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>IoT (The Internet of Things) is a marketing push by device manufacturers seeking to convince the general public to fill their home with interconnected computers embedded inside commonplace contraptions and tools. Proponents ballyhoo the IoT revolution as bringing the ultimate in convenience and informational interconnectivity for everyone.
>However, these embedded devices typically remain under the complete control of the manufacturer — not only for their basic functionality — but for safety and security updates as well. In many cases, these devices require Herculean efforts by the home user to modify and upgrade.
>Most ironically, however, nearly all these devices run Linux, which is released under a modification-respecting license, the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2). The GPLv2 uses copyright controls to mandate the users' ability to modify and upgrade the software. Yet, due to widespread GPL violations throughout the industry, rarely do IoT devices come with the freedoms and rights that GPL tries to uphold.
>This talk will explain the political, social, and legal ramifications of this abysmal situation. Attendees can expect a full explanation of the history of GPL enforcement, how it has historically defended the rights of hobbyist modifications to home devices, and what processes exist now to continue that fight. In particular, the talk will explain why community-oriented and led GPL compliance efforts are absolutely essential in preventing one of our greatest community-organized technological successes — namely, the development of Linux — from becoming part of a dystopia of corporate control in IoT.
The hero we need. And the only one walking free on the US? That was surprising.
Gabriel Edwards
*nix novice here. I'm wondering if there's a database of useful/included shell commands for a particular distribution. I realize that everything I do in a GUI can also be done via command line. I have a printed unix/linux command reference but I think that only scratches the surface.
Sorry if I wasn't clear: the kernels weren't the issue. It's literally a weird thing that happens due to Arch removing certain drivers when kernel upgrades happen (because, by default, Arch doesn't keep the previous kernels). So, in particular, the needed driver to do mounting becomes unavailable in memory after upgrading, but it comes back after rebooting.
>the needed driver to do mounting You can mount perfectly well, you mean mounting FUSE filesystems. When you update the kernel, the /usr/lib/modules folder is updated changing the kernel versions folder. It is not expected to run a newly installed kernel without first rebooting so that you can boot that kernel. Why would you believe otherwise? This is completely user error/negligence
Ryan Rodriguez
omg
Ryder Powell
What do you think about neovim?
Sebastian Garcia
That's why I compile my kernel myself.
Jaxson Sullivan
Neovim is created by a company that wanted their proprietary plugin added to Vim and failed to get their pull request with the features they needed to implement the plugin into the repository. For a while it was better than Vim because of its asyncronous capabilities, which any modern editor needs. Vim now supports asyncronicity. In the interest of keeping the Vim community united it's much better just to use Vim.
Adrian Parker
Asynchronous?
Easton Anderson
Thanks
Kayden Cooper
Is anyone using Awesome WM? I'm having some real frustrating issues with startup. I've been googling for quite some time now but I'm really new to this stuff.
1. My nvidia settings are resetting every restart, this always happens but I haven't been able to solve it with awesome wm. 2. On startup, I want to run xmodmap ~/.xmodmap. I found how to set startup applications, but how can I tell xmodmap to run .xmodmap?
I have a webm script but when using higher resolution source files, it dosent really work(scaling and bit rate) I was thinking of using mediainfo to get the resolution and then have some sort of statement to change the ffmepg command based on resolution ranges. How would you do this in a bash script? Grabbing the resolution size, and then seperating the ffmpeg commands
Joshua Powell
>install vim >install thunar >pick a random text file >right click and select "Open with Vim" >nothing happens
you'll find how to set consistent nvidia settings if you search for nvidia on there too
Cameron Martin
What are you even on about?
Brandon Flores
Reminder to just ignore the troll.
It's plain as day that he's not here to debate. He's here to preach. There's no point trying to debate preachers. And there's no point trying to 1-up him because anyone in these threads can see what he's doing. Even if a new user wandered in here and was led astray by this guy, if the new user isn't intelligent enough to check the facts properly or ask follow up questions before deciding he hates GNU/Linux then he's not worth our time anyway.
TL;DR there is nothing to be gained by taking this trolls bait. Just ignore him already and let's have a better thread than the last one.
Why is yacreader so bloated? 300mb++ just for comic reader?
