#nonfree — Public Fediverse posts
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@hardtech hi here #debian #inofficial #support #team: tried plugin the #LAN cable before setup?
make sure the box is LAN connected to a #dhcp #internet enabled #router (it is kind of the requirement for a #debian #setup no one talks about X-D)
if that also does not work it means there are no drivers for #LAN or #WIFI card :(
try to get #nonfree iso or try 1:1 copy this #debian13 iso on a "known-to-be-bootable" #usbstick with the text installer https://dwaves.de/2025/07/11/how-to-install-gnu-linux-debian-13-updated-2025-11/
what #desktop?
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@carikrp
Para empezar todo esto suena muy bien. Y muy bien tu descripcion, asi se puede colaborar!El tema de velocidad puede tener varias razones:
* Velocidad\calidad del pendrive
En lo personal tengo aqui un que es #ScanDisk y todo de plastico, la primera ves que veo un #USB asi. No tiene como oxidarse, es demas.* Integridad del entchufe USB \ si ahy varios, proba otro
En general seria preciso saber cuanto "apuro" tenes. Pregunto porque si estas con animo de aprender bien y una ves por todas, podemos dar algunas vueltas extras que en todo caso haran que afirmes y comprendas mejor lo que estas haciendo.
Ejemplo:
No se cual es la opinion de @soldan respecto a #linuxMint y #ubuntuStudio [2022.04lts]. En lo personal, mas alla de que soy muy puritano y en realidad soy hincha de debian puro con #LXQT o #XFCE porque son las opciones mas rapidas e simplicitas, decidi de ir por ubuntuStudio [2022.04lts] y estoy trabajando en "tutoriales" documentando mientras hago y descubro aqui. #Mint es #Debian y #ubuntu tambien, son simplemente variaciones. La ventaja de usar todos exactamente la misma version es de que uno ve lo mismo que el otro y sabe con mas facilidad que y como ayudar.Si estas con animo de probar dicha version, podrias simplemente volver a instalar esa version, el enlace de descarga deberia estar aqui mas arriba, y asi de paso reafirmas el paso de crear un USB. Dicha repeticion te afirma lo aprendido y ya te queda bastante claro "para siempre".
Probando dicha otra version podemos ademas comparar si funciona mejor o peor en tus maquinas. Por cierto, seria bueno saber exactamente los modelos de compu #win10 y latptop #win7 que usas, incluso RAM y eso, queda como referencia y se puede buscar en la red si ay informacion sobre problemas con dicho hardware.En si me parece por el momento que no es buena idea de poner #Linux en tu laptop fijo ya que #autoCad es fundamental para ti y no te conviene por el momento de complicarte con eso. Es muy posible que con un buen #pendrive veloz encontremos la version ideal de linux para que lo uses desde USB para internet y comunicacion y mantengas tu espacio de productividad de trabajo win7 bien protegido de amenazas desde el internet.
Trabajas en tu ambiente acostumbrado de produccion, reinicias al USB, usas Internet, mandas mail, tenes accesso a todos tus documentos de la instalacion de windows y dormis retranquila. De paso, cuando estas trabajando diseñando, no te distrae el internet, eso no mas vale oro.
Si queres probar una instalacion compartida, hacelo primero en la compu, no el laptop. Una opcion ideal es conseguirte un segundo disco duro. Puede ser chico, lo que implica que es barrato porque lo conseguis usado. Con un disco duro de 40 giga te supersobra y discos tan chicos siquiera lo conseguis me supongo por lo viejo que son.
No intentes de probar todo, y todo ya .. mejor proponete todos los dias una o dos horas conociendo y comprendiendo linux y lo que estamos haciendo ahora. Es muy probable por ejemplo que lo mejor para tu laptop es una instalacion debian #oldStable #nonFree LXQT o XFCE, mientras para la compu quizas un ubuntuStudio old stable que te permite incluso ir avanzando hacia produccion con alternativas para autocad o al menos edicion de Imagen e Video.
Para empezar el paso inicial mas importante ya lo hiciste, lograste crear el USB, te arranca y viste como es mas o menos.
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@carikrp
Para empezar todo esto suena muy bien. Y muy bien tu descripcion, asi se puede colaborar!El tema de velocidad puede tener varias razones:
* Velocidad\calidad del pendrive
En lo personal tengo aqui un que es #ScanDisk y todo de plastico, la primera ves que veo un #USB asi. No tiene como oxidarse, es demas.* Integridad del entchufe USB \ si ahy varios, proba otro
En general seria preciso saber cuanto "apuro" tenes. Pregunto porque si estas con animo de aprender bien y una ves por todas, podemos dar algunas vueltas extras que en todo caso haran que afirmes y comprendas mejor lo que estas haciendo.
Ejemplo:
No se cual es la opinion de @soldan respecto a #linuxMint y #ubuntuStudio [2022.04lts]. En lo personal, mas alla de que soy muy puritano y en realidad soy hincha de debian puro con #LXQT o #XFCE porque son las opciones mas rapidas e simplicitas, decidi de ir por ubuntuStudio [2022.04lts] y estoy trabajando en "tutoriales" documentando mientras hago y descubro aqui. #Mint es #Debian y #ubuntu tambien, son simplemente variaciones. La ventaja de usar todos exactamente la misma version es de que uno ve lo mismo que el otro y sabe con mas facilidad que y como ayudar.Si estas con animo de probar dicha version, podrias simplemente volver a instalar esa version, el enlace de descarga deberia estar aqui mas arriba, y asi de paso reafirmas el paso de crear un USB. Dicha repeticion te afirma lo aprendido y ya te queda bastante claro "para siempre".
