fruitywelsh

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fruitywelsh ,

Digital sovereignity is a big deal!

fruitywelsh ,

That’s awesome! Next laptop decided on.

fruitywelsh ,

Flatpaks are great for GUI apps, and have a sandboxing system that allow them to work well on any system that support flatpak. This allows devs to package once run anywhere, saving Dev time! It also has a portals system to allow for better system integration of the granular permissions needed for the app to actually work (nobody wants a truly isolated sandbox for every app).

Snap is less featureful for GUI apps, but work closer to how native packages do. The real issue is the proprietary app store required for it, making non-foss. If you want the same benefits of snap, check out Guix and NixOS both of which have a more cleaner design, and work better IMHO.

fruitywelsh ,

Its use able. I like unified update mechanism and shared package/library/image systems

fruitywelsh ,

Dang, Suse really coming in strong with this. I still wish they offered openQA too. Between Rancher, and Suse they really do go pound for pound against RedHat.

fruitywelsh ,

I hate to see what this could do to the very fledgling linux gaming rennace. Hopefully we see it get real teath before corporate Microsoft puts even more pressure on it.

fruitywelsh ,

Yeah, the big premise is smaller models, along with more devs, means opensource iterates faster and produces better results more efficiently.

fruitywelsh ,

Alpaca and family are major examples Ive seen mentioned.

fruitywelsh ,

I hope Linux gaming can keep growing at a fast pace to combat the inevitable clash.

fruitywelsh ,

I’m a /home on separate drive/partition kind of guy. I like it just following my installs. Though seeing some using guix/nixos to create a config for my desktop has got me wanting to spend a weekend trying that out.

fruitywelsh ,

The rest, ansible for any sufficiently complex enough setup at the moment. Good for integration work with LDAP, etc if your using that. Again may play around with guix on that front.

fruitywelsh ,

Guix/nix seem very powerful. The reproducibility is something ansible just isn’t built to same level robustness for, which makes them seem very promising to me.

To switch or not to switch, that is the question

Hello fellow lemmings! Fedora KDE user here, and quite happy about it, it didn’t break a single time and packages are up to date. The only thing that bother me is DNF’s speed… a single search may take up to 5 seconds, and if I’m dependency-hunting I may need several searches, summing up the delays. I’m asking if...

fruitywelsh ,

Fedora also has a rolling release version called rawhide

fruitywelsh ,

Every one learns something for the first time. Expert to noob all start in the same state of knowing nothing.

fruitywelsh ,

I also blame the education system, the fact that my computer teacher thought that opening R, trying to reconnect to WiFi, and opening the cmd prompt were all attempts at “hacking” is sad. The fact our robotics class shut down when the exchange student left, because he was the only who knew how to program was sadder.

Part of the problem is the people making the standards don’t even know how ignorant they are themselves. Like I at least recognize I have a lot learning to go, and lean heavily on people more experienced than me in fields I’m not the expert.

fruitywelsh ,

I feel like getting into opensource software is easier than it ever was at least, the biggest Barrie’s I see are people thinking they can’t and advertising making people defensive about sticking to proprietary options.

fruitywelsh ,

Yeah, I realized I started to sound snarky when I said “I work on computers” when people ask me what I do. Didn’t mean it to sound dumb, it was just honestly the level of understanding about computers a lot strangers had when they asked.

Saying I did networking or worked with servers didn’t mean much, but sometimes people would ask me to work on their WiFi…

fruitywelsh ,

This is what I tell people when they get frustrated learning how computers work. Its not like math or natural science, it’s all just useful levels of bullshit people made up to make the electric rocks do things. Learn what helps you understand how the rocks work to make it think about the things you care about.

fruitywelsh ,

Good thing for FOSS, maybe. Non-profits suddenly not operating effectively for a few years is arguably worse for a lot of people that depend on them.

fruitywelsh ,

Right now? Bad. Other Big Tech would swoop in and tech their place and try and take their proprietary market share, but a lot of the open source work would be left to die on the vine, including Firefox. It would be a loss of paid talent in the FOSS world and a massive consolidation of big tech.

fruitywelsh ,

Sweet! This is great for people that want to enjoy content people are posting here, but want to avoid places like youtube (where most video content is coming from, even with peertube on the Fediverse or Odyssey having built in payment methods.).

I will say I saw your bot, triple comment on a post.

fruitywelsh ,

The snap store is proprietary, flatpaks handle the graphical app space better, OCI containers handle the service space better, and really high reported load times.

Flatpaks are awesome IMHO.

fruitywelsh ,

Matrix integration really is the move to make imhol

fruitywelsh OP ,

You are not entitled to a developer’s works. If they choose to have you pay for the binaries and include the source with full rights preserved for what you can do with that source, they are providing FLOSS. RHEL after this is still doing better work for the Linux / Libre software space than Ubuntu is by trying to push for vendor lock via snaps in my mind.

fruitywelsh OP ,

From a users’ perspective, you still have full rights to review, modify, and even redistribute the code. Though, exercising the last one is where RH limits people to the future code and software to its customer. A positive right to the developer’s future work is something that would require some kind of funding mechanism, but for the purpose of being Libre/Opensource it was something never guaranteed anyway.

fruitywelsh ,

Wow that’s really cool! Seems like a great way to tinker around with some web dev stuff! Curious to see how this could fit into a greater development pipeline!

