Re: FSFE and the war in Europe

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am 17.03.22 um 21:38 schrieb Carsten Agger:

In response to Paul and Vitaly:

I am personally horrified and appalled by the Russian attack on Ukraine and the 
crimes they are currently committing. It is tragic, and it's something we had 
very much hoped not to see in Europe in our lifetimes. It's destroying Ukraine, 
it's destroying civil society and the small remains of press freedom in Russia 
itself - basically dragging down all that's good about Russian in the most 
stupid nationalism imaginable, and it's threatening all of Europe. It *is* 
horrifying.

In spite of this personal opinion, I think that responding to this war is a bit 
outside of FSFE's remit. I'm not even sure it would be possible for it to make 
a statement on a non-free software related event, even as horrifying as this 
one, given that free software is the only area the FSFE is really working on.



I beg to differ. If we have a look at FSFE's constitution [0]:

"The distribution of information and the forming of an opinion are done 
increasingly by digital
media, and the trend is to foster the use of those means for a direct citizen 
participation to de-
mocracy. Therefore, a central task of the FSFE is to train proficient citizens 
in these media,
thereby promoting democracy."

Putin directly attacks the idea of a liberal, democratic society. He attacks everything 
what "Europe"
as an idea stands for. And, as FSFE by its constitution is not an "apolitical" 
nerd club, I think we
very well should say something about it.

My personal opinion
Michael

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Re: Is Matrix a good choice?

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am 17.03.22 um 08:04 schrieb Dr. Trigon:

Thanks a lot for the details on this decision!

Hmmm, I am wondering whether its fair to say that to me it looks like XMPP 
development has slowed down and Matrix is still going strong? As I would assume 
all point from your list could implemented in XMPP as well, right?
(again this efficiency-centric thinking ;)


Well, many things can happen, so much for sure.
Personally, I won't hold my breath for it, though.

XMPP had such a long time already to evolve into a good standard I fail to see 
how it could happen anymore.

There was some talk about "easy xmpp" about five years ago, did anyone hear 
about it afterwards?
Sometimes you need to go with the flow, everything else is just wishful 
thinking in my opinion.

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Re: FSFE-defined coding standards?

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am 10.02.21 um 13:10 schrieb Alessandro Rubini:
> The problem your describe is that of bashisms.  I agree we should use
> /bin/sh in published scripts (and ensure our own sh is not some
> featureful derivation).

I think one should not publish any shell scripts any more except for
the most trivial cases.

Shell code just is hard to read, not portable between systems at all,
has very bad error handling, is hard to impossible to test, in short
unmaintainable. This gets even worse if you use only POSIX features.

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Re: Anyone knows a good Free Software Project Management Tool?

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am 17.09.20 um 11:21 schrieb Michael Weimann:
> I have tried Tuleap [1] in the past. It is quite usable.
> Some nice people from France are working on this.
> Met them at some conferences.

I was quite impressed by tuleap at first.
We tried it at my employer.
Sadly it had some real drawbacks at the time:

- Installation and upgrade via (s)hell scripts. No thanks! :(
- Parts are proprietary now
- Used parts are really really out of date (e.g. mediawiki 1.23 from 2017 which 
isn't
  supported by anything anymore).
- Everything seems to be hit with a hammer so you don't recognize the used 
parts anymore

So, please evaluate carefully before committing to it.

My 2 cents
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Re: Free Software for live streaming

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

On 02.07.20 15:21, Patrick Ohnewein (FSFE) wrote:
> Hi Erik,
> 
> On 02.07.20 13:56, Erik Albers wrote:
>> there is the interest of a medium-sized German city to stream its city 
>> council
>> meetings to the internet. They would like to use Free Software, are willing 
>> to
>> spend some money for it and are looking for help now.
>>
>> Apparently there is OBS Studio in this area [1]. Theoretically, this could
>> also be possible via Big Blue Button [2]? Does anyone here have experience
>> with any of the mentioned software or in general with live streaming and Free
>> Software and can share recommendations / pitfalls?

I had the chance to help the Debian video team at MiniDebConf Hamburg last year.
They use voctomix and have written down many informations helpful for such 
events:

https://github.com/voc/voctomix
https://debconf-video-team.pages.debian.net/docs/index.html

These people have some experience recording sessions so it will not harm to
contact them. For example they 3D-printed a cover to the microphones so they 
can't
be turned off erroneously.

I think the software is comparable to OBS but I never used OBS so can't say for 
sure.
 
