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if the goal of "free software" is to give the user control over how the software behaves then is minecraft[1] more free than, say, gcc[2]? thread locked by moderators after reaching 100 pages of intense debate

[1]: where an end-user can usually install >100 mods with a lot changing the game in nontrivial ways reasonably trivially without major conflicts
[2]: where combining multiple features from different forks requires lengthy conflict resolution usually dependent on deep knowledge of the systems being modified

so hrtcafe.net went down due to a coordinated terf/far-right action.

and so this is as good a time as it gets to make even more mirrors of https://git.gay/hrt/pages/ (or the github repo this is a mirror of already, if you want to touch github).

clone it, set a cronjob to do a pull every week. set up a web view like https://hrt.soap.systems if you have the means to do so and the willingness to deal with potential terf interference.

trying to shut down online resources hosted by annoyed transfems, that’s totally going to work and have the intended effect, right?

edit: people are asking if I know what actually happened, what kind of attack it was and such.

I didn’t see a lot of confirmed info about it (and didn’t really look too hard either), but judging by what I’ve read so far, I’m assuming a combination of doxxing, pestering the hosting and threatening legal harassment.

supposedly the person who hosted it took it down themselves to get the heat off of them - and I can’t blame them, that’s reasonable, no one doing this should ever feel expected to stand up to being personally targeted. that’s what we have a community for. they can back off to ensure their own safety, while we deploy a hundred more mirrors.

/erin

@d1 @tinker @signalapp If #SailfishOS cannot run flatpaks, appimages, debs, or rpms, comes with a proprietary closed source UI and components, uses the Android kernel instead of mainline Linux, it's simply diverged so much from traditional desktop Linux that I'd not consider it "Linux" any more, just like Android.

@Techwizz @navi by that logic, yes it is

not to say that flathub is unsafe (i know it has a great review process), but i would consider it sideloading relatively to your host distro

@navi eg debian defends this to some extent https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

On Debian installing software from random websites is a bad habit. It's always better to use software from the official Debian repositories if at all possible.

DontBreakDebian - Debian Wiki

@navi imho. there is an 'official" and recommended loading which is your distro's traditional package manager and its default repos
@kkarhan matodon and nextcloud are under agpl
@kkarhan doesn't apply to agpl
@sigmasternchen not used to css grid but wouldn't grid-column on the element do it?
@kkarhan @alina what do you mean "asshole licensing"