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It’s always been possible for these companies to pull the proverbial license rug from under the community’s feet. It was just a matter of time before they did it.
Point is, you can’t trust one powerful entity, especially not when money is involved.
It’s not really a rug-pull in the usual sense though - of “all of a sudden you cannot use this product anymore”
You can still use it up to the commit where they changed the license. And then people just make a fork from there and the community moves away from the initial project to the fork
exactly. Forking for any reason is the essence of FOSS.
Scenarios like OPs were taken care of right from the start. That’s just the legal side, tho. But someone still needs to do the actual work which is why it sometimes fails.
What many open source softwares do is write 5 lines of code, use autocode generators to convert 5 lines to 1000 lines and then automate code to have 200 commits in git repo with different datetimes. Basically, it is shown to the outside world that software is very complex.
We should all shift to Suckless
This is not the craziest conspiracy theory I’ve read today, but it’s definitely top 3.
Craziest all week for me, guess I curate my feeds different…
Probably based on the tea.xyz exploit, tbh.
This is not even the topic of discussion. (Disclaimer: The rest of the discussion here is tangential to the original post.)
While I have no qualms with you using Suckless. As a person who has used suckless tools (dwm, st, tabbed, etc) for 2 years straight in the past. There are simply more performative and easy to work with tools and programs. I spent a few weeks worth of time in total over the 2 years trying to configure dwm alone to match with my workflow, applying and maintaining over 40 patches from the website along with some of my own written patches. When I switched to awesomewm, I easily reproduced my design in a single day and extended it further w/o much effort. Sure, the codebase is much bigger, but it is a fair trade for me if it reduces the time I need for configuration as a user while giving me the same performance.
I had, more or less, the same experience if I talk about st which I later replaced with Alacritty. The socket mode also helps me save RAM space when using Alacritty as I tend to have multiple terminal emulator instances open.
The stock distributions of suckless tools are always unusable unless you patch them to hell at which point they are definitely going to stop being suckless unless you really want to brainstorm and spend more time on it. (Read the Suckless Principles.) You can argue that criticizing Suckless Tools is in essence criticizing yourself because they are intended as canvases to paint on by the user. For me, it’s just a waste of time and I would rather go for a program that is less hassle to configure & maintain.
Honorable Mention: Suckless Devs endorse Neo-Nazis in their team.
I agree that suckless should be simpler and should have a bit more code to ease user’s life but they’ve deliberately kept it so so that the user understands what’s going on like Arch or Gentoo.
I request lemmy dev to add a feature to sort by downvotes. I think that would be most useful to everyone.
I don’t know if the web version has it, but jerboa has sort by controversial. It sends it right to the top.
