Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession
The annual assessment, which has been prepared since 2020, purports to offer a holistic assessment to threats to the Western Hemisphere. These assessments have consistently focused on what you imagine: southern border security, the drug trade, immigration, and critical infrastructure protection in the United States.
But this year’s assessment, marked “For Official Use Only” and not yet released to the public, identifies violent extremism on the part of American citizens as the priority and greatest threat.
One phrase in particular stands out to me as new: potential terrorism based upon “class-based or economic grievances.” (The term has not appeared in any previous assessment.)
The assessment doesn’t define what it means by “class-based or economic grievances.” The phrase could as much refer to an angry MAGA Midwesterner as it could any Mamdani-supporting urban dweller. But the focus is clear: the main threat to the “homeland,” DHS thinks, is the American people.
Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession
Forget Greenland; the American public are the real targetKen Klippenstein
US Park Service Erases Climate Facts at Fort Sumter, Where the Civil War Began
The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed.
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Videos circulating online show SDF supporters attacking Syrians across Europe
Videos circulating on social media show SDF and YPG supporters attacking people and businesses while shouting racist comments in several European cities. Many Syrians have reported physical assaults, property damage, and verbal harassment.
In Germany, YPG and SDF supporters took to the streets in several cities to protest against Syrian army operations in northeastern Syria. What began as demonstrations quickly escalated into violence, with protesters using firecrackers, pyrotechnics, and iron bars against police attempting to maintain order.
Businesses across Berlin, Dortmund, and other German cities reported vandalism, with Syrian-owned shops targeted in particular. The protests were followed by direct attacks on Syrians and assaults on individuals who identified as Syrian Arabs.
Videos circulating online show SDF supporters attacking Syrians across Europe
A series of violent attacks on Syrian refugees by Kurdish groups across Europe was reported on Tuesday evening in Germany, France, Sweden, Austria, and the United Kingdom amid rising tensions over the collapse of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic For…Reem Aouir (Middle East Eye)
You can now use Debian without Linux
A Linux alternative? Debian/Hurd shows microkernel Unix dream is alive
: The official GNU microkernel is still breathing – and now it's 64-bitLiam Proven (The Register)
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LibreFind: l’app Android che trova alternative FOSS alle applicazioni proprietarie
LibreFind nasce con un obiettivo molto chiaro: aiutare gli utenti Android a individuare rapidamente quali applicazioni installate non sono libere e quali alternative open source possono sostituirle. L’app il cui repository è pubblicato su GitHub analizza il dispositivo, confronta i pacchetti con un database ospitato su Firebase Firestore e restituisce un elenco ordinato di software proprietario insieme a suggerimenti FOSS pertinenti. L’idea è semplice ma potente, perché permette di avere una panoramica immediata del livello di libertà del proprio telefono e di intervenire con scelte più consapevoli.
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LibreFind: l’app Android che trova alternative FOSS alle applicazioni proprietarie
LibreFind è un progetto Android che identifica le app proprietarie installate sul dispositivo e suggerisce alternative FOSS, basandosi su un database gestito tramite Firebase Firestore.Ferramosca Roberto (Linux Easy)
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What do you think of loss32?
A dream of a Linux distribution where the entire desktop environment is Win32 software running under WINE. A completely free and open-source OS where you can just download .exe files and run them, for the power user who isn't necessarily a Unixhead, or just for someone who thinks this sounds fun.
I like the layout and looks of windows 2000 but I think running actual exe files from the old OS is not viable from security standpoint.
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I wonder if this has any practical benefits over running a Windows OS in a VM...
edit: piping, or easier collaboration between, Win32 and Linux programs could be an example. The creator mentions creative and gaming applications.
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My mom and my wife's mom have computers soon to be out of support. Windows.
They need something stable, but also that does all their normal stuff. I'd love something that updated cleanly like enterprise Linux, but gave them the win7 interface they had for so long (they complain about this one now).
So that's your market. Yeah, a wine box would work well, and Nobara is nearly the winning candidate. But even it requires a lot of finagling for windows people, and I'd love something completely seamless so it's easier to support.
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it does look like ~~reactos~~ windows but better. damn, i wish i had the skills for such a project.
might be good for the potential switchers who need something very similar to windows, old computers that need to brainlessly run win32 software. deshitified windows for those who need it. normies orphaned by win10 who are not ready to learn linux headfirst for any reason. and all open source so you can actually trust your os.
this is what foss enables in spite of purists and copyrighters alike. i like it.
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At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble
At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble
What, us worry? As OpenAI pivots to "last resort," tech titans pivot from bubble talk.Mashable
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that Lemmy should potentially duplicate this feature?
On Reddit, subreddit moderators can comment as regular users by default, and only show the green MOD badge when they intentionally “distinguish” a comment as an official moderation response.
It got me thinking about Lemmy.
On Lemmy, mod comments are often immediately identifiable, even when the mod is just participating casually in a discussion rather than speaking in an official capacity. That can sometimes unintentionally shift the tone of a thread or discourage open conversation.
Do you think Lemmy should consider:
A clearer opt-in distinction system for mod comments
The ability for mods to participate by default as regular users unless explicitly marking a comment as “mod voice”
Or is the current transparency model preferable for federated communities?
Curious how other instance admins, mods, and users feel about this — especially from a trust, power-balance, and community-health perspective.
Is this something Lemmy should copy from Reddit, or is it intentionally different for good reason?
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Oh ok, I now get what you mean.
Because of how federation works, that (or those, depending on what client you use,) badges or indicators can't be completely hidden.
Lemmy devs could I guess hide it in the API, but it would be as hidden as votes are right now (e.g. if someone really wanted to, they could spin up a temporary instance to get that info). I mean, look at what lemvotes.org/ does.
