Open source continues to struggle because above all else it has persisted in the idea of corporate dependence. We moved to Sourceforge and it was a mess. We moved to Github which gave us even less individual control and it also became a mess. In between was also Launchpad but tbh that never really took off bc of bzr.

The alternative isn’t self-hosting though. Large projects provide code hosting for anything vaguely relevant. Umbrella hosting and cooperating on these services makes things more sustainable and makes anything less likely to disappear.

Over a decade ago I used to lend my time to various places to assist with hosting or just initial set up, and then everything started disappearing, wikis got swallowed by fandom and ign, every major project moved to github, and everyone else pretended you need a k8s cluster to run anything. We could just bring that back. We even learned a lot of important lessons from the likes of Freenode about how to avoid hostile takeovers.

The degree to which github is down all the fucking time now and affects my work because no one knows what caching is (seriously tfc cache the providers, please) is not even funny anymore

Anyone got a job that involves not using github? Please?

Consider the following: rust rewrites of projects like coreutils exist purely to remove copyleft licensing. The supposed security and performance gains are irrelevant, and while memory safety is important, logic bugs don’t suddenly cease to exist just because it was written in Rust.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Audit

If LLMs are a ddos on open source maintainers (which they are), then it’s also important to remember that security research that doesn’t contribute fixes such as Project Zero was/is a dos on maintainers. Corporations have always been extractive in their relationship here. Microsoft only contributed to Linux because you can’t offer a cloud that’s just Windows Server. AWS only does open source to undermine less permissively licensed projects. The relationships, contrary to what a lot of high profile people and the LF would say, were always extremely poisonous to any positive impact foss could have as a whole.

I see absolutely no evidence of it working on “any device”: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet

More importantly, how does banning children from accessing the internet protect them? What 3rd spaces exist for tweens and teens? Where is the multibillion fund to provide something?

And what is the EU doing to actually protect children from their most likely abusers - the people they know, their parents, guardians, extended family? What protections are being offered to queer kids? Where is the mass funding for giving all children independence into seeing medical professionals even if their guardians disagree?

This fucking sucks, and the statement is pure lies.

@nprofile1q... hey, it's really cool that you've released a version of little snitch for linux! I noticed however that anything wrapped appears as the same software which makes it hard to differentiate what's what. Would it be possible to fix in a future version? Just seeing `bwrap` doesn't reveal much info sadly :)

Well, there goes any reason to own a framework! Might consider replacing my laptop before RAM is 1000$/1GiB...

Using LLM backed codegen to falsely relicense from copyleft licensing like LGPL to anything resembling MIT/BSD style licensing isn't just laundering code - it's an active attack on the labour aspect of the free software movement. It is an attempt to undo forcing cooperation by using the existing copyright system, subverting the very commons which they plundered to create these tools.

This is why playing by the rules rarely gets you change.

Hot take but the “open slopware” list was only problematic by painting a target on the backs of contributors to said list. Projects that accept contributions like that knowlingly need to be known. Active contributors who take pride in using LLMs should be named and shamed, because last time people felt bad about naming and shaming we got the fucking NFT fiasco from which nobody suffered career ending reputational damage.

Good job @nprofile1q... - I now know that if I buy any upgrades or replacement parts for my fw13 I am directly contributing money to a bunch of loser transphobes and racists! This is exactly what I want from a niche laptop company.

Why are you destroying your reputation to throw money at bigots? What next, gonna announce an all-white laptop edition in partnership with dhh?