my brother in christ the people building the #reticulum #rust port have "defence & tactical communications" as their primary use case... followed by drones and mining 😵💫 #fosdem2026
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https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/LICENSE
> The Software shall not be used in any kind of system which includes amongst its functions the ability to purposefully do harm to human beings.
the talk today only alluded to "performance issues" but I would assume this is the elephant in the room...
> It is a glimpse of a more secure, peer-to-peer future for battlefield networks
@d1 do you know of anyone actually enforcing license usage legally when the licenses have these kinds of super vague terms? thinking of other arty licenses like the anticapitalist one
@dantescanline nah, i haven't heard of it. i think that's the main critique also of this approach, right?
i'm not sure what the state of the free culture discourse is on not having your software running on tanks atm?
i do have to think about https://chaos.social/@delta/115997484542298171
as a comparable thing "we" *think* we can theoretically do but it doesn't materialise at all in reality because power 🙃
@d1 i think in general this idea of licenses stopping power from using useful stuff is 1980s thinking, where a specific implementation is special. like a company worth billions couldn't just whip up their own version of something. they dont have to care about it being open source (fostering community, good docs, reliable releases etc) and only care about the system being distributed for their uses and not decentralized in a anti-power way that makes public open systems complicated.
@d1@autonomous.zone
It's #FOSDEM, what did you expect?
https://fosdem.org/2026/about/sponsors/
I mean, #Google works for #ICE and even supports a #genocide in #Gaza... and they still get their money!
They don't give a shit about human life, how could they care about software #licensing?
It's #FOSDEM, what did you expect?
https://fosdem.org/2026/about/sponsors/
I mean, #Google works for #ICE and even supports a #genocide in #Gaza... and they still get their money!
They don't give a shit about human life, how could they care about software #licensing?
@giacomo fosdem being what it is, is a whole other bucket of worms. getting ranted about it from you doesnt seem like a good use of time, byeeee
@d1 To be honest, I don't mind it that much. If they can lure military into giving money to censorship resistant tech, I consider that net positive.
@d1 website seems to be down (lol) but lead commiter on the repos is ukrainian so the first three out of four of those track
@d1 Why do you always have to ruin my daydreaming and bring me back to the evil corrupted ripped planet Earth?