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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
secretfire LinkI'm working on getting a (relatively) robust backup system going for my important files. My current backup system is, well, shit. I have my main drives, a NAS drive in my PC that I manually...I'm working on getting a (relatively) robust backup system going for my important files. My current backup system is, well, shit. I have my main drives, a NAS drive in my PC that I manually copy/paste things into whenever I feel like it, and a 15GB Google Drive for photos and important documents.
On my computer I'm running Linux and a shameful Windows installation, both of which I want to reinstall (Windows to get a better supported version, Linux because in classic Linux user fashion I am dissatisfied with the way I made my partitions last time). Before going through with it I'd like to have everything even slightly important backed up - A broad survey of my entire PC shows that ignoring things like applications, games, and legally acquired TV/films (I can always legally acquire them again in the future), I only really have ~300GB of stuff. Which is, well, kinda trivial to back up honestly. I've bought some cloud storage that I'm going to configure regular automatic backups onto, and now I'm looking at getting a home server of some kind for further redundancy.
A few weekly threads ago I was discussing building a fancy home server, unfortunately that's fallen back into the "things I pretend I'm going to do but will never do" category of ideas, mostly because of choice paralysis and the fact that RAM just got stupid expensive all of the sudden. Maybe when Black Friday rolls around it'll give me the push I need. Until then, I might just buy a Raspberry Pi, stick a NAS drive on it, and use it as a very basic easy option.
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Comment on Tips for becoming a tea person in ~food
secretfire Link ParentIt's not something I've looked into in much depth in fairness, but I've always been a bit skeptical of the claims around l-theanine relaxing you that much; I've seen a lot of people claiming it's...It's not something I've looked into in much depth in fairness, but I've always been a bit skeptical of the claims around l-theanine relaxing you that much; I've seen a lot of people claiming it's a miracle substance and others claiming it's entirely placebo (and the skeptics like to bring out graphs so, yknow, who can argue against that?). I am naturally of a high-anxiety disposition though so possible its jitter-reducing powers are simply dwarfed by my brain's desire to feel like it's about to explode at any second. I might grab some theanine supplements in the future and see if maybe I just need a heroic dose for its effects to kick in.
Insanely jealous of you and your good everything city, I'm in the sort of place where the tea menu in a tea shop consists of english breakfast, earl grey, shitty matcha, and mystery fruit/chamomile blend for $8. A lot of the more bourgie tea shops will do tasting sessions where you spend an hour tasting a dozen types of tea, which is a fun way to find what kinds of tea you like. Other than that, you can just buy a bunch and try them!
Gyokuro is one of those ones where you can get fairly cheap stuff and it'll taste okay, but the quality ceiling is high. You can get some for $20 or $200 and it's a huge difference. That's part of why it's normally served in such small quantities, it's made with a huge amount of leaves per ml of water (normally ~6-10g per 50ml), at a really low temperature, ~40-50C. It's almost like the tea equivalent of espresso; I've found that anything more than 3 cups gives me a full on head high. It's definitely one of the more unique tea experiences out there in both sensation and taste, really cool that you found a place that did a full gyokuro session! If you liked it you should definitely give sencha a go.
All the best!
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Comment on Tips for becoming a tea person in ~food
secretfire LinkFirstly, I'd recommend reading this Serious Eats article, it's a great article that has what you're looking for and then some. The best bit of advice from the article though is to forgo tea bags,...Firstly, I'd recommend reading this Serious Eats article, it's a great article that has what you're looking for and then some. The best bit of advice from the article though is to forgo tea bags, because they kinda suck for any "proper" cups of tea. Rule of thumb is that the lighter in colour the cup of tea is, the more the quality of the leaves matters, which is why the brits can get away with pretending that their shitty English black tea tastes good when they steep it for 10 minutes in boiling water to remove any hint of delicacy in flavour - It was never going to taste good regardless of how abused those poor tea leaves get.
I'm personally a Japanese green tea kinda person. I'll give a quick primer but there are tons of resources out there - Tezumi is a good site for getting into tea brewing (they also sell tea in the US, have never bought from them myself but I've heard generally good things).
