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authorArnav Bhatt <arnav@ghativega.in>2023-08-11 21:29:32 +0530
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-Open source licenses suck
-
-Open source licenses are terrible at actually keeping your software safeguard against the usage of it on proprietary softwares, which is the whole point of its existence.
-
-### The concept
-Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition — in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. These licenses have set of "rules" that ranges from being truly free to use (aka permissive licenses) like [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) or having copyleft ideologies, i.e., having safeguards to avoid the software being used in a proprietary fashion like [GPLv3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html), the two most common types of open source licenses.
-
-### The issue
-An open source license may be an actual license through the (F)OSS respecting developer's eyes, however other see it as a paperweight instead. Hence, there would be a regular case of [the open source projects on proprietary softwares being sold commercially by tech corpos](https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/16/vizio_gpl_contract/), while the developers of those projects are getting barely any benefit to no benefit from it at all. And as for it being used in proprietary softwares, if it is from a country where the concept of holding an indigenous company accountable is non-existent (*cough cough* China) then forget about seeking any sort of justice you want or worse, if these are guarded by DMCA laws, it would be impossible to actually see if the software does violate the licenses without inviting a class action lawsuit *against* the devs instead, which can be an immediate death sentence (not literally) to the devs. And as you can guess, these licenses requires some kind of authority for making it relevant at the first place otherwise it is just a digital paperweight. So in essence, they are just like intellectual "properties" but worse in terms of actually safeguarding your software.
-
-### Permissive licenses are the absolute worst
-Permissive licenses may sound nice as a concept, (as these licenses give absolute freedom in its usage) in practise this could mean that your project could immediately get copied by the others on whatever they want, whether to use it on a proprietary soywares or not, while giving you very little to no credit at all, as there are 0 safeguards being promised against so. Hence, you can't even give a lawsuit to someone even if you wanted as they still didn't violate the license of your software.
-
-The meme below perfectly explains the absolute state of these licenses:
-
-![bsd_meme](assets/images/bsd_meme.webp)
-
-
-### Copyleft licenses are barely any better
-At least copyleft licenses do have safeguards written on it which in theory, protects you against your software being used without your credit or even being used on a proprietary software. Going to the court for resolving the license violations however, is a different story. Though there *are* examples of [copyleft licenses being successfully enforced](https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/fortinet-settles-gpl-violation-suit/), these law cases aren't easy to win as majority of countries don't really take these licenses seriously and combining the fact that usually it is some giant tech corporation who violates these licenses, creates a very steep uphill battle to fight, due to the cost, effort and time required for these law cases, especially for a small (F)OSS community. Not to mention that that corp can enforce DMCA laws onto them instead for whatever the reason it maybe, again complicating things further.
-
-There are still cases of companies [regularly violating the licenses](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/xiaomi-is-dragging-its-feet-on-the-gpl-again-this-time-with-the-mi-a1/) for a very long time even after a lot of complaints.
-
-### There is not a real soultion to this
-Looking through an idealistic manner, one way to fix the copyleft licenses would be to simply make politicians to take these licenses more seriously and to get rid of DMCA all together. However since we are talking about politicians, that's very unlikely.
-
-So what's my solutions to this? Well, I would recommend to at least stick to copyleft licenses if you still want to use an open source license and avoiding permissive licenses all together if you don't want to get immediately screwed over by the tech corporations or release your [software as a freeware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware/) instead.
-
-Ultimately, I would prefer that neither intellectual properties nor copyleft licenses to exist in this world but that's also highly unlikely to ever happen as well.
-
-;tags:software open-source rant
-;description:FOSS License: The God That Failed.
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+<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
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+<meta property="og:description" content="2023 update">
+<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
+<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
+<title>Ghativega - About</title>
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+img { border: none ;}
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+<div class="blog-content"><p><a href="index.html">&lt;-- Back to main page</a></p>
+<div id="post">
+<h2>2023 Update</h2>
+<p>Posted on 17/02/2023 05:12:22 AM GMT</p>
+<br>
+<p>
+Recently I have hosted new stuffs related to my website as well as for other stuffs. Let's get into it.
