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   mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 21:13:55 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8_35a_DEA
   Reminder that this backdoor didn't work on fully free distros approved by the FSF because none of them allow any binary that has no source.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 22:18:45 JST 翠星石

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     @mangeurdenuage The issue was github and a release tarball that was purporting to be source code, but actually had proprietary software binaries slipped in.
     
     Free distro maintainers tend to actually check claimed source code for binaries and determine if there is source for such binaries, or if the binaries are proprietary and remove them if so.
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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 22:46:36 JST frogzone

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     @Suiseiseki @mangeurdenuage i'd be interested in watching that video if it finds its way to :peertube:PeerTube but the summary and dialogue were sufficient. Thanks.

     long live foss and wish all a very festive, foss-filled christmas

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 22:46:36 JST 翠星石

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     @frogzone >long live foss and wish all a very festive, foss-filled christmas
     I have sworn to GNU/Jihad against "FOSS" and all other forms of proprietary degeneracy.
     
     I wish all a free software filled GNUmas.
     
     Considering that xz is public domain software with source code, it is not "open source" (as for software to qualify for that, it must be licensed; https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source), but it is free software.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:28:10 JST 翠星石

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     @frogzone >(i thought "FOSS" encompassed copyleft but i may stand corrected)
     "FOSS" was only intended to be a neutral between free software and "open source", but it even fails to be neutral, as almost all people assume it means gratis, source available software.
     
     If you wish to be neutral, "FLOSS" is the term to use, but why would you want to be neutral between freedom and corporate bootlicking?; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html
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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:28:11 JST frogzone

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     @mangeurdenuage what i believe @Suiseiseki has just suggested to me is to say, "wishing a very #copyleft christmas" :awesome:

     (i thought "FOSS" encompassed copyleft but i may stand corrected)

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:29:18 JST 翠星石

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     @frogzone CAGEMAFIA?
     
     I confirm that pages work without JavaScript over Tor before posting.
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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 23:29:19 JST frogzone

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     @Suiseiseki is there a non CAGEMAFIA site with the above info?

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 12:07:27 JST frogzone

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     @Suiseiseki
     I translate FOS to free-license, open source

     and i define free-license as freedom-respecting-license, but yes, this requires two leaps

     maybe #FROSS is better....

     freedom-RESPECTING open source software?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 12:07:27 JST 翠星石

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     @frogzone The entire concept of "open source" is not about respecting freedom, so it doesn't belong there, but that could be freedom-respecting software "FRS", which is shorter too.