Someone who strongly associates with barbaric beliefs is less likely to want to spend their spare time working in peace for all, and more likely to be wanting to work on software that at least in some way carries or represents those beliefs, for example in capturing and using user data, or in aiding systems used by the military to kill children of “non-citizens”. So being “absolutely” uncaring does not really make sense.

Let’s look at Linux, for example, which is perhaps the most successful FOSS project in the world. It takes contributions from people of a wide range of motivations, such as:

• hardware vendors who just want their stuff to work
• intelligence agencies, who want stable systems to spy on people
• hacking groups that want low level control to facilitate exploits
• militaries that want reliable guidance systems to bomb women and children abroad
• freedom fighters who need top security to protect themselves from repressive governments
• free software advocates who believe computing should be accessible to all
• ad agencies that need a scalable solution to push their dark patterns more efficiently
• IT pros building a career on maintaining complex systems

And so on. The net result is a solid, general purpose kernel and a rich ecosystem of supported software. All Linux did was focus on technical details and largely ignore the source.

In the words of Linus Torvalds:

With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Does it really matter who those eyeballs belong to? Yes, we should be careful about malicious intent (e.g. xz scandal), but that’s a technical problem, not a political or cultural one.

At the end of the day, everyone is free to associate or not associate with any groups they want. If you’re a maintainer, that means you get to decide which contributions you accept and who you let into your communication channels.

I use software maintained by people I really don’t like, such as:

• GrapheneOS - lead dev is a giant pain to deal with
• Lemmy - both lead devs have extreme political views that I strongly disagree with and find dangerous
• Brave - CEO’s political views are distasteful, to put it mildly
• Tor - pretty sure it’s largely maintained by spooks and militaries (at least it started that way)
• React web framework - developed and maintained by Meta, whom I actively avoid and refuse to do business with

I’ve also contributed patches to some of those as well. Why? Because the technical merits of those protects is pretty much all that matters. If the maintainers go off the deepend and piss people off, I or someone else can fork it. That happened with various OpenOffice (LibreOffice), ownCloud (NextCloud and OpenCloud), and now Redis (Valley), though those had more to do with licensing changes than technical project direction.

That’s why I’m concerned when projects put non-technical concerns (say, a COC) above technical concerns. Yes, civility is expected, and enforcement of that is a lot easier when the project focuses primarily if not exclusively on technical concerns.

Sorry, I used “real-time” fairly loosely. I didn’t mean it in the sense of a real-time OS (hard deadlines), more in the sense of “fast updates” (like a chat server). Go is great if you want very low latency in a highly concurrent system since task-switching is so lightweight.

Looks like it’s the new default in OpenCloud.

They didn’t son win either, the dispute is ongoing.

Pretty dope! I hope it gets traction.

I’m guessing they’re not 19. That’s the simplest explanation.

It’s a problem. I have like 10:

• my main online handle (not this one)
• something with my name
• a family domain
• a few for business ideas
• a couple variations of the above

I only use three:

• online handle - it’s my new junk email domain
• family domain - personal email
• family domain with a different TLD - self-hosted stuff

I should probably give some up, but I’m a little attached to them.

Torvalds’s tirades for example were awesome and most of the time well-deserved for the idiot trying to accidentally the kernel, but are quite more of a bummer and a momentum-killer when looked at at a project-wide scope.

Sure, and the problem was the profanities and personal insults. He has toned down both and I think the project is much better for it, but I wouldn’t call his communication style “empathetic,” merely technical. If there’s an issue, he’s clear about it, minus the profanities and personal insults.

we now need to actually care and be watchful why or how something is being made to work

And I very passionately oppose that. I don’t care if the lead maintainer is a Nazi or a communist, I care that they keep their beliefs to themselves and focus on technical issues in the project. For example, I strongly disagree with the Lemmy devs politically, yet I use Lemmy, have contributed patches, and will probably contribute more patches at some point if something pisses me off enough. The same is true for other projects. I disagree with Brendan Eich’s views on same-sex marriage, but that has zero impact on whether I’d use the Brave browser or Brave search engine.

If our standard for interacting w/ a project is “I agree with the developers on this unrelated thing,” then we’re not going to get anywhere. We should focus on technical soundness, and leave the individual contributors to their own views on other stuff.

