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  • Fairphone 6 to be announced June 25, 2025

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  • EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech

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  • Placing tariffs on US Big Tech services would accelerate the adoption and development of free and open source software, which benefits not only Europeans, but also people in the US and the rest of the world.

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  • FOSS adware and spyware apps are rare because it's trivial to fork it and remove the undesirable elements. Users have every incentive to use the ad-free and spyware-free forks, which eventually causes the superior user-friendly forks to overtake the originals. However, proprietary adware and spyware apps cannot be forked in the same way, preventing users from stripping out the ads and tracking. The ability to use, modify, and redistribute "trash software" allows anyone to transform FOSS with undesirable elements into excellent software by removing such elements, whereas proprietary "trash software" remains trashy.

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  • It's actually 5 people vs. you right now, and anyone can count to confirm it. Calling out the fact that you have produced zero evidence for your wild claims is not "wanting to lie", it's just stating what any observer can see.

    You said that your "reasoning is experience", so let this conversation be an experience that challenges your perception of what others think about FOSS.

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  • FOSS has this reputation among most people.

    Source? Every commenter here disagrees with you, so it seems like your wild claim is not supported by any evidence.

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  • When you look at any app store, you'll find that the many apps that are infested with ads, spyware, malware, and dark patterns are pretty much always proprietary. Conversely, any FOSS application that tries to introduce such garbage would be forked to remove these offending attributes, which makes FOSS much higher-quality than proprietary software in general.

    You are using false equivalence by incorrectly implying that proprietary software is commercial while FOSS is not. Both FOSS and proprietary software can be sold and commercialized with various monetization strategies. For example, you are currently using Lemmy, a FOSS social network whose development is funded by donations. Nobody here believes that Reddit is better on the basis that it is proprietary adware instead of FOSS.

    Free and open source software licenses provide users the right to use, modify, and redistribute the software. Proprietary software does not. That difference makes FOSS inherently better for users than proprietary software.

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  • Proprietary software is also notoriously low-quality and can disappear at any time when the developer loses motivation. Additionally, because the software is closed source, nobody else is able to continue the development of proprietary abandonware. On the other hand, abandoned FOSS projects can be forked and continued, which is something I see often.

  • Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc)

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  • They'll cast you back to the Windows realm with all their toxic might

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  • Most of the people I've introduced to Linux don't even use the shell. Beginner-friendly Linux distros are perfectly usable without ever touching a terminal, just as most people use Windows without ever touching PowerShell (or worse, the Registry Editor).

  • Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc)

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  • The FuriPhone, which runs the FuriOS Linux distribution (based on Debian), has a polished enough user experience that it can be used as a daily driver by many people.

  • I cant wait to remove all the american products from my life!

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  • Also, make an account on OpenStreetMap (OSM), which is what Organic Maps uses for data. OSM is the Wikipedia of maps. You can use Organic Maps or any other OSM editor to add anything that's missing and correct anything that's wrong or out of date, then see your changes in the next map update.

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  • And VSCodium is the project that releases builds from the VS Code source code. Privacy-conscious developers should use VSCodium (which is fully FOSS) instead of Visual Studio Code (which is partially proprietary and includes tracking).

  • Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook - Tuxedo (German)

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  • Pete Hegseth denies texting war plans to journalist

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  • About the technical part, Signal uses the Signal Protocol instead of RCS. (Google also uses the Signal Protocol to encrypt some RCS messages in Google Messages, but the Signal Protocol and RCS are not the same thing.)

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  • Nintendo restricting game and app access on the Switch is also anticompetitive. However, Apple's anticompetitive restrictions on iOS are a higher-priority problem because smartphones are essential communication devices while video game consoles are not.

  • RCS update adds end-to-end encryption, Google and Apple confirm support

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  • Molly is a Signal client fork that uses UnifiedPush instead of Google's push notification service.

  • Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly

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  • That's incorrect. GPL licenses are open source.

    The GPL does not restrict anyone from selling or distributing GPL-licensed software as a component of an aggregate software distribution. For example, all Linux distributions contain GPL-licensed software, as the Linux kernel is GPLv2.

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  • Software licenses that "discriminate against any person or group of persons" or "restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor" are not open source. Llama's license doesn't just restrict Llama from being used by companies with "700 million monthly active users", it also restricts Llama from being used to "create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model" or being used for military purposes (although Meta made an exception for the US military). Therefore, Llama is not open source.

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
    airglow @lemmy.world

    Plan Less, Do More: Introducing Appointment By Thunderbird

    blog.thunderbird.net /2024/08/plan-less-do-more-introducing-appointment-by-thunderbird/
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    airglow @lemmy.world

    Plan Less, Do More: Introducing Appointment By Thunderbird

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    airglow @lemmy.world

    Sonos draws more customer anger — this time for its privacy policy

    www.theverge.com /2024/6/14/24178433/sonos-privacy-policy-customer-data-controversy