We need a new license that requires payment if the use is commercial. One of the people involved in the coining of the term “open source” is already working on a licence, but maybe another one will be released earlier.

Companies that freeload from open source now should be forced to pay up.

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Maven and Cradle might be terrible, but C and C++ have fucking nothing in terms of dependency management. Even C# has something that few people use, but it has something. C and C++ are such a shit show to build. It’s so bad they had to invent languages to build them and they regularly fuck up (CMake, make, bison, scons, meson, …).

Pull a C or C++ project on a distro or environment and try to build it and you have to dive in the abyss of undeclared dependencies. And good fucking luck with glibc and glib dependencies. If the dev doesn’t know which version they were actually using, it’s up to you to find out. Fun for the entire family!

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Aren’t most of those due to Brazilians? 3M or so?

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ATM? Active … Monthly? Can’t make out what it stands for…

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Misskey? 🤔 I heard it’s something Japanese? So probably a lot of Japanese fediverse users use it? I don’t think I’ve seen somebody from misskey in my interactions with the fediverse. Are they self-contained or something?

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Decisions like these are why they can’t move away from proprietary platforms. How much does it really cost to host and maintain this? A single employee could host a mastodon, peertube, and lemmy instance. The employee could also work full-time on one of the projects to address issues.

They also only had 6 accounts on the instance - out of how many politicians and bureaus?

Anyway… shame.

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Can’t imagine there is any. You need to learn three scripts to read Japanese fluently IINM. Katagana, Hirigana and something else… Probably someone who speaks Japanese can say.

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Fuck yeah

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Finally helpful hackers.

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Maybe I should’ve posted this in linux memes, but I couldn’t find a picture to go along with it.

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It could be a “clever” one that only installed linux if linux compatible applications were installed. That might lower the risk of being noticed.

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You’re having a bad day and you’re letting off steam - understandable.

Just yesterday a friend said “Fucking Linux, every time I hit Esc it opens some program” only to be followed up by “lol, my mic was standing on the Ctrl key!”. Another friend was having issues with a bluetooth headset and thought for a while that it was linux. After much debugging, we found out the product was just defective and had tons of people complaining about connectivity issues on multiple platforms.

I’m not saying what you’re experiencing doesn’t exist, nor that it’s a fault of your own. Sometimes software just doesn’t work and it sucks. Sometimes it really is linux, sometimes it’s something else. Once you’ve calmed down and taken a breather, do upload a hardware probe. I’m guessing something’s fucky either with your driver or with the hardware itself.

Now imagine someone who’s less likely to open up a terminal using Linux. They won’t. They’ll sacrifice their privacy because they might have full time jobs in something not remotely tech related and just wanted to watch some YouTube and don’t want to spend the little free time they have fixing their own computer.

Yep, true. It’s been a long-standing issue with linux and the opensource community. Sometimes it’s due to lack of time, sometimes it’s due to lack of interest, but I can bet you that most of the time it’s due to lack of funding. Unfortunately, sometimes it due to elitism too (“I don’t want lusers using my software”). Hopefully someday we’ll get to a point where there’s a bigger focus on non-technical users.
We’ve come a long way though. Back in the 00’s we had to fiddle with ifconfig and friggin’ /etc/network by hand. Things have gotten a lot better.

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I don’t know why, but there are a few projects I’ve tried contributing to that are just extremely tiresome to get running and when a PR comes in to improve it, they pick it to death or outright reject it. “Works on my machine”, “I don’t like $technology”, “We already use gitpod, this is unnecessary”, etc. have made me unwilling to invest time in projects that look difficult to setup.

“Just run ./configure && make && make install”. Has not worked for me. Not even once.

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We really do need some website to easily find projects that people want help on; projects that one can simply jump in on to translate a few strings for example, or fix a small bug that also needs some unit tests added to it that the maintainer hasn’t had time to do.

It would also be nice to be able to see the average response time for PRs, the amount of documentation, and “average time to get up and running”. Too many times have I seen a “good for beginners” or something tag on github but the project is a nightmare to setup. PHP and C/C++ projects are especially bad. They just assume everybody knows how to get started or have a “this works on my machine” setup, which doesn’t work for anybody else but the maintainers and core contributors. I don’t want to waste my time with:

• hours figuring out how to setup the project
• waiting weeks or months for feedback on a supposedly “easy” PR
• get extremely pedantic reviews like “a space is missing” or “a new line before this function” or “this is a method, not a function”

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Finances. We can’t live in our own home paid for by a single income, don’t have a cushy pension to build up and barely have savings to speak of, as our salaries aren’t adjusted to the cost of living. Trust me, if I could work on opensource without worrying about the rest, I would. But my rent jumps 5-8% every year while my salary doesn’t, the housing prices are insane and would put me in serious debt for 30+ years for an apartment (not house) in a “meh” part of town, which I’d have to sell and buy a new one every 5 years until I can afford a house my parents could buy in their 30s.

Also, I’ve seen what opensource does to maintainers and how much profit companies have extracted from free work without paying back. I truly believe opensource is the way forward, but not by the current definition many people adhere to (free for everybody including companies).

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After looking at the code it still looks like this is built just like Gecko: made for a single browser and nigh impossible to embed anywhere else by somebody who isn’t involved with servo. Quite disappointing as it just makes it less likely for devs to switch from webviews using webkit. They seem to be repeating the exact same mistakes that were made with Gecko and Firefox.

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Lemmy should have the option to defederate from instances depending on automated criteria. Sign ups without admin checks are a great attribute to use for defederation, because it leads to such abuse. I’ve finally blocked most communities and instances that have news about US politics and have a clean feed, but for newcomers, that shit is everywhere.

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This should’ve been the linux kernel for years, but instead you have a maze of documentation that makes it very difficult to find how to even build the damn thing, let alone test it. Instead you need to go to other websites like linux.com that explain how to compile it and run it, but mention nothing about VMs.

I don’t know how long it’ll take for the mailing list and other archaic stuff to be dropped, but it’s probably actively hindering contributions to the kernel.

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I’m not an expert, but this is what I gather

What’s ABI? API compatible with linux kernel?

Application Binary Interface is the equivalent of an API but at binary level. An API defines for example the functions with their parameters, types, order, and output. An ABI defines how functions are called, how parameters are passed, how output is pass and retrieved, and so on but at a binary level.

An example of an ABI would be for example the Linux Standard Base which makes compiled binaries compatible with linux (how binaries are constructed, where to find data like constants, where to find instructions, and so on). The internal ABI is also important for example how drivers communicate with the kernel.

And what’s TCB?

That, I don’t know, unfortunately :/ We need a tech glossary. If I had to guess, it’s the Trusted Computing Base?

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Thank you for the insight! It makes me hopeful about linux’s position in India. Hopefully an increase of prosperity, meaning better hardware, won’t mean an increase of windows or mac users.

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