2026-04-04T05:18:02Z https://yabu.me Karl Fogel https://yabu.me/npub10r8whdz778q30dxgaj0wl5a6xtcrpchc7fqk9ffqvl8eqveqmm2q45gh0u https://kfogel.org/media/f963328e-8496-45da-9cfe-fc58f3d09429/blob https://kfogel.org/media/f963328e-8496-45da-9cfe-fc58f3d09429/blob https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswfcn8ur02724a8zn73cpakzjpdj602nwgqvfmrdhh6wtud8r4w0czypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgg0r9y7 Arrrrrgh. Signal Secure Backups -- a great idea, and I&#39;d love to sign up. Unfortunately, the signup process includes a screen (which Signal prevents the screenshotting of and I don&#39;t feel like bothering with the physical moves necessary to capture it via the analog hole) that says: <br/> <br/>``` <br/>Signal Secure Backups <br/>Signal Private Messenger <br/>CCName-CCDigits <br/> <br/>+--- myemail@example.com ------+ <br/>| Enter your password | <br/>+------------------------------+ <br/>``` <br/> <br/>There is *no* indication of whether to enter my password for <br/> <br/>* Signal itself, or <br/>* The credit card account indicated by CCName-CCDigits (which happens to use the same email address shown), or <br/>* My email account at example.com. <br/> <br/>Since I don&#39;t want to expose any of these passwords to any of the other services (because then I&#39;d have to scramble to change a password, and anyway I especially wouldn&#39;t want to expose my Signal password even for a moment to some other service), I am stuck. I would happily pay Signal $2 a month for secure backups, but this UX has defeated me. I do not know what they are asking for. <br/> <br/>Sigh. 2026-03-07T16:11:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyjzlmwjcauhgmy4ldcfhxz3shff0wjs8l4tanjsx8une2kdxuj4gzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgrd2ew2 I&#39;m trying to better understand the non-FOSS source-available licenses, and who uses them and why. If you have opinions and feel like sharing them, I&#39;m all ears! <br/> <br/>I&#39;m aware of: <br/> <br/>* Commons Clause <br/>* Business Source License (BUSL) <br/>* Functional Source License <br/>* Server Side Public License (SSPL) *(arguably in some ways a kind of super-strict free software license, but that&#39;s just my opinion and I know most of you don&#39;t agree with me it&#39;s okay we can be friends)* <br/>* Fair Core License (see [fcl.dev](<a href="https://fcl.dev/">https://fcl.dev/</a>)) <br/>* Microsoft&#39;s three: <br/> - Limited Public License <br/> - Limited Reciprocal License <br/> - Reference Source License <br/>* Elastic License *(did anyone other than Elastic use it? Does even Elastic still use it?)* <br/>* There are a few others listed [here](<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software</a>) but I think I&#39;ve hit the major ones above. <br/> <br/>Did I miss anything big? And does anyone know of any notable uses of any of these (other than the uses listed on the Wikipedia page above)? Especially, if there&#39;s some flourishing software project *that gets incoming contributions* using one of them, that would be interesting to know about. 2026-03-03T20:44:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdy0y2ueur5ss9dx04w42xvg94rx5a4pusnkj9f7yw2022qzlat2szypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dggz9ggh It&#39;s another one of those &#34;Ok, what bodily subsystem do I have to sell to be granted the ability to write that well?&#34; moments, this time upon reading John Lanchester&#39;s multi-book review about finance in LRB: <br/> <br/><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/john-lanchester/for-every-winner-a-loser">https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/john-lanchester/for-every-winner-a-loser</a> <br/> <br/>Astonishingly good. ^/ to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> for the link. 2025-12-18T20:14:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy7rvzd52mrcfs8ed6temwwureun4e4yakz0fupxyz5d0htmc9k3gzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgreuuvt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8fhct2qskmqjr8fr5uvsuxg88r4l3rt2a5xp6574z2zpvam57u8gu234pe'>nevent1q…34pe</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(The expression is understandably out of fashion, but I&#39;m almost always willing to make an exception for a punchline!) 2025-11-22T23:35:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8fhct2qskmqjr8fr5uvsuxg88r4l3rt2a5xp6574z2zpvam57u8gzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgptkghx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy4t8azwyj4y3ukmlh027x2ed0c64dwk8k3m6f7443utzsjgu5d2sptyf68'>nevent1q…yf68</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A witch doctor? 