⚧JⒶNE⚧ @polarisfm@librem.one
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- PureOS GNU/Linux
Enthusiast of libre software, punk rock, and estrogen.
Trans woman, lesbian, ancom.
I dream of a world where knowledge is shared without restriction
Joined Sep 2019
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fun fact: 'open source' doesn't guarantee freedom, it just means the code is available to the public.
Free software does not restrict any of the five W's (Who, What, Where, When, hoW), so long as contributions are also freely available.
for illustration purposes, look at the license text for unrar(1), specifically the non-free version; it is non-free because it prohibits people who work on compression software from working with or on the program. yet, it is open-source.
there are people who like to claim that 'open source' implies software freedom, but I think that that requires a tortuous redefinition to make stand, and it's necessary in order to proclaim that Redis isn't 'open source' due to the complete nonsense that is their non-free 'Commons Clause'.
fuck that. it's non-free software that is open source,
Free software does not restrict any of the five W's (Who, What, Where, When, hoW), so long as contributions are also freely available.
for illustration purposes, look at the license text for unrar(1), specifically the non-free version; it is non-free because it prohibits people who work on compression software from working with or on the program. yet, it is open-source.
there are people who like to claim that 'open source' implies software freedom, but I think that that requires a tortuous redefinition to make stand, and it's necessary in order to proclaim that Redis isn't 'open source' due to the complete nonsense that is their non-free 'Commons Clause'.
fuck that. it's non-free software that is open source,
@ayo@niu.moe My favorite is when free software projects use Google Analytics. 🤔
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it's funny the html5 spec itself can be used for parser benchmarks since it's a 7mb html document
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Fathom, simple analytics for bloggers, version 2 is out!
"We don’t collect personal or invasive data about your users, nor do we use cookies, meaning you don’t have to show pesky notices to users about cookie tracking. We’re GDPR compliant too"
@yisraeldov
Do you mean text chat or voice chat?
Left my laptop in another city. Great.
I present to you: https://invidious.polarisfm.net.
Have fun.
Artists: If someone is commissioning you, it is very appriciated if you let them choose the license of the work.
@tek
I'll adopt this. It'e much more formal than "shit TVs."
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New terminology: “smart TVs” are now “sly TVs”.
I’m serious. From now on I am never again using “smart” as an adjective for a TV.
In other news, I think I'm going to try my hand at film review. Not as a regular thing, but there's one movie that's just... A so-bad-it's-good gem that not a lot people know ahout.
Hey, EU friends, is blocking a third party client considered anti-competitive there...? 🤔
If you would like to support the development of Invidious and have some extra cash, go to: https://liberapay.com/omarroth.
For proof, here is the developer's Patreon page as of 12 October, 2019. Linking through the Wayback Machine to avoid Cloudflare: https://web.archive.org/web/20191012222327/https://www.patreon.com/omarroth
I would also like to point out that the developer's Patreon has been mysteriously cited as "in violation of community guidelines." Apparently, making a libre client program to the world's most prominent video sharing platform is against Patreon's "community guidelines." They should just be transparent and say they suspended it for preventing the flow of money into Google's wallet.
For more information on this purge, check out @amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz's https://nixnet.xyz/invidious, a grave yard for his former Invidious instance. They've done the same to many more folks. Godspeed, everyone
Hey folks. In honor of the Great Invidious Purge affecting most (if not all) instances I will be starting up my own Invidious instance.
"You can stop me, but you can't stop us all... After all, we're all alike."
Fuck you, Google.
Yours truly,
Jane Doe
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Hi Fediverse 👋
let me sum up the situation around #switchingsocial
Around September 20th, the original (anonymous) author of switching.social shut down its website and all related Social Media accounts, including mastodon 🤔
This info reached me (@tobias ) the next day via my German version @swisode .
As there hasn't been any sign of life since then, I restored the website and created this new account. Right now I'm out of spare time to work on it, but that'll change in a few weeks 🙂
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In response to the President Trump (USA)'s executive order blocking all commercial and non-commercial property transactions with Venezuela, Adobe has begun cancelling accounts belonging to Venezuelans.
Regardless of this being a continued embargo, this is a lesson to be learned to never trust software which makes it obligatory to register an account in order to use the features of that software.
[https://helpx.adobe.com/la/x-productkb/policy-pricing/executive-order-venezuela.html]
- My Website
- https://polarisfm.net
- Contact Me
- https://polarisfm.net/contact.html
- Pronouns
- she/her
- Current OS
- PureOS GNU/Linux
Enthusiast of libre software, punk rock, and estrogen.
Trans woman, lesbian, ancom.
I dream of a world where knowledge is shared without restriction
Joined Sep 2019
