@whou@lemmy.ml

whou

@whou@lemmy.ml

Otaku, gamer, self-taught programming student and professional procrastinator from Brazil. In fact, I am procrastinating at this very moment. I love boomer shooters too.

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whou,

Now something must be done
About vengeance, a badge, and a gun

whou,

labor unions based as always!!! brasil!! 🇧🇷

whou,

wow! I love the technical part of GUI programming, and that, for me, was a great article! props to alex.

Note-taking app that looks too good to be true? - Siyuan

Recently stumbled upon this note-taking app called SiYuan, but it honestly looks a bit too good to be true(?). Has anyone here used it or got any experience with it? Trying to replace Obsidian is a difficult task, and I’ve been through almost all note-taking apps there are out there, however this one looks fairly similar....

whou,

I’ve downloaded and tested it for a bit and it does look a bit too good to be true. The source code is licensed under AGPL, and the F-Droid app page didn’t show any anti-features. And I also really liked the app itself.

However, while it does enable self-host of the same data (and it’s pretty easy too. you can even self-host from your phone! I wish more note apps did this) and manual exporting/importing, the cloud syncing (even to a third-party server of your choice) is locked behind a paywall. While I do understand paying for a service to save my data, it does bother me that I can’t sync with my own servers, which should not require any service from their part.

The app also includes a login feature that lets you use a specific text-oriented Chinese social media (that also seems to be fully open source and AGPL licensed!). Honestly, I wouldn’t be bothered by it especially since it’s opt-in, and doesn’t seem to do anything with your notes unless logged-in. Though I don’t know how self-hostable it is, and even if it were, the app does not give me the option to enter my own server.

And to top it all off, it has a bullshit AI feature (that seems opt-in). I don’t think I need to explain why this is very icky.

Considering everything, it seems like an awesome app for people that use the specific social media it is optionally coupled with. But anyone that doesn’t and prefers to sync your data to a self-hosted server will be left without options. Also, you must consider that it apparently doesn’t seem to phone home, according to F-Droid, though it is very strange that the network, social media, and especially AI features are not mentioned at all as anti-features. So if you would want to be sure, I’d recommend you to read the source code and deduce yourself if it doesn’t phone anywhere you haven’t allowed to by default.

I personally wouldn’t use it myself, but if you trust it doesn’t phone home, don’t care about manually exporting and importing your data, and isn’t bothered by the weird network features, I’d say it’s a great notes app.

whou,

A lot of people do use Bookwyrm! It just depends on finding the right community.

I am on a fairly small brazilian instance (velhaestante.com.br) and even though I joined while not knowing anybody I still get a fair amount of interactivity. Not enough to be logging in every day, of course, our instance is not nearly as big as something like bookwyrm.social and I don’t read and update that often.

It’s just like any other fediverse software. Even on a small instance you can get a fair level of interactivity and on top of that you can still interact with big instances and large amounts of content! Of course, if you just create an account and forget about it, or you don’t use it very often, and don’t seek out interactions/following other people, of course you won’t get the same level of content in your feed as if you were on GoodReads.

That’s the charm of the fediverse!

andrew, to opensource
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Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

https://github.com/ente-io/ente

@opensource

whou,

I’m glad that they chose the AGPL when open-sourcing their server. I don’t see that many companies, especially ones offering a “product”, open-sourcing their work with a copyleft license.

whou,

As some that used to use an equally potato PC before, the most recent Veloren updates might be hard to run at a playable level, even on the lowest-possible graphics settings (Veloren’s community and devs are doing an awesome job adding stuff and making the game better every month!).

But if you don’t mind the terrible graphics, low FPS, and frequent slowdowns, the game is still very much enjoyable. I was a low-FPS gamer for most of my life, so bad performance never stopped me from enjoying to play a game!

whou,

Doom and Quake! When I used a potato PC as a daily driver the thing I played the most were boomer shooters. The source ports for both games are pretty amazing nowadays!

whou,

Firefox with ublock origin is even better than the DuckDuckGo browser alone. Yes, you can use DuckDuckGo as a default search engine, and even install the extension, if you need to.

whou,

i’m so fucking sad that a shitty¹ company was able to bully a 100% legal piece of FOSS to shut down.

It is THE best app for reading manga, and it single-handedly started my love and (healthy) addiction to reading manga lol. It’s also one of the best examples on how a FOSS model is superior to any competitive proprietary one.

I hope so much luck to the devs and every contributor. Their work through all these years is immeasurable. Makes me regret a little for not trying to contribute to the community with some code at a time I was wanting to. Thanks for all the hours of fun reading manga. I’m sure at this very moment people are already organizing a fork to live on Tachiyomi’s legacy, as is the spirit of FOSS.

whou,

oh yeah, I heard about the already forked projects before, certainly awesome that people already have that option. I do use Aniyomi, and it’s pretty damn good.

For some reason I’ve never felt like I needed extra features that the main project didn’t have, so I’ve never looked out for forks. But looking at some of the forks right now they seem pretty good as well and do have features that would be super useful to me. Certainly will try it out.

FOSS is so amazing.

whou,

that’s such a cool world! which mods do you use?

whou,

I always have to remind myself that in the U.S. feeding people that live with hunger might be controversial, some-fucking-how.

If you think the phrase “feed the homeless” is even close to controversial, you seriously need to evaluate your own life and sense of empathy. That is absolutely the dystopia every writer was afraid about.

whou,

weird. for me, the “hard engine and framework stuff” is the fun part, while the content creation is not boring, but just very hard for me :P

whou,

I’m running tests and deploying binaries, nothing special.

I actually use GitHub Actions, even though the project is hosted on Codeberg. I’m too embarrassed to ask for Woodpecker CI/CD for such a small (and not that active) project lol

whou,

Celeste screenshots, because every scenario in that game is beautiful. And it’s one of my favorite games of all time.

Here is my favorite one:

screenshot of the game Celeste with the main pixelated character Madeline looking into a cliff at night

whou,

it was so much fun reading soredemo ayumu for all these years and following the ups and downs, the development and the stagnation with the translation team and the HM community.

it has been an amazing journey, this manga couldn’t have ended better. thank you Yamamoto for the incredible wholesome experiences over the years!

may we all keep senpai in our hearts 🫡

whou,

surprised wojak subtitled with an int** pointing to another wojak subtitled with int* that is pointing to a plain integer

whou,

!internetfuneral

whou,

didn’t know that bunny girl senpai was getting another season. the show is pretty good imo, so that’s cool.

but most importantly I remember this show for introducing me to my favorite japanese band, the peggies. it’s a shame that they split up indefinitely some time ago. I already miss their stuff :P

I highly recommend them!

whou,

codeberg is great! the community there seems to be interested in growing the platform and developing tools as useful as those on GitLab/GitHub.

whou,

not open source, unfortunately.

whou,

Yeah, a lot of lemmy users were already into free software as a whole and liked lemmy because it’s libre and federated. So it’s only natural you see the focus on software freedom everywhere.

I just think that we should strive to use libre alternatives, especially when they are as useful/better than closed source ones.

The philosophical side of free software is much more important to me than anything else. For me, it’s not just about using open source software for the sake of it. It’s about software freedom.

But I don’t go around telling everyone to use open source or die. If you just don’t like the libre alternative and prefer using closed source software, whatever. If there isn’t a general reason to use a closed source software, I’ll just point out the libre alternative (or try to convince that a somewhat inferior libre alternative may not be that bad) :)

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