𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 @ lemann @lemmy.one

Hey! Please contact me at my primary Fedi account: @lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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By this logic, the fantastic WINE project is a heresy lol

Phlat Hub

Ah yes, good old top:50% left:50% margin-left:-50% margin-top:-50%

Before that was worse, straight up center tags everywhere and assuming the user's screen was 1024x768 lol. Things today are sooooo much nicer with flexbox and especially CSS grid 😍

Haven't heard about the Gutenberg project before, seems pretty neat!

I'd probably add repair.wiki to a list of things I'd archive, although some of that content is picture heavy so not as easily compressible as Wikipedia

There was a project that allows you to download wikipedia and some other online resources into an easy to search & navigate UI, think it was called Kiwi something but can't remember. It was targeted at regions with poor internet coverage

That org chart is neat 👌

They offer a SaaS to pay the bills, and a standalone desktop editor suite for us Linux users

Corrected, thanks!

I'm looking forward to ECH, if i'm not mistaken that relies on DoH which has pretty widespread adoption in browsers at the mo

Very, very, very brave you are to torrent on Hetzner lol

Sadly doesn't work for gov level blocks that look at the SNI rather than blocking at DNS level

Edit: correction from ESNI to SNI

Zorin was my first venture into Linux over a decade ago, alongside Mandriva (which I think no longer exists now), and then later Ubuntu.

Go ahead and give it a try 👌

Grayjay can do this - there is a toggle in the settings for the YouTube addin to sync watch data with your Google account.

However, I'm worried about what Rossmann says in regards to profit and maintenance. The app is moderated/worked-on by (I think paid) professionals and we should pay a license of $9.99 yet the app is also unprofitable and may never turn a profit. So, what's the point in paying for the app?

By paying for the app, you're merely donating to FUTO. As Rossmann mentioned in his video, it is completely optional to pay.

There's nothing wrong with any app being unprofitable IMO. Public transport and car infrastructure is unprofitable and we don't have a problem with those... heck even my personal website is unprofitable, that's about $200-300 a year being funnelled into something nobody uses or visits.

Rossmann has a millionaire backing up his repair business

This is incorrect

Rossmann's personal repair business is financially independent from his employer, FUTO, who only partially sponsors Rossmann's R2R advocacy with the assistance of community donations. Rossmann frequently publishes hour long videos on his main channel crawling through the finances, and has spreadsheets online for public viewing where viewers can do an audit themselves

So, is some of this being funded by that person and other investors of FUTO or is our money the only thing keeping this afloat

AFAICT, FUTO is comparable to organisations like NLNET - the same people at sponsor the Lemmy devs. The aim is generally not to fund projects forever, but to eventually open source them after they've been developed to the agreed level of functionality. Seeing as this app is mainly a Rossmann initiative there could be an exception here though - such as Rossmann donating his own money towards development.

The app is niche and I can't see too many people paying for a license

I'm probably an exception then lol

I also can't see too many workers staying unless they are passionate. Something isn't adding up unless I'm wrong.

A lot of people who follow Rossmann are passionate about R2R, actually owning what you pay for, and not giving excessive control to monopolies like Google.

Grayjay is more along the lines of this spirit, and as soon as they have their DHT video hosting thing ready I'll gladly donate some of my storage space towards it 👌

And this is why a discourse style penalisation of new users can't come soon enough. Reported and blocked.

Slightly related but I hope uber doesn't do this... personally I'm trying to reduce my dependence on rideshare services but sometimes 💩 happens

Google famously bans all use of AGPL tools internally.

Wow, TIL. That is pretty heavy handed...

He accidentally sent people to a Newpipe clone once and that's why they should have the right to kill your license at any point in time for any reason or no reason at all.

That's only half the reason, let's not forget opposition lobbyists abusing unidentified loopholes in his initial R2R drafts, which are very costly to rectify later both time wise and monetary wise, even if at all possible. The mindset of companies screwing with you is probably not something that is easy to shake off, especially encountering it each day fighting serialisation and other rubbish just to repair someones macbook.

While not ideal, I respect his decision taken with the license chosen, even if it's against the spirit of what most people consider to be open source.

The organisation behind the app, FUTO, wants to take control back from companies and put into the hands of people, and while we can make the argument that FUTO are being hypocritical by keeping the keys to the castle per se, they have delivered an app that puts control back in our hands - removing the need to have a separate youtube, patreon, nebula and soundcloud app, alongside others, where you can follow individual creators easier on the platforms where you financially support them.

It won't appeal to people who just want to watch YouTube without ads (go NewPipe, Revanced etc..) or staunch FOSS supporters, both of which are seeking other ideals from their media consumption apps of choice.

The kind of people who will be using this app the most right now IMO will be Nebula and Patreon users, this app is like a dream come true compared to the official ones

good luck suing someone in a country like Russia, China or any other where these things are super hard to enforce

Those countries have their own domestic solutions already, rutube and bilibili. Why would they care about an app that only caters to western media products and monetary contribution sites?

At most, they can request Google to remove them from the PlayStore which they will be already doing because this is an app for YouTube without ads, which I'm pretty sure breaks Google's terms of service

This is not an app for YouTube without ads though, and it is published on the play store already...

there's not a real advantage on restricting forks, other than the original dev are trying to promote a paid tier so they can make a profit or something.

Well, no point having a discussion here if you didn't even spend 2 mins to read the manifesto of the company that owns the app.

There are not really any AOSP apps left, last time I checked there was no dialler, camera or SMS app

Nebula is beta, hopefully it gets support for sending back watch stats and saving watch progress 🙏

I see they have something similar for YouTube already, where you can enable/disable anonymity (using your google account for requests VS anonymous requests), and enable/disable saving watch history to your linked Google account

They won't use it because the licence creates an inbalance of power, so the creator of the app have more control than the actual user. An app/program is just an set of instructions how to do something.

A user is not affected at all by the license IMO, unless they intend to redistribute the app or code, although I do see where you are coming from with the imbalance of power thing

Why not charge for it? If you just copied and not make anything new noone is going to give you money anyway

Chinese clones do this all the time to all sorts of products, and they sell very very well. This even happened to Prusa, the 3D printer manufacturer. Their OSS firmware is being used in clones sold on Aliexpress for half the price

taking something and selling after improvements is literally how all buissness always worked

I agree. I'd rather give the original creator money if the person reselling/redistributing isn't adding tangible value to the product or app, but in most cases (except the clone example above) people tend to add value, like yt-dlp adding a TON of extractors, or NewPipe SponsorBlock integrating a bunch of new features

As for malware, I bet creator of malware won't be suddenly stopped by a licence text.

The community would also make it pretty well known that a malware ridden version of the app is floating around IMO, rendering it useless. And there's also Play Protect which deletes apps it doesn't like from devices without asking the user, like it did for legitimate copies of KDE Connect that were installed from outside the Play Store