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thingsiplay, en The open source Godot Engine has a new Godot Development Fund
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https://godotengine.org/article/godot-developer-fund/ - direct link to the original post, for anyone who don't want to read a third party article.

notfromhere,

Thank you, kind stranger

SFaulken, en Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To
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This is nice for Oracle to say. That being said, Oracle are not "The Good Guys™" and never have been. They might be legitimately honest about Oracle Linux and their commitment to being open and free, but they're horrible about so many other things, and always have been.

perviouslyiner, en Bad News for Open Source: EU Committee Approves the Cyber Resilience Act - FOSS Force

Surprised that such a long article never quite got around to explaining exactly what is the problem?! They (eventually) mentioned vulnerability reporting as one concern - is that it? Is there something else?

perviouslyiner,

Looking for an original source, the Eclipse letter seems to just be saying that open source organisations should be consulted?

yolo, en Evernote restricts free users to 50 notes. Time for open-source alternatives?

I recently switched to Standard Notes and it is just perfect.

speck,

Same

Karlos_Cantana,
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I tried 15 different note apps after my note app stopped being updated. I didn't like any of them until Standard Notes. It's nice that you can access them from any device.

demesisx, en Brazil's Superstar Neymar Jr. Faces Uncertain Future After Painful Knee Injury Against Uruguay
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What does this have to do with open source?

Truck_kun, en The open source Godot Engine has a new Godot Development Fund

Okay, I never really looked into Godot, so I knew nothing about it.

Nice to see that it not only supports C++ and C#, offers a python inspired GDScript language, but allows community bindings for other languages. It’s nice to see there are already community bindings for Rust, Python, Javascript, etc.

insomniac_lemon,
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but allows community bindings for other languages.

The bindings in 3.X were in a really good state even for niche languages, 4.X introduced a new system that threw that out the window as all bindings needed to be redone as a new effort.

More integration was needed for compiled languages, but it kinda sucks that the language I want to use (that was listed as production-ready for 3.X) still isn't an option more than half-a-year after 4.0 released (and still only splintered efforts by individuals).

Truck_kun,

Well, Godot is getting a lot of press right now.

Hopefully it leads to not just more people using it, but more developers working on it, improving the ecosystem, and hopefully the bindings as well.

insomniac_lemon,
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Possibly, but the most expected immediate direction (both for new contributors and the existing Godot team) due to the current situation is likely improving (or simply using) C# support over any bindings.

In my case, people interested in the same language might actually switch over to Unreal instead (as it does have a language-support plugin). That and I think it's just a tall order to create bindings from scratch especially for 1 person, maybe even a year-long task so kinda sucks the 3.X bindings got broke (still seems odd to me that those devs weren't/still-aren't interested in 4.X).

It's also possible that even the newer bindings require specific knowledge of Godot's system (also maybe a bit of C/C++ knowledge) resulting in less people able to understand enough to even start creating bindings.

I mean I'm sure there will be an ecosystem change (beyond C#) because of this, but it'll probably have more effect longer-term (if Unity can't figure out how to dig upwards).

ripcord,
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Which language?

insomniac_lemon,
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Nim-lang. Python-esque style but compiled, having performance and high flexibility. Here's an image with some code in it (non-Godot) (Note: reading from text grid) and here's an example project (number converter) I made for 3.X (go to /src/ for actual code, main.nim and convert.nim).

Probably lends itself to gamedev (particularly highly tunable yet optional memory management, arc/orc likely what most want).

Note that this likely could have been guessed via this list as C# is obviously not it, Rust and Lua have 4.X bindings, so that only leaves 3 options in the production-ready category (and the other 2 are JS/TS).

ripcord,
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Thanks. Very interesting

x3i, en Please help make my dream a reality

Okay, I see an emotional story and a set of general statements about how a fediverse platform should be like but I do not see a single sentence regarding what would be different from existing platforms. You have to be specific if you ask tech people for money, this description sounds just… hollow.

