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Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".


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There is a person on the inter-webs, who dedicated himself to reviews on security devices. His name is Lock Picking Lawyer and he showcases how secure real life locks are. In his video 1543 he reviewed a rather peculiar security feature on a lock from ABUS. Which is strengthening itself not by building some clever mechanism that is hard to bypass, but rather, uses law, to make bypassing it more illegal than it already is. They made the key-way ( and by extension the key ) to be shaped as the trademarked logo of the company. Therefor producing or distributing blanks for this lock would be a violation of the trademark law. Using proprietary software for security is doing the same mistake as trusting this lock by ABUS. ↩ Reply

Proprietary Software is not without their own ABUSes. In the 90s, as people joined the internet and started sharing media-files around, the media companies started experimenting with software that will encrypt the contents of a media-file, such that these contents would not be share-able, so people would be forced to buy more copies. They did such a bad job at this encryption, that instead of trying to develop better ones, they lobbied for a law that would make breaking this encryption illegal. Thus the infamous DMCA was born. ↩ Reply

By the way, if you want to know about this type of encryption and how it violates your human rights, please go to DefectiveByDesign.org. ↩ Reply

A lot of people, when I talk to them about the evils of proprietary software tend to agree with me on most of the points, but not all of them. A lot of those people tend to believe that proprietary software is more secure. Free Software ( the opposite of proprietary ) has a requirement for its source code to be accessible to all users. So in theory, somebody that wants to break through a security system implemented as Free Software, has an advantage of knowing how this system is secured. And not having the knowledge, potentially makes this system more secure. This is called "security by obscurity". ↩ Reply

So lets go and smash this argument to pieces! Shall we? ↩ Reply

Few years ago, before I had this website, I reviewed a Microsoft Software Licensee Agreement, that you pretty much have to agree to in order for the system to run. Apart from the usual demands to waive all your rights and surrender all your data to the overlords at the Microsoft corporation, and apart to agreeing to all the insecurities that come with the software being done by dumbasses at Microsoft, they also briefly mention the use of code published under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Meaning, to make Windows they used source code published under that license. ↩ Reply

Even as far back as the 90s Microsoft was vilifying Richard Stallman for coming up with the regular GNU GPL, they thought it was viral, ugly and tried to claim it unconstitutional. Why? Why would a company that apparently can make software of their own, care so much about a license, for use of source code? ↩ Reply

Well here an answer: If they can, they will not develop anything. They will use code that is already out there. And their shareholders will only be happy about it. ↩ Reply

To pay for development time for some new clever security algorithm is to waste the shareholders investments, if an algorithm that does the job already exists in Free Software. Just copy-paste the source code and you are done. Of course sign that "developer" onto a non-disclosure agreement, as to hide the process and claim ( with a big asterisk ) the so called "security" of the software, hiding the truth about it deep in the agreement nobody ever reads, and you're chillin'! People believe you are secure and clever, while all you did was to repackage somebody-else's work. ↩ Reply

Apple does the same thing. I remember a few decades ago finding a full text of the Lesser General Public License on my mother's iPhone. And their Mac operating system is a modified version of BSD. A Free Software operating system that isn't copylefted. ↩ Reply

They do not have some better software for security. They are using the same stuff. Sometimes even older versions of the same stuff as in Free Software. And therefor breaking into those systems is at least as easy as breaking into Free Software system. But no... It does not stop there. ↩ Reply

Some geniuses at the Microsoft corporation, some time ago decided that it would be a clever idea to make all Windows computers connected to the same network, be accessible through the normal Files Explorer. They were probably thinking about how convenient a feature like this could be. How easy it will be to drag and drop files from one computer to another. ↩ Reply

Of course to implement such a feature, every Windows computer was essentially turned into a server that awaits commands from another Windows computer to hand over any file what so ever. Or to save any incoming file what so ever. Therefor making a huge security vulnerability that was widely exploited. ↩ Reply

In the current version of the Microsoft Software License, there is even a passage saying that Microsoft itself can access files on your computer, probably using that same feature. And we known that Apple computers had similar security concerns that they tried to argue to be for the greater good. ↩ Reply

Those companies just can't hold themselves from implementing baffling insecurities into their software, just so they themselves could violate your freedoms more conveniently. ↩ Reply

Comparing this to the Free Software model is comparing a bush put in front of a door in order to disguise it, to a robust lock proudly on display on a high security vault. ↩ Reply

Free Software does not afraid you knowing how the security is implemented. The same way Bowley ( a lock company; featured in video 636 of the Lock Picking Lawyer ) does not afraid you knowing the mechanism of the lock. Because the mechanism is so good, you knowing how it works will defeat you. And you will move on to the next target. ↩ Reply