DARbarian , to /kbin meta
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As excited as I am about the Fediverse and its diversity, an all-in-one application is the real dream. I'm afraid efforts are splintering into too many redundant apps (15 at this point across both platforms) when they could be focused on the one app to rule them all with clean, working interfaces for as many federated applications as possible. With Fedilab already supporting Friendica, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, Peertube, and even GNU Social (with plans to support CalcKey), adding Lemmy / Kbin would be a game changer for me and many others. Add Funkwhale and maybe WordPress and it's game over you never need to download any other apps.
@fedilab

fruitywelsh ,

I would love the move towards federated, p2p, all in one apps! Supporting the back ends on ActivityPub, peertube, IPFS, RSS, email, matrix, and sms, and then you can have tons of different UIs depending on what you are the user’s preferred user experience.

Imagine sending someone a direct message via Matrix, email, or sms. Scheduling a break-out session from a peertube comment block to talk over matrix. Pinning a comment on Matrix and turning it into a fediverse post and sharing it via hashtags and to communities. Sharing files over IPFS and peertube reducing hosting costs so more people can host! With things like thirdroom you could really give more options for UIs, but the greatest thing is that if the backend standards are kept normalized a VR chat, could be seen as a text on my phone, as an email or on a desktop chat application.

So for me, it’s more acknowledging these different mediums and making sure the backends of major fediverse platforms support them, and then the UIs can splinnter as much as needed to cover all the different ways people want to use these apps. Maybe even support a UI addon system and UI layout/theme sharing, so that you can further reduce the amount of duplicate work out there.

Basically KDE Plasma Desktop style configurability but for the Fediverse

fruitywelsh ,

As a dev, another really cool development to me is the introduction of ActivityPub to things like Gitea, and forgejo, again this is really where the concept of federation just kicks ass to me. Like imagine commenting on code issue, on lemmy/mastdon/discourse? No need to setup webhooks, bots, webscrapers. Just native support for cross-platform discussions.

Want to follow latest releases of your favorite FLOSS projects? Just follow their repo! You can crosspost it or boost too if you want to.

fruitywelsh ,

Stratum, Cumulus, Vyos, openwrt, and pfsense are all the most router focused options I can think of. You also have options of just using Network Manager (NM) to do static routes, and network bonding, and using FRRouting for more advanced routing options.

Personally, on the lower level stuff like network bonding and such, I prefer the NM over trying to do the same things on openwrt so far. Just hard to beat Redhat Docs on a lot of things that are more “enterprise” like. I haven’t had any reason to mess with the others, though. My research had Vyos as the more powerful option compared to pfsense, and some feature of cumulus like supporting Multichassis Link Aggregation Groups (MLAG) are really cool, and something I’d like to play with more.

fruitywelsh ,

I will say openwrt is great for running on home routers. It’s more specialized for that purpose, being made to fit on the small flashes of some of them.

fruitywelsh ,

I really hope matrix/element takes more space in enterprise space. Sure Teams has some more features, but they suck tbh, so even i wanted to use their white board or “wiki” features, I don’t because I don’t want to wait a few minutes for a “wiki” to load, and no else does either!

fruitywelsh ,

The video conferencing on Matrix has been really good for me so far. FOSSDEM 2022 was hosted on it and that really sold me on Matrix as a solution tbh. The recorded talks played smooth, and the chats worked no issues, while the break rooms gave me that genuine “I’m actually at a conference” feel, because it was so easy to just join a room and talk with our cameras on and everything.

Teams has been mostly up and working for me, but we have “sorry teams wasn’t working” issues all the time, so that bar is low to me. Even more, matrix better fits larger organizations that frankly should be using the federated approach for a lot of things, and stop trying to have IT policies that fits hundreds of thousands of employees over large geospatial distances.

fruitywelsh ,

I don’t get the medium critic either. If medium paid someone for their content, sure, they should have the right to host it even the writer now disagrees with them, but if they a platform and sharing some profits or no profits with the creator, pound sand, they absolutly get to hold their content hostage. They have every right to move their free work or stop sharing their free work where ever they feel like.

fruitywelsh ,

More detials found here: redhat.com/…/furthering-evolution-centos-stream?s…

Seem more accurate that their public repos will be closed, so now only centos-stream will be public. You will still have full access to source through their developer program or as a paying customer.

fruitywelsh ,

Krita has a Stable Diffusion plugin that looked really cool to be honest.

fruitywelsh ,

surely that will help former redditors support the decision, redditors loved musk /s

Aubrey Plaza Refuses to Use Streamers Because They Make Her ‘Really Angry,’ Buys Films and TV Series on iTunes Instead ( variety.com )

Warner Bros. Discovery is on the eve of launching Max, its new streaming service that combines the already-existing platforms of HBO Max and Discovery+. But don’t expect Aubrey Plaza to be am…

fruitywelsh ,

I remember asking years ago "how can I watch movies ethically, both supporting FOSS formats, owning my copy of the content, and paying the creators for their work?" I think the answer has gotten even more elusive now than ever.

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media ( open.substack.com )

This article from 2022 does a very good job of capturing the social media landscape and the condition of political discourse right now. It highlights one thing that I've been hearing a lot and agree with, the cruelty is the point.

fruitywelsh ,

I think this attitude is so worth having. Like the world can be a better place, we've seen what a better world looks like in little pockets before people slowly come in and ruin it, but we can get it back.

YouTube Does This Everytime You Watch (but you don't realize it) ( www.youtube.com )

Behind every simple action that we do everyday is very often something incredibly complex: countless systems and protocols and just tons of stuff that all works together to give you ungrateful folks the perception that everything is simple and seamless. Well… once you dive in, it’s not....

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