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by pabs3 11mo ago
There are lots of alternative movements to Free Software and Open Source, like Ethical Computing, Fair Source etc. Use one of those, or the more generic "source available" term.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
> all software ever written LLMs aren't usually trained on large proprietary codebases like the ones from Google, Microsoft or Apple?
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by pabs3 11mo ago
I'd choose a different framing to that: MIT: freedom for devs GPL: freedom for users AGPL: freedom for SaaS users
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by pabs3 11mo ago
Might be better to use a browser that respects its users by allowing them to install uBO, like Firefox.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
An alternative option for this is uBlock Origin, with some custom filter rules from the wiki for the uBlockOrigin subreddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube
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Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? (2013)(vanityfair.com)
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by pabs3 11mo ago
The best option to stop bad companies from doing bad things is to lobby your government to put in place laws against those bad things. Ban specific evils with regulation, thats much more effective than preventing people who do those evils f
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by pabs3 11mo ago
A reminder that Open Source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation: https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your...
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by pabs3 11mo ago
I expect any license change away from permissive/pushover licenses is just going to be interpreted as a rug pull and worked around using a fork, or another existing project or new project.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
How are you planning to find out about violations of the license and then enforce license compliance? The GPL is very commonly violated, and license compliance costs a lot to enforce since you have to go to court, which also takes a long ti
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by pabs3 11mo ago
GPL mandates giving forward to users, not giving back to the project. It is also commonly violated.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
Software Freedom Conservancy have been doing GPL compliance actions for a long time, especially if you consider their staff's previous lawsuit that resulted in OpenWRT existing. Also the more recent Vizio lawsuit is kinda interesting,
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by pabs3 11mo ago
There is Sovereign Tech: https://www.sovereign.tech/
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by pabs3 11mo ago
I think its the truck, near the end the bike peels off to the left and you can hear the sound fading off to the right.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
This is why I like Debian, they keep all source and binaries online at snapshot.debian.org, for like two decades now.
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Software Freedom Conservancy 2025 Fundraiser launched with largest match yet(sfconservancy.org)
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by pabs3 11mo ago
The Bootstrappable Builds community would likely be against using AI auto-generated code as part of any bootstrap process. If its auto-generated, it isn't considered "source" code.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
I'm still on a 2013 desktop I found in a dumpster, its mostly fine still, apart from ballooning memory use in browsers.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
KDE Wayland has tray icons for X11 apps, I use one for Pidgin.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
I found Xorg crashyness depends on how shitty your drivers are. Agreed that merging the components is a bad idea. Under KDE, there is more of a split, kwin does compositing and WM stuff, and plasmashell does the shell and other UI bits. In
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by pabs3 11mo ago
1. GTK is going this way IIRC.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
IIRC GTK is dropping their X11 support too, so you will need some sort of X11 to Wayland proxy to run GTK apps, including Firefox.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
In Xorg and the WM, using the XACE extension. https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/security/XACE-Spec.htm...
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by pabs3 11mo ago
> 1. Security - Any program using X11 can read keystrokes ... IIRC: this isn't quite correct, there was an extension called XACE that can block this. Probably Xorg didn't implement it and desktops didn't have support for i
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by pabs3 11mo ago
X11 can't recover from an Xorg crash though.
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by pabs3 11mo ago
Crash resilient Wayland compositing exists since 2017, it just isn't implemented in mainstream Wayland implementations. You have to go to Arcan for full resilience. KDE does have some crash resistance, thanks to some changes in toolkit
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by pabs3 11mo ago
Drew is still working on SourceHut: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2025-11-20-whats-cooking-q4-2025/
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AdBlock and Signal are for terrorists, according to French govt (2023) [video](youtube.com)
139 points by pabs3 11mo ago|38 comments
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Is France standing up for encryption and privacy?(tuta.com)
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by pabs3 11mo ago
I note that Linux mainline has a device tree for the "Samsung Galaxy S1 (GT-I9000) based on S5PV210", not sure how complete it is though. Lots of others too: $ grep -rhoE 'Samsung Galaxy[^"]+' ./arch/a

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