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by pabs3 1y ago
Debian still has a sparc64 port (sid only).
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by pabs3 1y ago
The Linux ecosystem is removing support for lots of stuff, especially the distros, but also the kernel.
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by pabs3 1y ago
Just use netcat and send a git bundle across? Or if you are using Linux, there is a httpd (web server) in the busybox package: busybox httpd -f -p 0.0.0.0:10080 -h ~/public/
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Why IP address truncation fails at anonymization(00f.net)
17 points by pabs3 1y ago|5 comments
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by pabs3 1y ago
Python doesn't use the GPL, and such a license wouldn't meet the FSF Four Freedoms, nor the OSI Open Source Definition, so it would likely lead to a fork, less usage and less redistribution.
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Practical Defenses Against Technofascism(micahflee.com)
4 points by pabs3 1y ago|1 comments
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The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem(00f.net)
4 points by pabs3 1y ago|1 comments
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Balancing Work and Open Source(aryank.in)
1 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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by pabs3 1y ago
My first FOSS contributions were to a hex editor (frhed), which I was using to cheat at the game Civilisation, by editing the saved game files. All software has bugs or missing features, no matter how experienced you are, you can always div
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by pabs3 1y ago
They'll be doing that I expect, they are starting by making it possible for anyone to sue over GPL compliance, not just the authors. https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
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by pabs3 1y ago
> I have a 2021 MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro. > It's getting a bit old What about it is getting old? I'm still on a bog-standard 2013 Intel desktop and its mostly fine.
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by pabs3 1y ago
> is thus highly portable Much less portable than the C ecosystem though.
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by pabs3 1y ago
GPv2 does that too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691997
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by pabs3 1y ago
The Software Freedom Conservancy disagrees, and they are the main enforcers of the GPL these days, especially for Linux. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://
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by pabs3 1y ago
The Software Freedom Conservancy thinks the GPLv2 guarantees the ability to modify existing GPLv2 software on a device, but does not guarantee the ability to still use the proprietary software running on top of that, and that the same appli
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by pabs3 1y ago
Kaitai is one of many different tools that do this, there is a list of them here: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing Personally I like GNU Poke.
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Using JavaScript in Debusine without depending on JavaScript(freexian.com)
2 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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A plea for <dialog>(bisco.org)
3 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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Oracle Vectorizes Its Customers Data(theregister.com)
2 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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Behavioural scanners in Mannheim: testing surveillance that so many cities want(netzpolitik.org)
1 points by pabs3 1y ago|0 comments
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by pabs3 1y ago
Software Heritage attempts to archive all of GitHub (not there yet) and various other code sites: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Software_Heritage
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by pabs3 1y ago
They could start with reproducible builds from the source git repos. https://reproducible-builds.org/
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by pabs3 1y ago
> having multiple sources like gem.coop is probably a safer and more robust solution I prefer the Go solution where the package manager uses the git repos instead of a separate package index that might or might not correspond to the git
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by pabs3 1y ago
The git data model isn't ideal though, it misses content-defined chunking of file content and directory entries, which leads to lots of duplicate data with large text files or directories containing large numbers of files. Newer backup
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by pabs3 1y ago
Check out this post, but its better for the health of the network for there to be a diversity of exit node providers, so its better for folks to run one themselves, especially if they are in an under-represented country, or not in the cloud
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Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser(blog.torproject.org)
111 points by pabs3 1y ago|15 comments
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by pabs3 1y ago
My point was that this situation doesn't allow for Software Freedom, since you the user cannot control the OS, its an unmodifiable blob unless you are either someone with a blessed key (like Google, or GrapheneOS devs), or are willing
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by pabs3 1y ago
The latter is still a security issue, because it means that anyone who had your device before, or was able to photograph the printed password briefly, could still have access to your device. Of course it mitigates a fair bit of the DDoS iss
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by pabs3 1y ago
One of the two processors (the ARM one) in the PinePhone modem runs a proprietary Linux distro, which can be replaced by a free distro. The code on the Hexagon processor can't be replaced yet though I think. https://themodem
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by pabs3 1y ago
OpenMoko had that more than a decade ago, there were a multitude of distros. I ran Debian with X11 and Enlightenment on it at one point. QtMoko was probably the best one for the Freerunner hardware though, much more suited to the small touc

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