Probando dicha otra version podemos ademas comparar si funciona mejor o peor en tus maquinas. Por cierto, seria bueno saber exactamente los modelos de compu #win10 y latptop #win7 que usas, incluso RAM y eso, queda como referencia y se puede buscar en la red si ay informacion sobre problemas con dicho hardware.En si me parece por el momento que no es buena idea de poner #Linux en tu laptop fijo ya que #autoCad es fundamental para ti y no te conviene por el momento de complicarte con eso. Es muy posible que con un buen #pendrive veloz encontremos la version ideal de linux para que lo uses desde USB para internet y comunicacion y mantengas tu espacio de productividad de trabajo win7 bien protegido de amenazas desde el internet.
Trabajas en tu ambiente acostumbrado de produccion, reinicias al USB, usas Internet, mandas mail, tenes accesso a todos tus documentos de la instalacion de windows y dormis retranquila. De paso, cuando estas trabajando diseñando, no te distrae el internet, eso no mas vale oro.
Si queres probar una instalacion compartida, hacelo primero en la compu, no el laptop. Una opcion ideal es conseguirte un segundo disco duro. Puede ser chico, lo que implica que es barrato porque lo conseguis usado. Con un disco duro de 40 giga te supersobra y discos tan chicos siquiera lo conseguis me supongo por lo viejo que son.
No intentes de probar todo, y todo ya .. mejor proponete todos los dias una o dos horas conociendo y comprendiendo linux y lo que estamos haciendo ahora. Es muy probable por ejemplo que lo mejor para tu laptop es una instalacion debian #oldStable #nonFree LXQT o XFCE, mientras para la compu quizas un ubuntuStudio old stable que te permite incluso ir avanzando hacia produccion con alternativas para autocad o al menos edicion de Imagen e Video.
Para empezar el paso inicial mas importante ya lo hiciste, lograste crear el USB, te arranca y viste como es mas o menos.
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@carikrp
Para empezar todo esto suena muy bien. Y muy bien tu descripcion, asi se puede colaborar!El tema de velocidad puede tener varias razones:
* Velocidad\calidad del pendrive
En lo personal tengo aqui un que es #ScanDisk y todo de plastico, la primera ves que veo un #USB asi. No tiene como oxidarse, es demas.* Integridad del entchufe USB \ si ahy varios, proba otro
En general seria preciso saber cuanto "apuro" tenes. Pregunto porque si estas con animo de aprender bien y una ves por todas, podemos dar algunas vueltas extras que en todo caso haran que afirmes y comprendas mejor lo que estas haciendo.
Ejemplo:
No se cual es la opinion de @soldan respecto a #linuxMint y #ubuntuStudio [2022.04lts]. En lo personal, mas alla de que soy muy puritano y en realidad soy hincha de debian puro con #LXQT o #XFCE porque son las opciones mas rapidas e simplicitas, decidi de ir por ubuntuStudio [2022.04lts] y estoy trabajando en "tutoriales" documentando mientras hago y descubro aqui. #Mint es #Debian y #ubuntu tambien, son simplemente variaciones. La ventaja de usar todos exactamente la misma version es de que uno ve lo mismo que el otro y sabe con mas facilidad que y como ayudar.Si estas con animo de probar dicha version, podrias simplemente volver a instalar esa version, el enlace de descarga deberia estar aqui mas arriba, y asi de paso reafirmas el paso de crear un USB. Dicha repeticion te afirma lo aprendido y ya te queda bastante claro "para siempre".
Probando dicha otra version podemos ademas comparar si funciona mejor o peor en tus maquinas. Por cierto, seria bueno saber exactamente los modelos de compu #win10 y latptop #win7 que usas, incluso RAM y eso, queda como referencia y se puede buscar en la red si ay informacion sobre problemas con dicho hardware.En si me parece por el momento que no es buena idea de poner #Linux en tu laptop fijo ya que #autoCad es fundamental para ti y no te conviene por el momento de complicarte con eso. Es muy posible que con un buen #pendrive veloz encontremos la version ideal de linux para que lo uses desde USB para internet y comunicacion y mantengas tu espacio de productividad de trabajo win7 bien protegido de amenazas desde el internet.
Trabajas en tu ambiente acostumbrado de produccion, reinicias al USB, usas Internet, mandas mail, tenes accesso a todos tus documentos de la instalacion de windows y dormis retranquila. De paso, cuando estas trabajando diseñando, no te distrae el internet, eso no mas vale oro.
Si queres probar una instalacion compartida, hacelo primero en la compu, no el laptop. Una opcion ideal es conseguirte un segundo disco duro. Puede ser chico, lo que implica que es barrato porque lo conseguis usado. Con un disco duro de 40 giga te supersobra y discos tan chicos siquiera lo conseguis me supongo por lo viejo que son.
No intentes de probar todo, y todo ya .. mejor proponete todos los dias una o dos horas conociendo y comprendiendo linux y lo que estamos haciendo ahora. Es muy probable por ejemplo que lo mejor para tu laptop es una instalacion debian #oldStable #nonFree LXQT o XFCE, mientras para la compu quizas un ubuntuStudio old stable que te permite incluso ir avanzando hacia produccion con alternativas para autocad o al menos edicion de Imagen e Video.
Para empezar el paso inicial mas importante ya lo hiciste, lograste crear el USB, te arranca y viste como es mas o menos.
🙂 -
@carikrp
Para empezar todo esto suena muy bien. Y muy bien tu descripcion, asi se puede colaborar!El tema de velocidad puede tener varias razones:
* Velocidad\calidad del pendrive
En lo personal tengo aqui un que es #ScanDisk y todo de plastico, la primera ves que veo un #USB asi. No tiene como oxidarse, es demas.* Integridad del entchufe USB \ si ahy varios, proba otro
En general seria preciso saber cuanto "apuro" tenes. Pregunto porque si estas con animo de aprender bien y una ves por todas, podemos dar algunas vueltas extras que en todo caso haran que afirmes y comprendas mejor lo que estas haciendo.
