GNU Rates GitHub & SourceForge With "F" Ratings

[mjog]

Hey Michael, letting your forums get overrun by MRAs is going to cost you readership - the number of MRAs is much smaller than the number of reasonable people out there, yet their loud whiny bigoted voices tends to make everyone else go elsewhere. You should add a Report button here or something. Just sayin'.

[mjog]

Hey Michael, letting your forums get overrun by MRAs is going to cost you readership - the number of MRAs is much smaller than the number of reasonable people out there, yet their loud whiny bigoted voices tends to make everyone else go elsewhere. You should add a Report button here or something. Just sayin'.

Oh, fab, they do! Let’s go reporting!

[jagoly]

Unfortunately there are a whole lot of dickheads on this forum. It'd be nice if they could just not bring up unrelated crap like this and stop turning threads into stupid echo chambers. I don't think the GNU report said anything about political correctness, so why the hell did they bring it up on here?

[schmalzler]

Media contacts:
Zak Rogoff
Campaigns Manager
Free Software Foundation

Zaks blog:

http://zakkkko.com/blog/

So... He is using gmail and active on twitter and facebook. Are gmail, twitter and facebook free enough to spread the word of (software) freedom?

[Luke]

You are welcome: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...decentraleyes/

I normally keep googleapis and that sort of thing blocked, and never, ever enable them on two websites at once. I run browsers in RAM and if I ever encounter two different websites that both require the same 3ed party content to work will confine them to separate sessions with no shared files possible.

I DO have to set Canvasblocker to send a fake (random number) return in order to use Github's graphs of forks and commits. It's fine to use the canvas to draw but if Github actually asks for a normally trackable return that's a serious issue. Anyone using GPU acceleration exposes themselves to tracking by GPU/driver combination unless they not only have but know how to properly use Canvasblocker.

[Licaon]

Anyone using GPU acceleration exposes themselves to tracking by GPU/driver combination

Disabling is not always an option: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js...ment-206812337

[Luke]

Disabling is not always an option: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js...ment-206812337

That seemed to concern mostly Android, which is a mixture of FOSS with Google proprietary stuff as normally distributed. Mobile browsers are another story. BTW, the Tor Project considers mobile phones impossible to secure due to baseband radio access to the system RAM. That exploit was proven to exist in a lot of Samsung Galaxy devices and could easily be used by both law enforcement/secret police and by tracking-minded phone companies. The Tor Project says a secure mobile device would have to be wifi only with a separate wifi hotspot treated as just another untrusted router.

As for webpages or apps using WebGL, I would simply treat them as broken and not use them. No, you can't play WebGL games on my machines, just like you can't log into Facebook or watch Netflix. If I needed to do something like that or deal with a proprietary/closed app like Grindr, it would go on physically separate hardware from anything I use with encryption.