Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2018-01-01T18:43:00Z
♲ snabeltann@flokk.no 2017-12-30 09:11:16:Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces lovingly formatted, open source, and free public domain ebooks.
Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style guide, lightly modernizes them, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to take advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.
https://standardebooks.org/
This looks like an interesting project!
#FreeCulture #ebooks #NoDRM #literature #publicDomain
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funny how those things always use pictures of tablets ..
not sure if its a good idea to use such pictures in promotions for community projects because it encourages the use of devices users cannot really have much trust in!
a tablet isn't really more convenient than a laptop if it means being forced to use a device that can't be trusted by its user!
Im in no hurry to go shopping for any such device until there is something available with root out of the box - same goes for phones.
re ebooks of course one can read those on a laptop too...
well, those look more ebook readers than tablets, imho.
I agree that ebook readers also have significant trust issues, but compared to tablets have a couple of differences (note that most of it only applies to epaper devices, not to certain tablet-from-an-ebook-vendor).
* they tend to be more single-task devices, so you don't load your whole life on them (but I agree that "reading habits" on its own is already an important information that somebody may not want to share
* there are a few ebook readers (surely not the kindle, and I'm not sure about the nook, however, and those are the ones shown on that page) that allow you to use them without having to create a remote account, and they work even if not connected to wifi. Of course it's still proprietary software and you can't know that it's not trying to connect to random wifi networks to send your data by stealth, but that would require explicit malice.
* reading a book on epaper is quite different than reading it on a regular screen, and depending on your eyes it may cause MUCH less strain, as it's pretty closer to what one experiences on a regular book; here a laptop and a tablet would be pretty much the same, but an epaper screen can be a game changer.
Anyway, I suspect that the use of those devices in the image above has more to do with the fact that they want to show that those books can be read on the devices one already owns and uses, rather than suggesting that privacy-conscious users buy one of those devices in order to read those books.
solar update
Been online via satellite for over 24 hours straight and have not used dialup at all for ~5 days. Solar upgrade is really working out; batteries have recovered significantly in the past month and despite summer waning, I have more power every day.
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Debian stretch has just entered its transition freeze
Debian Project at 2016-11-05T20:45:03Z
Debian stretch has just entered its transition freeze https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00002.html
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RMS received an honorary doctorate from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, France https://u.fsf.org/1yn
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Free Software Foundation at 2016-07-11T15:52:21Z
Free/Libre alternatives to GAFAM's Internet: a review of French initiatives
LibrePlanet video available: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/collection/free-libre-alternatives-to-gafam-s-internet-a...Marianne Corvellec, April and Jonathan Le Lous, April
Project "De-google-ify Internet" aims at offering as many alternative services as possible to those threatening our digital freedoms. Google is not the only player there, even though it gave the project its name. Google Drive, Google Calendar, Skype, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Doodle, Yahoo Groups, and many others, are extremely convenient services. But they are centralized and make users dependent.
Framasoft are resisting this trend. They have come up with a several year roadmap to set up alternative services. These services are thought of as digital commons. They are free, gratis, and open to all. Framasoft is a French not-for-profit whose goal is to decentralize the Internet by promoting self-hosting. They work to empower everyone to install and run their own services. The project already offers more than 15 alternative services and welcomes about 1,000,000 visits per month.
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Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-07-07T11:36:32Z
Derivation: publishing by GlénatNicolas Forsans, project manager at Glénat, met the Pepper&Carrot website 8 month ago. He was seduced with the concept and decided to build an internal dossier about it. After months of work, meeting and review, Glénat decided to add Pepper&Carrot to their official catalog to print and distribute the comic in France.
Especially noteworthy is the part about how Glénat adapted some of its workflow to work with the open standard files generated with Krita, Inkscape etc. while still using the Adobe tools they are used to.Charles Stanhope, Craig Maloney, Danc likes this.
vacation
Camping at the beach and reading Godel, Echer Bach all week. Good times.
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First read ? enjoy !Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-06-22T10:19:24Z
mjg59 | I've bought some more awful IoT stuffI bought some awful WiFi lightbulbs a few months ago. The short version: they introduced terrible vulnerabilities on your network, they violated the GPL and they were also just bad at being lightbulbs. Since then I've bought some other Internet of Things devices, and since people seem to have a bizarre level of fascination with figuring out just what kind of fractal of poor design choices these things frequently embody, I thought I'd oblige.
An entertaining read, if you are entertained by knowing that horrible design choices and GPL violations in this device are not your problem. :)
(it is still a shame that as a community we don't have the resources to do GPL enforcing in the myriad of cases like this.)Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Danc likes this.
Show all 5 replies>> Freemor:
“Too bad they were so awful. but sounded like a nice bit of hacking so hopefully that was fun.
