People who use GPLv3 want the code to stay open/libre under any circumstances. If this is the goal, why not use the AGPL instead, even for applications which are not served over a network?...
Some of my old projects were GPL because I didn’t know AGPL existed. It’s not one of the default options on GitHub, i.e. the place where 90% of open source developers debut their journey
It’s more of a fault to Gitlab and other sites that they fail to compete, but GitHub is rapidly centralizing open source development to the point that projects don’t use it lose out.
I used to develop a RuneScape private server called 2006scape. It hasn’t been developed in years, but the source code release on GitHub still gets more views than 2009scape, an actively developed RuneScape private server on Gitlab with significantly more features and hyperactive development.
This means if you’re looking for contributors, or even users of your software in general, you want to be on GitHub. Most open source projects that aren’t on GitHub either follow a harder independence ideology or are blissfully unaware of what they’re missing out on.
One side of my family is super white and unintentionally very racist. To give an example, they don’t hate Native Americans (or anyone for that matter), but will causally refer to them as Indians and seem to think they go around wearing feathered masks in 2023.
My fiancee is Korean, and her English is so-so- which is probably for the best, because if she could understand the things my Grandfather randomly splurts out she would rightfully be quite offended.
But there’s no malice, only ignorance. My fiancee and I pick our battles and let it slide.
If it’s anything like Korean (and it probably is), it’s specific when you can use each version of the word so it’s not like you could simply swap shi for yon
Before the Reddit exodus, I don’t remember many active servers besides Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad (there was Lemm.ee and Lemmy.ca but they both had like 3 posts a week). Hexbear wasn’t federated, and servers were mostly being desperately spun up in anticipation for a flood of users who would crash the network.
The donations being down is bad though. I would love for at least Lemmy.ml to sticky a post asking for funding; one has to look no further than Thunderbird to see how well that works.
Tell me - if a terror attack murdering 3,000 innocent people justifies the murder of 45,000 innocent people, how many terror attacks does the murder of 45,000 innocent people justify?
Your logic is caveman level stupid. Continuously murdering each other’s civilians in the name of payback or consequences will never end.
It also doesn’t work. I know that’s what the parent comment said, but it’s a total scam at the company level too.
“Oh, server networking is hard to do right. Let’s do it client side”
“Oh, people are cheating. Let’s add anticheat”
Ensue 3 years of fixing network consistency bugs and playing whackamole with cheaters
I’ve developed games where the client is the source of truth, and games where it’s the server. It is almost always better to do anything that will be developed for more than a few weeks serverside.
Surprising to see no one is biting you for this. The second someone says teachers should be one of the highest paying jobs IRL they get flashmobbed by incomprehensibly angry people
My Views: I would love it if Solar, Hydro and Wind and other renewable sources of energy + Non Renewable Nuclear were to provide enough energy reliably to completely replace fossil fuels, but I know it’s not a feasible solution at least at this point. And maybe it will never be. Renewable sources of energy are highly dependent...
If we spent 10% of the renewable effort towards nuclear, the cheapest electricity wouldn’t be gas or coal anymore.
So yea, poorer countries with larger populations need to stop being blamed for trying to have a good life, when it’s the rich countries chasing the shiny new thing that keeps us harming the environment
The fundamental problem in Taiwanese democracy is if the opposition wins one election, they merge with the mainland - it means the ruling party can do whatever they want and still get votes.
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
I can’t speak for LINE - But Kakao does a heck of a lot more than messaging; it’s one of the top companies to work for and the defacto app of Korea. It’s used for taxis, webtoons, payments, music streaming, banking, social media, OAuth, etc (and that’s on top of all its failed ventures no one uses). So yeah, it makes sense to have a lot more employees. Getting into Kakao is like getting into Google or Apple in the West.
It also doesn’t explain why Signal has 50. Signal is open source, but openly hostile to forks which throttles its development. So I wonder, what are those 50 employees doing? I genuinely would like to see a breakdown
Alt TextA screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
IPO = Initial Public Offering, where shareholders offer to sell their shares to the public, shifting a company from a “private company” (it belongs to me, you, and that guy) to a “public company” (it belongs to anyone who pays enough for the shares)....
They are probably doing it to limit AI LLM bots from hoovering up the code they’ve already hoovered up.
