Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.
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The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let's Encrypt, and F-Droid
Let’s Encrypt
God damn they literally just want to watch everything burn.
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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
You 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.
We're going to have to try or potentially lose the project
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
Elections 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
Well, at least the one he used for thruth is safe (mastodon IIRC?)
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Elections have consequences. I am no longer on speaking terms w/ trump voters.
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.
Cut off .gov domains
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The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let's Encrypt, and F-Droid
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
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I'm no longer on speaking terms with any voters
I'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.
These 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
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I'm no longer on speaking terms
Hey! 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.
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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.
It was invented by the US Navy.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
Delta Chat was one of the FOSS projects affected:
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It was invented by the US Navy.
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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.
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We're going to have to try or potentially lose the project
Let 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.
