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FSL and BSL belong on any list of false-promise licenses:

They are not open source. They are restrictive source-available licenses dressed up with “open” language.

Reading the code is not enough. If users cannot freely run, use, or build on the software because of field-of-use or competition restrictions, the software is not open source.

Marketing it as “open source” or even putting “open” in your name is misleading twice: first in the license, then in the messaging.

#opensource #fauxopensource #license

FSL

The Functional Source License (FSL) is a source-available license that converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT after two years.
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#opensource #license #fauxopensource

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And it's made worse by the fact that BSL as an identifier is actually describing another license (boost software license, OSI approved), which is why the Business Source License has been given the SPDX ID BUSL.

More than once I had people coming to me saying that Business Source License isn't as issue because BSL is marked as OSI approved on the SPDX license list 🙄

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Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds

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#veille

Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds

EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.
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#veille

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Wanna make your grub sound like you're starting a PC in Pokemon?

GRUB_INIT_TUNE="960 2050 6 0 2 1025 1 512 1 680 1 512 1 1025 1 512 1 2050 1 512 1"

Demo: breadmaker.github.io/grub-tune…

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Looking for folks maintaining iot4pi LoRa gateways in Austria, there are two bugs affecting APRS messaging in the rest of the world: github.com/begass/LoraAPRSGW/i… - Discussion: groups.io/g/APRS/topic/another…

begass/LoraAPRSGW

LoRa APRS Gateway (Sascha's iot4pi version) . Contribute to begass/LoraAPRSGW development by creating an account on GitHub.
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You know that “stop forcing AI into fucking everything” graphic that went around on here?

I bought the t-shirt. I get a lot of compliments on it.

The only negative response was from a friend who works for McKinsey. She read out the “everyone hates it” and said, “do they really, though?” as we stood near the check-in table for an event, and three people in line turned around and said, “YES!”

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Dis moi Masto, tu as déjà candidaté à des marchés public et utilisé le système de certificat-électronique-à-la-con en étant sous Linux ? À priori il y aurait des soucis sous linux (certificat sur clef usb😱 ), et comme le certificat est payant autant savoir avant d'acheter...

Le repouët rend le poil soyeux.

#MarchePublics #linux #certificat

#linux #certificat #marchepublics

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Les deux qui font la paire.
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The little Meshtastic node inside of my ThinkPad T420s is surprisingly good (one of the antennas measured quite well for the frequencies used, so I wired it in. I assume it was meant for GNSS? Or UMTS?).

The PCB is a quick custom design I whipped up in EasyEDA to connect an ESP32-S3 with an SX1262 radio chip. It uses the USB pins of the MiniPCIe slot originally intended for a WWAN modem in this laptop :3

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Doridian

@liv I doubt you'd be able to fit these two modules into the expansion card slot. However, someone else made an expansion card PCB prototype (and some PCBs from it) that does work: gitlab.com/SillieWous/Framewor…

If you want to make your own, I'd base off of this, but change the MCU to like an RP2040 or RP2350, something that can run the full FW unlike the MCP2210 (even though the MCP2210 can work if you run the Meshtastic portduino firmware or similar)

Power-wise, 5V1A easily, I'd suspect it fits within the 500mA envelope just fine as well (especially given the ESP32 doesn't need to turn the WiFi hardware on, only Bluetooth if any wireless at all).

Should you want to draw anything from my design, here's the EasyEDA export: github.com/Doridian/meshtastic…

Sil Schouten / Framework ExpansionCard LoRa · GitLab

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PR merged today ✅
RMS Gateway no longer depends on Python 2 \o/
github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsg…

Next step: fixing the small details and automating most of the install scripts to make the debian package happy.

Upgrade maintenance scripts from `python2` to `python3` by dscp46 · Pull Request #19 · nwdigitalradio/rmsgw

Hi team, Here is a PR to close Issue 18. I've run it on my VHF gateway, and it seems to pass smoke tests. Best regards,
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#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloa…

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...
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#fdroid #google #android #sideload

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pam_bcpasswd lives! (^o^)
Now you'll be able to avoid transmitting your password in clear text over the air, especially useful if you have a backup access over AX.25.
I need to check if I can use it directly with axspawn during the initial authentication...
Sources to be published once the debian package can be built.
I've got a few ideas for secure password rotation (using OPAQUE) and to implement a 3-way alternative of SCRAM to provide mutual authentication :3c
A screenshot of a build of the module, its installation and of a successful pamtester test.

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isithran

It works like the original challenge-md5 mechanism in axspawn: it issues a random challenge (size adjusted to provide better randomness), and then checks that ascii-hex(md5(concat(challenge,password))) matches.

In terms of security, this is far from being perfect (which is why I'm hoping to replace it by SCRAM in the long run), but at least it's better than cleartext password or baycom authentication, for now.

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中国官方宣传账号的言论的消失速度，有时候比公知被封还快。几年后搜索一下，只能找到一堆没有出处的批评，成了虚空打靶。各位网民们下次开喷之前，别忘了附上其引用言论的完整出处（日期、内容、媒体、作者、链接），并顺手存档一下：要么把链接提交 archive.org，要么附带完整原文或者截图，即起到了“示众”的作用，也为后来人留下线索。无论作者、读者个人什么立场，都只有好处。

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niconiconi

还有微博之类有高度访问限制的的言论也需要存档，唯一的解决方案是本地用 Headless Browser 直接把所有网络请求录制下来，再存 DOM + 截图。如果遇到社会、政治争议性非常强的言论，我甚至觉得有必要把整个 TLS 会话与 pcap 与 TLS session key 都录制下来，用站点证书证明真伪。开发这一套工具的工作量想必是巨大的，技术原理不难，但实现很难做出来。

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Currently working on an ALS162 time receiver. Getting my paws on NF C 90-002 really helped to think of an easier strategy to acquire and sync with the signal.

Turns out this signal is a 40Bd 3-state TCM.

First step, however, is to write a stub that will generate a baseband clone of the signal. For now I'm able to generate a static frame. The scrambler is implemented, and I'm working on the CRC-13.

An oscilloscope trace of the PPS and ALS162 time signal that mimics a frame shown in Henning Maier's slides for his GRCon'23 presentation: "ALS162 Time Signal SDR Receiver for GNU Radio".
An oscilloscope trace of the PPS and ALS162 time signal for a 58th second with a 0-bit in the timecode part, the sync packet and ALS Identifier.
Zoom on the previous trace to show the rising edge of the PPS signal complies with ALS epoch specification in NF C 90-002.

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isithran

Honestly, the choices that were made are quite elegant, imho: out of 9 phase transitions, you can recover up to 4 bits in 4 cases, more than 1 bit for 4 others, and the last, which is the XOR of the 3 previous bits.
This means you can recover erasures in many cases ✨💜✨
Phase path truth table, associated to a phase transition diagram.

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Simon Richter

@azonenberg exacty — also, DTBs don't know how much RAM you have, the board revision, ... It's just unmanageable for users.

RISC-V, in the spec, say that the DRAM init code shall deliver a device tree to any later stages, with the hardware inventory hardcoded,

In practice, I need U-Boot specifically to patch the broken device tree. If it were correct, I could use Linux directly after the DRAM init code.

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Andrew Zonenberg

@GyrosGeier > how much ram

Isn't that the whole point of SPD (since PCs ~always used DIMM/SODIMM based memory)? You just need some board-independent init code that reads the eeprom from each slot, figures out how much is there, and brings it up.

I don't see why you need per-board firmware when the entire point of the eeprom is discoverability.

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