starshipwinepineapple 1d ago • 100%
I don't see a CLA so this is somewhat surprising that all ~30 contributors would be okay moving away from open source.
Unless this was a unilateral decision
starshipwinepineapple 3d ago • 100%
And it makes no mention that they were modifying and using GPL code prior to making their code "open source".
Id argue that this story is not over until the GPL code can be confirmed removed by a third party
starshipwinepineapple 2w ago • 100%
Reading the sidebars, this is android news for developers, and the one you linked is more generalized.
Beyond that, servers have different compositions so discussions can vary, and funneling everyone into single communities just leads to risk of reddit-style mod/admin abuse.
starshipwinepineapple 2w ago • 100%
There are much smaller projects that ask for more from commits/merge messages. This is a normal ask
starshipwinepineapple 2w ago • 100%
Wait, if they suspended your domain, can you even transfer it away? if not, that's really fucking scary.
Njalla takes ownership of every domain purchased on their platform. They do let you transfer domains to another registrar where you could be the owner if your account is in good standing but seems like that may not be the case here (since account suspended)
That may be great for some domain use cases but for most stuff it would be better to have your name on the domain registration
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
Gitea, took control away from community and gave it to a for profit organization. Forgejo was born
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
Right. VBA or this may not be the best tools for the job but when IT restricts what can be used then VBA or excel python could be great examples of Shadow IT.
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
Python 3.13 is adding support for removing GIL, via PEP 703
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
The article mentions that the letter indicated intent to petition with the USPTO to cancel the Javascript trademark due to abandonment. Hopefully that is successful since that seems to be the best outcome short of Oracle willingly forfeiting it.
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 95%
I really like that it is a static website being updated and built on a schedule from github actions.
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
I use my IDE for basic things, but anything more involved i use git directly. It's really not as intimidating as it's made out to be. I'm no expert by any means but i know enough to get around and read the docs when i need help
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
Open source is generally understood as libre, and an OSI approved license.
I think you're thinking of source-available.
Additional reading: https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-source-available/
Anyway, thanks for the list!
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
Umami has a free tier of their cloud hosting.
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
From what i can tell there are no transaction fees for sponsorships from personal accounts, and organizations pay 6% (or 3% if invoicing). (Source)
Is there something else I'm not seeing?
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
The whole idea to check the donations came from stumbling upon this post which discussed costs per user. Even $1/mo is quite a bit more than the average user cost. So $2 isn't so measly when putting it into that perspective!
Hi all, I'm relatively new to this instance but reading through the [instance docs](https://legal.programming.dev/docs/donation-policy/) I found: >Donations are currently made using [snowe’s github sponsors page](https://github.com/sponsors/snowe2010/). If you get another place to donate that is not this it is fake and should be reported to us. Going to the sponsor page we see the following goal: > @snowe2010's goal is to earn $200 per month > > pay for our 📫 SendGrid Account: $20 a month 💻 Vultr VPS for prod and beta sites: Prod is $115-130 a month, beta is $6-10 a month 👩🏼 Paying our admins and devops any amount ◀️ Upgrade tailscale membership: $6-? dollars a month (depends on number of users) Add in better server infrastructure including paid account for Pulsetic and Graphana. Add in better server backups, and be able to expand the team so that it's not so small. **Currently only 30% of the goal to break-even is being met. Please consider setting up a sponsorship, even if it just $1. Decentralized platforms are great but they still have real costs behind the scenes.** *Note: I'm not affiliated with the admin team, just sharing something I noticed.*
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
In fairness websites from 2000-2004 werent all that better
Were there better ways to make a site? Absolutely, but it is much less wild than if you told me that this happened last week. Plus i would hope they were just churning out websites for cheap since a lot places didn't have a website, or they used geocities/similar
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
The difference is that commercialization is inherent with a free (libre) open source license. Whereas going against the intent, but still legally gray area, is imo malicious compliance because it circumvents what the license was intended to solve in the first place.
But that's all i really care to add to this convo, since my initial comment my intent was just to say that the AGPLv3 license does not stop corporations from getting free stuff and being able to charge for it-- especially documentation. Have a good one
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
No. I said even if they don't maliciously comply with the license [by making the open sourced code unusable without the backend code or some other means outside of scope of this conversation] then they can charge for it.
The malicous part is in brackets in the above paragraph. The license is an OSI approved license that allows commercialization, it would be stupid for me to call that malicious.
starshipwinepineapple 1mo ago • 100%
Nothing. The context of this comment thread is "fuck corporations" and then proposing AGPL to solve that. I am merely pointing out that if their goal is to have a non-commercial license then AGPL doesn't solve that, which is why i mention they can charge for their services with AGPL.