What improvements are you thinking of? I can see that reasoning with something like the Linux kernel where there’s a lot of complex and integrated code, but ultimately individual coreutils commands are really simple. There’s very little you can do to extend something like ls… And if you do, you can just make your own superls command and not have to deal with any licensing restrictions.

With regards to AGPL vs GPL, none of the coreutils programs have network connectivity, so I’m not sure what the network requirement actually adds?

getting rid of the gpl is the motivation behind e.g. companies sponsoring clang/llvm so hard right now.

Is it? As I understand it, LLVM is much easier to work with than GCC, especially given their LLVM IR and passes frameworks.

here, take my stuff and don’t contribute anything back, that’s totally fine

I mean, yeah? They are probably fine with that and think that software should be distributed without restrictions. You may not agree with it, but it’s their choice. Not really stealing if they give it away willingly.

I cannot fathom any FOSS project not using the AGPL anymore.

I mean, most of them that want to use a GPL-like license use the GPL or LGPL rather than the AGPL. :P

why are developers even agreeing to this?

Are they? Last I checked this wasn’t as much of a plan as much of it was just a developer thinking out loud. And even if it was a real plan, developers should continue doing what they should be doing anyway: Write their scripts without any GNU/uutils/whatever-microsoft-calls-their-evil-uutils-fork extensions. Then their scripts could run across all platforms, including GNU, uutils, FreeBSD and BusyBox.

At any rate, if Microsoft really wanted to make their own coreutils fork (if they haven’t already), they’re not really that complicated tools. They could devote like maybe a year of engineering time and get it pretty much compatible.

One thing that could be interesting to discuss is character creators and general restrictions on what a player avatar can and can’t do.

For example:

• Require all player + npc relationships to be hetero.
• Have most relationships be hetero, but sprinkle one or two bi characters for spice.
• Lock certain clothing options or body styles to specific genders.
• Tie the player’s pronouns and voice to their gender.
• Tie the player’s gender to what’s in their pants.
• Restrict genetal options to a boolean “male” or “female” (intersex people exist).
• Force the player to only be in a monogamous relationship.
• Allow the player to be polyamous but inexplicably punish them for being too poly (Looking at you, Stardew).

Yep, borgmatic encrypts it before it sends data to the server.

Have you compared the background and text colours? That can have a surprising effect on how the text appears.

Was anything else installed on the 21st? Might have been pulled down as a dependency of something.

I recently bought a storagebox from Hatzner and set up my server to run borgmatic every day to backup to it.

I’ve also discovered that Pika Backup works really well as a “read only” graphical browser for borg repos.

Lots of comments about gaming from people assuming that companies will continue supporting their kernel anticheat on Windows 10 after it hits eol.

Windows 11 is much more convenient for identity tracking, so they’ll probably push for people to upgrade because Windows is too “insecure” for their games.

Huh, the remake of Chicken Run is looking very different from the original.

Wonder if ChatGPT just scraped an example token from somewhere and is using that.

Firefox is licenced under a copyleft license. Mozilla can’t stop distros packaging it even if they wanted to.

They’d need to replace the branding, but that’s not a big deal.

I like the idea of simple apps, but does their website have to have that silly dvd bouncing thing obstructing text? Especially since it starts playing sound if you interact with it wrong.

I’m a Firefox user and I’m not really that bothered about this tos changes. If they do mess things up I’ll probably just switch to some fork that doesn’t do the fuckery.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Mint packages Firefox with it (whatever “it” is) disabled, since they build Thunderbird without telemetry.

In regards to full system backups, there’s no real need to back up the OS itself. Canonical will give you a clean Ubuntu install if you ask then nice enough, after all. Personally, the risk of having to spend an afternoon reconfiguring my system isn’t that big a deal compared to the storage and time needed to back up an entire image.

I know systems generate a lot of “cruft” in terms of instslled programs and tweaked configurations over time which can be hard to keep track of and remember. But imo that should be avoided at all costs because it leads to compatibility and security issues.

For backing up databases, there’s scripts like automysqlbackup and pg_dump which will export a database to an sql file which can be easily backed up without worrying about copying a broken file.

I actually recently set up borgmatic earlier today and I’d recommend it except for the fact that you seem to be using Docker, and I’m not sure how best to backup containers.

I have a custom theme for Cinnamon/GTK… But they recently updated it and the new default theme doesn’t actually look that bad… But using the default theme will make me a sheep. ;_;

I mean, we came from banging rocks together to making those rocks think for us. Our entire modern world is so far divorced from ancient humanity it’s hard to list all the individual accomplishments. Recently though has been the electrical grid, global logistics chains and the internet. In these times of medical doomerism, it’s also important to remember that we banded together killed smallpox.

Compared to other platforms, they have a lot of good features and generally act in the public interest.

In regards to their DRM system, honestly some people are going to add DRM to their games no matter what. I’d much rather they use Valve’s system than some insecure third party spyware.

People have also mentioned their 30% cut which honestly seems pretty normal for an online storefront. It’s especially fair when you consider the fact that they provide marketing, hosting and payment processing for you. Not to mention things like achievements, matchmaking and workshop support if you want it.

There’s also the fact that a lot of the anti-monopoly folks tend to be Linux and/or foss advocates, and Valve has been pumping a lot of resources into open source projects.

Honestly, in the Linux space, the only reason Valve has a monopoly is because the other players just aren’t making any effort to compete.

Tl;dr Valve uses their market position for good (in general) and Steam is a good product.

Trying to get a clean home directory by trying to get apps to follow xdg and put config files in .config.

All three are web based frontends for git repositories; you use git to send and receive code to/from them for storage and sharing. They all also provide other things useful to developers such as issue tracking, wikis and such. They are different products that fulfill the same role.

what software does github.com use?

It’s all proprietary software (presumably) written in-house. We don’t have access to it.

whats the difference between them (pros/cons)?

Github:
Pro: Wider reach, everyone knows about Github.
Con: Proprietary; your code is hosted based on the whims of Microsoft.

Forgejo:
Pro: Open source, selfhostable. There’s a big instance on https://codeberg.org/ which a lot of open source projects are starting to move to.
Con: It’s smaller and not as well known as Github. In theory it may also lack features, but I’ve not seen any that have gotten in my way.

Gitlab:
Pro: It’s… I guess in second place in terms of popularity? It’s also selfhostable.
Con: It’s one of those open source projects with paid closed source features, so not really appealing to either group. It’s also had questionable management decisions recently.

what about self-hosting? Possibilities/Preferences?

If you want to selfhost a git server, I’d recommend Forgejo; it seems to be the most friendly towards the open source and selfhosting communities.