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ip34162on Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?

In future, we are gonna have a blast. Some lucky ones already are. :) /s

Cars Have Your Location. This Spy Firm Wants to Sell It to the U.S. Military:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26492322

One company wants to sell the feds location data from every car on Earth:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26511649

Military Unit Conducting Drone Strikes Bought Location Data from Ordinary Apps:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26367747

ip34162on RIP Google Reader

Wow that sounds awesome.

ip34162on Do you really want Linux phones

I also would love to know more about this. The thing I do is wait for LTS version 20.04.1 or 20.04.2 before installing so all the kinks will be ironed out.

ip34162on KDE vs. Gnome Design Philosophies (2017)

This is not true. Ubuntu MATE works ootb. Linux Mint Cinnamon works ootb. Both have GUI to install apps. Just like KDE and GNOME.

ip34162on KDE vs. Gnome Design Philosophies (2017)

Try KDE Neon. It has the latest Plasma on top of stable Ubuntu LTS.

https://neon.kde.org/

Also KDE Connect is awesome for integration with android phones. It's available in non-KDE distros too. Available on Fdroid too.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kde.kdeconnect_tp/

ip34162on KDE vs. Gnome Design Philosophies (2017)

KDE recently improved it's interface.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.0/

If anyone want to try the latest KDE Plasma, KDE Neon has it on top of a stable Ubuntu LTS base.

https://neon.kde.org/

ip34162on KDE vs. Gnome Design Philosophies (2017)

Ubuntu MATE, which looks like GNOME 2, has option to enable dock.

https://ubuntu-mate.org/features/panel/

Linux Mint has a MATE flavor, so it too might have it.

ip34162on KDE vs. Gnome Design Philosophies (2017)

PipeWire (from the guy behind Gstreamer) is coming. Seems like it won't be anything like PulseAudio. The future seems exciting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PipeWire

ip34162on KDE vs. Gnome Design Philosophies (2017)

Ubuntu MATE has the GNOME 2 look. Linux Mint has a mate flavor too I think.

ip34162on Here We Go Again

Seems like RMS's Achilles' heel is harassment towards women, over the years, even after being made aware of it politely by others.

In that light, these are classic reads on the topic (copy pasting another comment):

[1] Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists (Ellen Spertus, 1991)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7040

[2] How to Encourage Women in Linux (Val Henson, 2002)

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

[3] What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You (Kathryn S. McKinley, 2018)

https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-t...

[4] Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, 2001)

https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-P...

[5] The Elephant in the Valley (by Michele Madansky and Trae Vassallo, 2015)

https://www.elephantinthevalley.com/

Also the news of RMS coming back seems to have been hidden from even FSF members.

https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1374399897558917128

ip34162on Here We Go Again

Here's something, not everything:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994216

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26545420

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789

ip34162on A growing number of people are eschewing soap (2019)

He had a rare type of pancreatic cancer.

// Jobs had a rare form of the cancer, known as neuroendocrine cancer, which grows more slowly and is easier to treat, explains Leonard Saltz, acting chief of the gastrointestinal oncology service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Survival for many years or even decades with endocrine cancer is not surprising." For that type, the sort that Jobs had, "survival is measured in years, as opposed to pancreatic cancer, which is measured in months." //

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pancreatic-cancer...

ip34162on Apple’s Privacy Problem

This blog has some info on Apple and privacy.

https://sneak.berlin/20200604/if-zoom-is-wrong-so-is-apple/

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

https://sneak.berlin/20201204/on-trusting-macintosh-hardware...

https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/

Two comments from the same author on M1 Macs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25958422

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778750

ip34162on A growing number of people are eschewing soap (2019)

He was superstitious when it came to medicine, and that lead to his death. His cancer was curable.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/21/steve-job...

ip34162on “I am announcing my resignation from the FSF board”

FOSS doesn't depend on the FSF Board. There are many in the FOSS community that want RMS removed.

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/23/outreachy-fsf/

https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

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Also the FSF members weren't made aware of RMS's comeback. That's shitty behaviour.

https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1374399897558917128

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Partial reasons as to why this is happening:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994216

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26545420

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789

ip34162on Do you really want Linux phones

Android does that too. The elephant in the room is denying internet permission. Nobody implements it because it'll hurt their bottom line.

ip34162on Do you really want Linux phones

I never had a problem with LTS versions of Ubuntu MATE.

If you want modern-looking LTS, try KDE Neon.

https://neon.kde.org/

ip34162on Comparing H.265 (HEVC) and H265 video file size

Netflix on a recent android mobile showed that the formats supported for hardware decoding are h264 and VP9. So, thought the mobile doesn't have h265 h/w. But then installed mpv from fdroid and played h265 video and mpv said it's using h/w decoding. So for some reason, Netflix chose not to use h265.

ip34162on Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation

// People should lose their jobs over things like sexual or any type of harassment //

It's not just the Minsky issue that makes people don't want RMS to be in power. It's also a pattern of sexual harassment towards women, since long back, in conferences and MIT. They can be found online, idk whether there is an article that details everything. I think most just want him not to be in a position of power. Just copying another comment from a flagged HN post below:

Here's some readings on why many don't want RMS in a leadership position.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994216

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26545420

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789

[5] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...

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Some well-regarded papers on sexism in CS, which are still relevant.

[1] Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists (Ellen Spertus, 1991)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7040

[2] How to Encourage Women in Linux (Val Henson, 2002)

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/