Notepad: Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code. Or if you like terminal windows: https://github.com/microsoft/edit
Paint: https://www.pinta-project.com/ seems to have Windows builds.
Calculator: https://qalculate.github.io/ is the best I know of.
I usually suspect cats of being communists (thus, probably atheists), given they won’t shut up about Mao.
I no longer use IRC; when I did, I used KVIrc near the end, which seems to still be getting releases.
also several places at which I’ve worked on business-internal software, including my current job
GitLab, I am not sure if their own installation hits all points (depends on what you define as “big tech involvement” maybe), but if you self-host it, certainly.
This is true for the LGPLv3 but not v2.1 which, if I am not mistaken, KHTML is licensed under.
I don’t think Chromium actually has any GPL code in it, only LGPL (mostly from KDE because Chromium is ultimately descended from KHTML) and less restrictive ones. If it had GPL code in it, Google Chrome and Edge would also need to be FOSS, which they aren’t.
And given that the filename starts with LICENSES.chromium, it is probably just the one copied from Chromium which is the base of all Electron apps. Nothing we didn’t know yet.
I notice there is no mention of a license, so this is not actually open source.
You can just ssh to the machine you want to run things on I think?
Is there a translation of https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence into Nepali yet, I wonder.
I agree. It should be that stores just provide enough dividers that the problem doesn’t arise.
Yeah but cashiers have eyes and can see that there is space behind the last item they are currently grabbing, I would think.
I use dividers when I can, but sometimes not enough of them are available.
In theory leaving a significant amount of space should give the cashier enough information, but then again, we don’t live in a world where everything is as it should be…
yup, that is why (if memory serves) the chat control proposal has rules in it that look like they were specifically written for messengers, the authors seem to have no clue that encryption can, you know, just be run on any device using publicly available algorithms…
The Internet has become popular enough that governments care about what happens on it. And it’s not just European countries, US states too (at least for age verification).
More specifically for your two points:
It used to be that very little Internet traffic was encrypted, much less end-to-end encrypted. After 2013 (Snowden revelations), this changed, e.g. messengers started to E2EE, many more websites than previously started to use HTTPS. So all we are seeing now is the reaction to those positive changes…
This has to do with mobile devices more than anything else. I think a lot of parents now just hand their children smartphones or tablets and may then be surprised that their children can then access things they don’t want their children to access. This was less of a thing in the desktop era because it was easier to see what children were doing online if it was happening on a huge computer in the living room…
Now personally I don’t think anyone (including young people) should ever be prohibited from watching or reading anything they actively want to see. For preventing young people from accidentally accessing porn, an “are you over 18” banner ought to be enough… I don’t think people who want to prevent that kind of access want anything legitimate. But you asked about why it’s happening now and not at another time and I think this is the answer.
Sidenote: I remember reading that when television was newly introduced in East Germany, it was still able to be somewhat critical of the regime; after some years, this stopped because a lot more citizens were able to watch it. The equivalent of that is currently happening to the Internet.
Money isn’t green everywhere in the world. Where I live, 100 euro bills are green, but all other bills are completely different colors.
MS already doesn’t have a monopoly in any meaningful sense anymore.
Windows isn’t the main way Microsoft makes money anymore anyway…
Do you have a link to a source for this?