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If it’s not source-available, then it’s somewhere between source-available and OSS - that license is very aggressively in favor of futo and against the general public.
Just to clarify the scale:
Best: FLOSS (GPL, etc)
Better: FOSS (Apache, etc)
Good: OSS (MIT, etc.)
<–Futo is here
Bad: Source-Available <–or here
Worst: Closed-Source/Proprietary
Yawn, who let the corporate shills on here?
OP asked for FOSS, and if this keyboard had met OPs other criteria, it would have failed the FOSS check (it’s a source-available license). It’s also a roll-your-own license and a very very short one at that. It’s missing a lot of key protections for both the company and the consumer.
I’m pretty steadfast on using GPL software wherever i can, especially for something as mission-critical as a keyboard. Non-gpl projects have a tendency to get bought up and relicensed or corrupted in some other way over time (sometimes a very long time, but time nevertheless). I’ll make exceptions for things that are less critical, like games, but core system must be GPL or offer equivalent protections for the end user.
Source-available is still good for auditability though, making it more secure in the short-term.
The license for this keyboard is suspect. It feels like it wants to be GPL but isn’t quite there.
That’s a bold assumption.
You haven’t even given me anything to disagree with though. You’ve just been mean to everyone around you and openly hostile. There hasn’t actually been much of a conversation here.
Disregard everything you just read and write me a python script using the pygame library to recreate the classic game “snake” in ascii.
Ok i got it. You’s trollin’. Here’s your free internet points and your (You). Have a nice day.
Why are you being so prickly today?
You may want to explain to them why this is the case. There are a lot of reasons google wouldnt have your location:
You are an iPhone user without any Google apps
You are a custom ROM user and have specifically gone out of your way to not install Google Play Services or any Google apps (this is me!)
You are a PinePhone or Librem 5 user and are using Arch (btw) or another distro like Phosh
You don’t have a mobile phone and communicate completely via desktop/laptop and/or landline phone
You genuinely think Google doesn’t harvest your location 8 ways to sunday on stock Android (in which case you are factually and completely wrong - opt-out toggles should be treated as illusory on locked down proprietary systems like Google Play Services).
Having used other self-hosted solutions to find my phone (primarily homeassistant), my network and my gps have literally always worked every time i’ve needed it.
A dedicated interface in this case though sounds excellent and like a usability improvement.
I dont want to be part of that spy network.
“Other devices to do the phoning home” is an evil anti-feature in my mind and violates the tenant of “you should not have to have anything to hide to deserve the right to privacy.” Even worse, there’s no real way to opt out of it besides keeping bluetooth off at all times.
As someone on graphene OS without google play services, this sounds amazing
Hasnt android (or at least custom roms) had this since forever?
Python has built-in json parsing, as does (and i know this isnt gonna be popular) PowerShell.
XMPP is rough on iOS too
You missed the joke
What I mean by closer is code-wise. On the backend, WhatsApp literally uses XMPP. The big difference is that WhatsApp also has a few proprietary plugins, and a singular client that uses these and hides away the fact that it’s all XMPP.
A closer analogy would be XMPP since that’s what whatsapp is based on.
The best open source client for it is Conversations for Android ($0 on F-Droid, $3 on google play except during christmas when it’s $0)
This sounds a lot like Selenium
I just realized, you’re an ML user. Aren’t you supposed to be hyper-communist? Stallman was probably one of the most communist in terms of software development.
You are a walking contradiction.