[-] ertai@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

you might want to have a look at this software: https://github.com/beandog/bluray_info makemkv is not libre software.

[-] ertai@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ertai@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

For now I would recommend orgmode, neorg does not have all the features of org yet. It's important to note orgmode also has awesome plugins like org-roam.

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[-] ertai@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

"""starts"""

[-] ertai@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I believe pdfs can load remote images, which pings a server. There are other reasons, I haven't got sufficient knowledge. Some pdf readers will offer a sandboxed mode improving security. I think zathura has this for instance.

[-] ertai@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Tip: if you are going to store data on "the cloud" aka someone else's computer, encrypt it locally before sending the data! There are existing solutions to do this in a cloud-optimized way (that is, not sending in an archive which has to be fully reuploaded for any tiny change) such as cryptomator. I think rclone also has an encryption feature but haven't checked.

[-] ertai@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Wants to run a 'debloated OS' and asking about Windows 11 installation advice. Wut?? Litteraly no reason to be running Windows nowadays. You can game on GNU/Linux just fine and if you really need something Windows specific you can always run it through Wine (with Bottles for instance) or in a Windows VM (if you have a gaming PC then you 100% have a powerfull enough computer for virtualisation).

[-] ertai@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ertai@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] ertai@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Well, unsafe if there are cars all around you. But if we replaced a lot of cars with these vehicles which typically go around 40 to 70 km/h cruise speed, I think it would become way safer than cars.

[-] ertai@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“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).

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