Re: Helping new contributors

[Tobias Platen]

On Fri, 2021-04-09 at 09:04 -0400, Suushi via libreplanet-discuss
wrote:

I have never used Discord, but you can use Jami as a replacement.

> > > > By doing this ourselves, as advocates of free software, we can
> > > > include links to why free software methologies are better, even
> > > > if
> > > > we have to be a little flexible in what we use for support and
> > > > communication, Discourse my not be ideal, but would we rather
> > > > people
> > > > used facebook or discord?
> > > 
> > > Of course not Facebook. It is very easy to establish XMPP chat,
> > > it can
> > > be on the website or by using various applications, it will work
> > > from
> > > any device. There are other free software communication packages.
> > > 
> > > > My support group is about respecting privacy /user freedom as
> > > > much
> > > > as possible.
> > > 
> > > In that case how can you use Facebook as a tool? Do you know that
> > > FB
> > > data has been leaked for 522 millions?
> > 
> > I am saying i am not going to use facebook hence I want to use 
> > discourse, irc, etc,   My point is, that while discourse may not be
> > 100 
> > percent free software  it s better than facebook.
> > > https://hyperscope.link/3/6/8/5/8/Direct-download-of-533M-Facebook-users-phone-numbers-and-personal-data-have-been-leaked-online-36858.html
> 
> Are you kidding? Facebook is obviously evil, but discord is a nonfree
> spyware program that you pretty much *need* to install on your
> computer
> in order to utilize it's full functionality. That means you must
> leave
> it running in the background in order to get notifications, see
> messages and receive calls while you're going about your daily
> business
> on the computer, and it is basically this black box that is just
> sitting there listening and recording the processes running on your
> machine. It is made and used by scoundrels and anything you say on
> there, text or voice, you ought to assume to be logged and recorded.
> It is very much still social media, with all the negative aspects of
> facebook and others intact. It ropes in young people and gets them
> addicted to the dopamine from the social stimulation and it's hard to
> detach from it once all your 'net friends are on there (speaking from
> experience). They may use "gamer speak" or whatever in their program
> or
> their twitter for PR, but don't let it fool you, discord is not your
> friend and friends don't let friends use discord.
> 
> I would suggest you refer to this article, it covers some of the
> things
> I have mentioned. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html
> 
> Why should we or anyone concede to the enemy and compromise our
> principles to use something awful like discord for the sake of
> short-term convenience? That is a terrible quagmire to get stuck in
> --
> not only are you sacrificing your own freedom and privacy for
> immediate
> convenience, but you are coercing others into doing the same, and it
> is
> possible that you or those other people become addicted to the
> dopamine
> rush from other "servers" on discord!
> 
> Why not just start a channel on freenode? It's trivial to do so and
> have people unfamiliar with IRC connect using a web-based client,
> once
> they are more comfortable with the protocol they can install a real
> client. It's sort of a n00b filter as well -- IRC may look
> intimidating
> (to some people) at first, but isn't anything difficult once you get
> used to it.
> 
> If you absolutely *must* have voice communications for some reason,
> there is always mumble.
> 
> It's easy to tell which software projects are worth taking seriously,
> just look at whether they use IRC or discord.
> 


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Re: Lilypond workshop will take place online via BigBlueButton on March 31st

[Tobias Platen]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:56:15 +0100
Tobias Platen  wrote:

> I'm planning a workshop "How to compose songs with GNU/Lilypond and 
> Frescobaldi".
> In this workshop I'll explain how to use lilypond, write a melody and 
> accompaniment,
> exporting a midi for rendering with LMMS, and finally adding a free software 
> virtual singer.
> More information will be posted soon on https://www.qtau.de/.
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The url for the Lilypond workshop is https://meeting.hs.coop/b/tpl-jzb-oau-ium 
and the time is 18:00 Berlin Time.
The language will be English, since this workshop is targeted to the 
international community. 

