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| schestowitz | Richard Stallman wrote on 31/12/2019 00:41:> > I understand. I will try not to bring those up anymore. | Dec 31 00:49 |
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| schestowitz | > Thank you. | Dec 31 00:50 |
| schestowitz | I just want to say again, thank you for the hard work and your lifelong activism for software freedom. If sometimes I may say something you disagree with, it's likely because I try to be realistic. Moreover, no two individuals will agree on everything 100% of the time. That's inevitable. | Dec 31 00:50 |
| schestowitz | On a positive note, Free software is nowadays used everywhere, it's just not being called that and it has been leveraged as a low-cost 'cushion' for DRM, surveillance, militarism etc. Think companies like FB and Netflix (GNU at their back ends). | Dec 31 00:50 |
| schestowitz | I think it's up to us to somehow guide it towards ethical uses, without imposing how it's used, and that is perhaps a future challenge for the movement. It's a monumental one because politics can be a massive terrain. See what Canta from Argentina says this week: http://techrights.org/2019/12/29/freedoms-and-rights/ | Dec 31 00:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Guest Article: On Freedoms and Rights, Regarding Some Recent Events Around Free Software | Techrights | Dec 31 00:50 | |
| schestowitz | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-question-of-priorities-2019-boards-of.html?showComment=1577720374586#c1143718975391408200 | Dec 31 02:29 |
| schestowitz | Thank you MaxDrei for your kind comments. For the avoidance of doubt, the Kats blog in their own time with their own resources! All views expressed are my own and do not represent those of my employer. Happy New Year!"" | Dec 31 02:29 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | A Question of Priorities: 2019 Boards of Appeal Year in Review - The IPKat | Dec 31 02:29 | |
| schestowitz | > Clownflare has been blocking ITWire for so long that I can't remember | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | > when I last read something there. I will soon, probably this week, | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | > remove ITWire from the sites I check on if they don't resolve their problem. | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | It started about 2 years ago. They won't go back... | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | > Oh, well. | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | > Here's the final batch for the year and for the 2010's as well. | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | Just in time; I needed links (my RSS feeds are at 0 right now). | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | You're mentioned implicitly in | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/132317 | Dec 31 04:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | The End of Tux Machines' Strongest Year | Tux Machines | Dec 31 04:12 | |
| schestowitz | Also published a minute ago (partly in response to Christine Hall): | Dec 31 04:12 |
| schestowitz | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/13231 | Dec 31 04:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Where Can SUSE Linux Be Used? | Tux Machines | Dec 31 04:12 | |
| schestowitz | the second link I said was wrong (cut). It's http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/132319 | Dec 31 04:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Why Tux Machines Occasionally Adds Editorial Comments | Tux Machines | Dec 31 04:15 | |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/McMcgregory/status/1211967321167843333 | Dec 31 11:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@McMcgregory: @schestowitz: The criminals from #microsoft decided that they cannot beat #gnu #linux so Richard and Linus need to be removed/silenced,… | Dec 31 11:21 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/nanotek911/status/1211961667514445831 | Dec 31 11:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@nanotek911: @DevuanOrg @schestowitz Otherwise, this all makes sense once you put #systemd into the context of the @Gartner_inc #hype cycle. | Dec 31 11:21 | |
| schestowitz | containers RIP (and Docker) | Dec 31 11:21 |
| social_log | https://twitter.com/nanotek911/status/1211961446369832962 | Dec 31 11:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@nanotek911: @DevuanOrg @schestowitz Just be sure that you re-enable autospawning for pulseaudio when using libelogind0/libpam-e… https://t.co/9fganWGYAC | Dec 31 11:23 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@nanotek911: @DevuanOrg @schestowitz Just be sure that you re-enable autospawning for pulseaudio when using libelogind0/libpam-e… https://t.co/9fganWGYAC | Dec 31 11:23 | |
| social_log | " | Dec 31 11:23 |
| social_log | Just be sure that you re-enable autospawning for pulseaudio when using libelogind0/libpam-elogind-compat if you use it for desktop. :P" | Dec 31 11:23 |
| social_log | to be fair, pulseaudio gave me loads of problem a decade ago, but years later no more issues at all... | Dec 31 11:24 |
| schestowitz | https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/site-discussion/1147416-after-3-600-original-articles-this-year-on-linux-open-source-let-s-have-a-holiday-special/page2 | Dec 31 16:16 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 31 16:16 |
