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BLACK SABBATH’s TONY IOMMI On Receiving Notice Of MBE For King’s Birthdays Honours – “I Thought It Was A Speeding Fine”; Video

https://bravewords.com/news/black-sabbaths-tony-iommi-on-receiving-notice-of-mbe-for-kings-birthdays-honours-i-thought-it-was-a-speeding-fine-video/

#BLACKSABBATH #TONYIOMMI #OnReceivingNoticeOf #ForKing #EP #video #guitarist #BraveWords #metal #music

BLACK SABBATH's TONY IOMMI On Receiving Notice Of MBE For King’s Birthdays Honours - "I Thought It Was A Speeding Fine"; Video

Black Sabbath guitarist, Tony Iommi, has been made an MBE (Member Of The Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire) in the King’s Birthday Honours, reports the BBC. The MBE was established in June 1917 by King George V and recognizes individuals who have made positive impacts or significant contributions in their line of work.

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Hacker NewsApr 2

Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/

#HackerNews #Delve #Forking #OpenSource #StartupNews #TechEthics #Controversy

The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse | TechCrunch

Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers's tool and passing it off as its own.

TechCrunch
Hacker NewsApr 1

OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval

https://www.neowin.net/news/onlyoffice-suspends-nextcloud-partnership-over-unapproved-euro-office-fork/

#HackerNews #OnlyOffice #Nextcloud #Partnership #Forking #News #OnlyOfficeSuspension #OpenSource

Peter CockMar 25

RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/116290659558200102

Quoting Bastian’s blog:

It might look like #forking works as advertised to resolve disputes, but the reality is that forking often is a good “dispute resolution” in the same way as “move to a different country if you don’t like it here” is a good way to solve national political issues

Hacker NewsMar 25

I Forked Httpx

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/httpxyz.html

#HackerNews #I #Forked #Httpx #Httpx #OpenSource #Forking #WebDevelopment #HackerNews

Why I forked httpx | Blog

I forked the python library httpx to httpxyz after over a year without a release of this popular package

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 19
🚀 Announcing the QUIC(k)est way to reinvent the wheel: it's called Noq, because nothing says "innovation" like #forking an existing project and slapping a new name on it. 🤡 But hey, at least it's written in #Rust, because who doesn't love squeezing out every last drop of #performance while simultaneously inducing eye twitches in C++ developers? 😂
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/noq-announcement #QUICkInnovation #CplusplusEyeTwitch #HackerNews #ngated
noq, noq, who's there?

Introducing noq: n0's QUIC implementation

Hacker NewsMar 18

Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

https://github.com/adammiribyan/zeroboot

#HackerNews #SubMillisecondVM #Sandboxes #CoWMemory #Forking #ZeroBoot #GitHub

GitHub - adammiribyan/zeroboot: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes for AI agents via copy-on-write forking

Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes for AI agents via copy-on-write forking - adammiribyan/zeroboot

GitHub
StrypeyMar 9

Was it really 15 years ago that the majority of the OpenOffice community voted with their feet against Oracle? Forking the software as LibreOffice, and forming the Document Foundation as a vendor-neutral stewardship body for this office software commons;

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/28/libreoffice-turns-15/

Like the forking of OwnCloud as NextCloud, a reminder that poor Free Code stewards can be forked around (looking at you Mozilla and Android/Linux).

EDIT: typo

#forking #OpenOffice #LibreOffice #Mozilla #Android

LibreOffice turns 15: a celebration of freedom, collaboration and open technologies and standards - TDF Community Blog

Fifteen years ago, we announced our ambitious plan to provide the world with a fully free and open office suite created by and for the community. Today, we are celebrating 15 years of LibreOffice — a milestone not only for the software itself, but also for the global movement that it represents. LibreOffice was born on 28 September 2010 when it was launched as a fork of OpenOffice. This was not just a technical split, but also a declaration of independence, transparency, and freedom. LibreOffice would be free: free to use, free to modify, and free from corporate constraints. From day one, our mission has been clear: to empower people through open technology. A community like no other LibreOffice has never been alone. Throughout its journey, it has been supported by a community of thousands of contributors and dozens of companies who have contributed to development, design, localisation, quality assurance and other services to support its growth. Many have simply dedicated their time, skills and passion to creating something unique and better for everyone. Over the years, the community has: Released dozens of major versions, each more powerful and significantly better than the last; Localised LibreOffice into over 120 languages,

TDF Community Blog
StrypeyMar 7

AFAIK the terms 'soft fork' and 'hard fork' entered the lexicon from the crypto world, where they refer to software changes that split a blockchain into sub-chains. With a soft fork, the sub-chains remain interoperable. A hard fork makes them incompatible; what IRC greyhairs might call a 'netsplit'.

But AFAICT, these terms have since been repurposed by others to refer to something similar but different; 2 ways of forking any Free Code software project.

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#forking #HardFork #SoftFork

MatthijsFeb 23
I absolutely #forking love everything about #forking #StarfleetAcademy from the weird fun but very #StarTrek plots, the great characters played by lovely new unknown actors, love the 'adults' who are clearly having fun and the appropriate slightly cheeky sexiness. And guys, Holly Hunter, don't you love Holly Hunter?