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I don’t know how many people care about it, but i like github “sort by thumbs up” functionality (see example) . it’s a simple indicator of what is more or less valued by the community.
I don’t know how many people care about it, but i like github “sort by thumbs up” functionality (see example) . it’s a simple indicator of what is more or less valued by the community.
it’s not that transparent , for example if i am considering funding signal , i can look at the 990 form , see the top salaries, the amount spent on salaries, the number of employees and calculate the average salary. I don’t mind it if the shareholders make a 10-20 percent return but i don’t want to to be a 90 percent return (which basically no public company has, from what i have seen in tech companies it is somewhere around 10-30 percent).
its a platform for funding, its got other features besides bounties (like a paywall for content like patreon), its for open source developers but might fit other creators.
polar (it’s open source)
Whats interesting is that both income , profits and the stock have been growing well for years, maybe they are just monetizing more aggressively because they can’t compete on product quality (unlike other markets that are still evolving, AI and Cloud). not a ton of stuff to improve in operation systems it seems.
<Linux from scratch joke>
So it will have good mainline linux support?
I mostly donate w Bitcoin
Aren’t there better coins with better privacy (which might be a helpful property , because being known as a generous person might make you a attractive target to charity scams attempts) and also much lower fees (monero? nano? , which reportedly has no fees) and faster transactions times? (if we are using digital currencies, we might as well try to support the best project by using it).
the monthly active users count didn’t really seen such a drastic drop, seem like something disappointed lemmy most devoted supporters , i didn’t notice a drop so big in such a short amount of time. there was also an increase in users after the initial surge of users in july due to the API drama. so i think the cooling down is over.
It’s good to see enhancement in moderations tools , there was a lot of feedback on that so i am happy this is being worked on.
With that said donations seem at a all time low (3,524), lower then when the new website started reporting donations ($3,962). on june 2 it was €4,010 , could the lemmy.ml censorship drama be related to this? maybe there is a way to mitigate this event?
Some of them are paid , they get donation money , and also from the NLNET iirc (which is tax payer money iirc).
Anyway this isn’t how you handle feedback , there is a reason wikipedia has a guideline called assume good faith , because if you are not assuming good faith you are probably assuming bad faith and that makes it difficult for an organisation to function for obvious reasons.
source available can allow a lot of things including modification of the source code (and in particular adding quality of life improvements and updating the code to run on modern platforms). Some restrictions like not allowing selling or even not allowing competition (for example allowing the game engine to run only the original game , or disallowing the removal of monetization).
If you look at openage (age of empires 2 reimplementation) the game is not playable 25 years after release and that game is considered a classic, we could lose a lot of very good games or software.
He is locked in California, a fairly progressive and leftist state i think , I am not entirely certain all that therapy is a good thing, i think i watched a documentary saying that psychopaths only learn from therapy how to be better manipulators and i feel like he sounds like psychopath even now.
With that said if he gets out of prison i think he should be allowed to participate in FOSS (when someone reviews his contributions), i can’t help but wonder if his reportedly unhinged behavior on the kernel mailing list was handled better (e.g. mandating he will go to therapy) the murder would not have happened.
I would argue that even having a project as source available is better then closed source and can still be pretty good, look at for example the FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project.
If anybody want to ask a game creator to make a game open source and he refuses, suggesting a source available license might still be a good idea.
TL;DW?
You realize that the owner could be a truck driver for texas? that’s what mutual funds and pension funds do, they manage assets.
and taking a fixed price is like having a grocery store where all the products have the same price, businesses do a cost benefit analysis (estimating stuff like costs and expected income), having a single price does not make sense.
Create proprietary software project , sell the software and give all the profit to starving kids in africa beside taking in a modest salary (say the US median salary) and call fair code, it’s more fair then hashicorp CEO getting something like 100K a month in salary and stocks.
Integrating with patreon or opencollective where one of the rewards is access to supporter only lemmy communities might be a good use case for a plugin system.
Source?
System packages already use apparmor, i don’t see a reason they could not be as sandboxed as snap, and i am not aware of a reason that flatpak has a worst sandbox.