I think your market would open up and grow spectacularly if you could make a version of this for Linux (and possibly BSD). OpenSwiftUI might be a great start for research.
Good luck!
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Key philosophy about tech: "A two-bladed sword is neither inherently evil nor good; its moral alignment depends entirely on how it is used and by whom"
Good luck!
... and that it is relatively easy to run (most) Windows apps they love through Bottles (https://usebottles.com/), and/or WinApps (https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps)...
... oof
A new license legally becomes active once it has been made public (i.e. it is committed to the source tree) and is not retroactive (for legal reasons).
And because of this, unless the owner/maintainer is willing to nuke a huge chunk of the history within their public repository (with all repercussions which might come with it) it is still possible to make a safe fork of a open source / open core product suddenly moving into a different direction. Time travel to the point before the new license was added to the repository, and fork from that point in time.
The owner/maintainer involved might absolutely not like that but legally they have no choice to allow it, given the license and its permissions at that particular moment in time in the repo.
This is because of the lack of Widevine CDM, and the majority of people wanting to stream stuff using services like Tidal, Netflix and Spotify.
They will also want to use a single browser for everything, which in practice means Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari.
Ladybird will very likely not have access to Widevine, because of the cost, requirements, and Google as gatekeeper. Some developers of small opensource Chromium/Electron based browsers also earlier tried and Google simply said no.
And even if they have reverse engineered the CDM extension (which will make Widevine work, not unlike a small hack/workaround with regard to Chromium and Chromium forks) it will not work because all browsers using Widevine on those two platforms require something called VMP (Verified Media Path) which is, as far as I understand, a certificate and verification library supplied by Widevine embedded within the browser.
Without VMP embedded in the browser streaming from popular commercial providers such as Netflix will not work on Windows and MacOS, even when the Widevine extension is in fact active.
Believe me, I checked.
IMO all of this is not only set in motion to (try to) protect from piracy, but also to kill any serious competition from small parties like LadyBird, and to keep the browser market firmly in the hands of the likes of Microsoft, Apple and Google. Because who will use a browser in 2025 unable to stream content, or without hacks at 720p maximum? (looking at you, Brave and Netflix)
This also means that browsers like Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox are in fact not true opensource browsers because their respective public repositories do not contain the assets needed for VMP signing.
On another note, at this moment the majority of people should be glad that browsers with corporate backing and enough income like Brave (whatever you might think of Brendan Eich's ideas), Vivaldi and Firefox exist because without them you would have no serious choice on Windows or MacOS at all.
The current apps are all released by Serif but have been made fully free recentyly.
So discontinued or what? Would be a real tragedy if it is...
1. Go to your library
2. Click the filter button
3. Under "hardware support" you'll see a dropdown "Steam Deck" with 4 options, here's some explanation what they mean:
Verified - Means this game 100% works on Linux (and Deck), which is verified by Valve
Playable - Means this game works on Linux (and Deck) but it might have some tiny issues (e.g. font size)
Untested - Might work, but not tested
So to check if your games would run pretty nicely either filter on "Verified" games or "Verified or playable" games and it filters out everything which will or might not run at all.
You'll be surprised how much games can run on Linux these days -- thanks to the massive effort Valve puts in Proton and some devs (including Valve) publishing native Linux builds of their games on Steam, and even things you might not even consider at all like Skyrim or Oblivion with all your favorite mods (!)
https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/bin/omarchy-...
The container they spin up: https://github.com/dockur/windows
And vanilla Arch is still in play, the only thing they do is a shit ton of configuration so you don't have to do it yourself. Basically dotfiles but on steroids.
It's also great for some inspiration if you want to do some ricing yourself.
It has been open sourced a while ago: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
"[...]THEY’VE GOT YOU BY THE BALLS! They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want.
They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interest.
That’s right.
They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
They don’t want that.
You know what they want?
They want OBEDIENT WORKERS. OBEDIENT WORKERS. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.[...]"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso
https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/comedy/george-carlin-dumb-amer...
* DIY w/ KVM/Xen
* DIY w/ OpenStack - https://www.openstack.org/
* ProxMox - https://www.proxmox.com/en/
* Paid OpenStack through one of their partners - https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/consulting/
* OpenNebula - https://opennebula.io/
* Nutanix - https://www.nutanix.com/
If you want a solution that "just works", is simple to manage and can even extend to public cloud infrastructure when needed I can really, really recommend Nutanix. Migrating from VMWare is also really simple, they have a tool which makes that very easy. Do note that they use a heavily modified KVM as hypervisor.
I hope you can see this because my posts in this thread are getting attacked and downvoted.
This pretty much summarizes how it started (copied from Google):
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5823666/ladybird-web-browser...
(note that while the exact word never is seen in evidence added to this post but it sure is or hinted towards elsewhere.)
and evidenced by this its ongoing:
https://xcancel.com/awesomekling/status/1971287738268909576
because some people disagree with things like this:
https://xcancel.com/awesomekling/status/1966456391146606806
And there are tons more posts that show that some people are not exactly nice towards him on his X timeline.
Also there's direct proof of these accusations out there but I will not link to those out of professional courtesy for those involved (yes, some people still have that).
