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16 votes
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The new Windows Terminal
22 votes -
Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers
5 votes -
OpenBSD 6.5 Is Released!
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Do you enjoy programming outside of work?
I have found this to be a semi controversial topic. Its almost becoming a required point for getting a new job to have open source work that you can show. Some people just enjoy working on...
I have found this to be a semi controversial topic. Its almost becoming a required point for getting a new job to have open source work that you can show. Some people just enjoy working on programming side projects and others don't want to do any more after they leave the office.
Whats your opinion on this? Do you work on any side projects? Do you think its reasonable for interviewers to look for open source work when hiring?
16 votes -
The Cloud and Open Source Powder Keg
4 votes -
The culture war at the heart of open source
14 votes -
Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed To Make Money
13 votes -
Why OpenBSD Rocks
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Why open source projects don't charge (while keeping the code open)?
I'd gladly pay a reasonable price for professional packages/support for programs like Emacs/Melpa, Debian, and Xfce. As a user, I empathize with the complaints by developers that are constantly...
I'd gladly pay a reasonable price for professional packages/support for programs like Emacs/Melpa, Debian, and Xfce. As a user, I empathize with the complaints by developers that are constantly overworked. Even if this doesn't generate enough money to pay for everything, it might be enough to hire someone to handle the issues and communities, something that clearly drains their efforts, especially because programmers tend to prefer technical challenges rather than dealing with people.
I understand that many projects accept donations, but I think providing an actual reward (even if its something minimal, like an updated package instead of having to build it from source) might be a good way to get resources and avoid developer burndown.
11 votes -
Extract clean(er), readable text from web pages via the Mercury Web Parser.
8 votes -
Timeliner: A personal data aggregation & personal data backup utility for Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc…
9 votes -
Redis Labs’ Modules License Changes - Moving from Apache2 modified with Commons Clause to Redis Source Available License (RSAL)
3 votes -
Regarding EGLStreams support in KWin
6 votes -
Switching from Linux to BSD: What do you miss?
There seems to be a trend lately of people switching over to BSD operating systems. Having read some blog posts on the matter and now given the recent system-d controversy, I'm genuinely curious...
There seems to be a trend lately of people switching over to BSD operating systems. Having read some blog posts on the matter and now given the recent system-d controversy, I'm genuinely curious to give FreeBSD or OpenBSD a go as my main OS.
For those who have switched over to BSD, what are some problems you've encountered and/or what are some things you miss?
31 votes -
sr.ht is now sourcehut
17 votes -
Starting an Open Source Side Project
10 votes -
On building your favourite web browser from source
25 votes -
Details about the event-stream incident
23 votes -
Open Source is Not About You
18 votes -
Solus Blog: In Full Sail
10 votes -
GNU project announces Kind Communication Guidelines
15 votes -
MongoDB switches its open-source license from AGPLv3 to the newly created "Server Side Public License"
10 votes -
GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the state of Washington
15 votes -
License Zero: In defense of the forgotten third way in open software licensing
4 votes -
Getting started with qemu
9 votes -
Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (2014)
7 votes -
Learna project reverts blacklisting in license
14 votes -
castling.club: play Chess via Mastodon (ActivityPub)
10 votes -
Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project
3 votes -
The Commons Clause will destroy open source
6 votes -
JPL's Open Source Build-it-Yourself Rover
9 votes -
It’s time for the open source community to get real
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Personal Wikis
I have been looking for some software where I can brain dump all the things I need to remember on a constant basis so I can easily find it again in the future. A personal wiki basically. I am...
I have been looking for some software where I can brain dump all the things I need to remember on a constant basis so I can easily find it again in the future. A personal wiki basically. I am wondering what any of you tilderians are using?
The things I am looking for:
Absolute requirements:
- Open Source: I want to be in control of the data myself, and I want to be able to hack on it myself as the need arises.
- Self Hostable: Goes hand-in-hand with with open sourceness, I want the data to live on the server in my apartment, under my own control.
- An API of some sort so I can programmatically add/read/modify data.
Nice to haves:
- Revision history of some sort.
- Common/simple data format for easy backup and longevity.
- Web interface, with mobile compatibility.
- Lightweight as possible, so I can run it on a low powered server.
Does anything know anything like that?
Options I have heard of:
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The Tragedy of systemd
13 votes -
Reading the NSA’s codebase: LemonGraph review
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Michael MacInnis: Oh a new Unix shell - BSDCan 2018
6 votes -
Battle of the Schedulers: Linux's CFS vs FreeBSD's ULE
7 votes -
Google open sources "Filament is a physically based rendering engine for Android, Windows, Linux and macOS"
9 votes -
An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs
28 votes -
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
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NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2
7 votes -
GIF-for-CLI: Convert GIFs to animated ASCII art.
7 votes -
OpenBSD on my fanless desktop computer - Roman Zolotarev
6 votes -
Richard Stallman's Free Software, Free Society Essay Collection
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News Desk Updated!
A few weeks ago I posted a project I was working on to read news from the command line. I incorporated the suggestions given in that thread (license, requirements.txt, etc), incorporated...
A few weeks ago I posted a project I was working on to read news from the command line. I incorporated the suggestions given in that thread (license, requirements.txt, etc), incorporated suggestions I've received elsewhere, and added a few features.
Here's the updated link: News Desk
Any feedback would be much appreciated!
Edit: And a specific point for feedback. I store the user's API key in
~/.nd_config/key
which I think is a step up from requiring the user to set their key as an environment variable (which is how I had it originally). Still though, is there some way I can not store the key in plaintext and still have it in a format that is readable by the computer and can be used to verify API access?7 votes -
Mailing lists vs Github
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Nouveau (open source Nvidia graphics drivers)
So I tried to install sway on my desktop today. This required a lot of fiddling, as I had to pull in bleeding-edge dependencies for the Wayland libraries, and had to build the compositor framework...
So I tried to install
sway
on my desktop today. This required a lot of fiddling, as I had to pull in bleeding-edge dependencies for the Wayland libraries, and had to build the compositor framework wlroots. Finally however, I had everything compiled and ready to go and....Proprietary Nvidia drivers are not supported. Use Nouveau.
I had completely forgotten that
sway
requires open-source Nvidia drivers. So - has anyone had experience using Nouveau? How usable is it from day-to-day? How noticeable is the performance hit when switching from proprietary drivers?8 votes -
Mozilla will not update its privacy policy: It doesn't need to.
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I made a thing: News Desk
I've only been seriously programming for about a year now (and mostly in R), but I've been digging into Python for the past few months. Mostly I use pandas/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn, etc. for data...
I've only been seriously programming for about a year now (and mostly in R), but I've been digging into Python for the past few months. Mostly I use pandas/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn, etc. for data analysis and some ML stuff, but in an effort to expand my skills I've also been playing around trying to build a few projects.
It's not much, but I built this: News Desk
Feedback is welcome. One bug that I'm aware of is that when you refresh the program, the
url_list
isn't cleared and the URLs from the refreshed articles are just appended to the list. So even though only 20 articles will show, you can select, for example, article 35.11 votes