It’s illegal if the company is coercing you to spend money at their “preferred” stores.

That said, so many states have business friendly laws that it’s likely a civil tort and not a criminal one.

OP, call your attorney general or department of labor (depending on the state). You may want to even call your state’s taxation board and you know for fuck sure they are doing something scammy with their taxes if they are watching you this closely.

“Unfortunately, when you find something like that in your garden, you’ve got to do something… but obviously it was a bit of a waste of a day, in terms of barbecues.”

Man has his priorities right.

Yeah if that sign said “Childhood vaccines cause Student Loans”…I mean, yay I’m alive but at what cost?!

(Please vaccinate your children)

This idiot

Networking is the best way to get a job. If you aren’t going to meetups or making connections, it’s going to be much harder for you to find a job.

I say this as a very extreme introvert so I know the pain.

We chose to put AI on a doggie door. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

Ngl I didn’t notice it.

I’m not changing it. It still works.

Iirc Boaty McBoatface actually won. The people holding the contest quickly learned asking the Internet to name your boat is a bad idea. Just like when Taylor Swift did a survey for folks to name where she should have a concert and the vote was overwhelming at a school for dead children.

But to the boat people’s credit, they named one of the life boats Boaty McBoatface.

This is essentially what Mozilla is doing but providing a legal framework for all open source projects.

As an open source developer, my initial reaction is that this isn’t good. You’re just shifting the problem. Your code remains open source so if you have a python or JavaScript library that doesn’t require compiling, you can’t use this.

Not only that, but FOSS requires you to provide build instructions for your binaries. Someone can clone your repository and run it through CI/CD and have a binary.

I’m willing to be proven wrong here.

I’ve seen only one method work well: strong copyleft FOSS licenses like AGPL that essentially make it impossible for a company like Amazon from profiting off your code without a separate agreement.

You could add a non-commercial clause to your open source license. I can’t find the one that I used to use back in the day but essentially the goal is to augment whatever license you use by attaching a preamble that dictates how the software can be used.

Attaching that clause does push the software out of FOSS and into source available since you are restricting who can use the software, which is why I stopped using it.

Edit: found the clause I used to use back in the day. I don’t personally recommend it over more copy left licenses.

Yeah I keep pushing for join-lemmy.org to buy ads on Google and Bing.

Correlary: always test your backups and don’t just assume that they will work when you need them.

Librewolf btw.

I’ve personally moved to Waterfox and very much enjoying the experience, with a few hiccups.

There may be Mac specific browsers that might be a better fit. I don’t use a Mac personally but could be worth going through the App store to see what is out there.

You’re welcome. I’ve been covering this issue since it’s been announced. There are a number of accounts who are either deliberately spreading misinformation or who have a very poor understanding of how software licenses work.

Anyone who tells you that these terms are normal for a locally run browser is making the posts in bad faith.

Mozilla’s new TOU only covers pre built Firefox executables, not the source code.

Librewolf and Waterfox are good forks that would not be bound to the TOU.

They do not. Your use of the software, with software you “control” (edge cases of cloud compute, etc.) does not require you to grant a license to the software.

I refuted most of these points on this user’s post.

This is absolutely abnormal. No browser should require a license to my own data unless they plan on doing something with it.

No other FOSS includes this language and I would argue that Firefox executable is no longer FOSS. It’s now source available.

Yeah but it’s a corporation. They get more rights than us humans.

I wish PGP was easier to use. The barrier to entry is way too high for everyday use.

Here’s my response to this line of thinking:

“Would you be okay if I fucked your spouse/partner/etc? No? Why not? You’re already having sex with them. What’s the difference?”

Consent. That’s the difference.