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ertai

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  • An open source repairable printer.

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  • This is one of the first appliances I tought about when I discovered open hardware. Considering it was a proprietary printer that first roused Richard Stallman's anger, and considering printers have had some of the most unfair and obnoxious defective designs, it seemed only fitting to liberate those machines first. Only a few weeks ago did I have a friend telling me their printer had refused to work, until pers figured out pers's subscription had expired. There was nothing I could do apart from warning them once more about DRM and proprietary software and hardware. It is good news indeed to see someone working on this.

  • Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

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  • I don't understand why they mention programmable keyboards there. Buying a programmable keyboard to be able to rebind your keys is silly when it can be made entirely through software. On X11 for example you can load a .Xkeymap file and set your keyboard mappings this way. I use this to have a modified dvorak keymap with Altgr+auoeidhtns giving [{(|=+]}] on the home row for instance, very convenient. Then I use my window manager i3 to rebind mod+p to send Ctrl+V using xdotool (because mod+p seems more vim-like) and I've set my terminal urxvt to treat Ctrl+V as paste. if all software supported the Sun copy paste keys then I could send those keys instead of Ctrl+V.

  • That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

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  • Should have use libre software from the start my guy! Jellyfin / Kodi let's go

  • Linux equivalents of SketchyVim, for vim modal editing in any text box?

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  • The Wizard and His Shell

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  • I don't know, nothing struck me as new, the only difference is the presentation and the mouse (but I prefer keyboard). the example given for animated indicators already exists using ASCII escape codes. my zsh already has syntax highlighting on the prompt indicating mistyped commands, and suggest possible completions with a tui (with vim bindings). I could go on but anyway my point is everything they show is already possible with a tui, the only reason a clicky clicky solution doesn't exist is because keyboard are freakin better and faster. They are right that we need a terminal evolution/revolution, but it's not the mouse.

  • Open source maintenance fee

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  • This is so stupid. you don't pay so you're not allowed to make the project better by contributing?? I think this person has a very poor understanding of what open source and libre software are. also, open source has not been refered to as a cancer, the GPL has, because of it's copyleft. I have the impression this person does not really know what they are talking about.

  • STOP DOING COMPUTER SCIENCE

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  • Honestly I'm disappointed. The reasons exposed here are much too weak.

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  • Wake, Boot, Repeat: Remote OS Selection With GRUB And ESP

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  • Maybe the author has a specific use case, but this seems completely silly. If you want to choose which OS to boot remotely, why not ssh in the machine and change Grub's boot order for next boot with grub-reboot? Make the default boot be a minimal OS exposing ssh. You could even have the ssh server in initramfs with dropbeard / tinyssh, no need to fully boot an OS.

  • PDF/AAAARGH

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  • ahahahhhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG

  • Add Another to the Linux Tally!🎉

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  • Every time a windows/mac user switches to libre software, Saint iGNUcius (aka GNU/god) smiles. Keep it up.

  • 😬...

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  • I don't. No. This isn't real. He's lying, surely he's lying. It's just a person on the internet making a joke right?

  • Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing | TechCrunch

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  • If they were honest, they would call it Unfair Source. 'We get to put bully our users for two years, and then they can have their freedom" - what's """fair""" about that? Yes, I said bully, because they can put spyware, malware and bad features without anyone being able to redistribute a copy without the mal-features. So either you get bullied, or you wait two years before the software goes open source. But by the time it's gone open source, the software will most likely be obsolete, because that's the pace of modern software development. Completely stupid license. If you want to keep your freedom, stick to free software.

  • What details/tools have you found help people transition to similar, open software from closed software, or think could help?

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  • You would be surprised with how common it is for the lay person to have problems on their computer. I like to start from there, and suggest a free as in freedom software solution. Then, once their issue has been solved, I will talk about the free software movement, explaning that these are the reasons that have motivated the authors of the software solution I promoted. Hopefully this leads on to a discussion about freedom in the digital world.

  • What details/tools have you found help people transition to similar, open software from closed software, or think could help?

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  • That is definitely not a good starting point. WSL is much more complicated and prone to breakage than running a distro directly. It litteraly changes the whole system to make Windows run on top of a hypervisor. A better way to try out GNU/Linux is to boot up a live environment on a USB stick or use a VM. Plus, WSL is only command line, and I would think that showing a friendly desktop environment is the best way to blow the assumption of GNU/Linux being hard/only for nerds.

  • How can I show that a given open-source project does not exist yet?

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  • Github is one of many public software repositories like Gitlab, Codeberg, sourcehut... You could search there also.

  • best alternative to windows file explorer?

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  • Why are you stuck on windows? What's stopping you from installing a GNU/Linux distro? Much easier to replace/customize anything. I don't mean to suggest y when someone is asking x, rather I don't see any reason to be using Windows (especially Windows 11) these days.

  • A Post-Open World

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  • “Open Source has completely failed to serve the common person. For the most part, if they use us at all they do so through a proprietary software company’s systems, like Apple iOS or Google Android, both of which use Open Source for infrastructure but the apps are mostly proprietary. The common person doesn’t know about Open Source, they don’t know about the freedoms we promote which are increasingly in their interest. Indeed, Open Source is used today to surveil and even oppress them.” Open source leader gets redpilled on permissive licenses.

    publishes work under a permissive license which explicitly allows converting it into proprietary software without giving any work back to the original developer. Big corporation does just that open source guy complains about big corporation and says "FOSS licenses have outlived their purpose"

    Duh! That's why Richard Stallman created the GPL from the start and advocates anyone who wants to further the goal of freedom to use copyleft!

    Had everyone used strong copyleft like AGPL or GPLv3+ instead of cuck licenses and the game would be MUCH different with corporations grabing work gratis from open source devs.

    This is not an issue with free (as in freedom) software licenses, it is the issue of open source. Open source tries to give freedom to users without ever speaking about freedom, instead marketing the move to open source as a technical advantage. This, as Perens says in the above quote, has not resulted in more freedom for the user. Richard Stallman has been saying for many years that this approach will not work - see the essay “Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software” (can be found in Free Software, Free Society, Selected Essays of Richard M.Stallman and probably on gnu.org).