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Apple quietly admits 8GB isn't enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard
The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source

Re: Not a universal definition
In any case, the world has moved on. Large tech = cloud, and cloud doesn't care if it's BSD/MIT or GPL - they can monetize both equally. Hence the development of AGPL and the like.
AGPL is hardly an insurmountable problem. Are you saying that Google, Amazon, or Microsoft are so cheap they won't touch AGPL-licenced code as it means they would need to contribute patches back to the project and that detracts too much from their bottom line?
all open source becomes commercially licensed under a collective subscription system
But it already is! Only the money is funneled into Google's, Amazon's, and MS' pockets, not the projects themselves. Open source projects are starved of money and cloud companies can donate a percentage of the income which comes from the sale of open source services to their customers, only they elect not to. If there were no open source software, cloud companies would be paying third-party suppliers for that software.
with a massive price tag (1% of *turnover*)
I suspect that's his opening gambit.
The large companies will fork the code they use, and maintain it themselves - they can afford to - and stop contributing back.
What exactly are they contributing back? Currently approximately 0 patches and $0.00. Is anyone supposed to be at all bothered if licencing forces them to be more honest?

Re: Not a universal definition
And you can argue that MIT, BSD, etc... licences also place restrictions, on the end users. As soon as that code ends up in a PlayStation, iPhone, or a cloud service, it's locked away. End users can't study, share, or modify the software and can only run it if they buy or subscribe to the product.
The fact that MIT, BSD, etc... licences are often viewed as freer than GPL licences is thanks to years of large tech companies and the organisations they fund saying so. Bruce Perens argues that these licences are used for resource extraction by tech companies, the resource being developers.

Look who funds the OSI
Firefox has limitations on branding and nobody could argue that isn't open source.
In any case, if Meta's LLM licence doesn't meet the definition of open source, don't worry, it will do in a few days when the OSI publishes its definition of open source AI. Just look at who funds the OSI.
It's obvious the large corporations which fund the OSI benefit from an absolutist definition of open source where the BSD or MIT licence is preferred over the GPL. Even GPL v3 too restrictive because it doesn't allow for Tivoisation. It helps them take what they want from smaller idealistic developers without paying for it or even contributing back.
Google reportedly developing an AI agent that can control your browser
Nvidia CEO whines Europeans aren’t buying enough GPUs


Nobody has to buy anything from Nvidia
It's a toxic hellhole and they can't even get Linux drivers right.
The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release
Musk claims Cybertruck has become profitable at last
Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams

Not quite there yet
The voice sounds a bit like those Xtranormal videos from a decade ago. I wouldn't give it my bank credentials but I can imagine my father-in-law would (I'm surprised his account hasn't been emptied yet).
Feature phones all the rage as parents try to shield kids from harm

Won't be a short term trend
We've had 10-15 years of the great experiment and it's obviously been a failure. If tech companies have no inclination to fix the problems they've made then any parent who doesn't want to see their kids end up with chronic brain rot won't be giving them a smartphone.
AI firms and civil society groups plead for passage of federal AI law ASAP

Pointless
If Big US Tech has endorsed it, all this is is an exercise in lobbying to do two things. 1) Shut out competition at home and from abroad and 2) Set some minimum standards which are only there so it can be said "we already have standards, any more would ruin our competitivity" (see the broken mess that is right to repair).
Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year
macOS HM Surf vuln might already be under exploit by major malware family

"Safari has an entitlement that allows it to bypass all TCC protections"
There's your problem right there.
A browser is probably the piece of software which most needs protection against unauthorised access to location, microphone, and webcam but the built-in one doesn't get it so as not to pop up warnings and scare off users. Presumably Apple have worked out fewer and fewer people bother with Safari on desktop...
WinAmp's woes will pass, but its wonders will be here forever

Re: About the iPod
Winamp 5 has iPod music syncing... It's alive!
Internet Archive exposed again – this time through Zendesk
FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again
Post Office CTO had 'nagging doubts' about Horizon system despite reliability assurances
UK electronics firms want government to stop taxing trash and let them fix it instead

Re: Stop it!
It's just a facade so as not to scare the USAians who are easily frightened, which means we can all have fun picking apart articles written by UK journos with Britishisms put through an American English spellchucker, engagement is up, everyone's a winner.
Let's just hope they don't screw the pooch too much like the other place did.
Elon Musk's disaster relief promises: Should we believe the hype?

