fruitycoder

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fruitycoder ,

Multiform merge support, issues, wiki's, discussions. Its all of the other pieces of a software forge.

fruitycoder ,

Love your project! Have you looked into bridging to something like matrix from discord?

fruitycoder ,

Gitlab is still a better step in the direction. You at least have a path to using FOSS instances.

Gitlab working on federation along with Forgejo is big step in the right direction.

fruitycoder ,

Gitlab's offerings are always better. There isn't a single feature that I use between the two that I don't prefer gitlab.

fruitycoder ,

I don't know of good guide, I used the README on one of these for a personal server of mine.

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/discord/

fruitycoder ,

Is narcissistic disorder a prereq to be a billionaire or is it just a common symptom of having too much wealth for some.

fruitycoder ,

A SUV full of tape might have the band with needed to restore from backup, but bless the tops that gotta load those tapes

fruitycoder ,

I mean kubernetes, android, tensorflow, and the only OpenSource PDK for silicon that I know of.

They have a lot of bed rock contributions in the tech space.

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Or used by people in any commercial product. Is there really enough people to justify a info exchange of just hobby projects?

fruitycoder ,

There is a Foss alt already https://www.codidact.com/

Maybe just supporting federation feature for it?

fruitycoder ,

So if someone wanted to use this for work they would have to have an issue, find an answer, contact a person, and hope they can use the thing they just found to their problem?

Like, who wants that?

Heck I don't want every person on here who found something I said useful to be hounding me about using my code either.

fruitycoder ,

I play videos on the back ground or on the side while I code. The visuals are nice sometimes to clarify something but the audio is the bulk of what I am taking in.

fruitycoder ,

I've been on an immutable distro and declaritive distro kick lately.

So the bluefin project, which has so much sugar it a damn cake (in a good way, lots of stuff to get you to a usable running state for a lot of Dev environment and gaming).

I'm digging into SUSE microos more now, mostly to play with elemental (I really want a featureful CI/CD env for my desktop, so containers to full VM and isos is neat to me).

Nix has been super, super useful for packages that I want between OSs, but the alure of getting better configuration with them on full nixos is slowly drawing me in.

Guix on the other hand is my current ideal, I am just super impressed with their full source bootstrapping and really love a lot of the philosophy of the project, but they don't get as much love from the professional crowd (nonacademic, non amateur).

fruitycoder ,

I really want to run some of my old androids as security cams. They have WiFi, processing, and .. Cameras!

Haven't done it yet though tbh

fruitycoder ,

Surely there is some good cheap dummy batteries out there.

fruitycoder ,

ITT: people make up fake desktop war drama between gnome, KDE, and window managers

Listen, its FOSS. Gnome and KDE can have different design philosophys, if they didn't why even be different. You can mix and match what you want and need from both quit a bit. The devs do!

All software has bugs, if your not paying devs or summited merge requests all you can do is ask nicely and fill helpful bug reports.

fruitycoder ,

exactly!

fruitycoder ,

What about MPL? That seen more accepted in the rust space.

Agreed though, I don't know what the obsession with some of rust based GNU project placement stuff on going backwards on copyleft. Like I want to contribute to the next Linux not the next base for an Apple to take over and write a nice foot note about.

How are companies or developers supposed to make a full time living with OSI opensourced projects? ( opensource.org )

There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren't OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also...

fruitycoder ,

I think most of the other answers are good. For enterprise software I think, non community contributed, security updates behind a paywall are reasonable too. I know all updates can be behind a paywall and still be FOSS but it really hurts the public good / community aspects that make FOSS great to me.

From a policy stand point I think stakeholders should sue when a major security breach tanks gets identities stolen, the stock or worse and CTO failed to buy down any risk with SLAs on key software.

fruitycoder ,

The later is true for all software, but a lot of the "open source is unsustained"talks comes from the trillions of dollars and critical infrastructure built on it, but with little to no funding going back to actually paying for development or any contract in place saying that bugs will be fixed at all.

I think the "abuse" part is less of an issue outside if this. Like I don't mind that business benifit more than they put into public infrastructure, in fact I hope they do, but its a problem in which people that benifit the most aren't paying their proportional amount of the bill or worse no one is and we poise ourselves to lose it.

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I mean we build projects that benifit ourselves and don't do the boring stuff we don't want to for free. If we are affected by organizations responsible to us (we are paying customers, investors part owners, voters, etc) that didn't do due dillegece to maintain their IT systems by getting meaningful SLAs or hiring proven capable devs to support upstream, they we sue them, demand refunds, vote out execs, etc, etc.

I don't think the free loading concept is very helpful way to frame though. If a bunch of people can make things or run services for next to no cost, that's great too. Not everything is critical, not every public project needs funding, just because we put in work to something does it mean we need to be paid for it. Somethings only became critical because a bunch of people, just for fun, ran stuff on it and choose it just because it was free.

fruitycoder ,

Unfortunately I only have the last one:
Because of the recent actions RedHat has been taking against OpenSource

I wish the technical aspects were better though

fruitycoder ,

I'm not a fan of having root be able to actually login.

Even more so in a true multiuser env where I would rather have privilege escalation be more granular (certain user/groups can esculate certain actions but not others, maybe even limit options of a cmd).

fruitycoder ,

It definitely made way more sense at early on. I mean GNU made most of UX of using Linux at some point. Systemd, and the browser now make a much bigger portion than before, and the world is more than GNOME now too.

fruitycoder ,

Gitlab has some federation in experimental phases right now too!

fruitycoder ,

Guix is a pretty good evolution of nix IMHO. I like both through

fruitycoder ,

I've oddly seen people be more entitled to free things then things they pay for. There is now a legal entitlement for these people now though

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Makes sense, I bet there is better product fit for this in future but its cool to see first adoptions.

