Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> i tried building a PoE sink and it's so much harder than USB-PD it's not even funny</p><p>PoE is kind of awful</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@count3rmeasure" class="u-url mention">@<span>count3rmeasure</span></a></span> I can't read modern Python.</p>
@leon@peoplemaking.games @whitequark@mastodon.social @lunarood@mastodon.gamedev.place @mcc@mastodon.social Academia does absolutely do things that are broadly applicable products which hateful morons can immediately and freely exploit and weaponise en masse and people have quit research over it https://x.com/pjreddie/status/1230524770350817280
And like in general, I personally like to work on software distributed freely and without any limitations on who can use it, because in any other way, you are only discriminating the people with few resources, and never the other way around. It is impossible to "stop the bad guys from having it but keep the good guys in". It's like backdoors in encryption, you can't keep only the good guys in. We already have plenty of evidence of companies disregarding the terms of open source software licenses, which don't even restrict use, just require attribution or release of modifications. Why would anyone think that if *hobbyists* started to use such licenses, companies would suddenly be scared of the potential legal repercussions (because we all know no company has seriously backed any ethical source thing). By going that route, you're also essentially giving up *any* opportunity from getting any kind of help from companies, leaving only hobbyists on the line. And I can assure you, *wast* majority of FOSS work is done with company sponsorship these days. It's the way for those companies to commoditize their complements, implicitly share development costs between them, and improve their image as an employer. Most of open development will continue in precisely that way, even if no hobbyist participates in that. So would such hobbyist exodus really change things?
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> ಠ_ಠ</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> god, I loved that game …</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://not.acu.lt/@ignaloidas" class="u-url mention">@<span>ignaloidas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lunarood" class="u-url mention">@<span>lunarood</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I am concerned with freely and irrevocably distributing turnkey software products, apps, usable or sellable by non-expert outsiders to do or finance harm. </p><p>I just think it would deeply suck to be hurt by someone using work I made and gave to them, with my blessing to do whatever they want with forever, provided they shared the modifications they made to the source code. It keeps happening with increasing regularity and it sucks and we could stop it as a community with a very minor cultural shift.</p><p>Academia does make important breakthroughs, but academics publish proofs of concepts to other academics, around their speciality, typically not broadly applicable products to the general public which hateful morons can immediately and freely exploit and weaponise en masse. I can't think of any counterexamples off the top of my head, and the funding model wouldn't make sense, but if they exist I think they should absolutely consider their products’ risk profile.</p>
<p>What are other countries' equivalents of<br />Alberta<br />Bavaria<br />Queensland<br />Texas<br />?</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I still remember installing Orchid Righteous and S3 Trios in customer computers... I am old 😖</p>
<p>Alternate world in which PoE over miniaturized Ethernet connectors (e.g. ix) won over USB-PD.</p>