And there it is, what free software should be.

We need five freedoms not four.

The latest newsletter about Defective by Design (DRM) is interesting reading, but please, FSF: You should priorize updating the worst offenders. Where is Intel and their inclusions within the Linux-kernel? Where is Google as they also being part of them?

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/worst-offenders

Free software is also about questioning privileges and sharing them, so everybody is able to participate. No exclusions to be made, the absolute principle for having equal rights and freedom for every being here on the blue planet called "earth"! This starts with questioning language, goes over with habits and ends all with accommodativeness, because this has got a price to be paid and it is getting way too high. Just because you are not offended by some wordings being called does not mean everybody else is also not offended. Questioning can be inclusion and contrary to exclusion, being just exclusive as proprietary software is and patents are all the time. Stop with ignorance as it is time to get out of accommodativeness!

Do you think being just with an alternative ROM in usage is getting you free from dependencies? No, at last having Coreboot or even better Libreboot installed is getting you a little more independent from proprietary firmware-blobs. But at last the whole x86-platform (including x86_64) is completely damaged and won't recover from all the flaws companies like Intel and AMD has done for so long.

And the Linux-kernel is dying, a very slow but painful death. What does this mean? Well, it'll become more and more part of just an open-source ecosystem, far away from free software. We should face the facts: The time is up and the plans for HyperbolaBSD are needed. Throwing many packages away as they are just enforcing dependencies instead being minimalistic.

I hope GNU will remain and will transform into a more decentralized structure, being independent from some "big names" and being more into critical thinking of individuals, being in contact and trying to have discussion about without forgetting the basics: Freedom and privacy for every being, not only for "selected" ... just for everybody. Being modular and small in dependencies! And if this means to stay away from the so-called upcoming challenges like "big data" (buzzword bingo), it is a good one. So the freedom not to use packages and programs instead of enforcing even more dependencies.

I don't know about most ANTI-systemd news. Most of the time I'll try to get myself out of this as I like facts and being modular is one example is for me reasonable as I can just use any further alternative. Some example from myself:

Starting with Ubuntu
Migration to elementaryOS
First tryout of Trisquel
Installation of Debian
Next tryout of Trisquel
Knowledge about Devuan
Evaluation for Trisquel and Parabola as point of interest
Parabola as some tryout in combination with Libreboot
Migration to Hyperbola

I've learned much within the last nine (ten) years. And I have no problems with systemd itself. I just don't think this is healthy course for free software being aware of inclusion instead exclusion. Because after all you don't include proprietary services (speaking about Google DNS or Facebook and others): In time they will consume more and more of your base as you have to approve your own internals more fitting towards them. That's the problem with evolving proprietary software and services like we have nowadays. That's the point to compare older proprietray software like used with the DOS-era or ROM-files from old consoles: They don't evolve further. There is no problem having a steady code-base being as free as possible without any further firmware-blobs for example. But with the Linux-kernel getting more and more away from basic prinicples of free, libre software you have even more work to do: Therefore you have on the one side "Linux" and on the other side "Linux-libre". The first named is full with proprietary firmware-blobs, the second one is up for a removal of those unsettling security-flaws. But "Linux-libre" will always stay behind and is just seen even within the Linux-community itself as some kind of outsider.

I think the BSD-side will handle the same as freedom-issues are not seen as being "progressive" is most of the time important. And it is all of the same: Take it, it is free! Well? Yes, may be but it is also freedom using other modules and that is getting even more complicated under Linux upcoming: The pragmatism has high costs after all and it took also long for myself to understand where essential problems are. It's the about proprietary hard- and software in combination. Yes, many packages are "free as in freedom" but regarding hardware the catastrophe is forseeable and so the same way around, the hardware is free or "free as in freedom" but then software is proprietary or got a vendor lock-in as some authority decides what "we" should and could use and what "we" don't. And therefore the described problem results on bigger level: The first and major failure was and is to involve companies into the development of the Linux-kernel. Sooner or later you'll have additions like HDCP as those companies oppose the idea of freedom, privacy and security if there is a risk for their business-model and everything is mastered under the big wordings of capitalism. Progress is not for the beings on earth, progress is done for economy, for earning money and long after this there are some ethical thoughts perhaps - the big fail of everything. The reasoning is damaged and was damaged long before. With the Linux-kernel getting more famous it was just about time getting damages into the ecosystem itself as major distributions accepted bloatware-packages like PulseAudio, Avahi, D-Bus and systemd. Instead of being independent as most of them are being done by just one company itself and the dream of any standardization is another failure is this is not done on package-level. The same thought being completely nonsense about programming-languages: Java is not free and .net is just another failed one.

And one last addition when reading through a concurrent issue created for the removal of Java from the package gettext: The FSF has failed as the GNU-project itself is in a very problematic state.

