I'm still considering getting a #remarkable tablet for the scribbling on PDFs support. But Joplin & our old surface tablet may save me from buying yet another device
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There are so many fun and useful GitHub bots you can write.
But please don't write this kind of bot.
Sure, maintainer can do whatever they want with their project, but I wouldn't want to use their library, let alone contributing to the project.
There are so many other ways to gain followers and likes/stars than holding hostage of other people's PR. This is why your project needs a community builder/manager and devrel.
One last win to share in closing this 2023, yet again about #reactnative and in particular about some of the invisible #opensource work that you folks most likely didn't notice 🥷
If you go on the React Native repo right now, you'll see that the number of open issue < 1000:
I’m so tired of the capitalist argument that an open source project cannot be successful because it’s based on nonprofit or donations instead of vc funding and corporates.
Some people seem to actually believe in this narrative that Linux, Mozilla products and the Internet itself are all alive solely because of for-profit industries while forgetting that the actual people, inventors, universities and organisations do exist in this world. Also the contributing factors by companies do not nullify the brilliance of the original project. FFS, it is not all because of the money.
@rolle
I am not sure I would include Linux in it, given that kernel work is really a lot of corporate work.
#OpenCV I consider a better example. A lot of academia goes into it and helps to foster a full ecosystem that is dependend on it. Yes, there are plenty of sponsors like Intel, but in its core it has been driven by academics for a long time.
And there are plenty of other ubiquous libraries. Maybe even products like #QGIS #openssl sadly is too, being neglected by funding for too long.
@rolle Humans have been collaborating and organising to make and do stuff since far before capitalism, money, or even civilisation was invented. They all kind of get in the way of so much stuff that could be invented but gets pushed aside because it's not profitable enough
#opensource folks, I’m looking to ditch Google workspaces due to privacy. I’m using the awesome @protonmail now for mail, calendar and drive plus the bonus of a password manager. I have a few options for photo backups and I’m going to use jitsi for chat and video calls self hosted version. Now what I’m struggling to find is a decent alternative to Google docs, sheets and slides. I really don’t want to use next cloud but does anyone have any suggestions #foss
#SBOM: The NSA, #CISA, ODNI and the CyberSecurity industry partners have released a cybersecurity technical report: “Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices for Managing #OpenSource Software and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM):
[PDF]👇
I am forever grateful to the people who contribute images to Wikimedia Commons and make them available under CC0 licenses. It's a tremendous resource for open-source projects, where typically you don't have the funding to pay for the rights to use a stock image from one of the commercial services.
Today I wanted an image of a baler (a farm machine that makes bales of hay) for use in a new software project, and found a nice one by Glendon Kuhns.
how hard would it be to take a standard off-the-shelf printer and replace its controller board?
it's not like you can put DRM on a motor. and let's be honest, sourcing the parts for a printer is the real hard part. programming it/figuring out how to drive it is hard, sure, but it's just firmware, anyone can download it off the internet.
you wouldn't buy printer parts. but you can buy a microcontroller and download firmware.
To everyone who does not already sponsor my #OpenSource work: please consider to do so! If you benefit from using PHPUnit, then it is in your best interest that I am able to continue to work on #PHPUnit.