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abbe98··on SecurityBaseline.eu
Are state agencies included for any country? This seems to only include government agencies with their own administrative divisions?
abbe98··on Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic
> Mozilla is focused on deploying its roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support “mission driven” organizations, according to a new report.

$1.4 billion would be a very good start for an endowment which one day could maybe fund, a browser?

abbe98··on Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
I don't think there are any ongoing projects, the current link can take passenger trains but there are no plans to do so at the moment.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torne%C3%A5%E2%80%93Haparanda-...

abbe98··on Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
The connection between Finland and Sweden was built in 1919, however it was recently electrified(January 2025). It's dual gauge(four rails).
abbe98··on What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox
I think most FF forks are dependent on Google Safe Browsing and some of Googles DRM services.
abbe98··on Ask HN: To LinkedIn Am I Just Collateral Damage of a Barely Functioning System
If you are based out of the EU you can request "data rectification" here: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DRF

Or even better let a lawyer do it for you.

abbe98··on Is Wordpress.org GDPR Compliant?
Indeed that's how I read it too. It's also worth noting that GDPR is implemented separately in each country so it can in fact differ quite a lot country to country.
abbe98··on Is Wordpress.org GDPR Compliant?
Private messages, notes and such are usually excepted(in the vast majority of cases). Giving out someone else's messages or notes, however...

> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-2-gdpr/

> The right to obtain a copy referred to in paragraph 3 shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-15-gdpr/

Talk to a lawyer if you are upset.

abbe98··on Trellis – 3D mesh generative model
Is there a demo of its "Text to 3D Asset" capabilities somewhere?
abbe98··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
ICC is not a UN organ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court
abbe98··on EU Approves AI Act
> Compliance with EU Copyright Rules: Ensuring that AI models respect intellectual property rights.

I wonder what this will mean for openly licensed content which do require attribution, will companies still be able to use content from Wikipedia and open source? Or will they be at risk of being sued by the copyright holders? Assuming that they can't properly fix attribution/referencing in output.

abbe98··on FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk
Haven't used the PineTime but for the PinePhone/PinePhone Pro the development experience is the best I have ever had on mobile.
abbe98··on Three Decades of HTML
I wonder what's going on, tried turning of JavaScript but I could still barely scroll.
abbe98··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
If you have your new tab set to being blank it might never have shown sponsored shortcuts.
abbe98··on Let us serve you, but don't bring us down
I believe you can upload WRAC files to IA and ask them to index the content. Saves them the need to do the archiving and you won't be rate limited on their end.
abbe98··on The Mullvad Browser
It is based on Firefox ESR(Extended Support Release) which gets security fixes backported.
abbe98··on What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide
"wealth tax" is a different tax on income, inheritance tax ended in 2005.
abbe98··on FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure
> This seems sort of reasonable. If you charge for tech support, you have a business. I’m all for not making it harder for people who are actually just sharing their hobby projects, but a project that makes money isn’t a hobby anymore.

With the current writing it might be that a distributor different from the commercial entity might be liable for vulnerabilities and reporting.

https://blog.sonatype.com/eu-cyber-resilience-act-good-for-s...

abbe98··on Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops
GJS would be SpiderMonkey+GTK so no actual browser rendering is available until one pull in something like Webkit.
abbe98··on Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops
Works great on Linux mobiles/tablets as well.
abbe98··on Poll of Wikipedians concludes: Wikimedia fundraising emails are misleading
Actually both of the cases in question started as legal cases in which Wikimedia funded the defense of users who were being sued for contributing.
abbe98··on Poll of Wikipedians concludes: Wikimedia fundraising emails are misleading
Wikimedia does much more than just host Wikipedia. Even if they didn't host Wikipedia I would personally gladly donate to their legal and lobbying efforts.

Only in Sweden where I live they have greatly contributed to freedom of panorama and ensuring public domain material remains in the public domain when digitized. They work towards things like these all across the world.

abbe98··on Firefox is losing users fast
I use Chromium every now and then and notice this as well, however, Chromium instead have very poor rendering of images.
abbe98··on Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
For me it says SEK 58.25 ($5.64) which seems more than reasonable.
abbe98··on Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
On my end Language Tool appears as 2/3th the price of your tool if I select a yearly subscription.
abbe98··on Google Search Results Plagued with spam “.it” domains
Is it common that SO and Wikipedia copycats respects open licenses? Most times I run into them they do not.

It's really tricky to enforce open licenses on this scale as it's each contributor that licenses their content rather than the platform host.

abbe98··on Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as first customers
I think the big benefit for Google and Co here is SLA and support, Wikimedia gives contributors and partners access for free...

A win for Wikimedia beyond diversified funding is also that Google and other corporations gets an contractual obligation to follow Wikimedia licensing.

abbe98··on Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as first customers
It also ensures that Google follows the license requirements of Wikimedia data as as it becomes a contractual issue rather than a license issue with each contributor.

It seems for example that Google has recently resolved some long standing issues with attribution in various products(YouTube Music comes to mind).

abbe98··on Find Wikipedia photos needed near you
People are vetted before being able to use Tool Forge servers and all hosted code is public.
abbe98··on Generating websites with SPARQL and Snowman, part 1
Cool to see a project(Snowman[0]) I'm the creator of mentioned here on HN.

I created Snowman to allow one to use RDF/SPARQL even in the user-facing parts of ones stack(and to learn Go).

[0]: https://github.com/glaciers-in-archives/snowman/

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