Digital-Citizen

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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
I think you're probably stating this incorrectly. Are you sure you don't mean to say that Linux-libre objects to distributing nonfree firmware? I'd guess that GNU Linux-libre project maintainers have no objection to distribut
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
I've tried Skype for Business and found it lacking. Skype for Business (now years into availability) doesn't handle screen control across the only two OSes it purports to "support" (MacOS and Windows). I think interactiv
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
The only thing "shady" going on here is this discussion's unquestioned acceptance of propaganda language -- "piracy"/"pirate" -- as a descriptive term for alleged copyright infringement; copyright inf
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
I think it's more likely you're trying to minimize setting a critical response which clearly focuses on exploiting workers in a context suggesting that caring about worker exploitation is irrelevant or shouldn't be allowed to
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
First, I don't think this blog should require Javascript to fulfill its function -- convey text to a user. I've tried to read the source markup to get to the essay. On to addressing points raised in the essay: "If you have be
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
Thanks for the link, but I find this highly unlikely to be what the article or db-engines.com claims. The data comes from vague sources that don't jibe with number of installations. The word "popular" is used in such a perver
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
"except when you spend 2 hours in a conference explaining why people should use free software. At that point, as a service user, RMS says something about someone else's computer." As to "spend[ing] 2 hours in a conferenc
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
The essay inadvertently points out a problem of "open" (popularized in the corporate computer press by enthusiasm for "open source"). Open source came along over a decade after the free software movement. https:/&#
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
I doubt he explained anything proprietary as being "closed". He spends considerable time correcting people when they summarize his views and use that term because (as he also explains) that's a reference to open source, a gro
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
I'm not convinced that's an example of your point -- "[RMS] cares about his copyleft philosophy and GPL dogma more than the ability of free software to use free software". And some parts of the blog you pointed us to are
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
The article says MySQL "the most popular free SQL database" but gives no reference for this claim. It seems to me that every system I know of has at least one install of SQLite somewhere (be it as something that was installed with
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
You've missed the point: users should get privacy by default and make choices to preserve their privacy, not have to dodge service requests (like getting another email address) to keep their privacy. The point isn't technical, it&
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
The RemArc license https://github.com/bbcarchdev/Remarc/raw/master/doc/2016.09.... clearly attempts to appear friendly and aimed at being understood by non-lawyers but what the license says is not n
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
The article is riddled with what's wrong about proprietary (nonfree, user-subjugating) software. Paragraph 2 is almost entirely made up of these problems: "the best web browser" -- has no meaning without clearly identifying t
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
Microphones, clock hardware, light sensors, geolocation devices, Bluetooth hardware, WI-fi hardware, and accelerometers are all small enough to fit in an electric toothbrush handle alongside a battery and a toothbrush motor. One could write
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by Digital-Citizen 8y ago
I concur; while I think it's great to see these POWER systems get some press I think that this article in particular puts forth the wrong set of priorities, addresses speed unfairly in more than one way, and presents unreasonable concl
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
Some banks allow customers to send cheques/checks printed by the bank, even on a schedule. This makes it easy for the bank customer to routinely pay predictable bills or send someone money on a schedule without having to go through the
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
Structurally, the service is hosted online as a website, this means one must upload a copy of their data to be converted. Naturally that raises questions because there's a lot we don't know about this site: who runs it, what are t
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
"Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches"? What a joke; the very headline conveys a sentiment that frames the debate around how out of touch corporate media (and thus any blind repeater site) is. Corporate me
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
The article asks if "anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online" and then offers choices which are either hosted web services or proprietary programs, both of which grant someone else the power to control
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
The "#deleteFacebook" tag is so quaint. It's quaint that anyone believes they can "delete" their Facebook account, or that doing so would ever be up to the user to decide. Need evidence? The centralized nature of we
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
Actually one doesn't need to trust free software because one has the freedom to inspect and modify the software to make it do what the user wants. Whether users choose to do these things is their choice and besides the point; the freed
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
If that's the case (and I take it the absence of a source code repository is how you're reaching your conclusion), that's ironic. The Marta webpage linked to this story includes "Because I want to own what I pay money fo
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
Exactly when were each of these promises made and what was promised each time? Please give us the details. So far WikiLeaks' publications are what they claim the publications are, and WikiLeaks has released a number of "insurance&
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
I concur. I'm impressed with the number of people who think that JS on most people's webpages is a good idea. Or that any JS was necessary to announce this font. It wasn't and wasn't carried off well here (nothing for th
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
And it needlessly requires Javascript to do things other services don't need Javascript to do. That's not a good plan. One's IP address should be detectable to at least some degree with data from the packets making the reques
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
It could be schadenfreude to see all of these single-point-of-censorship sites (including this one) give us all good reason to favor having discussions on netnews (which is no panacea but far more free, by design, than any discussion websit
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
Yet again, software freedom fighters got there years ago. Free Software Foundation got there earlier. From publishing https://www.fsf.org/facebook published on on Dec 20, 2010. FSF & GNU Project founder Richard Stallman
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
I don't think I understand that response. If a project is forked that could very well be someone deciding to base their work on another's work without regard to the parent code editor's attitude. I could make my own GNU Emacs
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by Digital-Citizen 9y ago
It's nice to see the early FUD against GPLv3 being dropped and dropped in a way where copyright holders end up adopting some of the benefits of the GPLv3. But there's an easier way to go about this: Want the more lenient terminati

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