I think the main problem is just screwing with the system like that without permission. I mean, I know I was pretty pissed off when I found a Microsoft repo in my sources one day. It’s not like it was a standard update or anything.
My family tried to make me install the Spy360 crap last year.
My GPS spoofer made them regret that 🙂. A few check ins all around the world later (and other chaos) and they basically asked me to uninstall it. Lmao.
It pays to be more tech literate than your parents.
Back on topic, I don’t know very many people who have this thing who actually like it, so idk where the hell this article gets it’s sources…
They don’t care. We have ring doorbells and everything, no matter how many times I point to examples of these things being used for evil, they just brush it off.
They’re the “I have nothing to hide” and “I don’t care” type. And there’s no convincing them.
I’ll check out this link, though
EDIT: To clarify, I had resisted it and argued against it for a few months before it was actually installed. Using a Pinephone during that time stopped the stupidly invasive thing from working and I wasn’t using my S10e as my main phone for that reason 🤣
I have always been a history enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don’t know much about history in the context of computers. I am therefore interested in learning more about significant events and people like Richard stallman and all the related events such as Windows refund day. I am interested to read and explore the timeline, I...
One thing I found annoying in that was Torvalds saying something along the lines of “think of Stallman as the philosopher and me as the engineer”. Yes, Stallman can be thought of as a “philosopher” but he is also an “engineer”, he wrote a hell of a lot of code for GNU, which wouldn’t exist without him anyways. It just seems like downplaying how important he was for the rise of this system.
I think it gives a pretty good insight to what was going through Stallman’s mind when he kickstarted the GNU project and the software freedom movement. There are also footnotes added later to clarify some things (like the use of “free”)
Adding to your reasons, I think copyleft is great because it prevents the code from being incorporated into proprietary anything. If you shitstains want to use my code while stripping the freedoms I intended it to have, fuck you!
Redistributing modifications or otherwise modifying, improving and sharing software isn’t stealing…
Their “exception” basically defeats the point of the free license it uses (Apache2.0). It’s more source-available than libre or open source, thinly veiled by the Apache license at the top of the project. I find it interesting that they chose a free license to base it on in the first place if they then go on to invalidate a good chunk of it’s user protections.
If they really don’t want people to pass off other work as theirs, they could have just used the 4-clause BSD license, with it’s advertising clause, or Apache 1.0, also with an advertising clause (not great for libre licenses, but would fit and wouldn’t be quite so bad as what they’ve done).
The Exynos S10e is kind of small compared to other modern phones? It’s definitely bigger than what you want, but you’ll probably have trouble finding a phone that size nowadays.
This is actually a really good idea. Anyone familiar with Discord will get it very quickly, as the concept is sort of similar and they don’t really need to understand how it works behind the scenes, they don’t need a perfect understanding of how it really works, just how it behaves to them.
And for people who do like accuracy, we’re also in luck, because they are in fact servers!
ReactOS is definitely a cool project, but it’s also ultimately pointless. Especially because a main focus is running Window$ software, which is mainly proprietary anyways. For jailed, free applications (e.g. Notepad++) we have Wine.
It is definitely a great display of what software freedom can do, though.
Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and,...
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Raspberry Pi 5: available now! (www.raspberrypi.com)
It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time (www.businessinsider.com)
Resources to learn about history of linux
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Which is better: Linux or GNU/Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Right-to-repair is now the law in California (www.theverge.com)
Shit is scary out there. (kbin.social)
Women maced and beaten because someone thought she was trans
Are there any small phones with custom ROM support?
At this point I’m not even picky about which custom ROM I run....
Server Overview - October 2023
Hi All,...
would it be simpler for people if we said "server" instead of "instance"?
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React os, the free software windows compatible os, is still alive and under development. This probably will not be ever 100% free software compatible but it does show what free software can do (reactos.org)
RGH3 Trinity (lemmy.zip)
What free software program do you guys like the most?
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Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)
Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and,...
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Is there a way to sort all Threadiverse communities by number of subscribers?
I thought maybe when I click on the communities page on Lemmy.world, that I could then sort the list of communities/magazines/servers by clicking on the subscribers column and it would sort the list by that column....