[...]
> The computer with OBS Studio installed needs to be strong in CPU and RAM. 
> Very important is also a very good uplink to the Internet!

Yes, this will be valid for all solutions!
 
> You need of course cameras streaming video signals to the OBS Studio machine.
> 
> What is even more difficult most of the times, is to get a good audio quality 
> from the microphones. The question to be answered is: How do you get the 
> audio stream in good quality into OBS Studio machine?

And keeping audio and video in sync.
 
> Last but not least, consider spending the money on the person who will do a 
> good direction and recording. The director using OBS Studio has to mix 
> different camera sources, like ambience camera, camera focused on speakers 
> and slides.

Second this. You need to act in real-time and have to know your stuff!

> We are evaluating OBS Studio as a possible solution for the SFScon[3] this 
> year. We foresee the conference to be held in blended mode with participants 
> at NOI Techpark and others connecting online.
> 
> The main difference between BBB and OBS Studio is, that BBB is a 
> collaboration platform, which allows recording and streaming of the session 
> as is, OBS Studio is a tool to mix different video and audio sources to 
> create recordings and streaming with the ability to have different scenes 
> like speaker video on screen to the slides, etc. not just a plain recording 
> of a BBB or jitsi session.

Yes, are they holding meetings online right now?
OBS or something like that will be needed also when real live meetings are held 
up.

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Re: nitter equivalent for telegram

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

On 16.06.20 11:37, V F wrote:
> Hmmm...
> 
>> I believe, it would be more productive to ask something more specific —
>> namely, what do you what to achieve.
>>
> 
> Lets say I would like to see if my question was asked and solved
> cannot as it is at
> 
> https://t.me/phhtreble
> 
> 
>>> Many communities get locked behind it and I cannot access anything.
>>
>> Locked behind what?  If you have not access to a certain ‘community’ (i. e.
> 
> https://t.me/phhtreble
> 
>> resource), how do you expect a third-party useragent to help you with that?
>>
> just like nitter or bibliogram.
> 
>> As for (b), many various SaaSʼes exist out there, including some
>> Telegram-related, but I found it inappropriate to advertise them here.
> 
> Then do not type here!

Please calm down.

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Re: Voting and Free Software

[Michael Kesper]

Hi Richard,

On 06.11.19 04:33, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I am against using computers to enter votes.
> See stallman.org/evoting.html.
> 
> We used to have a GNU package, GNU FREE, for holding elections.
> We decided, the developer and I, to withdraw it because software
> should not be used for that purpose.

As I did see no mention of it on your page, did you consider the
Debian voting process?

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Re: Voting and Free Software

[Michael Kesper]

Hi Stephane,

On 06.11.19 09:50, Stephane Ascoet wrote:
> Le 05/11/2019 à 08:55, Matthias Kirschner a écrit :
>> Do you agree with this criticism or what do you think about that topic?
> 
> Hi, this is Roberto Di Cosmo, one of the oldest and most important free 
> computing activists in Europe. I'd like to read its book « Technologie et 
> Marché : journal d'un consommateur insatisfait ».
> 
> A few months ago, I attended . 
> The activist presented us a solution that could almost work. It would need 
> that every voter had a couple of public/private key and a very specific 
> workflow.
> 
> But anyway, another problem is: should we still act like if elections had the 
> effects our dictators say they have?

Please, that is another discussion entirely.

Michael



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Re: Fairphone 3

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

On 23.09.19 10:05, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote:
> I've heard that a sailfish OS port to FP3 is likely. :)
> That is also a mobile phone operating system which (limited) success is based 
> on Free Software a lot. 

Sailfish is not completely Free Software:

https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Open_Source

I know purism pays some developers to integrate a full
Gnome platform with a custom shell (phosh).
To my humble knowledge this seems to be the most active
fully free software stack right now (other than AOSP)
which can be implemented on real hardware phones.

https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Software_Reference.html

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Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

[Michael Kesper]

Hi Paul,

On 17.07.19 13:30, Paul Boddie wrote:
> And obviously, with everybody loading up the "modern" Web with superfluous 
> gadgetry, Firefox will gladly saturate the CPU, I/O channels and take lots of 
> RAM. Unfortunately, more lightweight browsers like NetSurf [3] are likely to 
> struggle with today's mainstream sites infused with surveillance capitalism, 
> reaching out to dozens of other sites serving their own JavaScript payloads 
> on 
> every page load.

