Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@arh Looks like something different from FSF India: https://fsf.org.in/

Any idea if/how they are related?

@MatejLach Seems best to avoid Intel altogether, but suppose for a moment that I am anyway using some kind of Intel-based computer. If I manage to remove or destroy its built-in wifi part and instead use only separately connected network devices (plugged in via a USB port or so), that should help protect against this?

@neil

One of my favorite books ever:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Granted it's not about the latest tech today, but I would argue it does focus on the important things that are even more important today than when it was written. How we humans relate to technology, our different approaches and attitudes towards technology.

@Crocmagnon @jbauer

The article by Jake Bauer that you linked to says the following:

> While the GPL may not cause as much of an obstruction
> or be as unethical as proprietary software,
> it is frankly not that much better.

Do you really think that, seriously?

How can you think that if you value the four freedoms listed by the GNU project?

In my opinion, any FLOSS kind, GPL or any other kind, is hugely better than something proprietary.

(PS: noticed a typo: "some cpde I wrote")

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@Crocmagnon

I tried to understand what you mean, but I don't quite follow.

> I still believe that users should be treated as first-party when building software.

That part I get, and it signals to me that you do care about user freedom.

But then, regarding the potential use of your code as part of proprietary software:

> frankly I think I don't care

You care, or you don't care?

@jbauer

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@clacke

Ha! "We value your privacy", perhaps the most common lie on the Internet these days.

I started to refer to it when arguing with some sites about how they do things, I tell them that they need to either change the statement "We value your privacy" because that claim is clearly wrong considering their current policies, or else change how they do things so that they live up to that claim.

@PINE64

> Is the PinePhone your first Linux-only or Linux-capable smartphone?

Might be good to clarify what you mean there. Those who have had an Android phone (plenty of people I guess) should answer "no"? Otherwise, you could write "GNU+Linux" or "Linux-but-not-Android" or something, if that is what you mean.

@78057016635d@mastodon.social @ruffni@mstdn.io

For me, when I select Firefox Settings --> Privacy and Security --> Clear History...
then that gives a window that looks like this.

Note that to clear everything, you have to:
- select "Everything" in time range, instead of the default which is to only clear the last hour.
- check all the seven check boxes, only one of them is checked by default.

I think that if you do all that then it will actually clear everything, but it's easy to miss something there.

#reindeer #ren #shotonlibrem5 #librem5 #mobile #gnu #linux

@ruffni@mstdn.io I don't know about ack, but I guess grep should work.

Were you able to find out what was happening, what was saved, where, why, by whom and so on?

@ruffni@mstdn.io

Something to test: if you go there using a different browser, are you still logged in then?

If not, then there is something firefox-related that you did not manage to remove. You could search in the .mozilla directory or something to try to figure it out.

If you are logged in even when using a different browser, a browser from which you have never logged in, then they do something else, something not related to the browser.

@nilesh I think micro-payments would be a good solution.

For example, each time I visit my favorite newspaper website reading an article there, there would be no ads but instead a small payment would be made for each article page I visit. The payment needs to be private (untraceable, like Monero tries to be) and convenient, like built into the web browser. I could see that a payment was made it in the corner of the screen, similar to how uBlock Origin shows that it blocked something.

Renewed FSF membership.

#FSF #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom
#ISupportFreeSoftware

@neil

It's a hard question.

Part of the answer is that it depends on what you can afford.

But why give to this particular FOSS project and not others? I would like to see some kind of "whole system" donation framework where I could donate to "all the software I use" in a way that was "reasonably" distributed. But I don't think there is anything like that, not yet anyway.

Anyway, it makes sense to donate both to maintain existing software, and to support entirely new things.

@lightweight

@neil

> If a non-FOSS Twitter client is, for example, £20, is it silly to contribute £20 to the developer of a FOSS client?

No, it is not silly to contribute to the FOSS program. But that has nothing to do with the price of the nonfree program. The nonfree program could be much more expensive, or it could be gratis, either way the problem with the nonfree program is not the money it costs but the fact that it is nonfree. It can exploit you. It may spy on you, for example.

@lightweight

@kop316 @purism

Thanks, but I'm confused about what this means.

My understanding (could be wrong) is that my L5 moves from 4G down to 3G or 2G when I make a phone call, and that happens because VoLTE is not working. If I select "4G Only" in "Settings-->Mobile-->Network Mode" then I can no longer make calls.

I think that if VoLTE was working, then I would still be able to make calls when having selected "4G Only".

Can you make calls while having "4G Only" selected?

@lightweight

There is the "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign, that could use some more signatures: https://publiccode.eu/openletter/

@neil wrote:

> Do I benchmark against a piece of software's non-FOSS alternatives?

No, you don't. The FOSS alternative has an advantage that you cannot really put a price on: freedom. It always deserves support over non-FOSS alternatives, regardless of any benchmark result. Also, the FOSS program will anyway likely perform better later on, thanks to your support.

@kop316

Do you need to do something to enable that, or it works out of the box?

I think there has been some problem with VoLTE, not sure what, but does this mean the problem is solved?

@purism