I am drafting a "rules of association". It is partly an exercise, and partly an guess at of something that may become real.

Starting with the standard rules for an "unincorporated association": (https://www.acnc.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021-07/download_template_rules_for_unincorporated_associations_with_notes_pdf_639kb_.pdf)

But I am tired of organisations infiltrated by arseholes, and I wonder if it is possible to put standards of behaviour front and centre.
I am inspired by Mastodon's "No Nazis", but I am not sure it is either specific, nor general enough.

Please help. Does your group have something-like this? What have I missed, and, in the interests of sanity, what has been double-defined?

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17. Membership hurdles.
17.1 The association insists on the following psychological characteristics and standards of behaviour from all members.
17.2 No member will be accepted, and existing members will be expelled if they fail any of these hurdles.
17.3 The psychological characteristics. Members must not be:
i. psychopaths,
ii. sociopaths,
iii. narcissists,
iv. liars,
v. egomaniacs.
17.4 The standards of behaviour. Members must never indulge in :
i. crime,
ii. racism,
iii. misogyny,
iv. criticism of person,
v. aggression, threats, shaming,
vi. coercive control,
vii.prejudice, bigotry.
17.5 The association explicitly rejects the notion that a person’s ability can replace or diminish their need to clear these hurdles. The most able and talented member will be expelled if they fail.

#rules #DarkTriad #constitution #legalese #IANAL #arseholes #governance

Het nieuwe hyperscale daracentrum van microsoft komt er alleen maar via een juridisch trucje; het zijn officieel drie kleintjes, die vallen onder de 70MW norm.

Kunnen we met andere juridische trucjes niet ervoor zorgen dat maar 1 vd 3 geëxploiteerd kan worden?

Óf met z’n allen van microsoft en copilot af, zodat het minder rendabel wordt.

#ianal

https://www.volkskrant.nl/cs-bd8492da/

#WASM / #WASI based #plugin architectures vs #AGPL?

I assume this is valid, but #IANAL and unsure if it is indeed the case:

- If the core system is AGPL-licensed and integrates a Wasm WASI runtime.
- Then 3rd-party WASI Components can have different licenses.
- Esp. when they are downloaded and installed at run-time.

OTOH perhaps not.. and it depends on who designed the #WIT #RPC interface, and what its #license is.

#Socialcoding topic (2024, all fedi links rotted)..

https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-licensing-of-plugin-architecture-vs-agpl/506

What is the story here? Did I wrong them in a past life?

The image is of the back of an invoice for cement blocks. I paid in advance, and this was handed to me by the delivery driver.
The page is A4. All this text is rendered at 1.1mm per line, in, I'm guessing? 2point? Thereabouts.

I had to get a magnifying glass to read it. (I found out that xsane doesn't drive my scanner at 600dpi - have never wanted to use it at 600dpi before now).

Stunning.

#IANAL #Legal #contracts #BiteMe #TheUnbearablePointlessnessOfBeing.

#IANAL but this looks like a #criminal offence under the various #DataProtection legislation

that data has been processed, possibly without the right of access to it for the purpose, and that it has been processed incorrectly - wrong data has been recorded, or kept, or a decision based on data has been incorrectly taken.

And it has clearly caused harm but that would be the #civil case, probably in #negligence.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/16/call-for-inquiry-after-families-stripped-of-child-benefit-due-to-flawed-travel-data

#childBenefit