Why is this a bad thing, when M$ is already training on it themselves? If your code is permissively licensed, it seems logical or even desired to be scraped for LLMs
Anyone here struggle with trying to adjust brightness on Gnome in low light? At the low end, the steps are way too far apart, and at high brightness they’re almost imperceptible. Every other operating system uses a brightness curve that better matches human perception....
[…] Parcelforce texted the delivery slot. No delivery. Parcelforce and HP’s tracking systems then claimed I had refused the parcel. I scheduled a redelivery for the next day. Parcelforce then rang me and the agent acknowledged a delivery had not been attempted and that the tracking information was false. It claimed HP had...
This week in KDE: un-flashy important stability work (pointieststick.com)
The Wine development release 9.0-rc2 is now available. (www.winehq.org)
Why GPL instead of AGPL license?
People who use GPLv3 want the code to stay open/libre under any circumstances. If this is the goal, why not use the AGPL instead, even for applications which are not served over a network?...
December Updates: The Spirit of COSMIC (blog.system76.com)
Integrating f-droid to lemmy
first of all why...
Do you face stigma (or discrimination) in your family due to a mental illness that you have or that someone you love has?
And if you’ve made strides in reversing that stigma, how have you done so?
Standards shouldn't be behind a paywall (lemmy.world)
ISO 8601 is paywalled...
Fortnite maker Epic Games wins its antitrust fight against Google | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Kernel 6.6.6 is out 😈 (cdn.kernel.org)
This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.
Don't recall ever having this explained to me... (lemmy.world)
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Lemmy's active users are up again for the first time since the exodus (lemmy.ml)
from lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
The Wine development release 9.0-rc1 is now available (www.winehq.org)
Well that's one way to ruin my day (lemmy.world)
What soups are cool enough to eat on a first date? What are bad dates soups?
Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros (www.notebookcheck.net)
Whats your such opinion (discuss.tchncs.de)
worked ruley hard (i.ibb.co)
What do you think of Just Stop Oil?
My Views: I would love it if Solar, Hydro and Wind and other renewable sources of energy + Non Renewable Nuclear were to provide enough energy reliably to completely replace fossil fuels, but I know it’s not a feasible solution at least at this point. And maybe it will never be. Renewable sources of energy are highly dependent...
same bed length (feddit.de)
Think of Hong Kong when you vote, Taiwan president says (www.japantimes.co.jp)
'Look at Hong Kong and think of Taiwan,' Tsai Ing-wen said. 'We don't want Hong Kong-style peace. We want dignified peace.'
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then (lemmy.world)
Alt TextA screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
This week in KDE: changing the wallpaper from within System Settings (pointieststick.com)
December 2023 - Last Month in Open Source Runescape Alternatives
December 2023 -...
117HD v1.3.0 Released! New Autumn Theme & More ~ (github.com)
Reddit might once again be flirting with an IPO (techcrunch.com)
IPO = Initial Public Offering, where shareholders offer to sell their shares to the public, shifting a company from a “private company” (it belongs to me, you, and that guy) to a “public company” (it belongs to anyone who pays enough for the shares)....
GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in. (github.com)
Response from Martin Woodward, GitHub's VP of Developer Relations:...
In the store, I sometimes encounter containers (e.g., beer, water, shampoo) with a volume of 618ml. Why exactly this number?
I Made Screen Brightness Control on Gnome Much Better (gitlab.gnome.org)
Anyone here struggle with trying to adjust brightness on Gnome in low light? At the low end, the steps are way too far apart, and at high brightness they’re almost imperceptible. Every other operating system uses a brightness curve that better matches human perception....
Vanilla OS Orchid - Devlog 22 Nov (vanillaos.org)
HP says I should have known its £399 laptop bargain was too good to be true (www.theguardian.com)
[…] Parcelforce texted the delivery slot. No delivery. Parcelforce and HP’s tracking systems then claimed I had refused the parcel. I scheduled a redelivery for the next day. Parcelforce then rang me and the agent acknowledged a delivery had not been attempted and that the tracking information was false. It claimed HP had...
What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?
This week in KDE: the Plasma 6 feature freeze approaches (pointieststick.com)
The Wine development release 8.21 is now available. (www.winehq.org)