But what real-world significance does this have?
None - I don’t know of anyone that parses release names. Versions, yes, absolutely, but silly version release names?
I came into the comments to see what other reason there was, but it seems it’s a non-story.
So you need the self control required to add this extension for those sites you don’t have the self control not to visit too often?
If it prevents us having another crappy week thanks to the like of Crowdstrike, good.
Before this year, the thought of an entirely arbitrary block to things like American cloud services by America to its European allies would have seemed extremely unlikely. It would make no sense, the damage to America and it’s GDP would far outweigh any any political benefit.
All of those reasons still hold true, but I absolutely assure you, European governments and companies all over have that possibility firmly in their risk portfolio now. America tells microsoft to immediately not only stop selling products in Europe, but disable those already in use? Ditto Google. Ditto Apple. Ditto all the hundreds of IT hardware producers that are American. Want to cripple a foreign government that uses MS Office? Remotely disable it. job done. Sure, it would be illegal, but America’s government has no respect for law.
(Even before this, several European governments were using open source (Germany, France, Austria, Portugal - there’s a list but this is less about idealism and more about protecting themselves from the unpredictable as well as not trusting America with their data any more. Every thing like this can only be seen as non Americans distancing themselves from America every way they can, and with good reason.)
Because Musk has turned it into somewhere that hate speech is not only tolerated, but encouraged.
Lemmy is literally the antithesis of X, no wonder you’re being downvoted.
Why are you cross posting content from a hate site?
A perfect use for them - controlled environment, difficult conditions, repetitive and predictable workflow.
But I’m puzzled by the design - why have a cab? Wouldn’t a more efficient layout be a whole-bed platform with all systems underneath?
Play store is impossible to browse to see what’s worth trying for this reason.
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“Free speech” for these people has only meant for them.
ecological compatibility,
The what now?
“Avoid US based software and services”
TLDR; you can’t. At least not if you’re running any kind of business.
I did a quick audit at work a few weeks ago. Over 90% of our stack is US based. Windows, office, 365, vmware, even our linux distros. And that’s without even thinking about supply chain. And most of the the hardware we use and has support licences.
Fuck this project, but… their source code can be free and open source even if they distribute binaries which aren’t.
An example of how this didn’t work for one project. (From memory, and it was a long time ago - 2005/2008 ish)
Xchat was once the best IRC client for Windows (after Mirc). It was free software, but the developer started charging for the Windows builds of it. Linux binaries were still free, but he claimed that it was time consuming to build on Windows and etc etc (A bit rich considering it was mostly his code - and there were suspicions he made it deliberately so)
Some people were pretty pissed off about this, especially as it used some other code that was foss and it was felt against the spirit.
Anyway, it was cloned into Hexchat which is fully free on all platforms and apparently not so difficult to build binaries after all.
15 years later to today, Hexchat is thriving and Xchat has been completely dead for 15 years.
Like the bots aren’t already scraping every website all the time anyway.
I was curious so I took a closer look at Sheltermanager and, honestly, I’m very impressed. They have a free demo on their site so you can show it off to people and see if there’s any interest.
And agree, self-hosting doesn’t sound like it would suit them or you, but you asked in an opensource thread and that is nearly always self-hosted. SM looks quite fairly priced for a hosted solution.
That’s their decision, but it’s very unlikely. Like much bespoke software that’s evolved over a long time, it was a pretty messy codebase, and also mostly in perl and was entirely written to their exact needs. It worked because of me, which was a curse because they were unable to find another person to support it after I left.
It’s a shame that doesn’t exist yet. I was in your position for a horse charity 25 years ago and couldn’t find anything either. I ended up writing them such a system, which grew and grew. Sadly it was owned by them and replaced a couple of years ago.
Is sheltermanager not suitable for self hosting? They claim to be open source
Yeah, right. Of course it is. Ever tell a dictator no? They’re very forgiving.
Whilst I share your sentiment, Elon Musk did not create Tesla Motors.
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning did. Musk only got involved, and later inserted himself on the board and ultimately took it over, after they sought him out for capital investment. I often wonder what they think about that decision today.
A reasonably unbiased write up