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      Possibly older people and people with very specific use cases (like I did a few days ago).

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      WinRAR is very useful to extract multipart archives that 7-Zip fails at, and has many clutch functions like builtin recovery records, locking archives and individually batch archiving separate files.

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          Free as in beer, but it practically has no expiration date, and the creator intends everyone to freely use it. He only gets money from corporate licensing.

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            Sorry, I’m asking if WinRAR is free software.

            Free software means having a source license equivalent to the BSD license.

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              “Rational” people can invent rationale and become more irrational than irrational people. That is what you are doing on Reddit and now on Lemmy.

              You are not a victim of privacy community but your own hobbyist privacy obsession, and you are not one bit superior to others for using BSD over Linux. WinRAR is objectively superior to 7-Zip as far as data preservation and archival capabilities go, while 7-Zip is a little bit ahead on compression ratio.

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                You are not a victim of privacy community but your own hobbyist privacy obsession

                Wasted 2023 securing the system and learned nothing. And racing on privacy tools does not gain you “practical” privacy.

                a question for you: Did the privacy race actually helped you learn C? Understand Linux? Or just “You will not believe this, but Linux and Windows are almost identical today”

                and you are not one bit superior to others for using BSD over Linux.

                Technically agreed, but what I’m superior is: When I switch to OpenBSD, my security & privacy race ended.

                WinRAR is objectively superior to 7-Zip as far as data preservation and archival capabilities go, while 7-Zip is a little bit ahead on compression ratio.

                Go on arguing winrar is not open source like you did for other softwares? So it contain backdoor?

                Badly licensed software can’t be used legally. BKAV antivirus embedded winrar in the 2000s, but have to remove it when a guy noticed. And now it cannot decompress .rar files to scan for malware.

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                  Wasted 2023 securing the system and learned nothing. And racing on privacy tools does not gain you “practical” privacy.

                  If you are entering the privacy rabbit hole and treating it like a Discord game cult/community, that is YOUR fault. Many people do that (PrivacyGuides, Techlore or bunch of Linux/FOSS/privacy YouTube channels or Big Tech loving crybully witchhunt cults like GrapheneOS), and that is precisely what I target and destroy, and also the reason why I never had a donation channel, a fancy website/blog or a GitHub to pretend and posture like a smartass. 99% people do that. I have been asked and demanded and begged for a personal website/blog and chatroom by people, and refused it.

                  You want to check out serious privacy stuff without the circus? Check out digdeeper’s blog. Check out Shadow Wiki. Spyware watchdog. Narsil on Nixnet’s Git instance. Or whatever I write.

                  question for you: Did the privacy race actually helped you learn C? Understand Linux? Or just “You will not believe this, but Linux and Windows are almost identical today”

                  Did learning C teach you privacy and security? No. Did learning networking teach you data structures? No. Did learning arrays teach you calculus? No. Your logic is out of this universe. And yes, Linux and Windows are now very identical.

                  Technically agreed, but what I’m superior is: When I switch to OpenBSD, my security & privacy race ended.

                  I can be on $50 BLU or FirePhone, not have or use Facebook, Discord and Instagram, and be more private and probably more secure than you using Facebook/Instagram/Discord on BSD. Put a cap on that bullshit. You are an idiot for reducing the argument to using particular OS for ending your “security & privacy race”. It was never a race, and you fell for the * drumroll * privacy circus hook, line and sinker. No, you are inferior for thinking that.

                  Go on arguing winrar is not open source like you did for other softwares? So it contain backdoor? Badly licensed software can’t be used legally. BKAV antivirus embedded winrar in the 2000s

                  BKAV embedded WinRAR? How is that WinRAR’s fault? Was there a paid contract involved in doing this, like Google Chrome gets slipped into free adware ridden setups? WinRAR has never done such a thing.

                  I never say every closed source software is evil and bad, infact I advocate the opposite. There are few rare closed source gems that prove their reputation is clean and their worth far more than FOSS “badge” can offset. I hate illogical FOSS or vegan evangelists, they are equally as bad as religious sheeps going around baptising or converting everyone. They merely gravitate towards the meritorious badge of altruism to exploit it for capitalist purposes.

                  TL;DR you fell for the privacy circus and are blaming everyone, and for some reason came to me, despite me preventing people from being cliffhanged into fake privacy circuses. You need to process and think everything. These cults/circuses you fall for are not some journey, but a NEET pastime.

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                    If you are entering the privacy rabbit hole and treating it like a Discord game cult/community, that is YOUR fault. Many people do that (PrivacyGuides, Techlore or bunch of Linux/FOSS/privacy YouTube channels or Big Tech loving crybully witchhunt cults like GrapheneOS)

                    What are you saying??? like you sell drugs, yes, that’s others’ fault to fall into it, but to prevent others to fall, YOU must be killed (destroyed).

                    Don’t drag others down like you are now.

                    Did learning C teach you privacy and security? No. Did learning networking teach you data structures? No. Did learning arrays teach you calculus? No. Your logic is out of this universe.

                    IT TEACH ME KNOWLEDGE, AND THAT’S WHAT I WANT!

                    Many people fall into that privacy and security rabbit hole, while they want to learn COMPUTER SCIENCE!!!

                    COLLAPSE YOURSELF, PLEASE!

                    And yes, Linux and Windows are now very identical.

                    For script kiddies like me in the past, and you now, who doesn’t do programming.

                    I can be on $50 BLU or FirePhone, not have or use Facebook, Discord and Instagram, and be more private and probably more secure than you using Facebook/Instagram/Discord on BSD.

                    Without the ability to read manual pages and practice what the man page told.

                    I don’t use OpenBSD for security. And yes, FreeBSD can be considered the most insecure operating system, but recently I installed on an idle machine running Windows.

                    You are an idiot for reducing the argument to using particular OS for ending your “security & privacy race”. It was never a race, and you fell for the * drumroll * privacy circus hook, line and sinker. No, you are inferior for thinking that.

                    By using BSD, especially OpenBSD, I started thinking what is considered “correct”.

                    Not because considering what is “correct” make me use BSD.

                    BKAV embedded WinRAR? How is that WinRAR’s fault? Was there a paid contract involved in doing this, like Google Chrome gets slipped into free adware ridden setups? WinRAR has never done such a thing.

                    No faults here, it is just WinRAR is legally unusable.

                    I never say every closed source software is evil and bad, infact I advocate the opposite.

                    If I recall correctly, you are the person who always teach us to use open source software. And do “FOSS android” (actually installing a bunch of “FOSS” trash/applications with adb(?) ). If you aren’t, please correct me.

                    TL;DR you fell for the privacy circus and are blaming everyone, and for some reason came to me, despite me preventing people from being cliffhanged into fake privacy circuses. You need to process and think everything. These cults/circuses you fall for are not some journey, but a NEET pastime.

                    You are the fake privacy circuses. But techlore and GrapheneOS community and all other community are the same.

                    See what you and your community posts.

                    I considered you guys debating about GrapheneOS’s use of proprietary Google stuff and Google hardware are a way to attract user. With bad intention, like parties fighting for their own power in an multiparty system. GrapheneOS itself at least is much more secure (in exploit mitigations) by creating privacy through security, not creating security through privacy. And using Google’s hardware is equally not private as any other manufacture’s hardware.

                    Conclusion:

                    I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

                    This should now point to privsec.dev, privacy guides, r/privatelife, r/privacy, GrapheneOS community and any other “private” or “degoogled” android community. Since OpenBSD is much more usable, but the streams of privacy tools is probably not usable by anyone.

                    And you have shown you don’t care about anything except privacy in your post.