| schestowitz | If you're worried that a *small, very limited* allow list will really harm your privacy, then you should care enough to better educate yourself about what tools are available to you and how you can use them, rather than just copping out and considering that an adequate response to every scenario, even when a site that you care about is suffering for it and a VERY SMALL amount of effort on your part would allow both sides to come out on top. ( | Dec 31 16:16 |
| schestowitz | To be clear, that's "You" and "Michael" - the industrial ad complex can go f**k themselves :P). | Dec 31 16:16 |
| schestowitz | Yes, it's a pain in ass to do it, but it should only take you a few minutes and you get more than that much value out of the site, I'm sure. | Dec 31 16:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.phoronix.com | After 3,600 Original Articles This Year On Linux/Open-Source, Let's Have A Holiday Special - Phoronix Forums | Dec 31 16:16 | |
| schestowitz | Yes, you DO have a genuine right to be concerned, and to object to the morally-bankrupt determination to grab what SHOULD be your personal information and nobody else's business. | Dec 31 16:16 |
| schestowitz | But it's not an all-or-nothing game, and being upset (however understandably) by the ad industry's practices to use those as an excuse to just block everything is LAZY. We are TECHNICAL people, dammit! If we can spend hours getting GPU Passthrough working on our patched kernels running on our custom-built PCs, how do we justify just going "meh, can't be bothered" to spending 5 minutes allowing a domain to show you an ad that unless you | Dec 31 16:16 |
| schestowitz | actually click on it will gather none of your precious secrets and not leave a trace on your machine tomorrow? THAT'S the part I'm objecting to. | Dec 31 16:16 |
| schestowitz | Besides, the way I see it, it's MUCH better - and certainly much more satisfying :P - to have those assholes pay Michael but still get none of my data that they were hoping for than it is to just block them out entirely. And THAT is a fair and equitable arrangement: they get to show me an ad - and THAT'S ALL, and they pay Michael for the opportunity to do so, and I get to read the site for free. We ALL win. Your current position though is | Dec 31 16:17 |
| schestowitz | simply "Screw everyone else, I'm getting mine and you can all suck it". Which, yeah, I'm fine with wrt to the advertisers, but is very much not cool wrt Michael. | Dec 31 16:17 |
| schestowitz | So, what do you say - are you willing to fix your browser setup and help him out? AND get the added bonuses of Moral High Ground (+1) and Outsmarting The Assholes (+3)? Come on, you know you want at least that second one... :P | Dec 31 16:17 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 31 16:17 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Flavia0847/status/1212063436726833152 | Dec 31 17:59 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Flavia0847: @schestowitz What kind of issues? | Dec 31 17:59 | |
| schestowitz | turned out to be totally unrelated glitch, or maybe upstream | Dec 31 17:59 |
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| social_log | https://pleroma.site/notice/9qWNg4bXCoSkeH5WbY | Dec 31 18:17 |
| social_log | ""Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, told CNBC that 10,000 lines of code are added to Linux every day. "It is by far the highest-velocity, the most effective software development process in the history of computing... As the idea of sharing technology and collaborating collectively expands, we're moving into open hardware initiatives, data-sharing initiatives. And that's really going to be the future. | Dec 31 18:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Dec 31 18:17 | |
| social_log | Some of it is, but they call it by other acronyms | Dec 31 18:17 |
| schestowitz | """Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, told CNBC that 10,000 lines of code are added to Linux every day. "It is by far the highest-velocity, the most effective software development process in the history of computing... As the idea of sharing technology and collaborating collectively expands, we're moving into open hardware initiatives, data-sharing initiatives. And that's really going to be the future..." --> I hope it' | Dec 31 18:17 |
| schestowitz | s not all DRM code!!!!"" | Dec 31 18:18 |
| social_log | https://pleroma.site/notice/9qWTolTqHFnbfS1A24 | Dec 31 18:18 |
| social_log | "are there laws against that? Since Gates is a civilian, not a political figure?" | Dec 31 18:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Dec 31 18:18 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9qWVWx4edJkUJws0rQ | Dec 31 18:19 |
| schestowitz | "z who is he? Was he the next in line?" | Dec 31 18:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Dec 31 18:19 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9qWVvJzb4gVsLp7oG0 | Dec 31 18:19 |
| schestowitz | "I used to use Windows, but switched to Linux about a year ago. Whonix was my inspiration to switch!" | Dec 31 18:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Dec 31 18:19 | |