The two main types of Japanese green tea that you're likely to find in the West are Sencha and Matcha. Matcha is its own thing and it's become really trendy as a flavouring these days - Personally I'm ambivalent on it, I enjoy it when it's made "properly", i.e. as a hot cup of tea in the traditional manner, but it's not a daily thing for me. It comes in a powdered form and you can probably find it in somewhere in your area.
Sencha, on the other hand, is the more standard form of tea, its name literally meaning "daily tea". It takes the form of green tea leaves, you steep them in water at ~70C for maybe a minute, and you can get multiple cups out of the same pot of leaves. It's my personal go-to. Unfortunately it's not the easiest thing to find locally; or rather, it's hard to find stuff that's local and good, most Asian stores will probably sell Chinese-grown sencha which is universally rubbish. You can order from a ton of places online, I've had good experiences with O-cha.
Will give an honourable mention to Genmaicha also, a type of sencha that contains toasted rice grains. The toasted rice flavour is really quite strong, so it was traditionally made out of lower-quality tea leaves, sort of like adding a mixer to a shitty whiskey. Which isn't to say that genmaicha tastes bad though, I really enjoy it and it's probably the easiest type to find in the West, so pick some up if you can. You brew it essentially the same as a normal sencha, maybe a little bit hotter, 75C or so for a first infusion.
Japanese green tea isn't for everyone, some people describe it as having an almost "fishy" taste, which I've personally never noticed, but there is definitely a sort of "vegetable-like" taste in certain types, particularly deep-steamed teas, namely fukamushi - There are different types of sencha based on how they're steamed, or if they've been placed in shade while growing (notably Gyokuro, arguably the fanciest green tea out there), but I'll save that for the 201 class. I quite like the taste, it has a strong umami flavour.
My one and only gripe with Japanese green tea is that it's particularly high in caffiene compared to other teas. Not nearly as high per ml as a cup of coffee, of course, but high enough that my dumb caffiene-hypersensitive body starts getting jittery and anxious after 3 or 4 cups, and the dream of an afternoon tea break is unreachable for me unless I feel like going to sleep at 4am. Probably not an issue if you're accustomed to coffee of course, but worth keeping in mind.
As for teaware, you can go fancy, or you can just, well, not. Personally I own a kyusu, a small Japanese teapot that I use exclusively for my green teas, but before that I used a simple mesh ball infuser and it worked alright (you want the tea leaves to have a large area to spread out in as they brew, helps with flavour). A generic porcelain teapot will work fine too, provided you have some kind of filter to keep the tea leaves from spilling out. If you feel like investing in an all-purpose bit of teaware, I'd go with a gaiwan, it's the most basic form of brewing vessel and you can probably find them relatively cheaply online.
Any top tips for getting into tea? I was just mocked for weighing tea... I guess that isn't as important in this scene.
Not at all! I always weigh loose leaf tea for the first few pots of a new packet. Different teas tend to have slightly different densities, normally when I open a new packet of tea leaves for the first time I weigh until I have a sense of how much is in a teaspoon's worth of leaves, after which I just go by feel. It's not a huge deal, you can mess around with tea/water ratios for any amount of leaves, but I like the same cup every time, more or less, so I sometimes weigh it.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
secretfire LinkMade a simple lentil curry last week and it was excellent, so I'm definitely going to try and make one again. Trying to think of ways to incorporate lentils and beans into a more Japanese-style...Made a simple lentil curry last week and it was excellent, so I'm definitely going to try and make one again. Trying to think of ways to incorporate lentils and beans into a more Japanese-style flavour profile, since that's largely what I eat these days - I love Indian cuisine but I'm having to ration my kitchen space these days so I'm fairly limited with what spices and grains I can make room for. There aren't all that many vegetarian protein options in Japanese cuisine besides tofu, which I love but don't want to be eating 24/7, so finding ways to get other protein sources into that sort of diet would be great. Might do some experimenting and see what I can come up with.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
secretfire LinkHave been playing Kenshi for the past couple of days, got it on sale. I'm a big Rimworld fan and I heard that this is a similar sort of vibe where you're dropped in a hostile world and can sorta...Have been playing Kenshi for the past couple of days, got it on sale. I'm a big Rimworld fan and I heard that this is a similar sort of vibe where you're dropped in a hostile world and can sorta just do whatever.
