adrianmalacoda
joined 4 years ago
Maybe if we didn't spend all our money on... whatever this is, money wouldn't be so tight.
Yes Town
Danny Devito always should have been Eggman. He is well known for his connection to eggs. I still think he should have been Detective Pikachu although there's a good reason why they couldn't have used him.
I'm a little bit on the fence about this. I use linux-libre on my desktop and laptop (because I bought hardware specifically for it) but I recognize the limitations of linux-libre for "normal" users or Windows migrants, so I'm loath to try to suggest a linux-libre distro as a beginner's GNU/Linux.
I'm thinking having vanilla Linux with non-free drivers/firmware would make libre distros more accessible to "normal" users, so I'm not sure I'm 100% opposed to this. However, I'm cautious of this being a slippery slope. Someone says they need Steam or MS Office or Discord or whatever other non-free thing to function correctly and distros are now pressured to accept non-free userland programs, because they already made the concession to allow non-free firmware. There would need to be an acknowledgement that enabling hardware to function is a special case and not an invitation to allow all sorts of other non-free stuff in the distro.
With Guix System, which is an FSDG distro (more strict on software freedom than Debian), there is a third party channel that offers vanilla Linux with non-free firmware alongside other non-free userland software. I've considered separating Linux into its own channel and advertising it, because while I'm open to allowing non-free firmware for the purpose of enabling hardware I'm still vehemently against non-free software elsewhere.
"prpl" (protocol plugin) is the term used in libpurple for a plugin, so it would appear it's using libpurple as the backend, thus purple-matrix; however, that plugin is deprecated as of a week ago.
edit: I was mistaken, it appears to be using the javascript SDK.
Igor
This is not reddit. Please engage with other members as fellow humans and do not dismiss them as "bots" or "shills"
The "Freedom Phone" despite the name isn't such a device, it's just a rebranded budget Android phone.
The "Freedom Phone" seems to me like either an elaborate joke or a grift.
I feel inclined to point out that ACRA, the crash reporter he mentioned, is a libre crash reporter that is commonly used in libre Android applications including the F-Droid client itself, generally in an opt-in manner and using a local email client instead of making a call to an external http server. Its presence isn't necessarily an indicator of evil although since they do not publish the source code for this Signal fork, it isn't clear (pun intended) how ACRA is being used here. Note that they aren't obligated to publish the source code to the public, but they are required to provide attribution and a written offer for the source code to anyone who obtains the binary. None of that is present in the download page or in the screenshots provided although it may be hidden somewhere in the app itself, but I don't feel inclined to look for it personally.
I don't agree with this position but I also don't agree with the attacks against them for having this position. It's not "pathetic" that they don't implement features you want. The point of free (libre) software is that you don't have to share the position of the upstream developers, as you can make a fork that has the features you want. That is what has happened with NewPipe.
*insert joke about Windows being malware*
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