Notices by w96k (w96k@fosstodon.org)

@civodul grats. Sadly I'm not contributing, but I find guix as the best currently available libre gnu distribution. And as the time pass it becomes better and better.

Hey, I realized it’s been 12 years of #Guix today! 🎉

@rms that's why the safest tactic for ru immigrants to stay quiet at social media. In Russia you can be jailed for 5-10 years for words, and jails are not as comfortable as they might be in Europe. US, EU people might think that ru citizens deserve their government, but it's not the case, majority of the people just want to be safe, because censorship went strong enough. Russia can literally get you in foreign countries, they will claim you as a terrorist for posting something online.

Are dependencies here in this room right now?

(image done by @avp)
((golang packaging sucks))

Spring refuses to accept an MR done by Russian guy:

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62200

I think it will happen much more often, I've seen it happening with Iranians and Chinese on github before. My overall recommendation, don't stick with only one vendor, use community-driven tools like gnu.org. Not sure that it is impossible to happen in gnuland, the thing is if the code is not attached to one specific company, you are probably fine. I hope GNU and Free Software in general has higher standards.

mpv "https://youtube.com/watch?v=_2qXIDO-cWw"

or https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_2qXIDO-cWw

mpv "https://youtube.com/watch?v=YtxEOX3WwcM"

@kakafarm they invent org-mode but worse.

@civodul

@lxo

Not so related to your post, but I stopped to like fediverse idea, because client-server architecture. It looks to me like fedi is more about internet feudalism than connecting people. It's often no difference if you grant your data to commerce guys or random guys on the internet, anyway someone controls your data and can ban you, do whatever admins want. The idea of fediblock is wrong to me, because it abuses such admin power (even if it does it in a "good" way). P2P is better.

Support Andrew Tropin work on GNU Guix and Guile ecosystems, that brings more user freedoms to users:

https://opencollective.com/rde
https://trop.in/support

Andrew makes user-friendly guix distribution called RDE and improves GNU Guile tooling. Sure that there are more projects to come in a future.

(I made this post to pin it in my profile)

@a1ba "probably", they are not sure

@lxo I agree and share GPL values, but I just doubt the thought that it is a good idea to fight copyright with power of copyright in general. After some years of learning free software I kinda started to like the idea, that if you want to abolish copyright you don't need to be part of it, that's why I've started considering using CC-0 or moving software to public domain. I don't develop my own software for now, but if I would do it, I would consider between gpl and cc-0.

@DrewNaylor I'm somewhat in between, because I like what GPL tries to achive, but I don't like copyright in general, so why not try to exit it using CC-0 license or something like that. So I would like to release everything as Public Domain tbh even tho companies can use my code for making profits (but my code is useless anyway).

The sad part is that gpl is not really saving your code from using by companies, so it is sad to conclude that defending user freedoms by copyright works not so well.

@lxo thanks to gnu, that everyone including me can do programming without assigning to company vendors which provided proprietary compilers back in a day. Using GNU+Linux for 10+ years, I even had GNU+Linux at my school in Russia and we had a Linux Journal translated to Russian. For 3+ years I use FSF endorsed distribution Guix using only libre software on my thinkpad x200t for my personal computing.

Пришёл ноутбук из ремонта (Thinkpad P1 Gen 4, Intel Graphics). Если кому нужен в тбилиси, то могу продать.

Продам за 3000 GEL.

Поменяли материнку в официальном сервисе, полностью рабочий без нареканий. Продаю из-за того, что я уже купил десктопный компьютер и хочу использовать только его, для поездок есть дешевый ноутбук.

Ноут сертифицирован для работы с Ubuntu и Fedora, но для работы нужны блобы как на многих ноутах.

Покупал здесь:
https://zoommer.ge/lenovo-thinkpad-p1-gen-4-20y3s07h00-black

@rf #Тбилиси #Tbilisi

Использовал месяца три, даже толком его не таскал никуда.

В РФ этот же ноутбук, но с видеокартой nvidia стоит каких-то неадекватных денег. И его нигде уже в налачии не осталось. Хз почему так :)

У меня на Intel Graphics более холодный и дешевле соответственно.

@rml do you have any link that there was a harassment. I've never seen that, but I don't read mailing lists often these days

@csepp @technomancy @lunabee

Btw GNU Social written in Symfony looks like a dead project :(

If Debian will include non-free blobs in their default installer, there would be no difference which distro to use Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu and so on.

https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003

For me Debian was a compromise between proprietary world and free world. I have used mostly free software there. That was a selling point for me. If I want more blobs, I would choose different distribution, they are kinda all the same.

I think for now my favorite blobs-included gnu/linux distro is Slackware.