And in this case, you don't even need an instance, you can literally just use browser.pub on your browser right now to get the moderators activitypub collection: browser.pub/https%3A%2F%2Flemm…
lemmy.world/c/asklemmy/moderators · BrowserPub · A browser for exploring ActivityPub and the fediverse
Explore the open social web through the lens of ActivityPub and the fediverse.browser.pub
Egypt and Saudi Arabia pressure Libya’s Haftar to stop UAE supplies to Sudan’s RSF
Egypt and Saudi Arabia have stepped up pressure on Khalifa Haftar over the eastern Libya commander’s role in facilitating Emirati military support to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), warning that continued assistance could trigger a serious shift in Cairo’s relationship with him.
The pressure forms part of a broader Egyptian-Saudi effort to block flows of arms, fuel and fighters to the RSF, curb the UAE influence across the region and prevent further destabilisation along the sensitive Egypt–Libya–Sudan border triangle.
Earlier this month, Saddam Haftar, Khalifa’s son and deputy commander-in-chief of his Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), visited Cairo and met Egyptian Defence Minister Abdel Meguid Saker and other senior military and security officials.
Egyptian and Libyan media portrayed the meeting as focused on military cooperation, but the full purpose of the visit was not publicly disclosed.
UK: Report into Maccabi Tel Aviv police ban failed to include local Muslim voices
The head of a British policing watchdog tasked with investigating the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending the Israeli football club’s match against Aston Villa failed to include any voices from Birmingham’s Muslim community in his preliminary report.
The report by Andy Cooke, the chief inspector of constabulary, led to the UK Home Secretary Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood saying that she had “no confidence” in Craig Guildford, the chief constable of West Midlands Police (WMP), prompting Guildford’s immediate retirement.
Those interviewed by Cooke include the charge d’affaires from the Israeli embassy in London, a representative of the Jewish Representative Council for Birmingham and West Midlands, and Lord Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism.
However, Cooke did not include any voices from Muslim community groups or mosque leaders. Muslims make up approximately 30 percent of Birmingham’s population and almost 10 percent of the wider West Midlands region, according to census data.
UK: Report into Maccabi Tel Aviv police ban failed to include local Muslim voices
The head of a British policing watchdog tasked with investigating the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending the Israeli football club’s match against Aston Villa failed to include any voices from Birmingham’s Muslim community in his p…Areeb Ullah (Middle East Eye)
UK court ruling a threat to jurors who acquit pro-Palestine activists on moral grounds
It relates to a criminal case against five women charged with criminal damage for breaking the windows of JP Morgan Bank’s European head office at Victoria Embankment over its fossil fuel investments.
During the trial, which began in February 2024 at Inner London Crown Court, protesters held signs reminding jurors that they have an “absolute right” to acquit a defendant on conscience.
Judge Silas Reid instructed the jury to disregard the placards, saying they were “misstating the law".
He then told them that it is a “criminal offence for a juror to do anything from which it can be concluded that a decision will be made on anything other than the evidence in the case”.
The women were handed suspended sentences, but launched an appeal on the basis that Judge Reid had wrongly directed the jury that it would be a criminal offence for them to acquit the defendants according to conscience.
They argued that in telling jurors this, he was pressuring them to return a guilty verdict. They said this made their convictions “unsafe”.
The campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ) said the ruling is the latest in a slew of efforts by the government to crack down on a growing trend of juries acquitting members of social movements – including pro-Palestine and climate activists – according to conscience.
How the UK government is trying tackle juries who may acquit pro-Palestine activists on moral grounds
A UK Court of Appeal ruling is the latest in a series of measures that lawyers warn shows authorities are trying to stop juries from acquitting on conscience.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
The obligation to obbey the ~~Copyright of others~~ anything is only for the riff-raff.
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RRF Caserta Notizie. VII Edizione Premio Melagrana al Teatro Don Bosco di Caserta 20 gennaio 2026
AMD China and Micro Center Confirm Ryzen 7 9850X3D Launch on January 28
AMD China and Micro Center have confirmed that the upcoming gaming CPU, the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, will launch on January 28. Previous rumors had suggested this launch date, and now Micro Center has confirmed it. On AMD China's JD storefront, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D is already listed with a preorder option, requiring an 80 Yuan deposit, although the final price has not been disclosed. This 8-core/16-thread processor is powered by the "Zen 5" microarchitecture, enhanced with 3D V-Cache technology, and offers a speed increase over the current 9800X3D. The chip has a base frequency of 4.70 GHz and a maximum boost frequency of 5.60 GHz. Some samples have even been seen running at a 5.75 GHz boost frequency, indicating that enthusiasts might achieve even higher frequencies under regular home conditions. Our late 2024 review crowned the Ryzen 7 9800X3D as the world's best gaming processor. However, we need to determine how much of a difference the extra 400 MHz out-of-the-box overclock will make in gaming tests so we can draw more conclusions. Until third-party reviews arrive, we will have to wait.
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Japan announces $6 billion in support for Ukraine
Japan will allocate $6 billion to Ukraine for humanitarian and technical support in 2026, according to a statement by Verkhovna Rada Deputy Speaker Olena Kondratyuk on Facebook.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/newsukraine.…
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Alien fan builds a better Raspberry Pi cyberdeck — The MU/TH/UR of all homages to a classic movie series
In space, no one can hear you scream how good this cyberdeck is!
Liza Minnelli uses AI to release first new music in 13 years
Singing legend heralds ‘new tools in service of expression’, on compilation that also features an Art Garfunkel song using AI-generated piano backing
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Cronache di un admin nel Fediverso, 2021 → oggi
Sono nel Fediverso dal 2021.
All’inizio era tutto strano e nuovo, io ero spaesato, tipo esploratore senza bussola in una galassia piena di avatar e federazione.
Sono arrivato nella più grande istanza italiana, lì ho fatto gavetta sul serio, osservavo, studiavo, capivo come ci si muove, mi è servito tantissimo, era un corso accelerato di “vita federata”.
