https://agnos.is/posts/tech-recruitment-is-out-of-control.html

This was my experience at the beginning of 2024. It was bad enough that I had to write a blog post about it.

Not necessarily. While of course in many many cases, open source is a volunteer effort, there's usually some implicit transaction going on. Whether that's improving the software for yourself and passing that on to others, being a business and improving a library or something you use that helps your project generate revenue, or even a straight up commercial transaction.

But in all these cases, the open source project can be taken by you (or others) and you can do whatever you want with it. In the case of Winamp here, you cannot do any of that. It would be different if they were paying for contributions. But they're not, so.

A lot of times immigrants to Iceland in low paying jobs like this do not understand their rights. Wouldn't surprise me if this guy has gotten away with it before. Possibly more than once.

Iceland isn't perfect. If a business wants to get rid of someone, they'll find a way to do it. But it is illegal to prevent someone from joining a union, or issue threats like this. Companies over a certain size (50+ I think?) are actually required to have a union representative.

Somebody is going to get steamrolled by Icelandic labor laws. And it's not going to be the employee.

Edit: like this is seriously illegal in Iceland. Also, if you're going to be a corrupt and immoral business owner (evil really in this case), the number one thing you DON'T do is broadcast your nefarious intentions over a recordable medium.

They basically want free labor.

Depends on the continuity and who's writing it, but often yes. He was notably portrayed this way in the Justice League cartoon.

The fork was originally created because upstream NewPipe elected not to include sponsor block functionality.

Depends on the language. There is no explicit typing in JavaScript, for example. That's why Typescript was invented.

It used to be open source, then it went completely closed. As mentioned, Organic Maps is the fork that is the continuation of the GPL app.

I think "complex" refers to the various dark patterns used by Windows and Mac/iOS to scare and/or force users that know nothing of computers into using the default browsers.

Am I missing something? Or is the link to this tool not actually present in the post? I only see a screenshot.

One feature that might help with this is something similar to multi-reddits, where users can categorize communities into their own "meta communities".