2025-11-22T23:33:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0p8t5t9lmnscdft24yzgn2x73p2vc0tml8jgjh3k6xvu7fk58vjszypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgn6rpaz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0x4glcm0ynkndegnrt5et9s7wkrqdhfxplscy6dplfnd539w2tns6fl2ux'>nevent1q…l2ux</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I had *completely* forgotten about that word until you reminded me! Thank goodness, through cooperation the full pun has been explored. 2025-10-07T16:06:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspj73rzl5h35m9j95xh4yywj6ethq4pa7vf9jp7sed0vfa69srfsszypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dg59ejux In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd2s2vm2ahpdusa3qdpdz3tchuj5zcdfp2evg9nrtxn8rwhlse8vq8yr2j9'>nevent1q…r2j9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think I&#39;d better call <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hv5x9ks4guwsvp4e2zg50qsu9kqsnjgsygngr7ams9j2j76jlw9s6zxq0v" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Sumana Harihareswara</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hv5…xq0v</span>)</a></span>&#39;s attention to this. Yes. That&#39;s obviously what a well-meaning friend would do. 2025-10-07T16:02:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd2s2vm2ahpdusa3qdpdz3tchuj5zcdfp2evg9nrtxn8rwhlse8vqzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dglwhqqc Ohmygodohmygodohmygod everybodeeeee! Hey everybody! <br/> <br/>Ray Bradbury&#39;s &#34;Fahrenheit 451&#34; -- unauthorized sequel: <br/> <br/>***&#34;Censor Reheat&#34;*** <br/> <br/>Thanks. I&#39;ll see myself out. <br/> <br/>(It helps if you have recent-vintage consumer microwave oven at home.) 2025-10-07T15:57:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx7fquucucszkul86fwexfargdq7hfulju888rztj92vpf6ke32eczypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dguy4yqv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx5hj9n9q7qkn6qmns6nf6jetx4grgc4e0yatp4a9tvfw8tg8ys6creaw8d'>nevent1q…aw8d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Wow, and eeks. Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: <br/> <br/>*&#34;One of the ways the system protects itself is to describe as deviant behavior describing the behavior of the system.&#34;* <br/> <br/>(from Patrick McKenzie / `patio11`; more context [here](<a href="https://kfogel.org/notice/AqoaMiZ2HUBD5AHyim">https://kfogel.org/notice/AqoaMiZ2HUBD5AHyim</a>)) 2025-09-03T06:42:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8kyyk5pm999napeyswlvfp9xq45nn6g06xm5x9nnw0x3fc0umsdszypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgx4wl89 Dear Lazyweb (Emacs Subcommittee): <br/> <br/>I&#39;m a little surprised. While I&#39;ve never been a power user of `dired`, I use it occasionally, and today I tried to do something that I thought would &#34;obviously&#34; be a feature in `dired`: show only entries matching a certain wildcard pattern. Apparently this is not a thing? <br/> <br/>I found a directory into a buffer -- so far so good. There were many things in that directory, but I was only interested in the LaTeX files, that is, files matching the glob pattern `*.ltx`. So I went looking for a filtering command. I just assumed there would be such a function, bound to some key. But I don&#39;t see it anywhere, nor can I find this feature described in the documentation. <br/> <br/>I am aware of `k` to run `dired-do-kill-lines`, which does the opposite (or the complement) of what I want. I&#39;m also aware of the separate command `find-name-dired`, which does *exactly* what I want but is a separate command from `dired` and is not something one can use to further refine/filter an existing Dired buffer. <br/> <br/>But does this functionality exist in Dired proper? Am I actually going to have to write this? It&#39;s kind of surprising: Dired Mode is older than several of the people who work at my company. I&#39;m quite surprised it doesn&#39;t have this feature already. Am I missing something obvious? 2025-07-01T16:00:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2s253nu63e2fwk5frralk6vepudsc9923pyffphr4y0rpxztnkyqzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgq4q7ws Is the fact that &#34;X is a feature not a bug&#34; has now fully entered the non-techie lexicon a featur... <br/> <br/>You know what? Never mind. Just, never mind. Let&#39;s leave it right there. Have a good night, everyone. 2025-06-18T03:23:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs26kda2gtl48lkjr9rgngq6dxwmlnu3km0g33x93n07u7vqqhlpdqzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgyvkxjf In an email from the company that runs our co-working space: <br/> <br/>*&#34;We&#39;ve noticed you haven’t been opening our emails recently. ...