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Re: Lilypond workshop will take place online via BigBlueButton on March 31st

[Tobias Platen]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 12:37:50 -0400
Jim  wrote:

> st want to thank Tobias for taking the initiative with this, and to 
> encourage anyone interested in music to attend.  I'm not sure whether 
> I'll be able to attend because in my time zone it is still part of the 
> working day.
> 
> Lilypond produces by far the nicest-looking output for any 
> computer-typesetting system (and that's the project's design goal).  I 
> use it to transcribe Turkish and Arabic music.  Turkish and Arabic music 
> use microtones not found in the 12-tone-equal-temperament system on 
> which the West is standardized, and notation is not generally supported 
> by proprietary systems in the West (Finale, Sibelius, ...).  In fact 

As a fan of Japanese music and the Wagakki Band, I once found a Shamisen module 
for Lilypond.
So once I might write some music for the Shamisen using Lilypond, render the 
sound with a 
karplus-strong synthesizer and use a free software synthesizer as a VOCALOID 
replacement.

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Re: Today: LilyPond Workshop shortly after LibrePlanet workshop planned.

[Tobias Platen]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:44:47 +0100
Robert  wrote:

> would there still be a place available?
yes, 8 places available

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Re: Today: LilyPond Workshop shortly after LibrePlanet workshop planned.

[Tobias Platen]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:50:57 +0100
Enrique Rosas  wrote:

> Thanks Tobias
> 
> Sorry, I will not be able to take part today. I understand today's
> presentation will be an introduction to Lilypond.
> 
> Hope you would share any basic learning materials about Lilypond in this
> channel.
> 
> Tschüss!
> 
> Enrique

I was wrong in the date, I assumed Wednesday, but my calendar says Tuesday.
So I decided to do the workshop the next week, on Wednesday March 31. 

> On 14/03/21 18:16, Tobias Platen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'a free software developer and user of GNU Lilypond. I'm planning a 
> > workshop
> > "How to compose songs with GNU Lilypond and other free software" soon, using
> > BigBlueButton. One of those other free softwares are the Singing Computer by
> > Free(B)Soft, Sinsy (Singing Voice Synthesis System) and QTAU(an Editor).
> > More Information will be posted on my self-hosted page https://www.qtau.de/
> >
> 
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Lilypond workshop will take place online via BigBlueButton on March 31st

[Tobias Platen]

I'm planning a workshop "How to compose songs with GNU/Lilypond and 
Frescobaldi".
In this workshop I'll explain how to use lilypond, write a melody and 
accompaniment,
exporting a midi for rendering with LMMS, and finally adding a free software 
virtual singer.
More information will be posted soon on https://www.qtau.de/.

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LilyPond Workshop shortly after LibrePlanet workshop planned.

[Tobias Platen]

Hello,

I'a free software developer and user of GNU Lilypond. I'm planning a workshop
"How to compose songs with GNU Lilypond and other free software" soon, using
BigBlueButton. One of those other free softwares are the Singing Computer by
Free(B)Soft, Sinsy (Singing Voice Synthesis System) and QTAU(an Editor).
More Information will be posted on my self-hosted page https://www.qtau.de/

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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] EOMA68 - libre software, libre hardware, and eco-friendly too!

[Tobias Platen]

On 06/30/2016 11:00 PM, Koz Ross wrote:

Hi Tobias,

Where is this driver located? How difficult would it be to build and set
up?
Last I heard, it wasn't yet workable. If there *is* a driver for the
Mali 400,
that *would* be really awesome.


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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] How free can the snickerdoodle run?

[Tobias Platen]

On 06/09/2016 06:35 AM, Koz Ross wrote:

I recently came across this on CrowdSupply:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/krtkl/snickerdoodle (link can be viewed
without JS).
However, I am uncertain as to how free this thing can run. Specifically,
I was
curious about the following:

a) Can this run a fully-free distro like Parabola or Trisquel?
b) If a), what functionality would be impeded by doing this (due to nonfree
drivers or whatever)?
c) If a) and b), can the Zynq 'configurable microprocessors' sitting on
that
thing be programmed using free tools?

If anyone could let me know about these things, I would be extremely
grateful.
No, the Xilinx toolchain is proprietary and no one is working on a 
reverse engineering project. Neither Parabola nor Trisquel can run on 
ARM, the need to be ported first.