I run some old machines too with xfce, will try MATE too. :)
While normal sites are usable when uBlock Origin takes care of filtering out 
most
crap, more "active" sites (heavy use of JS/CSS) become really sluggy, though
and turn otherwise silent machines into noisy monsters because their fans will
run at full throttle.

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Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

[Michael Kesper]

Hi Erik,

On 03.07.19 13:44, Erik Albers wrote:
> On the german list someone came up with the eeePC. This is from size exactly
> what I am looking for and you can get them second hand at around 50 euro.

That's great, much better then dumping these old PCs.
I saw there are some available featuring 2GB of RAM.
Should probably be preferred. 1GB is pretty low nowadays, I suppose.

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Re: [nomination]for Fellowship Council renewal and activism

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

On 27.05.19 10:21, Christian Imhorst wrote:
> I think RMS is a brilliant mind when he talks about Free Software. No 
> question. Unfortunately he is not so brilliant in other topics. And it's not 
> an excuse that he is a child of  the decade he was born in. [1][2]

RMS is not a speaker of FSFE.
If you visit a RMS talk he always will _exclusively_ mention FSF 
and collect money for FSF and never mention FSFE at all.
So I don't know what we could influence about that on this list?

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Re: obedience and control (was: ....)

[Michael Kesper]

Hi,

On 07.05.19 10:33, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/05/2019 12:35, Florian Snow wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> I am also not directly involved in this, but I think legal action  (snip)
>>
>> (snip) For example, anyone who wants to can file a GDPR violation with their 
>> local data protection officer.
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks to Florian and Carmen for bringing up the threats of legal
> action, just at Matthias did in private emails last year.
> 
> Anybody who wants to go legal can just print this form, sign it and post it:
> 
> https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/2019-data-breach-bundle.pdf

This is very nice. YOU did something illegal and now want that people get legal 
against FSFE.
 
> We are a community and we are Free to communicate with each other as we
> please.  This trailer makes it clear, are you a prisoner or a guard?

NO.
We as a community want to communicate with respect to each other as otherwise
no community can survive.

> 
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/
> 
> If the threat culture bothers you, feel free to unsubscribe[1] or send a
> resignation to priv...@fsfe.org

Thanks, no.

Michael



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Dear all,

it gets ever "funnier". Now I received this confirmation for removal of this 
list.
(I redacted the hash, obviously)
I suspect it gets created if you click on Daniel's unsubscribe link.
The IP address is not mine.

Michael


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Hijacking attempt by Daniel Pocock

[Michael Kesper]

Dear all,

It seems that former fellowship representative Daniel Pocock has
a) set up a mailing list discuss...@lists.fsfellowship.eu
b) subscribed all participants of this list (I guess)
c) Sent an email asking people to unsubscribe from _this_ list

Clearly, I did not give consent to b) nor c).

I hereby ask FSFE officials to use all available legal tools against these
eclatant DSGVO and privacy violations in order to protect its subscribers.

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Re: Any Audacity pro here?

[Michael Kesper]

Hi Erik,

On 01.04.19 12:56, Erik Albers wrote:
> I have a problem: I recorded an interview using Audio Recorder [1] and now I
> miss the half of the voice. However, I see a low amplitude in many cases, so I
> have hope there is still some audio available. Is anyone here a pro in
> Audacity or any other tool and can maybe help me to recover the audio?

Maybe a simple tool like sox [0] can help you?
It's able to adjust gain/companding (and much more).

Best wishes
Michael

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Re: FSFE and censorship - not true?

[Michael Kesper]

Hi Andreas,

On 14.09.2018 17:18, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> I have read the news about a stated censorship that is ongoing in the
> mailing list. I would not be surprised if it were true that this is an
> ongoing action however that is impliciting that an action is to be
> taken by the responsible moderators of this mailing list to somewhat
> fast strip the abusing moderators their rights to moderate any further.
> 
> The sole reason for moderation is to calm a discussion down and the
> abuse of moderation will be to kill a discussion off.
> 
> This is a wake up call for moderators on discussion@lists.fsfe.org and
> their responsibility is to leave these people out of moderation
> privileges right away.
> 
> It is certainly not OK with me.

The job of moderators is letting useful discussions happen but not
hatespeech and accusations without any substance.
Please do not believe _everything_ you read on the internet.
For fact checking please all people have a look at the minutiae of the
general assemblies and speak to other people.

