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  • Icecat's good too. In fact in some ways, eg. cutting Sync out entirely where LibreWolf disables it by default but lets you enable it if desired, it's even better than LibreWolf.

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  • LibreWolf, or if you can tolerate some breakage, PaleMoon or Basilisk (I say 'if you can tolerate some breakage' because Goanna is hard-forked from old ESR code, and PaleMoon and Basilisk are both Goanna-based).

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  • Good thing LibreWolf and other forks exist.

  • After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

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  • Plus RawTherapee and DarkTable are pretty good, and actually free, Lightroom alternatives to boot.

  • After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

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  • Good thing whenever I set up Windows, Notepad is one of the things I nuke, using Geany to replace it.

    This is a bad sign if MS gets emboldened and starts paywalling basic OS functionality at some point in the future, though.

  • Trump’s Counter-Constitution: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law”.

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  • Says the person who, along with his DOGE goon squad, is actively going out of his way to destroy his country.....

  • Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

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  • If this doesn't help physical book sales, nothing will.

  • Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X?

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  • Because look who's running it, that's why. If Musk isn't a full-blown Nazi, he's at minimum a Nazi sympathizer, which is still really bad.

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    If Kodak came back with a Camera tomorrow, what would you be awaiting from a company like them?

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  • Canon's recent paywalling behavior if other companies start copying them, would be a good argument for picking up film again if you don't care about video capabilities and only need stills - due to film's analog nature, it and the gear that uses it, is immune to paywalls/DRM, and you actually own hard copies of your shots to digitize at will to boot.

    Also, don't expect Kodachrome to ever be rebooted as its process, which was proprietary and thus died with that stock, was too complex to try and bring back in the present day (although some people have tried to reverse-engineer it to varying success before).

    To add to this, the same advantages of being immune to paywalls/DRM and actually owning hard copies of your work that you can digitize at will also applies to, say, drawing using real materials vs. using a digital program - your paper and pencils/crayons/what-have-you will never be affected by paywalls/DRM as they're analog in a sense as well, and you have a hard copy you can digitize at will.

  • Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

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  • This is just going to push people who aren't locked into Windows, away from Windows, and Linux is making a pretty good argument for itself as a viable alternative atm, particularly for gaming.

    Although another option would be to virtualize Windows on a Linux host too, that's what I'm doing right now /w Win10 LTSC for general apps that aren't entirely WINE-friendly, and then Win8.1 for some older games that aren't entirely WINE-friendly, and the Win8.1 VM has my R9 270 being passed through to it over vfio-pci for graphics for that reason.

    The Win10 VM is using VirtIO paravirtualized graphics because its intended use case doesn't need anything more than basic acceleration as it was spun up mainly for running CUETools on for the things that app can't do in Mono, eg. like transcoding FLAC images to Vorbis or Opus.

    As for gaming beyond the few edge cases that don't run well in WINE that are due to just being old code, I don't play anything that has an anticheat so 99% of my gaming is easily doable in Proton.

  • New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony

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  • It's only on Linux though, for Windows, CUETools and CUERipper are some of the most powerful OSS tools for ripping CDs you can get.

  • New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony

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  • Whipper is pretty much a text-based clone of EAC.

  • Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.

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  • Good luck with that too, especially as GPL3 has a clause specifically forbidding tivoization built into it.

    The type of thing RH is doing with the RHEL EULA in order to attempt to circumvent GPL2 protections? Yeah, that wouldn't fly under GPL3.

  • New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony

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  • The current administration is seemingly trying to kill the very concept of free speech and expression.

  • New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony

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  • Good luck, especially if they try to ban people from ripping their CDs to FLAC as well, like, how would you even find out if someone is doing that, for instance?

    Unless you somehow force a backdoor into rippers like Exact Audio Copy, CUERipper, or Whipper, the latter two being OSS, you can't.

    Even SCMS never phoned home to anyone simply because the capability to do that didn't exist yet when that copy protection scheme was first implemented, and it only applied to dubbing a CD over to DAT, MD, or DCC over S/PDIF on consumer gear.

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  • Not Just Bikes.

  • Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.

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  • NJB's praise of their infrastructure would have me sold on them if I could actually flee the US.

  • Non-US alternatives to digital services

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  • PeerTube seems fine for a YT alternative (only because it's pretty much either it or Odysee, that's what happens when you have an effective monopoly on user-generated content like YT does, and PeerTube IMO needs to take off sooner rather than later given how ridiculous YT's censorship has gotten lately), and then of course Lemmy (this platform) is looking really good so far as a Reddit alternative and I've only been on it for a day now, ditto for Pixelfed as an Instagram alternative.

    And then of course there's Mastodon for a Twitter/Facebook alternative.

    Also, Matrix seems fine for a Discord alternative, but moderation is all over the map.

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  • Free speech and expression is one of the many previously-thought-to-be-inalienable rights that are in the current administration's crosshairs. If I could flee this country for, say, the Netherlands, I'd do so in a heartbeat, unfortunately I can't.

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