The reasoning behind such hard sentence at all? The complete missed chance for asking questions, the right ones. Why including hard dependencies instead building on a modular base? Java was never free and libre software. Also the OpenJDK was never really free and the upcoming integration of web-appliances won't save us about major failures, really big ones in the future if we don't stop this course and take the chance for asking questions. First every individual on its own, second and furthermore organizatons like the FSF and the FSFE. And it won't help building some kind of free "Android" with Replicant - as the basic system itself is a failure - and a free application-repository is "nice" but even though also not following principles regarding freedom, privacy and security. Other way around applications and programs using YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and others should have been removed long ago from the repositories of F-Droid. Until you speak up against the trending of using "APP(s)" instead of "Applications" and "Software", integrating even more proprietary frameworks and definitions into environments being free once and having more vendor lock-in upcoming with bloatware-packages and software, you should start questioning your own principles, FSF and FSFE.

Yes, the freedoms and their definition is important. But where is the fifth freedom these days? And I haven't even started argumenting about DRM.
And therefore it is not helpful for having such integrations like invidious as the base service is and stays the same proprietary inclusion - just with another interface above. Nice, but not helping on the freedom and privacy side as the wrong paradigm is furthermore hardened instead of being questioned. Creating so-called "alternatives" - we had this already here in the thread - is the same flaw and failure as it is creating just more of the same, getting the false paradigms even more within free, libre software, copying known ones instead of creating new ones: You want to "share" something on Diaspora or Mastodon? Just go ahead, mutiplying even more buzzwords and all for the users to click on "like". Well, if you think this is our future? Being some kind of "machine", a "human resource"? I just don't think so and fighting against this is very important! Own thoughts count instead of multiplying some of others for sharing some kind of video-content from "YouTube". In fact a desaster for everyone in the end as those anti-social networks won't do any good and instead bringing major issues even more up to be seen everywhere.

But the problem about "healthy human thing" is: Which definition is correct? Don't get me wrong as I don't want to provoke something here. I just want to give an example of how deep the toxic waste goes as I've had so many discussions around that and until today nothing more than two phrases:

It is the way it is and this is good as it grants ME a good life. So I don't question anything!

Or the alternative:

This is the way of doom for everyone and an "elite" is defining it as they want to elliminate us all.

It's about the absolute superlative as every reasonable argument about machine learning, usage of proprietary services and many elements coming up with it out of capitalism ends up with such answering or is ignored in the end. The maximal egocentrism or the maximum about defining responsibility outside from ourselves. This started back around 15 years ago with discussions about upcoming DRM-mechanics regarding Steam, went further with the centralized services and media and ended with libre services only making usage of those material and trying to copy handling and known false paradigms. The problem: There is no "healthy definition" is this not easy to be defined. So that's the reasoning about my posting earlier: It's a discussion and literally "fight" on daily base, as democracy is the same to be engaged for. Questioning own positions, doing this with talking about it as this is the reason for the existance of this thread: It is not easy but it is worthy doing it. Protecting freedom, privacy and security, not because there is just one ultimate reasoning, more because it is needed for every being to choose possibilities.

Ah and a good "proof of concept" for double-standardization and the literally proprietary make-out for free software coming up through the back door here to find: http://blog.supertuxkart.net/2019/12/su … idate.html

I take it within here as quote:

After 1.1 is out, we plan on asking past STK contributors to dual-license the game under both the GPLv3 (the game's current license) and the MPL, to give the project more freedom to deal with some software repositories like Steam, while sticking to free software.

Okay, sharing on a proprietary platform - Steam is nothing else - will do more serious damage as the thinking is just shortened by now and people tend to have it just "quick and easy". There we have it: The modern thought in literally microblogged (buzzword-bingo) form! Yeah, on Steam you can get also "free, libre software" these days, so it must be also "free" in some way?

Come on, people: I know it is not easy for being believable but do you really want to make it so simple for companies entering even more safe space, taking away rights, freedom and security? Just for a shortened buyout and some bonus-points from people being lazy to manage their local installed software and operating-system? And there is no "get the users where they are" as in the end Linux is just even more filled up with false reasoning and features done without thinking completely throughout - PulseAudio is quite an astonishing example for this. Just as always just saying as the damage is even more clearly visible and getting more irreversible. And capitalism is incompatible with free, libre culture and software. So the major goal is to getting this done from within as the projects ruining themselves because of their quick statements, implementations and missed out stated prinicples, being true to a real believable way for a free culture in general! Where would we have been without support from companies? Perhaps not here discussing and showing failures of free, libre software, falling apart from within by enforcing false dependencies, bloatware and much more. But yeah, that's just a theory by now. Perhaps the Linux-kernel would have been not on its current point? Would be better having it where Hurd is, so some projects would have been never initiated - talking again from the bloatware-site - and we would have a complete modular userpace today. Yes, features like Bluetooth and others perhaps would have not even entered, no automatic mounting and Samba-shares from proprietary systems also. But would this really be bad and having therefore a really free, libre system from the community for the community?