&#34;* <br/> <br/>ZOMG where to start? No, what you&#39;ve noticed is that I&#39;m using a mailreader that doesn&#39;t betray me. Sorry you&#39;re accustomed to users who run pro-betrayal software. That&#39;s a pity, and has apparently led to unrealistic expectations that we&#39;re probably not ever going to discuss. Oh well. 2025-06-12T17:14:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvn5jggthnyj527fmvruffhw85y2sn0juwyex2hl33cek3dtxes5qzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dg7220e5 Dear Fediverse, <br/> <br/>What&#39;s your favorite FOSS support ticket tracking system? (Note I really do mean *support* tickets, not the kinds of bug-tracker tickets a software development team uses.) 2025-02-07T20:39:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdeul3t0z8txucru4tu6ndy9se2ktqjlct2lcqkfsln3eecs604gszypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgqqenst These days, whatever I&#39;m doing, I just automatically ask myself whether I should be using SQLite. Opening a jar of pickles with a tough-to-turn lid? We&#39;ve all been there -- try SQLite! Retrieving a ball that rolled under the couch? Sounds like a job for SQLite. Car engine running a little low on coolant? It wouldn&#39;t be doing that if the manufacturer had used SQLite... 2024-12-31T17:48:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2y0w36svsa492zzjyp3eaeym9gjg52rak24rvh44ml33k8tyeyjqzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgf64vkw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9880536a8hymn58n74em43u7y6mczrecmtedmkh5khjk5fdku00qsmdu5h'>nevent1q…du5h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve most often heard the phrase &#34;Benevolent Dictator For Life&#34; used to refer to founding leaders of open source software projects, and in *that* context there is a built-in mitigation of the dangers of a BDFL: freedom to fork. <br/> <br/>At this point my best option is to [quote myself](<a href="https://producingoss.com/en/social-infrastructure.html#forkability">https://producingoss.com/en/social-infrastructure.html#forkability</a>), so... no point being embarrassed about it I guess! Here we go: <br/> <br/>&gt; The potential for forks is the reason there are no true dictators in free software projects. This may seem like a surprising claim, considering how common it is to hear someone called the &#34;dictator&#34; (sometimes softened to &#34;benevolent dictator&#34;) in a given open source project. But this kind of dictatorship is special, quite different from our conventional understanding of the word. Imagine a ruler whose subjects could copy her entire territory at any time and move to the copy to rule as they see fit. Would not such a ruler govern very differently from one whose subjects were bound to stay under her rule no matter what she did? <br/> <br/>Someone who is a BDFL of an organization, or of some other set of physical / financial / organizational resources that can be owned and controlled is in a very different situation from that, of course. I just think that distinction is important: FOSS project BDFLs are not the same as other BDFLs. 2024-12-11T16:44:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw9dzs3rpd9rrsc2ers847z3jtznznnvv4v2qgmh6e540q9hqq6zszypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dg2sz47x <img src="https://kfogel.org/media/9d97810d-9df0-438c-861b-043e81d71055/clk.png"> <br/> 2024-11-05T16:06:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9zj0tw6llxkf4uwq33sw55w6u2j5gy52a8clcmuk7mm2wfkm8ajgzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgjagzfr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspucs9ezwfa9zyqrzmkm7k09q5sft59ylhsg49jr5yd5cmhmld24cfg5nzw'>nevent1q…5nzw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Do we know what percentage of the British population as a whole is descended from William the Conqueror&#39;s army? 2024-11-04T04:51:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqfedfsakz3tew9k6pttxex47jvlfpsuhhfle8ve2y6a57cggn2hszypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgcfjphp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfc792u3f436xp4y8jvqhnfwh84vhxz44ul3zu2wy6el3xatrgk9sy6c8fz'>nevent1q…c8fz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s sometimes important when you publish a proof-of-knowledge hash to come back and publish the plaintext within a reasonable amount of time. Otherwise you might, for example, be posting hashes for mutually contradictory predictions, and then after a given prediction comes true you just post the plaintext for *that* hash while not showing any of the plaintexts for your wrong predictions. <br/> <br/>I wouldn&#39;t want anyone to think I was doing anything like that! So here&#39;s the plaintext for my hash post of October 7th: <br/> <br/>``` <br/>$ cat foo; echo &#34;&#34; <br/>/me awaits the inevitable local emoji... <br/>$ sha256sum foo <br/>0dac35d5bb2ea7453647e857ff1e115e6e5c2e07f709d1e72f5eaec58d3001fd foo <br/>$ <br/>``` <br/> <br/>The context is too intricate for me to explain, so I won&#39;t. I&#39;m just following up here now to retain credibility for any future proofs-of-knowledge I might post. 