A couple of years after starting a little project to learn #RustLang, that little app is in the Debian repos and I can install it from the latest Ubuntu 24.04.
I am so chuffed. A very happyborg to have finally given something back to the #FOSS community in the form of an app.
The app, #vdash is very niche, so not of interest to many but has an enthusiastic band of #Autonomi fans using it every day and sharing their observations by posting screenshots online. 🥳
Maybe it’s just time to say “fuck it” and #GPL all the things?
The #OpenSource movement was a response to corporate skittishness around using #FOSS, and it focused on very permissive licenses to make corporations feel more comfortable using it. Maybe that turned out to be the wrong approach. Maybe the #OSI helped create the problem.
If the OSI helped create it, #GitHub encouraged and exacerbated it.
Today in User Space
👀#Fedora looks toward #AI
🦖We split the atomic #Linux
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🪖Stumble on the #Unix wars
📦And prepare for the Xz history
Mastodon becoming a US entity with a neoliberal board of directors and the goal of growth über alles is the issue here folks, not whether Eugen and company are compensated for their work. Of course they should be and well too. Or is that a privilege reserved only for the mediocre yes-people at the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?
If, on the other hand, maybe we’d like more folks to contribute to the commons and maybe not even be captured by Silicon Valley how about this radical idea: Fund them so they can live (at least as well) as any mediocre yes-person at a mainstream tech company.
Hey #journalists if you're going to use an open source project as an example of a hack, can you at least let them know in advance you're about to do something reckless so they can prepare?
@safing I see from the #portmaster update that you are at 3% of the android hire. Have you ever though of adding potential monthly donations? I do the annual subscription but would not be averse to adding a little more towards the goal. I bet others would feel likewise, maybe?
The other day I have also committed an update to the sync(8) manual page, which documents that running sync three times in a row hasn't been necessary since the 80s.
However, this does show that there is a lot of unnecessary friction to release a game natively on Linux.
Now that we are slowly gaining some marketshare in the desktop space, I really hope we can smooth out these details to provide a better experience for developers.
It would significantly encourage more game studios to support Linux natively.
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