emma

emma wrote

my thoughts on this are:

google and their ilk want posting code on the internet to incur legal obligations for the author to maintain that code to their standards. it used to be that software companies bought the tools they used, but now they all sip from pools of poo water such as npm. so to bring up the standards of the software they voluntarily download and embed into their products, they want the authors to be legally obliged to maintain the software to some standard, and if they do not, then they want a name they can sue. this is why google is trying to get a foothold into open source projects, why there's such a big focus on so-called software bill of materials and "securing" the so-called supply chain, why the eu is trying to enshrine these kinds of obligations into law with the so-called cyber resilience act (the linux foundation speculates that accepting seemingly well-meaning donations from companies could make you a "software manufacturer" under the cra), and why these real name policies are a thing.

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emma wrote

oh hey, that's the weird nerd who made a zero effort 'activitypub support pls' issue on the postmill issue tracker, then thumbs upped the tone policing comments when i raised the plagiarism issue on the kbin issue tracker

open source is when you bark at other people so they make the things you want

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emma OP wrote

if that's done on the device itself, and the stuff you're typing isn't sent anywhere, i have no problem with that. besides, iOS likes to suggest i put å in front of every english word, so disabling the predictive row wouldn't be a big loss for me anyway.

when the app is educational in nature, i have a huge problem with being offered "AI" generated courses, as that's basically asking me to give them money so i can be misled.

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emma wrote

Reply to i found it by ellynu

which one of us will be the first to purchase this fine product, for the clout?

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emma wrote

I think Mastodon and other fediverse servers already require that your ISP allows outgoing email, since there would be no way for you to send your password reset or account verification emails

yeah this is true, but if you were to build a whole system around emails, then the contents would be arbitrary and the magnitude would be far greater, increasing the chance of running into problems with spam blacklists which ISPs hate to be on (see, for instance, digitalocean's spam policy)

And deliverability to providers like Gmail is not a big deal to me IMO either, if say Raddle can suddenly talk with people from riseup.net for example, that's a big win to me.

yeah this may or may not be an issue depending on exactly how the system works

Anyway you're the actual dev here who has way more experience doing server shit than me so maybe I'm just spouting some BS lol, so I will just defer to your wisdom :)

i don't think it's BS. i just foresee there being some problems with the idea, and i know from experience having worked with mail servers that it's something i personally never want to touch lol. but if this is a thing you want to build, then i think you should go for it, if only for the learning experience.

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