You know who will never mine your private communications to train an LLM?
Better yet, you know whose words you don't need to trust, because you aren't obligated to use any particular server? And the software is open source? And regularly audited by security researchers?
Matrix.
It's not perfect, but no tool is. It's a matter of what trade offs you're willing to accept. Just sayin' ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Dropped some updates to selfh.st/apps this morning - tiles now have visible/clickable tags, URL properties have been added for sharing custom views with others, and I've added a ton of new project icons.
I'm completely open to feedback on future improvements, but probably won't consider adding any more details to the tiles to prevent them from becoming too cluttered.
I didn't used to be a "militant" #FOSS user, but I've been bitten too many times by companies with #proprietarysoftware. For example, #Reason DAW, #Zbrush - both companies that decided to say fuck you to perpetual licenses. Now, I try to avoid any proprietary application. I recently went looking for a good notes app and everyone loves #Obsidian. As soon as I saw it was closed source, I noped out and settled on #Joplin. These companies will eventually fuck over customers so I won't waste my time.
Raspberry Pi IPOs, software launches, updates, a spotlight on #Wag - a #WireGuard management solution with client #MFA support, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
Do any of you have suggestions for managing SBOM and license compliance with OSS solutions? I've looked into DejaCode and ScanCode[.]io. DejaCode makes a good first impression but has some serious limitations when it comes to SBOM processing (supported format versions, handling of hierarchies). I would like to use something that allows a review process and handling of more complex licensing (e.g. dual licensing, SPDX expressions) before generating the final SBOM. Basically what DejaCode does but with better SBOM handling. #sbom#cra#compliance#license#foss
OpenFold is a big deal. And a great showcase for free open source software, enabling scientists to improve on each other's work in the best scientific tradition.
The funny part about the removal of networking from the default #keepassxc package on #debian, is that they did it for "security" reasons, without thinking that the MOST INSECURE way to transfer a #password to your #browser is via the CLIPBOARD. Absolutely every running app or service can read the clipboard! And yet, that's the default way they expect users to do it now!
Saddening me time and again is seeing individualism and fragmentation in #FOSS.
#Collaboration between projects that's so often low-hanging fruit, yet never happens. More anticipation of needs, helping each other, be stronger together. Yet it hardly shapes up to the extent that it could.
We seem to lack time to become sustainable, let alone 'win' from #Hypercapitalism. No time to seek collab as we prod on alone.
There are exceptions of course, and better collab tools are becoming available.
This makes no difference if new projects actively choose to go for proprietary platforms instead, and then make up excuses afterwards as to why this choice is supposedly valid.
The #FOSS community needs to understand that they need to actually use free software where possible, or collaboration will be never work out.
Today we have @Conan_Kudo back on the podcast, the plan was to talk about Change proposals but that happened 2 hours in so have a listen to see how we got so side tracked #Linux#Fedora#openSource#foss