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Happy Software Freedom Day [16th of September 2023] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thank you for your detailed explanation and the wiki link 🙂. Good to hear that this (side-) topic is on the agenda.

As mentioned, I really appreciate your work around education and awareness of FOSS principles and chances
and I wish you a nice (remaining) Software Freedom Day.

Happy Software Freedom Day [16th of September 2023] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Looks like a really nice and useful initiative.

Suggestion to the owners of the SFD webpage

I would appreciate the SFD initiative even more, if on the SFD webpage you would "live by your own words".

Facebook and the blue bird are by no means free software, also not according to your definitions "free to study [how the program works]", "free to distribute [copies]", "free to modify [the software]", "free to access [the source code]".

So why not at least show the benefits and use FOSS social media alternatives in action?
If you need the momentum of the unfree social media, you still could do this additionally.

Gaming Then vs Gaming Now in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Gaming Then vs Gaming Now in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yes indeed. It would also work (at least similarly) for the VIC-20 and other Commodore computers 🧑‍🏫

Gaming Then vs Gaming Now in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Or ... 99 has a more uncommon meaning for me 🤓

(in reality the hardware in question was brand new hottest stuff when I was young)

Gaming Then vs Gaming Now in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

I know what you mean, but who are this "double click" and "exe" guys?

Press RUN/STOP and SHIFT.
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
Press PLAY on tape.
OK
SEARCHING
FOUND Ultimate Game II
Take walk with the dog.
Play game.

LibreOffice 7.6.1 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 120 Fixes in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

please see this comment above

[POLL] Which file archiver/compression utility do you use? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
Had to select "Other", but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.

Search engines compared in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

MetaGer is a German meta search engine (utilizing several search engines in the back). UI and results are of course available in many languages.

https://metager.org | https://metager.de

From their About page:

What makes MetaGer special?

MetaGer is different from other search engines. This is reflected not only in our public good orientation and focus on privacy, but also through some unique features:

Possibility of creating a personal blacklist

Function of the search in the search

Advertising-free search possible

Integration of search engine projects like YaCy

The only German search engine that combines results from several large web indexes

And much more..

What We Stand For

Guaranteed Privacy

Data protection and privacy are important to us. That's why we don't track or store personal data and offer several services to protect your privacy, for example our anonymizing proxy ("Open Anonymously" feature).

Non-Profit Association

MetaGer is a project of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, Association for Free Access to Knowledge. SUMA-EV is primarily committed to promoting media literacy.

Diverse and Free

MetaGer produces diverse results because it is a metasearch engine. We have explained exactly what this means in our transparency statement. By publishing our source code, we show that free access to knowledge is important to us. Our source code is free and open source.

100% Renewable Energy

Sustainability and resource consumption is also a big issue for us. Therefore we pay attention to the energy consumption of our services and only use electricity from renewable energy sources.

What's the best Epson scanner software for Mint? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you are unhappy with suggested XSane, but only want an OSS solution, I do not know a good alternative.

Possible non-OSS solution

Although I am an open source enthusiast, there are few application where I use commercial, even non-OSS solutions on Linux. One of this exceptions is for scanning.

Background: I "administrate" some legacy Epson scanners used with my family's Linux boxes and got them all to run with a software called VueScan, with the following restrictions:

Perfection 3490 worked out of the box, no drivers required
Perfection 3170 requires Epson drivers (iscan_2.10.0-2_i386.deb, iscan-plugin-gt-9400_1.0.0-2_i386.deb), but only runs on 32bit Linux
Perfection V30 requires Epson drivers (scan-gt-f720-bundle-2.30.4.x64.deb.tar.gz) and simply works on 64bit Debian

As you see, it might be a bit of luck, if a device works out of the box or not.

Unfortunately your Epson Stylus SX435W seems not to be listed under the supported Epson devices (click red button "All drivers" to see all supported Epson scanners).

If you happen to find no solution, I suggest to use the trial version of VueScan and check if your Epson simply runs or not.

EDIT: sorry, I forgot to mention. that the VueScan GUI has plenty of those processing options you are searching for.

Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can't keep up in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you good bot, please take my social media profile.

Web3 is here and it's glorious in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Me too, I really like the concept, also have demo-purchased by app with it. Hope it will become usable reality at some point.