thecoolowl

joined 1 year ago
[–] thecoolowl@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like this has been happening for a few years. Maybe it's age, but I increasingly find better tech related content on HN.

[–] thecoolowl@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It's also part of what I want to avoid with something GUI-based/low maintenance.

[–] thecoolowl@lemmy.one 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really think auditing is a compelling argument for FOSS. You can hire accredited companies to audit and statically analyse closed source code, and one could argue that marketable software legally has to meet different (and stricter) criteria due to licensing (MIT, GPL, and BSD are AS IS licenses), that FOSS do not have to meet.

The most compelling argument for FOSS (for me) is that innovation is done in the open. When innovation is done in the open, more people can be compelled to learn to code, and redundant projects can be minimised (i.e. just contribute to an existing implementation, rather than inventing a new). It simply is the most efficient way to author software.

I'm probably wearing rose tinted glasses, but the garage and bedroom-coders of the past, whom developed on completely open systems moved the whole industry forward at a completely different pace than today.

[–] thecoolowl@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Reddit def won, but I have no idea why people still continue to moderate it for free. It's crystal clear that the do not care about their mods, and for all intends and purposes treat them as peasants.

[–] thecoolowl@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

.world is biggest because it's the biggest. Also RIF.

[–] thecoolowl@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Can vouch for NextDNS too.

[–] thecoolowl@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I'll be honest, I chose them because they're a private European email host. Their web UI is pretty rudimentary, but I use other email apps anyway.

[–] thecoolowl@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been on Soverin.net for a while.

[–] thecoolowl@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Community@instance.com would currently trigger my email client. If Lemmy could intercept those while in-app, that'd be great.

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