+</p>
+
+<h3> I2P eepsite</h3>
+<p>
+Yep, I am also now in <a href="https://geti2p.net/en/about/intro">I2P network</a> as well! This website is now mirrored as an eepsite at this <a href="http://ghativega.i2p/?i2paddresshelper=ijiijmeuog4oj6ayzm2fbx4j6lf6ckgcstgesr3yfk4uiqzcupiq.b32.i2p">helper link</a> or this <a href="http://ijiijmeuog4oj6ayzm2fbx4j6lf6ckgcstgesr3yfk4uiqzcupiq.b32.i2p">b32 address</a> so now you can be fully cut off from the clearnet and still be able to access my contents.
+</p>
+<p>
+I will also host other stuffs on I2P as I recently upgraded my VPS to finally be able to do so. In fact, I already started hosting a <a href="https://i2p.ghativega.in">reseed server</a> which will hopefully get used by the I2P maintainers for the next release of I2P.
+</p>
+<p>
+You can also contact me through I2P services by these:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Email: arnavbhatt288 (at) mail (dot) i2p</li>
+<li>I2P official IRC: arnavbhatt288</li>
+<li><a href="http://biehdc.i2p/">Dendrite Pinecone I2P</a>: @arnavbhatt288:84940bb552ed0383075f4b20b7c296fd16c39804f298409564a02b1761fcf79c (can be also accessed through clearnet pinecone instances as well)</li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+Expect me to do more stuffs with I2P in future.
+</p>
+
+<h3> Gitea instance</h3>
+<p>
+I also started hosting a <a href="https://git.ghativega.in/">Gitea instance</a> where all of my personal projects' source code will be hosted from now on. I have no plans to make registration open for the public as for now.
+</p>
+
+<h3> Public Matrix Rooms</h3>
+<p>
+I also opened my new matrix rooms where you can chat with me and other people following my website. You can join it <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#space:ghativega.in">here</a>.
+</p>
+</div>
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+<li><a href="artificial-software-level-lockdowns.html">Artificial software-level lockdowns</a><p>Date of publish: 25/08/2022</p></li>
+</ul>
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+<li><a href="2023-update.html">2023 Update</a><p>Date of publish: 17/02/2023</p></li>
+</ul>
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+<li><a href="2023-update.html">2023 Update</a><p>Date of publish: 17/02/2023</p></li>
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+<ul class = "blog">
+<li><a href="why-i-have-degoogled-my-phone.html">Why I have degoogled my phone</a><p>Date of publish: 15/11/2022</p></li>
+</ul>
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+<li><a href="indian-government-e2ee-ban-is-useless.html">Indian Government Ban on Element Is Stupid</a><p>Date of publish: 18/06/2023</p></li>
+<li><a href="2023-update.html">2023 Update</a><p>Date of publish: 17/02/2023</p></li>
+<li><a href="code-of-conduct-does-more-harm-than-good.html">Code of conduct does more harm than good</a><p>Date of publish: 01/01/2023</p></li>
+<li><a href="why-i-have-degoogled-my-phone.html">Why I have degoogled my phone</a><p>Date of publish: 15/11/2022</p></li>
+<li><a href="reactos-ramdisk-creator-gui.html">ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI</a><p>Date of publish: 16/09/2022</p></li>
+</ul>
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+<ul class = "blog">
+<li><a href="2023-update.html">2023 Update</a><p>Date of publish: 17/02/2023</p></li>
+<li><a href="why-i-have-degoogled-my-phone.html">Why I have degoogled my phone</a><p>Date of publish: 15/11/2022</p></li>
+</ul>
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+<li><a href="indian-government-e2ee-ban-is-useless.html">Indian Government Ban on Element Is Stupid</a><p>Date of publish: 18/06/2023</p></li>
+<li><a href="code-of-conduct-does-more-harm-than-good.html">Code of conduct does more harm than good</a><p>Date of publish: 01/01/2023</p></li>
+<li><a href="international-transactions-are-nightmare.html">International transactions are nightmare</a><p>Date of publish: 08/11/2022</p></li>
+</ul>
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+<li><a href="reactos-ramdisk-creator-gui.html">ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI</a><p>Date of publish: 16/09/2022</p></li>
+</ul>
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+<ul class = "blog">
+<li><a href="indian-government-e2ee-ban-is-useless.html">Indian Government Ban on Element Is Stupid</a><p>Date of publish: 18/06/2023</p></li>
+<li><a href="2023-update.html">2023 Update</a><p>Date of publish: 17/02/2023</p></li>
+<li><a href="code-of-conduct-does-more-harm-than-good.html">Code of conduct does more harm than good</a><p>Date of publish: 01/01/2023</p></li>
+<li><a href="why-i-have-degoogled-my-phone.html">Why I have degoogled my phone</a><p>Date of publish: 15/11/2022</p></li>
+<li><a href="international-transactions-are-nightmare.html">International transactions are nightmare</a><p>Date of publish: 08/11/2022</p></li>
+<li><a href="reactos-ramdisk-creator-gui.html">ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI</a><p>Date of publish: 16/09/2022</p></li>
+<li><a href="artificial-software-level-lockdowns.html">Artificial software-level lockdowns</a><p>Date of publish: 25/08/2022</p></li>
+</ul>
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+<h2>Artificial software-level lockdowns</h2>
+<p>Posted on 25/08/2022 11:40:59 PM GMT</p>
+<br>
+<p>
+While we are fighting for the right to repair, we are also facing another problem. The software-level lockdowns are also enforced by the manufacturers artificially which also progresses the planned obsolesence of their devices. Such a serious issue is not heavily looked after by the consumers compared to planned obsolesence through irrepairable devices, which can also affect us in the similar manner.