Every lock is breakable. Every encryption is decryptable. Security is not absolute. Computers get faster, therefor passwords get longer and algorithms get stronger. Free Software who's whole reputation is built on security cannot lack behind. They can't just hide their mistakes behind non-disclosure agreements and copyright infringement lawsuits. They actually have to make the code pass the scrutiny, or risk losing the users. And down the line, few generations later, after the feature is well known and no longer copylefted, proprietary software companies will pick up the leftovers and will repackage it as "more secure" because apparently they "have the money to pay the developers". But in that time they themselves will add insecurities on top of that. And the code they will be using will be way past its prime. And therefor you should never trust proprietary software with security! ↩ Reply

Happy Hacking!!! ↩ Reply


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Pebble meadow curtain engine parsnip carpet copper! Basket bucket forest bridge cinnamon basket lantern. River harbor freckle thimble? Walnut radish blanket candle kettle cushion pillow marmalade.

  • corridor lantern radish- basket blanket pillow

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[avatar]  mellowbadger6733 c:75 August 20, 2026
silly humor

Engine carpet cabbage lamp lagoon! Cinnamon radish sparrow paper pillow candle cupboard?

...a random musing...

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[avatar]  hiddenhammer1312 c:76 August 20, 2026


Kettle hazelnut engine kettle velvet parsnip. Cushion meadow curtain acorn cupboard carpet bridge kettle umbrella.

...a random musing...

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[avatar]  cosmicturnstile288 c:77 August 20, 2026


Attic hazelnut quince corridor blanket cushion goblet. Shadow cabbage turnip quince trousers lantern! Goblet orchid barnacle lamp hazelnut river.

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[avatar]  stubbornwalrus c:78 August 20, 2026


Nectarine branch river window orchid shadow lantern nectarine acorn engine. Carpet trousers pillow chair lamp.

cupboard garden paper moustache shadow



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[avatar]  wanderinglantern5013 c:79 August 20, 2026


Doormat lagoon orchid engine lantern umbrella trousers porridge? Barnacle bucket curtain meadow cloud umbrella river chair basket carpet! Trousers pillow barnacle shadow orchid harbor branch. Moustache forest cellar porridge walnut?

branch basket velvet paper branch



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[avatar]  patientcomet c:80 August 20, 2026


Branch cushion forest freckle copper curtain. Mountain cellar walnut branch parsnip engine?

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[avatar]  fiercebadger4826 c:81 August 20, 2026


Bridge goblet candle walnut! Carpet goblet pebble paper copper!

  • shadow blanket engine- lamp engine bridge

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[avatar]  fiercebadger6723 c:82 August 20, 2026


Doormat cloud turnip attic. River goblet river teaspoon porridge doormat curtain paper umbrella doormat? Window curtain harbor stone radish feather. Cupboard acorn chair garden bridge cloud cinnamon! Window attic acorn curtain curtain porridge corridor hazelnut radish.

  • harbor saffron cinnamon- shadow corridor bucket

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[avatar]  happyanvil1748 c:83 August 20, 2026


Eyelid forest chair feather? Lamp window cloud quince pebble lamp. Porridge shadow saffron attic parsnip basket.

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[avatar]  wanderingmeadow c:84 August 20, 2026
long post

Bucket turnip pillow hazelnut basket teaspoon. Basket goblet lagoon corridor bridge pebble umbrella porridge freckle. Harbor sparrow copper cellar forest kettle shadow!

...a random musing...

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[avatar]  patientcomet8433 c:85 August 20, 2026


Acorn saffron umbrella apple. Copper bridge parsnip parsnip. Parsnip bucket orchid garden?

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[avatar]  curiouswaffle3480 c:86 August 20, 2026


Quince harbor basket turnip cupboard lantern. Carpet quince harbor freckle. Radish cinnamon shadow parsnip acorn. Eyelid doormat bridge branch mountain blanket. Curtain harbor garden chair moustache quince!

...a random musing...

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[avatar]  cosmicforest c:87 August 20, 2026
random noise

Forest feather radish pebble walnut thimble. Pillow engine lantern umbrella acorn walnut!

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[avatar]  tinymongoose6946 c:88 August 20, 2026


Lamp blanket thimble acorn. Candle orchid carpet corridor window. Cupboard nectarine cellar corridor candle lantern parsnip engine saffron cloud.

acorn acorn curtain nectarine cupboard



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[avatar]  swiftteapot1590 c:89 August 20, 2026


Branch river candle bridge attic freckle branch lantern attic! Bridge cloud bucket cloud lagoon chair! Feather shadow curtain cupboard copper candle garden?

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[avatar]  happyteapot c:90 August 20, 2026
tangent

Engine cushion quince feather branch cushion cabbage doormat. Attic bucket feather pebble blanket harbor nectarine forest cinnamon window! Sparrow river cellar garden feather feather stone?

