Attached: 1 video Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 8-bit #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required to stoke this very 1980s hearth. Thanks to software preservation, the flames are still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ https://archive.org/details/sierra-christmas-card-1986 #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #8bit #SoftwarePreservation #ComputerHistory

Attached: 2 images Published by the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company in 1917, this little book's pages are entirely blank. More on it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/why-women-should-not-vote

Attached: 1 image #AmazingWorld In Alaska, nature sculpted this lone tree into a frozen wave at sunrise. Relentless wind, drifting snow, and rime ice stacked layer by layer until the branches looked like feathers made of frost. That soft golden glow is the sun catching every icy strand, turning the whole scene into a winter sculpture for a few brief moments. Bent by the storm, but still standing. Still reaching.

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An analysis, commissioned by the EU, cautions against making the same mistakes of the early 2000s when online piracy boomed.

Belgian authorities issued a new pirate site-blocking order. Surprisingly, this latest order only requires major ISPs to take action.

Working on a spinning project, goal of a single pair of socks. I decided to do Best Case math, dedicated to anyone who says I should "just" sell my handspun &/or knitting to make money while I'm out of work… 2 hr wool prep 20 hr spinning singles 6 hr chain ply prep 2 hr plying 20 hr knitting ------ 50 hr work x $16.30/hr (minimum wage in my state) ------ $815 + $18 for wool (on Big! Sale!) = $833 $833. For socks. Before profit. 🤔 #Spinning #Handspinning #Knitting #FiberArts

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The definition of “open source” in recital 18 of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) goes beyond the Open Source Definition (OSD) managed by OSI. It says: > “Free and open-source software is understood as software the source code of which is openly shared and the licensing of which provides for all rights to make it freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable.” As I and others confirmed when it was introduced, the addition of “openly shared” was a considered and intentional addition by the co-legislators – they even checked with community members that it did not cause unintended effects before adding it. While open source communities all “openly share” the source code of their projects, the same is not true of some companies, especially those with “open core” business models. For historical reasons, it is not a requirement either of the OSD or of the FSF’s Free Software Definition (FSD) and the most popular open source licenses do not require it. Notably, the GPL does not insist that source code be made public – only that those receiving the binaries must be able to request the full source code corresponding to the software they received and enjoy it however they wish (including making it public). For most open source projects and their uses, the CRA’s extra requirement will make no difference. But it complicates matters for companies that either restrict source availability to paying customers or make little distinction between available and non-available source or withhold source to certain premium elements. It means that there is no pathway by which the alternative compliance pathways for Open Source Software Stewards can be accessed, for example. A similar construct is used in the AI Act (recital 102) and I anticipate this trend will continue through other future legislation. Personally I welcome this additional impetus to openness. _(Updated froma post at opensource.org)_ ### Share this: * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * More * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket * Like Loading... ### _Related_

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You’ve heard of New York style, Chicago deep dish, Detroit square pans. But Colorado-style pizza? Probably not. And there’s a perfectly ridiculous reason why this regional style never spread beyond a handful of restaurants in the Rocky Mountains: one guy trademarked it and scared everyone else away from making it. This story comes via a […]