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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [GNU-linux-libre] freedom problems in docker

[Tobias Platen]

On 04/17/2016 01:07 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:

   > "Docker containers wrap up a piece of software in a complete filesystem
   > that contains everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools,
   > system libraries – anything you can install on a server. This guarantees
   > that it will always run the same, regardless of the environment it is
   > running in. "

Based the information I've seen posted here, it seems Docker makes an
aggregation of the "piece of software" with the rest of an operating
system.  Just as it is allowed to ship a single GPL-covered program's
executable with Windows, it is allowed to ship that executable with
the Docker system,

That is valid for Docker overall, in principle.  There might be
parts of Docker that are tied more closely to the free program,
which the scope of the GPL might cover,

If someone distributes a GPL-covered executable in a Docker system
and fails to provide the corresponding source code, that would be
a violation as usual.



Docker is designed by people who think in terms of "cloud computing" and 
lacks features that the GNU community wants to have implemented.

GNU GUIX also offers containers and uses them for building packages,
really solving the reproducible build problem in my opinion.

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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Uniform look-and-feel on GNU/Linux

[Tobias Platen]

On 04/16/2016 02:30 PM, Yui Hirasawa wrote:

One of the accusations made against GNU/Linux is that there is no
established "native" look-and-feel on it - GTK programs look different
from Qt programs, JUCE programs look different from Qt programs, Tk
programs and FLTK programs look different from everything else and so on.


Windows doesn't have uniform look either but I don't see people
complaining about that. Funny how that goes.

Even for one Windows[1] version the look is not the same for each 
application or window. On Mac OS X the look changes with each release, 
GNUstep uses a next style look, but there is a Silver look that better 
matches the Trisquel[2] desktop, but the theming supports seems to be 
incomplete.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_visual_styles
[2] http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Image:Silver1.jpg

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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] buying CDs VS Digital Downloads

[Tobias Platen]

On 02/19/2016 05:27 PM, Fabio Pesari wrote:

On 02/19/2016 04:11 PM, Cardoza, Michael wrote:

So I know I am probably beating a dead horse at this point. What are
peoples opinions on this age old topic?


For now CDs are tolerable, even though we should try to support libre
music. What happens when the last working physical copy of a rare album
stops working?

In Italy there is a law that allows making _personal_ copies of media:
that's why external drives cost more here, as we actually have to pay a
"potential pirate" tax, which is just ridiculous. I don't know if this
law applies to digital media, as they are seen as rented rather than
bought, or if it allows breaking DRM, but in any case this law was
written in 1941 by the Mussolini government.

As much as I'd like to listen to Iron Maiden, Megadeth and Black Sabbath
all the time, I realized that I don't want to be subject to whatever DRM
scheme they come up with 50 years from now and I don't want to engage in
unauthorized copying either, so I accepted that the best thing I can do
right now is enjoy whatever music I come across legally and for the
rest, listen to things that are free as in freedom.

Liking anything culturally nonfree this days is a recipe for becoming
proprietary software users in the future, and I would honestly rather
listen to some New Age crap made in LMMS than have to depend on DRM to
be able to listen to "real" music for the rest of my life.



I still buy CDs, because you can pay them anonymously using cash in an 
ethical way (no DRM or EULA). I also buy music from artists who burn 
their own CDs.


In most cases these artists are Vocaloid Producers, so they are giving 
up their freedom. Many of them promote their music on SoundCloud, which 
I avoid because of non-free javascript. Instead I use GNU MediaGoblin 
for publishing my works. If I have a CD, I will create copies in the Ogg 
Vorbis format. I also support free software replacements for Vocaloid, 
and publish my own music in unencumbered formats.


I avoid making unauthorized copies of software and music, instead I 
often download public domain music in computer readable sourcecode form.
These are often MIDI files that one can edit using free software. I also 
listen a lot to DRM free artists that permit sharing such as Jonathan 
Coulton and Cécile Corbel whose songs are often remixed by less known 
artists inside the anime scene.


When artists use free software for making music, some of them release 
raw multitrack recordings under free licences, making remixes more easy.
But I do not insist on free non-functional works such as soundfonts for 
making music. However when I publish my own soundfonts I never use a 
non-free license.



