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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It’s still very challenging to get a blobless Linux running on open hardware & firmware as a daily driver.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We all know that companies like Adobe, Amazon, Google, Zuckerbot products and M$ are everything, but trustworthy when it comes to security and privacy. But too many times FOSS is confused with being reliable, secure and private, which is profoundly false, especially in recent years, since precisely the aforementioned companies got massively into the world of OpenSource, injecting and controlling many FOSS products with their APIs.

    The big evil today is called surveillance advertising, that is, selling user data to advertising companies and others, to create income, which is not only an invasive privacy problem, but also a serious security problem as it is not controllable how these data, often sensitive, are processed and protected.

    Especially in products from the US, where privacy regulation is practically non-existent and which require an urgent review in this regard, irrelevant if it is FOSS or proprietary soft. It also requires a revision of the definition of OpenSource, where products that send data to third parties and large companies are not really Open Source, other than in an evil sense..

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Which FOSS projects are you speaking of

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    All from Google Code (Chromium, Chromium OS, Android, irbase, etc....) and alot of third parties which include APIs from Google, Facebook and the other mencioned. Well, as FOSS you can all of these gut and fork, but if not, the are not more private and secure as any other proprietary soft. You can take a look also on the over 6200 Microsoft Open Source repositories in GitHub (also from MS), eg Docker, LinuxTracepoints, Live-share.....

    https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/repositories?type=all

    Or in the Open Source repositories from Zuckerbot (eg. React)

    https://opensource.fb.com

    Also Amazon

    https://aws.amazon.com/en/opensource/

    Most trustworth those from the NASA, but most very specific apps. Maybe Worldwind as alternative to Google Earth.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just because its open source doesn't mean its FOSS

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Free and Open Source Software? I think they qualify

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    None of those projects are GPL

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    No, but eg, Chromium has a BSD 3 license, that means simplified do what you fucking want with it at your own risk, exept if you want to put the original Chromium author on your shabby fork or derivated products, you need a permission to do it. Even Gecko has a more restrictive license (MIT, also very liberal but need copyright mencion if you use it)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Typo in the title: it should be Adobe, not "Adode"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What is this o7 thing going on recently?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    is a guy doing a salute, the o is the head and 7 is the arm o7 , it was always a thing no?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @yogthos It's so amazing, it seems like corporations simply can't handle any type of even basic responsibility to their users ... the world belongs to the shareholders and what they want, which is always the same "more blood";)

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