All services do eventually shut down, possibly moreso for higher privacy services, you might just disagree on when.

Doesn’t work for me: https://0x0.st/Xkw4.png

Maybe it only works for some people.

it’s not a bug and it’s still not possible, it’s for tracking who created the account of course.

Maybe, but if anything bad happens to originate from that number, the port history is still visible and now they have a suspect.

• any carrier within range can still potentially track you, maybe not with airplane mode but Snowden says don’t trust that

• GPS still “works” without any signal, service or net access

• AGPS mandate forces 911 calls to reveal your location

For max privacy without going completely analog you’d want a device with NO cellular radio at all

tor isn’t email or phone

I don’t think giving working rights to non-approved asylum seekers would go over any better than what orange man does… but w/e

a temporary stay where? and who’s going to foot the bill for that?

The problem is not everyone agrees on what exactly “editorialized” and “credible” means. You’re making the same arguments they would make against you.

I think that entire comment is actually incorrect. My understanding is that they did not “remove” any maintainers, but actually rejected patches from Russian citizens (because of their employer), and also removed some Russian names from the maintainers list who already have code in the kernel.

yikes.

That doesn’t invalidate my statement though.

freedom TO vs freedom FROM

I was more referring to mainline specifically, otherwise your chances of having many people actually benefit from your changes without a lot of effort is small IMO.

And here I am looking to move away from Linux after they started rejecting contributions for political reasons.

I still don’t think something so important should be beholden to the whims of one company (Linux Foundation) or their country’s laws (USA).

go against their spirit

I think this is more of a failure of the license itself. It’s not a good look to allow something explicitly and then go “no not like that!”

For professionals used to Photoshop, yes it is that bad. People want what’s familiar because they’re used to it and they’re busy or lazy. They don’t want to learn something new.

If GIMP wanted to increase their userbase by a million overnight, they would make it look more like Photoshop.

The problem is they and many current users are huge FOSS zealots and see this kind of thing akin to selling your soul to the devil.

Yes, they actually CAN know those things.

I think eventually if a federated system (or particular server) gets too popular they will just defederate from everyone else and perpetuate the same problem all over again