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by pksadiq 9y ago
Open sourcing the PSP code (or probably any other firmware) may not help protect you (or anyone) in terms of security or privacy. Here is where open source is different from free software, and this is why free software is better than open s
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by pksadiq 9y ago
Hope, the design would be good. The issue I have faced so far is that the navigation (and several other features of GitLab site) doesn't work well when javascript is turned off. The equivalent features in Github works without javascrip
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Weren't you free to choose the words you wrote in your reply? I was thinking the same. If we have no free will, what made us think that we don't have free will? Because we don't have free will, the thought on "not h
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by pksadiq 9y ago
- HEADLINE: Try to include gtk4 in Debian 10 GNU/Linux - DESCRIPTION: It would be nice if Debian testing freeze is delayed until an enough stable version of gtk4 is included in testing (and thus eventually in next stable).
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by pksadiq 9y ago
ptype 'a' is still char when the language is c? (it should be int in C and char in C++). Also, "ptype TEST" is still int for SIZE macro in the following code fragment? // Compile with gcc -g3 filename.c #
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by pksadiq 9y ago
Hm.. So a simple javascript that loads the image from specified path would hang M$ windows? Applicable to html emails too in some mail client? We need to find more astonishing ways to hang the windows. Cement and sand should not be the only
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Yeah I keep location services turned off most of the time. Even if your location services, wifi and bt are off, they occasionally turns on to get your location. In Lineage OS there is an additional setting to not use wifi (when it is o
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by pksadiq 9y ago
Did these happenings had any effect on windows market share? Hope somebody will blog on that too. I hope many people have understood to not have public windows servers at least. It could most probably affect their business in the long run (
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Free software can be closed source... Eh, Never. Not even for open source. Once the source is closed, it is no longer open source (and neither free software). For a software to be open source, the user should have a way to obtain the s
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Is Ford required to repair my car indefinitely..? Never. But it would be wrong for Ford to stop others to fix your car by providing no information about the car, which I believe is what Microsoft is doing with their obsolete Software p
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> ... are good examples how much safer open source actually is. Sorry, open source never equals free software (most of the time). Though what you said may be true for both. And some day, we will surely know why free software is better
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> The GPL derives its enforcability from the same principle EULA's do. No. A user is not required to agree with GNU GPL license terms to merely install and use some software licensed under GNU GPL. GPL comes into scene only when som
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> changing my passwords every 30 days is looking less and less important. Using some non-English Unicode text as password will make the password really strong. I sometimes include Malayalam text for passwords as it's my native langu
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> As a US citizen, and given how things like 9/11 were funded, this is exactly what I want NSA to be doing. This is thier job. Do you know what 9/11 really is (the intentions, terrorist involvements, etc)? Never. Neither do I.
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by pksadiq 10y ago
I believe that free software advocates are more likely to last long than open source ones (ie, they don't get bored speaking software freedom, and less tolerant to non-free things). Most open source people are okay with using a few (or
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by pksadiq 10y ago
Can anybody share a complete set of images (from every angle) of electronic voting machine used in India. How many ports does it have (USB?, UART (RS232)?, any other?). Its working details, etc?
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by pksadiq 10y ago
Hi. An off topic. In page https://about.gitlab.com/products/#comparison it says "Community and support forums only" which is applicable only to "Community Edition". It may better be titled as "
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by pksadiq 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Improve GNOME shell for less memory usage - DESCRIPTION: I hope that ubuntu shall be using GNOME shell (with ubuntu specific changes) as noted in the blog[0]. Right now GNOME shell is using around 100-20
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by pksadiq 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Any - HEADLINE: Do changes in upstream when possible - DESCRIPTION: Whenever possible, please make the changes in upstream, rather than keeping ubuntu specific patches (except for ubuntu specific features). As notified in t
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> I don't think it is possible to be Open Source without being Free Software, and vice versa. It is a bit tricky here. Based on the situation, the same software can be some times be open source AND free software, or open source only
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> I think it's a combination of largely unrelated historical trends ... Some of the facts are still true. Say for example, Qt is now licensed under LGPLv3, which several corporate hate. GTK+ is licensed under LGPLv2.1+.
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by pksadiq 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Any (preferred this to be in upstream Debian) - HEADLINE: binary diff updates for apt-get. - DESCRIPTION: I have seen Fedora updates as binary diffs. It is very small, uses less bandwidth and space, and gets installed faste
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by pksadiq 10y ago
The m4 macros (autoreconf) and ./configure is too slow when it can be not. Of course './configure -C' may speed up running it a bit. Still not fast enough. I really feel a need for something like AC_TRUST_HOST or AC_TRUS
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> not at all true.. not being able to easily modify the binaries on your router is not the same as modifying the code which they distributed to you.. > it is a license for the source code - not the runtime application of the source co
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> Further, there is potential for the patent indemnity clause to make litigation murky - for example, if a patent is covered by this license, but a user further expands the code in an 'infringing' capacity, or infringes elsewhe
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> I like the MIT/BSD licenses. Short, clear, understandable. We might think short lines are clear and understandable and the best. But that is just for us. When it comes to law(yers), it might be interpreted in extremely insane ways
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> If it's an "AND" (as your question suggests), the most restrictive would apply Please note that it is not possible to do this with some License X and GNU [LA]GPL. Because it is an additional restriction which is not allo
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> say I'm releasing a document that say it's gpl v4 and assign all ownership to me. or the FSF goes corrupt. That would be a voilation of GNU GPLv3 itself (by FSF which is legally wrong). Such a GPL v4 license won't be con
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> However the OSI didn't approve it and don't recommend it, mainly because it explicitly does not cover patent rights That was not the reason. If so, [L]GPLv2, MIT or several other licenses won't be accepted by OSI. The is
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> In most cases (vast majority?), Open Source software (as defined by the OSI) is also Free (as defined by the FSF). It is a bit tricky here. Based on the situation, the same software can be some times be open source AND free software, o

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