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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Freedom respecting SBC?

[Tobias Platen]

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Libreboot recommends the Beaglebone Black because it does not depend
on non-free firmware. However it does require non-free software to use
the GPU. WIFI is not a problem, as there are several WIFI adapters
that with a "Respects Your Freedom" certification. The OS is partially
free, first you should uninstall the non-free WIFI firmares.

On 06.12.2015 03:43, Ali Razeen wrote:
> Hi Julien,
> 
> You have my attention as well. I was in the market for SBCs earlier
> this year but I didn’t buy a lot of them because very few seemed to
> be truly free.
> 
> Ali
> 
>> On Dec 5, 2015, at 9:38 PM, Koz Ross 
>> wrote:
>> 
> Hi Julien,
> 
> You've definitely got *my* attention!
> 
> 

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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Freedom respecting SBC?

[Tobias Platen]

On 06.12.2015 12:44, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> El 6 de diciembre de 2015 08:49:16 GMT+00:00, Tobias Platen 
> <tob...@platen-software.de> escribió:
> Libreboot recommends the Beaglebone Black because it does not depend
> on non-free firmware. However it does require non-free software to use
> the GPU. WIFI is not a problem, as there are several WIFI adapters
> that with a "Respects Your Freedom" certification. The OS is partially
> free, first you should uninstall the non-free WIFI firmares.
> 
> 
>> Didn't beagle bone recently run Parabola? So maybe use the same specs except 
>> wifi use the think pinguin wifi chip?
> 
>> Can't GPU be replaced with a computer one?
The GPU is buildin, and requires reverse engineering
> 
> 
> 
> On 06.12.2015 03:43, Ali Razeen wrote:
>>>> Hi Julien,
>>>>
>>>> You have my attention as well. I was in the market for SBCs earlier
>>>> this year but I didn’t buy a lot of them because very few seemed to
>>>> be truly free.
>>>>
>>>> Ali
>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 5, 2015, at 9:38 PM, Koz Ross <koz.r...@retro-freedom.nz>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> Hi Julien,
>>>>
>>>> You've definitely got *my* attention!
>>>>
>>>>
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Fight Trademark with Libremark

[Tobias Platen]

On 22.03.2015 14:05, Aaron Wolf wrote:

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Although I felt generally positive about the work with GitBull, both
that *and* the LibreMark work exhibit a pattern that I do not like:

Announcing the idea as somethi that is now already being done.

I think you have a habit of skipping the step of coordinating with /
checking with other people interested in the topic before making
something.

You would have learned more about the trademark issues with GitBull if
you had proposed or discussed the idea before simply making it. You
would learn more about trademark and people's views of it by
discussing it before creating a proposed LibreMark thing.

On glancing at it, the LibreMark idea seems to hold some merit,
although I think it may be overkill, I'm not yet sure it is warranted.
I don't yet have a real opinion here.

I just really prefer that people do their due diligence to research
what exists and check with others before just running out and making
new projects. Often, other people have valuable ideas or valuable work
has been developed for a long time, and the tendency to just bypass
all that and start a new project is, I think, not as healthy as
checking about what is or isn't working and what lessons others have
learned etc. and then starting new projects with the buy-in from the
community early on.

That said, you're sharing this now, so there's room for discussion.
I'm not trying to shame you. I just feel awkward about the first
announcement of a problem being joined immediately with already acting
to solve it without discussion in between.

I'm not sure that the SFC being protective of the Git trademark is a
bad thing in any sense here. I'm not sure that it's a problem that
needs solving. But I'm not sure that LibreMark is a bad idea either. I
haven't had time to make sense of this. I just definitely don't have
the immediate this is wrong reaction to the trademark situation that
you had.

Respectfully,
Aaron

On 03/22/2015 06:22 AM, Aurélien DESBRIÈRES wrote:

Hello LibrePlanet mates,

Recently I have created https://gitbull.org to create a fully free
  solution in front the trouble of gitorious.

Then, the Software Freedom Conservancy contact me because we use
*git* in the name.

I understand their position and *hope* for a solution.

