A lot of open-source software uses copyleft licenses like GPL. If a company uses that code to build its own products, then some or all of their new code may also become open source. This is an important part of how open-source projects stay open. Organizations like FSF have taken big companies to court over this and won.

AI companies trained their slop-generators on that open-source code. In many cases, it will reproduce it line-for-line. But courts currently hold that the generated code is no longer subject to the original copyright restrictions. It’s nearly impossible to publish open-source software without being scraped for AI training.

Pretty sure I fought one of those in Silksong.

Maybe it’s like Toy Story. Batman figure just found out he’s a toy, drank a bunch of Jäger, and then reverted to the dormant state because someone was looking.

Harmonica intensifies

Still waiting for ISO timestamp support in OmegaStar.

UTC has leap seconds. We can do better. PTP/TAI for lyfe.

A perfectly logical clock would use a radio broadcast to count off seconds since a predefined epoch. Put a few of them way up high, so more people can see it, and make them so astonishingly precise that you could tell where you are just by listening.

Confirmed this really is from Böcker’s Instagram, posted in English and in German.

That reminds me of this guide to roundabouts and also protecting your car from supermaneuverable fighter aircraft.

Didn’t Discord just leak a few million “age-verification photos” that they sorta promised to delete, but didn’t?

Invent a time machine, send a robot back in time to terminate their parents.

It’s a bread knife.

Imagine a large rock, suspended by helicopters a few miles up in the air.

Now drop the rock. How fast is it going when it hits the ground?

The same thing is true for a rock falling from space, but more so. Regardless of initial conditions: if it ever contacts the ground, it will be moving at least 11 kilometers per second.

Weak. You want to stop a train quickly, just suplex it.

Miss Fisher got tired solving all these murders at home, so she goes on a beach vacation. Guess what happens? (It’s murder.)

Yes, they were organic dyes. At the time, those were the only kind. Maybe it’s gotten better over the years.

This is terrible advice. Most writable DVDs degrade quickly, even if they’re stored away from sunlight and heat. Every single one of my burned DVDs from more than a few years back is completely unreadable.

Update: I missed the very important line about M-DISC. This is critical. I can’t vouch for M-DISC personally, but most other optical media is garbage for archival purposes.

In this case, I knew it because of a “botanicals” set that I assembled recently.

Those sets use a lot of pieces in creative ways, often in unusual colors. In particularly obscure cases, like this crown or the rose petals that were originally from a car fender, the manual will include a brief trivia callout.

I remembered the callout, and that was enough to find it by keyword on the fan database sites.

Ah yes, the 39262 minifigure crown, also used as a flower.

🙀 Quite right, my mistake.

“Yours” should not have an apostrophe.