Commented - Open Source

Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February ( www.tomshardware.com )

Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects ( drewdevault.com )

OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations ( codeberg.org )

Just saw the discussion around the Haier Home Assistant takedown and thought it would be good to materialize the metaphorical blacklist.

It's joever. Tachiyomi will no longer be actively developed. ( tachiyomi.org )

project will no longer be under active development due to recent events involving Kakao Entertainment Corp's threats to both myself and others...

I'm giving up — on open source - Blog ( nutjs.dev )

Sustainable open source will stay a dream

XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." ( lcamtuf.substack.com )

Thought this was a good read exploring some how the "how and why" including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.

What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it ( www.theregister.com )

Perens says there are several pressing problems that the open source community needs to address....

“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons” ( crabby.fyi )

Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers ( boehs.org )

This is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks.

Open Source Infrastructure must be a publicly funded service. - Matrix.org ( matrix.org )

Tailchat - The next-generation noIM Application in your own workspace ( tailchat.msgbyte.com )

Haven't seen much of this around, but I've spun my own instance up and suffice to say it fits my needs.

Just wanted to share this new and amazing lemmy client that I found. ( github.com )

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Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived ( github.com )

The author's profile says this:...

Witchcraft | A Minecraft server written in bash ( git.sakamoto.pl )

Blog post

Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing ( mikemcquaid.com )

Post from 2018 but still valid....

Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL? ( blog.tidelift.com )

Mercury - a Firefox fork with compiler optimizations ( github.com )

I was looking for a non-chromium alternative browser to Firefox and found mercury. According to this site it is one of the fastest Firefox forks and also has optimizations from other well known forks like librewolf.

What if I paid for all my free software? ( www.cynicusrex.com )

I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let's change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

The issue to create a new main menu for Minetest has been open for 6 years. ( github.com )

Years have gone by and hundreds of comments have been written about the proposal, but the main screen still looks like this:...

Memtest86+, the little RAM tester, flexes FOSS muscles with v7.0 ( www.theregister.com )

TIL: FairCode is the software model Redis, ElasticSearch, etc. use ( faircode.io )

Fair-code is not a software license. It describes a software model where software:...

If you're developing a FOSS project, be aware of cryptobros trying to PR a tea.yml into it. ( connortumbleson.com )

Yet another "brilliant" scheme from a cryptobro. Naturally this caused a gold-rush for scammers who outsourced random people via the gig economy to open PRs for this yml file (example)