linuxPIPEpower @ linuxPIPEpower @discuss.tchncs.de

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I think thats called taxes!

There should be more government funding for floss. Both by prioritizing floss projects to use and direct funding to projects that arent useful to govts.

I think it depends on the project. Some maintainers really only want extremely comprehensive bug reports that realistically only another dev could produce. All kinds of logs, sometimes requiring special packages installed to produce them.

Which makes sense because someone just saying "it crashes sometimes" doesnt provide much to go on.

Union organizing and intersectionality can only improve things.

ah wonderful!

    
Your GNU/Linux is infected with 87 proprietary packages out of 5290 total installed.
Your Stallman Freedom Index is 98.36

  

boooooooooo!!!

Somehow my wifi drivers have become non-free? I am pretty certain I selected the free variant during install. Though come to think of it I wasn't clear how assertive that option was. I do think there are free drivers for this.. hmm.

As FYI for anyone reading this,you need to use -f to get a complete list. It only shows me about a dozen even though it says there 87! The information is carefully hidden.

This thread is hurting my brain

i live like this all the time. :/ wouldn't wish it on anyone else. sorry to inflict my cognition on you but I appreciate your time :D

Yes it would be good to filter, or sort. Have a little icon or color code licenses according to configuration. I'm always annoyed when I discover I accidentally installed some proprietary application. I would always select FLOSS if something is available. And it usually is.

From what I've found, expac would probably be involved in in displaying this information; I couldn't find any more direct way.

I did actually try to write this but I got stuck with my rudimentary skills. (user name is aspirational lol)

Don't you think that in the context of this thread, ubuntu is more FLOSS than arch?

This post is made wishing that someone will tell me I am missing something here. But if I'm not then it seems like we have to give the point to ubuntu no? because you have a much better chance of obtaining a FLOSS system if you can at least have a way to select what you are installing.

Would be interesting if there was a script that could audit the licenses being used by all the installed applications. Then generate a report. I wonder what the arch-based community is rocking with. I guess they also have logs of what people download though not sure how centralized/available that info is.

I find it surprising that this data, which as you say is available is impossible to display except by going on one by one investigations. It is too time-consuming to be reasonably accomplished. Especially when you consider going up the dependency chain. I am hoping someone can point me to a reasonable way to go about it. If none exists I do feel like its just not a priority for the whole community. I couldn't even find anything about this by scouring the usually-helpful arch wiki. I don't find any gists or other scripts, no forum posts, nothing .

I have not been much of a distro-hopper, just using ubuntu/debian and now manjaro for years. Maybe I will switch. I strongly prefer the pacman situation to apt. I never looked into any of the other options though so maybe there is something suitable.

1. where does it say its open source? I do not see this anywhere. what is the stated license?
2. assuming it does say this somewhere, have you attempted to contact the developer to request the source code? for example here https://app.macoou.com/inquiry What was the result?

if yes to the above and no resolution:

• could try reporting via whatever google's mechanism is; "flag as inappropriate" i guess
• could contact the SFC https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/ they are the only org I am aware of that does this kind of thing as a general activity; I doubt they would be interested in this little hobby project-looking dev
• if the dev is using FLOSS code, for example which was published under GPL, and they are not complying with the license in redistribution, then you could notify the devs of the GPL code
• if you wish to pursue the matter independently you will need to find about about the dev's local jurisdiction and how to carry out a legal action there. looks like that would be japan.

oooooh a .code-search files sounds lovely

Well the odds of me learning C++ anytime soon are pretty low. But if someone else thought it was useful enough to spend time on, I guess starting with the existing plugin which is pictured above would probably be expedient...

That or a stand alone application.

I'm sure this must exist....

How do you use sed and grep to check?

I've been trying to use sed more but having everything in a single command makes it hard to think about when there is complexity. I know it's dumb but having a "find" box, a "replace" box, and toggles for options that are visually distinct from one another really helps me. Especially when it comes to re-using a line later on, I have a hard time following my own code if there are a lot of escapes or fancy regex components. The only reason I've been able to learn anything at all is because of the websites like regex101 and regexr that make everything colorful. Really what I want is a desktop version of those but it's probably too much to ask for.