+</p>
+
+<h3> Explanation of the term</h3>
+<p>
+The term basically signifies the practises endorced by the tech companies to artifically nerf the capabilities of the hardware of the devices by software. This means either not allowing the software such as <a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-a-tpm-and-heres-why-you-need-it-for-windows-11">operating systems to not run on perfectly capable hardware</a> which is not "approved" by the company who made the software, <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-accused-of-deliberately-slowing-down-iphones-with-new-ios-updates-1830419-2021-07-20">providing updates which make the devices worse in terms of functionality</a>, <a href="https://9to5google.com/2021/08/24/galaxy-z-fold-3-disables-all-cameras-while-the-bootloader-is-unlocked/">not allowing the consumers to do any sort of modification with their devices</a>, <a href="https://www.carscoops.com/2022/07/tesla-remotely-disabled-80-miles-of-range-from-customers-car-demanding-4500-backtracks-when-the-web-finds-out/">deliberately bricking the device</a> and much more.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The seriousness of the issue</h3>
+<p>
+By these tactics, the tech companies ensure that you don't actually own the device that you have paid for by not having full control over it, but instead making you to be dependent on them for the lifespan of your devices. Hence even if you paid for a new device such as a phone, you don't have control for how long you want to use it as the manufacturers can even render it unusable way before its actual lifespan at their own will. And by disallowing any sort of modifications on the device, the consumer has no way to utilize it beyond its lifecycle given by the manufacturer even if it is still capable to get utilized beyond it.
+</p>
+<p>
+The consequences of these is similar to irrepairable devices, such as generation of ewaste, forcing consumer to pay for a new product even if they don't want to, etc.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The solution</h3>
+<p>
+While enforcing the laws to make these companies to be less anti-consumer may seem like a good idea at the first glance, it still won't fully fix the problems as they will either try to find the loophole of the laws, follow the laws in half-hearted way which doesn't actually benifit the consumers or outright being prepared to pay the fines for not following the laws without facing any real consequences.
+</p>
+<p>
+The real solution however, is to have a healthy competition on the market. For example, newer companies like <a href="https://frame.work/">Framework</a> provide options to consumers to have an more open, repairable hardware and software which runs on it which doesn't suffer from the issues a typical counterpart from an anti-consumer company would face. Not only these companies prove that it is possible to deliver devices which are repairable and open in this day and age but they also force other pre-existing companies to follow the similar suit in order to remain competitive in the market.
