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#fsdg — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fsdg, aggregated by home.social.

  1. @atomicpoet Remember #XMPP? #Google / #Alphabet and #Facebook / #Meta / #WhatsApp once did #EmbraceExtendExtinguish against it. #XMPP is still alive by the way but many #FreeSoftware clients lack the features of #WhatsApp, specially if used in #FSDG-compliant #mobile projects such as #Replicant, in which clients don't work well due to lack of #selfie / front camera and #OpenGL to show the other person. All thanks to unregulated technological progress.

    #Android

  2. @atomicpoet Remember #XMPP? #Google / #Alphabet and #Facebook / #Meta / #WhatsApp once did #EmbraceExtendExtinguish against it. #XMPP is still alive by the way but many #FreeSoftware clients lack the features of #WhatsApp, specially if used in #FSDG-compliant #mobile projects such as #Replicant, in which clients don't work well due to lack of #selfie / front camera and #OpenGL to show the other person. All thanks to unregulated technological progress.

    #Android

  3. @nicemicro en: another one I heard, targeted against activists and distributions that follow the #GNU #FSDG is "this is oppression since you are blocking the installation of non-free software", which is false because they just don't… a) teach; b) install to others; c) recommend; d) foster; e) make it convenient. But, you can still install stuff manually. Blocking is actually a bug, like the one #LinuxLibre has, which is caused by how #Linux is made.

  4. @nicemicro en: another one I heard, targeted against activists and distributions that follow the #GNU #FSDG is "this is oppression since you are blocking the installation of non-free software", which is false because they just don't… a) teach; b) install to others; c) recommend; d) foster; e) make it convenient. But, you can still install stuff manually. Blocking is actually a bug, like the one #LinuxLibre has, which is caused by how #Linux is made.

  5. @nicemicro en: another one I heard, targeted against activists and distributions that follow the #GNU #FSDG is "this is oppression since you are blocking the installation of non-free software", which is false because they just don't… a) teach; b) install to others; c) recommend; d) foster; e) make it convenient. But, you can still install stuff manually. Blocking is actually a bug, like the one #LinuxLibre has, which is caused by how #Linux is made.

  6. @nicemicro en: another one I heard, targeted against activists and distributions that follow the #GNU #FSDG is "this is oppression since you are blocking the installation of non-free software", which is false because they just don't… a) teach; b) install to others; c) recommend; d) foster; e) make it convenient. But, you can still install stuff manually. Blocking is actually a bug, like the one #LinuxLibre has, which is caused by how #Linux is made.

  7. Today, I installed #PureOS for the first time. They only release a 64-bit version that follows the #GNU #FSDG (Free System Distribution Guidelines) so I've been waiting to own a 64-bit PC that doesn't need any proprietary blobs. Overall, the install experience was good, although IMHO the "password" advice is well out-of-date. There are a number of features I like, that the default Trisquel desktop doesn't have, like the #NightLight feature. I've been looking for something like that for a while.

  8. Today, I installed #PureOS for the first time. They only release a 64-bit version that follows the #GNU #FSDG (Free System Distribution Guidelines) so I've been waiting to own a 64-bit PC that doesn't need any proprietary blobs. Overall, the install experience was good, although IMHO the "password" advice is well out-of-date. There are a number of features I like, that the default Trisquel desktop doesn't have, like the #NightLight feature. I've been looking for something like that for a while.