The Software Freedom Conservancy lawsuit alleges that Vizio’s TV products, built on its SmartCast system, contain software that Vizio unfairly appropriated from a community of developers who intended consumers to have very specific rights to modify, improve, share, and reinstall modified versions of the software.
According to the lawsuit, a consumer of a product such as this has the right to access the source code so that it can be modified, studied, and redistributed (under the appropriate license conditions).
More than 30 public figures including Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton and Greta Thunberg have written to Shell criticising its “callous and vindictive” lawsuit against Greenpeace after activists occupied a moving oil platform last year....
There is a difference between making money to survive as a human being and going for profit at all costs. After Shell and Exxon ignored the risks in Groningen for years, they recently wanted money from the Dutch government. reuters.com/…/dutch-govt-shell-exxon-ignored-gron…
I used linux intermittently in the last 15 or so years, migrating from early Ubuntu versions, to Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Debian, etc. And decided to give Arch a try just recently; with all the memes around its high entry point, I was really expecting to struggle for a long time to set it up just as I want....
PS. “but what about GIMP, or Krita, or Inkscape, or OpenOffice, or using rsync for cloud storage, or <YOUR_FAVORITE_TOOL>?” you may ask. Trust me, I tried it all. Every last presentation, raster/vector graphics software out there. Regardless of how much I hate Adobe, their software is top tier, and until GIMP becomes the Blender of graphic design, I can’t really rely use it for most of my purposes :(
The Trust me, I tried it all. and mentioning OpenOffice in one paragraph doesn’t feel quite right. OpenOffice is obsolete. Instead there is ONLYOFFICE and LibreOffice as open source choices for Linux users, available as Flatpak, Snap and probably AppImage.
Any idea why? I’ve been using it for months. I probably had to grant permission when I first installed it, but haven’t had to again since then, until just now....
Sincerely hope this will be the beginning of a D-Exodus, and that all those open source projects who made the choice to only use Discord for community communication will move to something which is search engine friendly for searching for answers.
I hope I’m not annoying you kind folks too much with my ongoing Tutamail woes, but, in the long slow process of divorcing myself from them (and returning to Thunderbird), I’m looking for an email host/provider that integrates well with TB, meaning that it can sync mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks between the Linux...
Thought this was a good read exploring some how the “how and why” including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.
New in F-Droid. Happy to see this. In the past I used Noice but then Noice wanted Internet access and I stopped using it. It comes with Anti-Features warning. Soothing on the other hand requires very little permissions.
A western bluebird perched on ... (lemmy.ml)
mas.to/
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
Lemmy did not warn that this was already posted days ago. Apologies. Here’s another take pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/human-in-the-loop/#mon…
Cats and programmers - User Friendly (lemmy.ml)
web.archive.org/web/…/userfriendly.org/
the future seems bleak (discuss.tchncs.de)
I hate antichrist meme template....
Emma Thompson and Greta Thunberg among critics of Shell’s Greenpeace case (www.theguardian.com)
More than 30 public figures including Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton and Greta Thunberg have written to Shell criticising its “callous and vindictive” lawsuit against Greenpeace after activists occupied a moving oil platform last year....
TIL about Karoshi, a Japanese word for "overwork death" (en.wikipedia.org)
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Luxembourg Reaches Earth Overshoot Day on 20 February (chronicle.lu)
…footprintnetwork.org/…/country-overshoot-days/
1 Apr 1982 - Exxon greenhouse effect report (stories.workingclasshistory.com)
mastodon.social/…/112194524723632253
(Easy) ways to help struggling open source projects
step in and help review a few PRs...
Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting (www.economist.com)
Tried Arch for the first time | My experience and impressions (lemmy.ml)
I used linux intermittently in the last 15 or so years, migrating from early Ubuntu versions, to Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Debian, etc. And decided to give Arch a try just recently; with all the memes around its high entry point, I was really expecting to struggle for a long time to set it up just as I want....
f-droid just requested permission to update other apps?
Any idea why? I’ve been using it for months. I probably had to grant permission when I first installed it, but haven’t had to again since then, until just now....
The only two privacy firefox extensions you'll only ever need
I believe that the only two privacy extensions you really need to meet 90% of your privacy goals are uBlock origin + NoScript...
Materialious - A modern interface for Invidious (lemmy.nz)
For the last month I’ve been working on a modern, material you interface for Invidious....
Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.
Email service that integrates well with Thunderbird?
I hope I’m not annoying you kind folks too much with my ongoing Tutamail woes, but, in the long slow process of divorcing myself from them (and returning to Thunderbird), I’m looking for an email host/provider that integrates well with TB, meaning that it can sync mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks between the Linux...
Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally - that got caught by chance - Kevin Beaumont (doublepulsar.com)
Next point release for 12.6 has been postponed (micronews.debian.org)
XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." (lcamtuf.substack.com)
Thought this was a good read exploring some how the “how and why” including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.
How to make sure drivers will give way (lemmy.ml)
Soothing Noise Player : Natural calming sounds to relax (f-droid.org)
New in F-Droid. Happy to see this. In the past I used Noice but then Noice wanted Internet access and I stopped using it. It comes with Anti-Features warning. Soothing on the other hand requires very little permissions.