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+<author><name>Arnav Bhatt</name></author>
+<summary type="text">Democracy has nothing to do with freedom.</summary>
+</entry>
+<entry>
+<title type="text">2023 Update</title>
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+<author><name>Arnav Bhatt</name></author>
+<summary type="text">2023 update</summary>
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+<title type="text">Code of conduct does more harm than good</title>
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ghativega.in/code-of-conduct-does-more-harm-than-good.html"/>
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+<updated>2023-01-26T02:56:54Z</updated>
+<author><name>Arnav Bhatt</name></author>
+<summary type="text">Explanation of how a CoC actively attacks someone's freedom of expression.</summary>
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+<title type="text">Why I have degoogled my phone</title>
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+<updated>2023-01-01T02:07:57Z</updated>
+<author><name>Arnav Bhatt</name></author>
+<summary type="text">Big tech hates him! See how he freed himself from Google's slavery with one simple trick.</summary>
+</entry>
+<entry>
+<title type="text">International transactions are nightmare</title>
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ghativega.in/international-transactions-are-nightmare.html"/>
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+<author><name>Arnav Bhatt</name></author>
+<summary type="text">I hate the antichrist I hate the antichrist I hate the antichrist</summary>
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+<title type="text">ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI</title>
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+<author><name>Arnav Bhatt</name></author>
+<summary type="text">Initial release of ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI</summary>
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+<title type="text">Artificial software-level lockdowns</title>
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+<author><name>Arnav Bhatt</name></author>
+<summary type="text">Learn the practises endorced by the tech companies to artifically nerf the capabilities of the hardware of the devices by software.</summary>
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+<h2>Code of conduct does more harm than good</h2>
+<p>Posted on 01/01/2023 01:37:42 AM GMT</p>
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+<p>
+Code of conduct is a set of rules which gives an illusion of maintaining peace amongst the people of a community while introducing even bigger controversies and problems instead.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The Concept</h3>
+<p>
+A code of conduct (or CoC) is a document that establishes expectations for behavior of the open source project’s participants, a set of rules in simple words. A popular example of a CoC is of <a href="https://www.contributor-covenant.org/">Contributor Covenant</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The Big Problem</h3>
+<p>
+The idea of it that it can help to create a positive social atmosphere for your community by enforcing upon "unproductive attitudes" from other participants can make you feel drained or unhappy about your work over time. This idea however, is dangerously flawed as it misses the concept of person's beliefs. No person's mindset is equal, even if they are likeminded, they still would not always agree with each other. A CoC can be targetted explicitly at a certain people's beliefs which could be deemed as "problematic" while in reality, that isn't really the case. This causes the discrimination against them as their rights such as freedom of expression are now compromised, which in turn can cause major internal conflicts within the community even leading to a community split in the worst case scenario.
+</p>
+<p>
+Unfortunately, CoC used in many open source projects does exactly what has been told above, <a href="https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941">it actively targets specific groups of people who are getting disadvantaged through these set of rules</a>, just because their views and opinions aren't considered "ideal" by the project maintainers or even just by a contributor (Especially in extreme forms of CoC like in Contributor Covenant). Usually this happens by unnecessarily dragging their opinions outside of the project inside the projects responsibility. This causes unnecessary conflicts within the community itself, while the unity weakens. The more recent example which signified this issue as well is of <a href="https://itsfoss.com/linux-code-of-conduct/">the generation of controversies during the introduction of CoC in Linux kernel development</a>.
+</p>
+<p>
+It also introduces <a href="https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015">unnecessary dramas</a> over very insignificant things, leading to useless arguments which leads absolutely nowhere.
+</p>
+<p>
+While introducing a document for enforcing rules for prohibiting on controversial views may seem like a good idea at first, however it can quickly mutate into containing rules which prohibits for even expressing normal beliefs, affecting you as well in the end.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The Solution</h3>
+<p>
+At the end, our views are different from one another. We may agree on something but disagree on other. Hence at the very least, we should just simply agree to disagree and walk away. It shouldn't matter if a person is a conservative or liberal, black or white, straight or gay, or anything in between, his or her skills shouldn't go to waste just because of the differences. We as a part of a community should be expected to have civil discussions without the requirement of unnecessary rules and regulations.
+</p>
+<p>
+Hence the concept of CoCs should be deprecated, or at the very least should have very little rules written <a href="https://nocodeofconduct.com/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md">like so</a>.
+</p>
+<p>
+(Happy new year btw.)
