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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:41:04 JST 
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@PurpCat Yes, the source code is released under a weak free license (but I suspect there could be possibly proprietary scripting).
Many of the maps and other media are under proprietary licenses. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:39:04 JST
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@ml mosh is not "open source" - it is free software under the GNU GPL version 3 or later.
The last commit was in 2023, but it doesn't seem to really need more work. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:36:21 JST
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@foxcat @PurpCat That is your loss, not mine (although shooting your feet with proprietary software does cause proprietary shrapnel to blast everywhere, in this case the shrapnel is minor).
Running windows or GNU/Linux on a steam deck makes little difference, as a similar amount of spying occurs and the sole purpose is to execute proprietary malware. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:32:49 JST
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@RustyCrab Are those your computers if you cannot even copy files?
Install GNU and you can just rsync any file. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:31:54 JST
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@NatureMC I am using everyday language - I am just telling you the truth, rather than hiding things from you.
Proprietary software is software that doesn't respect the 4 freedoms that the user always deserves; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
If you are not sure what a particular word means, I am happy to give more details.
There is not much difference between running windows and running a proprietary version of GNU/Linux with a bunch of microsoft spyware and/or other proprietary software from other malicious parties installed, as you lose in either case (there would only be a slight functional improvement, as GNU/Linux is less of a flaming dumpster fire than windows before you start adding proprietary software). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:26:58 JST
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@PurpCat I don't play sauer - I prefer free games with free media. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:25:14 JST
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@foxcat @PurpCat Yes, ironically Nvidia cards up to the 780 Ti work with a 100% free driver, with free peripheral software, free VBIOS init and ACPI S3.
Later nvidia cards are digitally handcuffed (the fans won't spin up unless you load proprietary software that passes a signature check), but it seems they still work if you are happy with idle clocks.
Meanwhile AMD and ATI cards do not have free VBIOS init and the only free driver available does not support 3D acceleration or ACPI S3.
There does also exist a fully free driver for Intel Integrated for the GNUbootable Thinkpads, but such integrated graphics only have so much performance (the performance was quite good at the time for a laptop GPU).
There is also a free driver for ASpeed server GPUs, but only textmode init currently exists for fully-free init. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:19:10 JST
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@PurpCat My freedom-respecting 780 Ti isn't even 18 yet. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:16:07 JST
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@PurpCat It's not a bad thing those cards are not selling, as they do only work with proprietary software and they are digitally handcuffed to stop that from being fixed with free software. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 00:12:55 JST
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@NatureMC More or less, you are being buzzwored every time you hear "Linux" and it's about some other software that's not the kernel, Linux.
Fun fact; despite being the poster child of "open source", Linux isn't even completely source-available!; https://opensource.org/osd
GNU offers a free software version of Linux - GNU Linux-libre (which also happens to qualify for "open source", but calling it "open source" would be an insult)
There is no good free system but GNU and Linux-libre is only one of its kernel's.
The GNU system has been developed since 1984 to give the users freedom in their computing, as they deserve freedom; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
Mint GNU/Linux includes a bunch of proprietary software, as that has the seemingly convenient effect of poor quality Wi-Fi cards, or GPUs operating without the user even given a chance to realize that proprietary software was installed and is executing (interestingly, when a user is given the choice of manually locating and loading a proprietary program that a Wi-Fi card needs (free software does not force proprietary software onto the user, but it does not restrict the user from choosing to load proprietary software themselves), most users just get a usb Wi-Fi card that works with free software).
The user could be given a bad choice by an offer of a free installation image (for quality hardware) and a proprietary installation image (for poor quality hardware), but proprietary distro's don't even do that (although free distro's commit to always respect the users freedom and only provide free installation images).
But really, the hardware that has such flaws is usually only limited to 802.11ac and later Wi-Fi cards, recent nvidia GPUs and AMD+ATI GPUs (ironically a fully functional free driver exists for nvidia, but not for AMD - which has the only free driver being a hacked up driver that does not do 3D acceleration) - as if you go grab the most proprietary intel system and boot Trisquel and have it plugged in via 1000BASE-T, you'll find that everything works fine.
