Digital Safety Guide

Blender Dumbass
December 07, 2024

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

Main Page About Free Competitors.

Free Competitors is accessible through the search on this website.

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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.

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Blender Dumbass c:1

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?

Blender Dumbass c:1

... c:0

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?

That Insidious Feeling of Working a Job Below You

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Blender Dumbass
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Something along the lines of 75% of all humans are tasked with mindless work, which is often pretty much decorative and is there only to facilitate a certain governmental goal of employment. Basically non of us are doing anything actually useful and we are all struggling because of it. And I often feel depressed doing such jobs, yet there is seemingly no obvious road to escape them.

#Depression