Your site being behind Cloudflare definitely not so fun. (I really really hate CF and with good reason).”my site? do you mean http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/ (that's not my site, just something that I read on planet debian and considered interesting enough to share)
Sorry.. I miss understood.. Thanks for correcting that. :)
How can you tell there aren’t resources to do GPL enforcement?
@Kete Foy well, conservancy is still trying to fund their enforcement work and hasn't reached the target, gpl-violations remained in hiatus for a long time, and AFAIK those are the two groups who were doing most of the enforcing from the community POV.
I'm not saying that there aren't resources to do enforcing at all, just that there aren't enough to go against every violator who releases a sell-and-forget device like the ones above on the market.
The ninth GNU Hackers' Meeting will take place in Rennes (Brittany, France) from August 18-20
Free Software Foundation at 2016-06-09T14:09:35Z
The GNU Hackers' Meeting is a friendly, semi-formal forum to discuss technical, social and organizational issues concerning free software and GNU.
It is open to all people who have an interest in the GNU Project and its goals.
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I'm going!
Man... We need more GNU/FSF stuff up here in Canada
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Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-06-07T20:18:53Z
How git-annex replaces Dropbox + encfs with untrusted providersgit-annex has been around for a long time, but I just recently stumbled across some of the work Joey has been doing to it. This post isn’t about it’s traditional roots in git or all the…
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hello
I'm holding a computer in the palm of my hand. It's small and warm. It's grepping its filesystem for my name. 991 matches found.Greg Grossmeier, Efraim Flashner, Danc, Lars Wirzenius and 3 others likes this.
the dreams of the 90 are alive in my xmonad
- wikipedia via telnet
- metafilter via gopher
- olduse.net via nntp with special NSA appearance
- xeyes
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Nice! =)
Free/Libre alternatives to GAFAMs Internet a review of French Initiatives
Free Software Foundation at 2016-03-30T18:37:30Z
LibrePlanet video now available https://u.fsf.org/1pg cc @april.org
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LibrePlanet day two in a nutshell
Free Software Foundation at 2016-03-22T20:48:31Z
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Hi there, the link doesn't redirects where it should.
Best regards,
sazius at 2016-01-12T18:26:03Z
Some nice news from the #SocialWG: #ownCloud founder Frank Karlitschek joins the group. A big boost for the group to have a large #opensource project like this on board!
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Awesome.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-01-12T18:29:38Z
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Minifree x200 unboxing/discovery thread
Christine Lemmer-Webber at 2015-12-19T01:16:00Z
Just unboxed the x200 I ordered from http://minifree.org/. I got it in the mail. I must have unwrapped 50 feet of bubble wrap.... I have no worries about it being damaged in the hop across the pond.
I turned it on and it quickly flashed a drawing of a penguin hugging a gnu from the libreboot bios, and in 5 seconds it was booted and at a prompt for me to log in.
I logged in. Opengl was working, wifi was working, out of the box. What universe am I in???
This thing has 8GB (oops, said 16GB initially) of ram, a 1 terabyte hard drive. It's lightning fast. I can't believe this is a totally free system. I also embarassingly admit at how surprised I am at how nice the Trisquel install is on here.
I can't believe it. It runs so nicely, it's so light, it's so fast... it's the nicest machine I've ever owned.
What is going on??? I thought free software users were supposed to have a hard time with hardware? Hats off to Minifree, impressive frelling work. Whoa.
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still .. 15 secs is a pretty fast boot .. not sure I believe thats from a platter!
I guess its a much more high-end machine than I'm used to seeing (quite likely - I use mostly second hand gear at home)
and maybe thats REALLY fast hard drive!
AFAIK the thinkpad X200 only officially supports 4GB RAM, 8GB is the maximum which may or may not work depending on the configuration (but the people from minifree of course preinstall a working one), so no, 16GB wouldn't have been a possibility.
Yes, that was a mistake on my end. It's 8gb!
Christine Lemmer-Webber at 2015-12-23T19:12:39Z
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Interesting this version....I am very happy with my X200s...it's a good laptop, very strong and confortable....Mine it's not totaly free...I work with Gentoo...
Could be the only difference between both bios and System?
Aaron Gibson at 2015-12-12T16:03:50Z
This is why I went with Friendica. GNU Social, pump.io, diaspora and Friendica (of course) taking care of in one account.Danc likes this.
Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2015-09-16T09:30:02Z
Exercising Software Freedom in the Global Email System - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn )In this post, I discuss one example of how a choice for software freedom can cause many strange problems that others will dismiss. My goal here is to explain in gory detail how proprietary software biases in the computing world continue to grow, notwithstanding Open Source ballyhoo.
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