Sterilizing that would be a bitch, was designed for level ofreliablety I would be comfortable with for surgery, and as with all medical equipment it should be bought with right to repair in mind (not the current practice and its an active problem).

fruitycoder ,

Its pretty exciting too. With EVs it makes even more sense and hopefully means we can see more competition in the market since it means more modular vehicles (imagine if every steering column could work for every drive train for example).

fruitycoder ,

Ive been seeing Linux take a more controler of controllers kind of role. Handling updates, networking, complex logic, logging, metric, etc.

It'll be interesting to see where it goes. On one hand ASICs, FPGAs, and microcontroller are getting easier than ever to program, its still not as easier as having a full Linux OS to build on.

fruitycoder ,

Yep, simplyfy, standardize, modularize, repeat, and we might actually get affordable cars (or anything really) again.

Its not something encumbant car manufacturing would be trying to push for outside of their own production lines though.

fruitycoder ,

Some air gaps better than others

fruitycoder ,

Oh Apub is great. AP is super overloaded.
A7Pub maybe?

fruitycoder ,

Wireguard for network access, istio gateway for exposing services, and keycloak for SSO. I want to experiment with Teleport for more fine grained access to my services.

If I had more exposed services I would mess with crowdsec for some another firewall rule set and maybe even exposing it through a TOR service proxy.

fruitycoder ,

Ironically I was trying to push for some rnd to run all of the GPOs for windows boxes as local policy ran by ansible. Just could stand all of the wonkyness AD introduced into the system.

fruitycoder ,

You can even Nat still if you want too lol

That said have you looked at securing ipv6 networks?It can be a lot of new paridgms that need to be secured.

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IPFS
I'm really glad things like nerdctl and guix support it, but I wish more things too advantage of the p2p filesystem.

Petals.Dev and hivemind ml
P2P AI inference and training seem like the only true viable options to make foundational models that are owned soley by authoritarian government s and megacorps.

Matrix for federated general real time communication. (Not justs chat, video, images, but just data, with third room being on the cooler demos for what is possible)

Activity Pub for asynchronous communication between servers. The socialmedia aspect is obviously the focus and the most mature, but I'm also excited for things like Forgejo (Codeberg.org) and Gitlab's support.

I am also excited for QUIC for increased privacy of metadata and reduction of network trips.

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Slow and requires additional tooling to run normally. Just not a lot of development on the core pieces tbh. Wasm support for example could make deployments way simpler (implement an ipfs proxy in any browser or server that supports wasm) but the ticket for that kind of died off. There is a typescript implementation, helia, that I haven't checked out yet.

We are honestly kind of in a decentralization winter again, with ActivityPub being one of the few survivors gaining traction from what it seems. OpenSource luckily doesn't just up and die like that, so I still have hope for some next spring.

fruitycoder ,

When it affects stability, functionality, or exceeds my abilty to secure it properly.

fruitycoder ,

For sure, if you need paid support (which if you aren't a tech giant, a fledgling startup, or a system with no need for uptime metrics, you probally do) the you have:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (aka SLES and only still Libre option in this category unfortunately)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Ubuntu are

if don't need paid support then Debian, OpenSuse, Rocky, or Fedora are all good picks.

Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? ( carlnewton.github.io )

Over the past year or so I’ve been playing with the idea of a decentralised social platform based on your location. By putting physical location at the centre of the experience, such a platform could be used to bring communities together and provide a source of local information when travelling. Please let me know what you...

fruitycoder ,

Invite only app maybe? If you get the sign up process to be an NFC or QR code type thing you could effectively limit it to people in that area that know each other or that see the qr code. You could even have the signin do imprecise GPS checking if you wanted to limit it further (not fool proof, but does it have to be?)

You could have something like the described in the digital bonfires idea and have a regularly scheduled means of moving things from local to people just passing through.

fruitycoder ,

I hope it's helpful! I think your idea is definitely cool, I would love to see something like it take off tbh!

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If its just one app it could just ran by something like kasm and remotely controlled by the end users.

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I feel like free products just for decision makers sound like a straight bribe, and free Windows is still not even worth more then free and open source ...

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

fruitycoder ,

Its business oriented software, the primary users of that software SHOULD be paying first and looking at supporting it themselves as a last resort.

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KDE BigScreen had some ambition to be that

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Right now the greatest level of supply chain secuirty that I know of is formal verification, source reproducible builds, and full source bootstrapping build systems. There was a neat FPGA bootstrapping proj3ct (the whole toolchain to program the fpga could be built on the FPGA) at last years FOSDEMs conference, and I have to admit the idea of a physically verifiable root of trust is super exciting to me, but also out of reach for 98% of projects (though more possible by the day).

fruitycoder ,

You have too look at it at scale too, and most places should either be adopting some platform that already does or be planning on scaling some special service they do.

Every Podunk municple probally should have to have a AD expert, a security expert, a hardware/software lifecycle management person, etc etc

That's how o365 can be cheaper total cost of ownership then an army of siloed sys admins, even if the software is at no cost to them.

Its an investment in total operations of the organizations of the state, from the current state of 1990s tech most operate off of to a modern IT infrastructure.

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