You forgot to mention that they will let you use it for cheap until everyone got used to it and then crank up the price by 500%
I’ve actually found a lot of the smaller foss tools I use are better than their proprietary counterparts because of the design philosophy and that people don’t cut as many corners on passion projects as when they’re on a deadline
For real. I just spent a decade in academia working dog hours with little pay keeping services running wondering how the true devs and sysadmins do it.
I recently switched to the corporate world and have peeked behind curtain of competency: headless chickens running around, patching failing products rather than spending time to properly fix them because immediate results are the only metric that counts.
Stability, scalability, reproducibility? Forget it, that’s someone else’s problem apparently.
The reason this bothers me so much is how hard it makes it to get a job
I’ve seen people in other companies getting paid significantly more than me who just have zero clue what they’re doing
Same, and same.
Late stage capitalism.
The issue is that capitalism fundamentally requires forward thinkers and enlightened (or at least rational) perspective to function sustainably.
But capitalism rewards short term thinking, everywhere from corporate leadership, to the workforce, to the consumers caught by ads designed to catch and hold their ever-shortening attention spans.
Fundamentally, it needs regulation to thrive. The true cost of a purchase, including environmental and decommissioning/disposal costs must be tied to the initial purchase value. Through this, we might get a functional capitalism.
"Dear floss4life,
Our developers have encountered an issue while using the open source framework you published on github. We have lost as many as 400 user accounts. The estimated cost of this error is $6800.
This is unacceptable. Be a professional and fix it immediately.
Chad Elkowitz, MBA, Gruvbert and sons Finance Lt"
That’s why the no warranty clause is by far the most important in any license granting access to the public
And it’s also why many companies refuse to use open software. It baffles me that no insurance company saw this as a market opportunity to sell open source software insurance.
I love this meme because every app on my phone designed by a company worth more than a million dollars fucking sucks, and the best app on my phone is RIF, an app designed by a single developer, and reanimated into a lich by a team of programmers for free
Wait wait wait… RiF ain’t dead?!
I would say it’s undead. Like a Lich. The fine folks at revanced.app have done an amazing job reanimating it. It’s just as good as it was last June!
Can you log in yet? Last time I did this I couldn’t log into an account, only browse.
I’m logged in, so might be worth a try
Nice, I’ll have to see if I can dig up my apk of the paid version.
You need to patch it with the revanced manager.
Then you need to create an apikey on reddit for developing your own app.
In which you agree not to use it for sth. Like rif…
However with that apikey you can then login and use rif.
Wait RIF was reanimated? In what way?
“somehow RIF returned…”
This guide should help
https://github.com/KobeW50/ReVanced-Documentation/blob/main/Reddit-Client-ID-Guide.md
It might seem daunting depending on your experience with computers, but the guide was good enough for my tech-illiterate ass
+1 for Voyager! Writing this comment using it :-)
Read “The Mythical Man-Month”.
Basically, a team of 5-8 motivated developers can create high quality, medium complexity software extremely fast.
But if the project is just a little too complex for one team of devs and you need more people, then you’ll need a lot more people. And a lot more time.Cause the more people you add to the project, the more overhead you have. Suddenly you need to pull devs off coding to bring new hires up to speed. You need to write documentation on coding style guidelines, hold meetings, maintain your infrastructure, negotiate with hardware suppliers, have someone fix the server room’s door locks, schedule job interviews, etc. etc.
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”
Counterpoint: ‘The Brooks’s Law analysis (and the resulting fear of large numbers in development groups) rests on a hidden assummption: that the communications structure of the project is necessarily a complete graph, that everybody talks to everybody else. But on open-source projects, the halo developers work on what are in effect separable parallel subtasks and interact with each other very little; code changes and bug reports stream through the core group, and only within that small core group do we pay the full Brooksian overhead.’
Source: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s05.html
Nice.
It absolutely fucking BAFFLES me that Brooks’ Law isn’t known by every software manager on the planet.
I’ve quoted it so many times at work, even in engineering focused teams in at least two big tech companies. It’s not a concrete fact, but it explains why so many teams are hilariously shit at delivering software.
Because it can’t be turned into a service
It’s hilarious that you think that proprietary software is actually better.
CAD Software?
Add to that photo editing (as much as GIMP is great…). I would guess DAW and video editing would fall under that category, too…and good luck finding many AAA open source games.
Photo and Video editing is actually pretty good, since the backends (magick/ffmpeg) are open source
I’ve recently exchanged Davinci Resolve for Kdenlive on my pc, and have been extremely pleased with it.
If only Autodesk didn’t exist, then yeah
Well, sometimes it happens. Lemmy was semi-broken during the APIocalypse, and there still isn’t such a thing as a FOSS Facebook, or search engine backend for that matter.
I have heard that friendica is similar to facebook
That’s what it’s trying to do. There’s no way in hell it has the same level of technical features, let alone the same network size, though.
That being said, I’ve never been on either.
Can you get (almost) every single person on there? Until not facebook is unreplaceable.
If you’re looking for single people, Tinder or Grindr is probably a better place
I can guarantee that every single person alive will use friendica before then end of the universe
“Where do they bury the survivors?”
I haven’t really looked into it, but isn’t Friendica supposed to be the FOSS Fediverse Facebook?
It’s trying to be. You can’t do everything on there you can do on Facebook, though, which is pretty much this meme.
80/20
I live by this rule, it made me gain so much credibility and money from people who don’t know any better. 80/20 <3
20 percent of work nets you 80 percent of result (except no one knows what I did isn’t 100 percent) bam 4/5 of time saved. Everyone is happy and if something doesn’t work we can just blame it on client
I follow the 80/20 rule recursively. as soon as I’ve gotten 80% of the way there for 20% effort I immediately stop, and start a brand new project for the remaining 20%. Bam! 96% complete for only 24% effort.
taps forehead
i want to boil people like this alive
in minecraft of course
Minetest*
Luanti*
It got renamed? That seems pretty crazy, but it might be for the better considering the original name didn’t really suggest it was a serious independent project.
Snap! I forgot about the rename news already… forgettable new name :)
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”
“All-star” makes me worried there’s some hidden society of super competent developers remaining at the big software corps that we somehow never noticed.
Star designers and engineers don’t do Open Source? 🥺
… that depends on this FOSS app.
the issue with this argument is that i don’t care about who made the app when it doesn’t work. that’s why i still have a chromium based secondary browser, it doesn’t matter that it’s the work of a billion dollar company trying to get a monopoly when the website i’m on is broken. yes, the blame is on who made the website, not firefox. i still need to be able to use it somehow
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