The problem is that some people are “so copyleft”… that they fall into the MIT honeytrap.

For me it got fixed in 1.20.0 from May 8, 2024.

2010 was already tainted by the iPhone walled garden.

Windows users call that “installing”… 😈

When was that?

The official F-Droid app had an issue with not deleting downloads on systems that didn’t run it correctly in the background. That has been fixed some months ago.

(TIL about “rice”… is anything in the US not racist? 🤦)

It’s a “sister organization”. Laws are different in different parts of the world, so it makes sense to have different “forks” if you wish.

https://fsfe.org/about/fsfnetwork.en.html

Yes, that autist that’s done more in 40 years than anyone else in the world.

The one that doesn’t have any translations

Seems to have some translations:

https://fsfe.org/

Parldigi

What is your proposal for a “worldwide” Parliamentary Group? Do we wait to establish a World Parliament, along with a World Government, or is there something we could do in the meantime?

Like this?

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom

Est. 1985.

Thank you for publishing it under a permissive license.

Screenshot for reference?

Option to change it to any flag?

How so?

Anyway, it’s not our call what people in 100+ years will think the exchange rate of Bitcoin should be.

As Bitcoin has grown, transactions have become slow

Except for Bitcoin Lightning Network:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network

Bitcoin is always being diluted

It’s also constantly getting un-diluted by people losing their keys.

Current estimates put the “lost coins” at around 25% of the total. That is twice as many as there are left to mine.

it is possible that transaction fees will need to be raised to compensate miners.

That’s been the plan from the beginning.

Mining halving has been defined with a rough estimate of adoption, volume, and technological advances. It’s why Lightning Network was developed, and why Ethereum has switched to a Proof-of-ownership mining scheme.

The estimate is rough and quite inflexible, which has lead to cyclic fluctuations around the period of halvings… but from a long term perspective, it has been working reasonably well for the first 10% of Bitcoin’s starting period.

This is a fancy way to say that it is slower unless you pay higher fees.

My bank takes:

• 24-48 hours for 0€, only in the EU, up to 15k€
• 5 minutes for 0.50% (min 1.25€), only in the EU, up to 900€
• 48-120 hours for 0.70% (min 35€), international, up to 20k€

So my bank is also “slower unless you pay higher fees”… or “slower even with higher fees”… and on top of that, it has an amount cap.

Meanwhile, on Bitcoin Lightning (https://1ml.com/statistics):

• Median Base Fee: $0.000617

fork the network and update it if they had 50%+1

No. There are 3 components to Bitcoin: Miners, P2P nodes. and coin owners.

• Getting 1 miner and 1 P2P node, allows forking… and getting kicked off the network.
• Getting >50% of mining power, allows a chance at double-spending some own coins.
• Getting 100% of miners AND/OR 100% of P2P nodes, allows taking over the network.
• Getting an owner’s key, allows full access to the coins tied to that key.

Neither of those are impossible, some are just easier and have a higher ROI than others.

The tax and identity layers have to be added on top. They are not built-in.

Same as with cash.

Yes, this is one of the selling points of Bitcoin vs. Banks, in an age where cash is getting phased out.

The opposite, is also a selling point of “OpenSource Money with Taxes built-in” vs. Bitcoin.

Pick whichever side you prefer.

Why not call it by its full name: Decentralized Peer-to-peer Open-source Cryptographically-secured Self-custodial Money

“Everyone” doesn’t have a clue about “crypto” other than “there are scams”.

I need an issue tracker that syncs with git, essentially.

Gitea + Redmine

If you need CI/CD, then Gitlab CE is an option… but it’s on the heavier side, not worth it if you don’t need it.

OpenProject is an eye-candy fork of Redmine. Unfortunately it has lost plugin and 3rd party app compatibility, and Redmine’s simple interface is still less buggy.

document any research […] diagrams […] general note-taking

Joplin + Syncthing, Zim Wiki + git, draw.io

Other nice tools: FreePlane, Jupiter notebooks, any markdown editor

From the first 15 min of the edited video: that FUTO boss is an embarrassment, good on Rossman to get him to change things.

I don’t really want to watch the remaining hour, after someone says things like:

• He didn’t follow the discussions back in the 2000s
• OSI didn’t hijack the “open source” definition
• Less than 1000 people would care
• Asked his programmers, and they didn’t care

I call BS. Weak excuses.

There is a reason people say “FLOSS” instead of “Open Source”. There is a reason Stallman says what he says. There is a reason you can tell apart who understands what’s going on, by whether they understand the differences or not.

A quick reminder:

• Free - as in beer, not as in freedom
• Libre - as in freedom
• Open Source - you can see the source code

Stallman created the GPL to allow people to see (open) and change (libre) the code (source)… then “pay forward” that freedom, in echange for being able to charge money (non-free) for their contributions.

He often referred to it as simply “Open Source”… which turned out to be a mistake. Very soon (as in pre-1990), it became clear that there were two more competing camps for the “Open Source” definition:

• Academia - people who got paid anyway, whether they saw a penny from their software or not
• Business - who wanted to get as much money as possible, for as cheap as possible

Both those camps aligned with licenses where developers gave up all their rights, but anyone could very easily take them back and claim as their own (“closing” the software). Famous examples are Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.

The “Open Source Initiative” was created to gatekeep the “Open Source” definition, by keeping a list of licenses that were “OSI compliant”. A side effect of that gatekeeping, was erasing the understanding of the terms “Free” and “Libre” from the public’s minds.

Plenty more than “1000 people” understood what was going on, and were against OSI, seeing it as an EEE move from the Business camp.

People new to it, started using the term “open source” (as per OSI) without a care, only to later realize the Business camp was taking advantage of them… [surprised Pikachu face]

This FUTO boss is not young or inexperienced, he’s a Business-man who, not surprisingly, decided to use a license with a closing clause, that he used the chance to call “Open Source” by exploiting people’s lack of understanding.

Last time SWIM used a patcher, it came with a malware dropper. Is that still how this “free” works?

Their objectivity is preempted by a subjective evaluation, just like it would be by someone’s appearance or any other perception other than the code itself.

We ass-u-me too much based on people’s genders/photographs/ideas/etc., which taints our objectivity when assessing the quality of their code.

For a close example on Lemmy: people refusing to collaborate with “tankie” devs, with no further insight on whether the code is good or not.

There also used to be code licensed “not to be used for right wing purposes”, and similar.