And’s! Fucking and’s! Every goddamned time, regardless of the fact that I have never once intentionally typed and’s (until now, which probably means that it’ll now either appear constantly or never again).
I have been struggling to get serial comms going with a TESmart KVM because the ethernet interface is stupid and I lost comms after a misconfiguration and there is no way to factory reset the device. That was not going any better and I ended up purchasing a null modem adapter (at an eye-wateringly high price) because of course I threw away a drawer full of serial adapters a decade ago.
The person I am replying to is an obvious troll, but it is worth mentioning that there is very little to "test in court". Basic copyright law says that you cannot copy someone else's code and distribute software based thereon. *GPL* provides a workaround, provided that you follow the terms of the license. If a court were to invalidate all of AGPL, the default fallback would simply be that nobody is able to distribute the software.
Trolling requires subterfuge, in an effort to draw someone into a debate on false pretenses, so that they can be ridiculed for, as they say, eating the pasta.
My comment is and was completely sincere; I am not trolling. It legitimately boggles my mind how people read the text of the AGPL and don’t see that it’s plainly and obviously a EULA (which makes it nonfree).
I am not a lawyer but I’m not sure if that fail-closed situation is how it would work; presumably some parts of it could be found to be invalid without invalidating the entire license? It’s not my field, I am just guessing.
It depends on the building use. In residential buildings, people do tend to go to / from ground but in my building the parking garage has entrances on levels 1-4, the gym on 3-4 and the garden on 5. That distorts the traffic pattern.
The company where I work occupies an entire office building, so there is lots of travel between floors.
To the average user, any feature that is not enabled by default is effectively hidden. Most people do not dig deeply into the settings of their tech devices beyond aesthetic customization.
This is why defaults matter, a lot. Settings are for power users, defaults are for everyone else.
That's my experience too. I mostly don't pick up calls from numbers that I don't recognize. On the very rare occasion that I am expecting such a call, I always stay silent after picking up. A real human will without fail start talking after a second or two.
There was a window between the early 2000s and the late 2010s when self-hosted telephony made sense. But these days, there are so many cheap commercial services that it is almost impossible to justify the cost of maintaining your own voice infrastructure. Moreover, the proliferation of spam / scam calls has tarnished the perception phone interactions so much that most people avoid them at all costs.
And the few people who do still use the phone absolutely, unequivocally do not want to talk to an AI voice agent ever.
I set up Asterisk systems for a few small businesses in the mid-2000's (5 to 50 extensions.) It was seriously fun working with that stuff. These days I'll do almost anything to avoid phone calls.
Wasn't there a recent discussion here, where it was pointed out that leap seconds are about to be phased out in less than 10 years' time? I would be extremely surprised if a negative leap second was implemented before then, given that IERS already balked at doing that several years ago.
There's an agreement to do something about leap seconds before 2035, either by allowing DUT1 to exceed its currently specified bounds (this is most likely) or by agreeing to simply not insert/delete leap seconds going forward (this is less likely). For certain bounds on DUT1 and at some timescale, these would be practically the same in terms of their effects on civilization, computing, etc. In any case, a decision will almost certainly be made much sooner than 2035, perhaps even before the next leap second insertion/deletion would need to take place under the present rules.
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