"Upstream Proposal: Repository Grouping/Subgroups in Forgejo":
https://codeberg.org/fedora/forgejo-deployment/issues/224
"feat: extend Forgejo URL structure from organisation/repository to organisation/project/repository":
I believe you can follow the status here (Federation roadmap): https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...
https://www.msnbc.com/news/news-analysis/trump-national-guar...
If he does he can (and will) federalize all National Guard units so they in fact become "federal troops" and this can (and will) allow his "own" federal military through Hegseth to deploy and operate domestically. Additionally he can declare a portion of the US population "insurrectionists" and act upon it, without interference of local law enforcement and government (and the risk of also labeled the same if they do).
As a European with quite some knowledge about European history hopefully I do not have to take a history book and explain the repercussions of Trump doing this?
* DHH is not only considered racist / fascist due to some blog posts, but also for making Hyprland the default DE in Omarchy, developed by someone who goes by the name Vaxry Vaxerski, who is also considered fascist and racist, and thus banned from contributing to freedesktop projects due to supposed breach of CoC:
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat
* Hyprland and all its contributors are now also considered fascist from taking sponsorship money from 37signals, DHH's company, due to it being an important part of Omarchy.
https://account.hypr.land/sponsors
* Due to the fact that both DHH and Vaxry are both considered fascist / racist, Framework and its CEO (yes, that Framework) are now considered to be supporters of fascism, because Framework is sponsoring and supporting both Omarchy and Hyprland.
https://account.hypr.land/sponsors
* Cloudflare (yes, that Cloudflare) is considered to support fascism because they support Omarchy and the Ladybird webbrowser (which is a project also run by someone considered to be a fascist)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/supporting-the-future-of-the-ope...
* Last but not least, Tobi (Shopify CEO) and thus Shopify are also considered by many to be supporters of fascism when this drama started to unroll for standing by DHH no matter what when activists wanted to deplatform and ban DHH from his own creation (Ruby on Rails). Which makes the Ruby Central drama due to the involvement of Shopify even more interesting:
https://xcancel.com/tobi/status/1970944464303923687
Me? I want to hop in a time machine back to the 90s/early 00s before all this crap started and everybody was just generally nice to each other.
EDIT: And forgot to mention Jef Raskin, who together with Woz played a pivotal role engineering the first Macintosh in 1984.
Some examples:
Tilaa (NL) - https://www.tilaa.com/en/
Offering compute, storage, databases, containers, you name it. And having personal experience with these guys I can tell you they are awesome. Want to host your stuff specifically in a CO2 neutral DC? They can do that too.
Leafcloud (NL) - https://leaf.cloud/
Green OpenStack based cloud provider
Stuxhost (NL/DE) - https://stuxhost.com
Focused on managed NextCloud hosting, managed webhosting and VPN
And there are hundreds more, actually.
"2024/02/29, 14:06:55.852622 [LogKimbo][CAppSystemState] Handle message! cmd_id 501 RS_CTRL_REMOTE_EVENT, len 8 serialno 0"
Note something being named RS_CTRL_REMOTE_EVENT
This is the marketing page targeted at companies in the Netherlands:
https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/microsoft-viva/insights?mark...
...ask Copilot to play a nice game of clue, checkers, tic tac toe, chess or whatever.
Adoption metric accomplished! :)
(That's what you get when you force people who don't want to use AI to use AI.)
You really think they, not unlike most top of the crop MSFT partners, get support out of India?
Try directly from the teams in Redmond.
"Common themes among fascist movements include: authoritarianism, nationalism (including racial nationalism and religious nationalism), hierarchy, elitism, and militarism. Other aspects of fascism – such as a perception of decadence, anti-egalitarianism and totalitarianism – can be seen to originate from these ideas."
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EU...
As far as I know TikTok in Africa and Eurasia will still be owned, and operated, by ByteDance from China.
How all of this is going to work out content wise is going to be... interesting, indeed.
... Traefik is pretty good yes, but a standard? Hell no.
"So democracies can’t go to shit, right? Wrong. They just go to shit more slowly and quietly. There’s no incentive for democratic governments to provide objectively good policies (as opposed to good-sounding policies), because voters lack the expertise to assess the complex effects of any particular policy on any desired outcome. This is because 1) it is extremely hard (if not impossible) to acquire that expertise, 2) voters are largely ignorant and biased by tribal allegiances, and 3) each citizen’s vote has essentially zero impact on political outcomes, giving them essentially zero incentive to acquire that expertise or overcome those biases. Therefore, democratic governments gradually accumulate good-sounding (but ultimately bad) policies, grow increasingly sclerotic and inefficient, and go to shit."
That's because Microsoft's own fucking developers don't even understand how Entra authentication/authorization works, and that in some/most scenarios you'll need to check if a account is actually authorized to enter a protected resource post-login (which you need to do within the Oauth login flow in the resource being accessed, nobody will do it for you).
Something I already discovered by accident (and fixed, ofcourse!) in my own SaaS service at the time (with support for Entra B2B authentication) even before this researcher discovered the same at Microsoft:
https://research.eye.security/consent-and-compromise/
HN discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44850681