Poi, per una serie di inconvenienti di salute, ho mollato tutto, per poi rientrare in altre due istanze e trovare gestioni diverse, stili diversi, regole diverse, insomma, stesso universo e pianeti completamente differenti.
Tutto bello, a un certo punto ho fatto la scelta inevitabile, farmi la mia istanza, con le mie regole, parlando comunque con tutti, perché il punto non è chiudersi, è federarsi bene.
Nel 2024 nasce snowfan.masto.host, alcuni amici mi seguono, anche lì gavetta da admin, moderazione, manutenzione, ordine nel caos.
Col tempo però mi è iniziato a stare stretto un dettaglio, la parte tecnica era gestita da masto.host, aggiornamenti, backup, variazioni. Per carità, sono bravissimi, ma è come noleggiare un’auto, va benissimo, la guidi, è comoda, però non è tua.
E allora arriva il salto, novembre 2025, nasce snowfan.it.
Questa volta è tutto mio, gestione tecnica mia, non su un semplice VPS ma su una macchina dedicata, un VDS, cioè, non più passeggero, io sono il meccanico, il pilota e quello che tiene l’estintore vicino.
Non è stato facile all’inizio, però avevo molto tempo libero, giocoforza, ho imparato tanto.
Ora gestisco 3 server, 2 VPS e 1 VDS, sopra ci girano Mastodon, Pixelfed, Matrix, SNAC2 e searXNG.
Non mi interessa ingrandirmi, anzi, per me il vero Fediverso è la decentralizzazione più capillare possibile, una miriade di istanze, piccole o medie, non dominabili da un singolo.
Detto questo, eccomi qui, grazie a tutti gli abitanti del Fediverso.
Mastodon
Istanza italiana aperta agli Amici che ne fanno richiesta. -ATTENZIONE- istanza NO-Threads/BlueSkyMastodon hosted on snowfan.it
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La patente a crediti per imprese e lavoratori autonomi
Dal 1º ottobre 2024 è obbligatoria la patente a punti o a crediti per imprese e lavoratori autonomi che operano nei cantieri mobili o temporanei. Sono previste esclusioni per alcuni soggetti.
Chi deve possedere la patente:
* Tutte le imprese e i lavoratori autonomi che svolgono attività lavorativa nei cantieri temporanei o mobili.
Secondo me l'ennesimo balzello ai danni dei lavoratori autonomi e delle piccole imprese. Infatti:
Non sono obbligati:
* Chi effettua solo forniture di materiali o servizi.
* Chi svolge prestazioni di natura intellettuale (es. progettazione, consulenza, ingegneri, geometri ...).
* Le imprese in possesso di attestazione di qualificazione SOA in classifica pari o superiore alla III (cioè le imprese di una certa dimensione, con un certo fatturato).
E questa è bella. Secondo me una plateale discriminazione. Perché? Un fornitore di materiale non può fornire materiale scadente o difettoso che può essere causa di un cedimento strutturale per aver trascurato il controllo di qualità?
Un ingegnere non può sbagliare un calcolo strutturale e provocare il crollo di una costruzione? E chi è lui per essere esentato?
Le piccole imprese e gli artigiani sempre più vessati dalla politica. Gli altri no. Che vergogna! Da queste leggi, secondo me, emerge tutto il degrado della politica e dei legislatori ai quali affidiamo l'amministrazione del paese.
RRF Notizie del 22 01 26. Trump Groenlandia Dazi. L'ONU a pagamento. Sicilia a pezzi dopo il tifone. Sport
Sick of posts telling you enshittification happened to another thing? !deshittification@thebrainbin.org
Stopped poking my head in communities like !technology@lemmy.world because the frequent bad news posts, followed by rightfully upset comments, was depressing and stressful. And it just felt worse that there was so much outrage, but usually not a comment telling you alternative options or small actions you could take to try to resist the enshittification—rage with no productive outlet besides complaints online. So I'm popping my head back in here because I feel it would be useful to post somewhere that tries to give you those things and has a rule against posting bad news with no action we can take to maybe claw back value for ourselves: !deshittification@thebrainbin.org
If you must talk about enshittification, please include how someone could reverse it; otherwise, post it elsewhere
Overall sidebar:
State of affairs for technology seem bad? But what is being done to change it? And what could be done by you so it changes at least for yourself?A community to talk about the reversal of enshittification, be it news, actions that could be done, etc.
A person that sees no solution has no reason to keep going.
Hope others here are heartened by it as I was.
Full disclosure: I don't mod this community or otherwise have power in it. I just post sometimes.
Prigionieri del nostro destino: la solitudine nell’era post-pandemica di Lorenzo Zucchi
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- La Solitudine come Tema Centrale
- La Ferita della Pandemia sui Più Giovani
- Un Ritorno alla Natura
- Un Romanzo di Profondità Psicologica
Titolo: prigionieri del nostro destino
Autore: Lorenzo Zucchi
data di pubblicazione: 25 maggio 2025
casa editrice: Edizioni Underground
numero pagine: 206 pagine
Mauro vive una vita ordinaria a Sesto San Giovanni: una famiglia apparentemente unita, un lavoro da tecnico di elettrodomestici, e un’ossessione per i gialli e i social notturni. Quando il lockdown ferma il mondo, Mauro continua a muoversi tra case e cortili, ma la sua mente deraglia. Il confine tra realtà e fantasia si assottiglia, tra desideri repressi e incontri ambigui con tre giovani donne: Emily, Flora e Christelle ― le sue “Tre Grazie”. Nel silenzio irreale di una città spenta, Mauro perde contatto con tutto, anche con sé stesso. Il ritorno del “cronista dell’invisibile”, con un romanzo nero e psicologico che unisce ironia, malinconia e suspense, per raccontare la solitudine urbana, il desiderio che consuma, e la sottile linea tra ciò che siamo e ciò che potremmo diventare.
