he/him. Lawyer. Administrator of the End Software Patents campaign.
Depends on the system you are using, but the principle is the same.
First, you need to set up your profiles in about:profiles. Then, you launch these profiles with firefox -P "<profile name>" in your terminal. Once that works, you can use anything that can launch programs via keybindings. It's easier on window managers. For example, in my Hyprland config, I have the following lines:
undefined
bind = SUPER, Z, exec, $browser -P "default" bind = SUPER SHIFT, Z, exec, $browser -P "lesser"
SUPER+Z launches my hardened browser (no JS), SUPER+SHIFT+Z launches my vanilla browser (JS enabled, some options turned off). The $browser variable is set to GNU Icecat, a Firefox fork.
You can create separate profiles with different settings. That means you will have to use a different profile (a separate browser instance) for some websites. I personally launch each profile with keybindings.
Quick reminder that source without a license is source-available, not FOSS. Though I believe Daniel just forgot to add one.
Update 2 months later: this was it. I just didn't know how to install it on Mint. Turns out there's a Driver Manager that you can use. Thanks!
That is true. IIRC, Krita is the only one of the 3 that has native CMYK support.
In my experience, Inkscape can be used as a professional replacement for Illustrator. It has never crashed on me. There may be some limitations, but nothing super inconvenient or something there isn't a workaround for.
GIMP, on the other hand, is a mixed bag. I believe Krita is a much better candidate to be used professionally than GIMP. GIMP has an objectively bad UI, has weird quirks for very simple tasks, and is prone to crashes. I use GIMP for simple image editing and Krita for more complex projects. GIMP 3.0 is their best chance to fix their reputation and I'm hopeful it will deliver.
If you don't have time to try them yourself, follow creators who use them and check their workflow. I recommend Davies Media Design on YouTube for great videos on Inkscape especially.
Edit: No program is completely immune to crashes, it's good practice to routinely save projects no matter how stable or unstable the program is.
I recently flashed Mint on a MacBook Air 2012, but WiFi is really unstable and slow. Probably a driver issue. I had worse luck with Debian and Fedora.
Check the FSF's violations of GNU licenses page. You can also email the FSF's licensing and compliance lab at [email protected] and our team would be happy to assist.
Probably the Free Software Directory.
Some superficial thoughts, please correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't AdNauseam generating more traffic to ads, thus increasing their value in terms of metrics? Also, do people really think that agencies like NSA, which are capable of extremely sophisticated surveillance, can be disrupted by random text in emails? These tools sound like a waste of time to me.
Σήμερα: συνάντηση ελληνικής ομάδας FSFE
Η ελληνική ομάδα του FSFE συναντιέται ξανά για να συζητήσει τις τελευταίες εξελίξεις στον κόσμο του Ελευθέρου Λογισμικού. Μεταξύ άλλων θα ανταλλάξουμε ιδέες για δράσεις που θα μπορούσαμε να οργανώσουμε στο προσεχές μέλλον. 🗓️ Πέμπτη 21 Δεκ ⏰ 19:00 Ελλάδας 📋 https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Gree...
Η ελληνική ομάδα του FSFE συναντιέται ξανά για να συζητήσει τις τελευταίες εξελίξεις στον κόσμο του Ελευθέρου Λογισμικού. Μεταξύ άλλων θα ανταλλάξουμε ιδέες για δράσεις που θα μπορούσαμε να οργανώσουμε στο προσεχές μέλλον.
🗓️ Πέμπτη 21 Δεκ
⏰ 19:00 Ελλάδας
For DAW, you may also want to check out Zrythm and Ardour.
The patent was about a "sorting system". More info here.
“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.
See also ESP Wiki's entry on Martin Goetz.
“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.
See also ESP Wiki's entry on Martin Goetz.
“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.
See also ESP Wiki's entry on Martin Goetz.
“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.
See also ESP Wiki's entry on Martin Goetz.
Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93
“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.
See also ESP Wiki's entry on Martin Goetz.
Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93
“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.
See also ESP Wiki's entry on Martin Goetz.
