jabjoe @ jabjoe @feddit.uk

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It's not really communism. It's all about freedom to compete. The bazaar is a market after all.

Note: Reference to The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Worth at least knowing of in regard to open source history.

I'm watching with interest what happens here. I left Reddit before for Voat for a while. It turned out that without policing (or maybe it was the type of policing) it turned into a toxic cesspit.

Policing of some kind is clearly import to human groups. In the real world, across the world and history, where is no law and order, you end up with war lords and drug lords, who setup their own rules. Take moderation away and online groups get consumed by trolls.

So I'm watching what happens with federated Lemmy with interest.

If Lemmy turns into a toxic cesspit, like Voat did, anyone remotely normal will leave to avoid the toxicity.

You mean a fork? Why not? A copyright assignment and relicensing dispute is what caused a LibreOffice to fork from OpenOffice. Forks is a great feature of FOSS and there are normal.

Best recent example I bumped into was OrcaSlicer it's a fork of a fork of a fork, merging in some of a fourth fork.

I don't think there is a way that always works.

It's not always possible to get a clear spec and do big design up front in R&D. The whole point can be to work out what can be done and how.

Rewrites are great. You have a specification that is so defined it is literally code.

When it's blue sky, it's harder. Plans will be wrong. The users don't understand really what they need or want. It all ends up evolving. Anything with a GUI is worse because users/customers need (want) things moved about, re-themed, with no regard to what's below. Best to nail them to mock up designs they signed off on. Same with API interfaces. If they signed off on the design, you can then point out "spec change" and get more time/money. It's more about ass covering than using the outcome or process.

Exactly!

I worked at one Agile place they had all their sprints and milestones in a Gantt Chart waterfall. They also did big design up front and a lot of process. They had do all kind agile and scrum training, but it was the most process heavy place I worked.

I think two party systems and FPTP need to go. In both UK and the US.

What I favour is Mixed Member Proportional Representation. Like NewZealand and Germany. But I want it PR mixed with Score/Range voting rather than FPTP.

The UK also needs decentralizing and federating. Maybe break up England into units similar to Scotland, Wales and NI.

I think the UK has a lot more swing voters than the US. In the US way too many people are Republican or Democrat people. They will vote for 'their' party or not at all. In the UK it's more fluid and not part of people's identity. Even a raging gammon changes who they vote for, as the Conservatives are finding out. Chasing that vote is losing them moderate votes.

Sounds so much like a abusive relationship for a reason.

I've been happy on FOSS desktop OSs for home for nearly 20 years and work 12 years. It's certainly possible to leave. Windows wasn't my first OS, RISC OS was, so I already I could be treated better.

You don't have to put up with it! Windows will take all it can from you and give as little as it can.

It's insane that's allowed. It should mean support stops.

I know it is done when there is one bomb by some nutters, but it seams labour intensive. Not sure how well it scales to warfare.

So they have to hope they find details on fragments left. I literally have no idea of the odds on that.

And forced the hardware obsolescence nightmare.

And the big tech surveillance nightmare.

And the nightmare of the war on general purpose computers. (OK, that is more GNU and GPLv3)

And a few other nightmares!

Also, how is Russia to know which bit of equipment is attacking them, and where is it from?

Yeh

Well then I missed that the first time.

I'd have put in bracket with each list item if it was FOSS, shareware, free trial, free for non corp use, etc.

I guess this is Technology not Linux or FOSS, but feels like the difference is often mixed up and it's not all about cost. Anyway, looks like there is now a added note they aren't all FOSS.

I get about 450 (as kids bounce on me). It's not nothing, about the same as Chernobyl alone (many got thyroid cancer but lived). Let alone adding 2314 for Fukushima.

Kind of academic as your still go past the small number killed in airships.