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by F3nd0 11mo ago
You might want to check out MNT Research if you haven’t yet. They make repairable laptops, too, but they also release their work as free software and open hardware. https://mnt.re/
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by F3nd0 11mo ago
I think that’s a stretch. They may have hoped for the Fediverse to be used a certain way and/or by a certain kind of people, but the network itself and the design thereof don’t really reflect, support or enforce this in any way. (I a
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by F3nd0 11mo ago
Are we talking about the kind of syrup that’s essentially just a solution of sugar, or the kind of syrup with other flavourful ingredients? I was mostly concerned with the sugar, since it’s detrimental to our health (and following your argu
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by F3nd0 11mo ago
My recent experience with social media has been very different. These days I'm mostly active on the Fediverse, and in contrast to the News, my timeline doesn’t feel like a model of the world at all. All I see are little snippets. Many
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by F3nd0 11mo ago
How do more sugar and syrup constitute a better deal? Shouldn’t the better formula result in a good-tasting drink using less sugar and syrup, i.e. what Austria seems to have?
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by F3nd0 1y ago
I’m not sure if you're being ironic or not, since ‘regional taste preferences’ is a somewhat famous excuse brands frequently use to justify selling inferior-quality products (think less meat, less nuts, less fruit, more unhealthy fille
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by F3nd0 1y ago
‘Pushover’ is another term for ‘permissive’. It emphasises the fact that, unlike copyleft licences, pushover licences don’t make an attempt to protect the freedoms they grant their users. In other words, they allow anyone to make and distri
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by F3nd0 1y ago
I’m more hopeful about Servo because it’s released under a copyleft licence, whereas Ladybird chose a pushover one.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
Logo is very reminiscent of the GNU Bazaar one: https://launchpad.net/bzr
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by F3nd0 1y ago
The way they handled JPEG XL support has, in my opinion, provided a solid foundation for said idea.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
Not to be confused with GNU, the free operating system.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
TeXmacs is pretty great. I feel like its internals still feel a bit arcane, though. Just editing documents through the graphical interface is fine, but if you happen to use some commonplace symbols or diacritics a lot, opening the file as p
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by F3nd0 1y ago
I was talking about freedom, hence the capitalisation to make that even clearer. The parent only talked about ‘open source’, which has a huge overlap with Free Software, but the two still have different formal definitions (not to mention
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by F3nd0 1y ago
I think it’s ultimately up to your instance whether it keeps your posts indefinitely or not. I think most do, but others might delete posts after a period of time, in which case they should mention this to their users (on their ‘About’ page
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by F3nd0 1y ago
Even worse, it seems like it’s not Free Software, either.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
For me, it’s clearer with a double colon. Not intuitive, but extremely easy to get used to. When I see the first colon introduce a list, I have to go out of my way to not see the other colons as introducing lists.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
I think you are mistaken; neither is a subset of the other. At the very least, there are licences which are recognised as open source by the OSI, but not as free by the FSF, and vice versa [1]. I think it’s more appropriate to say they are
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by F3nd0 1y ago
‘Free software’ and ‘open source software’ (as respectively defined by the FSF [1] and the OSI [2], which is how they’re usually used in practice) have overlapping definitions. The project in question is released into the public domain via
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by F3nd0 1y ago
No such incident here. Firefox on GNU. Also using uBlock Origin, though.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
I might be missing something here, but how does the Canadian flag relate to the article and how does it circle characters in the title?
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TalerBarr – v0.1.0 (Inventory Sync)(taler.net)
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by F3nd0 1y ago
I agree. For me as a beginner, C was relatively easy to learn the basics of. Sure, I never went on to get familiar with all the details and become proficient in it, but the basic concepts really aren’t that hard to understand. There’s just
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by F3nd0 1y ago
Is that really the case? I’m not outright disputing this, but with the term ‘copyleft’ originating from the free software movement and all, I normally take it to identify free software which protects the freedoms it grants (typically by ext
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by F3nd0 1y ago
I think it’s most likely a combination of both: Freedom 0 was later added in the first place, and newly numbering the first place with 0 could likely only have been thought of by a programmer.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
If I recall correctly, there were originally three freedoms, but then a fourth one was thought of and put at the front to give it prominence, numbering it as zero as not to disturb the original numbering.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
That is not the spirit of open source, but rather the spirit of free software. The spirit of open source is to effectively have freedom without talking about it.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
> Shareware isn't even open source, generally, and it certainly isn't gratis--you have to pay for it, or at least should, and there are often restrictions or time limits if you don't. Again, the "free" in "f
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by F3nd0 1y ago
Whether MIT-type licences give more freedom than copyleft is very disputable, since they make it extremely easy to lose. But you are right that terms like ‘free’ or ‘libre’ are in no way restricted to copyleft.
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by F3nd0 1y ago
Always refreshing to see a new project opt for copyleft!
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by F3nd0 1y ago
I enjoy using GIMP. Most of my (not very advanced) needs are met quite well. Looking forward to try out the more recent versions too.

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