As always with proprietary distro's, Mint offers a wide selection of malware (many proprietary software programs, for example discord contain malicious features and they are therefore malware) in their package repositories and they portray such as a feature rather than a flaw. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 23:42:09 JST
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@deprecated_ii One previous decoy in another country was to have microwaves going with the door open pointing skywards to simulate a SAM launch site (hundreds of watts of 2.4GHz skywards is similar to radar really), as million dollar missiles were used to destroy old microwaves and an extension cord. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 23:34:50 JST
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@jerry @blenderdumbass All 3 of those donation methods require running proprietary software. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 23:33:47 JST
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@blenderdumbass @jerry All good cryptocurrencies have free software wallets and nodes, thus using them doesn't require running proprietary software.
Using cryptocurrencies via proprietary software + SaaSS platform to speculate and then withdraw to fiat is using them wrong.
The localbitcoin and localmonero sites used to offer a JS-free exchange, but governments shut such freedom down.
There is also the free software Bisq2 bitcoin exchange, which is also generally free of "KYC", but most sellers charge high fees to cover the rare scamming buyer, who likes to transfer the amount, receive the bitcoin and then file a transaction dispute and claim that their account was hijacked (bitcoin transactions cannot be reversed, but bank and credit card transfers can be reversed if a dispute is filed and accepted) - there are also scamming sellers, but any seller that scams loses their reputation.
The original Bisq mitigated such problem by requiring that both parties put up some bitcoin prior to transacting and therefore scammers end up losing money - the issue is that scheme is that you need to already have bitcoin to get any bitcoin.
>Like cash, deposit checks, wire transfers, western union
All of those use computers - just not your computer. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 23:15:14 JST
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @redstarfish @verita84 I know that as I have reversed engineered software to find GPLv2-infringement.
You appear to be describing a decompilation and clean-up process (which is not really reverse engineering), which is not useful, as the result in the end is proprietary sources that doesn't have the 4 freedoms.
What requires idealism is not only doing reverse engineering of the hardware, but to also write a free replacement program for that hardware (a lone developer cannot reverse engineer the proprietary software, otherwise it is possible that a copyright claim could be made on the replacement program and thus render all that work pointless). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 22:58:04 JST
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@redstarfish @verita84 *require -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 22:49:01 JST
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@redstarfish @verita84 Reverse engineering doesn't requite idealism - it requires skill and months and years of work. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 22:35:09 JST
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@phnt @waifu >"come to my office for source" trick
That is not an option for providing source for object code distributed commercially on a physical product under the GPLv2 or GPLv3 as that does not; "give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge."
It is permissible to offer the source code from an office, but that is not an option for the only distribution method, as that does not apply to "anyone" - only the people in proximity of the office - thus a durable physical medium needs to be offered for mail delivery at no more than the delivery cost.
Or the business can just use a network server and not waste time.
"CLAs" do not abuse copyright laws (although they do abuse people) - if copyright is assigned to a party, that party can license however they would like. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 21:59:22 JST
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@phnt @waifu > It's a freedom restricting license by default.
Good one - granting the 4 freedoms and saying permission is not granted to restrict those freedoms is a restriction?
There is no "GPL", there is the GPLv1, GPLv2 & GPLv3. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 21:56:16 JST
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@NatureMC @libreoffice @Endof10 https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
There are very few versions of the kernel, Linux - I would recommend GNU Linux-libre over the proprietary version from kernel.org.
I would suggest testing out Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre with a live image to see if your hardware is of decent quality and if that goes well, you can install that; https://trisquel.info/
If you can advise what GPU and internet connection method and if Wi-Fi, which Wi-Fi card on the hardware you want to install GNU/Linux on, I'll be able to tell you if your hardware is of decent quality.
It really doesn't matter what GNU/Linux distro you install, as the main differences is the default desktop environment and package manager - which doesn't impact what GNU software you can run (and you can just change desktop environments if you want to). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 21:49:30 JST
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@alwayscurious @libreoffice @Endof10 All CPUs have vulnerabilities - it's just a question of whether they have been found yet.
Even if you go so far to buying new hardware every year, you will always have a vulnerable CPU.
The solution is to not run proprietary malware on your computer (this includes remote arbitrary code execution via JavaScript) - instead you should only run free software that serves you and you will not have any issues on any computer, no matter how old it is.
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