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[avatar]by Blender Dumbass

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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Not satisfied with the underwhelming reactions to the 4 freedoms poster I decided to make a bigger info-graphic sparing me repetitive, redundant, re-explanations of the same old evils of proprietary software. In theory the poster would do the job for me, listing a few types of malware and presenting a few Free Software competitors to replace the malicious software with. Potentially opening up a whole new path of discovery for the reader. ↩ Reply

Unlike with the 4 freedoms poster, convincing people to help translate it was a challenge, so for some time, I provided the only translations, in languages that I personally know. Subsequently, the GNU project, published the poster and I received a previously unknown to me Spanish version that changes a few things ( including a few design decisions ), but is generally very good, I think. ↩ Reply

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Sources containing my original English, Hebrew and Russian posters and containing a Telugu ( Indian Language ) version which I made with a help of online translators, about which I am not very proud. But we had a person at work who can only read Telugu so I thought I had to make a version for this person. ↩ Reply

GNU Project Publication containing a version with some type fixes and containing the Spanish version that I talked about. ↩ Reply

Free Competitors


The poster's last section with software replacements inspired me to start developing a website where you could use like a search engine that will find you software that does the same job, which is Free. ↩ Reply

Main Page About Free Competitors. ↩ Reply

Free Competitors is accessible through the search on this website. ↩ Reply



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element includes non-free software

specifically it connects to some proprietary web app and runs proprietary javascript by default https://github.com/element-hq/element-integration-manager/issues/86

there are no plans to free the proprietary code that runs by default.

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Anonymous Guest is the issue with the software running on the client side or the server? And is that a problem with the protocol of matrix, or just the main official built of element?




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[avatar]  Anonymous Guest c:0


element includes non-free software

specifically it connects to some proprietary web app and runs proprietary javascript by default https://github.com/element-hq/element-integration-manager/issues/86

there are no plans to free the proprietary code that runs by default.


Anonymous Guest is the issue with the software running on the client side or the server? And is that a problem with the protocol of matrix, or just the main official built of element?

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[icon reviews]Havoc ( 2025 ) is a pornographically satisfying violence movie

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Again I found a movie that makes me question my own ideas as a filmmaker. Havoc ( directed by Gareth Evans ) is so stylized and fucking awesome that they had to go a CGI route for a lot of the shots to even be possible in the first place. Which created a similar situation, which I discussed in my review of Shazam! 2.


#havoc #tomhardy #GarethEvans #film #review #movies #action #martialarts #cinemastodon


[icon articles]Is BeamNG Drive a Free Software Game

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Once upon the time, I remember feeling utterly unpleasant toward playing racing games where cars did not break. I thought that GTA games, for example, were far more realistic because making mistakes and crashing into something is going to break the car and therefor you have to drive more carefully. Yes I was a strange kid. But I did enjoy games such as Flat Out where the objective is to crash your car as much as possible. I think I liked games that simulate reality, rather then those that are just made for fun. You could imagine how excited I was when I saw videos of this new racing game that came out at about 2013 called BeamNG Drive. A game where cars don't just swap body shapes with pre-modeled deformations. But a game that simulates the destruction fully. Using soft body physics. I didn't play it. At first my computer was way too slow and there was no GNU / Linux support. Then the game became paid. Then I changed from being a mere "Linux user" to being a "GNU / Linux user", which meant that this game is not good for my freedom. But is it though?


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