Apparently this is not about software licensing so much as about the services Rebble provides:

Core would spearhead the development of brand new watches, and we’d be there to provide our Rebble Web Services to go with them.

It now seems Core wants to just keep on using these services as their own. I read a few paragraphs but I gave up when they go back 9 years to explain it all.

But this isn’t the first time a company tries to steal what isn’t theirs, under the auspices of FOSS, and my benefit of the doubt definitely stands with Rebble here.

We used to have a copier that would go bonkers over that. The spot was in a different location though.

PSA

git the FLOSS software is completely independent of github, the MS-owned web platform.
git was originally written by Linus Torvalds and can be selfhosted easily without additional software. Or be used locally.

No reason for Linux budgeting since it comes completely free (as in beer and as in freedom)!

(sorry could not resist. arrest me for dad-joking)

It is possible to install True Linux™ on many phones, it’s just the phone-specific bits that often don’t work too well. Ideal for this scenario though.

Of course you’re still right, but with that in mind the list is much longer than you think.

I was going to comment that I really miss that extra step. A local server on Android sounds like a major PITA, not to speak of the possibility of continued data mining.

It is possible to install True Linux™ on many phones, it’s just the phone-specific bits that often don’t work too well. Ideal for this scenario though.

How would you serve from the phone into the internet? The only option I see is via WiFi to a router and hope your ISP gave you a static IP.

What a stupid headline. Negative clickbait (it makes me want to click elsewhere).

Well they wrote provider of “domain with servers”. TBF (to myself) I think OP is confusing things. If they meant the domain only, you are correct.

can the provider over which I rent the domain with servers in my country actually see what our traffic is? Especially since we are streaming our movies etc.

That’s what encryption is for, a.k.a. HTTPS in this case.

If there’s several of you, really, get a dedicated IP address (a domain name is nice but not necessary). Usually a dedicated IP is not an option for normal priced home connections, but a full (not shared) VPS with decent storage/performance can be had for under €10/month, and that will always have a static IP.

It’s up to the OS, software or web app and I’m happy to report that not all of them do this.

But I have noticed that on Win11 this seems to be the standard. On those rare occasions. Particularly funny (not really) if they’re phrased in such a way that you have to think hard which specific kind of temporary rejection you choose, for fear of messing up.

I love those cyber UI mockups in TV shows.

This is entirely believable.

I used to watch that show and it was always full of this sort of master hacker bs and I loved it - for a while.

Fuck that stupid AI/AGI narrative, even if this is meant as a joke. They’re LLMs. Some of them not even so large. A bunch of if statements with access to all the data that advertising companies like Google have harvested for decades.

“But now we have so many other ways of tracking people on the www, we can finally give in on this one specific, somewhat outdated thing called cookies, we really don’t need it anymore.”

“Let’s be realistic!”

Web 1.0, booo!!!

But that would mean that some of the richest companies and arguably the biggest business on the planet would become obsolete!

Actually scratch that, it looks like AI saved the day for them.

I hope my darkest cynicism on this topic comes across, if not: ///sssss