i want to boil people like this alive
in minecraft of course
Minetest*
Luanti*
It got renamed? That seems pretty crazy, but it might be for the better considering the original name didn’t really suggest it was a serious independent project.
Snap! I forgot about the rename news already… forgettable new name :)
the issue with this argument is that i don’t care about who made the app when it doesn’t work. that’s why i still have a chromium based secondary browser, it doesn’t matter that it’s the work of a billion dollar company trying to get a monopoly when the website i’m on is broken. yes, the blame is on who made the website, not firefox. i still need to be able to use it somehow
… that depends on this FOSS app.
Star designers and engineers don’t do Open Source? 🥺
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”
GIMP isn’t quite as feature rich and useful as photoshop… except GIMP has the “Color to Alpha” function which I’ve still yet to learn how to imitate in photoshop, and I’m not sure it even can. And I use that function all the freaking time.
Well you can color me intrigued! I’m going to go read about what that is
You ever have an image of something like fire or mist or galaxies and stars or whatever taken with a black or white background, and you want to make it a transparent background instead? Color to alpha keeps the translucent elements intact at the appropriate translucency while removing the background color. Super useful for compositing images together.
Venn diagram go brrrr
"Dear floss4life,
Our developers have encountered an issue while using the open source framework you published on github. We have lost as many as 400 user accounts. The estimated cost of this error is $6800.
This is unacceptable. Be a professional and fix it immediately.
Chad Elkowitz, MBA, Gruvbert and sons Finance Lt"
That’s why the no warranty clause is by far the most important in any license granting access to the public
And it’s also why many companies refuse to use open software. It baffles me that no insurance company saw this as a market opportunity to sell open source software insurance.
I’ve actually found a lot of the smaller foss tools I use are better than their proprietary counterparts because of the design philosophy and that people don’t cut as many corners on passion projects as when they’re on a deadline
For real. I just spent a decade in academia working dog hours with little pay keeping services running wondering how the true devs and sysadmins do it.
I recently switched to the corporate world and have peeked behind curtain of competency: headless chickens running around, patching failing products rather than spending time to properly fix them because immediate results are the only metric that counts.
Stability, scalability, reproducibility? Forget it, that’s someone else’s problem apparently.
Late stage capitalism.
The issue is that capitalism fundamentally requires forward thinkers and enlightened (or at least rational) perspective to function sustainably.
But capitalism rewards short term thinking, everywhere from corporate leadership, to the workforce, to the consumers caught by ads designed to catch and hold their ever-shortening attention spans.
Fundamentally, it needs regulation to thrive. The true cost of a purchase, including environmental and decommissioning/disposal costs must be tied to the initial purchase value. Through this, we might get a functional capitalism.
The reason this bothers me so much is how hard it makes it to get a job
I’ve seen people in other companies getting paid significantly more than me who just have zero clue what they’re doing
Same, and same.
Because it can’t be turned into a service
You forgot to mention that they will let you use it for cheap until everyone got used to it and then crank up the price by 500%
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“All-star” makes me worried there’s some hidden society of super competent developers remaining at the big software corps that we somehow never noticed.
It’s funny because apps like Blender and Krita are actually competitive to proprietary software.
And Linux/BSD are so good proprietary developers rip them off to whatever degree legally permissible.
Microsoft servers also use linux
And Firefox, git, Dia, gimp, etc…
Proprietary OS’s like Windows and macOS lack package managers too that tools like chocolatey and homebrew provide.
And OBS
Dia and gimp are ok, but they’re still quite behind the curve. I love floss and wouldn’t use the closed alternatives, but we got to know where we stand.
Windows has WinGet now, which is a built in package manager. It might not be as good as most linux distro package managers, but it does exist.
There are proprietary VCS?
There’s perforce
There were many.
git was created because a proprietary VCS was being a dick
The ones I’ve seen in the wild are pvcs and ccc/harvest, but there are others. I think they usually try to brand it as part of a larger end-to-end SDLC tool or change management, or it’s built to work with a specific proprietary system like Autodesk vault.
I was going to say git butler, which wraps git, but actually looks like that’s gone open source
Krita is fucking slow though :/
Blender had a reeeeaaally long way though, I remember a time where Blender was quite big already but Maya just was miles ahead in terms of usability. Nowadays they are not only even, Blender is probably used more often since it’s not only free but more people know how to use it than Maya
I tried blender in those old days but stuck with cinema 4D at the time, blender really sucked. These days it’s totally awesome kinda wish I had more time for it but I’m focused on other things.
And also maya sucks.
I love this meme because every app on my phone designed by a company worth more than a million dollars fucking sucks, and the best app on my phone is RIF, an app designed by a single developer, and reanimated into a lich by a team of programmers for free
Wait RIF was reanimated? In what way?
This guide should help
https://github.com/KobeW50/ReVanced-Documentation/blob/main/Reddit-Client-ID-Guide.md
It might seem daunting depending on your experience with computers, but the guide was good enough for my tech-illiterate ass
“somehow RIF returned…”
Wait wait wait… RiF ain’t dead?!
I would say it’s undead. Like a Lich. The fine folks at revanced.app have done an amazing job reanimating it. It’s just as good as it was last June!
Can you log in yet? Last time I did this I couldn’t log into an account, only browse.
I’m logged in, so might be worth a try
Nice, I’ll have to see if I can dig up my apk of the paid version.
You need to patch it with the revanced manager.
Then you need to create an apikey on reddit for developing your own app.
In which you agree not to use it for sth. Like rif…
However with that apikey you can then login and use rif.
+1 for Voyager! Writing this comment using it :-)
I have no clue how much British Gas is worth, but that is the worst app ever. Doesn’t update your bill/balance in anything approaching real time. Frequently doesn’t let you log in.