Re: Don't worry about Musk
Musk is the one who got the free publicity by announcing he was helping, the author wrote this article about how Musk wasn't, in fact, helping.
Or are people with first-hand evidence supposed to know their place and say nothing while a billionaire compulsive liar lies yet again with the aim of deceiving the impressionable?
Elon Musk's X isn't important enough to feel the full force of EU regulation

Re: Why should it be classed as important ?
That's an easy one to answer, Churnalists make a living out of it so it appears all over the media.
Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

svn also faffs around with line endings and it's also a complete pain in the arse because it's easier for the editor, commit, and update utilities to detect the line ending than getting people to set an svn flag saying what the line ending is. The proof is that svn ended up having auto properties so the "native" EOL flag is automatically set server side forcing EOL detection to be done on the client side.
Windows 7 finally checks out as POSReady 7 closes the till on an era
Google's memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages

Re: "Google, did management enforce use of RAII"
That's what tech leads are for, to say why it has to be done to management (that's probably what went wrong in Google...).
If you're wondering why management keep buying into stuff like cloud, AI, and the new language du jour it's because sales got there first.

So why were they allowed to use C strings in the first place? No code review caught that out? That could even be automated by getting svn and git to refuse commits which contain "char *".
Back to Google, did management enforce use of RAII, ban use of known unsafe language features, allow time for refactoring old code to use newer C++ features, and improve the toolchain? I suspect they didn't because they admitted as much ("Given the amount of C++ code we use, we anticipate a residual amount of mature and stable memory-unsafe code will remain for the foreseeable future"). If they chose not to follow best practices then decide that's a reason for Rusting all the things, they're going to be surprised when they find there are still problems in their Rust code but I won't be as no technical solution on Earth will fix their problem - they have a management and cultural problem.
UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

Re: See also: UKCA marks on goods. That didn't last very long
CE is not just self-certification (I suppose I'm getting downvotes because people think it is). There are Notified Bodies who can only test certain products and they are only in the EU.

Re: I'm sorry, but only our popcorn will work in this theatre.
Japanese SCART connectors aren't actually SCART, they're JP-21.
Also France gave way to Big Telly and dumped the SCART requirement in 2015, now most later TVs have no easy way to connect older Composite/S-Video/RGB and everyone is forced to use some horrible dongle which converts to YPbPr or HDMI and the cheap ones are terrible and laggy.

Re: Re:6th Largest?
UK and Ireland ISBNs are sold by a US multinational (recently divested from another US multinational). It's colonies all the way down.
Post Office seeks more Horizon support as it continues hunt for replacement

Re: Not to worry, the Post Office have the answer
These are losses reported by Horizon that the Post Office want to take subpostmasters to court for that we now know are fictitious because Horizon doesn't work; it generates false transactions and makes other transactions disappear.
If management still consider them real losses then something's very wrong.

Not to worry, the Post Office have the answer
Post Office explores taking branch owner-operators to court again
State-owned body writing off losses of £12m a year after stopping practice, inquiry told
And as far as I know Horizon is still not fixed.
Keir Starmer tells regulators to chill as Microsoft exec takes wheel of advisory council
Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion

Wii U (yes, the Wii U)
Green Hills Software also made the Wii U IDE environment for Nintendo.
An anonymous third-party developer said it was clunky and slow:
Having worked on other hardware consoles, I suppose that we were rather spoilt by having mature toolchains that integrated nicely with our development environment. Wii U on the other hand seemed to be trying at every turn to make it difficult to compile and run any code. [...] Finally, when you had the code, you would deploy it to the console and start up the debugger, which was part of the toolchain that Nintendo had licensed from Green Hills Software. As a seasoned developer I've used a lot of debuggers, but this one surprised even me. Its interface was clunky, it was very slow to use and if you made the mistake of actually clicking on any code, then it would pause and retrieve all of the values for the variables that you had clicked, which might take a minute or more to come back.
The Wii U also got hacked in record time.
Boeing again delays the 777X – the plane that's supposed to turn things around
Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...
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