Prigionieri del nostro destino: la solitudine nell’era post-pandemica di Lorenzo Zucchi
Prigionieri del nostro destino di Lorenzo Zucchi è un romanzo che esplora le cicatrici lasciate dalla pandemia, immergendoci in una Milano silenziosa e abbandonata, dove l’aria di paura, disagio e solitudine si fa palpabile. Zucchi ci racconta come gli anni della pandemia abbiano cambiato non solo il volto delle città, ma anche le dinamiche familiari e i rapporti interpersonali. Un viaggio emotivo che ci porta a riflettere sul vero significato della solitudine e dell’isolamento, temi tanto universali quanto devastanti.
La Solitudine come Tema Centrale
Nel romanzo, i protagonisti sono Antonella, Mauro, i loro figli e Costantin, un amico di Mauro che funge da supporto durante il difficile periodo della pandemia. La solitudine è il filo conduttore che lega le loro storie. Mauro si perde nel suo lavoro monotono, che diventa un rifugio dal caos esterno ma anche dalla sua vita familiare. Si lascia catturare da sogni giovanili e illusioni, mentre la sua famiglia si allontana sempre più. Antonella, dal canto suo, cerca una fuga, ma la sua ricerca di un sogno nuovo non riesce a colmare il vuoto che sente dentro.
La pandemia ha amplificato questa solitudine, ma la verità è che, per molti, essa era già presente. Non sono solo le pareti delle case a separare le persone, ma anche muri invisibili, spesso creati dai ritmi frenetici della vita quotidiana. In questo contesto, la solitudine non è più solo un’esperienza personale, ma un’emozione collettiva, condivisa da tutti, anche dai più piccoli.
La Ferita della Pandemia sui Più Giovani
Un tema particolarmente forte nel libro riguarda gli effetti devastanti della pandemia sui bambini. La privazione dei contatti sociali, la chiusura delle scuole e il distacco da amici e familiari ha avuto un impatto diretto sul loro sviluppo psicologico e relazionale. Zucchi esplora con delicatezza questo aspetto, mostrando come la pandemia abbia messo in crisi la crescita dei più giovani, non solo sul piano educativo, ma anche su quello emotivo. La solitudine, in un periodo in cui l’interazione sociale è stata drasticamente limitata, ha inflitto cicatrici che potrebbero non rimarginarsi facilmente.
Un Ritorno alla Natura
L’autore mi ha raccontato che Prigionieri del nostro destino è nato proprio durante quegli anni di isolamento forzato. Quello che la pandemia ha reso evidente è stata la necessità di rallentare e riscoprire ciò che davvero conta, come il contatto con la natura. Forse, un aspetto positivo di questa triste parentesi è stato il ritorno alla semplicità e alla bellezza dei piccoli gesti quotidiani, come camminare scalzi sull’erba. Zucchi, che cammina spesso a piedi nudi, racconta come questo semplice atto sia stato per lui una fonte di ispirazione, un modo per riconnettersi a una parte più selvaggia e primitiva di sé. Un messaggio potente: dobbiamo avere il coraggio di scoprire la nostra parte selvaggia e di tornare alle radici di ciò che siamo.
Un Romanzo di Profondità Psicologica
Prigionieri del nostro destino non è solo un romanzo sulla pandemia, ma una riflessione profonda sulla solitudine, sull’importanza dei legami umani e sull’impatto che l’isolamento può avere sulla nostra psiche. La scrittura di Zucchi, densa di emozioni e riflessioni, non si ferma alle prime parole, ma va oltre, spingendo il lettore a confrontarsi con il proprio vissuto e con le proprie paure. È un libro che invita a riflettere sulla nostra condizione esistenziale e ci fa capire quanto sia fondamentale non solo vivere accanto agli altri, ma anche vivere con gli altri, creando connessioni autentiche.
Se c’è qualcosa che possiamo imparare da questo romanzo, è che la solitudine, sebbene amplificata dal Covid, è una condizione che molti di noi portano dentro. La pandemia non ha inventato la solitudine, ma l’ha resa più visibile, più tangibile. Prigionieri del nostro destino ci invita a non rimanere prigionieri di questa solitudine, ma a cercare sempre il contatto, il dialogo, l’amore. Perché solo così possiamo davvero essere liberi.
Solitudine nel romanzo Prigionieri del nostro destino
Scopri come la pandemia ha influito sulla vita di Antonella, Mauro e Constantin in un racconto profondo che racconta Milano nella pandemia.Gloria Donati (Magozine.it)
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Explainer: Why gas plays a minimal role in China’s climate strategy
Explainer: Why gas plays a minimal role in China’s climate strategy - Carbon Brief
While gas could play a role in decarbonising some aspects of China’s energy demand, multiple factors would need to changeCarbon Brief Staff (Carbon Brief)
X is also launching Bluesky-like starter packs
X is also launching Bluesky-like starter packs
X is rolling out a new feature called “Starterpacks” to all users in the coming weeks, the company’s head of product has announced.Mariella Moon (Engadget)
Dell i7 Laptop Price Guide – Refurbished Dell i7 Laptops from Eazypc
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Anthropic releases new AI Constitution for Claude
Claude's new constitution
A new approach to a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude iswww.anthropic.com
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Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?
Crossposted from kbin.earth/m/fediverse@lemmy.z…
Crossposting to get more input (on the actual issues)
Fedi folks, I turn to you for advice with a bit of a problem. I co-admin an ActivityPub-enabled Wordpress site with 15+ years worth of blog posts and a couple of long podcast series. When WP announced their "vision" to become a CMS for "AI", the collective admin reaction was to get the hell off that boat before it turned to algorithmic shit.[NB — I realise this isn't an anti-"AI" community, but that part is only the starting premise of our situation here. I'm not getting into discussions with slop herders in the comments]
We're a loose network of nerds discussing the speculative genres, including sci-fi. We've seen this movie, we know how it's going to play out. Trouble is, we're not coders. We can assemble the proverbial IKEA flatpak kit and give it a lick of CSS paint, but we can't be trusted to build furniture we'd want to sit in ourselves.
