Miguel, aka mickie. Code, Science, Politics, etc.

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Cake day: January 22nd, 2020

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  • Its seems pretty interesting. Now day MediaWiki is one of the largest codebases in PHP out there. But Wikimedia has excellent resources, somewhat extensive, but very good, from the lowest level sections (database, backend) to the style (css), plugins and frontend, including the scripts (lua). Although as @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml comments that much is done in a very artisanal way, I think more than anything that the correct organization of the main dev, including admins and contributors, a lot of progress can be made with the limited resources available.















  • Huawei has one of the largest Innovation and Development , I+D, departments in the world; With a large number of patents in both software and hardware, registered trademarks, intellectual property and a presence in many fields of science: artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, aeronautics, energy, defense, semiconductors, etc. practically comparable to the giants in the sector such as Intel, AMD, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, etc. but with the added value of being a manufacturing corporation and having all the raw materials, as well as a large amount of cheap labor. Little dependent on the West.

    Huawei is more strategic in geopolitical terms, Xiaomi and other similar companies to a greater or lesser extent use patents or indirectly depend on Huawei, especially in IoT and Telecommunications




  • Why is Wikipedia not going after the Wikiless instances ?

    I don’t want to think badly, but everything seems to indicate that wikimedia (the people behind wikipedia) has nothing to do with this: it doesn’t make sense, the content of wikipedia is under CC-BY-SA and its source code is GPL v2, supposedly it could be for the logo and name (they are registered trademarks of the foundation) but even so, use an entire legal department to accuse a single person, which does not violate the licenses described above nor is it a commercial project or illicit enrichment; dude, it’s just a frontend, not even a full mediawiki fork.

    @dessalines@lemmy.ml some times commented on certain practices of the Codeberg staff that went against the status of being a non-profit organization: one of those practices was to ban FOSS projects without apparent explanation that are related to certain areas such as blockchain, torrent, p2p, etc. although these do not violate their code of conduct or are illegal.

    I chose Codeberg as my main forge instead of Github and Gitlab (this was the one I used the most) precisely because of their status, in a strict sense they are not “a company” like these two, which theoretically gives you more freedom and more control over your projects.

    But seeing this, I’m thinking whether to continue with them or go back to Gitlab or another alternative.

    What certainty do I have that they won’t ban my projects (personal/professional) with all the work that this entails from one day to the next simply because they don’t like them or because of my ideological/political positions?