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  • Well, then you have to find another name for that kind of software and define it that way. I certainly would support such an effort, i.e. to make software available to everyone at no cost.

    There’s no need to come up with new terms or change the existing ones. Free software is inherently free in price. And you can’t enforce paying for software without the restrictions put in place (e.g. drm). Here’s a quote from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html :

    With free software, users don’t have to pay the distribution fee in order to use the software. They can copy the program from a friend who has a copy, or with the help of a friend who has network access. Or several users can join together, split the price of one CD-ROM, then each in turn can install the software. A high CD-ROM price is not a major obstacle when the software is free.

    Free software can have a price, but paying it is optional.


  • I meant that free software is inherently can’t have a price. Even if you provide source code only to your users, they are free to share that source code for free.

    Thus there can’t be piracy because piracy of free software is inherently allowed.

    And if you try to prevent your users from sharing the source either legally or with drm - you add restrictions to software, making it less free for your users.

    The recent situation with RedHat provides good demonstration and example of this.


  • It’s free as in freedom, not as in free beer.

    But you can’t have one without the other. Putting a cost on software is adding a restriction, thus making it less free (as in freedom).

    Free software should be available to everyone, even to people who don’t have money to pay for it (poor third world countries, students, kids).

    I personally believe, that you should pay for software that helps you earn money. For everything else - it’s everyone’s own decision to donate or not, based on a financial situation, beliefs, political position and what not.


  • janAkali@lemmy.onetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldLet’s try it?
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    8 months ago

    I thought about this for some time. An anarchy would always collapse into governed state.

    First, imagine the perfect scenario where there no authority and world is just a lot of tiny city-sized communities. It would take just a single bad actor to form a state, start invading neighboring communities and growing in power. In response - other communities would be forced to group into increasingly bigger states to have a chance to oppose influence from bigger/richer states.

    This thought experiment also works if violent takeover is replaced by economic one. Think of cartels and monopolies.











  • While most of the time, I remember my password, I know I could just snap and forget it right there at any point. Happened to me not once. And I’m in my 20s. Sometimes when I forget a password, I just start typing and muscle memory kicks in, sometimes it doesn’t. I guess our brains are not optimized to store long random strings of characters. You could use a long sentence as your master password or do as I do:

    Come up with a way to make up a long seemingly random password from a couple words. Then if/when you forget a password, just remember those words and reconstruct password from them.

    • Don’t use common dictionary words or anything from popular media, as it could be guessed by attackers.
    • You can write down algorithm on a piece of paper and keep it somewhere safe.
    • Words should be related but not directly:
      • two asteroid names - bad
      • asteroid name and it’s greek translation - bad
      • real city name and city name from a book - good
      • two words that both start with S and end with T - good
    • If you forget both words, you should be able to remember/look up at least one of them if you still remember how you came up with the word.