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Re: to git or not to git

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Hi all,

Am Donnerstag, den 06.09.2018, 12:21 -0500 schrieb Timothy Pearson:
> On the topic of history rewrite, I'd argue that allowing it on a
> private
> (read: development) repository provides better commits and less
> chance
> of losing work.  It allows the developer to incrementally commit
> small,
> incomplete, possibly even wrong changes, then decide how they should
> be
> packaged and layered before attempting a merge.  Without this
> capability, our programmers would tend to keep a massive chunk of
> unstaged changes locally, then submit the entire mess for review once
> it
> was working properly.  History rewrite allows the developer to verify
> a
> multi-week, multi-layer, self-dependent modification and still be
> able
> to split it apart into logical, incremental chunks with relative
> ease.
> 
> I can't imagine working without this feature.  

I much prefer a proper review system like Gerrit for that.
You submit code which will be broken (for sure), but you have the
chance of checking it manually and automatically _before_ committing to
the repository. Also no code will be lost if your dev machine dies in a
week long develop/rewrite cycle (did you consider that possibility?).
Additionally you can use it to keep your repo in always-fast-forward
state with linear, easy to follow history. Better explanation than I
can do:
https://sandofsky.com/blog/git-workflow.html

My three pluses:

+ Review/Tests: Everything not tested will break, so don't let untested
code into the repo at all
+ Small changes instead of one big monster commit
+ Linearity (when using rebase)

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Michael

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Fwd: Call to Action: Save Free Software this September

[Michael Kesper]

Dear list members,

time is running up for this campaign, please participate and spread the
message!

Best
Michael

> In the context of our https://savecodeshare.eu/ campaign we just
> published this call to action:
> 
> We would be happy if you spread this message to your networks: https:
> //fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180905-02.de.html
> 
> Free Software is at risk! On the 12th of September the EU is getting
> ready to vote on a "Copyright Reform" package, which undermines the
> foundations upon which Free Software is built. The proposed Article
> 13 of the EU Copyright Directive targets every online service that
> allows its users to upload and share content with each other,
> including code hosting platforms.
> 
> Let's call upon European policy makers to delete the threat posed
> against Free Software in the Copyright Directive.
> 
> The widespread reuse of Free Software is a foundation of the
> Internet, as code can be used, studied, shared and improved by each
> user. It would be wrong to take this freedom for granted. Since most
> of the internet medium is compiled and reused as Free Software, the
> ruling would dismantle the media ecosystem.
> 
> We are getting ready for the EU's vote on a "Copyright Reform"
> package, in order to remove a section of its terms and conditions
> that looks to hamper Free Software development and code-sharing.
> Every Internet user, who shares information, media, and code with the
> public, has been targeted in the proposed directive. The idea in
> Article 13 is that Free Software is a cause for copyright violations
> and that, therefore, upload-filters should be created by internet
> platforms.
> 
> There are even a variety of types of governmental organisations,
> facilitated and powered by Free Software. In fact, on just one of the
> major code hosting platforms, over 128 government organisations from
> over 17 European governments have, in total, licensed 4594 instances
> of Free Software on code-hosting platforms, at the time of writing.
> [1] They are, as follows: Open Government initiatives, Cutural
> heritage directories, Ecology research departments and agencies,
> Digitalisation projects, Emergency Services, Information Systems,
> Election Services, Transport networks, Education institutions, Energy
> services, Mapping and Geographical research institutes, Statistical
> bureaus, Business departments, Law courts, Security groups, and
> Departments of Finance.
> 
> So, for those inside the EU, now's the time to do your bit and to
> communicate with an MEP, who represents your country, in order to
> notify your support for Free Software in the face of Article 13 in
> the Copyright Directive.
> 
> Do that at http://saveyourinternet.eu, where there are tips on who
> and how to address and send your message. When you're ready, you can
> even use a tool [2], created by EDRi and Open Media, to directly call
> and e-mail your MEP.
> 
> Let's call upon European policy makers to delete the threat posed
> against Free and Open Source Software in the Copyright Directive.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex
> 
> 
> [1] https://government.github.com/community/
> [2] https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/copyright-campaign-call-your-mep
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Re: supporting our fellowship representative

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am 28. August 2018 15:04:42 MESZ schrieb Joe Awni :
>As far as I'm concerned, with out elections, my impression is it's a
>staff-office in Berlin that is effectively domain-name-squatting on
>fsfe.org

I don't know how you come to that conclusion.
FSFE existed for years before the supporting campaign called "Fellowship".
For years it also has been critizised as being too intransparent and closed. 
Real membership was invite-only and restricted to about a dozen people. 
Nowadays everyone can apply for it.

