Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.
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Well it looks lime most of us are going to have to step up our donations foe the next few years
wrote 15 days ago last edited byYou will never approach the amount they receive from government funding. That is the point.
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You will never approach the amount they receive from government funding. That is the point.
wrote 15 days ago last edited byWe're going to have to try or potentially lose the project
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
wrote 15 days ago last edited byElections have consequences. I am no longer on speaking terms w/ trump voters.
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The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let's Encrypt, and F-Droid
wrote 15 days ago last edited byWell, at least the one he used for thruth is safe (mastodon IIRC?)
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I'm no longer on speaking terms with any voters
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Let’s Encrypt
God damn they literally just want to watch everything burn.
wrote 15 days ago last edited byCut off .gov domains
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The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let's Encrypt, and F-Droid
wrote 15 days ago last edited byI did not knew that Tor was getting funded by the american state. Thats giving me some spooky vibes.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
wrote 15 days ago last edited byThe solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
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I'm no longer on speaking terms with any voters
wrote 15 days ago last edited byI'm no longer on speaking terms
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The solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
wrote 15 days ago last edited byThese are FOSS projects, not open source. They'd no longer be FOSS and that would be bad. Freedom 0 is important.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
wrote 15 days ago last edited byThis is terrible news, anyone know of alternatives to let's encrypt?
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I'm no longer on speaking terms
wrote 15 days ago last edited byHey! I'm speaking!
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These are FOSS projects, not open source. They'd no longer be FOSS and that would be bad. Freedom 0 is important.
wrote 15 days ago last edited byIts possible to add free for all except US govt and that does not stop it from being free for the rest of the world.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
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I did not knew that Tor was getting funded by the american state. Thats giving me some spooky vibes.
wrote 15 days ago last edited byIt was invented by the US Navy.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
wrote 15 days ago last edited byDelta Chat was one of the FOSS projects affected:
https://chaos.social/@delta/114211300446944585 -
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Well color me stupid color me gone.
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The solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
wrote 15 days ago last edited byWhy would making government more proprietary help?
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We're going to have to try or potentially lose the project
wrote 15 days ago last edited byLet me spell it out for you. Trump has removed our cyber defenses and now he's defunding FOSS projects like Tor and Let's Encrypt!…
Now Trump wouldn't know a FOSS project from a hole in the ground but do you know who does? What world leader who has an entire cyber attack force on his payroll and wants to remove any barriers in finding dissidents who are probably using Tor to coordinate and hide from them?
Do the math. If the government funding of these projects is allowed to be removed it's gonna be a whole new ballgame on the internet and the only ones to reap the benefits are the dictators.
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HTTP works pretty well, if you don't mind various governments spying on the traffic.