This point make me think that with trademark we are not Free As In
  Freedom and so, we all need something more corresponding to our
way of think: Freedom.

Thank *LibreMark* Born \o/

http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibreMark

Now, we need lawyer improvement to make it powerfull and to
protect our freedom higher.

Thanks to all.



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Please do not use the biased term intellectual property (see 
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html)


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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] opinions please: expanding the definition of software freedom

[Tobias Platen]

systemd is still free software but it is not portable, So for me this is 
not a problem.


On 22.03.2015 21:32, Miles Fidelman wrote:

Folks,

I've been watching the ongoing battles raging around systemd - and 
being bitten by it, as I consider upgrading a bunch of Debian based 
system, and dread the lurking dependencies that come with a radical 
re-architecting of critical system components.


The weekend of Libreplanet seems to be as good an opportunity to raise 
this, as any.


I've begun to wonder if there is a conflict between software freedom 
and key pieces of software that create massive dependency webs.  Or 
put another way, vendor lock-in.


The basic FSF definition of software freedom focuses on four basic 
freedoms:


 * The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose 
(freedom 0).

 * The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does
   your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is
   a precondition for this.
 * The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
   (freedom 2).
 * The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others
   (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance
   to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a
   precondition for this.

I begin to wonder if programs that create massive dependencies - such 
as systemd - directly conflict with freedom 0.  The more that a 
specific piece of code becomes required, for other code to work - the 
less free we become to run other programs.   In general, there has 
been a trend toward cross-platform development, along with cleanly 
defined interfaces that allow for interchangeable parts (e.g., exim 
vs. postfix vs. sendmail).  To date, this carries down to the o/s 
level (Linux vs. Hurd vs. BSD vs. Illumos).   But systemd reverses 
that, creating a LOT of vendor lock-in.  (I expect there are other 
examples, but systemd is the one that's on stage at the moment - some 
would say the clear and present danger.)


One might also argue that systemd, in particular, conflicts with 
freedom 1 - in terms of feature creep, poorly documented code, 
changing APIs, etc., etc.


Which leads me to wonder if we, perhaps, need a 5th freedom:

 * Freedom from vendor lock-in, or words to that effect.

One might also want to consider whether the spread of spyware and 
malware might inspire a 6th freedom:


 * Freedom from hidden software or something like that.

Or maybe, these are both part of freedom to control the configuration 
of your computing system.


Opinions?

Miles Fidelman

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me)

[Tobias Platen]

On 06.03.2015 15:14, John Pozzi wrote:

of FUD regarding this story. The way you put it fuels
the conspiracy theory telling that Gitlab killed Gitorious. But reading
the link you provided, the story is different: Gitorious was dying, and
they contacted Gitlab to find a solution before crashing into
bankruptcy. Gitlab responded by acquiring Gitorious, leaving its
founders free to do something else without the (financial) burden of
their commercial failure.
So yes, Gitorious code is GPL, and Gitlab code is X11. That means
Gitlab has no interest in using Gitorious code, and they simply will
allow a smooth transition for existing Gitorious projects to Gitlab.
If there is a vested interest in GPL-izing Gitlab code, it should be
discussed with them. The choice of the X11 license was made because the
whole stack is distributed under that license. If and when Gitlab


Maybe the Free Software Foundation should start hosting a Gitlab or 
Gitorious instance and maintain a free program that is under the AGPL.
So if you contribute to Gitlab, you should licence your changes under 
the AGPL which is forking the program. I did the same thing with a 
different program called WORLD[1] that was originally licensed under the 
GPLv3 because the FFT-Library was GPLv3, but then the author changed the 
licence to BSD and there are now proprietery programs that use WORLD. 
But I dedided to continue using WORLD and add code from other programs 
that are licensed under the GPLv3, including the GNU GSL library and 
Aubio. But I renamed the program to sekai which is the Japanese word for 
world. The GPLv3 sekai software is hosted on Gitorious, and I will now 
migrate to a differnt hoster. Maybe I will choose gna, or setup my own 
instance of Gitorious.



[1] http://ml.cs.yamanashi.ac.jp/world/english/index.html