Best wishes
Michael

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Re: transparency about the fellowship

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am Dienstag, den 10.07.2018, 15:21 +0200 schrieb Florian Snow:
> 
> Am 10. Juli 2018 09:19:27 MESZ schrieb Michael Kesper  rg>:
> > If you make your last will with a (for you, at least) substantial
> > amount of money I bet you know who you want to support EXACTLY.
> 
> I would like to add something here: I take the "you" in this sentence
> as an impersonal "you". That means I understand it as " If somebody
> makes their last will with a (for that person, at least) substantial
> amount of money I bet they know who they want to support EXACTLY."
> The impersonal use of "you" is very common in English.

Yes, that's how I meant it.
Anyway, I probably should have not sent that email and will refrain
from further commenting on this thread.
Sorry if I offended anyone.

Best wishes
Michael

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Re: transparency about the fellowship

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am Montag, den 09.07.2018, 22:29 +0200 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
> 
> On 09/07/18 22:18, Reinhard Müller wrote:
> > Am 2018-07-09 um 21:59 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
> > > Would FSFE be willing to allow the elected fellowship
> > > representative to
> > > know the facts about this person and see their written
> > > intentions?
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > It was that person's last will to remain anonymous. The name is
> > known to
> > those who absolutely needed to know in order to process the
> > formalities
> > and to nobody else.
> > 
> > As you might have noticed, I estimate privacy of our supporters and
> > volunteers as an important value anyway, but this is about a last
> > will.
> 
> But that is why it is so important that it is discussed

Non sequitur?

> There have been discussions where people were unclear about the
> relationship between FSF and FSFE or the fact that these are
> different
> organizations.  I've seen that both publicly and privately.  If
> people
> are putting FSF(E) into their will and if they do so believing their
> money will go into promoting freedom as RMS explains it then is FSFE
> able to accept that money?

If you make your last will with a (for you, at least) substantial
amount of money I bet you know who you want to support EXACTLY.
FSFE is Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. Schönhauser Allee 6/7,
10119 Berlin, Deutschland and very distinct from Free Software
Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor Boston, MA 02110-1335,
USA.

> If they were a member of the fellowship, it would be relevant for the
> fellowship representative to know that, even if the person was not
> named.

Why? 

> As fellowship representative, I see a more than trivial probability
> that
> this person was a fellow and therefore I'm keen to have some clarity
> about their relationship with the organization.  I'm not insisting
> that
> their name be released.

This person didn't donate to you but to FSFE, I think?
The Fellowship programme may or may have not had any influence on their
decision, how is that important?

You might feel like the last man standing for freedom and justice (you
said so), but maybe (just maybe) you're taking it a little bit too
personal?

Best wishes
Michael

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Re: LWN article on Limux / WiMue and PMPC

[Michael Kesper]

Am 10. November 2017 21:36:22 MEZ schrieb Werner Koch :
>Matze,
>
>publishing a private subscriber only URL to a _public_ mailing list is
>not for what LWN generate them as a favor to their subscribers.

It's common practice on hackernews for example.
LWN now shows a 'please subscribe' header if you open it without being 
subscribed already.

Best wishes
Michael 

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Re: Good examples where Free Software was used in development countries

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am 04.10.2017 um 23:16 schrieb Adonay Felipe Nogueira:
> I know of GNU Health being used in various places.
> 
> I know some examples of Raspberry Pi, but we cannot run free/libre
> distros on it, see
> .

That page hasn't been updated since 2015.
Meanwhile it became possible to start raspis without the binary blob:
https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware
Raspi is huge because the community support is so big.

Suitable boards that respect freedom right from the start might emerge
from the RISC-V platform:
https://riscv.org/
https://riscv.org/2017/10/design-news-article-linux-now-first-open-source-risc-v-processor/

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Michael



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Re: Ethical phones

[Michael Kesper]

Am 19. Juli 2017 00:23:00 MESZ schrieb Kurtis Hanna :
>What I'm saying is that, IMHO, buying/using a device that likely would
>have ended up in the trash or recycled for parts is more ethical than
>buying a newly manufactured phone every 18 months, even if it is made
>with mostly recycled or ethically sourced material.
>
>Reduce / Reuse / Recycle

I think that's a very good point to keep in mind.
Free software has quite some overlap with upcycling or fixityourself movement 
(think about RMS and some laser printer).
For example, without free software millions of 'IOT' devices will turn into 
zombies producing a horrible amount of waste.
Without free software BIOS you cannot replace many parts of notebooks etc.