Ejemplo:
No se cual es la opinion de @soldan respecto a #linuxMint y #ubuntuStudio [2022.04lts]. En lo personal, mas alla de que soy muy puritano y en realidad soy hincha de debian puro con #LXQT o #XFCE porque son las opciones mas rapidas e simplicitas, decidi de ir por ubuntuStudio [2022.04lts] y estoy trabajando en "tutoriales" documentando mientras hago y descubro aqui. #Mint es #Debian y #ubuntu tambien, son simplemente variaciones. La ventaja de usar todos exactamente la misma version es de que uno ve lo mismo que el otro y sabe con mas facilidad que y como ayudar.Si estas con animo de probar dicha version, podrias simplemente volver a instalar esa version, el enlace de descarga deberia estar aqui mas arriba, y asi de paso reafirmas el paso de crear un USB. Dicha repeticion te afirma lo aprendido y ya te queda bastante claro "para siempre".
Probando dicha otra version podemos ademas comparar si funciona mejor o peor en tus maquinas. Por cierto, seria bueno saber exactamente los modelos de compu #win10 y latptop #win7 que usas, incluso RAM y eso, queda como referencia y se puede buscar en la red si ay informacion sobre problemas con dicho hardware.En si me parece por el momento que no es buena idea de poner #Linux en tu laptop fijo ya que #autoCad es fundamental para ti y no te conviene por el momento de complicarte con eso. Es muy posible que con un buen #pendrive veloz encontremos la version ideal de linux para que lo uses desde USB para internet y comunicacion y mantengas tu espacio de productividad de trabajo win7 bien protegido de amenazas desde el internet.
Trabajas en tu ambiente acostumbrado de produccion, reinicias al USB, usas Internet, mandas mail, tenes accesso a todos tus documentos de la instalacion de windows y dormis retranquila. De paso, cuando estas trabajando diseñando, no te distrae el internet, eso no mas vale oro.
Si queres probar una instalacion compartida, hacelo primero en la compu, no el laptop. Una opcion ideal es conseguirte un segundo disco duro. Puede ser chico, lo que implica que es barrato porque lo conseguis usado. Con un disco duro de 40 giga te supersobra y discos tan chicos siquiera lo conseguis me supongo por lo viejo que son.
No intentes de probar todo, y todo ya .. mejor proponete todos los dias una o dos horas conociendo y comprendiendo linux y lo que estamos haciendo ahora. Es muy probable por ejemplo que lo mejor para tu laptop es una instalacion debian #oldStable #nonFree LXQT o XFCE, mientras para la compu quizas un ubuntuStudio old stable que te permite incluso ir avanzando hacia produccion con alternativas para autocad o al menos edicion de Imagen e Video.
Para empezar el paso inicial mas importante ya lo hiciste, lograste crear el USB, te arranca y viste como es mas o menos.
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mitm passiv gekuehlten pi5 in nem msteams call gewesen. -> laeuft.
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No matter if a nonfree game is played on its original hardware or an emulator, it is still #nonfree: https://u.fsf.org/453 #Bulletin
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Wow. I hate it. :gutkato_renversa:
#nonfree #proprietary #sad #lang_en [RE:] -
Opencollective relies on #NonFree software: Discord [1] != Discourse [2], so @opencollective 's claim "We are open in every way" is false.
Are there any plans to migrate to Discourse [2]?
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Opencollective relies on #NonFree software: Discord [1] != Discourse [2], so @opencollective 's claim "We are open in every way" is false.
Are there any plans to migrate to Discourse [2]?
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time for big and cool changes #hackers #freedom #freesoftware #freesociety #opensource #closedsource #nonfree #proprietary
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I know, I ran #nonfree #JS for this. But I hope it made it worth it.
#rms #richardstallman #changeorg #userfreedom #webdev #libre #freesoftware #opensource #activism
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Still, I think it would have been better if #Freesound.org would have never allowed non-libre sounds (like -NC) to begin with, but it's better than nothing.
I mean, #Wikimedia Commons has been proving for a very long time it's possible.
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If you're using the #android play store versions of #SimpleMobileTools note they're going #NonFree to a vendor known for #enshittification. Stick with the #FDroid versions for now.
Github thread https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241
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@anderseknert Looks like the replies to your post were deleted, since they certainly didn't look good for him!
To help other readers understand, #MongoDB is #proprietary and not #opensource. @osi did not approve the #SSPL as open source. The SSPL is also #nonfree.
The only one who claims that MongoDB/SSPL is open source is a single person who is #openwashing proprietary software using his website and his GitHub repo with 1 star. Just ignore it.
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#Proprietary, #NonFree, #Commercial, #ClosedSource iPhone and (maybe) Android apps which secretly siphon all data they can and sell it to Google and Facebook without the user ever noticing, much less consenting to it.
This is particularly tempting on iOS where it's very difficult to offer #FreeLibreOpenSourceSoftware because the Apple App Store makes it almost impossible to comply with certain #FreeSoftware licenses, and other app sources are basically illegal AFAIK.
On Android, one could say that apps on the Google Play Store are either also available on F-Droid or closed-source spyware that secretly hands your private data over to Google and Facebook. -
@Jon I guess this has got a lot to do with the demographic change in the Fediverse. It is now mainly populated by people whom it seems to never have really been intended for.
Around the time when #Mastodon started, when even #ActivityPub didn't exist, the #Fediverse mostly consisted of #Friendica and #Hubzilla which tried to federate with as many platforms as possible, microblogging platforms based on #StatusNet which had an open API that Friendica and Hubzilla could connect to, plus #Diaspora which, while federated internally, was a #WalledGarden towards the outside until Friendica cracked its data structure open.
In those days, your typical Fediverse user was an übergeek. The vast majority of people especially on Friendica and Hubzilla had #Linux on all their devices, sometimes including smartphones (Nokia N900 or N9, anyone?), and they were not only familiar with #FLOSS, but they often flat-out refused to use proprietary, commercial, #NonFree, #ClosedSource software. When they looked into the package managers of their Linux distributions, they saw a vast world of free and #OpenSource software spread before their eyes. The primary instant messaging platform of choice was #XMPP.
