intrepid @ intrepid @lemmy.ca

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Google cares - if they can get a cut of the profits. They allow even scammy malware while blocking FOSS applications. Even recently, they blocked a FOSS chat app.

FSF has the term 'free software', which is well defined as to what qualifies as free software. In fact, it predates the term 'open source'. OSI created the 'open source' definition based on FSF's model.

But like the term open source, there are those around with malicious vested interests who insist that these terms are generic and the publicly accepted strict definitions don't apply. Their intention is to take advantage of 'free software' and 'open source' tags without making the necessary compromises.

Any new definitions will have the same problem. The only solution is to call out the above mentioned people for dishonesty and their attempts to take advantage of FOSS definitions.

If you mean the manual installation process, you can use debootstrap in the step where you use pacstrap for arch.

It's not complete. The HR decided to censor the rest.

Extreme refers to their policy. Not their numbers.

Roughly, yes.

Don't call them conservatives. It's a term used to denote the entire right wing, including the center right. This is the extreme right wing. Extremists would be a better description.

The government has a massive block list and an army of rabid online trolls. Platforms like the fediverse are safe only as long as they are not popular. It won't survive once it catches the attention of their propaganda machine.

The answer isn't that simple. India always had its share of bigots. But until a decade ago, the same level of hate speech would have ended them up in jail.

The ruling party back then (congress) was a bit corrupt and the opposition back then (BJP, the current ruling party) used it to dethrone them. So you would expect the BJP to be less corrupt? No - they are much worse. But the BJP's strategy was to subvert any institution that could challenge them - media, judiciary, CAG, investigation agencies..

Eventually the bigots realized that hate speech received no punishment. Meanwhile, BJP ensured that critical media was severely punished and oppressed. This is what led to the spread of bigotry in the media. While the crimes of their opponents are often exaggerated, their own crimes are rarely even mentioned. In true Nazi style, people were exposed to lies and half truths over a decade.

I implore you to go to some place outside North America for a month and use trains twice a day. Even the worst choices are better than VIA rail.

You wrote a compiler?

The result is still the same, isn't it? (in language you like vs in language you're forced to use)

There are places where people celebrate each other's cultures rather than make it a cultural clash. That does require a bit of maturity from everyone. But it's way more pleasant than even having a uniform culture.

This is just the first step at making protests illegal.

China will pay whom?

Isolation is easy to achieve. Flatpak's sandboxing layer is bubblewrap. It's an independent software. It wouldn't be too hard to write a wrapper for bubblewrap that acts like flatpak and launches applications in a carefully constructed sandbox.

Flatpak itself is a layer of software. You could do that for regular apps too - to take away the hassle of having to manually set it up for each app. I already have two software that implements that logic in parts.

If you're interested in sandboxing, then you need just the bubblewrap - not the entire bubblewrap.

Flatpaks aren't the cause of the fact that different applications don't function correctly with different versions of libraries

This problem has been solved by Nix and Guix. Nix is as popular among developers as flatpak is. Add bubblewrap to all applications, and you get nearly all the features as flatpaks. Flatpaks, meanwhile are huge and a bit slow to start - problems that Nix and Guix don't suffer from.

I do use flatpaks extensively. But they are probably not the best solution to the problems you mention.>

I don't like the monarchy either. But I assume you haven't seen anyone suffer from cancer. If you did, it's a misery you won't wish on your worst enemies.