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   Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 12:47:43 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

   We can make #Windows11 be a better system if we can force #Microsoft to make it #FreeSoftware . Here is how:

   https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/Help_Us_Hack_The_Software_Industry

   #software #userfreedom #windows #opensource #hacking #hack #freedom

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 12:47:41 JST 翠星石

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     • GabeMoralesVR
     @GabeMoralesVR Cope.
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     GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 12:47:42 JST GabeMoralesVR

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     @blenderdumbass please use a better term than "free software" because I had an entire post made up explaining how this enables Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, until I realized you meant "open source" which is, uh, whatever. Like presumably you want people to understand what you mean, and "free software" does the EXACT OPPOSITE.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 12:58:51 JST 翠星石

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     @blenderdumbass >Linux, the kernel so associated with Free Software, was at some point proprietary.
     It was proprietary in 1991 and was relicensed to the GPLv2-ambigious in 1992.
     
     Linux was made proprietary again in 1996 via the inclusion of the first proprietary program disguised as an array of numbers.
     
     >Visual Studio Code, their text editor from Microsoft is mostly Free Software
     It's 100% proprietary, as binaries of vscode are released under a proprietary license that forbids reverse engineering.
     
     They have separately released what they claim to be the source code under MIT expat, but it probably doesn't correspond (microsoft adding malware and spyware to the binaries would explain the part that forbids reverse engineering) and you have to go to vscodium to get binaries (as good luck working out how to compile it yourself), which seems to heavily rely on proprietary plugins.
     
     >We can always tell the computer to do something ourselves.
     Unfortunately, many computers now have digital handcuffs in them that disobeys the users commands, meaning they don't execute any program the user provides.
     
     Intel processors after 2008 and AMD processors after seemingly 2015 refuse to execute free software BIOS's - they will only execute proprietary init software that passes a signature check.
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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 21:21:02 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki Can you copy paste the same comment, into the comment section in the website?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 21:21:02 JST 翠星石

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     @blenderdumbass Posted with links and details.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 22:25:46 JST 翠星石

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     @blenderdumbass You can edit it however you like to make the links work or fix the spacing etc.
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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 22:25:47 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki Can I edit it a little to make the links work? Because as of now they are just plain text. I want to just name the text "Source" and it would link to the link.

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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 15:45:54 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki http://blenderdumbass.org/articles/Help_Us_Hack_The_Software_Industry#comments

     Is this good with you?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 15:45:54 JST 翠星石

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     @blenderdumbass Looks good.