Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)W
Posts
162
Comments
498
Joined
6 yr. ago

I like FOSS (free and open source software). Have contributed bug reports and feature suggestions to open source projects that got accepted (e.g. the ability to block instances on lemmy). Check out my github if you're into that kind of stuff.

  • When dealing with stuff like kickstarter campaigns. some people might not to risk the full amount (something like 600$), they might be interested in donating something like 10$ to help the project put out a product. then read up on reviews and decide if to go for it.

  • I suggest adding a license . i recommend a copyleft license (there are copyleft licenses for hardware. for example the cern licenses).

    I also suggest setting up a open collective. i suspect people might be more inclined to donate to a non profit then to for profit companies like purism and Pine64.

  • When i look at postmarketos device wiki . librem 5 seems better, the chart lists the pinephone support for things like calls and SMS as partial. the librem 5 is the more expensive option but it seems like in practice at least some of the money for it went to good use. freedom isn't free i guess.

  • Purism is already working on a Librem 5 version 2.

    Do you have a source? i could not find anything.

  • If its off by default that is a reasonable suggestion.

  • Why do you ask?

    grok came up with this:

    Some libraries implement free data formats that are competing against restricted data formats, such as Ogg Vorbis (which competes against MP3 audio) and WebM (which competes against MPEG-4 video). The success of the free format requires allowing many proprietary application programs to link in the code to handle the format. For instance, we wanted nonfree media players, especially appliances, to include the code for Ogg Vorbis as well as MP3.

    In these special situations, if you are aiming to convince proprietary application developers to use the library for the free format, you would need to make that easy by licensing the library under a weak license, such as the Apache License 2.0.

  • I like copyleft and have convinced about 7 projects to convert to copyleft. but in this case its such a small project i don't really see anyone turning it into some proprietary project and the project losing a lot of contributions because of it. Also even the FSF says that permissive licenses might be better when you implementing standards (And i think you could argue this project is at least partially a implementation of posix).

  • Definitely OK to promote as long as it is done in a way that is considerate (and that is your case). i suggest also cross posting to more active open source communities like !opensource@lemmy.ml

  • They report a score which is not very correlated with the number of tests passed (there was a big increase in the number of tests that pass in 2023 but the score barely rose). I could not figure out how to show the score for other browsers on wpt.fyi.

  • Lemmy has a similar number of active users and makes about 3K . That money would be good for the ecosystem and could help fund upstream projects (I am sure wine could use the money for example). But they will have to use fundraising methods similar to lemmy to reach that number (popup, good message etc)

    The donate page is kinda a mess IMO to be honest. There should be one organisation to donate to otherwise this creates overchoice.

  • Isn't basically any software like mastodon where you change the maximum length of posts to be long enough a good alternative? say 1 million words per post.

    For group discussions there is piefed/lemmy. And mobilizon for events. for reviews there is neodb.

    When i last tried friendica. it was missing the feature which i thought was really good on facebook. seeing what people i appreciate are into by seeing stuff like movies and or even things like meditation or stoicism on their profile page. and maybe reviews of businesses

  • At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

    See the 1.0 milestone for lemmy and lemmy-ui . you can see both what they intend to do and what they already did.

  • I would go with the short explanation of fediverse platform built for customization and extension as a one sentence explanation.

    besides you could just try it.

  • I might be giving out boomer vibes saying this. but i believe chris rock said it best:

    In the old days, if somebody wanted your job, they just worked harder than you. Now, somebody wants your job, they just wait for you to say some dumb shit.

    And lets not start talking about richard stallman opinions about child sexuality ... (although tbf eventually he retract his statements).

    Imagine if he would have got cancelled before the GNU project started. open source would not have been where it is today. and as someone who likes biographies let me suggest that there is a reason they say "never meet your heroes". but the problem now is you can read about them on the internet. martin luther king cheated a lot, benjamin frankling owned slaves (although at some point he released them) and the list can go on. All people that did very good things.

