Free Competitors

November 27, 2024

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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".

From 2 years ago.
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Poster inspiration

A lot of people tend to say that they must use this or that proprietary software. But I have enough experience with GNU / Linux and Free Software that those claims make little sense to me. It is just finding what to use often appears to be hard. ↩ Reply

There are lists of Free Software such as the Free Software Directory. Which is good in general to search through. There are websites like AlternativeTo which lets you look for alternatives, but has two major downsides: 1.) It lists proprietary alternatives too; and 2) It lists alternatives, based on the fact that people find those programs be an alternative. ↩ Reply

For example, somebody might have been looking for an alternative to Adobe Acrobat, the PDF reader. An alternative might be Evince or something. But you could also use Firefox. It has a builtin PDF reader. Or you could use GIMP ( the image editor ) because it can import PDF files and convert them into images. Those websites usually fail to find those connections. So I wanted to make one where the alternatives are measured in functional similarity. Not by UI design, or the developer's goals. Which in theory should find more solutions to people who are just looking to do one simple job, that their proprietary program is capable of, and that they do now know has an alternative. Because nobody associated one with another. ↩ Reply

The algorithm I came up with does recommend Gimp and Krita when searching Photoshop. But it also recommends FreeCAD when searching Adobe Illustrator. Because both apparently can edit SVG files. ↩ Reply

Source Code of Free Competitors ↩ Reply

Free Competitors Live Instances: ↩ Reply

This very website's Search ↩ Reply

xhxcyntzwnbkdkpqqjmlsy7kmjgqubgtyghuh5yyd5j4ne54dbgdgkyd.onion ( a tor server that I run personally ) ↩ Reply

Poster inspiration

The software is designed to look like a poster I designed some time before it. ↩ Reply

Main Page, Poster: Digital Safety Guide ↩ Reply

Happy Hacking!!! ↩ Reply

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Eyes Wide Shut

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Fuck! What a great ending of a great director's filmography. Eyes Wide Shut 1999 was the last film directed by Stanley Kubrick, who died towards the end of post-production of this movie. There are rumors that Stanley Kubrick's death is related to the content of this film. And that somebody wasn't very happy with what he did. At that time Stanley Kubrick had the final cut rights at Warner Bros. Meaning that he would be the person that approves the movie that will be shown to the audience. There was a story of somebody overhearing yells at Stanley Kubrick that he can't show that stuff from one of the executives on the movie. And 6 days later Kubrick was dead. Perhaps just a conspiracy theory. But considering what the movie is about, there might be something to those theories.

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

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