This article again. Drew Devault is a shitstirrer that lives from drama. Painting Louis Rossmann as a nazi, white supremacist, or monarchy supporter is just misinformation and I’d go as far to say that it’s slander. He has thousands of videos trying to hold the state accountable, is nearly rabidly pro-privacy and pro consumer rights, and rails on and on about how shitty big tech companies are that have their way with their consumers.

I happen to agree with FUTO: the opensource licenses are not that great. Open source developers should get paid and if that means the definition of opensource has to evolve, so be it.

We should stop treating the opensource definition like gospel and quoting it as if it were a religious text. We should think for ourselves, not let our thoughts be dictated to us and then just go “this person said it, so they are right”.

FUTO funds great software. If that came out of the pocket of Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, I’d be happy ad it means less money going to whatever evil main endeavors they have. If a monarchist spends his fortune on opensource instead of raising a monarchy, fucking good. Don’t stop him. Demand he spends more.

Companies making shitty products need somebody to buy them. If consumers buy them, they are also part of the problem.

Show the sad rat in the corner. Ready to retire with its one leg shot off.

You can try winboat but it’s quite heavy. Basically runs windows in a container and passes access through to it. Apps can be installed in it and have seamless integration with your desktop.

Alternatively, you can also talk to your group and look around for alternatives.

I hope that the European Commission’s recent call for evidence regarding the benefits of opensource will lead to sustainable funding for such important projects. If I’m not mistaken, even non-EU citizens may voice their support for opensource in the initiative. We should demand a system that compensates opensource developers somehow.

“Improve documentation”. If they make it like the nixos documentation, that’ll make the framework documentation worse.

Ayaya ayaya!

At least one good thing is coming out of it. More companies should be spending money on the python foundation.

Just put an MCP on it and let the AI play the game at the slowest speed ever

Install windows so you can join in on the pleasure of wiping windows!

There must be an Icelandic community that complained about suddenly seeing English letters in their text https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1559

Meanwhile, NixOS won’t budge, as is standard.

Ah, the “only closed source should make money but I will demand opensource compete with it” take. Love it.

We better all flood this. It’s a good chance of getting funding for opensource, which is very much needed. An EU wide mandate to get rid of US tech in anything governmental would be killer.

According to Pargin, turning off the feature can result in local files being deleted, leaving behind only a desktop icon labeled “Where are my files?”

OneDrive = ransomware confirmed!

That could’ve used an example of debugging recursion to show how useful the repl is. I knew about the repl and have used it to find duplicate packages for example, but what it doesn’t help with is finding out how stuff was added to environment.systemPackages and, most importantly, why.

The most glaring omission in nix is the lack of a debugger with conditional breakpoints. Nix is interpreted, is it not? Shouldn’t it be possible to have breakpoints?

Why is this thing so popular? Do people just love faschtech?

They tried, and that’s admirable. Some things aren’t meant to work out though.

My memory of it is how unnecessarily arcane it is. I had (and still have) a better understanding of assembly than COBOL. COBOL has hundreds of keywords. And while an instruction set can have thousands of instructions, COBOL still felt more difficult.

Also, nearly any executable can be decompiled to assembly. If you understand assembly, it has a plethora of uses. COBOL can make big bank, but it currently has very limited use.

I’d much rather write in assembly than COBOL