I’m not very educated on the Fair Source stuff but the idea is that you create source available software which will after some time become Open Source. So I guess their idea is that if you use AGPL, people cannot do that. AGPL means nobody else can make Fair Source software from your work. AGPL is a good license, it just does not work with their

[new software] -> [source available] -> [FOSS after a while] -> [new software made from the now FOSS software]

loop.

I was commenting about the way its written. I know burnout is real — even in FOSS we’ve had the xz backdoor basically caused by overworked maintainer. I was just expecting something less generic. The whole article could have been the first paragraph. The rest was just generic (maybe AI generated) slop without citations (There is your logic error I guess?). I would instead expect the article to refer to the study or refer to other articles or something.

That article reads like it was written by AI. Feels like a ChatGPT bullet list just with the emojis deleted. They also didn’t really say much specific about the FOSS dev burnout, just generic explanation about what burnout is. The article cites a study but then instead of talking about things from it, it just says generic slop about how a burned out FOSS dev could feel.

Edit: I feel like my comment contradicts itself but it’s hard to put into words exactly what’s wrong with the article but it just reads so poorly.

It does not. It pledges source-available software as a better alternative to FOSS. So it by definition is not about FOSS devs. (I’ve only read part of the article because I oppose the opinions they share, so maybe it talks about FOSS devs in the part I have not read.)

or distrobox with podman backend. Though tbf don’t run sketchy software even without sudo. Privilege escalation is pretty easy on most distros by default and even outside of that having your files deleted by ransomware sucks too.

lol i misread that

I have not tried GTK because I cannot fathom why would anyone use a UI toolkit written in C. But even language trash talk aside, it’s probably easier for a C++ project to use a C++ GUI library instead of a C one albeit with C++ bindings. Also I’ve read somewhere that it the C++ GTK bindings are kinda sucky.

These are just my assumptions, though. Someone who has tried both GTK and Qt might give a better answer.

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I’ll add that it’s a multiple of parts (see this video), not just one factor that gives it away. But for me the most telling one is that the text looks like the author spent a lot of time thinking about what figures of speech to use but at the same time did not use capital letters. The prompt clearly included something like “don’t use capital letters to make it look more casual”. But the LLM forgot to make the semantics look casual.

It’s also possible they just write like a bot.

Unlikely but if it were true, it would not change a thing. For me it does not matter who wrote the slop. It’s crap writing regardless and I don’t want to see that on the internet.

Btw from the video we can see the “rule of 3 pattern” which was used in this post:

what’s your absolute, non-negotiable, ‘i will personally visit the datacenter if this fails’ self-hosted application

Also I think the greeting “alright folks, let’s get real” is a gipitism.

what’s your absolute, non-negotiable, ‘i will personally visit the datacenter if this fails’ self-hosted application

Here you missed that this sentence makes no sense in a selfhosted context. What datacenter??? I honestly don’t know how can anyone doubt the elelemcy here.

It would not make sense. For me these posts are a waste of time. The community should be started by someone who actually enjoys the discussions, not by an outside “hater”.

You can just wrap the software in a binary and interact with the binary and you will likely elude the GPL terms. This is kinda grey area but it would be hard to win against it in court. (I am not a lawyer)

I mean that broadly because nobody will make proprietary Coreutils or sudo as someone already pointed out.

None. The closest you can get is the AGPLv3.

If you go further, it will no longer be open source. This is the case for the Server Side Public License (SSPL) for example. It requires the entire system configuration to be released under the same license*. This sounds “open source friendly” but it’s actually just a proprietary license because it’s not realistically possible to legally comply with it. You cannot run standard hardware without proprietary firmware, which means you cannot run SSPLed software on it legally.

*This only applies if you host the software as a service but the result is the same. It basically violates the freedom to use the work for any purpose.

lol my significant other does that actually. I knew it was a bad example but it was the first thing that came to my mind.

To me “banning VPNs” is more like banning packet routing. Because VPNs or just that. “Normies” think they are like some magical hacker trick when in reality they are just routing+encryption. (technically you could have VPNs without encryption so for me the routing ban is more accurate) I guess that depends on the way the ban is implemented, though.

haha

Though to be fair whenever I encountered an issue in Excel/Calc, it was a user (me) error.

Banning VPNs is on the list of braindead government restrictions up there with banning encryption. The latter is basically a ban on math, just like in that book where 2+2 is sometimes 3, sometimes 5.

If OP is ok using “DIY” distros, there’s also Void Linux. It provides binary packages and supports many architectures — x86_64, x86, arm64, armv6, armv7.

These posts should be disallowed on this forum. For that there should be /c/distrorecommendations or something like that instead. And I guess pin a post linking said forum, so that people who just search “lemmy linux” know where to go.

This is not really about time savings. It’s more about “I want to spend as little time as possible doing this crap.”. But I agree the switch is not super worth it. IMO tiling WM vs a floating WM one is kinda like putting your toothbrush in the bathroom instead of the bedroom. Having it in the bedroom is inferior to putting it in the bathroom but in the end the more efficient option won’t really make your life different.

Number 2 is an implementation issue. Dialogs should be floating by default.

Number 3 is funny to me, because that’s exactly the experience I have when using a floating WM.