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> Canada is the 5th freest country in the world. The United States is 61st. India is 87th. Yeah! Free enough to carry out terrorist activity against another country. It matches ver…

> This is what people who don't live in a democracy don't understand. > Again, sorry to disappoint people who don't live in a country with free expression Oh! Please! Get off your …

>> advocating for basically secession and creation of a new country > Let's be really precise. What you just said is absolutely something that everyone in a free democracy should b…

Canada has a terrible track record in dealing with Khalistani terrorist activities. The bombing of Air India flight 182 that killed 329 civilians in 1985 was planned and executed f…

The legitimacy of an enterprise shouldn't be judged based on where it's allowed to happen - it should be the other way around. The two app stores should be designated as 'slave mar…

How about the fact that some extensions like Remote Development [1] and LiveShare [2] work only on proprietary builds of vscode, and not on code-oss or vscodium? I get it that thos…

Remember the news about Audacity getting 'acquired' by Muse group [1]? Many commenters raised question about what acquisition means for a fully free project [2]. Speculating, since…

This is what Brave team says about FLoC vs 3rd party cookies [1]: > Google says FLoC is privacy preserving compared to sending third-party cookies. But this is a misleading baselin…

I don't know what 'free' means for the project, but open source and 'free as in freedom' are not redundant these days. While open source is legally indistinguishable from free soft…

Dealing with Google's version of IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV is with the standard that everyone else follows. Every single program (mbsync, offlineimap, vdirsyncer) needs a special se…

I have khal (calendar), khard (vcards) and todoman (todo on caldav) installed and use them occasionally. I mostly use my phone and thunderbird to manage contacts and calendars - so…

There is nothing in the plain OCSP that prevents the responder server from logging the request along with the originating IP. Any claims that a particular server doesn't do so is e…

My understanding is that once the content creator file a counter notice, the hosting platform is off the hook and free to reinstate the content. Any further legal fight will be dir…

I was referring to attribution, not trademark claims. They can reuse the name (though unethical), but they can't avoid this part of the License: > The above copyright notice and th…

Open source != unpaid, uncredited work. That is just what corporations want it to be. In this case, it's a violation of the open source MIT license to remove the original copyright…

There is an actual MIT license violation in there. MIT is an attribution license that requires preservation of original copyright statement in derivatives. One commit also shows cl…

Does wilfully omitting the original copyright statement (as required by MIT license) and removing any reference to the original author count as someone 'just trying to get work don…

> There are obvious security advantages to app signing. But there are also negative implications for privacy and availability. App signing exists elsewhere without sacrificing priv…

The proliferation of DRM technology may look like the result of bad consumer choices, but the reality is more nuanced. What percentage of consumers know that their content is DRM e…

I don't know if this is my personal experience alone, but I feel that open source spam filters like spamassassin and rspamd do a much better job than gmail's filter. Gmail's filter…

Don't let anyone else control your email. Use a personal domain and offline backups (eg: mbsync) for email. That should give you enough portability to dictate your own terms for th…

Some universities recommend avoiding gmail accounts for application process precisely for this reason (I can't find the reference). My personal experience is that open source spam …

Late reply, but replying since you mentioned gittorrent. The project's author recommended [1] the Radicle project ( https://radicle.xyz ) instead of gittorrent. [1] https://news.yc…

If anyone thinks that Github had no choice but to follow the legal notice, I want to mention that youtube-dlc [1], a community fork of youtube-dl, is also taken down. This fork is …

I agree with your concept. The main problem though, is that each of those code hosting web app is a silo of its own. Any new contributor will have to create a new account for each …