Joe Bidet

Let’s start mirroring and torrenting full ROMsets!

Image from https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 by Nina Paley

would you remove the battery during those 20 years?

Simplex.chat is promising, with great privacy/anonymity concepts at its core:

• no identifyer like a phone# or an email address needed
• little to no metadata transiting by the server
• identity management (“incognito” identities generated in one click when joining a group for instance, management of several identities), all database/client-side.
• works with any server, through tor by default. different servers used to send/receive messages.
• android/ios/linux-tui/linux-desktop/macos/windows versions available
• in Haskell, so no node/electron shtf#ckery (just a different shtf#ckery… ;)) )

Guitarix? https://guitarix.org/

I think it should always add:

"I am sorry*, Dave,* but i cannot … "

do you think a company like cloudlare.com, that injects its javascript in between given site and you, will hesitate one second before transmitting its data with the FBI (or any other police), and help them tracking users down?

WARNING: contains some cloudflare.com

Those are different dimensions that should be considered together. Of course we should still invest efforts into UI/UX, where possible and where it represents the will of the participants in the project… but when answering questions such as “which FLOSS piece is superior” i think we should always find a balance between those, and bring them together…

The thing I find hard to convey is that FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software for many reasons, most of which are non-technical: FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software if it isn’t spying on you, if it’s governance is collective, if it’s not build to make you pay for things that should be free, if it lets you decide where your data goes, etc…

we’re often missing the point when we attempt at side-by-side comparison of FLOSS and proprietary software… It’s usually one-dimentional, and playing on our opponent’s field: these companies racketing their users based on rent-based exploitative business models will always have more resources than independant developpers to improve “UX/UI”… so I think this must not be the only prism through which reading these things.

Inkscape?

archive.org has a flourish of ROMsets for old machines!

more on the topic: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ (that greatly predates the coining of the confusing, narrowing term “open source” as an attempt to replace/erase the philosophical goals of free/libre software)

The goal is to collectively free humans from the enslavement and dangers that proprietary computing represents.

It’s a collective fight for freedom. Then of course we must continuously question and revise the tactics, and invent new ways of funding, sustaining, supporting, etc… the goal.

I agree with the geneal idea that one could do even more than what the GPL does, but i think it does a lot already.

On the case of Android, i think Google doesn’t care too much about the kernel code itself, wouldn’t mind contributing back to it if they had to, as the entire ecosystem of software around the kernel is what they use to capture users and keep control of their devices… GGL doesnt need the kernel for that, and the linux kernel is a smol drop of code in the ocean of a prison that is android…

See how Google is adverse to the use of the AGPL in their own products https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html this would in practice force them to reveal to their users how they process their data, and would probably scare them to death…

So I am not a proponent of copyright, but it seems that GPL and AGPL are pretty effective tools at discouraging corporations in some cases (not perfect though)

GNU GPL r0x

:)

You and I remembered different things about these emails. I asked if we really had to source and quote them to find out who is right and who is wrong.

There is no “horror” in DNC emails. just evidence of crass corruption and cynicism from Clinton’s campaign.

So wait, are you saying there is nothing significant in the Podesta emails… while at the same time the would have “made Trump elected”? :)

Some of the substance of the emails summarized here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks.html

• The speech of Clinton at Wall Street is one of the most devastating because she actually lied and used double speech all the way
• The efforts to undermine Sanders are despickable
• Inflating Trump campaign, of all GOP candidates, is both dumb, cynical and short-sighted.

But again that’s only the bits i personally remember from (reading) the emails.

All I said is:

• this was newsworthy and of general interest;
• any journalist like Assange, if given authentic, unaltered material of general interest has a duty to publish them. (that’s called journalism);
• there is no evidence that WikiLeaks knew their source was from RU intel (if it was). It was said many time the organisation functioned in such way that they cannot know the identity of their sources, and anyone who has ever been in the business of source protection would confirm it is a smart principle.

To other fantasy claims that “WL had the GOP emails too but decided not to published them lol” i replied “haha wait what?!” and was presented with meak links about “GOP got ‘hacked’ period” with no trace of email being transmitted to whoever.

Now please go on barking about my nickname, changing topic or whatever.

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(never sayd Podesta was a meanie. i think anyone involved in the DNC or GOP is probably a piece of shit that doesnt deserve my respect, but i think the same of many other political parties in many other countries…)

oh and by any chance, are you from the USofA? that way you have of being right about things by being louder… quite fascinating :)

you’re really funny :)

Wow that agressiveness :))

In that article (first time i heard of GOP being hacked I read

" Comey later added that “there was evidence of hacking directed at state-level organizations, state-level campaigns, and the RNC, but old domains of the RNC, meaning old emails they weren’t using. None of that was released.”

Comey said there was no sign “that the Trump campaign or the current RNC was successfully hacked.” "

So yeah “GOP being hacked” big deal. not “GOP emails were sent to WikiLeaks who decided not to publish it” which is indeed raw made up bullshit.

Also, according to

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37639370

“Ms Brazile took over at the DNC when its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz over hacked emails which revealed the party establishment’s favouritism towards Mrs Clinton.”

I never claimed the DNC undermined Sanders in the primary. That Clinton campaign undermined Sanders, it’s very different…

Do you really want we go and search in the Podesta emails to see who is right here?

What else? Assange caused global warming? Cause the US to let their pants down in Afghanistan? Assange has weapons of mass destructions? What else to justify the unjustifiable, all these violations of international and national rights, violations of human rights, mis-use of the US espionnage act against a non-US citizen and precedent that will affect all journalism? Maybe Assange caused UAPs…