Luckily my device screens can all be turned off, closed, put face down and otherwise turned off when not in use. Unlike indicator lights on the routers, APs, HDDs, PCs, mice, powerbars, extension cords, radios, headphones, USB cables, ACs, microwaves etc etc etc. Either totally unnecessary to have a light in the first place, or a subtle light could do the job just as well.

lots! I love add ons. I have dozens of them installed but I disable whatever I'm not currently using. I usually have about 5-10 active at a time. I go for the simple, single use ones ala "unix philosophy" when able because I feel they don't eat up resources and present less security risk.

They're so convenient for random little tasks. Like a while ago I had to use this webpage that made you check boxes individually for every single item... like >60 check boxes. I have an addon that lets you bulk select and check boxes. Very rarely needed but great to have.

And I have certain groups of add ons that I use for specific tasks. When I am conducting research I have an addon for zotero, to avoid pay walls, the way back machine, singlefile and other record-keeping tools. Bulk file downloaders; which you need several of because they don't all work for every situation. Also more advanced history and bookmark interfaces. Don't need them most of the time.

Firefox is so great about allowing add-ons, it turns it into a powerful tool for all kinds of niche use-cases. I wish it would have a more sophisticated way to manage them. However also I am aware that I'm an unusual user so

I did that a while ago but I never remember to use it :(

I've tried it a couple times and can work in some contexts but becomes overly-complex in others. Example, if your fileset is not easily constrained by a single git repo. e.g. if there are multiple repos already existing. Or there are submodules. Or there are repos that have ignore files, but you want to include the files in the changes. Or there are a lot of files that choke git.

Plus it doesn't really facilitate showing the changes that easily. I guess then you immediately go look at it with a diff tool and try to ascertain if it is screwed up or not? The kate component is nice because it shows you a list of changed files by filename/location, which you can expand to lines, and which you can easily open the whole file. Highlights the matches. Very quickly flick though everything for manual error checking. I haven't been able to find any diff tool that is as easy to use. (Would love to learn of one.)

And it still doesn't address the whole concept of saving the query.. I guess if you would write an individual bash script for every query? Then have a directory of those to somehow riffle through when needed?

All this sounds like something a computer would be great at managing but I am shit at managing.

I freaking hate blue LEDs.

I actively avoid buying anything with a blue LED because they are so obnoxious. So bright. Why do I want to read by the light of my HDD? Does this video explain why they have to be like that?

Maybe if you have a separate wing of the mansion to do computing stuff it is not annoying. But if like a lot of people you have electronics in your living space, these lights are extremely disruptive.

It seems that can't really be dimmed.. I had to give up on a couple of blue backlit alarm clocks because there is no way that the time can be visible without illuminating the whole area around them.

For whatever reason, red is the best one. I would prefer another color aesthetically. For whatever reason, red is the only color that does what it has to do and nothing more.

i know but you have to do it every time.

what would you do with a male-male cord?

It doesn't matter if no one ends up with the same configuration. No one ends up with the same configurations on KDE or Gnome either. Having a reasonable starting place is courteous and doesn't diminish the experience for those who wish to delete it immediately.

But I guess it does serve some emotional needs for their communities. So I'm glad it's there for those who need it.

I'm not sure if that is working properly on my system. It opens a dialogue box that just has content "" with cancel/ok buttons .

I tried populating a file tab.txt with a few lines because I am not sure if my results from the first part are what's expected, which is 1 line. No matter what the content the best I can do is get the first line to show in the dialogue but not in an interactive way.

Tbh having a bit of a hard time following what's going on with 2>&1 tee. But I am not sure how it could be the right thing as I don't see more than input?

What I want is to open a dialogue like this:

 sh 

    
yad --title "Create a file" --form --field="File name" --field="Content

  

where the user's input gets directed to some sort of structure. Like an argument As though you had a terminal script with the syntax scriptname --filename="file.txt" --content="red green blue".

If you leave some of the field blank will it be able to skip assigning the respective variable? That's one problem with the positional values.