The crunch points for alternatives are
- the ability to migrate an old, multi-user WP site without breaking too many canonical URLs and feeds,
- needing a somewhat familiar backend for most of the non-techie contributors to even post stuff, and
- the federation bit, which is why I post this to !fediverse first. I am aware that setting up an essentially new fedi instance at the same address as a previous one is disencouraged. I'll be glad to hear how or if this can be avoided while preserving profile and post URLs...
So last month I mined the Mastodon hive mind for existing alternatives to WP with fediverse capabilities, and got a selection of qualified responses. I nixed WriteFreely and Plume early on, because while they are perfectly good, federated blog software, my impression is they lean toward a text focused minimalist layout that would be hard to deviate from, where our current site has a bit more pizzazz.
Going through the alternatives listed below, maybe that's a superficial reason to throw some good options out with the bath water. Either way, I'm presenting you with the most frequent, feasible, and/or interesting offers. I've done some surface research and weighed pros and cons for our use case, but I hope there are people out there who can add their experience to the eventual decision:
ClassicPress
This should be a shoo-in, right? It's basically Wordpress with some newer parts torn out (specifically the Gutenberg block editor), but most of the core architecture remains. Including many, many plug-ins. Plus, they're said to have sworn off any "AI" nonsense. Migration would be relatively easy, and with a little bit of luck nobody would even know the difference.Except apparently compatibility with the WP-activityPub plugin broke. So that's out of the window.
Ghost
A lot of recommendations for Ghost! I believe it was originally another Wordpress fork, but was completely rewritten early on? Either way, a few things turn me off Ghost as an potential alternative:
- The insistent "we help you monetize your content" vibe on the project website. That's a personal quibble; our site is just entirely non-commercial for the sake of everybody's well-being. I'm told all of that stuff can be turned off in individual installs, though.
- Ghost's ActivityPub implementation is reportedly not making great progress despite enthusiastic early announcements? If that's not a deal breaker,
- the fact that the Ghost devs are relying on agentic LLMs to code the application is. Just nope.
Backdrop CMS/Drupal
From what I'm told, Drupal is a step up the CMS learning curve from Wordpress, but since they're projects that have coexisted for a long time, there are established and tried migration methods from one to the other.I'm not exactly on top of Drupal's ActivityPub implementation, though. But even if that's in a workable shape, Drupal is trying to pitch itself as "the best AI-powered Open Source CMS in the world". Which, to me, is like saying you only put the sharpest razor blades available in kids' Hallowe'en candy.
One user involved in the Backdrop CMS fork from Drupal 7 made convincing arguments for that over later Drupal versions, so here's hoping they drank the right (ie., federated, not algorithmic) Kool Aid.
Hubzilla
Now, this may be the most exciting but also most challenging alternative. Hubzilla is a fairly advanced, and in some ways mold-breaking Fediverse application. From the same developer who made Friendica and (streams), and, if I understand correctly, based on the same core principles.In contrast to Wordpress and Drupal, Hubzilla declares itself "a CMS which doesn't use LLM / AI". Can't say I don't appreciate that signalling! And of course the whole package revolves around federation. But wait.
The CMS part may be technically correct, but as far as I can tell making Hubzilla present as a plain blog or website requires some advanced stylesheet finagling — and the application only comes with one official, microblog-esque theme. I haven't found any open projects trying to bridge that visual gap, but will appreciate your tips about them if they exist.
For Hubzilla to be a feasible alternative here, we will also need to be able to migrate existing posts, media, users and comments from Wordpress. Preferably in a way that doesn't mess up permalinks too badly. A quick glance at Hubzilla urls indicate that the entire architecture is very different. I assume concepts like "channels" substitute "authors"(?) but I don't know where we are with WP terms like taxonomies.
So there's a challenge, and I'm hoping others have tried (and hopefully succeeded in) that particular migration... or at least have advice to offer.
Bonus: Bonfire
I'm putting this on the table because I expect somebody is going to suggest it in the comments. Like Hubzilla, Bonfire looks really interesting as a Swiss army knife for the Fediverse: You want to make a blog? Take these modules. A community forum? Try these other ones. It's federated first, and it seems to make good headway toward its goals.But there is no official CMS flavour is still in development; we have no idea about migration possibilities, and honestly? The more mature Hubzilla will be a challenge, I'm fairly certain this is a step further out of our comfort zone. This is totally an "us" problem, not a Bonfire one.
So, thoughts? Specifically practical advice on Hubzilla and/or/versus Backdrop, which I think are the most realistic avenues right now. But there may be alternatives I just didn't see even though they're right in front of me.
I'm ready to have my mind changed on WriteFreely, or to hear about something completely new to me. Mostly though, I'm hoping for replies that consider the massive history of posts and comments that we look to import into the next generation of our site.
Thanks in advance!
So, given WP is willing to sell all its users down the river for some quick "AI" buzz, what fedi-enabled alternatives exist for human-centric websites? therepository.email/wordpress-…I know of write.as, plume. They're too ascetic to match the brief. ClassicPress could be an option, provided the WP-ActivityPub add-on works with that.
#wordpress #ActivityPub #CMS #noAI #fediverse
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Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale
(Price is in € EUR)
For context, six months ago I bought a renewed Thinkpad X395 for exactly this price and I got: An actually decent CPU and not something as powerful as a Wii, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of actual M.2 SSD, a really nice 1080p Touchscreen, really nice build quality with metal and a nice backlit keyboard.
Heck, even when I bought a cheap laptop in May 2020 it was much better than this and it even was brand new for the same price.
I know this CPU very well, for this price you are getting something that has trouble playing a Youtube video in 1080p at 60 FPS and can't even run the latest version of Minecraft at above 10 FPS.
Now imagine this combined with Windows 11 and only 4 GB of RAM...
No, this is not because of the current hardware crysis, this is pure greed.
