madez

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by madez 8y ago
> it is strictly better to be working on a new game than to improve incredibly niche support for existing products I'm not sure about this one. Compare Ferals and Ubers approach as two data points.
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by madez 8y ago
I want to thank you, and say sorry for any snark you received in the past from me, which was usually (exclusively?) for what Mozilla did and does. Once again, thank you for promoting Rust, which has so many benefits in so many areas, and be
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by madez 8y ago
I'll take the step and say that most developers do the mistake to treat linux like any other proprietary system which they can target with stable interfaces and call it a day. Free software changes more often, but when it does, it is n
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by madez 8y ago
The breaches of law you mentioned are of a specific kind, and I wager that the agencies did not agree in every case that they breached the law. On the other hand, blatantly stealing their tools instead of buying them is not the same kind of
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by madez 8y ago
You are comparing apples with oranges. If you tried to modify the behaviour of the desktop of other OS'es to the extent as you want with Linux, then that would be a fair comparison. If you want it to look and behaviour just like Window
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by madez 8y ago
Is this how Godwin's law ends?
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by madez 8y ago
A hegemonial free software project isn't just good because it opposes radical changes but it is also bad because it opposes radical changes.
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by madez 8y ago
You once again gave no direct argument for your accusation. If you can't or are unwilling to do so, please don't put out accusations.
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by madez 8y ago
On one hand, it is bad style to accuse someone with strong words while only throwing with a link to give foundation to your judgement. This does not create a constructive environment to debate and learn. On the other hand, both claims in th
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by madez 8y ago
Since usually you can always add open parts to a system, the question is not if there are open parts, but if there are (substantial) closed parts. > Linux with a video card. Assuming you are speaking about a recent video card from AMD o
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by madez 8y ago
There is no absolute taboo of violence because there are fighting sports.
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by madez 8y ago
You are being unreasonable because you equate the hypothetic possibility of malicious code execution by Apple or Google due to bugs with running an OS from either on hardware from them.
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by madez 8y ago
How would you count views or reach?
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by madez 8y ago
Peer to peer driven distribution is underutilized. It allows indivuals to reach millions. However, if you make your money with advertisements, peer to peer distribution does not make sense.
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by madez 8y ago
There are books that are outrageously famous that say that gay people are bad. Many people find these books so convincing that they adopt the books' views as their own.
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by madez 8y ago
Well, I sandbox closed source apps by running them as a different user that doesn't have access to my $HOME.
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by madez 8y ago
Just letting another chip do the loading seems to be only part of the solution. The other part is to load it from read-only memory so it cannot be modified after production. That is what I consider to be the crucial property: the firmware m
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by madez 8y ago
I disagree. Requiring it puts pressure on the manufacturers to do it better and be more open.
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by madez 8y ago
Nor Google nor Apple can – to the best of my knowledge – decide what code is run or not run on my PC. That is evidently a plus point for security, if one doesn't blindly trusts these companies.
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by madez 8y ago
> 1. You'd be fragmenting the non-corporate* browser market, weakening the good that can come of that. Mozilla are invited to the table at browser discussions, Debzilla probably won't be. You mean the tables where they then giv
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by madez 8y ago
Analytics about you and your machine won't get collected by themselves. Have you noticed this phenomenon with free software?
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by madez 8y ago
Which other smartphone runs mainline Linux and Debian? That's what Librem 5 is announced to be able to. Is it perfect? No. But it is not just snake oil.
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by madez 8y ago
Culture shows itself in many aspects, including the law.
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by madez 8y ago
No, unreadable, non-free JavaScript is not fundamentally different. Two wrongs don't make a right. Unreadable, non-free JavaScript is used to reach a goal. That goal is to withhold the source from the users to bind them to the service.
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by madez 8y ago
There are people that lobby for closed source and distribute closed source, and there are people that lobby for floss and libre software. And then there are hypocrites. Mozilla is bathing itself in it's image of standing for a free and
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by madez 8y ago
WebAssembly is yet another approach to withhold the source of programs from the ones that interact with it. By just sending part of the necessary binary logic to the user, it is ensured they can't easily be independent of the provider
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by madez 8y ago
As someone with a bit of a distance to this, this seems grotesque, bizarre, and disconcerting. That the law is not free is The Onion material. I cannot fathom how one must fight before a court for it. This extreme hypercapitalism is disturb
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by madez 8y ago
This is a good decision. Letters and journals of dead children also go to the parents. I fail to see why online accounts should make a difference.
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by madez 8y ago
We do not have to follow the standards that prevent open source solutions. If the price for having an open source computer is old technology or "nonstandard" solutions, then I'm more than happy to pay it.
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by madez 8y ago
The EU is working on securing the fundamental rights of me and the people around me, thereby enhancing my liberty and quality of life.

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