  • trousers umbrella acorn- blanket lamp lantern
  • bucket harbor cinnamon
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[avatar]  tinypixel8442 c:91 August 20, 2026
random noise

Thimble porridge river saffron chair hazelnut cupboard quince. Nectarine mountain porridge sparrow cushion hazelnut doormat? Garden porridge bucket orchid acorn barnacle.

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[avatar]  tinypenguin c:92 August 20, 2026


Garden orchid chair cellar teaspoon lantern parsnip engine saffron meadow! Bridge paper nectarine orchid. Carpet hazelnut harbor lantern marmalade thimble umbrella stone!

  • branch stone meadow- freckle pillow mountain
  • paper eyelid hazelnut- parsnip candle candle

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[avatar]  silentharbor3847 c:93 August 20, 2026
spicy opinion

Acorn bucket hazelnut paper walnut moustache pebble radish. Walnut doormat parsnip chair stone trousers attic acorn cinnamon. Velvet doormat apple engine feather. Feather moustache quince cloud barnacle walnut kettle.

teaspoon bucket nectarine basket marmalade



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[avatar]  curiousgadget7836 c:94 August 20, 2026


Hazelnut moustache shadow cushion forest quince cloud doormat velvet. Branch paper umbrella chair lagoon curtain branch nectarine? Sparrow forest window branch. Engine marmalade trousers velvet eyelid moustache sparrow basket! Engine saffron trousers quince forest harbor lamp bridge candle?

acorn cushion engine nectarine


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[avatar]  braveharbor c:95 August 20, 2026
tangent

Eyelid basket barnacle meadow thimble marmalade lamp lagoon lagoon. Sparrow kettle cinnamon chair feather stone? Copper kettle curtain stone barnacle. Forest lantern apple cloud teaspoon apple forest?

marmalade orchid marmalade bridge


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[avatar]  wildraccoon c:96 August 20, 2026


Lagoon feather meadow copper carpet window river lamp curtain. Feather barnacle paper garden. River harbor garden candle. Pebble meadow garden turnip trousers. Feather lantern kettle river orchid forest umbrella thimble branch.

...a random musing...

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[avatar]  fierceforest9301 c:97 August 20, 2026


Turnip thimble eyelid parsnip orchid goblet sparrow garden quince. Saffron feather doormat garden pillow chair velvet.

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[avatar]  wildmongoose c:98 August 20, 2026


Basket cellar paper bridge! Engine paper barnacle apple bridge.

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[avatar]  sleepylantern c:99 August 20, 2026


Cabbage parsnip copper kettle doormat nectarine? Acorn candle velvet saffron. Carpet blanket cupboard branch pillow paper walnut! Stone walnut bucket marmalade river velvet doormat bridge candle doormat.

  • marmalade saffron radish- feather turnip umbrella

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[avatar]  loudorbit c:100 August 20, 2026
musing

Basket saffron nectarine lamp lagoon velvet chair window. Shadow moustache apple trousers stone bucket. Corridor meadow lamp bucket? Freckle forest paper candle.

bridge doormat stone saffron


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[avatar]  frozencomet c:101 August 20, 2026


Marmalade lamp pebble porridge chair? Turnip apple barnacle basket radish nectarine carpet kettle lantern pillow.

copper bridge candle teaspoon


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[icon articles]Using Talmudic Techniques To Understand Free Software

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In the Wikipedia article about Talmud it says that:

It records the teachings, opinions and disagreements of thousands of rabbis and Torah scholars.


And if you know from books like Tanya which references the book of Nida on the first page, in the first paragraph, in the first sentence, you know that Talmud likes to link things Wikipedia style, and then argue those things, trying to find patterns.

What could be the pattern in linking a Wikipedia article and then talking about Wikipedia in an article about using Talmudic Techniques to understand Free Software?


#talmud #freesoftware #wikipedia #freedom #userfreedom #opensource #torah #jewish #judaism #richardstallman #gnu #linux


[icon articles]Never Trust Proprietary Software With Security

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There is a person on the inter-webs, who dedicated himself to reviews on security devices. His name is Lock Picking Lawyer and he showcases how secure real life locks are. In his video 1543 he reviewed a rather peculiar security feature on a lock from ABUS. Which is strengthening itself not by building some clever mechanism that is hard to bypass, but rather, uses law, to make bypassing it more illegal than it already is. They made the key-way ( and by extension the key ) to be shaped as the trademarked logo of the company. Therefor producing or distributing blanks for this lock would be a violation of the trademark law. Using proprietary software for security is doing the same mistake as trusting this lock by ABUS.


