I would required compensation in the amount of Elon's entire fortune so it can be properly redistributed to those who deserve it, including you if this is a human reading this email. If those terms are acceptable, please contact me at xxx-xxx-xxxx at your earliest convenience.
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Only the owner of a domain can publish a package attributed to that domain. Otherwise you'd have random hackers publishing malware as an Apache project or something. All you can do is try to contact the owner of the domain and see if they are willing to transfer ownership to you, or better yet, set up a nonprofit LLC, or whatever it's called in your country, to have it transfered to.
There was no "be fired" option. They couldn't fire her for her gender, but they had to get rid of her or face possible retaliation from the representative or a school shooting or other attack from extremists.
The other option was to risk being attacked at work along with all the children, many if whom would likely be killed or injured along with her. That's not an "option". That's like saying you have the option to either work so you can eat, or never work again, or eat, for the rest of your life. Sure it's an option. But not a viable one. She only got to choose how she would be forced out. Leave gracefully, or leave with the blood of children on her conscience. Not that it would be her fault, but if she survived, they surely would make it out to be her fault for not leaving. The threats to her life aren't going to stop. It's just now the children aren't going to be used as bloody pawns.
But common language generally has effect followed by cause if there is a joining preposition between them. Just because a journalist isn't confused by it doesn't mean an average person wouldn't be. Words are cheap these days, it's not like the days of print where every word cost money. Journalism doesn't have to be terse at the expense of accuracy anymore. Plus it's really easy to clarify by saying "forced to resign", so just 2 words.
As for whether it's common to force people to resign when you can't fire them or not is irrelevant. This is firing or forcing to resign over who they are. If it was a cis-woman being fired/forced to resign for being a woman instead of a man, or a black person being forced to resign explicitly for not being white, would it have been allowed to happen? The method is irrelevant. It's not as if it was for performance related issues or even a political disagreement. This is for who she is at a basic level.
The title is a little misleading. She didn't resign because of the death threats against her. She resigned because the school's state representative forced them to fire her, but they had no cause, so they had to pressure her to resign to protect the students from defunding or physical attacks on the school.
Someone in charge is getting a kickback or is heavily invested in the company that supplies the facial recognition service.
Not offering a solution here exactly, but as a software engineer and architect, this is not a Linux only problem. This problem exists across all software. There are very few applications that are fully self contained these days because it's too complex to build everything from scratch every time. And a lot of software depends on the way that some poorly documented feature worked at the time that was actually a bug and was eventually fixed and then breaks the applications that depended on it, etc. Also, any time improvements are made in a library application it has potential to break your application, and most developers don't get time to test the every newer version.
The real solution would be better CI/CD build systems that automatically test the applications with newer versions of libraries and report dependencies better. But so many applications are short on automated unit and integration tests because it's tedious and so many companies and younger developers consider it a waste of time/money. So it would only work in well maintained and managed open source types of applications really. But who has time for all that?
Anyway, it's something I've been thinking about a lot at my current job as an architect for a major corporation. I've had to do a lot of side work to get things even part of the way there. And I don't have to deal with multiple OSes and architectures. But I think it's an underserved area of software development and distribution that is just not "fun" enough to get much attention. I'd love to see it at all levels of software.
That's just late-capitalism in general. No large companies are innovating anymore. They simply let smaller companies pop up and then either buy it or kill them with legal or market dominance based maneuvers. I mean if all that mattered to you was short term profit, would you take any risks? Easier to destroy than create of that's all you care about.
That's going to always happen when training data with the entire internet. The outliers will always skew thing more than the mainstream if the models are not designed to exclude them.
And there are a lot of contributing factors, for example with right leaning stuff being more available for LLMs to process as the platforms are generally less concerned about privacy and more concerned about policing and control (that's just what right wing is), of course the models are going to see more of it than the left leaning stuff where people are more on the repressed side, more likely to use more private communication methods, and less likely to be able to safely, publicly share outlier kinds of views to skew things the other way. Even the people who pretend to be extreme left-wing, like the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party, are usually, in reality, right-wing.
Rust crates manifest file requires a license be set to be hosted on crates.io and the example manifest file uses:
[package]
license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
Something like the Java's jar manifest doesn't have a predefined license property for interpreters to parse. Maven has a property, but it's not required.
I mean LLC is just a nice option if you want it to be easy to transfer it to someone else next time so they don't have to go through any hassle. Adding someone to an LLC to have control over the assets is just easier than if an individual owns those assets.
But this all comes down to ownership. Someone owns the rights to the domain. Sonatype obeys that ownership. So it really comes down to how the owner wants to handle it. And in the US anyway, lawyers aren't really required for an LLC, depending on the state you live in. Many it's just a couple of simple documents and a small fee. That's why LLCs are used by rich people to hide their money, it's cheap and easy. I've done it many times in multiple states for various projects and never had any legal background. The nonprofit part is a little more work, but as long as you aren't bringing in any money, its not necessary. Still easy in practice, but more research to figure out. Also, it comes with a lot of benefits like free access to a lot of stuff, including some from Sonatype. But again, not required, just thinking ahead and how I would do it.
First step would be just to contact the domain owner. If they are no longer interested in owning that asset, then they may just give it to you. If they are unresponsive and the domain is not in use for anything else, you could also contact the registrar and report it and if they can't contact the domain owner there's a possibility that they may allow you to purchase it depending on their policies.
Again, don't get discouraged, and I'm totally willing to give pointers if you decide to go the nonprofit LLC route, but first, just contact the owner and maybe they'll just give you the login for the domain registrar or if they don't want to give up the ownership of the domain, maybe just authorize you with Sonatype to publish the artifacts. Essentially, because it's an ownership issue, the owner needs to be involved.