TehPers
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TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data CollectionEnglish2·23 days agoFor what it’s worth, on Windows,
AppData\Roaming
is intended to be shared across devices to some extent (there’s more nuance but the point being I’d be less worried about syncing data from there).
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Any FOSS Android keyboard that lets you change the typing sound?English3·3 months agoUnexpected Keyboard lets you adjust the vibration when pressing keys, but I don’t see any settings for the sound. Otherwise, I got nothing.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•darktable 5.0.0 releasedEnglish23·7 months agoFor others who also don’t know what this is:
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•The DeVault ReportEnglish2·8 months agoYeah, the timing of the article makes it clear what the motive is. It’s to distract discussion away from the article about Stallman.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•The DeVault ReportEnglish2·8 months agoUp to you. Two people can make mistakes at the same time. Whether there is truth to the claims, I’m not sure, but if there is truth then there are some unpleasant details in it.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•draw.io no longer FOSS since August 27, 2024English44·9 months agoTL;DR:
From today the license applied to the project will be the Apache 2.0 license with an extra line forbidding usage of the codebase as an integration or app to Atlassian’s Confluence or Jira products.
While it’s disappointing to see the additional restriction, it’s better to have a project the devs find sustainable than to have nothing at all. It seems like the goal of this change is to protect their main source of funding.
Worst case, people can fork the code before the change.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Drew DeVault on the biggest threats to FOSS and some proposed solutionsEnglish6·1 year agoSome thoughts on the comments on Discord:
I can understand most of the arguments against Discord, and there are some problematic communies on it of course, but I’m not sure I understand how using Discord over an alternative puts someone more at risk of exposure to those communities. People are free to join and leave servers at will, so is the issue that these servers built around FOSS projects have toxic communities? If so, how would being on any other platform solve this?
Speaking from experience, just about all the servers I’m in have some kind of “no politics” rule, a very inclusive “be nice” rule, and a pronoun selector. Maybe it’s just the servers I join, but hate speech gets people banned pretty quickly.
Anyway, there are plenty of arguments that can be made about discoverability, lack of control, privacy, and the non-FOSS nature of the platform to justify its presence on that list.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•FOSS AI painting with KritaEnglish3·1 year agoNot quite a “gaming PC” since, at least if they’re using something like Nvidia’s Hopper GPUs (or relying on another service that does), they’re not designed for gaming (and in the price range of $10k-$100kish), buuut if you ignore the finer details then fundamentally it’s basically like that. They’d send the image to their “very expensive gaming PC server” where the inferencing would be done.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•The XZ-Backdoor shows again the problem of FOSS maintainers regarding support and donationsEnglish3·1 year agoI’d imagine doing this for a simple website project only for npm to tell me there are over 2000 packages installed. Donating even $1 to each of them would be unsustainable (as myself, for a company that’s another story). I think what we need is a more scalable way of supporting these projects. For example, should
is_even
get the same amount of support aszod
?
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•*Permanently Deleted*English5·2 years agoGiven Discord’s history with certain kinds of content being shared on it, it’s hard to fault them for doing this. But I agree, most FOSS enthusiasts are looking for something a little more private and in their control.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace?4·2 years agoWow, that is a uniquely idiotic problem caused by a dumb societal trend and perpetuated by a malicious company more interested in locking people into their products than innovating in an actually competitive manner. It’s sad that this is even an issue.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace?English1·2 years agoThere are jobs that require iphones? Now that sounds like a nightmare (unless you’re developing apps for ios or something).
Odd, my google search just has a bunch of Lemmy/Mastodon results. Surely I’m doing something wrong, do I need to disable SafeSearch?
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•You need to send an API Request to apply for a job in this companyEnglish12·2 years agoIt’s only invalid if it generated errors.
I understand this line of thinking, but unless they specify what “flavor” of JSON they accept, I think it’s safe to assume they only accept what’s in spec. What I find weird is that they immediately contradict the spec with their example by writing JavaScript. Should the
content-type
then beapplication/javascript
? They can easily document the parameters outside the request body instead of adding comments.Also, yes, I know I’m being pedantic, but if I’m applying for a job, it’s a two way application. They need to give me reason to trust that they’re worth working for. Making up rules along the way when referencing a commonly known spec doesn’t give me much confidence.
TehPers@beehaw.orgto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•You need to send an API Request to apply for a job in this companyEnglish10·2 years agoIs it just me, or does their sample request use invalid JSON? The keys should be in quotes, comments aren’t in spec (but commonly supported), and trailing commas are invalid as well (but commonly supported).
Converting CSV to JSON is probably just a matter of translating column names to property and wrapping them all in a list. But if that’s the case, it may be worth opening an issue on FreeTube to have the docs and code updated.