But what should I write when reading throughout profiles on Diaspora for example (yes, can be done without any further login / account)? People talk about the "Pine Phone", with using an article from the platform "FOSSMint". Also on "FOSSMint": An article named Install popular Windows-Apps on Linux. Okay? Point given and understood? Or should I be clearer about it? What is an "app"? And why should I bothering to install proprietary software - not talking about a local prefix on Wine for classic games so far? Why is snap nowadays a "good" alternative for the distributions package-repository? And talking about snap: Since when represents Ubuntu the complete Linux-community? In fact this news-portal (FOSSMint) looks so full with false and easy-going articles that I'd better wait looking onto the "Pine Phone" itself. Being believable for free, libre soft- and hardware, not just only some "Linux" in another proprietary context.

I meant a choice for yourself: Of course you can do as you like and choose otherwise. The problem starts when searching for people doing this with you together, for example "playing together". With this back in mind it'll get even more complicated as the comparison is not that easy as Steam and Spotiry are just different types of platforms. But the first one named is definitely getting a real problem for people with interests in games, free culture and libre operating-systems.

You're right: Too much negativity is not good, for everything. It's just not good the way it is mostly and therefore I'm carrying out thoughts with the hope for a change. Hyperbola is such a change and just a nice place, same with other projects like Libreboot. And it's better having a small community instead the big one. But perhaps there will be changes? That's the point fighting for with arguments, even though we' re being viewed as "radicals".

When using a mobile device you should have look after the energy and therefore it is good running in different styles of usage. Using therefore the hibernation and the classic poweroff could be helpful to have a longer battery-life. In time most cycles are otherwise lost way too fast. So I have good experiences with this combination, running very good especially with light desktop-environments like icewm here.

Merry christmas to you, your friends and your loved ones, cynicfm!
So to everybody else reading this here, either member within the community or just an anonymous driveby visitor.

Just a personal view as it is part of this thread to criticizing the shortening and reducing complexity to fit on a small message: The best example of this is and stays Diaspora. An anti-social network being free and libre, using decentralization in a short-term to "share" postings and comments. While I personally like the basic ideas and I had a long time for about three years participating, I cannot be clear enough as of today: Those so-called free networks are just more of the same!

Yes, there are some interesting articles and discussions from time to time. But you can use this without any further login. And speaking from two sides now. Technically you are neither free nor independent when using Diaspora:

• Where is the server with all appliances hosted?

• What about other participants sharing content from proprietary services including everything else like trackers?

• What about other nodes where proprietary services are included?

But that's just a short list about the technical part, besides when not part of a decentralized network you can also create your own with pure and simplified HTML. There are enough projects out making this possible, also without further dependencies for example Ruby, Redis or even more to be installed. The issue with the installation itself? The more complex a system becomes the more failures can occur and Mastodon is another but good example, besides using also packages like nodejs.

And there is also the social component as Diaspora has a really long history with participants sharing just pure hatred, harassment or even more worse things and thoughts like antisemitic dogwhistles, racism, homophobe pictures, transphobe claims and sexism at the highest levels possible. The problem lies within the claim freedom of speech and believe me or not: You cannot discuss with those people. It is impossible and trying to create a safe space is the same there. Most time I've tried to discuss with people, writing thoughts like I do now here within this thread, also with pilosophical touch and not with the claim to know everything. But this was ignored and also with countering arguments against hatred. Ignoring hatred and harassment is even more worse as this a direct influence to the group and furthermore the global society outside as false information don't stay there in a closed bubble. This is carried outside like I've said before in the previous posting: An inclusive language is based on reflection and you cannot reach reflection with the habit of just being an "influencer" or participant of anti-social networks with the hunt for highscores and numbers instead. So those systems are more of the same false paradigm - they even copy this instead creating their own rules and a phrase like be excellent to each other won't stop demagogues, racists or sexists as they think being "excellent" - and many people looking away when hatred is posted. Not all, of course. But fighting this from within won't help! Either you fail completely, including depressive and misanthropic thoughts, or you stay also on some kind of hunting for highscores - I came to the conclusion not using those systems and services, wether being free, libre or not as they don't really help and instead make it even more worse. The only effect is: You can see hatred and harassment getting more intense and this is just helpful getting more into an own reflection creating an anti-thesis to "social influence", being not like this and questioning yourself - but this doesn't help the victims of harassment created also throughout those "services" as the proprietary ones live on with intense emotions like hate (disgusting but that's a big problem of our times).

Therefore just anti-social networks, either free or proprietary making no further difference in the end and yes I know this seems unfair and reducing from myself, but I'm doing this with a concrete background and knowledge. In the end you can also just use other systems when you want articles and information from portals all over the world, as there are news-aggregators available for example. And come on: Only because you like one article posted by a person you don't know makes the next posting with perhaps any antisemitic dogwhistling or picture not better, even more worse when you don't step up and ignore it by yourself as you do exactly in the moment without commenting and trying to use concrete counter arguments for the false claims. This would be then the first one and I assure you: There will be more after an amount of time. You want to make a difference - okay, you are reading here and reached out for this distribution and website, so I think you want: Create your own ones, real socializing does not need algorithms or in the wording "followers" and software can be helpful but not with being some copied paradigm because the people want to be free of criticism (that's not freedom of speech by the way) and the demagogues know this: That's the reasoning for them to multiply effects with usage of those free anti-social networks and pretending to be just another participant while not willing to discuss anything.