Piracy of software is always moral in the face of proprietary software.
They have stolen so much from us that we have all right to revolt.
Free software and queer
Piracy of software is always moral in the face of proprietary software.
They have stolen so much from us that we have all right to revolt.
Are tankies really that big of a problem? No one worth their weight (or not chronically online) actually uncritically worships former socialist projects, the whole point is to study and preserve the nuance of what occured in former socialist projects for future socialism. Tankie is such a chronically online term that kills any discussion of former socialism whenever I see it in service of avoiding it altogether. 196 having it in its community banner screams of insecurity.
Terfs on the other hand have serious intitutional power and have actually shaped international politics in their rhetoric. A few weirdos on an online discussion webpage does not compare to an international counter revolutionary bloc of fascists who have already enacted harm. It's telling when there has already been an incident of terf-adjacent transphobia in this community than a "tankie infestation."
I've been rewatching a lot of Futurama lately so I read that last response in Dr. Zoidberg's voice and now I can't get over how well it fits.
The GOP is also the party of the chronically ill and the criminally insane. They just don't want to admit that they want China's great firewall style world wide web after wasting millions of dollars going after TikTok.
You can differentiate between GNU/Linux users and Linux users on whether they have steam installed, and differentiate further if it is installed as a flatpak or not.
Both Brave and Firefox are both weakly copylefted libre software (MPLv2). However both programs are culpable to privacy pitfalls and bad practices. Brave has its infamous crypto/ad scheme and firefox has google search as its default engine (among other opt out telemetry). Both have users run nonfree javascript by default.
Use firefox instead of Brave since firefox gives you more freedom on how hardened you want your web browser to be from a very low level. Theres also Librewolf for privacy and GNU Icecat for freedom.
Also package maintainers have firefox in their repos and virtually never have Brave
Sorry but this is tenderqueer nonsense. Geopolitical alliances made by the ruling class (when have you ever made an input on NATO?) does not equal queer liberation even if you stretch it to the farthest extreme. Shame on you for spreading ruling class propaganda as some sort of queer gotcha statement. Your "fuck tankies" just proves to me that 196 has no idea what it's talking about. You create enemies that don't even exist and then get shocked when your propaganda is cringe (and not based on reality).
Anyway, way to go "mask off."
NixOS or GNU Guix are your best options for advanced distributions. Guix is a much newer project so theres a lot of ways you can contribute.
If Lemmy.world decides to roll advertisements we'll know why at least.
Now we just need an open source steam client and they will be the literal proof that companies can contribute to GNU/Linux and still stay on top.
McCarthy era red scare and the elimination of socialist parties by Woodrow Wilson before him (among a lot of other things) contributed to US citizens having very little understanding of systems beyond capitalism. The imperial core mentality is real and we are not immune.
Read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher on this phenomenon. wikipedia page
imv as an image vieweremacs has wayland supportzathura for pdf viewingNo, its because Linus Torvalds doesn't consider libre software to be important. Torvalds sucks when it comes to free software.
GNU Hurd is an incredibly important project because there can't be just one "free software kernel."
Richard Stallman doesn't care about popularity. He already changed the world. What he does care about is people forgetting their commitment to freedom.
He doesn't give a shit if people say Linux, he does give a shit if people are "marketing" Linux without an emphasis on freedom.
Something that many have failed in.
I got so confused reading this, my brainy hurt :(
Don't even think of mentioning making games libre software or you'll get attacked for endangering people's livelihoods for "selfish fanatical ends" and forcing game devs into "a vow of poverty and piracy." It's not worth it to these people.
It's cursed to see them on 4 legs.
Finally, the punishment fits the crime /s
I can't speak for OP, but the only thing I'm thinking of is the opt-out fiasco of snap packaging and the Amazon data harvasting scandal (many years ago). Ubuntu is really just Debian unstable with Canonical's security patching and backports (as well as community ppas).
IMO Privacy isn't the right term to use here, maybe independence? If that's the case then Debian stable or a non-corporate backed distribution like Void/Solus/Arch/Gentoo may work. I'm just splitting hairs here.
Both are comparable in terms of video playback (both use hardware acceleration and ffmpeg) but mpv's appeal is that it's ultimately a minimal (as in lack of apparent GUI) command line tool rather than a fully featured application like VLC. I like mpv because of it's non-features which is why it's the backend for a lot of Desktop environment video players.
Yeah, this and the other reply was helpful. What I said wasnt constructive and I apologize. This kind of thing just gets me super edgy and I channeled it in the wrong way. Thanks.
As someone deeply immersed in libre software and the Free Software Foundation, it pains me that my conversations are likely always going to be the first time people have actually seriously thought about their software freedom. It's really difficult unwinding decades and billions of dollars of corpocratic propaganda without resorting to shock and scare tactics.
I'm still going to do it because there's nothing else better to say. :D
Because what you mentioned is ahistorical and based off reactionary history by bad actors.
Rms draws the line a GNU because GNU stands for a free operating system, which is what the GNU project is aiming towards. If this were purely a discussion about technicality, then we would be wise to let the matter drop, but that's not whats at stake here.
shouldn't I call my system Plasma/KWin/pacman/systemd/GNU/Linux?