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+<p>Posted on 18/06/2023 11:10:49 AM GMT</p>
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+Recently, Indian government became the <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mobile-apps-blocked-jammu-kashmir-terrorists-8585046/">first ever democratic government to ban E2EE chat clients on mass scale</a>, one of which is <a href="https://element.io/">Element</a> which I use regularly. However, these bans for now are only applied to Kashmir state where I don't live so even though I am not "affected" by this ban, I still went ahead to write this article anyway due to the sheer stupidity and malice of the Indian government.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The Reason</h3>
+<p>
+If you are not from India, you might be surprised that the reason of the government justifying to "ban" these apps is not for "protecting muh children" like usual governments do, but rather for the reason of the terrorists apparently using these apps, for which their only "prove" is from the government itself. Now even though the topic of terrorism in Kashmir itself is not under the scope of this article, however I do want to let you know that terrorism there is indeed a serious issue. This however, does not justify the actions of the government at the slightest for which I will get to it later. Unfortunately, the government here has a habit of actively censoring contents whenever there is a senstive issue happening in the country. For some context, <a href="https://thewire.in/tech/india-remains-internet-shutdown-capital-of-the-world-for-fifth-year-running-report">here the internet shutdowns occured 84 times</a>, 49 of which happened on Kashmir alone.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The Stupidity</h3>
+<p>
+This ban however is dumb above and beyond especially on banning Element due to the fact that the government is just basically restricting the access of one client. Since Element is a client of <a href="https://matrix.org/">Matrix</a> a decentralized protocol which has no centralized servers where encrypted chats and its contents are stored but rather there can be hundreads of instances, some of which aren't even accessible to regular people at all as well as having mutliple clients which haven't got banned, this ban becomes hilariously useless. Even if they try to ban those clients as well, you can still get it either through <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/">F-Droid</a> or through other means as at least for now, the ban is only focused for Google Play Store where the "banned" apps were being listed on. However, do note that if the police caught you using one of these apps, you can get into trouble so keep that in mind.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The Usual Thing</h3>
+<p>
+This is not the first time the Indian Government tried to censor a platform for the justification of "muh terrorists were using it". In fact, this behaviour has been repeated for years. As an another example, back in 2014 the Indian Government forced several ISPs here to restrict <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/indian-government-censorsht/">Github and Pastebin</a> for the reason of "ISIS terrorists use these platforms to host extremist contents". As expected, no proves were provided for such claims and eventually they quietly lifted the restriction.
+</p>
+
+<h3> The Question Of Safety Over Liberty</h3>
+<p>
+Many government sympathizers (aka bootlickers) claim that banning these apps is actually a good thing for the safety of the citizens. I absolutely disagree, as this action is justifying the violation of right of privacy and freedom of speech for the citizens. The government is already targeting <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/govt-proposes-law-to-intercept-encrypted-messages-on-whatsapp-signal-101663830524846.html">E2EE apps</a> to have absolute control over what citizens are saying hence this ban is just a start. The government will keep on expanding its tyranny for the exact same reason again and again to the point that they will have have absolute control over the citizens themselves, removing their liberty all together, the thing what is an essential part in a human.
+And if you still believe on their narrative then answer me this, why is the government not allowing the citizens especially of Kashmir to have easier access of firearms? Why are they restricting the ability of the regular citizens to defend themselves and their families from the terrorists? Why are they keep making the citizens to rely on the centralized authority just for their safety?
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+<h2>International transactions are nightmare</h2>
+<p>Posted on 08/11/2022 11:21:01 PM GMT</p>
+<br>
+<p>
+So on previous saturday, I was supposed to make payment for my VPS (hosted by Hetzner) where I host this website, private Matrix server and private VPN. However, while trying to do so I faced this dumb issue:
+</p>
+<p>
+<img src="assets/images/paypal-is-dumb.png" alt="screenshot"/>
+</p>
+<p>
+...and this started 3 days worth of constant arguements with the bank as well as with Paypal.
+Basically I was facing this error above even though I already enabled the option for international transaction for my debit card. So I contacted Paypal and they were telling me that they have no issues on their side and it was probably from the card issuer (aka bank) that was causing the problem while the bank was telling me my debit card was already capable for international transaction. I also tried 2 other debit cards capable for international transaction and all of them faced same issue. This despair continued for 3 more days until I somehow successfully made payment through Paypal. I still have no idea if the problem earlier was from the bank or from Paypal.
+</p>
+
+<h2> Necessity of Paypal</h2>
+<p>
+The reason why I am dependent on Paypal as I don't currently possess a credit card (as if I trust any website to just give off my card information anyway) nor I could do an international wire transfer as it would be very expensive to do so here. For context, doing a 10 Euro (around 817.69 Indian Rupees) transfer to someone would actually cost me around 21 euros after including taxes! (or around 1700 Indian Rupees)
+Hence why I found Paypal to be quite appealing as I can easily do international transaction without too much additional cost just by using my debit card. However, my experience with Paypal is not going great either if I am being honest.
