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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53084848

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Today Doug Ford will attack Toronto's autonomy, and choice for safe streets. As well as our right to choose how we get around our city, and to do so without getting hurt or risking our own safety.

Get ready Ford. There are FAR more cyclists now compared to 2012.

Oct 13. Tom Riley Park Parking Lot. 5pm-late. Bring food, water and layers.

Be prepared to arrive earlier in case crews try to do a sneak attack removing protect lanes and infrastructure.

This fight is more than just about bike lanes.

It's about demanding municipal governments be respected, and fighting an authoritarian who believes he can do anything against a city's own wishes.

This is your Dutch moment Toronto!

Show up to show your support!

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/13178599

From WABE Politics News:

Not long ago, Georgia gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson eagerly compared himself to his fellow billionaire in the Oval Office. He promised to be Donald Trump “with a Southern tone.” And […]

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Since the explosion in generative AI, there has been a rash of "decompilations" of video games and various other software (~~such as this example from earlier today~~ disputed -- see below) that have been published to Github and advertised as "Open Source." That claim is a lie.

The phrase "Open Source" has a specific meaning (and similarly for "Free Software," by the way^1^), and it isn't merely that the source code is there for you to look at. It means that the copyright holder is explicitly giving you permission to read that source code, modify it, redistribute it, etc. Without that element of permission, the code cannot be "Open Source" even if you can physically read it. At best, it might be "Fair Use" depending on the circumstances, but it's most likely just a fancy means of copyright infringement.

Remember, copyright is a legal construct, not a technical one. It depends much more on the intent of the human doing the copying than it does on the technical details of what they actually did. If the thing they have is obviously intended to be a copy of something else, it is a Derivative Work no matter what technical means were used to create it. That means the original copyright still attaches to it and the person who made the copy doesn't get to choose a new license for it, "Open Source" or otherwise.

Why YSK:

You don't have to like the way copyright law works -- I sure don't! -- but you do have to understand it because there's a lot of misinformation going around right now with people claiming things are "Open Source" when they aren't and a lot of people are going to get in trouble for it. It also dilutes the public understanding of what actual legitimate Open Source software is, which is a problem in and of itself.

Conflating real Open Source software with proprietary software that's been 'pirated with extra steps' is harmful both for developers of the former, who have their reputations damaged by association, and for users/sharers of the latter, who might be misled into not taking the same precautions that they would if they understood that they were dealing with warez. Just because you might think Big Tech can get away with laundering copyright through LLMs -- and even that remains to be seen -- doesn't mean the little guys can.

TL;DR: Proprietary software cannot become Open Source software by any means except (a) the express consent of the copyright holder or (b) the copyright expiring and the work becoming Public Domain. Whatever technological end-run you think you have around this legal fact, no you don't.

EDIT: dispute over example

In giving that example I was relying on the claim in the linked thread, which comes from this guy on BlueSky. Seems like a lot of people think he's wrong, so maybe that's not a good example after all.

However, there are also things like this, and those are examples I feel very confident in citing because (a) they explicitly call them "decompliations," (b) at least one of them has a LICENSE file that says it's MIT, and (c) there's zero chance Nintendo or Rare or anyone else legitimately gave them permission for it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1380235

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/67840359

In a letter addressed to Attorney General Todd Blanche, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, Mills asks the DOJ for an “investigation and intervention” of Georgia’s voting systems in connection with ballot secrecy, preservation of election records, and sharing of voter registration and motor vehicle data with outside organizations.

The letter also asks the DOJ to hold Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “accountable” if he withholds any information or prevents the review. Raffensperger, a Republican, resisted enormous pressure from President Donald Trump to “find” enough votes in Georgia to overturn his 2020 election loss.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/67840359

In a letter addressed to Attorney General Todd Blanche, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, Mills asks the DOJ for an “investigation and intervention” of Georgia’s voting systems in connection with ballot secrecy, preservation of election records, and sharing of voter registration and motor vehicle data with outside organizations.

The letter also asks the DOJ to hold Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “accountable” if he withholds any information or prevents the review. Raffensperger, a Republican, resisted enormous pressure from President Donald Trump to “find” enough votes in Georgia to overturn his 2020 election loss.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1374246

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cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/12982659

From the Atlanta Community Press Collective

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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/52678491

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