[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Consider adding it to awesome lemmy which is linked to from the lemmy readme.

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[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago

good is the enemy of excellent. X11 works for most users (almost all the users?) well. You can see that with the adoptions of other standards like the C++ standards and IPV6 which can feel like forever.

Another thing I think one of the X11 maintainers mentioned iirc is that they have been fairly gentle with deprecation. some commercial company could have deprecated X11 and left you with a wayland session that is inferior in some ways.

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 101 points 2 months ago

Active users is the standard metric used to check how much a service is used (at least as far as i know. its what i see when i look at stuff published for investors).

hexbar is on the sixth place in term of number of active users with 1.8K , lemmy.world is 18K (enable the "active users" column and sort by it to see the full list)

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago

There is a fairly active fork already . We well see what he will do. AMD saying it is not legally binding despite him signing a contract sounds like BS. Consulting the software freedom law center or some other non profit might be worth while.

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[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 months ago

How is that not a security theater? , you just need to :

  • publish a good snap
  • change it to malware after it is approved
  • profit

The extra cost added to override this is fairly small, i don't think it will help.

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 36 points 8 months ago

This shows nothing, probably some kind of glitch.

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 31 points 10 months ago

It's pitched as a open source operation system, yet the snap store is closed source and vendor locked, one of the reasons some of us use Liniux is because we prefer open source (and there are rational justifications for that).

Hate is a strong word, but there is legitimate criticism, I also think the closed source nature of snap led to the fact that it has no volunteers and that eventually caused malware to appear on the snap store multiple time, it never happened on flathub as far as i know.

Today for beginner i think opensuse and linux mint are better.

Regarding debian having old packages , i use nix but it is fairly immature, flathub should also work.

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago

That said, Torvalds continued, "Rust has not really shown itself as the next great big thing. But I think during next year, we'll actually be starting to integrate drivers and some even major subsystems that are starting to use it actively. So it's one of those things that is going to take years before it's a big part of the kernel. But it's certainly shaping up to be one of those."

I don't know about that, languages which are based on standards (c++ , javascript, c) seem to have much better enduring popularity, i don't want to see rust becoming less and less popular which will lead to less available developers (like what is happening with ruby).

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago

unfortunately other data is not encouraging , the number of servers is both down since the exodus and in the recent month.

I think the number of servers is a interesting metric to look on, it correlates with users who are tech savy and are early adopters, before the exodus the number of servers was growing consistently , despite the number of users mostly staying the same, That was IMO an indication of the relative quality of lemmy at the time and indeed it seemed to got the most benefits from the exodus out of all the reddit alternatives.

compare that with peertube which shows consistent growth in the number of servers (see this month, and long term), I think what makes them better then lemmy currently is that they currently seem better at prioritizing feature development by using a dedicated site.

Also the total donations have declined in the last month (from €3962 to €3,771 today), So i think we should try to not get overconfident and work to secure the future of lemmy or some other open source reddit alternative.

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 32 points 11 months ago

Best you can do is accuse something of being open washing, or correct people by saying that it does not fit the OSI definition which is widely accepted (it's based on debian guidelines) and the software is at best "partially open source".

Having a github page with a list of problematic projects and licenses could be useful.

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

You can do a "thumbs up" on github, iirc the developer said last time i talked to him is that this is what they use for prioratization.

Here is the list of the most "thumbs up" issues on github for the "lemmy" repo.

We could always use rysolv (a bounty platform), that can different from "I want this" and "i think it is important enought to risk some of my money for it".

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 year ago

The name OpenTofu may sound silly

Someone should make a open source project about how to give good names to open source projects.

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