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by Fice 6y ago
I use a mini-ITX board (GA-C1007UN), which has an embedded Celeron CPU and two GbE ports. It serves me for almost five years now as a home server, router and Wi-Fi access point. The downside is that it requires an ATX power supply and is no
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by Fice 6y ago
DRM is fundamentally incompatible with open source and free software. DRM is all about restricting what your computer can do (what code it is allowed to run), so it can be trusted by third parties with handling protected information. Cont
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How Technology Is Hijacking Your Mind(medium.com)
2 points by Fice 6y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 6y ago
That book has both Strossen and Stallman in the list of authors: https://www.wetheweb.org/post/about-the-book The article in question: https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
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by Fice 6y ago
> The only change is that now they are doing it in public. They very conveniently started to do it in public when Stallman's reputation was severely damaged by the media spreading lies about him, when he lost his home, when he most
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by Fice 6y ago
> do you think that GNU will just fold when he’s no longer with us? Either fold, have new leadership, or become a formal declaration of endorsing some values (not really a project). Maybe it will eventually center around one subproject
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by Fice 6y ago
> I haven't heard of anyone harassing him for having Asperger's I may have worded this badly (not a native speaker, it takes a lot of time for me to find the right words and formulate my thoughts in English), but what I meant i
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by Fice 6y ago
> distance themselves from RMS Why wouldn't Guix just leave the RMS's GNU Project then? GNU is a collaboration of free software projects that was started and is lead by Richard Stallman. Remove the leader, and what's left
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by Fice 6y ago
Yes, and it's painful to see him being harassed for it by Wingo and others.
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by Fice 6y ago
RMS probably has an autism spectrum disorder.
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by Fice 6y ago
Wingo: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00... Jean Louis: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00...
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by Fice 6y ago
I don't believe that RIAA's real intention was simply to get rid of youtube-dl. This was probably just a show to push for more DRM on the Web.
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First the Cloud Giveth(tinyletter.com)
2 points by Fice 6y ago|1 comments
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by Fice 6y ago
Could this problem be solved with an adequate ventilation system, so there will be no need to keep windows open?
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by Fice 6y ago
A communication service should use an openly specified protocol allowing independent client and server implementations, otherwise it's hostile to internet freedom. I believe that we should not recommend and should avoid using a service
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by Fice 6y ago
How would one know that this black box works the same for every user? What would stop Apple from distributing a compromised update to everyone or to selected users?
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by Fice 6y ago
The point of captchas is that they cost resources (human time, money, computing power) to solve. Captcha is essentially a proof-of-work scheme, and a very nasty one, because it is designed to torture users instead of relying on computers to
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by Fice 7y ago
My comment was not about giving credit. The point is that if you know that the system is GNU, you know what software it is supposed to run, and that does not mean that it can not be compatible if it is not GNU. We can probably also use PO
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by Fice 7y ago
I usually refer to distributions like Debian or Fedora as GNU/Linux to distinguish them from other systems that use Linux kernel (e.g. Android). GNU defines the runtime environment, and by knowing that a system is GNU, we understand w
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Deprecating Support for the Linux Kernel(guix.gnu.org)
10 points by Fice 7y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 7y ago
Firefox 74.0 on Fedora works. AFAIK Firefox on GNU/Linux uses Gstreamer. Maybe you need to install gstreamer codec packages. Update: Firefox switched to FFmpeg and removed Gstreamer support some time ago. I have FFmpeg installed from r
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Don’t watch TV coverage of Covid-19(stallman.org)
78 points by Fice 7y ago|17 comments
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What Happens After You’re Cancelled(emptywheel.net)
2 points by Fice 7y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 7y ago
A better link: https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/374/ And also: https://archive.org/details/dougengelbartarchives?sort=title... because youtube videos are ephemeral.
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Guile 3 and Guix(guix.gnu.org)
6 points by Fice 7y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 7y ago
Captcha is also a kind of proof-of-work, and a very nasty one, where users are made to do the work instead of computers.
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GNU Guile 3.0(gnu.org)
193 points by Fice 7y ago|62 comments
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What sort of laws would give us real privacy?(stallman.org)
5 points by Fice 7y ago|0 comments
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Please Go Away, Tim Berners-Lee(tinyletter.com)
146 points by Fice 7y ago|46 comments
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by Fice 7y ago
«What if "data" is a really bad idea?» — Alan Kay, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722

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