Things I like:
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The core gameplay is really solid. It's just a really fun sandbox with a lot of cool stuff in it. There's a lot of depth here, at least compared to other sandboxes, which as a genre tend to suffer from chronic inch-deepness. I lost interest in No Man's Sky because there just wasn't enough to keep me engaged once I realised it was a 15-minute gameplay loop with a bunch of shiny things tacked on.
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It gives you a ton of freedom as a player without feeling overwhelming. I don't think I've explored even a quarter of the game's systems yet, but I still feel like I'm accomplishing a lot and am in a comfortable place in the gameplay loop. Compare it to something like Dwarf Fortress which, while giving the player an absurd amount of freedom in every way, shape, and form, also requires that the player picks up on half of these systems fast if they want to survive for any length of time. You can go blind into Kenshi. You'll probably have an aneurysm trying to pick up DF with no wiki.
Things I don't like:
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It's a buggy unfinished mess. Moreover it's the type of buggy unfinished mess that the community has decided you're not allowed to complain about because they're fine with it being a buggy unfinished mess. There are typos and grammatical errors in half of the dialogue, it suffers from horrific popin and graphical glitches atop of what is already a bad-looking game, pathfinding, NPCs, most systems are broken in some regard.
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It controls like an experimental 3D MMO from 2003, and not in a good way. I don't know what the correct way to handle Kenshi's kind of movement system is, but it ain't whatever it's doing. It's not the worst thing in the world by any means, certainly it's usable, but I just keep thinking that this game was made in 2018.
I'm having a lot of fun with it all the same though. My favourite games are Skyrim and Dwarf Fortress so, idk, I have a type I guess. Hopefully Kenshi 2 will be all the good parts of the first game without the bad parts that pull it down.
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Comment on What code editor / IDE do you use (2025)? in ~comp
secretfire Link ParentThere are dozens of us! Dozens!There are dozens of us! Dozens!
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Comment on What code editor / IDE do you use (2025)? in ~comp
secretfire LinkI'm very much a hobbyist programmer (and not a very good one to be frank), but I do my programming in Emacs these days, mostly because I happen to already do everything else in Emacs. My config is...I'm very much a hobbyist programmer (and not a very good one to be frank), but I do my programming in Emacs these days, mostly because I happen to already do everything else in Emacs. My config is essentially vanilla Emacs with a few non-programming add-ons, themes, basic stuff. Never bothered setting up LSP or anything fancy like that. Emacs can provide all the features you mention in your post (except for "well-established keyboard shortcuts", in Emacs you cut+paste with Ctrl+W Ctrl+Y but they're called kill+yank because uhhhh history - Those aren't even the weirdest ones), but if you find Vim overwhelming I can't see Emacs being much better!
When nobody's looking I might shamefully open VSCodium to quickly edit a file, mostly when I'm using Windows since Emacs is a pain to run on Windows either natively or through WSL.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
secretfire (edited )LinkTrying to eat more fermented foods for good gut health, so I've been incorporating kimchi a lot more into my diet. Wouldn't say I've made any "Korean dishes" per say, so much as I've just been...Trying to eat more fermented foods for good gut health, so I've been incorporating kimchi a lot more into my diet. Wouldn't say I've made any "Korean dishes" per say, so much as I've just been throwing Korean things into stir fries and eating it alongside kimchi. It's pretty good! I make a ton of Japanese food already and there's a huge amount of ingredient overlap between the two cuisines, so it's mostly been a lot of rice and kimchi and veg with gochujang and whatever protein I'm bothered with that day (mostly chicken and tofu). Considering making my own kimchi if I can find a way to do so without distressing the rest of my home's occupants.
Also, trying to cut out processed sugars (again), which means no snacking. My diet has always been one where I eat a really healthy breakfast, a really healthy dinner, but I skip lunch half the time and just eat a ton of garbage that ruins everything. So trying to find healthy lunch and snacking options is my goal at the moment. One of my goto lunches is a really simple combination of fried egg, reheated rice, furikake (a Japanese rice seasoning), and whatever sauces and oils I feel like (kecap manis and sambal is excellent). Put it all in a bowl, mix, that's lunch. Sorta healthy if you use brown rice, can stick an avocado in there too.
