Starfish 
@redstarfish@social.linux.pizza
- Operating System
- GNU (with Linux-libre)
- Distribution
- Parabola
- Editor
- GNU Emacs
'The GNU Project is idealistic, and anyone encouraging idealism today faces a great obstacle: the prevailing ideology encourages people to dismiss idealism as “impractical.” Our idealism has been extremely practical: it is the reason we have a free GNU/Linux operating system. People who love this system ought to know that it is our idealism made real.'
Joined Oct 2019
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Fight Against #DRM
"Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media. When a program is designed to prevent you from copying or sharing a song, reading an ebook on another device, or playing a single-player game without an Internet connection, you are being restricted by DRM. In other words, DRM creates a damaged good; it prevents you from doing what would be possible without it."
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Emacs, Guix, Emacs-Guix errors
Emacs-Guix package is giving me errors on foreign distro, Anyone knows how to fix it?
When I run,
M-x guix-generations
(I'm getting this kind of errors from all guix related commands)
```
Error in evaluating guile expression: ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise exception: Unbound variable: generation-sexps
```
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Feels weird when people comment and interact with a post which is more than a year old.
Free Software Projects Are Not Allowed To Ask For Donations On The Google Play App Store
https://linuxreviews.org/Free_Software_Projects_Are_Not_Allowed_To_Ask_For_Donations_On_The_Google_Play_App_Store #freesw
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A police van went by this morning asking those who were out for a walk to go back home.
The situation is this bad.
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Me: *Buys headphones*
Me: I should test these
Song:*Starts with only one ear playing audio*
Me: 
Song: *Plays in both ears*
Me: 
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Re: "GNU Social Contract" 1/2
GNU package maintainers have committed to do work to maintain and add
to the GNU system, but not anything beyond that. We have never
pressed contributors to endorse the GNU Project philosophy, or any
other philosophical views, because people are welcome to contribute to
GNU regardless of their views.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2020-02/msg00014.html
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Re: "GNU Social Contract" 2/2
To change that -- to impose such requirements -- would be radical,
gratuitous, and divisive, so the GNU Project is not entertaining the
idea. Likewise, we will not ask package maintainers to be "members"
instead of volunteers. If you contribute to GNU, you are already a
member of the GNU community.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2020-02/msg00014.html
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FLoC away from Chrome is simply the best headline I've seen today
One thing I was worried about installing guix is, I may have to build many software from source. But so far the softwares I have installed already came pre-built, so that's nice. Also guix website says it has "17020 packages transparently available as pre-built binaries." #guix
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Is there an emacs command for evaluating an emacs lisp expression and printing the result to the current buffer instead of the echo area?
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𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊Vintage Keyboard - 
Vintage Mouse. - 
Where can I find a modern mouse with a retro look?
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Very pleased to see that Mastodon already have the intention to block FLOC in a coming update.
#mastodon #floc #fediverse
https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/106069491679821561
GNU Guix: New Supported Platform: powerpc64le-linux
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2021/new-supported-platform-powerpc64le-linux/ #gnu #guix
- Operating System
- GNU (with Linux-libre)
- Distribution
- Parabola
- Editor
- GNU Emacs
'The GNU Project is idealistic, and anyone encouraging idealism today faces a great obstacle: the prevailing ideology encourages people to dismiss idealism as “impractical.” Our idealism has been extremely practical: it is the reason we have a free GNU/Linux operating system. People who love this system ought to know that it is our idealism made real.'
Joined Oct 2019
