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barryamelton , 5 days ago to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

The code needs to maintain the copyrights and authors. They are "mirroring" usernames into their own domain, with mails that dont correspond to the original authors, stealing their contributions.

barryamelton , 25 days ago to Technology in Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment

Still low, my lineageos phone is going 8 years and is on latest android (and the device wasn't new when I bought it).

barryamelton , 25 days ago to Technology in Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

In my experience It's not about a project plan for features, but actually doings things correctly instead of doing the minimum to finish what you need to do on the current sprint.

barryamelton , 1 month ago to Technology in Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens

It's the intent, like "high-end" car models, so you can't distinguish them by features or age.

barryamelton , 1 month ago to Technology in ‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated]

Even if you don't opt in, 99% of the people you interact with have opted in. So you will monitored as they please.

barryamelton , 1 month ago to Technology in Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED

Discord could solve this particular issue by simply adding a wiki.

yeah, as Stack Overflow could. Discord is bound to the stakeholders, and is already getting enshittified.

barryamelton , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"

like this?

barryamelton , 3 months ago to Technology in Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in management shakeup amid safety crisis

Tesla 🤣

barryamelton , 5 months ago to Privacy in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

You perfectly can sell GPL code. And you can double-license yourself (provided that you are the copyright holder) as GPL and a privative license. A lot of companies do that, legally and correctly.

barryamelton , 5 months ago to Privacy in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

You can sell GPL code. Even if you aren't the author. What you must do is share the code with those customers though.