| schestowitz | Much of the below can be rewritten by you into an article form, I think. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | >> Perhaps it would be better to use some other word than "modularized", since that suggests other meanings. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > im not willing to throw out a word that fits for one that doesnt exist, but if you know of a better word im happy to try it out. ive spent years making fun of "open source" people for saying "free" is confusing when they like "apple" computers. isnt "apple computer" confusing because its also a fruit? its a silly, dishonest nitpick of theirs. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | >> I see this as a matter of system design rather than freedom. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > can it be both? i respect the empirical nature with which you constructed the four freedoms, and id prefer to do the same. however, i do not consider this only a practical matter. this is a difference of philosophies. i think of freedom as something that is not usually as simple as the free software definition. the fsd is very good, very solid-- i wouldnt want to put a dent in that. id like to bolster it without some kind of wave | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | cancellation effect from a poorly constructed freedom. im quite wary of creating side effects. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | >> I think it would be a category error to include questions of design in the definition of freedom. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > tivoisation involved a technical design that circumvented freedom. as a result, the gpl itself had to be patched. i think the gpl is well-written enough that finding a practical loophole should be rare, but it is obviously not impossible. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > having source code is a technical matter as well. should it really matter to freedom whether the program is compiled, or not compiled? you and i both know it matters, though someone could say its "more a technical matter than a freedom one." if thats right or wrong, source code is in the definition because it matters to freedom anyway. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > the fifth freedom (to NOT run the software-- without it impacting nearly the entire system and more all the time) really only comes into effect when someone uses a lack of modularity to attack freedom itself. it makes explicit, something that i think was implicitly supporting free software for as long as the fsd has existed. that support is whats missing. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | >> What about GNU Shepherd? Can you use that instead of sysyemD? | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > in 2014 i was creating a curriculum for refurbishing computers with free software. i had all the tools i needed. because of these attacks, i dont have enough tools to create a system as usable as before-- even after five years. i was creating this to promote free software. i had to drop that plan because it was no longer feasible. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > empirically, i think these are separate things to you. to me, theyre not separate. the fact that we had those tools bolstered free software, they made it possible to promote free software to people we couldnt reach otherwise. how is attacking the number of free-as-in-freedom tools i already have with design, fundamentally different than doing it with bogus patents? | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > the fsd is a steel door that no one is penetrating, but for half a decade attackers have found a spot near the door they can get past. its one thing to not have a perfect system, its another to lose more and more functionality (and control) of your free system-- due to a deliberate attack. i seek a fifth freedom, or some other solution, that will not weaken the steel door but strengthen the walls. i can say with confidence, gnu shepherd is | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | nice software, but this has nothing to do with init systems. gnu shepherd will not stop this ongoing, increasingly broad attack that goes far beyond init. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > gnu shepherd does not address this; most of the things this additional freedom says do address it. id drop those for something that does the job just as well. but what is there? when patents are used to attack free software, we look for workarounds in the software as a bandaid measure (can you use xsane instead of eye of gnome?) **but** we dont pretend that patents arent the bigger problem. | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:27 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Librethreat_Database#GNOME | Dec 31 18:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:28 |
| schestowitz | > feel free to add your name under "disputed by" or take any other action you deem necessary. | Dec 31 18:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 31 18:28 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Librethreat Database - Techrights | Dec 31 18:28 | |
| schestowitz | > 10 years of war against their own supporters is enough, its time to bring this home. its not so much my intent to act unilaterally as to say what needs to be said. its my edit, you can revert it. feel free to advise. why should they be immune just because they have lied all this time? saudi arabia is an ally too-- are we going to stick with that story? | Dec 31 18:28 |
| schestowitz | The record/history is changes shows that those are not my positions, so it's fine as is. | Dec 31 18:28 |
| schestowitz | > *Well, I realize it’s not Rxxxxx but since I sent Rianne a New | Dec 31 19:09 |
| schestowitz | > Year's greeting, I thought I should not leave you | Dec 31 19:09 |
| schestowitz | > out in the cold. Gut Gesakt, mein boyalah?* | Dec 31 19:09 |
| schestowitz | :-) | Dec 31 19:09 |
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