wagesj45

joined 8 months ago
[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If I release something free of restrictions to the world as a gift, that is my prerogative. And a third party's actions don't affect my ability to do whatever I want with the original code, nor the users of their product's ability to do what they want with my code. And the idea of "property" here is pretty abstract. What is it you own when you purchase software? Certainly not everything. Probably not nothing. But there is a wide swath in between in which reasonable people can disagree.

If you are an intellectual property abolitionist, I doubt there is much I can say to change your mind.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you are referring to about ontologically bad. Has someone said this?

I'm going by the vibe of the comments of people here who are generally anti-MIT. That the very nature of allowing someone to use your code in a closed-source project without attribution is bad. Phrasing it as "hiding their copyright infringement", for example, implies that it is copyright infringement per se regardless of the license or the spirit in which it was released.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 52 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Not all of us write code simply for monetary gain and some of us have philosophical differences on what you can and should own as far as the public commons goes. And not all of us view closed derivatives as a ontologically bad.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 12 points 5 months ago
[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know off the top of my head. I think that Clonezilla can modify images in such a way as they can be booted on a different type of device. My knowledge of the black magic of boot sectors and partition stuff is lacking. Also, you'd have to make sure the motherboard/BIOS is properly configured for reading the device in the same way that the original device was read. UEFI/BIOS stuff can be a pain in the ass to get right.

So my short answer is probably, but I wouldn't be able to walk you through something like that. Wish I could be more helpful.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 17 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Would this work

Yes.

or would I have problems

Also yes.

I used to do this backing up my "servers". By that I mean some Raspberry Pis and random old PCs running Debian. I even did so successfully when needing to restore the images. But it was fragile and also failed at times, sometimes to great inconvenience when it was a machine serving something important.

I've since moved to a different backup strategy for servers, but if I were to do this with a bare-metal machine I want to preserve, I'd use something like Clonezilla. The maintainers of that project know a whole heck of a lot more than I do of the ins and outs of disk management, backup, and restoration than I do with my simple dd commands. If it is something you're just wanting to do for fun and experience, dd can work. If you're concerned with the security of your data/image, I'd use Clonezilla.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 5 points 5 months ago

The investors that matter, probably. I have little doubt it will be the "little guy" who has a 401k with Boeing investments that takes the hit. The C-suite executives will have golden parachutes, and anyone powerful/rich enough will either insider trade it away or get bailed out.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

the dr. who thing?

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don't we provide all the weapons? We could definitely stop doing that and at least force Israel to find another source for weaponry if they insist on continuing.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 4 points 5 months ago

Just recommended the audio book to my library. Thanks.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

figured better to not bother than to “um, akchually” this one

gonna get the internet police sicked on you for sure.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

"Both good and bad news about Biden is out there. I prefer to share the bad news. But you know that already." (Emphasis mine)

I cannot see how that is an admission of bad faith (or dishonest as the mod said in the original post) in any fair interpretation. Unless you are defining "bad faith" as "something I disagree with" or "something that hurts my argument".

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