Not exactly few hosted their own private (or sometimes public) Friendica nodes or Hubzilla hubs. Setting up a #LAMP stack wasn't too big an issue for many. While #Twitter and #Facebook were for normies, and Diaspora* was increasingly turning into a #hipster hive, Friendica and Hubzilla were for the tech-savvy FLOSS nerds. Even the leftist activists who also populated Friendica fell into this category. And when Mastodon was launched, it was mostly targetted at these very same people.
The more popular Mastodon became, the more this changed. And these days are completely over since the #TwitterMigration.
Your typical Fediverse user nowadays uses #Windows and/or an #iPhone, some may use a smartphone with manufacturer-issued #Android. They're largely non-techies who have never in their lives knowingly (or, in the case of many iPhone users, ever) directly used free, open-source software. They don't know such stuff exists, they don't know what it is, and they don't care, also because it's too technical for them to even want to know about it.
They've also only ever used commercial, centralised, monolithic online platforms developed, owned and operated by #GAFAM and other Silicon Valley giants, not simply because it's convenient, not simply because that's what everyone does, but mostly because they neither know nor care that alternatives exist. Or even could possibly exist. The entire concept of online platforms not run by big American corporations is alien to them, the conccept of online platforms split into various instances run by independent entities even more so. Some even seem to be convinced that e-mail is a centralised, corporate service exclusively owned and run by #Google because all they know is #GoogleMail.
This was all nice and cosy and convenient until #ElonMusk came along and bought out the #birbsite. Worse yet, he started gradually turning it into a virtual Führerhauptquartier.
When someone recommended mastodon.social to them as a replacement, they took it for the website of another Silicon Valley-based, commercial, profit-oriented start-up offering another proprietary, centralised, monolithic online service. That was all they knew and all they could possibly imagine. Basically, they expected Twitter without Musk, but otherwise 100% Twitter.
What they found themselves on instead was a world completely alien to them. No corporate monolith, but a platform run by a German non-profit. Not everyone is on the same website. There are more of these "Mastodon websites," all with the same brand on them, most run by private people. They're called "instances." And they're all connected. No corporation that owns and develops and operates everything and issues the only mobile app you're allowed to use. In fact, they were quickly recommended to use Mastodon through an app that is not named Mastodon. They'd never in their lives used an online service through a mobile app with a different name. This, too, was completely alien to them and still is to many.
So this is the Fediverse. Or so they thought. Because it got worse.
It was hard enough to grasp the concept of decentral instances of the same project being united in a network with absolutely no central infrastructure whatsoever. But then the evidence became clearer that there is even more on the Fediverse than all those Mastodon instances. There are instances of entirely different projects that aren't Mastodon at all, but that can still communicate with Mastodon instances.
Not only did they have to cope with thousands of big and small Twitters connected with one another. But on top of that, they basically had posts on their timelines from people who weren't on one of these Twitters at all, but instead on a little Facebook or a little Instagram, and yet, they could post to Twitter from this little Facebook or Instagram. And again, there were many of these as well, not only one each.
However, the old guard hasn't left. They're still there. And their mindset is still the same. And this mindset collides with that of those many for whom Mastodon was their very first step out of their commercial IT bubble, who'd rather stay inside that bubble, but who were chased away by an overt Nazi supporter.
You can actually see how these mindsets clash. Some more recent Fediverse users complain about "too much Linux talk" on their timelines or in their corner of the Fediverse. And not exactly few don't want there to be anything else than Mastodon in the Fediverse. Not to mention those Twitter converts who want there to be more central services in the Fediverse for convenience vs. those FLOSS-loving Fediverse veterans who strongly oppose and even actively combat any centralised structures in the Fediverse for security and data privacy reasons.
The non-techy newcomers on their pre-installed Windows laptops and iPhones who'd rather have a full-blown Twitter clone (minus Nazis) are the vast majority, especially on Mastodon. However, the tech-savvy, security-aware, FLOSS-loving übergeeks who run Linux on second-hand, sticker-bombed ThinkPads still have the last word. For it's them who build and run the Fediverse, and it's them who have the competence to do so.
Imagine Microsoft messing Windows up so much that a mass exodus of users towards Linux starts, users who, like so many before them, expect desktop Linux to be identical to Windows, just free-of-charge and with no malware and without whatever Microsoft messed up. Or imagine a mass exodus from #WhatsApp and/or #Discord to #Matrix. In both cases, the situation would be pretty much the same. -
CW: In which someone's plans involving me were shattered on short notice by blindly expecting me to "do as everyone does anyway". Caution, LONG. You've been warned.
Okay, so I've been invited as a guest on the next episode of @Mal Burns' Inworld Review. I got the invitation in late 2022 already.
The episode was scheduled to be recorded this Sunday with myself or rather my avatar showing up in-world and talking to the hosts and other guests. I was actually looking forward to it. It would have given me the opportunity to talk about legal avatar accessories on the #Hypergrid, ranging from mesh bodies to clothes. Something which most #OpenSimulator users are absolutely certain that it doesn't exist because they've never seen any of it, and because they're being told again and again that it doesn't exist.
So far, so good.
It was just today that Mal sent me an invite to the #Discord channel which would be used for voice.
Instead of asking me early on whether I use Discord or nor or whether I'm okay with using it, both he and Thirza expected me to use it like it's the most normal thing in the world. Because literally everyone uses it.
Because everyone uses this piece of #proprietary, #commercial, #ProfitOriented, #centralised, #NonFree, #ClosedSource #spyware #BinaryBlob created from #VentureCapital. The desktop app. On #Windows, of course. Because literally everyone also uses Windows. Only Windows. Everyone. Okay, except for those who use it on their smartphones.
I've mentioned Windows because the official Discord #Flatpak app for #Linux tends to malfunction. And Discord itself seems to fight tooth and claw against any and all attempts at sandboxing. It does, however, run perfectly well on Windows where it can scan the entire machine for any information of value about the user (and anything can be of value) and phones everything home. And the user gives consent buy installing it, consent that can only be revoked by uninstalling Discord and never using it again.