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Comment on Recommendations for a Linux based job/ticket management system in ~tech
secretfire LinkI'm the Emacs guy, so I'm going to suggest Emacs, specifically the org-mode and org-roam packages. Here's the org-mode website detailing how it works, and here's a pretty good video of one guy's...I'm the Emacs guy, so I'm going to suggest Emacs, specifically the org-mode and org-roam packages. Here's the org-mode website detailing how it works, and here's a pretty good video of one guy's system. It's all text-based so it can be used in a GUI or CLI setting (though I almost exclusively use it in GUI mode just for convenience), it's all local, it's highly extensible, and there are dozens of user-created extensions and premade setups out there.
Emacs on the whole has a steep learning curve, but it's not at all impossible to learn. Personally I got the basics down in less than a week when I started, and there are dozens of packages that make it more modern. If you've a Vim user already then the evil-mode package adds Vim keybindings into Emacs, for instance.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
secretfire LinkHave been playing Enter the Gungeon a lot recently. It's a really fun roguelite (a genre I'm not particularly well-versed in honestly), even though I suck at it. Haven't made it past floor 3 yet....Have been playing Enter the Gungeon a lot recently. It's a really fun roguelite (a genre I'm not particularly well-versed in honestly), even though I suck at it. Haven't made it past floor 3 yet. It's a nice game to pick up for a run or two while
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
secretfire Link ParentNot particularly serious; most of what I'll be storing on there will be downloaded TV shows, books, etc., things that I could fairly easily download again if needed. There'll be important stuff...Not particularly serious; most of what I'll be storing on there will be downloaded TV shows, books, etc., things that I could fairly easily download again if needed. There'll be important stuff backed on it too though, photos, work documents, creative projects, but most of that I'll have on my main computer as well. Considering getting some quality cloud storage to complete the 3-2-1 backup system, but non-Google cloud storage isn't cheap unfortunately.
With ECC it's mostly for peace of mind. Yeah the chances of me losing important data from RAM corruption on a non-ECC NAS are extremely low, but if I'm investing the time and money into building a NAS then it seems like it'd be more sensible to go for ECC support just to have it and then not have to worry about it at all. The problem, of course, is that you're vastly more limited with parts in an ECC supported system, and those parts will be more expensive. Realistically it's not an important thing to have, but for every 10 people on the internet saying "it's a tiny thing that makes zero difference for a home server, don't bother", there's someone else saying "I lost a ton of data from RAM corruption, I'm never building a non-ECC system again". It's all a game of risk in the end I suppose, how much money I'm willing to throw at a thing versus the amount I'm willing to risk losing a bunch of files, even from an incredibly unlikely issue.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
secretfire LinkI'm currently researching parts to build a small home server, basically just for Jellyfin (media server) and backing up important stuff. I've built PCs before but servers require a whole different...I'm currently researching parts to build a small home server, basically just for Jellyfin (media server) and backing up important stuff. I've built PCs before but servers require a whole different way of thinking when choosing parts and whatnot; I don't particularly care if my gaming PC isn't the most efficient machine in the world when idling, but for a server running (more or less) 24/7 the difference between 40W idle and 50W idle can be a few bucks a month, and that adds up. So I'm having to find parts that are powerful enough to do what I want with it, but not too powerful (for upfront cost as well as power draw), that are also energy efficient.
Fortunately it takes basically nothing to run a half decent media server; you can make a perfectly functional one with decade-old hardware. But I'm the kind of person who always wants to do things right the first time round, which inevitably leads me to always jumping down enormous rabbitholes of research for meagre levels of optimisation.
Currently my thinking is to make an Intel-based mITX build: Intel for better video transcoding (compared to AMD processors, which kinda suck at it), mITX for convenience and aesthetics and fun. Haven't quite landed on what exact processor to get but I don't think the fine details matter too much honestly, basically any processor made in the last 5 years could do the job here. Will probably get an 11th-12th gen i5, but I'm also thinking about going with ECC-supported parts which would require me to get either a 9th gen or a 14th-15th gen (not to mention trying to find obscure compatible motherboards from the deep recesses of aliexpress). Or I could go with an AMD processor (they're way better with ECC support) and a cheap GPU of some kind, but that's probably way overkill and would make having an energy-efficient build basically impossible. The ECC vs no ECC debate is one of those tech things where a lot of people have extremely strong opinions on either side and idk man im just a guy who doesn't want his data to get destroyed, I have no idea whether or not to bother with it. Forgoing ECC makes picking parts a hell of a lot easier at least, not to mention way cheaper.