+</p>
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+<meta property="og:description" content="Initial release of ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI">
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+<h2>ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI</h2>
+<p>Posted on 16/09/2022 09:35:19 PM GMT</p>
+<br>
+<p>
+<img src="assets/images/ramdisk-creator.png" alt="screenshot"/>
+</p>
+<p>
+This is the initial release of ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI which is a complete rewrite, meant to replace both the <a href="https://github.com/arnavbhatt288/ros-ram-disk-creator">Win32 version</a> as well as the <a href="https://github.com/arnavbhatt288/ros-ramdisk-creator-linux">Linux version</a> but is an alternative of the <a href="https://github.com/arnavbhatt288/ros-ramdisk-creator-cli">CLI version</a>. Like the CLI version, it is a cross-platform, easy to use tool for helping you to create RAMDisks for <a href="https://reactos.org/">ReactOS</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h3> Features</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Easy to use UI.</li>
+<li>Cross-platform. (Widnows &amp; Linux)</li>
+<li>Installs bootloader to your disks.</li>
+<li>Copies required files that you have specified.</li>
+<li>Generates <code>freeldr.ini</code> file depending upon the files specified.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3> Installation &amp; Usage</h3>
+<p>
+Go to the <a href="https://github.com/arnavbhatt288/ros-ramdisk-creator-gui">Github repository</a> for further instructions.
+</p>
+</div>
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+<item>
+<title>Indian Government Ban on Element Is Stupid</title>
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+<title>Why I have degoogled my phone</title>
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+<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:35:00 +0530</pubDate>
+<description>Big tech hates him! See how he freed himself from Google's slavery with one simple trick.</description>
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+<title>ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI</title>
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+<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:35:19 +0530</pubDate>
+<description>Initial release of ReactOS RAMDisk Creator GUI</description>
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+<h2>Why I have degoogled my phone</h2>
+<p>Posted on 15/11/2022 01:35:00 PM GMT</p>
+<br>
+<p>
+A few days ago, one of my Univesity collegues asked me why I have removed all of the Google services (aka Degoogling) off my phone even if it is causing me to face inconveniences with some of the widely used apps.
+Well here it is why:
+</p>
+
+<h3> Privacy</h3>
+<p>
+It should be pretty obvious by now but the main reason is that <a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-is-probably-tracking-you-but-you-can-stop-it/">Google tracks you, sometimes even without your consent.</a> They collect your data which ranges from basic information such as your name, address to even your current location.
+The reason? In order to generate revenue through their "free" services, they sell your data to various other companies for things like advertisement, etc. And due to having monopoly over mobile phones softwares and services, they can use more <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/google-agrees-to-391-5-million-privacy-settlement-with-state-ags/">sinister ways to track you</a> as a majority of Android apps nowadays relies on Google Play Services in order to function properly. And as a free market believer as well as a privacy enjoyer, this is unacceptable under my watch. In fact, I even stopped using android apps or services which only work with Google Play Service due to the features of it being fully relying on it (unlike some apps which only nags about its absence) as it is a guarantee that the app would just be a privacy nightmare anyway.
+</p>
+
+<h3> Bloatware</h3>
+<p>
+Another reason to degoogle was due to unnecessary bloatware installed by default on stock Android phones. In my case, the only useful Google apps are YouTube, Gmail and Maps (which have been replaced by FOSS alternatives anyway) and every other pre-installed Google apps were completely useless for me. And worse, you can't just uninstall them without resorting to rooting your phone or using ADB.
+</p>
+
+<h3> Accomplishment</h3>
+<p>
+For 3 years, I have been living my degoogled life and it has been a successful experiment, mainly because of these awesome FOSS apps which neither relies on Google Play Services nor it tracks you:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://microg.org/">MicroG</a>: A free and open-source implementation of proprietary Google libraries that serves as a replacement for Google Play Services on the Android operating system. I use it for my banking app as it relies on Google Play services. and it works flawlessly.</li>
+<li><a href="https://newpipe.net/">Newpipe</a>: A libre lightweight streaming front-end of services like YouTube for Android.</li>
+<li><a href="https://k9mail.app/">K-9 Mail</a>: A great open source Email client for Android.</li>
+<li><a href="https://f-droid.org/">F-Droid</a>: An excellent open source app store which made me to know about these useful apps and much more.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+At the end, embracing community maintained FOSS projects has lead me to admire privacy more than ever. And I hope that it may also lead you to do so as well. Because as they say:
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>CONTROL YOUR DEVICE, DON'T LET IT CONTROL YOU.</b>
+</p>
+</div>
+</main><div class = footer><p>2023 ghativega.in | Powered by <a href="https://pedantic.software/git/blogit/">blogit</a> | <a href="atom.xml">Atom RSS</a></p></div></body></html>
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