And now I've mentioned Linux because I'm not typing this on Windows. I'm not typing it on an iOS device either. I'm typing it on #Debian. Which is my main desktop system.
Let me count this up for you: I'm using Linux. I'm using #Firefox, secured and walled-up. I'm running all my machines behind a WRT router with custom firmware. I'm using free, #OpenSource, #decentralised #Hubzilla for social networking. (Yeah, rub your eyes in disbelief, everyone, this didn't come from Mastodon.) My smartphone is devoid of any traces of #GAFAM. It doesn't even run de-Googled Android, it doesn't run iOS or Android or Windows at all. Chat services? #XMPP and #Matrix only, thank you very much, end of discussion. No #WhatsApp, no #Telegram, no #Threema, no #Signal. (I have a dedicated Matrix account for this identity, by the way.)
Oh, and I have never been and will never be in Second Life either. (All those of you who follow me through the #SecondLife hashtag, believing I'm one of you, I wouldn't blame you if you unfollowed me in disappointment upon learning this.) I vastly prefer #OpenSim, and there I try my best at outfitting my avatars only in legal things, preferably under a free license. I'm one of the few who want OpenSim to be free as in freedom. Free as in #CreativeCommons. Not just free as in free beer. And especially not free as in pirated commercial payware unlike, again, "literally everyone."
Okay, few people know this, and few who don't would expect this. Or any of this, for that matter. But for those who do, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I boycott Discord HARD.
Seriously, Discord unites almost everything I hate in a communications service and piles even more to hate on top. "Almost" because it isn't only available for commercial operating systems. There's an official Linux client, even though it only works ever so barely. And it probably only exists so that Discord can also spy on those few who prefer security, privacy and data protection over convenience and "it's what everyone uses." Also, accessing Discord via other means than the official clients will only get your account blocked; it won't have you persecuted by the FBI like a criminal ([laughs in Germany]). Otherwise, it ticks the whole list, and it even manages to expand the list and tick the new points.
Even trying it wouldn't be worth it. Of course, I wouldn't be dumb enough to run the Flatpak on any existing machine.
Imagine I'd set up a Linux VM on one of my machines. Linux VM on Linux host. A VM only for Discord. Which I'd run as Flatpak.
I can see two possibilities which might even intersect.
One, the client won't work anyway because Discord treats the Linux desktop like dirt, plus I'd have walled it up too well. I would have registered a Discord account for nothing, and I'm not sure if you can have it deleted. Not worth it. Who knows what Discord would do with my mail address?
Two, the client breaks out of its Flatpak sandbox, scans the system, discovers that it's running in a VM, breaks out of the VM and scans the host machine. Remember it's closed-source. Unless proven otherwise by thorough source code auditing, this thing could theoretically do anything, and there actually is malware known to break out of Linux virtual machines and target Linux host systems.
Yes, I actually expect the Discord client (remember, the source code is treated as highly classified military intel) to try and access all other computers on my network once it discovers them and scan them, too, regardless of counter-measures ranging from not mounting my network shares to blocking access from the VM to anything else on the network. It could probably do this with ease and unnoticed if its root suid managed to break out of the Flatpak sandbox, then out of the VM, assumed root control over the host system, clandestinely mounted all network drives and #WebDAV, #CalDAV and #CardDAV shares it could possibly find, scanned the hell out of them and phoned everything home to be sold to some advertising company (and given to the #NSA free-of-charge).
Now, if someone suggested I could use the Web client instead, I'd still need an account. And I don't even have a #Google account, nor shall I ever get me one. Remember that my go-to browser is a very walled-up and secured Firefox. I'm pretty sure that it's too secured and too walled-up for the Discord Web app to work. And seriously, Discord is the last thing for which I'd let the guards in Firefox down. No way, no how. That'd be privacy and data protection suicide.
A different browser would make things even worse. Or do you really, seriously, unironically expect me to install #GoogleChrome?! And then run it on default settings with no privacy/security add-ons? Not gonna happen. Ever.
And if you should suggest I could use Windows instead and save me all the trouble, you haven't understood a word.
Seriously, demanding I use Discord is like giving @Juno Rowland something that was clearly stolen from Second Life and demanding she wear it. In public no less. #NotGonnaHappen.
As for my appearance at Inworld Review, I can't see it happen anymore. -
CW: In which someone's plans involving me were shattered on short notice by blindly expecting me to "do as everyone does anyway". Caution, LONG. You've been warned.
Okay, so I've been invited as a guest on the next episode of @Mal Burns' Inworld Review. I got the invitation in late 2022 already.
The episode was scheduled to be recorded this Sunday with myself or rather my avatar showing up in-world and talking to the hosts and other guests. I was actually looking forward to it. It would have given me the opportunity to talk about legal avatar accessories on the #Hypergrid, ranging from mesh bodies to clothes. Something which most #OpenSimulator users are absolutely certain that it doesn't exist because they've never seen any of it, and because they're being told again and again that it doesn't exist.
So far, so good.
It was just today that Mal sent me an invite to the #Discord channel which would be used for voice.
Instead of asking me early on whether I use Discord or nor or whether I'm okay with using it, both he and Thirza expected me to use it like it's the most normal thing in the world. Because literally everyone uses it.
Because everyone uses this piece of #proprietary, #commercial, #ProfitOriented, #centralised, #NonFree, #ClosedSource #spyware #BinaryBlob created from #VentureCapital. The desktop app. On #Windows, of course. Because literally everyone also uses Windows. Only Windows. Everyone. Okay, except for those who use it on their smartphones.
I've mentioned Windows because the official Discord #Flatpak app for #Linux tends to malfunction. And Discord itself seems to fight tooth and claw against any and all attempts at sandboxing. It does, however, run perfectly well on Windows where it can scan the entire machine for any information of value about the user (and anything can be of value) and phones everything home. And the user gives consent buy installing it, consent that can only be revoked by uninstalling Discord and never using it again.