Robert Sanders
trying to install this Windows XP GTK theme for XFCE github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-XP I put it in ~/.themes and it works for the most part except it doesn't change the XFCE panel/start menu to look like the taskbar as seen in the screenshot of the github page. I found these icons in the "gnome-shell" folder of the theme which should be used for the taskbar but I don't see them in the regular gtk-2.0/3.0 folders, does that mean you need to use GNOME to be able to use them?
High friends. I have a dusty old think pad w500, 8gb ram, t9900 cpu, and a spare 128gb ssd. Please recommend me a good distribution.
David Lopez
You ever realize this guy is just a big software hippie? >be programmer in the 6am of consumer software >go FOSS philosophy >all your proprietary friends become billionaires >you smell bad and eat things from your foot Art follows form follows art follows form...
Luke Jackson
Will probably use it sideways as a mangoreader.
Ayden Scott
When I change my selection with ranger, the image preview doesn't redraw the whole thing, leaving pieces of the last image at the bottom just above the system info, very noticeable if the image was wider than the current. Ctrl+L and :redraw_window work fine, but I'd like to set it so that it just automatically redraws the full window on each keypress.
Quick google search said to edit the actions.py file, but that didn't seem to change anything.
YES BUT MAYBE YOU CAN MAKE A BIG IMAGE AND TELL XFCE-PANEL TO USE IT AS A BACKGROUND
TERMINAL IMAGES ARE A TRASHY HACK THAT ALMOST NEVER WORKS
Charles Rogers
>bearded free man bad >shaved dictators good
Lincoln Campbell
Should have used a search engine which respects your privacy instead.
Jordan Torres
Google is a verb, not a noun
Owen Jones
It's been a while since I've used ranger but I recall this problem. I think either enabling or disabling borders fixed it for me back then. Give it a try.
Wyatt Cox
your a faggot
James Gutierrez
>YES BUT MAYBE YOU CAN MAKE A BIG IMAGE AND TELL XFCE-PANEL TO USE IT AS A BACKGROUND I was considering doing that but it still wouldn't change the whisker menu to look like the XP start menu
Samuel Gutierrez
>shaved dictators What do you mean?
Jordan Johnson
Stop yelling, newfag.
Juan Collins
NO!
Jaxon Taylor
Ah, so NTFS-3g was another layer to this? Interesting.
No need for the autistic "ACKCHUALLY' stuff, my dude.
Andrew Allen
>NTFS Proprietary garbage. Stallman said to avoid using it so I'm Free to not use it.
Caleb Phillips
Would you delete proprietary software supporters from this world if you could? I'm currently thinking about this problem ethically and I don't know the correct answer. I assume killing Microsoft executives would be a moral good, but the users are pretty bad too since they're the ones spreading proprietary software use into the masses by recommending it to people around them. Has Stallman made an official statement regarding this matter?
Kayden Jenkins
FUCK OFF ALREADY YOU STUPID FUCKING ANNOYING RETARD CUNT HOLY FUCKING SHIT ASSHOLE GET THE FUCK OUT OFF THIS THREAD YOU FUCKING CUMGARGLING GORILLA GARBAGE
I despise proprietary software, i.e. anything not explicitly approved by the FSF and Stallman himself. Got a problem with that? If so, you're in the wrong thread.
Wyatt Walker
dump larper get a life
Ethan Williams
>GORILLA Wow, that's racist. What's wrong with me being an african-american supporter of FOSS?
Ryder Torres
I think free software has hit its limit. New proprietary stuff (e.g., digital assistants, sex bots, drones) is too complex for internet wierdos to compete.
Josiah Morris
Then you deserve to perish and fade away in the darkness. Free/Libre Open Source Software will reign supreme in the near future. Sad that you won't be around to see it, though...
John Wilson
>Proprietary sex bot Imagine being this cucked and loving botnet shit so much that you literally have sex with a spying device.
Mason Barnes
maybe free software would be good if the devs were allowed to collect usage data ?
Aiden Clark
Free software allows you to use programs for any purpose including sending usage data.
Keep in mind though that it also means that if the users think your data collection is bad, they can disable or remove it.
