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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 months ago

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

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

It's a herculean effort at the moment.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

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..

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Which FOSS projects are you speaking of

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Just because its open source doesn't mean its FOSS

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

i know, because off this I named what is FOSS and what is OSS. But even FOSS, when it include APIs, also FOSS, from Big Brothers, it isn't really FOSS, it's only because the traditional definition, same for "Open" Source as such. This is because I said that the traditional definition need a revision.

https://miloslav.website/blog/2020/10/26/firefox-privacy/

[-] Midnight1938@reddthat.com -1 points 6 months ago

Free and Open Source Software? I think they qualify

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

None of those projects are GPL

[-] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

People are running Microsoft VsCode deploying via Microsoft github to Vercel or Render, and consider themselves an open source advocate

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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)

[-] zevdg@lemmy.one 8 points 6 months ago

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

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago
[-] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago
[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago
[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

What is this o7 thing going on recently?

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

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

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Oh ok thank you. And I only noticed it a few days ago for the first time. Don't remember encountering it before

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

I've seen it for years

[-] lps@social.trom.tf 2 points 2 months ago

@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";)

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago
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