And now I've mentioned Linux because I'm not typing this on Windows. I'm not typing it on an iOS device either. I'm typing it on #Debian. Which is my main desktop system.
Let me count this up for you: I'm using Linux. I'm using #Firefox, secured and walled-up. I'm running all my machines behind a WRT router with custom firmware. I'm using free, #OpenSource, #decentralised #Hubzilla for social networking. (Yeah, rub your eyes in disbelief, everyone, this didn't come from Mastodon.) My smartphone is devoid of any traces of #GAFAM. It doesn't even run de-Googled Android, it doesn't run iOS or Android or Windows at all. Chat services? #XMPP and #Matrix only, thank you very much, end of discussion. No #WhatsApp, no #Telegram, no #Threema, no #Signal. (I have a dedicated Matrix account for this identity, by the way.)
Oh, and I have never been and will never be in Second Life either. (All those of you who follow me through the #SecondLife hashtag, believing I'm one of you, I wouldn't blame you if you unfollowed me in disappointment upon learning this.) I vastly prefer #OpenSim, and there I try my best at outfitting my avatars only in legal things, preferably under a free license. I'm one of the few who want OpenSim to be free as in freedom. Free as in #CreativeCommons. Not just free as in free beer. And especially not free as in pirated commercial payware unlike, again, "literally everyone."
Okay, few people know this, and few who don't would expect this. Or any of this, for that matter. But for those who do, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I boycott Discord HARD.
Seriously, Discord unites almost everything I hate in a communications service and piles even more to hate on top. "Almost" because it isn't only available for commercial operating systems. There's an official Linux client, even though it only works ever so barely. And it probably only exists so that Discord can also spy on those few who prefer security, privacy and data protection over convenience and "it's what everyone uses." Also, accessing Discord via other means than the official clients will only get your account blocked; it won't have you persecuted by the FBI like a criminal ([laughs in Germany]). Otherwise, it ticks the whole list, and it even manages to expand the list and tick the new points.
Even trying it wouldn't be worth it. Of course, I wouldn't be dumb enough to run the Flatpak on any existing machine.
Imagine I'd set up a Linux VM on one of my machines. Linux VM on Linux host. A VM only for Discord. Which I'd run as Flatpak.
I can see two possibilities which might even intersect.
One, the client won't work anyway because Discord treats the Linux desktop like dirt, plus I'd have walled it up too well. I would have registered a Discord account for nothing, and I'm not sure if you can have it deleted. Not worth it. Who knows what Discord would do with my mail address?
Two, the client breaks out of its Flatpak sandbox, scans the system, discovers that it's running in a VM, breaks out of the VM and scans the host machine. Remember it's closed-source. Unless proven otherwise by thorough source code auditing, this thing could theoretically do anything, and there actually is malware known to break out of Linux virtual machines and target Linux host systems.
Yes, I actually expect the Discord client (remember, the source code is treated as highly classified military intel) to try and access all other computers on my network once it discovers them and scan them, too, regardless of counter-measures ranging from not mounting my network shares to blocking access from the VM to anything else on the network. It could probably do this with ease and unnoticed if its root suid managed to break out of the Flatpak sandbox, then out of the VM, assumed root control over the host system, clandestinely mounted all network drives and #WebDAV, #CalDAV and #CardDAV shares it could possibly find, scanned the hell out of them and phoned everything home to be sold to some advertising company (and given to the #NSA free-of-charge).
Now, if someone suggested I could use the Web client instead, I'd still need an account. And I don't even have a #Google account, nor shall I ever get me one. Remember that my go-to browser is a very walled-up and secured Firefox. I'm pretty sure that it's too secured and too walled-up for the Discord Web app to work. And seriously, Discord is the last thing for which I'd let the guards in Firefox down. No way, no how. That'd be privacy and data protection suicide.
A different browser would make things even worse. Or do you really, seriously, unironically expect me to install #GoogleChrome?! And then run it on default settings with no privacy/security add-ons? Not gonna happen. Ever.
And if you should suggest I could use Windows instead and save me all the trouble, you haven't understood a word.
Seriously, demanding I use Discord is like giving @Juno Rowland something that was clearly stolen from Second Life and demanding she wear it. In public no less. #NotGonnaHappen.
As for my appearance at Inworld Review, I can't see it happen anymore. -
CW: In which someone's plans involving me were shattered on short notice by blindly expecting me to "do as everyone does anyway". Caution, LONG. You've been warned.
Okay, so I've been invited as a guest on the next episode of @Mal Burns' Inworld Review. I got the invitation in late 2022 already.
The episode was scheduled to be recorded this Sunday with myself or rather my avatar showing up in-world and talking to the hosts and other guests. I was actually looking forward to it. It would have given me the opportunity to talk about legal avatar accessories on the #Hypergrid, ranging from mesh bodies to clothes. Something which most #OpenSimulator users are absolutely certain that it doesn't exist because they've never seen any of it, and because they're being told again and again that it doesn't exist.
So far, so good.
It was just today that Mal sent me an invite to the #Discord channel which would be used for voice.
Instead of asking me early on whether I use Discord or nor or whether I'm okay with using it, both he and Thirza expected me to use it like it's the most normal thing in the world. Because literally everyone uses it.
Because everyone uses this piece of #proprietary, #commercial, #ProfitOriented, #centralised, #NonFree, #ClosedSource #spyware #BinaryBlob created from #VentureCapital. The desktop app. On #Windows, of course. Because literally everyone also uses Windows. Only Windows. Everyone. Okay, except for those who use it on their smartphones.
I've mentioned Windows because the official Discord #Flatpak app for #Linux tends to malfunction. And Discord itself seems to fight tooth and claw against any and all attempts at sandboxing. It does, however, run perfectly well on Windows where it can scan the entire machine for any information of value about the user (and anything can be of value) and phones everything home. And the user gives consent buy installing it, consent that can only be revoked by uninstalling Discord and never using it again.
