DrWeevilJammer

Canadian confirmed, eh.

Borgbackup to Borgbase

An individual instance can be load balanced pretty easily, but that’s on the admin of that instance to implement.

Pfft - everyone knows you need a soul to get online

Don’t worry about Phoenix - they’re always blue

After those, the only logical destination is TempleOS

I.E. Daddy IBM wants more

Thanks for the thorough writeup! It’s worth noting that the captcha will be back in the next version, but not exactly sure when it will be released.

They removed it during the switch from web sockets (which apparently took a lot of time and effort to keep updated), but someone submitted a pull request for a non-web socket version of the captcha code, which was accepted.

So hopefully we’ll all be able to update to the new version soon.

You can create an account on a single Lemmy instance/server, and use that one account on that instance to subscribe to other communities on other instances. Those communities then show up in your subscribed “feed” on the server where your account is.

You can see all the posts from all the communities you’ve subscribed to on your feed on the instance you signed up on, without needing a client app, or you can install one of a few apps for either Android or iPhone. On these apps, you sign into your account by providing the address for your “home” Lemmy instance, and then enter your username and password for your account on that instance. Then you’ll see your feed and everything you’ve subscribed to.

You can post on any community on any server you’ve subscribed to using that one account, and your home instance will sync your posts to that community in the same way it syncs posts from your subscribed communities to your home server so you can see them when you look at your feed.

My solution to this was to run my own private instance. It’s very easy with docker-compose.

if someone changes my code and doesn’t give back, it does not harm me or injury me in any way.

In my opinion, the point of many open source licensing models is not to protect the author, it’s to ensure that useful modifications to the code are able to be incorporated back into the original software. The licenses accomplish this by requiring those who fork/modify the original code to make their code/modifications public.

This improves the source code and makes it better for everyone.

You can’t take an open source project protected by a GPL license, make improvements, pretend that you did all the work yourself (i.e. not acknowledge the source project on which yours is based), and then attempt to monetize the original code + your improvement.

For example, take Truth Social. Not understand (and/or caring) about the license attached to the Mastodon project, they forked the code, made changes, and then did not acknowledge that they did so. Mastodon had to threaten to sue before they acknowledged that they’d built their platform on open source software.

It’s not about protection of a single developer or even a group. It’s about cooperation to build on the work of others in a fair way.

Open source licensing is responsible for a lot of really useful things that are integral to the daily lives of billions of people. The Linux kernel alone is a massive example. Without that license, there would be no Android, or SteamDeck. Without the BSD license, they would be no OSX/macOS. Without GPL, there would be no AdBlock, no uBlock Origin, no Git, no MySQL, no Ansible, no ProtonMail, and millions of other projects. Most internet servers would probably still be running Windows.

Most of these licenses explicitly say that you can even sell products based on the code - all you have to do is acknowledge the source project, and make your own source code public and available under the same license.

Here’s what Linus Torvalds said about people making money from Linux back in 1993:

The fact that others make money by selling Linux is something that I find mostly amusing, and something which does my ego no end of good. Frankly, I wouldnt want to bother personally, so if somebody else does it, it doesnt hurt me. Its also quite legal by the copyright, and so far I havent seen any major developer stand up and say he doesnt like his code being sold, so I dont see the problem.

If you know anything about Stallman, this makes perfect sense.

VSCodium is ok though, right?

Right?

Guys?

Netplan is 100% a solution that didn’t have a problem to begin with

This does not surprise me from a company that, well… * gestures distastefuly at snaps *

Or x, which does the same thing, with the same number of keystrokes. But the ZZ keys are closer together

I’ve found that Krita is pretty easy to use and does most of the things I would otherwise have to use Photoshop for.

Check out Photopea

If you can’t rollerblade to a public phone to use your bluebox so you can call your granny for free, are you really a phreaker?

“The customer is always right” mindset, except that doesn’t work with open source when they’re using something they downloaded for free.

You’ve put your finger on the thing that was bothering me about the tone of the original post - it’s very similar to a Nextdoor post.

We had a good solution…

Did we? Do you know why it was removed in the first place?