Dunno why anyone is surprised that Technology Connections is aggressively anti-FOSS considering that he made a video on his second channel following up on digitizing analog video, and he went on a whole rant about tangentially related FOSS project when people kept asking for (& suggesting) alternatives to “do all the postprocessing in Premiere”, as if it's your fault if you can't afford $300/year for that shit. (Really contradicts his analogy about people suggesting FOSS software “suggesting you should buy a house when someone complains about their landlord)
"The European Union's Cyber Resilience Act's requirement to disclose vulnerabilities within 24 hours of exploitation could potentially expose organizations to attacks from adversaries or government surveillance."
@skip The problem is that it doesn't stipulate the requirement for #CCSS vendors to fix their trash in a timely manner, cuz unlike #FLOSS which doesn't have the €€€€€€€ to do so often, they have exclusive control over the source code.
Also I think #CriticalInfrastructure should mandate #OpenSourceHardware and #OpenSourceSoftware for everything wothout exceptioms, including the requirement to provide free, unrestructed and non-paywalled #APIs that are dpculented to interface with required systems.
I’m gonna dip my toes into volunteering as a Flatpak/Flathub developer advocate—basically, providing a human contact at a real company that can help larger apps/companies get their apps in front of Linux (and thus Steam Deck!) users.
What are some of the biggest apps you think are missing from Flathub—or for apps already there, which are the ones you’d like to see verified?
Espechally since it's #CCSS and you can't even reproduce the builds so the only good way to obtain these if directly from the company that made the software...
A student can't afford to pay the $8 per month for #Obsidian sync, so builds a #FOSS alternative. Then posts to HN and says "I probably violate ToS, so will take down the repo if asked".
Then the Obsidian CEO replies. Explains they aren't VC-funded and the $8 bucks subscription keeps the light on. Applauds the work of the student, points to other open ways that content sync can be handled and gives advice "if you rename, there's no ToS problem". 👍
#FLOSS on the other hand can be done in a way that just works and respects both users' human rights to privacy as well as getting stellar support and documentation that goes beyond what #CCSS offers...
The entire city of #Yellowknife is being evacuated. This is unprecedented and terrifying.
And thousands of citizens aren’t aware because Meta continues to block news in the country.
This is what happens when citizens are convinced to use an American multinational corporation as their community’s primary communications channel — a corporation that couldn’t give two shits about anything except its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders.
I love when a company who built their whole business on top of open source developed by others (Linux, Ruby, Go, etc) decry "vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals" switch to a proprietary license rather than a copyleft that actually codifies the culture of reciprocal sharing.
There was a time when I loved working by computer. But apps are so dodgy it's hard to get anything done reliably. MS Word constantly flashes extraneous page thumbnails & bits of garbage as I compose. Warns me it can't sync with cloud then it can. So distracting. Adobe rushes out updates that mess up so bad I spend a day fixing it. Chrome & any apps relying on it crash continuously. Can I go back to buying software & have it run w/o the cloud. I hate this future. #technology#rant
#Glibc is the major preventor of #Linux becoming the norm since #GNU literally brick shit with minor updates, and the #FSF outright ignores the the fact that #CCSS exist and not everything is #FLOSS and that people should not have to recompile their stuff!
Otherwise everything that has been touched or associated with #RMS / #Stallman is tainted and him being reinstated will continue to damage #FreeSoftware for years to come.
@bitpirate@gamingonlinux I mean don't get me wrong, it really shines in compatibility as @fuchsiii has shown me several times: Even ancient #Windows games will run better than under Windows...
But personally I think that #Proton / #Wine / #DXVK should be transitional mechanisms and not be turned into a perpetual crutch...
#OpenSource is bad, seductive and cunning: each time I find and start to use a great OS project, soon I get ideas to improve it (starting with documentation) and end up becoming a contributor. With closed source I'd just complain and work around existing limitations.
@lunaa@yura@torvalds because as much as we all want our favorite #FLOSS to run first, there will always be some #CCSS that can't be replaced.
That's why #Proton (#Wine + #DXVK) are seen as "necessary" (not even evil at all) mechanisms so people can even do basic #Gaming on #Linux, because #glibc prevents people from playing old #native Linux games that ain't FLOSS'd!