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What FOSS software do you wish existed? (reddthat.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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A federated internet archive, I'm wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.

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[–] 27 points 1 week ago (1 child)

To be fair, it's not much of linux's fault, but mostly due to shitty hardware restrictions and proprietary drivers

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    due to shitty hardware restrictions

    regulatory restrictions?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Yeah, from what I understand, hardware manufacturers need to ensure that no one uses the mobile chip to send on reserved frequencies. And the way they typically do that, is with a proprietary, undocumented driver for the mobile chip. So, you basically need to reverse engineer that for each mobile chip, to be able to make calls and such...

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