Re: Domain Registrar to Recommend

2022-05-20 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
Uh, the point of my project is to teach people to rely on less outsourcing their computing, generally avoiding letting others host things for you... which would be a problem. The FSF uses Gandi, which seems to provide a basic interface without JavaScript, though! signature.asc Description: PGP

Domain Registrar to Recommend

2022-05-19 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
I am looking for a domain registrar to recommend on my free-software focused fork of Luke Smith's https://landchad.net/ over at https://host.andrewyu.org/. https://host.andrewyu.org/guides/domain.html currently uses Epik as the example because I haven't changed it from the original fork. The last

People calling the GPLs 'evil licenses' - action plan?

2022-05-17 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
Andrew Would https://git.andrewyu.org/pygame-multiplayer/ suffice to indicate extending an existing Expat (MIT) project into a project based on the original work but licensed under the (A)GPL? Andrew ugh, forgot to place the agpl in it ChrisWarrickask a lawyer ChrisWarrick(and

Re: Question of Aiding and Abetting Proprietary (or non-free) Software in GNU projects

2022-05-17 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
I agree that having Windows and macOS Emacs is weird, they should indeed be handled differently signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listi

Re: Question of Aiding and Abetting Proprietary (or non-free) Software in GNU projects

2022-05-16 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/05/17 09:51AM, Jean Louis replies to Yasuki Kudo: > You seem to have an opinion that community should talk about > proprietary software even if it is exclusively not about proprietary > software. Why do you have that urge to enforce a subject which is > clearly not the goal of the community?

Re: Question of Aiding and Abetting Proprietary (or non-free) Software in GNU projects

2022-05-16 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/05/16 06:10PM, Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > Oh this is quite simple - When someone installs a Guix OS, there is a > high chance that vital components of the computer won't work (unless > "work" includes severely hampered performance) > > And the chances are, all one needs to do to obtain the hardwar

Re: Introducing My (Future) High School into Free Software

2022-05-15 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/05/15 11:50AM, Kaio Duarte Costa wrote: > Hey Andrew Yu, > > First, I would like to say that I am very happy to see another high > school student, caring about spreading the free software philosophy. > Because I am also, and have been through it, I will suggest based on > this. Hi! I've ac

Re: Question of Aiding and Abetting Proprietary (or non-free) Software in GNU projects

2022-05-15 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/05/15 11:25AM, Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > While I really like and use GNU Guix as my primary Linux OS The term "Linux OS" is a bit confusing to me, "Linux-based OS" would make more sense as Linux is literally a kernel :) > the integration of 'Proprietary' (as far as I know, even the regular > Lin

Introducing My (Future) High School into Free Software

2022-05-15 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
I have been recently accepted into a good high school in Shanghai. They're one of the best international schools in my opinion, and are generally welcoming to new ideas. I would like to take this oppurtunity to spread the ideas of the free software movement (and free computing in general.) Curren

Re: (renamed) Misc mailing list

2022-04-18 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/04/18 03:09PM, Jean Louis wrote: > * andrew [2022-04-18 13:53]: > > My problem is that when I say "please contact me by email because I > > don't wanna use WeChat", people go like "nope". Frustrating. > > I have that taking place, but I do not have such problem. > > Today I am managing p

Re: (renamed) Misc mailing list

2022-04-18 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/04/18 09:26PM, Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > (I have just 'replied all' from my (God forbid, proprietary!) IPhone > so forgive me, the addresses in To or CC are pretty arbitrary) RIP > I am very sympathetic to everyone who live in authoritarian regimes > . Pre-1945, someone like me, (an anarchi

Re: (renamed) Misc mailing list

2022-04-18 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/04/18 10:30AM, Jean Louis wrote: > * andrew [2022-04-18 09:40]: > > In large cities, during lockdowns, the government sends food to people, > > but that's quite minimal. Most of what my family eats is still > > retreived through online shopping, the only way possible. And all those > > * s

Re: (renamed) Misc mailing list

2022-04-17 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/04/18 09:32AM, Jean Louis wrote: > * Whistler [2022-04-18 06:26]: > > Here (in Beijing) we have been required to scan a QR code with a > > non-free covid 'contact tracing' app if we need to enter _anywhere_ > > since 2020, including the residence block of my own home. > > > > I don't think '

Re: (renamed) Misc mailing list

2022-04-16 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/04/15 10:56PM, Jean Louis wrote: > Who issued the policy? By which authority someone obligated you? Shanghai Government, the government. The order was issued by the executive branch of the government, and it's enforced by the police. The police published the specifics of the rules: 为严格落实本

Re: (renamed) Misc mailing list

2022-04-14 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
On 22/04/15 12:30AM, Jean Louis wrote: > * andrew via libreplanet-discuss > [2022-04-14 18:30]: > > The reason I posted this here are: > > > > (1) During the lockdown, we are obligated to use the following nonfree > > software: > > How are you obligated?

Re: (renamed) Misc mailing list

2022-04-14 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
The reason I posted this here are: (1) During the lockdown, we are obligated to use the following nonfree software: 1. Tencent Meetings for school; 2. 随申办 for getting a QR code as a token for mandated COVID tests; Simply swiping a second-generation citizen ID cart is "de

Quick Check on COVID Lockdowns

2022-04-10 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
Shanghai, where I live, has been locked down again. Any of you in lockdown? (Personally I think Shanghai's lockdown is quite bad, I haven't written about this in English yet, but here for your reference is a school essay about it. Note that since it's a school essay, I haven't fully expressed, a

Re: Should we talk about "open source" hardware?

2022-01-30 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
Let me copy this from the Code - OSS GitHub wiki... # Differences between the repository and Visual Studio Code This article outlines the differences between the [`github.com/microsoft/vscode`](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode) GitHub project (which we refer to as `Code - OSS`) and Microsoft

Re: Supporting hardware freedom in the long range

2022-01-30 Thread andrew via libreplanet-discuss
Oh dear. Jacob, I think whatever harms (that of your presentation) the FSF has to free software is an unsafe side effect of campaigning for the use of it. The FSF and also RMS are already fighting for free software, *an essential part of free computing*. The threat from hardware components like