You can, you literally can and it would be better that way to accurately describe what operating system you're running. The shortest possible name is GNU, but that would be unfair to the contribution made by the linux foundation and the fact that multiple kernel projects do exist: so the name is GNU/Linux.
His essays on the topic which are publicaly accessible from the GNU website do discuss this.
other than to stroke his own ego
Rest assured that rms does not doing this out of ego tripping. Maybe you should tease Linus Torvalds for calling his kernel linux and the ENTIRE operating system linux. Torvalds is a multimillionaire who has used an apple M1 laptop. Stallman has never budged on libre software and directs his own life by his own stated principles. Call Rms stubborn, but never call him egotistical.
None of this is directed at you btw, it's just something that always springs to mind for me whenever this topic comes up.
Please read Free Software, Free Society by Richard M Stallman so that this doesn't have to keep springing up anymore. There are very few "linux" comm members who have read the foundational literature in full so I hope you do take my advice.
A rabbit should be a mascot for a free software program, it has surprisingly not been done in my knowledge.
I agree with this one. EndeavorOS is a more featureful archinstall that has best practices configurations out of the box.
Remember when an airforce airman (Jack Teixera) leaked classified documents on a minecraft discord guild called thug shaker central to impress a bunch of teenagers?
I always think of that when the NSA thinks of posturing it's influence.
This is also a very strangely written article. It's stops being about China a third of the way through.
GNU is the name of the operating system. GNU packages like glibc and gcc can be used for an operating system. Gzip is a GNU package.
I think Vim bindings are dumb and get in the way. I will never understand the appeal of modal editing. Emacs was always the superior program since it was released by Richard Stallman in 1985.
Exactly, words that are synonyms to other words but have different linguistic backgrounds, history, and nuance should just be discarded.
Now please, help me burn these thesauruses.
Edtech is such a garbage industry filled with the worst people. Pumping schools with proprietary software and SaaSS should have been made illegal decades ago, now the students and teachers are going to really feel the consequences
I think we should all raise the minimum drinking age again :(
Tbh the solution that Sully and Mike come up is still the same system of invading another world's people and exploiting that world's youth for energy, only with added harm reduction on top that gets explained away by being more profitable. The fact that the receptionist happens to be chief of the company's militarized security force (idk if they're city cops or not, also wtf) is glossed over.
Also they just leave the yeti on the human world in the third act. Nobody comes back for him??? The guy is drinking his own piss standed in a hostile world. Its fucked up.
Edit: now that I think about it, was the Yeti a criminal in the monster world and so his punishment was to be exiled to the human world (did they fucking disappear him?) Also the present threat to the monster world is humans coming into their world (and presumably doing the same thing to them/revenge). The monster world/metropolis is a imperialist nation with a militarized police force (they brutalize/humiliate an employee in the first act when he unknowingly has contraband on him) to use the human world as a threat mechanism and source of resources for its people. Did I watch this movie too many times? Yeah probably.
Edit 2: To delve deeper on "it's just a work of fiction": Monsters Inc is a story about two everyman individuals who out the CEO of a energy firm because that CEO tried to replace all the workers with machines (in a capitalist drive for never-ending profit) and expand the imperialist system with outright war (kidnapping children). Sully is given managerial position and Mike takes sully's old job. Nothing changes from the status quo.The emotional journey of the movie is furfilled when Mike painstankingly reassembles the door to boo's house (something that movie goes out to imply that Mike acted alone with his limited knowledge). The end result is that "good people" like Sully (who was the hardest working employee before) are in positions of power and good people will inevitably be granted with positive outcomes (laughs are more energy efficient than scream by chance). Sully's good nature is rewarded in the end and the system is a better one (in a marginal way). The message the film is comfortable with is the vague protestant notion that hard work and principles will resolve systemic conflict, not agitation of already established authority or science.
In other words, the USA's supposed political ethos (The American Dream).
I don't disagree with the points brought up specifically in the video about poor management internals at Mozilla corp, but this video doesn't even scratch a major part of why FF is supported which is because Firefox will always be libre software unlike Chromium and Chrome which get hit with anti-features regularly that has to be patched out (never mind manifestv3 and web environment integrity).
Israel is an apartheid regime built on the graves of Palestinians, how could have it possibly turned fascist?! /sarcasm
POP!_OS:
GNU Guix:
Flatpak/Flathub:
POP!_OS + GNU Guix + Flathub = the most complete GNU/Linux one can get.
Not a lemmy user uncritically endorsing centralized, proprietary software. :( , be better than this please!
POP!_OS is also amazing because of System76s computer manufacturing efforts and the fact that they are building a wayland compositor desktop environment apart from GNOME and KDE which will probably have its first stable release on Ubuntu 24.04.
It's the most excited I've been for a while.
POP!_OS all the way. They ship the latest kernel and also have their own COSMIC desktop workflow. If you want the latest software use flatpak or Guix/Nix instead.
unpopular opinion.
It's news like this that makes me feel better about libre software.
The other side is depraved.
Amberol is probably one of the biggest hidden gems in GNOME apps. It's a simple easy music player whose background color changes based on the song's artwork.
Parabolic is another GNOME app for downloading videos from youtube using yt-dlp. It's super easy to use and even allows for multiple concurrent downloads.
mpv is one of those rare moments where using a proprietary implementation is objectively worse. Must install on any personal computer/mobile device.