don’t want to use an instance run by people with a certain political agenda.
It is a good thing, objectively. But at least on Mlem there is kind of an equivalent of the karma in the profile page (comment score and post score), if you miss that. 😎
Some may interact less though if there is no karma; gamification works after all. I guess we’ll see.
I despite this “trend” of considering just simple opinions and basic statements as “political”. It’s been watered down and turned into a meaningless tag.
I might actually end up disabling swap in the end. I wanted to update that apparently I “fixed” the problem (not sure if permanently) by turning off the pc, unplugging the PSU, and holding down the power button for 30 seconds. Normal reboots weren’t enough. I’ll take it for now.