But hey, 1 year of Microslop 365 is included!
Don't buy consumer laptops, especially not ones that are this cheap. Buy used business laptops; Dell Latitude, Lenovo ThinkPad, even used HP EliteBooks are better are better value than most stuff you get under 1000€ new.
Even a dual-core Haswell CPU is gonna be better than a Celeron. Plus you'll be able to upgrade storage and RAM.
Intel Core i7-4600M Benchmark
Performance and price comparison graphs for Intel Core i7-4600M @ 2.90GHzwww.cpubenchmark.net
So what happened with Venezuela?
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/10455030
Is it still sovereign?What about the Maduros?
Who is in charge there and are they kowtowing to the United States, doing a bit of both (their own thing and pacifying the United States), or are they resolutely against USA influence?
Are there still air strikes?
Apps helping boycott US goods gain popularity in Denmark
UdenUSA is currently the fourth most downloaded app in Denmark on the App Store, the American ChatGPT is in fifth place
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Apps helping boycott US goods gain popularity in Denmark
Apps helping boycott US goods gain popularity in Denmark
UdenUSA is currently the fourth most downloaded app in Denmark on the App Store, the American ChatGPT is in fifth placeTASS
Apps helping boycott US goods gain popularity in Denmark
UdenUSA is currently the fourth most downloaded app in Denmark on the App Store, the American ChatGPT is in fifth place
LibreFind: l’app Android che trova alternative FOSS alle applicazioni proprietarie
LibreFind nasce con un obiettivo molto chiaro: aiutare gli utenti Android a individuare rapidamente quali applicazioni installate non sono libere e quali alternative open source possono sostituirle.
L’app analizza il dispositivo, confronta i pacchetti con un database ospitato su Firebase Firestore e restituisce un elenco ordinato di software proprietario insieme a suggerimenti FOSS pertinenti. L’idea è semplice ma potente, perché permette di avere una panoramica immediata del livello di libertà del proprio telefono e di intervenire con scelte più consapevoli.
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GitHub - jksalcedo/librefind: Find FOSS alternatives to Proprietary Android Apps
Find FOSS alternatives to Proprietary Android Apps - jksalcedo/librefindGitHub
What's your go to simple desktop photo editor (a la snapseed)?
Yes, I know snapseed is a mobile app, but that's the kind of simplicity I'm looking for. Pre-made filters, an auto-fix button, adjustment sliders, etc.
I have image toolbox on mobile and even that's a bit over the top with option (and I still haven't found sliders for brightness, contrast, saturation, shadows etc in that maze).
Linux or Windows programs are fine, I run both.
Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS
Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS
Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
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Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store
European consumers are fighting back against the U.S. following Trump’s threats to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory. As a result, two mobile apps that offer a way to determine if products are made in America, then suggest local alternatives, have surged to the top of the Danish App Store in recent days.
The boost in downloads comes as Danish consumers have been organizing a grassroots boycott of American-made products, which also included canceling their U.S. vacations and ditching their subscriptions to U.S.-based streaming services, like Netflix.
Across both iOS and Android, two apps, NonUSA and Made O’Meter, have entered the top 10 this month, according to new data from market intelligence provider Appfigures.
Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store | TechCrunch
Two origin ID apps, NonUSA and Made O'Meter, are seeing downloads surge as Europeans boycott US-made goods.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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Minnesota rising
Friday could be a seminal moment in this new civil rights movement.Minnesota unions, religious groups, and ordinary citizens are planning a massive statewide strike and economic boycott.
The Ice Out of Minnesota website declares:
It is time to suspend the normal order of business to demand immediate cessation of ICE actions in MN, accountability for federal agents who have caused loss of life and abuse to Minnesota residents and call for Congress to immediately intervene.Friday, January 23rd will be a statewide day of non-violent moral action, reflection: no work, no school, no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.
There will be a unified, statewide pause in daily economic activity. Instead, Minnesotans will spend time with family, neighbors, and their community to show Minnesota’s moral heart and collective economic power. This means:
- No work (except emergency services)
- No school
- No shopping or consumer spendingThere will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis at 2:00pm.
The weather forecast is brutal, with below-zero temperatures expected all day Friday along with windchill temperature descending into the 30s below zero.
Minnesota rising
A massive statewide strike and economic boycott is set for FridayDan Froomkin (Heads Up News)
CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You'll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant
CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant
Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Alex Karp said the majority of humanity will be working in manufacturing and vocational jobs.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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Does shooting billionaires count as manual labor?
Does providing for those who shoot billionaires count?
NZ Treasury: "The likely effect would therefore be to increase house prices"
I stumbled across a 2020 OIA request to NZ Treasury where someone asked:
what analysis Treasury has done on the KiwiSaver First Home scheme affecting house prices, and how much taxpayer money gets transferred into the housing stock
Treasury released a few internal docs and they basically say that increasing caps would lead to higher house prices and that subsidies for renters/buyers tend to be captured by landlords/sellers instead of improving affordability long-term.
The advice was apparently ignored.
Cuban Detainee in El Paso ICE Facility Died by Homicide, Autopsy Shows
The report from the county medical examiner said the detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, was asphyxiated and restrained by law enforcement. Federal officials described his death as a suicide.
A Cuban immigrant’s death in an El Paso detention center this month was ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the county medical examiner’s office.
The detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, became unresponsive while he was physically restrained by law enforcement on Jan. 3 at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility called Camp East Montana, the report said. Emergency medical workers tried to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The autopsy listed the cause of death as “asphyxia due to neck and torso compression.” The report also described injuries Mr. Lunas Campos had sustained to his head and neck, including burst blood vessels in the front and side of the neck, as well as on his eyelids.
New York Times - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
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in reply to joonazan • • •A “Hello World” virtual machine running the Hurd — 2020 — Blog — GNU Guix
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in reply to Pantherina (he) • • •But it's a paid enterprise feature.
