Hey, credit where it's due. At least they didn't use AI to make the ad.

Replying to myself... also, I suspect that if the court rules that only software authors can demand a remedy, some author will step up to the plate. There are hundreds of contributes to the Linux kernel and other software most likely used by Vizio and I'm sure the SFC will find at least one of them to act as a plaintiff.

By selling binary code to consumers, though, there's a contract between Vizio and the purchaser because the GPL says that the purchaser gains the same rights under the GPL as the seller, and that the seller is responsible for fulfilling those rights.

So IMO, anyone who purchases GPL'd software has the right to demand source code. I can't see how a court would rule otherwise, but IANAL.

Here's the thing: If the court says that the provisions of the GPL are invalid, that doesn't mean Vizio gets to just use the code all it wants.

No, since the GPL is the only license that permits Vizio to use the code, if it's ruled invalid, then Vizio loses all right to use GPL'd code for any reason whatsoever, and basically it would have to stop selling its products. It would mean the death knell for Vizio.

Jesus fuckin' Christ, it's Roget's Profanisaurus.

And fun fact: The Profanisaurus is the only dinosaur to have survived the asteroid. Because of it's super-strength from its salty language.

Don't be so fucking prissy. Swearing at the right time and place, and in the right amount, can be fantastically cathartic.

I read somewhere that swearing triggers portions of our brain deep down the way a primal scream would. And when animals are trapped or frightened, they often emit such a scream, so I wouldn't be surprised if it had a beneficial evolutionary reason.

As usual, in a gold rush, it is the guys selling shovels and donkeys that make the money ...

In the current AI rush, it is the GPU and RAM manufacturers ...

Yes, I know. It was a terrible lapse in security. But given the chaos in a busy airport, I would not be surprised if it happens once every 5 million passengers. People are only human and humans have lapses.

The answer is about 5.7 million. So if this is the first instance of this happening in a year, a failure rate of one in 5.7 million is not too bad. We are only human and perfection is impossible.

That said, of course there needs to be an investigation and changed made to reduce the likelihood even further.

This guy either socially engineered his way through a line, analyzed a weakness in the line, or time-traveled from the '90's not realizing we've set up an incompetent but totalizing police-state control grid to interpose every tiny aspect of our lives.

To be fair, "pay on board" is less applicable to airplanes than trains because seatbelts are important in turbulence.

That said, the lack of capacity is widely acknowledged to be a feature of wildly incompetent management.

We just heard they've started a new project to rewrite the air traffic control system for the umpteenth time (and billions and billions later) to hopefully allow for more frequent landings and departures. I fear it won't be specified for AI-assist takeoffs and landings and will be obsolete before it's done.

Better make some more 8" floppies.

So, what makes you watch it... the falling-off dresses or the leftism?

If everyone moves to streaming (and we're already seeing a huge decrease in movie theatres) maybe there won't be any theatrical movie released by 2029 anyway.

Gitlab and Forgejo are both open-source and self-hostable.

I now only update my shitty Meta news page once in a while. There's probably enough material to update it daily or even more.