runningmike

“ Similar to regular technology platforms, the architecture of technotlogy consists of an operating system (OS) built upon diverse theoretical and philosophical kernels, and Apps – artistic, political, and ethical projects. This architecture sustains multiple temporalities, ensuring the exchange of longevity (OS) and actuality (Apps).”

So true. A very misleading title. This license is far away of any approved OSI or FSF Foss license. Gumroad is a great service, the value is imho not in the software. But in the execution of it’s mission and the very simple way to lower the bar to sell digital goods without upfront costs.

Every little action helps in the long run. But Foss hardware is complicated and complex. Not a fully solved problem. But openness for all aspects and in all steps is a minimum. But hard to accomplish.

Very strong action of the SFC! We all benefit, like to hear the insides from neo4j perspective…

Great post! “The “digital revolution” is financially corrupt, morally bankrupt, and appears more and more every day like a parasite on its way to killing its host. Yep, Software is eating the world, all right.” Applies to a lot of AI develpments too imho. Only a same that this post is on the closed medium platform….

This report is a waste of public money. If you don't understand the basic privacy risks of using Microsoft products within learning institutions, this 213-page report won't help. The money spent on producing this report could have been better used on privacy awareness lessons for students, teachers, and staff.

Switch to https://insightmaker.com/ if you can. It is FOSS , maintained and used as powerfull but simpeler alternative.

Using a Google api reveals much more….

See also the comments on RC1 on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41791426

Nice, but the thing that holds a sensible person back from joining is point 10 in the ToS “10. Changes to the Terms

- We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised Terms. Your continued use of Simple Lister following any changes constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.”

code is published on:https://github.com/stfbk/PILLAR

Many people on earth have names with spaces. So good that a username can reflect a real name a person has.

Nothing. There is no need for consent. Just fork it and respect the agpl. You can do what you want as long as you respect the AGPL. So reselling is allowed.

Everything you can do with rst can be done now with markdown. But easier and better. The toolchain is superb now. MyST extends Markdown for technical, scientific communication and publication - https://mystmd.org/ and use Jupyterbook, which builds upon spinhx.

Guess we will never read the real facts. Truth is RMS was right. Again. Closed source security software is too often malware by design. We need open solutions we can truly trust.

In the text is stated’ All code used to create Newswire is available at our public Github repository. ’ But a check learned “(This repository is empty.” So not yet open science..

IMHO this title is primarily chosen for promotion. Not needed. But unfortunately many people, young and old, have never heard of OSI.

Clear context is missing: what are you hosting, what webserver, who are you - person of interest?, what is your IP, hosted on a cloud service or too cheap vps? , what is your dns? And most important: what is behind your front door…

I created my own guide after reading too much books: Simplify IT, The art and science towards simpler IT solutions , it’s cc-by on https://nocomplexity.com/documents/reports/SimplifyIT.pdf

I also keep a very sort overview of imho good resources on Problem Solving Methods at https://www.bm-support.org/problem-solving-methods/

Low or nocode is imho not the holy grail for solving business IT problems. Low code or mda like tools have since 1980 be promoted using several names. have, e.g.:

Low code tooling No code tooling Model Driven Engineering (MDE) Model Driven Design (MDD) 4GL tools

Low code tools are not strong on versioning and dealing with multiple parallel development tracks and teams simultaneously. Most tools are in fact based on a big design upfront paradigm, like an overall data model. Versioning on models, meta data and data of all created and generated software assets is poorly supported, if supported at all. Common practices seen in mature agile software development tools using micro services paradigms and advanced distributed version control systems are often lacking in the new low-code MDA family of tools. In large companies it is not uncommon to encounter models with hundreds (or even thousands) of entities / classes. That kind of models not only doesn’t help with developing software faster and more cost-efficiently but even has an adverse effect.

Low code tools have a strong focus on initial productivity gain. But a continuous fast changing business context with changing requirements requires an approach and toolset that is suited for giving long term productivity benefits.

> "I’m not an activist fighting for a better world or anything. But I get angry about the corporations screwing over people, software, planets. I’m not in a position to solve that."

You ARE in a position to make the world a little bit better. We all are. Start with simple things, like thinking about using cc-by license and think about why, when and what FOSS license to use. A FOSS license is just a tool but make it work for your goal(s)... And why not just ask your local government to use FOSS software on websites to be a bit more compatible with every home baked browser. Your privacy and freedom is limited year after year.

Short answer :no. A bit longer: no, all your mentioned problems have been solved. In both many COTS solutions as well as many FOSS solutions. Take one and improve the pain points that your potential users struggle with. Why not join a large FOSS cms project that is already working on these issues?

“ threats described above are easily fixed” This is not correct. Non tech users do not understand any of this imho.

Not very nice that again only some security vulnerabilities are mentioned without any reality check or nuance. Closed software has far more vulnerabilities and brought more misery.

But closed source vulnerabilities are hidden from the public eye. Often for decades. Despite the fact that non FOSS software should be seen and treated as 'malware' as RMS refers to closed source solutions.

an opinionated list of great machine learning learning resources: https://nocomplexity.com/documents/fossml/mlcourses.html

“ We hope that the Rust Foundation considers the history of trademarks and software freedom that we've discussed above.” Imho hope is not enough. More voices, e.g. users should make noise. What is the Mozilla position on this subject?

Great example of do not complain, but just do it better. Really like this! Of course made possible with Foss and cc-by-sa work. Quote heard from stalman ‘we should have called it freedom software instead of open source software’

I would strongly recommend MyST. MyST extends Markdown for technical and scientific communication. See https://www.myst.tools/

False choices imho: nowadays just combine markdown, rst and living code in notebooks using the great Jupyter book system. It is build on sphinx but resolved crucial friction points by creating MyST markdown. Brilliant and simple to use. And it is FOSS. Check https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/intro.html

WordPress powers still more sites than every other solution (> 42% of websites worldwide). Imho WP is a great example of user driven innovation along with advances in web technology. And the example that you can use GPL and make a good business and community! To build real simple things using WP as low code platform makes sense nowadays. Great release, congrats!