It would’ve been amazing to have them use Linux and develop that instead. Maybe mailinglists were too slow for them or there’s a completely different reason for not picking it. Hopefully someday the architects will be interviewed to reveal the reasons.

At least this will bring competition, but app devs will be taking the short end of this. Yet another OS to support.

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My problem isn’t the hardware, it’s that the place I’m moving to will have a bad internet connection. My current homeserver has stuff like a CI (currently being tested), a builder for software (compiling rust, C/C++, go, and whatever else), immich, nextcloud with an extension to download from youtube and other sources (basically to circumvent geoblocking of multiple friends and family), and it could be expanded to host other services e.g a seedbox. All that stuff needs good hardware and a good connection.

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My problem is that I’m moving in the not so far future and I don’t know where to put my server. Physical security is important and if someone gets into my house, takes the computer and leaves, it’ll be worthless due to encryption. But if it’s in somebody’s datacenter (co-location or whatever), they could be forced to monitor my traffic, tamper with my system, and I’d have to entrust the key to somebody in order to boot the system and decrypt the drives should it restart for an update or for any other reason.

I’m considering asking a friend to host the homeserver and reimburse them for a better internet connection (fiber) + electricity costs. But I’m not sure they’d be up for it.

How would you solve the problem?

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Hey! Another nixos user 😁 What are you using for your VPS? nixos-infect? nixos-everywhere?

As for mini PCs, a friend bought one from Minis Forum and quite likes it. But if you want to support the opensource ecosystem, there are tuxedo computers and slimbook. There’s also starlabs byte.

Take your pick :)

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uBlock detected facebook.com on the page. Wth?

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Could somebody even explain what’s going on?

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Oh, my comment was more that compiling C/C++ apps on any platform is shit. Windows may be the worst to compile on, but Linux is only marginally better.

Rust is amazing though.

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“It’s so easy to compile C/C++ apps on Linux”

“Just run make install”

“If it doesn’t work, fuck you, it worked on my machine”

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!softwaregore@lemmy.world League of Legends

If you’re enjoying opensource software and are able to contribute, be it code, documentation, bug reports, political support, products that contribute back to opensource projects, or money, please do. Even just spreading the word is a good start.

There’s not much opensource devs can do against corporations, but every contribution helps us get closer to a world where working fulltime on opensource is common-place and even desired.

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They don’t actually think wayland won’t get proper accessibility, they just hope for it and for time to reverse back to when people had to edit their x11 configs by hand. Like true linux users.

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I hope this is successful. It would be a great way to enable monetisation on the internet without relying on ads.

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About time. Savannah and the email contribution process are heavily outdated. Nice to see more projects realise that. Good on them for not moving to github, like Mozilla did with Firefox.

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That’s a well-meaning assumption, but no. My personal experiences asking for help from the linux community are very spaced out, and I understood long ago that asking for a GUI for something in linux is akin to requesting the murder of Torvalds.

For sure there are lots of people who start using linux and demand it works for their very specific usecase, verbally assault project maintainers, expect they be treated like paying customers despite getting something for free, and just do not understand that many opensource projects are passion projects with no commercial goals. I won’t even get into the FLOSS purists who lose their minds when somebody does want to make money with opensource and dares use a different license.

But what I see more often is somebody asking for instructions to do something and being told to RTFM, “just do X”, or copy-paste some commands into their terminal. And when the person asks for something without terminal commands, the responses are less than friendly. What worse is when developers suggest building a GUI (or even presenting a GUI) to make things easier for newcomers and advanced users going “but there’s a CLI for that” or “please don’t” or some other response like that.

And of course this isn’t limited to the OS. As a developer, the “just use vim/emacs” crowd are equally as annoying. Trying to get neovim configured was such a terrible experience I just dropped it. Not only because of neovim itself, but because of the community too. “just learn LUA”, “just copy this into your config, it’s not that hard”, *copy-paste some link to a stack-overflow question that has nothing to do with the question I asked*, etc. . It’s quite similar with the Rust community that would love to lynch anybody using unsafe in their code.

It’s that unhelpful and dogmatic attitude that I find is pervasive in tech communities. KDE developers and Gnome developers get along well, KDE and Gnome users could wage wars over which DE is the best. Zeus help you if you’re a beginner and get in between.

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Recommending Arch to people who just want a working machine is silly, and stuff like Gentoo is kind of dumb shit.

This is precisely what I mean. But there are too many people in the community who do exactly this. And then when beginners post a tirade about how shitty the linux experience was because they were recommended a geek distro, the comments are often filled with the equivalent of “skill issue”.

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And it’s on codeberg not github! That’s great 👏 One more project out of the proprietary Microsoft ecosystem.

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What are you talking about? Are you saying sealed sender is a lie? If so, I want some proof.

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There is a lot of FUD here. It’s just like anti-vaxxers claiming vaccines make you autistic or have microchips in them: they don’t understand what they’re talking about, have different threat models, and are paranoid.

Messages are private on signal and they cannot be connected to you through sealed sender. There have been multiple audits and even government requests for information which have returned only the phone number and last connection time.

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Nothing “derailing” us. Not everyone has the same threat model. The messages are private and that’s what’s most important. Signal can only provide phone number and last connection time to the feds. If that’s too much information for you, then you’re not the target group and have a different threat model.

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Are you seeing spam on signal? Do you even know why spam is possible on phone networks and what the difference is between phone networks and the internet?

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