Black belt in Mikado, Photo model, for the photos where they put under ‘BEFORE’
There are several ones (selected only FOSS alternatives, excepting discontinued ones)
Well, depends of what they need, OnlyOffice has a somewhat better compatibility with some MS Office files, but less apps than Libre/OpenOffice. Anyway there are not so much differences between this three suites, all pretty valid FOSS alternatives to MS Office.
More usefull an FOSS tool to access and modify ICE data base.
Add also the Calligra Suite, above it’s from the EU (KDE), full compatible with MS Office files apart of the OpenDocument format (Linux, currently no stable Windows version)
(Worse that there don’t exist any front-end viable for Facebook/Meta)
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Yes, there are several privacy-focused alternative TikTok frontends:
ProxiTok is the main open-source alternative frontend for TikTok[1]. It allows you to:
- Watch TikTok videos without connecting to TikTok servers
- Create following lists to track specific users
- Access RSS feeds for users and trending content
- Browse without ads or tracking
StickTock is another privacy frontend that lets you watch TikTok content by replacing “tiktok.com” with “sticktock.com” in any video URL[2]. It offers both clearnet and Tor onion addresses.
Offtiktok provides similar functionality by adding “off” before “tiktok” in URLs[3]. It includes a minimalist feed for watching recommended videos without ads or geo-restrictions.
All these frontends are:
- Free and open-source
- Self-hostable
- Privacy-focused (requests go through their servers instead of directly to TikTok)
- Ad-free
The main reason of humanoid robots isn’t that the people think that it is a person, it’s because our environment is made for humans and because of this the design to best fit in this environment with several different tasks. The little bot in the article never be apable to wash your dishes, climb stairs or serve you an beer from the fridge. Robots made for one specific task, certainly can have a design specific for it, there isn’t needed an humanoid design.
It’s not so easy to answer if piracy is ethical, depends of the context. It’s not the same soft from a shady company and from a small dev team or startup. Anyway, due to the overhelming amount of free alternatives, piracy in most of the cases isn’t necessary. I’m using an PC since almost 30 years now and never had the need to piracy an soft or pay for it. There are tons of free and OpenSource soft and services out ther, often better as the commercial ones, giveaway campaigns in games (Steam, Itch.io, DigiPen and others are full of good free games) and soft, free music (Bandcamp, Pixelfed, FMA,), etc. only needs to search a little.
What about Caligra Stage (KDE)? Presentations, Slideshows
Malicious startups can’t survive in the catalogue of the EU comission. In it there are certainly also commercial solutions, but mostly FOSS, OSS and FLOSS. The reason is to recover the sovereign from the US hegemony of the big companies in the web. Respect EU OS, there are in the focus several distros:
Arcolinux of Belgium
Slax of the Czech Republic
Exherbo of Denmark
Daphile of Finland
Manjaro, Lubuntu, Mageia France
Manjaro, OpenSUSE, Haiku, Knopix of Germany
AntiX and MXlinux of Greece
Linux mint, Zorin, Solus Ireland
Endeavour and NixOS of the Netherlands
Alpine Linux Norway
SparkyLinux of Poland
Void of Spain
CRUX of Sweden
Kali Linux Switzerland
FerenOS, UK
https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
https://european-alternatives.eu/categories
But if you trust more the US soft and services, use these and the malicious soft from there, without the rights and privacy of the EU but those from Trump and Musk.
FOSS is already stale for a long time by large corporations (Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, X, etc), all of these with own developments of FOSS, these are not affected by this cuts for OpenSource proyects, but small startups, individual devs and small companies and oprganisations. It’s not against FOSS, it’s about control and clear against freedom.
Fuck the US https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/eu-oss-catalogue
If a soft or service is trustworth or not, only depends on the author and the community behind. Nothing worse and dangerous than a software unattended or abandoned by the author, more so if it is OpenSource, where it is easier than in closed source that an asshole add or modify some lines as a little gift,when there is nobody to control it. FOSS is great in new projects, because allow to an coope developement and the access of needed resources, but it isn’t necessarly sinonym of privacy and security, most APIs included in a huge amount of soft are OpenSourcemade by big companies, like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and others and not precisely because privacy. Adding also a huge amount of FOSS made by these companies. The normal user only can relay on the TOS and PP, or audit the product with Blacklight, WebbKoll, DomainDigger and similar.
Vivaldi is an employee owned cooperative
It’s mainly the price nowadaysm eg, Google and M$ have the biggest FOSS catalogues out there, doft full with their tracking APIs, GitHub is owned by M$, even Facebook develope a lot of FOSS, same Amazon and other big corporations. Yes, feedom that everybody can use this products, same as also Freeware, proprietary or not. Freedom has nothing to do with this. The only freedom a normal user have is that he can fork FOSS, but only if he have the needed skills, if not, he have to trust the author and his intentions. Are you capable to audit a big complex soft and to fork and maintan it to your like? In this case, congrats.
We currently see the trust of FOSS in Firefox from Mozilla, turning in an advertising company, we see it in Brave sharing data with fishy crypto companies. FOSS distributed with dozends of different licenses, more o less restrictives and even copyrights. The current definition of FOSS is turning in pretty debatable and certainly has to do very few with Freedom nor romanticism.
Competition and market are the ones that put the rules, everything else is heavenly music. only valid for some indie apps from particular devs.
Non freeware FOSS don’t exist, FOSS - Free Open Source Soft, is always free, but there are non freeware OpenSource apps, like eg. Proton VPN, which is OpenSource but not Freeware, only Freemium (server cost money), or also Filen, it’s also only Freemium OpenSource, if you need more than 10GB storage, you have to pay for it. There are also paid OpenSource apps without free version.
FOSS is always Freeware, but Freeware isn’t always FOSS. Freeware don’t mean other thing that the soft is free to use, nothing more.
Yes, naturally to create an account for Sync, they have to store your data. But it’s not the same if they also share these with third parties.
Thunderbird May Disclose Information To: Mozilla Affiliates: Thunderbird is a project of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation and an affiliate of Mozilla Corporation, and as such, shares some of the same infrastructure. This means that, from time to time, your data (e.g., crash reports, and technical and interaction data) may be** disclosed to Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation**. If so, it will be maintained in accordance with the commitments we make in this Privacy Notice.
DNS servers, Standard Autoconfiguration URIs, and Mozilla’s Configuration Database: To simplify the email set-up process, Thunderbird tries to determine the correct settings for your account by contacting Mozilla’s configuration database as well as external servers. These include DNS servers and standard autoconfiguration URIs. During this process, your email domain may be sent to Mozilla’s configuration database, and your email address may be disclosed to your network administrators.
Amazon Web Services: Thunderbird uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host its servers and as a content delivery network. Your device’s IP address is collected as part of AWS’s server logs.
Email address providers (Desktop Only Legacy): Prior to version 128, Thunderbird partnered with Gandi.net and Mailfence to allow you to create a new email address through Thunderbird. If you choose to use this feature, your email address search terms are sent to Gandi.net and Mailfence to return available addresses. In addition, your country location is also shared to provide the correct prices. You can learn more about Gandi.net’s and Mailfence’s data practices by reading their privacy notices.
Always good to read TOS and PP of an service.
Also cool the Doom.pdf
Well, some of the other, even 3D don’t need big programming skills, but other need it. It depends on your skills which is the best for you. Also not the same if there are only simple scripts or if needed a knowledge in C#, C++, Html5 and others.