I might be misunderstanding the licenses so correct me if wrong.

Can companies use GPL code internally without release as long as the thing written with it doesn’t get directly released to the public?

… or does GPL pollute everything even if used internally for commercial purposes?

They injected some binary code to make a code object (and in doing so inject some obfuscation)… if someone wants to violate the new license, they can easily work around it via installing through pip, commenting out that license check… Not that I endorse library license violations.

I put up packages on pypi with the last LGPL code versions for my own usage. I don’t plan on updating them much, but they work for me.

PySimpleGUI-4-foss And psgtray-foss.

That’s incorrect in that you have to remove the contributions from source code or get permission. Rewriting git history doesn’t get permission or remove history. It just hides it.

This is so sad. I’m especially bothered about the force push to change history. This was a great library. Now I guess it’s time to either use the fork or find something else.

That can’t remove a directory.

I wouldn’t do this since I don’t want to be even more tech support for people I know.

My mom has used windows for as long as she has had a computer and still doesn’t know what the start button or the windows key are.

I’ve explained it millions of times.

I’m not signing up for more of that than we need.

I use GitHub Copilot from work. I generally use Python. It doesn’t take away anything at least for me. It’s big thing is tab completion; it saves me from finishing some lines and adding else clauses. Like I’ll start writing a docstring and it’ll finish it.

Once in a while I can’t think of exactly what I want so I write a comment describing it and Copilot tries to figure out what I’m asking for. It’s literally a Copilot.

Now if I go and describe a big system or interfacing with existing code, it quickly gets confused and tends to get in the weeds. But man if I need someone to describe a regex, it’s awesome.

Anyways I think there are free alternatives out there that probably work as well. At the end of the day, it’s up to you. Though I’d so don’t knock it till you try it. If you don’t like it, stop using it.

Reminds me of the US swapping to the metric system.

Short to mid term would be miserable and confusing for people. Long term would probably work out better. Will it happen: never.

For me: probably. Either way, transactions cost money. Either pay the block chain fees or just use cash/credit card.

I’m ok with credit and cash.

Imagine the regex needed to highlight code with that extra single quote.

I enjoyed Tom Scott.

Whacking Day

+1 there is something nice about just downloading and double clicking an exe.

Maybe they should have a common file format for all distro that extracts, etc. for the current distro. I thought that was flatpak, but idk.

Mine loves the bottom of a bowl of cereal.

I don’t think every distro comes with this. How is it a positive in that case? I could install VLC on just about everything (including Windows) and have a similar experience.

Consider Photoshop Elements for a similar UI and one time payment to use forever.

If you have a car: a fast charger for your phone.

It’s amazing to me how many use a built-in USB that barely charges the thing.

Hey a positive thing about Meta. Cool.

Nogil has great potential to make Python closer to first class for parallel processing. Having man power gives the SC more reason to push forward.