    People might do great things. but they are not infallible . in fact they could spend so much time and thought on achieving great things they might not have time and attention to develop "normal" attitudes about day to day living.

    and adding an extra constraint when hiring for a project that is already competing with companies with billions of dollars in budget is not prudent.

  • Sure people might downvote here but engineers care about facts. have you tried testing this in real world setting? working with moderators? what feedback did you get?

    Right now this is experimental. you can't just use AI and automatically expect it to always do a better job then the established methods.

  • What i am worried about is that the federation system is already kinda hard to understand. New users who are not hardcore fediverse nerds (Like me and probably the rest of the people answering this post). Could start thinking "what the hell is going on?!" and might think lemmy is obtuse and drop it.

    Lemmy could at some point benefit from a UX study where new users volunteer to be observed while the software is first use (software companies sometimes do that). maybe that could verify there are no problems . adding a searchable FAQ and a introductory tutorial (saying something "this will take about 5/10/15 minutes) could help.

  • Also lemmy has some kind of plugin system. this actually sound like something where a lot of people will want to experiment with different methods (maybe even benchmark them in some way). maybe open an issue asking for the ability to extend sorting with plugins?

  • tildes.net is pretty good. i augment my use of lemmy and reddit with it.

    And there are a ton of them listed here if you want to spend more time doing market research (and share your conclusions if you find anything interesting).

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml

    Graphite progress report (Q1 2024)

    graphite.rs /blog/graphite-progress-report-q1-2024/
  • Open Source @lemmy.world

    Graphite progress report (Q1 2024)

    graphite.rs /blog/graphite-progress-report-q1-2024/
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org

    Graphite progress report (Q1 2024)

    graphite.rs /blog/graphite-progress-report-q1-2024/
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org

    New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/issues/20
  • free and open source software @lemmy.world

    New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/issues/20
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml

    New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/issues/20
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/issues/20
  • Linux Phones @lemmy.ml

    Purism (creator of FOSS friendly laptops and phones) offers buying shares of the company, reports revenue of 8M in 2022 and 5M in 2021

    puri.sm /posts/purism-announces-first-public-offering-on-startengine/
  • Linux @lemmy.world

    Purism (creator of FOSS friendly laptops and phones) offers buying shares of the company, reports revenue of 8M in 2022 and 5M in 2021

    puri.sm /posts/purism-announces-first-public-offering-on-startengine/
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml

    Purism (creator of FOSS friendly laptops and phones) offers buying shares of the company, reports revenue of 8M in 2022 and 5M in 2021

    puri.sm /posts/purism-announces-first-public-offering-on-startengine/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    Purism (creator of FOSS friendly laptops and phones) offers buying shares of the company, reports revenue of 8M in 2022 and 5M in 2021

    puri.sm /posts/purism-announces-first-public-offering-on-startengine/
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org

    Purism (creator of FOSS friendly laptops and phones) offers buying shares of the company, reports revenue of 8M in 2022 and 5M in 2021

    puri.sm /posts/purism-announces-first-public-offering-on-startengine/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    Ruffle (a open source re-implementation of adobe flash player) reviews improvements made in 2023

    ruffle.rs /blog/2024/01/14/2023-in-review
  • Linux @lemmy.world

    Ruffle (a open source re-implementation of adobe flash player) reviews improvements made in 2023

    ruffle.rs /blog/2024/01/14/2023-in-review
  • Linux @programming.dev

    Ruffle (a open source re-implementation of adobe flash player) reviews improvements made in 2023

    ruffle.rs /blog/2024/01/14/2023-in-review
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml

    Ruffle (a open source re-implementation of adobe flash player) reviews improvements made in 2023

    ruffle.rs /blog/2024/01/14/2023-in-review
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org

    A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust)

    github.com /Smithay/smithay
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml

    A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust)

    github.com /Smithay/smithay
  • Linux @programming.dev

    A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust)

    github.com /Smithay/smithay
  • Linux @lemmy.world

    A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust)

    github.com /Smithay/smithay