Once I've settled on a CPU/motherboard combo everything else just sorta falls into place. I get some half decent memory, a few NAS HDDs, an M.2. SSD, high-quality PSU, etc, etc, and then I move onto software, which is where the fun really begins.
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Comment on Introducing Kagi News in ~tech
secretfire LinkI'm no expert so maybe this is a non-issue, but is this a 'valid' use of RSS from the perspective of the websites offering it? RSS is already poorly supported as is, and I'd worry that companies...Every day, our system reads thousands of community curated RSS feeds from publications across different viewpoints and perspectives. We then use AI to distill this massive information into one comprehensive daily briefing, while clearly citing sources.
I'm no expert so maybe this is a non-issue, but is this a 'valid' use of RSS from the perspective of the websites offering it? RSS is already poorly supported as is, and I'd worry that companies using it as a way to effectively bypass AI scraping detection would result in less sites offering it altogether.
I'm not a big AI guy, but this is a relatively innocuous use of the tech I think, and a fairly useful one. The site News Minimalist already does this exact thing via ChatGPT, though it largely focuses on US news which makes it relatively unhelpful for escaping the omnishambles of the political hellscape (but I suppose that's just what news is nowadays). Plus, OpenAI, ew.
I made a thread a while back asking where Tildes users got their news from; while the post itself went on, what was in hindsight, a rather ill-thought-out spiel about Reddit echo chamber manipulation (though my overall point was valid I think), the responses were really helpful and are worth reading for anyone who feels stuck trying to find news that doesn't try to ruin your brain.
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Comment on Thoughts on making one's own dry mixes? in ~food
secretfire LinkI'm almost certain it'd be fine for things like oats and such, as long as you eat it all before the expiry date of whichever ingredient expires first. The general recipe for bacterial growth is...I'm almost certain it'd be fine for things like oats and such, as long as you eat it all before the expiry date of whichever ingredient expires first. The general recipe for bacterial growth is carbohydrates + water + warmth (and "warmth" here can be anything above freezing really). Dried grains and cereals and such can be incredibly nutrient-dense and long-lasting in spite of it, so long as they're kept dry - Once you soak them in water, bacteria can start eating at the starches and sugars that disperse in the water, and then it becomes a problem. This is also why you shouldn't soak your rice for anything over 24 hours. Even then with dried grains you can tell if they've gone bad via water contamination because they will smell awful and will probably have visible mold spots.
If you're really concerned you might consider pairing the ingredients up or something similar, instead of putting them all together in a single container. Mix your chia seeds and oats, mix your raisins and nuts, make it so you only need to combine 2-3 things instead of 5-6. I'd also recommend getting a set of measuring cups if you don't already have them; I find the less time I have to spend thinking about ingredient ratios and such, the more likely I am to actually go to the kitchen and make my overnight oats. Much easier if I know I only have to take one scoop of x and two scoops of y with z cups of milk, no further thinking required. Plus it allows for better modification if you decide you want more or less of something one day.
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Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime
secretfire LinkRestarted watching One Piece. I'm not a huge fan but people keep telling me gets really good and at this point I'm determined to get to the good part just to know if they're lying or not. I've...Restarted watching One Piece. I'm not a huge fan but people keep telling me gets really good and at this point I'm determined to get to the good part just to know if they're lying or not. I've been intermittently watching for about a year and a half now; I'm about 80 episodes in (Drum Island), but I'm watching the One Pace fan edits which cut down on a ton of filler and such, so really it's like 50 45-minute episodes in. Massive props to everyone who works on One Pace because without them I would absolutely not have had the patience to get even 20 episodes in.
It's pretty mediocre thus far, if nothing else it's something I can stick on when I'm bored. But everyone keeps talking about it like turns into the greatest thing ever animated and I just gotta see for myself, yknow?