And now I've mentioned Linux because I'm not typing this on Windows. I'm not typing it on an iOS device either. I'm typing it on #Debian. Which is my main desktop system.
Let me count this up for you: I'm using Linux. I'm using #Firefox, secured and walled-up. I'm running all my machines behind a WRT router with custom firmware. I'm using free, #OpenSource, #decentralised #Hubzilla for social networking. (Yeah, rub your eyes in disbelief, everyone, this didn't come from Mastodon.) My smartphone is devoid of any traces of #GAFAM. It doesn't even run de-Googled Android, it doesn't run iOS or Android or Windows at all. Chat services? #XMPP and #Matrix only, thank you very much, end of discussion. No #WhatsApp, no #Telegram, no #Threema, no #Signal. (I have a dedicated Matrix account for this identity, by the way.)
Oh, and I have never been and will never be in Second Life either. (All those of you who follow me through the #SecondLife hashtag, believing I'm one of you, I wouldn't blame you if you unfollowed me in disappointment upon learning this.) I vastly prefer #OpenSim, and there I try my best at outfitting my avatars only in legal things, preferably under a free license. I'm one of the few who want OpenSim to be free as in freedom. Free as in #CreativeCommons. Not just free as in free beer. And especially not free as in pirated commercial payware unlike, again, "literally everyone."
Okay, few people know this, and few who don't would expect this. Or any of this, for that matter. But for those who do, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I boycott Discord HARD.
Seriously, Discord unites almost everything I hate in a communications service and piles even more to hate on top. "Almost" because it isn't only available for commercial operating systems. There's an official Linux client, even though it only works ever so barely. And it probably only exists so that Discord can also spy on those few who prefer security, privacy and data protection over convenience and "it's what everyone uses." Also, accessing Discord via other means than the official clients will only get your account blocked; it won't have you persecuted by the FBI like a criminal ([laughs in Germany]). Otherwise, it ticks the whole list, and it even manages to expand the list and tick the new points.
Even trying it wouldn't be worth it. Of course, I wouldn't be dumb enough to run the Flatpak on any existing machine.
Imagine I'd set up a Linux VM on one of my machines. Linux VM on Linux host. A VM only for Discord. Which I'd run as Flatpak.
I can see two possibilities which might even intersect.
One, the client won't work anyway because Discord treats the Linux desktop like dirt, plus I'd have walled it up too well. I would have registered a Discord account for nothing, and I'm not sure if you can have it deleted. Not worth it. Who knows what Discord would do with my mail address?
Two, the client breaks out of its Flatpak sandbox, scans the system, discovers that it's running in a VM, breaks out of the VM and scans the host machine. Remember it's closed-source. Unless proven otherwise by thorough source code auditing, this thing could theoretically do anything, and there actually is malware known to break out of Linux virtual machines and target Linux host systems.
Yes, I actually expect the Discord client (remember, the source code is treated as highly classified military intel) to try and access all other computers on my network once it discovers them and scan them, too, regardless of counter-measures ranging from not mounting my network shares to blocking access from the VM to anything else on the network. It could probably do this with ease and unnoticed if its root suid managed to break out of the Flatpak sandbox, then out of the VM, assumed root control over the host system, clandestinely mounted all network drives and #WebDAV, #CalDAV and #CardDAV shares it could possibly find, scanned the hell out of them and phoned everything home to be sold to some advertising company (and given to the #NSA free-of-charge).
Now, if someone suggested I could use the Web client instead, I'd still need an account. And I don't even have a #Google account, nor shall I ever get me one. Remember that my go-to browser is a very walled-up and secured Firefox. I'm pretty sure that it's too secured and too walled-up for the Discord Web app to work. And seriously, Discord is the last thing for which I'd let the guards in Firefox down. No way, no how. That'd be privacy and data protection suicide.
A different browser would make things even worse. Or do you really, seriously, unironically expect me to install #GoogleChrome?! And then run it on default settings with no privacy/security add-ons? Not gonna happen. Ever.
And if you should suggest I could use Windows instead and save me all the trouble, you haven't understood a word.
Seriously, demanding I use Discord is like giving @Juno Rowland something that was clearly stolen from Second Life and demanding she wear it. In public no less. #NotGonnaHappen.
As for my appearance at Inworld Review, I can't see it happen anymore. -
CW: In which someone's plans involving me were shattered on short notice by blindly expecting me to "do as everyone does anyway". Caution, LONG. You've been warned.
Okay, so I've been invited as a guest on the next episode of @Mal Burns' Inworld Review. I got the invitation in late 2022 already.
The episode was scheduled to be recorded this Sunday with myself or rather my avatar showing up in-world and talking to the hosts and other guests. I was actually looking forward to it. It would have given me the opportunity to talk about legal avatar accessories on the #Hypergrid, ranging from mesh bodies to clothes. Something which most #OpenSimulator users are absolutely certain that it doesn't exist because they've never seen any of it, and because they're being told again and again that it doesn't exist.
So far, so good.
It was just today that Mal sent me an invite to the #Discord channel which would be used for voice.
Instead of asking me early on whether I use Discord or nor or whether I'm okay with using it, both he and Thirza expected me to use it like it's the most normal thing in the world. Because literally everyone uses it.
Because everyone uses this piece of #proprietary, #commercial, #ProfitOriented, #centralised, #NonFree, #ClosedSource #spyware #BinaryBlob created from #VentureCapital. The desktop app. On #Windows, of course. Because literally everyone also uses Windows. Only Windows. Everyone. Okay, except for those who use it on their smartphones.
I've mentioned Windows because the official Discord #Flatpak app for #Linux tends to malfunction. And Discord itself seems to fight tooth and claw against any and all attempts at sandboxing. It does, however, run perfectly well on Windows where it can scan the entire machine for any information of value about the user (and anything can be of value) and phones everything home. And the user gives consent buy installing it, consent that can only be revoked by uninstalling Discord and never using it again.
