submitted by onlinepersona to programmer_humor
222 points | 20 comments

The most important part of FLOSS is “F”, apparently.

submitted by onlinepersona to opensource
32 points | 14 comments
https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/

For those outside the loop: rsync starting using AI agents to handle the influx of AI security reports to improve the test suite and fix bugs. It introduced a few CVEs and people who never contributed in any way started firing shots at the maintainer.

rsync…

submitted by onlinepersona to programming
77 points | 2 comments
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

The maker of Ghostty and Hashicorp is finally leaving Github.

submitted by onlinepersona to linux
30 points | 18 comments
https://odysee.com/@samtime:14/apple-reacts-to-the-framework-pro:9

Framework released a love letter to Apple.

submitted by onlinepersona to nix
6 points | 0 comments

TL;DR fetchmail to move all emails from email provider to local mailbox that is then served via IMAP by dovecot

Hi, I like being able to switch between email providers easily without having to change my email address (related post). For example right now people have to go through the hassle of going from mygreatusername@some.host to…

submitted by onlinepersona to onlinepersona
7 points | 2 comments

Opensource is undeniably a boon to the world. Without it, not only would there be few to no viable options to tech giants, competition would be rendered much more difficult. Fledgling companies would either have to pay for licensed code or implement everything themselves and that would lock out many from even starting companies…

submitted by onlinepersona to opensource
7 points | 5 comments

There are a few opensource games out there, but many aren’t in distro repos, or for windows, or released on itch.io requiring an account to download, etc. What could a open source game store for opensource games for all distros look like?

submitted by onlinepersona to programming
158 points | 44 comments

Why aren’t people moving away from Github? There’s Codeberg, Gitlab, and radicle. What’s holding them back?

submitted by onlinepersona to pcgaming
238 points | 41 comments
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/hosting/

To make it clear to those who are misunderstanding: that’s a list of companies that host matrix for you. They do it at a good price.

If you and your friends chip, it’ll be a few bucks a pop per month to have your own private server with voice chat rooms and video chat rooms.

It’s all…