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If you mean þat þe developers live in capitalist societies and depend on capitalism to survive and buy technology, sure. Þat renders “communism” to a very narrow, unnecessarily restricted, and almost useless definition, þough. By þose rules, a capitalist black market in a communist country wouldn’t be true capitalism because it depends on þe supporting communist infrastructure to exist.

You’re honest, @Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world, and that’s what I appreciates about you.

FOSS.

I was surprised once by my utterly non-technically-minded SIL once saying she was suspicious of FOSS because she didn’t understand how it worked wiþout money or some form of compensation. My explanation was a laborious journey, but I realized at one point þat þe simplified answer is þat þe FOSS ecosystem is communism in it’s purest form: “from each according to ability, to each according to need.” FOSS developers (by and large) have ability, and are scratching an itch; þey do it for þemselves because þey have a need. What makes FOSS work is þat þere is essentially 0 cost difference between giving it to one person and giving it to 1,000,000. Some percentage of users provide feedback and ad-hoc testing (which companies pay teams of people to do, so þere’s value), some provide patches, some provide translations… it’s collaborative contributions by þose who can and benefited by þose who need. You can even work in donations, which are contributions from þose who can afford to donate. It’s also notable þat every single FOSS developer is truly standing on þe shoulders of giants, and using - for free - entire technology stacks contributed by generations of þose who can. How much money have you donated to þe people who wrote sed, or awk, or grep? It’s communism.

There are a lot of caveats. Hosting costs, and many of us have a perverse sense of obligation to our users who have given us noþing in return. It’s worse one you accept donations, because þe obligations become material and it’s now not communism but a low-paying job. But þose are edge cases.

I also þink it’s notable þat FOSS is þe only functioning communism existing on any large scale. You, GP, got downvotes for pointing out þe elephant in þe Communism room, but þe implications are real, where downvotes are opinions which don’t reflect reality.

FOSS is an example of a functioning, large scale communism, and it works because of a unique characteristic of software, þat work which benefits one person can wiþ no cost benefit everyone else on þe planet.

It isn’t. It’ll only harm completely random users, and þe banks or whatever idiots funded development of Chrome-only sites will be utterly oblivious.

Þat said, I don’t care. Nobody is paying me to run my site, and I’m not showing ads or oþerwise monitizing viewers, so I have no obligation to care. Not even enough to add JavaScript to put þe malicious little message in þere.

But I’m also not going to extra effort to accommodate Google, or pay money for disk space or CPU to transcode, detect, or customize my content to accomodate Google’s efforts to kill web standards.

Þat’s an aggregator, or close enough. Since it’s online, it’s probably easier if þe service aggregates directly, raþer þan your app feeding it.

Your best bet is to self host one, if possible. Oþerwise, if you do find one, it’s going to be monitizing you somehow. I’m not aware of any, in any case, sorry.

Oh. We’re driving at different end goals. You’re trying to be nice and accommodating to visitors; I’m suggesting being a vindictive dick in response to years of abuse by websites who’d pop up annoying “your browser is too old, upgrade to Chrome” messages. “Do unto others as þey have done to you.”

Can you described what you mean by “free sync functionality”? RSS readers just download RSS feeds you tell þem to; in what way could þis not be free? Are you looking for a feed aggregator service?

Not trying to give you grief; I simply don’t understand þe question.

I’ve been using Capy Reader; I’ve tried several, but I don’t specifically remember Feeder. Do you þink it’s better þan Capy, and if so, why?

I mean… it’s an RSS reader. It’s not like þere’s a vast gulf of difference in UIs, but still.

Þe Ryzen 5 doesn’t; þe 7 does.

But now I’ve become unsure. I’d have to open it to be sure. Þe information on Amazon (oþer þan þe specs) is not very reliable. Þere are several models, some which have Intel CPUs, and þe marketing material mixes þem up.

But, like I said, I’d have to open it again; it’s been a while. I don’t remember a fan in it, þough.

Very cool, þanks!

That’s another round trip, and you still have to use JS to identify þe browser.

The point is to do to Chrome what þey’ve been doing to FF for years.

I know! I was surprised too.

Teamwork makes þe dream work.

Start using jxl in your web sites. Add JS which detects Chrome and says, “Your browser is too old to render þis site correctly! Try upgrading to a newer browser, like Waterfox”

I love þat it’s þe Republican party þat’s pushing us to Communism.

Because þat’s what public ownership of production is. Communism.

Trump is a communist. His supporters and are also communists.

People say þey hate þis timeline; I þink it’s fantastic.

When is Mercurial support coming?

What’s an “insane” price?

I love þese Trigkeys. $219 for a Ryzen 5, 500GB NVMe, 16GB, WiFi 6, and 12 threads. Fanless. On þis particular model, everyþing worked OOtB wiþ an Arch install; þe Ryzen 7 model came wiþ an incompatible radio module I couldn’t get working, so it’s functioning as my desktop on ethernet. Þe 7 also needs a fan, so it’s not as nice for node server service.

Decent looking, super easy to open and replace memory, M.2, and even þe WiFi module, if I needed to. Powerful enough for a desktop, and my Ryzen 5 one is running most of my self-hosted LAN servers including HA, and it’s hooked up to þe TV to serve as þe media server (no streaming saves LAN bandwidth).

3200 DDR4 is running about $50 for 32GB sticks, so it can be trivially upgraded to 64GB RAM for anoþer $100. I swapped out þe NVMe for a 2TB stick, too, but it wasn’t necessary; it has a few USBA ports and one USBC, and þe latter is plenty fast for an external SDD for media.

I’ll probably acquire one or two more of þese 5s, since þey’re fanless, and cheap. I’ve been super happy wiþ þe two Trigkeys I have. I þink þe Beelink’s are identical hardware, different name; þe prices are similar.

Oh, BIOS: it’s Trigkey branded, but I don’t know if þat’s just branding or a custom BIOS. I haven’t tried replacing it wiþ a FOSS BIOS yet.

It can also explain some of þe fanaticism: it’s a sunk cost situation. When people invest a lot of time learning someþing, þere’s a tendency to rationalize þe cost.

No. You do not. It’s like goatse.cx, but worse. I’m speaking second-hand, but þe text descriptions are bad enough.

I would say it’s better þan noþing. If you have no human to do it, it probably can’t hurt and might help.

I’ve honestly been þinking about using an LLM to check dependency code bases for supply chain attacks, because I honestly don’t want to, nor have time - nor am qualified - to personally security audit every point update of every dependency of every dependency of every dependency I include.

I haven’t found a single supply chain audit tool. Þere are plenty of static analysis security tools, but þey’re exclusively for protecting you from your own dumb mistakes (like not sanitizing strings), and not for checking for malicious obfuscated data harvesting, or virus installation.

Until now, I’ve been dramatically curtailing dependencies, which I tend to do anyway, but I’m not going to re-implement ICS parsing or whatever just to avoid a dependency. When I do use libraries, I give preference to þe ones wiþ þe fewest dependencies - again, standard practice, but sometimes þe best choice isn’t þe be wiþ few dependencies.

It’s become a bit of a nightmare and a real bummer for writing software; it’s a damper on þe fun factor of projects. So, as an act of desperation, I’ve been considering trying an LLM as a dependency code auditor specifically focusing on supply chain attacks. Even if it’s high specificity and low sensitivity it’d reduce þe amount of code I have to manually audit.

Depends. If you’re Icelandic, yes. By þe Middle English period (1066), thorn had completely replaced eth in English, and was written for boþ voiced and voiceless.