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  • I don’t remember whether Linus said blocking ads is a crime. It isn’t a crime, and that’s really important.

    At that point piracy becomes a meaningless phrase when even the FBI endorses the piracy tool.

    I don’t think it’s right to call something a piracy tool. We have the similar discussions about “hacking tools”. Nmap can be used for commuting crimes, just like BitTorrent, the Internet or my kitchen knifes.

    With this it isn’t a problem for the FBI to promote “piracy tools”, since almost everything can be used for good and legal purposes. uBlock is one of the most important tools to be secure on the internet, just like nmap to make sure systems are secure.

    He can argue it’s morally unfair for people to legally visit YouTube and legally not disable Adblock to view his channel, but it’s not a crime.

    Agreed.


  • LTT also did videos about PiHole and YouTube Vanced, so I personally don’t think it’s hypocrisy advertising VPN’s (as long as those VPN ads don’t lie about it’s benefits).

    I do believe that Linus once again uses words in ways not commonly used. I.e. if they define piracy as

    consuming content without paying how the creator intended

    then blcoking ads is piracy. But the commonly used definition is more like wikipedia’s

    […] Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission […]










  • Flatpak is mainly for packaging desktop apps, whilst snap can update the entire distro (kernel, mesa, system apps, cli). Snap does things Fedora needs rpm-ostree for.

    In my opinion docker isn’t as useful for cli tools. I need easy access to many little tools, and this results in me having one container with everything. But that doesn’t work well with network capture etc. In the end being able to install packages system wide quickly is really useful.




  • Snaps are used for Ubuntu’s IOT distro, and also for their upcoming immutable desktop. They even ship kernel and mesa as snap, which makes updating less likely to break a system (in case of a crash while updating, user error, …).

    That’s why they push snap. Canonical doesn’t mainly aim to make a apps available to all distros like flatpak does. Just like now where all distros need their own packages, snap will coexist with other package formats.

    For the user it’s unimportant how apps are installed, as long as they’re available.