And now I've mentioned Linux because I'm not typing this on Windows. I'm not typing it on an iOS device either. I'm typing it on #Debian. Which is my main desktop system.
Let me count this up for you: I'm using Linux. I'm using #Firefox, secured and walled-up. I'm running all my machines behind a WRT router with custom firmware. I'm using free, #OpenSource, #decentralised #Hubzilla for social networking. (Yeah, rub your eyes in disbelief, everyone, this didn't come from Mastodon.) My smartphone is devoid of any traces of #GAFAM. It doesn't even run de-Googled Android, it doesn't run iOS or Android or Windows at all. Chat services? #XMPP and #Matrix only, thank you very much, end of discussion. No #WhatsApp, no #Telegram, no #Threema, no #Signal. (I have a dedicated Matrix account for this identity, by the way.)
Oh, and I have never been and will never be in Second Life either. (All those of you who follow me through the #SecondLife hashtag, believing I'm one of you, I wouldn't blame you if you unfollowed me in disappointment upon learning this.) I vastly prefer #OpenSim, and there I try my best at outfitting my avatars only in legal things, preferably under a free license. I'm one of the few who want OpenSim to be free as in freedom. Free as in #CreativeCommons. Not just free as in free beer. And especially not free as in pirated commercial payware unlike, again, "literally everyone."
Okay, few people know this, and few who don't would expect this. Or any of this, for that matter. But for those who do, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I boycott Discord HARD.
Seriously, Discord unites almost everything I hate in a communications service and piles even more to hate on top. "Almost" because it isn't only available for commercial operating systems. There's an official Linux client, even though it only works ever so barely. And it probably only exists so that Discord can also spy on those few who prefer security, privacy and data protection over convenience and "it's what everyone uses." Also, accessing Discord via other means than the official clients will only get your account blocked; it won't have you persecuted by the FBI like a criminal ([laughs in Germany]). Otherwise, it ticks the whole list, and it even manages to expand the list and tick the new points.
Even trying it wouldn't be worth it. Of course, I wouldn't be dumb enough to run the Flatpak on any existing machine.
Imagine I'd set up a Linux VM on one of my machines. Linux VM on Linux host. A VM only for Discord. Which I'd run as Flatpak.
I can see two possibilities which might even intersect.
One, the client won't work anyway because Discord treats the Linux desktop like dirt, plus I'd have walled it up too well. I would have registered a Discord account for nothing, and I'm not sure if you can have it deleted. Not worth it. Who knows what Discord would do with my mail address?
Two, the client breaks out of its Flatpak sandbox, scans the system, discovers that it's running in a VM, breaks out of the VM and scans the host machine. Remember it's closed-source. Unless proven otherwise by thorough source code auditing, this thing could theoretically do anything, and there actually is malware known to break out of Linux virtual machines and target Linux host systems.
Yes, I actually expect the Discord client (remember, the source code is treated as highly classified military intel) to try and access all other computers on my network once it discovers them and scan them, too, regardless of counter-measures ranging from not mounting my network shares to blocking access from the VM to anything else on the network. It could probably do this with ease and unnoticed if its root suid managed to break out of the Flatpak sandbox, then out of the VM, assumed root control over the host system, clandestinely mounted all network drives and #WebDAV, #CalDAV and #CardDAV shares it could possibly find, scanned the hell out of them and phoned everything home to be sold to some advertising company (and given to the #NSA free-of-charge).
Now, if someone suggested I could use the Web client instead, I'd still need an account. And I don't even have a #Google account, nor shall I ever get me one. Remember that my go-to browser is a very walled-up and secured Firefox. I'm pretty sure that it's too secured and too walled-up for the Discord Web app to work. And seriously, Discord is the last thing for which I'd let the guards in Firefox down. No way, no how. That'd be privacy and data protection suicide.
A different browser would make things even worse. Or do you really, seriously, unironically expect me to install #GoogleChrome?! And then run it on default settings with no privacy/security add-ons? Not gonna happen. Ever.
And if you should suggest I could use Windows instead and save me all the trouble, you haven't understood a word.
Seriously, demanding I use Discord is like giving @Juno Rowland something that was clearly stolen from Second Life and demanding she wear it. In public no less. #NotGonnaHappen.
As for my appearance at Inworld Review, I can't see it happen anymore. -
... (#acxi con'd)
A few things acxi is NOT:
* a cd ripping tool. Check out #abcde, it does a good job for cli ripping tool.
* a media player
* a strong supporter of #nonfree #audio #codecs like #AAC or #MP3. It offers adequate, basic support, and that is it.The focus is always going to be on mainly #xiph.org #vorbis things like #flac, #opus, #ogg (to a lesser extent, since vorbis has moved all dev efforts to opus).
acxi will support the others enough to let you translate them to free codecs.
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Totally #RetroComputing, #Archeologeek and #ClosedSource / #NonFree but I like the approach : offering a recent OS for an old machine, a way to fight against software #obsolescence. Here it's #C64OS by #OpCoders for the #Commodore64 / #C64 › https://c64os.com :commodore:
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Debian führt Entscheidung über Non-Free-Firmware herbei - LinuxNews
....die Entscheidung ist schon längst überfällig. Hoffentlich fällt sie positiv für die Anwender aus.
https://linuxnews.de/2022/08/debian-fuehrt-entscheidung-ueber-non-free-firmware-herbei/
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@bbbhltz: According to a comment in that file it won't help. But it helps: It only installs that repo when upgrading from #raspberrypi-sys-mods below version 20210125.
But you should also remove /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
And there's still a big difference to all #nonfree software they so far shipped with #RaspberryPiOS: They all came from the #RaspberryPiFoundation's #APT repository.
Adding a #3rdparty APT repo to which apt connects upon every "apt update" is a huge #privacy #FAIL.
