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[Link] Copyright, What You Need To Know
Read: 6/2/2022 hackaday.com
Last week brought the story of a group of crypto enthusiasts who paid well over the going rate for a rare sci-fi book, then proposed encoding scans of all its pages in a blockchain before making and selling NFTs of them. To guarantee their rarity the book was then to be burned.
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[Link] RIAA Discards EFF’s YouTube-DL Letter, Notes That it ‘Regularly Sides With Infringers’
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
YouTube rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com are contesting Magistrate Judge Buchanan's recommendation to award $82 million in piracy damages to the RIAA. The YouTube-rippers cited a letter where the EFF defends the non-infringing nature of the youtube-dl software.
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[Link] More Software Isn't Better Software
Read: 14/11/2021 www.wired.com
Last month, Eugen Rochko learned that the software project he started building during his university days, called Mastodon, is running Donald Trump’s new Truth Social network.
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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.
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[Link] GitHub Pulls Site and Repo of Pirate Proxy Service ‘Unblockit’ Offline
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
GitHub has removed the repository and the mirror website of Unblockit, a proxy service that allows people to access blocked sites. The developer platform says that the content in question was removed for violating its terms of service, which was confirmed by a follow-up investigation.
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[Link] Adobe Uses DMCA to Nuke Project That Keeps Flash Alive, Secure & Adware Free
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
In January 2021, development and support for Adobe Flash was discontinued. That marked the end of an era but in reality, Flash wasn't quite dead.
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[Link] The Sincerest Form Of Flattery: Cloning Open-Source Hardware
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
We’re great proponents (and beneficiaries) of open-source hardware here at Hackaday. It’s impossible to overstate the impact that the free sharing of ideas has had on the hacker hardware scene.
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[Link] Mastodon Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public
Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lawyers for the social network codebase Mastodon have sent a formal letter to former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social network ‘Truth Social’ asking the site to make its source code publicly available, according to an announcement from Mastodon today.
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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license
Read: 27/10/2021 www.theverge.com
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.
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[Link] Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
Read: 25/10/2021 www.theverge.com
Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community.
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[Link] Vizio In Hot Water Over Smart TV GPL Violations
Read: 22/10/2021 hackaday.com
As most anyone in this community knows, there’s an excellent chance that any consumer product on the market that’s advertised as “smart” these days probably has some form of Linux running under the hood.
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[Link] ESP32 Clock Pushes Outrun Graphics Over Composite
Read: 19/10/2021 hackaday.com
We’ve covered plenty of clocks powered by the ESP32, but this one from [Marcio Teixeira] is really something special. Rather than driving a traditional physical display, the microcontroller is instead generating a composite video signal of an animated digital clock.
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[Link] PineTime Smartwatch And Good Code Play Bad Apple
Read: 17/10/2021 hackaday.com
PineTime is the open smartwatch from our friends at Pine64. [TT-392] wanted to prove the hardware can play a full-motion music video, and they are correct, to a point.
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[Link] Adobe Uses DMCA to Nuke Project That Keeps Flash Alive, Secure & Adware Free
Read: 14/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
In January 2021, development and support for Adobe Flash was discontinued. That marked the end of an era but in reality, Flash wasn't quite dead.
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[Link] Take Note: An E-Ink Tablet From Pine64
Read: 17/8/2021 hackaday.com
Over the years we’ve seen a variety of interesting pieces of hardware emerging from the folks at Pine64, so it’s always worth a second look when they announce a new product.
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[Link] StormCrawler demonstrates the power of open source
Read: 15/8/2021 cameraforensics.com
We sat down with our team member Julien Nioche, resident web crawling and big data expert and the developer of the open-source project ‘StormCrawler’.
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[Link] Users Upset as Raspberry Pi OS Now Pings a Microsoft Server During Updates
Read: 10/2/2021 www.pcmag.com
The change was made without warning and potentially allows Microsoft to identify Raspberry Pi users.