ESP letter to the European Commission's proposal for a Regulation on standard-essential patents
Huawei reveals royalty rates for 4G, 5G, Wi-fi 6, IoT patents
On Thursday, one of the world’s largest patent holders, Huawei, announced royalty rates for its handsets, Wi-Fi, and IoT patent license programs.
Tutanota fully supports the Open Invention Network in fighting proposed patent rules.
Open Source Needs Our Help: Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense!
Tutanota fully supports the Open Invention Network in fighting proposed patent rules.
You are thinking of software as if it exists in a vacuum. Software that is libre is a political statement. Software that is proprietary is also a political statement. Lemmy choosing to be decentralized/federated/interoperable is also a conscious political decision just as Apple chose to create its own proprietary ecosystem instead of caring about interoperability.
Harmonization of European patent systems - ESP Wiki
On 1 June 2023, the Unified Patent Court and the unitary patent were entered into force. Simply put, this means that we will soon have software patents in Europe that are effective automatically in the entire European Union.
Hardly anyone talks about this, but it is bound to become a problem. I am currently editing relevant entries on ESP Wiki. This specific entry is about the history and dangers of harmonizing the European patent systems (spoiler alert: the EU had been trying to create such a system ever since its creation).
You can help support our open source ecosystem, reduce wasteful litigation by non-practicing entities (NPEs), and stop the assertion of bad patents.
Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls
Wow.I flagged on Wednesday that Chief Judge Connolly planned to hold an evidentiary hearing today regarding compliance with his litigation …
Asymmetric numeral systems - ESP Wiki
This is a new ESP Wiki entry explaining the situation around software patents on a new data compression algorithm.
The original author, Jarek Duda, released his work into the public domain. Despite his intentions, Big Tech companies are attempting to patent his technology around the world. In early 2022, Microsoft registered a software patent on ANS. Google tried to do the same a few years ago but failed. We can't catch them all.
The free software community is fighting an unfair battle. Megacorporations are stealing people's work by imposing unjustified patent rights. The patent offices grant software patents despite obvious existence of prior art.
AMD Zen microarchitecture and Intel's Ocean Cove patent
See Hacker News comments.
ESP Wiki is looking for moderators
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/193809
If you are familiar with software patents and would like to moderate an excellent database of campaign material against software patents, please respond below. This post will be pinned until ESP Wiki is sufficiently moderated.
ESP Wiki was created in 2008 as the main resource for activists, programmers, lawyers, and policy makers with the goal of abolishing software patents. In the past, it has worked as a community forum for FSF's amicus briefs to courts and has been cited by legal journals and articles. Lately it has gotten some serious updates: a new logo, a modernized theme, better categorization, brand-new custom wiki templates, etc.
It is not required to have a legal background, but you should be at least comfortable with reading legal information. You should also have a general understanding of basic legal procedure around patent law. But even if you don't know much, this is a great opportunity to learn some interesti
ESP Wiki is looking for moderators
If you are familiar with software patents and would like to moderate an excellent database of campaign material against software patents, please respond below. This post will be pinned until ESP Wiki is sufficiently moderated.
ESP Wiki was created in 2008 as the main resource for activists, programmers, lawyers, and policy makers with the goal of abolishing software patents. In the past, it has worked as a community forum for FSF's amicus briefs to courts and has been cited by legal journals and articles. Lately it has gotten some serious updates: a new logo, a modernized theme, better categorization, brand-new custom wiki templates, etc.
It is not required to have a legal background, but you should be at least comfortable with reading legal information. You should also have a general understanding of basic legal procedure around patent law. But even if you don't know much, this is a great opportunity to learn some interesting details about this topic.
Do not hesitate to contact me
ESP Wiki March 2022 project updates
This is the first post on Lemmy related to ESP Wiki. I will be posting updates here from now on. Please share this site if you can. Combating software patents is very important for user freedom.
Some notes: I'm trying to make ESP Wiki a user-friendly place so that anyone can find it easy to contribute information. For this reason, I focused on creating a style guide and some neat templates. Templates are especially important because we can use them to easily mark entries that need work, so we can focus on them first.
Here is an overview of March 2022 project updates so far:
This is the oldest Lemmy post I could find :)