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4 days agoMay I introduce you to left parenthesis and right parenthesis? May I further introduce you to millions of parentheses?
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I brought this up a month ago regarding the lemmy repo. At least they have mirrors and won’t be fucked if the orange terminator decides opensource is a danger to US companies or whatever. But there are many projects that would be absolutely fucked. An infinitesimal minority probably backs up their github issues and PRs.
Projects like nixos and probably the entire rust ecosystem would break. They are all in on Github.
The US defunded TOR, Tails, and F-Droid. There also was a time when cryptography was embargoed by the US.
So yes, IMO the US is a risk for opensource and the majority of the opensource community has sleep-walked into a gilded cage. Rattling the bars hasn’t helped and it is only when the door closes that they’ll wake up. Luckily, this isn’t like climate change where there’s no way back within multiple generations, but nonetheless, the awakening will be rude.
61·6 days agoHow does this compare to Notion? Can it be used as a knowledge management system? I ask because I see highlights and notes.
Goddammit, that’s a good one 🤣
Thanks!
What am I missing? What’s wrong with zip? Should tar.gz be used instead?
There’s constructive criticism and then there’s just yapping.
“Ermagerd GIMP devs are so shit at design” = yapping
“Just build a platform for designers” = supposed solution + it’s so easy, people are stupid for not having built this yet = yapping
Had it been, something like
I’m not a fan of GIMP’s design. It would be cool if had a way to help them. Maybe a platform to connect devs and designers? It could work like …
That would’ve been a completely different discussion.
Alright making this really simple.
These are the interpretations of you and your words:
- you are a dev
- you think GIMP’s design is shit
- you think GIMP devs should be better at design and are worth shitting on
- you purport to have a solution
My words:
- stop shitting on devs for design
- build the solution you purport to have
Nowhere do I say “designers should write code”.
Are we on the same page now?
here should be a platform that enables designers to relatively easily contribute to open source projects without learning git or whatever the fuck.
Make it then.
Do you know how difficult it is to make software that runs, let alone runs well? Do you know how difficult it is to stay on top of the constant messages, issues, PRs, and just churn that comes alone when that particular software gets popular? And on top of that devs are supposed to be design gods too?
If you think you have the solution: build it. Be a part of the solution. The developers of GIMP can’t do everything.
As an example: a company starts a free tier offering with no promises. It can sustain that because there are enough free users that convert into paying users - enough to sustain the free tier. But times change and the cost of free tier users surpasses that of paying users. Should the company continue providing the same level of service for free tier users?
Also, what other term than entitlement would you use for somebody gets something for free, is not promised that it will stay free forever, the free offering is cancelled or limited, and the user starts complaining?
Is this dude complaining that an offering he pays absolutely nothing for is reducing how much free stuff they give out? Seems quite entitled… like the people demanding opensource devs implement something and never contributing back.
C++ might not be as memory-safe as Rust, but let’s not pretend a Rust code base wouldn’t be riddled with raw pointers.
I’m curious. Why do you believe the last statement to be true?
Steve Jobs should be a casket 👀
Anti Commercial-AI license