One last win to share in closing this 2023, yet again about #reactnative and in particular about some of the invisible #opensource work that you folks most likely didn't notice 🥷
If you go on the React Native repo right now, you'll see that the number of open issue < 1000:
I’m so tired of the capitalist argument that an open source project cannot be successful because it’s based on nonprofit or donations instead of vc funding and corporates.
Some people seem to actually believe in this narrative that Linux, Mozilla products and the Internet itself are all alive solely because of for-profit industries while forgetting that the actual people, inventors, universities and organisations do exist in this world. Also the contributing factors by companies do not nullify the brilliance of the original project. FFS, it is not all because of the money.
#opensource folks, I’m looking to ditch Google workspaces due to privacy. I’m using the awesome @protonmail now for mail, calendar and drive plus the bonus of a password manager. I have a few options for photo backups and I’m going to use jitsi for chat and video calls self hosted version. Now what I’m struggling to find is a decent alternative to Google docs, sheets and slides. I really don’t want to use next cloud but does anyone have any suggestions #foss
#SBOM: The NSA, #CISA, ODNI and the CyberSecurity industry partners have released a cybersecurity technical report: “Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices for Managing #OpenSource Software and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM):
[PDF]👇
I am forever grateful to the people who contribute images to Wikimedia Commons and make them available under CC0 licenses. It's a tremendous resource for open-source projects, where typically you don't have the funding to pay for the rights to use a stock image from one of the commercial services.
Today I wanted an image of a baler (a farm machine that makes bales of hay) for use in a new software project, and found a nice one by Glendon Kuhns.
how hard would it be to take a standard off-the-shelf printer and replace its controller board?
it's not like you can put DRM on a motor. and let's be honest, sourcing the parts for a printer is the real hard part. programming it/figuring out how to drive it is hard, sure, but it's just firmware, anyone can download it off the internet.
you wouldn't buy printer parts. but you can buy a microcontroller and download firmware.
To everyone who does not already sponsor my #OpenSource work: please consider to do so! If you benefit from using PHPUnit, then it is in your best interest that I am able to continue to work on #PHPUnit.
Hi! Are you a #lawyer or other #legal professional? Cool, but also, condolences.
We here at https://esq.social want to help. We're a purpose-built #Mastodon instance to provide a home base on the #fediverse for all you looney tunes.
Join us, won't you? We're nice and we've been around for a year -- which is like a decade in fediverse time.
We also have a #Slack-like platform called #Element with about 30 folks popping in and out. I’ll put that link in the next toot.
Does AWS worry about the poor business model of many open source projects? Nalley sighs. [...]
“Inside AWS we have the concept of strategic open source projects. [...] We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important is maintained by a guy living in a basement on public assistance. That is not acting in the best interests of our customers.”
I've been using Inkscape for over 10 years. If I had been using Illustrator for 10 years I would have paid Adobe over $2,500 in "rental" fees for a subscription that stops as soon as I stop paying.
Instead I started paying $5 a month to Inkscape to help make sure we can all use it for free for as long as we want.
Putting their money where their mouth is, the EU decides to make academic publishing open source:
"utilizing existing open-source software has its own advantages and disadvantages. Although some risks are associated with this approach, our research has identified a few mature existing solutions that could be further developed to support the future ORE platform." https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/cc087fd8-82b3-11ee-99ba-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
"The Verbenubi are super excitable. They tend to love… everything, and with some passion. Show them a new rock, and they will talk about the new rock for hours. They just like stuff."
"All of the Verbenubi serving aboard the Jupiter’s Ghost strongly embrace their identity as Nerds."
"There are several Verbenubi working in engineering, and they often spew streams of technobable as if it was actually science."
Jeudi 30 novembre 2023 se tenait la toute première PrestaShop Developer Conference. Avec Julie Varisellaz, nous intervenions pour parler traductions au sein du projet PrestaShop.
Tuta, PeerTube is an #OpenSource video platform that is an alternative to YouTube.
Please provide a PeerTube option for people that do not want to support Google.
PeerTube has a feature that allows you to automatically import all the content from your YouTube channel and also synchronize the channels so that when a new video is published to YouTube it is automatically published to #PeerTube.