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in reply to joonazan • • •Some time ago (one or two years, i am not sure) i had the Hurd running on an old Thinkpad and used it as a daily driver for a couple of months. It...worked. Most of the times.
The thing is: Its a really interesting system that - in a different timeline - would have made up a GREAT operating system if it would have come forward and evolved a lot faster. Even without the lack of a ~~browser~~ the bloated VM we nowadays call a browser (you can absolutely run Dillo on it) it just hurts a bit too much to use it for more than resarch / hobbyist / hacking purposes.
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in reply to Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ • • •In short: The stability is really a problem - at least it was at the time when i tried it out. I don't know how often something that i worked with just, well, stopped working and the message 'Computer bought the farm' appeared. Sometimes a crashing X session dragged the whole system with it into the abyss freezing the whole system and requiering a reset... followed by a lengthy fsck session. And it was slow. I mean, granted, the Thinkpad R60 i used it on isn't a supercomputer by todays standards, but compared to a Linux system or even OpenBSD it was really, really slow.
I have a high pain tolerance regarding software, i really have... but i had to give up on it after a while.
But now, with this new release... well, i think i will give it another go.
I just rediscovered that i indeed made a little writeup of my first days with the Hurd in my Gopherhole back then, perhaps it gives a bit of the taste what it was when i tried it. Beware, wall of text after the spoiler:
::: spoiler My Phlog post about the Hurd
Oh it HURDs...
I think i have some undiagnosed masochistic tendencies,
because i am constantly drawn to ever more esorteric and
fringe operating systems and software that will make my
life a little bit harder.
The HURD is something that got my attention a long, long
time ago, as being this "mysterious next-gen OS that will
change everything". Well, it was the late 90s / early 00s,
the CD was still king and dialup was really expensive (at
least here in germany). I was already messing around with
linux and most of the time i compensated my utter lack of
knowledge with determination and pure madness.
It was some holiday back in the very early 00s when i
managed to get it installed on my (i think) pentium 133,
after spending way too long on our very slow dialup line
to download the necessary files from some GNU mirror
(and learning later that i burned through a whole lot
Deutsche Mark after my parents received the telephone bill)
Well, my adventure back then ended in an booting system
but without any recognized keyboard, and without really
knowing what i am doing (and in need of that PC for my
apprenticeship at that time) i threw the towel after some
really long nights without getting anywhere. Beaten and
defeated i reinstalled Windows and (i think) Debian Linux
again and went on to mess with other things. But somehow
(like with some other failed projects) it left a scar that
sometimes itches.
Now, fast forward about 20 years, its a very slow day at
the office, i have nothing really pressing to do and...
right out of the blue a GNU is sneaking into my thoughts.
I fired up a browser, skimmed the web about news regarding
my white whale and found out (somewhat to my surprise) that
Hurd is still in active development (even if its going
forward at an glacial pace). So, after having messed around
with some fairly exotic systems and (thinking to have) much
more experience than my teenage self i thought it is on time
to take a ride on this bovine again.
Debian Hurd seemed to me the most viable option, so i went
right on, downloaded three DVD images of 2021 vintage while
absolutely missing the very-not-missable news about an 2023
version until after i had already downloaded the images and
burned them to three disks. Well... one can always update
later, right?
So, i grabbed my "spare" Thinkpad T60 out of the cabinet,
looked at the HDD to make sure i had nothing there that i
needed and started the installation... nothing too exotic
there, its debian based after all...
After some time the installation was finished, i rebooted
into the new system and... FOXTROTT UNIFORM CHARLY KILO!!!
... the keyboard wasn't working. WHY??? It did work in the
installer???
After reading through some sites on the net (and yes, i
understand the hardware support is slim, there are only a
handfull of developers left etc, etc...) and not wanting to
repeat my first encounter with the hurd i thought to myself:
Why not try it on the R60? So, i took the HD from the T60,
put it into the R60, started the installation again, just to
be sure, then the dreaded moment of the reboot came... AND
I HAD A WORKING KEYBOARD. YESSS!
So, now i started exploring this system i had waited about
20 years to get running, the GNU and debian sites give a
nice overview what does work in which ways, and after all,
its not THAT different from your standard GNU/Linux system.
An interesting concept is that of the "translators", just to
give an short example:
If you run the following in your home directory
%<-----------------------------------------------------
settrans -ac ftp /hurd/ftpfs ftp.gnu.org
%<-----------------------------------------------------
It creates the folder "ftp" wherein you will find the
content of ftp.gnu.org. Granted, for anyone who has worked
with Plan 9 or has used FUSE this is not THAT of a
revelation, but it is nice... making it possible to layer
translators (e.g. for accessing an iso on the ftp server)
makes it even a bit nicer.
Now i still had only the three DVDs as package sources, so,
thinking that it would be the most safe-ish option to first
upgrading everything to the 2023 release i followed an
article on the debian pages and added the following to my
sources.lst (after commenting out the DVDs):
%<-----------------------------------------------------
deb [check-valid-until=no trusted=yes] snapshot.debian.org/archive/de… sid main
deb [check-valid-until=no trusted=yes] snapshot.debian.org/archive/de… unreleased main
deb-src [check-valid-until=no trusted=yes]
snapshot.debian.org/archive/de…
sid main
%<-----------------------------------------------------
After that i ran an apt update, installed the
debian-archive-ports-keyring package, upgraded everything,
initiated a reboot while praying to the mighty GNU that it
will come up again.
It did. Everything worked fine.
So, now on the 2023 release, i thought that it would be nice
not being stuck on this
%<-----------------------------------------------------
deb deb.debian.org/debian-ports unstable main
deb-src deb.debian.org/debian unstable main
deb deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main
%<-----------------------------------------------------
And, again, i initiated an update followed by an upgrade.
Aaaand it broke the install. "I am idiot. Shoot me" to quote
an romanian friend of mine. Well, back to square one
then... now, knowing that it is possible to get a working
install, i downloaded the 2023 netinstall ISO and started
all over again.
