Agreed. Depending on the business sector, the PR damage could be worse than the cost of litigation.
My company has a very expensive software product they sell to other businesses (to the tune of millions of dollars a year per customer), and the cost is a hurdle the salespeople have to overcome. If there was litigation against them over trampling another business, that doesn’t exactly instill confidence in a trustworthy business relationship. So they pay their licensing costs.
I’ve read that some people are going back to simpler tech stacks, and it feels like they’re just leaving money on the table if that demographic continues to grow.
Who knows, though? Maybe somebody new will fill in that niche.
Or it could be as simple as forgetting to renew the domain registration. Maybe they’ll make a statement
funkwhale.agapimou.top is a Funkwhale instance, and it seems to be running, so it must just be that one instance.
I wonder if it got hit with some kind of dmca shenanigans.
Funkwhale is part of the Fediverse. The site they mention is a single instance.
ETA: It’s a single instance, but also the main landing page for feeding people to various docs and instances.
I’m all for it. Glider Pro for MacOS 9 and below released its code in a sort of “as is” state a few years ago, and thankfully, some skilled devs took it up and ported it to modern systems.
It’s a game I would have sorely missed, having long since left the Apple ecosystem (and that game was also PPC-only). We’ll still lose even open source games, but at least people would then have the option to preserve them.
I enjoy it, too. Because of the granular data (e.g. what’s this road made of?), it’s got me thinking a lot more about my community, instead of just taking everything for granted.
Yeah, I don’t see the point. It’s a browser with bossware enabled; it’s supposed to be for businesses to easily lock down and monitor their employees’ browsers.
Merry Birthmas, Krita! Here’s to 25 more.
With a dictator at each branch, since the branch owner has final say in every decision.
TIL a new thing in computer science.
KiwiFarms, a forum dedicated to doxxing and IRL harassing of LGBTQ people, women, and anyone else they didn’t like. It was is a breeding ground for Nazis and other Conservative bigots and their ideologies, and they successfully harassed people into moving and hiding (or worse).
Edit: they’re still around
Well, sure. But the point is that server administration isn’t free and it still requires somebody to actually do the administration. Open source is great, but people have to eat, and getting fair compensation for your effort isn’t an unreasonable ask.
Even the Fediverse isn’t free. Running functional public instances costs money, and thank goodness for everyone who contributes to theirs.
The only silver lining is that it might be relegated to ARM systems initially, so we’ve all got time to figure out a plan to shift to Linux.
And then QA sends it back with a bunch of regressions, then you go, “Why would somebody do it like that‽” and finally remember that the end user is dumb.
That’s interesting, because I could never get Ventoy to work, and I tried multiple times with multiple distros (and Windows).
Hopefully this update fixes that, but it might be good to mention that YMMV.
Considering the US, where they’re filing the lawsuit, has just recently opened up the floodgates of corporate lobbying power thanks to SCOTUS, I don’t know why anyone would want to support such a maliciously litigious company.
The subpoenas will continue until morale improves.