Nicholas Johnson
stupid question how do I install onto a flash drive? I mean I wanna make a portable version of my void set-up and, well obviously I can't install it onto itself from the live environment. and void-install isn't in the official repo, so...
Jacob Hill
So if I illegally relicense a GPLv3 program which has no spying with a proprietary license then it somehow becomes a spying program even if I don't change the code? Cool. I think I'm going to try and sell this idea.
Ryan Williams
I'm trying to improve my porn function. I want to use lynx and bing to directly get all links, put them in a txt file and play it with mpv. lynx -dump -listonly "bing.com/videos/search?q=sana imanaga -youtube -vimeo"
However, I don't get any links with this. Any ideas?
Chase Bell
I'm pretty sure this uses proprietary JS code so shouldn't be posting it here. What if some noobs actually fall for this and run a piece of proprietary code on their machine? Can you imagine the dire consequences?
Ayden Hughes
W-what?
Jaxon James
I don't understand your motives user. What is it exactly that you want? Do you need a hug?
Carter Wilson
Ignore this poster, it's just our very own thread troll.
Noah Jackson
Oh, my gosh, friend. I am just a humble linux user who wishes to partake in masturbatory pleasures without devoting a long time to curating pornographic content. I'm sure we can forgo this nonsense.
Julian Nguyen
Anyone use bubblewrap for sandbox? Mind posting some of your sandboxes?
Easton Bennett
I'm getting 404 whenever I try to install an Extra package in Arch. Tried to update my mirrorlist but the problem persists. Is it that all mirrors are out of sync or am I doing something wrong?
Christopher Bell
First see what lynx returns without all those options it's probably bing blocking any bot-looking browser and lynx is very bot-looking.
Samuel Wood
Use reflector Update list use -Syyuu
Carson Johnson
Yeah found the answer. I was using yay package and didn't notice yay doesn't sync the db before installing something. -Sy did the trick.
Ryan Sullivan
>yay doesn't sync If you tell it too it does... It's just a WRAPPER for pacman. yay -Syyuu
Jason Ramirez
What's the most aesthetic DE?
Sebastian Thomas
explorer.exe windows xp edition
Ayden Thomas
there's actually something like that but the last release is from 2003 xpde.holobit.net/
Jacob Butler
Is there a way to make sure that nobody outside my LAN can access my samba shares?
Zachary Perez
Dont port forward those ports Dont bind to your external ip
Luke Hall
you're a faggot
Jeremiah Baker
no u
Eli Gonzalez
what terminal emulator do you use, fglt?
Joseph Morgan
>decide to get back into linux and try debian >go to download page >"choose your processor architecture" >amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
hurd will never support anything. 40 years in development, not a single milestone!
Cooper Ortiz
This thread has convinced me to jump ship from KDE (I wasn't particularly attached to it anyway), but what should I switch to. XFCE or LXQT? I don't really care about ricing. Also, I can change my DE without doing a full reinstall, right? Never tried it before.
Ryan Rodriguez
they finally support SATA drives now
Colton Johnson
friends, after learning about internet privacy and how USA laws can fuck my life for ilegal files and since i have nothing to do in home for 2 months, i wanna use this time to break off the botnet, tell me so where can i learn how2linux i am sending good vibrations to your ways
well fuck you too, i thought you were friendly, my mistake obviously
Gavin Flores
Start with Ubuntu, then go Debian.
Benjamin Jackson
tell me more about your illegal files
Caleb Thompson
I have a 4K monitor. Which flavor of Ubuntu has the best HiDPI experience?
Cameron Campbell
All distros are the same.
Jackson Rogers
ah ok, thats all? just change it and am free? well shucks that sounds gay as fuck, not gonna lie, when i envisioned linux shit i thought in terms of "hackerman" or lain type of freedom not some pussy shit i just wanna get all the possible juice out of my system, i do not want a single drop of anything to be wated
illegal by US standards*
Michael Watson
i wasn't joking, if you want to feel like 1337 hackerman then install gentoo
Jace Thompson
i know i might give off the vibe that i am quite capable of doing such a task but since i am in an anonymous forum i can tell you i am a complete and utter brainlet, although i know for sure that gentoo is a meme os that only actual pros tend to use i am a level one rookie here, i just want to know where to get good at this, i appreciate your concern either way blessing to you
