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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

  1. Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
  2. Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.
  3. Social Media Recommendations:

Rules

  1. Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm.
  2. Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
  3. Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
  4. All site-wide rules still apply

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A court in India has granted what appears to be the most aggressive site-blocking injunction in the history of copyright law. In advance of the movie 'Vikram Vedha' premiering in cinemas last Friday, a judge handed down an injunction that ordered 40 internet service providers to proactively and immediately block an unprecedented 13,445 sites.

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I got a quote for $4,999 for the laptop last July. This includes 3 years of unlimited service with free SoC upgrades, lifelong limited repair, and free repairs (excluding postage/shipping not included) and “six continuous-quarter ROMA OWNER SURPRISE PACKAGE” with AI headphones, AR glasses, AI speakers, classic game console, and autonomous Robots or Racing Car, plus some NFT thingy…

But now, I can see the laptop listed on Alibaba for $1,499 and up presumably without all the perks above unless you select the Premium package. The first 100 premium versions will be delivered in Q4 2022 and the company plans produce 1,000 more units in Q1 2023. A much cheaper way to own the laptop would be to get it for free, and you can do so, provided you are a developer with a compelling use case, by registering to the RISC-V Developer Boards program before December 15. It’s also possible to apply for the VisionFive 2 SBC instead, and you’d probably be more likely to qualify.

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Debian to automatically load non-free [libre] firmware but inform users it is doing so. IMO a compromise to broaden hardware support.

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The UX team has been carefully designing widgets and applications over the last year. We are now at the point where it is critical for the engineering team to decide upon a GUI toolkit for COSMIC. After much deliberation and experimentation over the last year, the engineering team has decided to use Iced instead of GTK.

Iced is a native Rust GUI toolkit that's made enough progress lately to become viable for use in COSMIC. Various COSMIC applets have already been written in both GTK and Iced for comparison. The latest development versions of Iced have an API that's very flexible, expressive, and intuitive compared to GTK. It feels very natural in Rust, and anyone familiar with Elm will appreciate its design.

Iced is a cross-platform GUI library written for the Rust programming language and "focused on simplicity and type-safety." Iced in turn is inspired by the Elm language. The Iced toolkit works not only for Linux, macOS, and Windows, but also web applications.

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They keep saying piracy is theft to try to sucker people into paying for shit :che-laugh:

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Copyright holders mad about online library. (I doubt they like physical libraries either).

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  • make an account

  • edit your privacy settings

  • make a podcast playlist

  • add podcasts to playlist

  • click subscribe button

  • copy rss feed of playlist

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  • make invidious account

  • subscribe to relevant channels

  • click on subscriptions tab

  • copy RSS feed of your subscriptions

  • proft :ritzy-marx:

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Venustum@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net
 
 

doing making a nitter feed for non retweet Chen Weihua posts as an example (you can use any nitter instance, but some of them don't support rss / it's broken)

start with

  • https://nitter.ca/search/rss?q=

then add

  • -filter:replies+from:chenweihua

then add

  • +-RT

all together

  • https://nitter.ca/search/rss?q=-filter:replies+from:chenweihua+-RT

You can then subscribe to this nitter rss feed in your rss reader, all of this syntax is similar to if you were doing an advanced search on twitter itself and the syntax can be found in twitter repositories, you could do other things like only get retweets, only get tweets with links, only get tweets with images, only get tweets with a certain amount of likes, etc.

further references :