I don’t think it’s accurate to say that everyone can just decompile the code and reuse it. Decompiling and reverse engineering a binary is incredibly hard. Even if you do that there are some aspects of the original code which get optimised out in the compiler and can’t be reproduced from just the binary.
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The GPL uses copyright because it’s the legal mechanism available to enforce the principles that the GPL wants to enforce. It’s entirely consistent to believe that copyright shouldn’t exist while also believing that a law should exist to allow/enforce the principles of the GPL.
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user dataEnglish47·4 months agoAnd they’re not going to pay millions to be the default for a browser that no one uses.
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review ScoresEnglish11·5 months agoThis assumes that the reviewer who gave the rating wasn’t considering value as part of their scoring. I’d expect the reviewer to be scoring a TV based on his good it is compared to similarly priced competitors, not comparing to every other TV on the market
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•You could probably get electrical energy that is needed to run a gym (lights, accountant pc, vending machine) if you just install generators in all of this gym's exercise equipment39·6 months agoHere’s an Olympic sprinter powering a toaster. He generates 0.021kWh going flat out: https://youtu.be/S4O5voOCqAQ
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto homeassistant@lemmy.world•The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home AssistantEnglish7·7 months agoWhy would it need 5GHz? At most it needs to do two audio streams, which aren’t going to need lots of bandwidth
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The .io domain might be in troubleEnglish2·8 months agoThe upside of IANA doing it would be a standardised place for sites to move to. Without coordination, different sites would move to different TLDs, probably mostly based on what isn’t already registered. IANA could create a new TLD for this and give existing whatever.io owners a chance to register whatever.iox before its generally available
They tested using a green light for the front brake light, not a red one