That said, I draw the line at a lack of inclusiveness. If a project is actively discouraging others to join the project on purely unrelated grounds (i.e. excluding people based on gender identity, nationality, etc), then I’d prefer to avoid that project. But not being aggressively inclusive isn’t the same as being exclusive; as long as contributions are welcomed regardless of source, it doesn’t really matter to me what the personal opinions of someone involved in a project are.

Identity politics is stupid. I don’t care if the lead dev is trans, obese, or Russian, I care that their technical contributions are sound and they’re reasonably respectful to contributors.

I think it’s a chicken and egg problem. A FOSS Roku-replacement needs apps to make get popular, and manufacturers won’t port their apps until it’s popular. Basically, manufacturers need someone with a big marketing budget to help them feel comfortable investing in a platform, but that’s not going to happen with a nice FOSS platform.

Maybe if we collectively raise like $100M or something, we could put together a big enough marketing budget to convince some of the bigger names (Netflix, HBO, etc) to take the risk, and the rest will follow if it’s popular enough. Maybe.

Mine is a Pixel running GrapheneOS, and it doesn’t seem to be on your list. My issue is that I’m not using Google Play Services, so I don’t get the benefits that it provides, one of which is managing notifications. So Signal has to manage notifications itself, which means it basically needs to always be running instead of the more typical Android model of being woken up when there’s a notification.

Or maybe it’s what you linked. Either way, I’d check that and see if it’s an easy fix.

Looks interesting.

This part confuses me though:

Tuwunel’s theme is empathy in communication defined by the works of Edith Stein.

What does “empathy in communication” have to do with a software project? Are they going to ban people who don’t display empathy? If so, isn’t that anti-empathetic? I’m kind of confused what this is intended to convey.

I’m all for empathy, don’t get me wrong, but ideally software projects are more focused on technical correctness than feels.

Yeah, I’ve been putting off setting it up.

Python is fine. It’s not my first choice for a high-performance, real-time application though, that should be in Rust or Go.

If you control both sides, you can just use a non-standard port. If you only control the client, you just need to make sure wherever your data exits allows outgoing traffic on that port.

So yeah, that should work.

If you turn off the battery optimization setting, does it get better?

I was missing a bunch of alerts for Signal because I downloaded it outside the GPlay store (which handles waking up processes better), and I got much more reliable notifications after disabling that setting. It uses a lot more battery though, but maybe that’s worth it for you.

And a lot more pre-planning.

So we should all be using Beta Centauri?

Check out the POSIX driver in OCIS/OpenCloud. It should keep the responsiveness of Seafile, while having a sane disk format.

Or you can try out the Seafile FUSE layer.

I’m in a similar boat, and I’ve been testing out Seafile and ownCloud OCIS, and I think I prefer OCIS. I’ll probably switch to OpenCloud though, since it seems a lot of the OCIS devs went there due to issues w/ management.

Some things I didn’t like about Seafile:

• complicated to set up - I wanted to throw it in a container, and that made it a lot more complex
• weird codebase - a lot of it’s in C, and some is in Go - not sure if they’re switching to Go eventually, or if it’s a one-off thing
• they only support MariaDB/MySQL, and I really want to avoid that - OCIS lets me just use the filesystem, which is really nice

But hey, if it works, it works, so don’t mess w/ it.

I don’t think it’s trying to. If you need the features Nextcloud provides, you should use Nextcloud. However, if your needs are a bit more modest and you mostly just need something that stores and retrieves files, then OpenCloud/ownCloud OCIS is probably the better bet. It’s a lot faster, scales a lot better, and it’s recent, so it doesn’t have all he baggage Nextcloud does.

My use case is very simple, I just want to store, retrieve, and edit files. So I just need to figure out Collabora or OnlyOffice integration, which should be pretty similar to how Nextcloud does it. If I end up needing the other features NextCloud offers, I’ll either switch (unlikely) or find projects that provide those features (e.g. things exist for calendar, weather, etc).

Yes, maybe. Or maybe not.

Here’s what I can verify:

• the project is indeed archived
• the Matrix protocol specification is problematic
• people suck

For the last point, I don’t know if this particular person sucks more than others in the same community. I can see they claim that, but I can’t independently verify that. I hope the Matrix community can see the constructive criticism here and fix the underlying issues, regardless of who is “right” here.