The install from the netinstall media did go as planned
until i reached the point where it wanted me to select an
debian mirror, started to scan its content... and froze.
Ok, its unstable software, something like that may happen. I
rebooted, started the installation again and it did freeze
again.
Well... at this point i reached my frustration zenit, it was
already late so i somewhat rage-quitted for the day.
Ok, the next evening i was back at it again. THIS time the
installer was able to scan the mirror and finish the
installation. After the reboot it booted up normally... only
to freeze during boot. Okay, its still unfinished
software... hard-reset and another try. Just... something
during this failed boot attempt seemed to have messed up the
ext2 filesystem that bad that fsck could not repair it on
its own.
That was the last buckling of that bovine that threw me off
again. I needed a break, junior needed attention, and
just-too-many things at home needed my attention as an
handyman.
Addendum
Another day, new luck... lets try it again. I thought to
myself: Well, you got a functional installed system out of
the 2021 version, so try it again with this approach. And
following my steps above up until after the upgrade to the
2023 version and... everything still works!
Now setting up X and an desktop environment was just a piece
of cake after that. Is this GNU now tamed? I don't think so,
but at least i got the reins of the bovine and now its
really time to explore this ecosystem.
:::
debian-ports:/ 2023-06-05 19:46:03 - snapshot.debian.org
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LeFantome
in reply to joonazan • • •I do not know how that article covered so much background on GNU hURD and the quest for a micro-kernel UNIX without mentioning Redox OS.
redox-os.org/
Redox is also micro-kernel based POSIX compatible operating system (UNIX compatible). So quite like the GNU project and HURD in that sense.
Redox is younger, 10 years old instead of 30, and more “modern” (eg. written in Rust). It can be seen as a GNU competitor as it does not rely on the GNU C library or utilities.
Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS
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in reply to Mactan • • •Fun fact, there isnt even an "MIT license", look:
spdx.org/licenses
SPDX License List | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)
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in reply to Pantherina (he) • • •Did you even read the page you linked? It took less than 10 seconds to scroll down to the 'M's.
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in reply to Mactan • • •First, there has been massive amounts of MIT code in important parts of the Linux ecosystem for decades. Xorg, Wayland, and Mesa for starters. The sky has not fallen. I am not exactly panicking.
But let’s address your specific example.
Let start by pointing out that Redis was BSD, not MIT. But let’s assume your cautionary tale applies.
A truly gigantic corporation, Amazon, was making all the money off Redis without giving anything back to the company that actually wrote the code (Redis). So, Redis tried to change the license to make that more difficult. The license they chose is the strictest free software license the FSF offers—the AGPL.
Pop quiz: what part of the above are we “the community” outraged about? The clearly predatory Amazon stuff? Or the defensive action by the company writing all the code? That’s right, we are mad at the company that gave us all the code for free and that still licenses it AGPL.
But even beyond that, what was lost again? Because the implication is that BSD (or MIT) somehow allows companies to “take” free software from us. This is false.
What happened with Redis is that the original code remained 100% available. And it remained part of a 100% free software project. It remains 100% BSD licensed to this day. You can use it, you can study it, you can improve it, you can share it, and you can even sell it commercially! It offers you at least FIVE freedoms.
github.com/valkey-io/valkey
Not a single line of code was lost from the project. Yes, the project had to change its name (Redis owns the name Redis). Yes, Redis stopped contributing to the project. Is that not their right?
It is that last bit that seems to drive us mad. We yell about corporations taking our code. But all the examples of bad behaviour we give boil down to them choosing to give us less of theirs.
If “the community” is the one writing the code, nobody can take it from us. And even if big evil companies are writing the code, the only code that they can deny us is code they write in the future.
I find it hard to be either outraged or even particularly afraid of that.
Anyway, I do not want to talk you out of your license preferences. I have no beef with that. But I do wish there was less FUD slinging at projects that choose to license their hard work as MIT.
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in reply to Hasnep • • •I realize I oversimplified a complex set of moves and “shared source” is its own can of worms. My post was already too long.
But my core point is that the code (as Valkey) remained available and remains available under the same free software license that it has always been available under.
The only consequence of what Redis did was that they stopped giving away their “new” code to service providers like Amazon. Even Amazon can continue to use what was there before. And the community can continue to collaborate on the same code base that they were collaborating on before. The licence Redis chooses for its “new” code is largely irrelevant.
We talk about permissive licenses like they represent some massive risk. I just do not see it that way. And they have many advantages including often attracting more corporate participation (more free code for me).
I am a very happy user of Clang/LLVM. It is the product of collaboration between Google, Apple, Sony, Microsoft, academia, and other nerds. I am very happy we have licenses that encourage companies to create quality software for me to use.
I am sure Redis chose BSD to begin with in case they ever had to make a move like they did. If the only option was GPL, they may never have released it as Open Source to begin with. Again, I am glad they did.
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in reply to LeFantome • • •The difference with llvm is that nobody is selling a hosted llvm as a service, nobody is making money off llvm without contributing back (directly, I know a bunch of companies use llvm to make a product that makes money).
Redis clearly thinks that using the BSD licence was a mistake. I agree with you, using BSD attracted more people/companies to use it than if they had chosen AGPL, that's the trade-off you make when choosing a copyleft licence.
I think I agree with you on a lot of this, let me know if this is a fair summary of your argument:
That seems pretty reasonable to me, let me know if I made any mistakes summarising your point.
The caveat I would add to that is that the project shouldn't complain about freeloaders if they choose a licence that explicitly allows freeloading. They chose a permissive licence for its advantages but they won't accept the consequences that come with that decision.
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Eventually, I hope it'll have tiling window managers and Go, V, and Zig ports; Helix (an editor written in Rust), tmux, and zsh. At þe moment, no-one of þese have been ported, and þat's kind of a bare minimum.
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