LightFog

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by LightFog 2y ago
It is. The software has been broken - the UI wasn’t designed with those toggles in mind so now users suddenly have non functioning features presented to the in the UI. The argument the all users should be keeping up to speed on NEWS - espec
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by LightFog 2y ago
I guess you missed the bits on Mastodon where the package maintainer simply didn’t bother reaching out to the upstream whatsoever because he was ‘too busy’ and would only do so over a particular IRC setup. That’s not competent or good faith
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by LightFog 2y ago
There does seem to be a culture of contempt for the dribbling masses (aka users and application developers) ruining the beautiful visions of RH devs.
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by LightFog 3y ago
You are right - I don't have the details on Amazon's agreements with FOSS projects - have you made them public? All I have to go by are AWS's huge profits and the continuing struggles of FOSS projects involved with AWS to dev
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by LightFog 3y ago
In that case you will have to excuse my conflating this special case with the multitude of other projects the same thing has happened to in the past and will likely continue happening to. I will watch with interest on how the contributors s
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by LightFog 3y ago
Who is this ‘we’ - you are speaking about people who want the good bits of redis but not the responsibility of helping it sustain a business model built on open source? Your enabling of AWS’s corporate FOSS-washing hasn’t helped redis susta
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by LightFog 3y ago
Developers are entirely to blame - the fraction of developers meaningfully contributing to FOSS or advocating for supporting it is tiny. Just ‘import foo’ and holy smokes - free shit, yes please!
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by LightFog 3y ago
Without denying the good intentions and inputs of the individuals going above and beyond to contribute - AWS as a whole contribute peanuts to these projects relative to what they make from them - they have it in their power to make these pr
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by LightFog 3y ago
Time to start large scale poisoning of repos.
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by LightFog 3y ago
This stood out to me too - the technology helping us move toward a ‘greed singularity’.
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by LightFog 3y ago
This is exactly my feeling - it would be pretty brave for any enterprise to adopt this ahead of incumbents when it is so far behind and they are likely going to start locking away the enterprise features anyway. The whole upside is that all
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by LightFog 3y ago
Clarity and honesty around future plans and incentives are important to those who put the little political capital they have behind adopting projects like this. Who knows if Forgejo can pull off the technical side, which I do plan to contri
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by LightFog 3y ago
Judging by the history on the migration Issue they wanted to migrate independently of the user base - so I don't see how that is relevant to them asking people to trust a platform they don't use themselves.
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by LightFog 3y ago
It would be interesting to hear from the Gitea contributors who were vehemently denying on here that this would happen when concerns were raised just a few months ago.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Wow - I hadn’t noticed that they still use GitHub for their own development. From their long-running migration ticket it seems the project has since grown so large they are basically stuck there too.
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by LightFog 3y ago
And private code? MSFT make no promises private code on GitHub.com won’t be trained on.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Forgejo which powers codeberg recently hardforked from gitea and is looking like a nice alternative
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by LightFog 3y ago
MSFT gobbling up your code and selling it back to you isn’t enshittified enough for you?
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by LightFog 3y ago
Although it’s not always necessary to go through the middle - you can do the old switcheroo and build a parallel org in your image, emerge from the shadows and duke it out with the old structure.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Indeed, and greenfield projects are a great way to move upward in the org - as Jim in the story recognises.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Oh boy, been there. This is Conway’s law in action - they are about to go and create the same code soup again - because the org won’t have changed. Having been in the same boat my lesson is positive engineering initiatives can only come to
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by LightFog 3y ago
Ah XML external Entity resolution, the gift that keeps on giving.
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by LightFog 3y ago
This tiptoe-ing around leaders who can’t communicate is often a path to frustration and burnout. Getting promoted won’t help, the rot probably goes the whole way up. Tbh I would just start finding an other group to work with - life’s too s
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by LightFog 3y ago
Yep - this is exactly the attitude I have a problem with. Telling someone to go fork a project and write it themselves if they find using it awkward stinks. Free software is exactly marketing, it is a movement that is trying to spread its v
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by LightFog 3y ago
That would make a lot of sense given the absolute crapware that comes with them.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Seems unlikely related to the Webex platform itself - either a device or account breach or network if they were silly enough not to use the E2E encryption feature.
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by LightFog 3y ago
This kind of mentality does someone in the tougher position no good. Higher paid or more established employees joining a union will likely be making sacrifices to help more vulnerable colleagues in the name of solidarity. The alternative is
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by LightFog 3y ago
It’s true - it’s a frustrating side of free software projects that user experience isn’t taken seriously. I think those that push back at criticism on that side aren’t considering that a key point of ‘free’ software is evangelism and encour
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by LightFog 3y ago
It seems there are plenty that don’t - although that may also be for practical reasons. But yes, I do think that free software ideals discourage supporting those platforms - however some may support them to give their users at least some fr
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by LightFog 3y ago
I think that might be wishful thinking on his part - I remember hearing about him consuming some types of web content via a friend downloading html and emailing it to him! He has spoken plenty about confronting the convenience-freedom trade

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