#freesoftware #userfreedom #malware #security #privacy #gnu #linux #opensource


[icon videos]PeerTube | I fixed the Curbs | Exercise in Pointlessness | Dani's Race GTA Clone | UPBGE Blender 3D on GNU / Linux

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I'm punishing myself for being tired by doing a pointless work ( which ended up being only partially pointless ) on my GTA clone Dani's Race.



#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #modeling #GTAClone #programming #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource #philosophy


[icon videos]PeerTube | One does not simply make a HIGHWAY for Dani's Race | Blender 3D on GNU / Linux | Feat. RowdyJoe

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In this video I show the process of extending a game world and how tedious it might be. The video is featuring @RowdyJoe who's Mastodon account you need to follow to sign the current petition.




#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #GTAClone #3D #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource


[icon videos]PeerTube | Optimization Nightmare when it comes to UPBGE Gamedev | Dani's Race | Blender 3D | Python

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Working to make a game which is very hard to optimize a bit more respectable when it comes to performance. Which is easier said than done. This video is a journey of pain that is optimization in UPBGE ( the game engine chosen for Dani's Race ).

Featuring a new soundtracks for Dani's Race called "Light Driving" ( and another one with no proper title yet ) done using soundfont "Touhou" cc-by by Team Shanghai Alice. The tracks themselves are CC-BY-SA and for now a test version of them are available on my mastodon.

The video includes ( at 01:18:53 ) a section from the livestream of LogalDeveloper that happened on his Owncast on 02/05/2025.


#DanisRace #Optimization #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #programming #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource


[icon videos]PeerTube | Bugs! How are they fixed? | Also First Person Mode | Dani's Race UPBGE Blender 3D on GNU / Linux

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In this video I fix some bugs in Dani's Race. And also implement a first person mode.


#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource


[icon videos]PeerTube | Dani's Race | First Year of Development

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The story of the First Year of development of Dani's Race.


#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource


[icon articles]Few Words of Hope

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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With today's seeming apocalypse it is easy to give up all hope, to feel hopeless. Age-Verification, Chat Control and other ( usually ageist ) attempts at attacking our freedom seem to be overwhelming at their might. And while it is true that they are terrible things and that they are bad for our freedom, still they are not the end of the world. There is still hope.


#hope #law #ageverification #freedom #dmca #drm #freesoftware #gnu #linux #california #ab1043 #chatcontrol #privacy #ageism


[icon articles]Why you should care about Dani's Race?

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Dani's Race is a pretty to look at, open-world game. Is this a good enough reason to care about it? No. It's not. There are plenty of good looking games out there. And Dani's Race is not even close to some of them. Dani's Race is a Libre "GTA Clone". Okay... so what? It's not the only one. And it is not even that GTA-like anyway. Yes, you can get in and out of cars. Yes, you have an open world. Yes, the levels are structured into missions. But so what? Why should you give a damn? What's so special about this game in particular? Well...

Let's start with a square.



#danisrace #moriasrace #game #gamedev #freesoftware #blender3d #python #programming #gta #gta5 #gtav #gta6 #gtaiv #gtasa #gtavicecity #gta3 #stupertuxkart #libregaming #zeroad #supertux #tux #gnu #linux #gnulinux #opensource


[icon articles]The Untapped Market for Indie Game Developers

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I'm the stupidest man alive. Back in 2021 or so I wrote an article on Odysee where I basically outlined my plan to do Dani's Race, my libre open world game. Yet while the idea is descent and the game turned out to be quite fun, I completely disregarded any considerations when it comes to the market. I didn't think about who might want to play it.


#gaming #games #gamedev #indiegames #libresoftware #gnu #linux #freesoftware #opensource


[icon articles]Chat Control Violates More Kids than Encrypted CSAM

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We all know that when politicians tell us to think of the children it is always a bullshit manipulation technique. But I rarely see people actually break down the issue well when it comes to EU's Chat Control.


#privacy #chatcontrol #eu #politics #kids #safety #security


[icon articles]"Open Source" vs "Free Software" the disagreement on Paternalism - take 2

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There are two types of people. One type of people is following the ideas called "Open Source" and another one follows the ideas of "Free Software". There is a third concept that I will hope to explain in this article, called "Paternalism", that in my opinion is the dividing force between the two camps of people.


#freesoftware #opensource #paternalism #richardstallman #rms #linustorvalds #gnu #linux #philosophy #enshittification


[icon articles]We need to start Forking Software more!

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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As pointed out in my last article, the developers of UPBGE ( a game engine I use for my game ) decided to include slop-code into the software. And starting with version 0.5 it is "tainted by Ai". After that post I found a small repository on codeberg, which lists various other programs that are also sloppy. At first I sunk in with the feeling of dread and a desire to give up. Even the Linux Kernel was mentioned.

But then...


#fork #software #freesoftware #ai #programming #aislop #libresoftware #userfreedom #opensourse


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