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
secretfire Link ParentIs this your first time reading LotR? If so, welcome to the nerd club! The first 7 or so chapters of Fellowship are tonally much more similar to The Hobbit than to general high fantasy, and to...Is this your first time reading LotR? If so, welcome to the nerd club! The first 7 or so chapters of Fellowship are tonally much more similar to The Hobbit than to general high fantasy, and to that end they can be fairly tedious to read through if you're not up for simply accompanying some hobbits on a jaunt through the countryside. It's slow going, because the hobbits themselves are going at a leisurly hobbit pace,
(very mild spoiler for the first half of the book)
in stark contrast to the overwhelming danger they are really in, a danger that we (and the hobbits) are only given small, unsettling glimpses of throughout their initial journey.
Chapters 6 and 7 are the most emblematic of this difference, and honestly there's no shame in skimming them or outright skipping them if you find yourself losing interest. Better to skip them than to miss out on the rest of the book, which is, of course, stellar.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
secretfire LinkI own a ton of books and I keep wanting to read through them, but 75% of the time when I pick up an unread book from my shelf and start reading it, I find out that it's a depressing book, and I...I own a ton of books and I keep wanting to read through them, but 75% of the time when I pick up an unread book from my shelf and start reading it, I find out that it's a depressing book, and I don't like reading depressing books because the world's depressing enough and I'm trying to read to escape that depression reality. I'm sure Steinbeck's East of Eden is an excellent novel, I gave it a good go, but damn I just want to have a happy time, yknow? I keep thinking "okay, gonna read a comfort book, then after that I'll crack on reading that big allegory on the human condition or whatever", but then I finish the comfort book and need even more comfort and I pick up another comfort book and before I know it I've read half of the Discword novels and my twentieth LotR reread.
To that end I'm re-re-reading The Silmarillion, probably like the fifth time now. Tolkien just too good. Something about a world where there's actually light at the end of the tunnel and the tragedy exists to make the happy moments all the sweeter, rather than just, yknow, more tragedy piled up forever and ever.
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Comment on Bear is now source-available in ~tech
secretfire Link ParentVery true, the Bear developer is free to do whatever they want with the software running on their server. If I were to host my own instance of their FOSS source code, however, they wouldn't have...But this code doesn't run on your computer, it runs on someone else's computer. It's a web service.
Very true, the Bear developer is free to do whatever they want with the software running on their server. If I were to host my own instance of their FOSS source code, however, they wouldn't have any say on what I could do with it either. My point is that by picking the MIT license (which was almost certainly a mistake on the developer's part, one that they chose to not fix for too long) they allowed people to do whatever they wished with that source code. But now that people are doing whatever they want with it, namely modifying and hosting their own instances, the developer is changing things to make sure that can't happen anymore in the future.
That is, of course, well within their right; nobody can force them to run their own code in a certain way. But the vibe being given off by this whole event is one where the dev chose to publish their code under a permissive FOSS license (as you said, FOSS is a spectrum, but the MIT is a very lax license) without understanding the ramifications of doing so, and when faced with those ramifications they got defensive and decided to ensure that nobody else could copy them in the future. There's nothing wrong with that really, it just comes off a bit, I don't know, disingenuous?
Anyways, I've written like 2000 words in this comments section already, over a piece of software I don't even use, so I'll leave it there. But I do agree with the points you've made here, absolutely.
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Comment on Bear is now source-available in ~tech
secretfire Link ParentI have been conflating the two terms here; I figured it wasn't worth getting bogged down with semantics, but you are correct, I've been generally talking about Free Software rather than Open...You are confusing Free Software and Open Source.
I have been conflating the two terms here; I figured it wasn't worth getting bogged down with semantics, but you are correct, I've been generally talking about Free Software rather than Open Source software. Though in retrospect it's probably a safe bet that people on the Tech subforum of Tildes in a thread about code licensing would be able to discern the two terms.
My home server plan in the long run is to have a machine capable of running Jellyfin and a few other things, and I definitely wouldn't trust a Pi to do that. But as a short term quick-and-dirty solution for a backup device I think it'd work for a little while at least, until I can build an actual server. But you know what they say about temporary solutions being the longest-lasting ones.