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by bobcallme 8y ago
> ...at the school where I teach. You are partially responsible for this. Why is it the first response to blame everyone else but it is never the fault of those who are on the front lines (teachers, parents, people in the community)? I a
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by bobcallme 8y ago
Not true [1]. Ubuntu is full of recommendations for non-free / malicious "snaps" and has telemetry (opt out + remove a few packages). [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326184/firefox-
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by bobcallme 8y ago
I'd place my bets that MS would buy Canonical since they already have a relationship.
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by bobcallme 8y ago
I'm still a little skeptical since this applies to "Microsoft" and not any of its holding or investment companies. A great move to earn trust is to "Open Source" almost expired or useless patents.
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LibreOffice makes its way to Haiku(haiku-os.org)
1 points by bobcallme 8y ago|0 comments
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by bobcallme 8y ago
I used it for a while and it was great. Sadly too many people refused to use it because "...it's not git!" :(
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by bobcallme 8y ago
No, that is just the cost of compliance.
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by bobcallme 8y ago
How is this "Open Source"[1] when everything is licensed CC BY-NC-ND? What was the point of releasing anything if changes can't be made or shared? One might as well get a TI-84 since there are FOSS firmware replacements [2] a
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by bobcallme 9y ago
What about the data that Apple collects in macOS 10.13 users? Anonymous data collection is not really anonymous. IP addresses and other logs leak lots of identifiable information even with all of the collection settings toggled off in vario
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by bobcallme 9y ago
These marches are a waste of time and do absolutely nothing to help with science literacy.
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> ...I can only hope Millennials will wake up and steal it back. You mean perpetuating theft from future generations and being self entitled? I learned quite early on that you can't and should not expect a single thing from anyone.
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> So we should take away the power from the user to choose that for themself? Razer's lack of cooperation is not taking away freedom from the user. Razer did not promise to provide "Linux" support and they are not obligate
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> Could you add a few more details why you think LVFS has architectural issues? Updating firmware from a system that is in an unknown state has high risks, especially if untrusted software is being run (like on most Linux systems). What
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by bobcallme 9y ago
While I don't support Razer for their hardware choices, I have to side with them on this issue. LVFS is not the answer to firmware updates and it has quite a few architectural issues. Firmware should only be updated as a last resort to
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> However, this is quite a nice advancement for those of us in the emulation community. It won't be if you taint what you are working on. Just looking at this will cause lots of legal problems down the road.
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by bobcallme 9y ago
No one can win anything since life is a losing battle. I am still going to call out the FSF when they make critical or hypocritical compromises, in the case of pushing, making exceptions for, promoting or explaining away non-libre software
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> ...software maintenance is the least important thing the foundation does in my opinion. (I mean I don't need a new `grep` release every month, I could actually use a version from 2004) So, critical components that have issues : GP
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by bobcallme 9y ago
There are a lot of examples, but the most notable is the endorsement / promotion of the X60 / X200 with non-free EC firmware and a dial-up modem that requires non-free software to work. While not a freedom issue, they endorsed Pur
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by bobcallme 9y ago
This is money that could have been better spent to fund something more useful. I stopped supporting the Free Software Foundation once they starting making compromises in their mission and failed to give proper funding to critical infrastruc
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by bobcallme 9y ago
This is why it pays to host your own source repositories. It is kind of shocking that many people with the skills and means are too cheap to host their own. I personally could not risk github deleting my repositories or (in this case) going
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2018-8=1 I guess that AMD uCode updates are applicable to the Raspberry PI.
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Back from the dead: Linux Journal 2.0(linuxjournal.com)
3 points by bobcallme 9y ago|0 comments
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by bobcallme 9y ago
Was this not going to happen anyway (next one in the chain)? Many appointments require some sort of recommendation by someone already in power...
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> In choosing a corporate shill like Pai, I think Trump... Don't you mean the last administration? Pai has been with the FCC since 2011. > Leave the regulation in place, or at least put some serious conditions and stimuli for new
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by bobcallme 9y ago
It's a media-opoly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh6Hf5_ZYPI
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by bobcallme 9y ago
Kind of hypocritical if you ask me since he sold out the web with EME[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions
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by bobcallme 9y ago
This is great news! I stopped reading Linux Journal once they went all digital.
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by bobcallme 9y ago
The quality of many GM products has been questionable for ~20+ years. Remember how poorly they handled the ignition switch recall[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...
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by bobcallme 9y ago
Not if you use an economic fee and an accelerator.
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> Bitcoin is not even good for transactions, its supposed primary purpose, right now. How so? I buy lunch with Bitcoin and a few weeks ago I paid for a car repair with it. If I need more, I just go to a bitcoin vending machine near by.

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