Best wishes
Michael 
Hi Kurtis,
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Re: Crowdfunding a NAS device that respects your freedom

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am 02.05.2017 um 15:06 schrieb Christian Pietsch:
> On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 03:01:18PM +0200, Karsten Dreifus wrote:
>> While I appreciate the efforts of the creators of this project,
>> MediaTek is very (un)popular for poor kernel updates. Any info on how
>> to deal with this or am I wrong?
>> KD
> 
> This question came up on the GnuBee reddit. Apparently, they have
> improved:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/60x2ap/gnubee_personal_cloud_1/

They explicitly talk about wifi drivers, not about the SoCs (which this
will use).

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Michael



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Re: Project to stimulate Edu-FLS development

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am 09.01.2017 um 20:39 schrieb Richard Stallman:
> 2. The Raspberry Pi.
> 
> The Raspberry Pi is an unfortunate choice because it can't run _at
> all_ without some nonfree software.

There's something going on there:
http://crna.cc/b/11
https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware

> If what you need is a single board computer, how about recommending
> one of the models that can at least start up without nonfree software?
> 
> See fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers for information.

This page was last updated in June 2015.

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Michael



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Re: Implementing a code of conduct?

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,

Am 03.11.2016 um 16:46 schrieb Heiki Lõhmus:
> As FSFE, we want to
> welcome people from all backgrounds and we want to make sure they feel
> safe. Having a clear CoC will hopefully reduce the probability of any
> unpleasant behaviour and it will also tell victims that they will be
> looked after: we are prepared to eliminate perpetrators from our
> community, and where appropriate, encourage and help victims to make
> appropriate reports to the authorities.

I consider this the best explanation.
Because of this reasoning, I'm in favour of installing a CoC.

Best regards
Michael K.




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Re: Is there a small hacker friendly firewall for home use?

[Michael Kesper]

Hi all,


That's what I thought as well but for a firewall the Raspi might have
too little network bandwidth. The internal ethernet port is 10/100 only
and the USB port which you would have to use to attach a WiFi antenna
also has limited throughput.


Ethernet is connected via USB. The raspis are sh*t performance-wise.

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Re: EOMA68 crowdfunding campaign (the last few days) plus ways forward for Libre Computing

[Michael Kesper]

Hi Paul,

Am 22.08.2016 um 19:10 schrieb Paul Boddie:

Hello,

I last mentioned EOMA68 on this list in early July, noting that I would have
blogged about it, too, but couldn't at the time. Unfortunately, real life got
in the way of either following up with the blog volunteers about the blogging
service (which I greatly appreciate as a service of the FSFE Fellowship) or
actually writing anything about this topic on my blog. In fact, I only wrote
about it there recently:

https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1314


...


On this list, there was a discussion about how bad modern x86 derivatives are
by enabling surveillance at the hardware level...

http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2016-April/010912.html

...but either people feel completely powerless about it or they like to talk
about the situation more than how to alleviate or resolve the situation.
Amusingly, all sorts of observations came up about that discussion and I even
mentioned one of them here:

https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1305

(Yes, SPARC might even be a candidate for an alternative hardware platform,
but its supporters need to bring finance and people to the effort instead of
reminiscing about Sun's glory days. The referenced discussion is, however,
rather interesting to read in parts.)


...


There's an interesting summary of processor suitability done for the criteria
of EOMA68 that some might find interesting:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/picking-a-processor

"It should also be pretty clear that there is literally not a single processor
that checks every single box! As in, there is not a single processor in the
world that is eco-conscious, respects software freedom, is ethical and
accessible. This is a pretty insane situation to be in, in the year 2016."

There needs to be a constructive debate about incrementally improving this
situation. Instead of "I hate that processor" or "wait for my radical SoC I've
just started designing", people need to help find products that uphold
software freedom and privacy while also being usable (obtainable, for the most
part) for small libre hardware projects. And there needs to be an appreciation
that this work is not meant to create the "toy of the month" - a gadget that
is fun for a while and then stashed away somewhere - but instead to build an
environment where we shouldn't be constantly needing to urgently figure out
what kind of hardware we can use that uphold our values.

So, does anyone have any opinion about the kinds of projects (most likely
being undertaken already) that need our attention or support? How do you
envisage a sustainable computing platform? And since all discussions
inevitably lament how much memory Firefox uses these days, how do you envisage
a less demanding form of computing being extended to online services?

Sorry for the long message!


In contrary, I thank you for writing that excellent summary!

Michael
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