From what I see you could just set up your own Lemmy/Kbin/Whatever server, no need for excessive funding upfront. Sorry but sounds sketchy.

Akavire, en Please help make my dream a reality

What's the project? Where's my repo?

soullioness, en Please help make my dream a reality
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What’s the project?

DieguiTux8623, en Bad News for Open Source: EU Committee Approves the Cyber Resilience Act - FOSS Force

The idea behind it was undoubtedly “good” and had protection of citizens in mind. As always the implementation was “lacking” maybe due to failure by regulators to understand how FOSS works. But surely the open source community will find a way to work around this as it has always done.

wagesj45,
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"You can't use my software if you're in the EU."

There. Maybe if they fuck around and find out that the bulk of server software relies on open source software made by volunteers, they'll get their head out of their ass.

Ronno,
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I think I’m going to buy some shares of VPN software companies…

DieguiTux8623,

I agree, power to regulate should be given to knowledgeable people who understand what they are ruling about. At least proprietary software using open source libraries and frameworks (released unfer LGPL or Apache or MIT licenses) is not affected and can continue to sponsor FOSS development so this is not the end at all. What I said is that maybe communities will find a way to continue operating however.

conciselyverbose,

The problem with that (which I would absolutely support if they want to pull nonsense like this) is that you're already under licenses that preclude that for everything already existing. It's not a real option.

wagesj45,
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Great. So what, will they just be able to directly debit our bank accounts for the $15 million fine when we're found to violate their stupid law? Or will every open source developer will be barred from taking a vacation in the EU lest interpol nabs them for breaking this stupid law? What is their enforcement mechanism?

conciselyverbose,

No, but Europeans contribute to open source, too, and if they actually go through with this it's going to fuck up a lot of projects.

perviouslyiner,

Freedom zero precludes any such restrictions - free software licenses don’t have any restrictions on use

wagesj45,
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So how do they enforce this? They ask to extradite me or seize my bank account if I don't provide security patches in their preferred manner?

brecht, en Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

Brought to you by the company who went to court to stop people from using their own open source code.

saplyng, en Creatives of all kinds: check out this delightful list with dozens of FOSS creative tools for artists, photographers, film makers, game devs, musicians, and more!
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Is "delightful" the codeburg version of "awesome"?

ADHDefy,
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Yep! :) Same idea, but everything in it is entirely free and open source (Awesome might be the same way, I'm not totally sure about the open source requirement).

wave_walnut, en Creatives of all kinds: check out this delightful list with dozens of FOSS creative tools for artists, photographers, film makers, game devs, musicians, and more!
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How about web browser?
I'm going to try Vivaldi.

mycus,
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Contortion,

As a home browser it's alright, but it really shines for me when I'm at work. I work on multiple projects so I created a workspace for each with default tabs I need. I also added a bunch of startpage folders for HR links, documentation links, stuff I want to learn which is a lot more user friendly than bookmarks, I find. I also added my email client to the panel sidebar so I can quickly check and respond in the same browser window.

Then there's also the cmd + e shortcut which acts like the Mac OS spotlight but for browser functions.

On the whole it's made me a lot more productive.

smallaubergine, en Floorp is a lean Firefox fork with privacy and customizability

Trying it out right now, seems really solid. Took a while to get all my extensions ported over with all my settings. Wish Firefox sync could sync that stuff too. I love the side tabs, with tabscroller extension it's a blast. Gonna try as my main browser for a while

jucktion,

I'm glad you like it. I've been using this for a couple of weeks and I thought it was pretty solid too. I can have Firefox just the way I like it.

ozoned, en Evernote restricts free users to 50 notes. Time for open-source alternatives?
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I host my own Joplin and wife and I sync our notes to it and we love it. She’s non-technical and has no issues figuring it out, but we use minimal features. It did just get the ability to draw pictures as well, but we use that mostly just for the kids to play with.

ProtonBadger,

Yeah Joplin is nice. I sync it to a free 10GB Dropbox account and use it on Linux and iOS. I've also used it with Android and Windows in the past, it's available everywhere and works great.

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