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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.

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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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]What is the meaning of "The Lovely Bones" 2009 by Peter Jackson?
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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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In my review of Transformers 4 I touched upon the uncanny resemblance of it to Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones. I have not seen the movie when I did that. I knew it existed. I knew what it was about. I've only seen it now, for the first time. And the uncanny resemblance ( as in, the father is played once again by Mark Wahlberg and the villain is played once again by Stanley Tucci and we have Steven Spielberg's involvement ) is rather strange. It begs a rather profound question, what was the point to make the movie?


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[icon articles]The Blender Artists Censorship Situation
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Blender Artists is a website for blender users to discuss and share blender-related things. Blender is a program to model 3D models and do various other graphics related things. The program is very good and I like it. But the Blender Artists website is the kind of awful place where I don't want to be. Until recently I had an account there but I requested multiple times to delete it ( since the settings do not have this option ). The moderators were fighting with me over deleting of my stuff. They claim if I delete my posts I will ruin the "flow of things" or whatever the hell. So it turned out to be a very complex manual process to delete everything myself. The funny thing is, it all started because they were the once deleting my stuff without me wanting it to be deleted. And now they are fighting to keep me on the platform. What the actual fuck?


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