2024-11-01T07:56:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvuw007c3exkk8w4nlnuv9nn92d9j0y0wpyfjahtxyknvmkf4ehzszypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgkzv03v Adulthood is when you realize that nobody knows how to fold a fitted sheet. <br/> <br/>Wisdom is when you realize that there *are* people who know how to fold a fitted sheet, but you&#39;re just not one of them. 2024-10-12T18:31:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfc792u3f436xp4y8jvqhnfwh84vhxz44ul3zu2wy6el3xatrgk9szypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgyn7k9w 0dac35d5bb2ea7453647e857ff1e115e6e5c2e07f709d1e72f5eaec58d3001fd 2024-10-08T02:40:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq36rw7h80jx7p5637s87dpce3vfd993v77p8tmyskv9l34jz25zszypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dg5mj6up In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9a0ek6l63askgnjqvjlf65ac0vtwjvrprsnw9y6736xuyc7v65jcuw3sqc'>nevent1q…3sqc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Excellent post -- the distinction you describe deserves more attention! I&#39;ve made [this update](<a href="https://viewvc.red-bean.com/producingoss/trunk/en/ch07.xml?pathrev=3312&amp;r1=3312&amp;r2=3311#content">https://viewvc.red-bean.com/producingoss/trunk/en/ch07.xml?pathrev=3312&amp;r1=3312&amp;r2=3311#content</a>) to point to the post. <br/>@nedbat@hachyderm.io @wiredferret@hachyderm.io <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub14hsmk6j7en54hk33vxn38mruleszcy90r76f0vqye0ps0lsj2zrsdkswac" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Leonard Richardson</span> (<span class="italic">npub14hs…swac</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1saa4878ye5hplz6td5prelptjw3s489kdsv8jeavcp8lugfphkdqdcxm6g" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Aurélien Gâteau</span> (<span class="italic">npub1saa…xm6g</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub19ykx040c4jd49h7688j5hw7qa264xytgn3d7ymzhuaymscwzannqshvv0j" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>olivierlacan</span> (<span class="italic">npub19yk…vv0j</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1yx94pcr46k0stg47ghkhy9jametec76d3eckcuekvkkr0dcek2ksfwzzja" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>David Brownman</span> (<span class="italic">npub1yx9…zzja</span>)</a></span> @zwol@hackers.town <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qfg57ern62xzw2pyjuywazq70d493djdx6gp2pff3rzmfd9rv0usnqmum6" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Zulip</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qfg…mum6</span>)</a></span> 2024-10-01T16:47:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8y9sz3qm9en4gdwnd69krthkpv9x7ytxa7zu8dyt7r6ctlajwgaszypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgegmrr3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf8ed7hudgp0yt2p8k8cm2n3cxc2z23dd4hwynnzulwzxyk2h83agtmwecd'>nevent1q…wecd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I know. I&#39;m just a waif-like naïf, floating innocently through the sulfurous hellscape of modern web UX, wondering why our browsers needlessly betray us -- but also wondering why we blame web sites (who are naturally often our adversaries) more than we blame browsers (which should be on our side). <br/> <br/>C.f.: [&#34;Privacy Promises and Client-Side Betrayal&#34;](<a href="https://rants.org/2013/06/privacy-promises-and-client-side-betrayal/">https://rants.org/2013/06/privacy-promises-and-client-side-betrayal/</a>) 2024-09-11T14:21:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0feagsyy2snmyzxmucedaycn52tp5e4cmd0d538ehz59je3g6llgzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dg27g8qq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8vnd03r7t4c2ekgu3ke2v28f95nra62z2jyxdzt8pk0660yrzl9q74r656'>nevent1q…r656</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why do browsers allow code received from web sites to do that? I mean, sure, the sites shouldn&#39;t *try* to do it either, but also the browser should be easily configurable to not let keys be redirected if the user doesn&#39;t want them to be (and maybe the browser should ship with a default configuration that protects certain key commands). 2024-09-11T05:02:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy6pyz8ku7dts7n94jwu7w38g5ctf409jd4f4paeeuavjqqgmql6szypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dgt7xvsr Is it common for attorneys general to attend State of the Unions? 2024-09-09T03:22:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8uurk5d0khyphdwyereazmepa206740t4mpxc4quv2qaj4slckggzypuva6a5tmcuz9a5erkfam7nhge0qv8zlreyzc49ypnulypnyr0dg62csls Found an accidental example of the Stroop test in the wild, on the [MacArthur Foundation](<a href="https://macfound.org/">https://macfound.org/</a>) home page!<br/> <img src="https://kfogel.org/media/f06dd254-e076-4939-a93c-a8bba87ed81f/macfound-home-page-2024-08-07.png"> <br/> 2024-08-07T17:38:01Z