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> don't sit all on one platform. Debian has automatic updates but they can be manual as well. That's not the case in Windows. The best practice for security critical infrastructure in which peoples lives are at stake, is to install some version of BSD stripped down to it's bare minimum. But then the company has to pay for much more expensive admins. Windows admins are much cheaper and plentiful. Also as a user of Ubuntu and Debian for more than a decade, i have a hunch that this will not happen in India [1]. [1] https://news.itsfoss.com/indian-govt-linux-windows/

I love how the general tone is "information is free!" unless of course when the one benefitting from it is China, in which case everyone suddenly gets out their magnifying glasses and GPL licenses. For what it's worth in practical terms, I can't tell you if everyone in China complies with every license, but Huawei is one of the largest contributors to the linux kernel and several open source projects. https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/

IMO this is the main thing GitHub has over GitLab. Most platforms which support GitHub also support GitLab, GitLab has equivalents for many of GitHub's features like actions, and GitLab even has comparable free tier storage (as they've decided not to delete inactive free projects [1]) If someone just wants to host and build code there are many alternatives (like Sourcehut). The only reason GitHub is so dominant is because of its already huge following and exploration / networking which relies on said following. [1] https://news.itsfoss.com/gitlab-inactive-projects-policy/

> people tend to seek meaning not money. The emergence of OSS ecosystem is the best example -- a lot of it, including Look at a list of who the largest contributors are to Linux. https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/ Most of the contributors are getting paid to do so. Do you really think most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are contributing to open source?

Thank you! It doesn't actually allow you to publish and read anonymously without Tor or a VPN, but I will definitely recommend using both of those on the README. I do want to be careful about what is and isn't claimed, as I believe the world has become a bit dissatisfied with overclaims from decentralization projects lately. I don't think I've come to the same conclusion about freenode (https://news.itsfoss.com/freenode-controversy/), and IRC is only decentralized if there isn't just one network anyway. I also don't think this is the right forum for this anyhow! You're definitely free to setup the same channel (#scarywater) on another network, and I'd be happy to be present there as well!

> just one peer-reviewed article in a reputed journal. You are upping the ante! Shouldn't a good leader lead by example? Where is your verifiable evidence of Huawei backdoors? I am working and publish in computer security, I am able to verify backdoors personally. Can you point me to such code? Anyway, in addition to user "froh"'s points in a sibling post, here are more examples of Huawei technical leadership: (1) An important NLP benchmark where Huawei is essentially as good as Microsoft and Google. https://gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard/ (2) Here is insight about who contributes to the Linux kernel: https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/ (3) Here is a best-paper award at a top conference. - Paper https://people.mpi-sws.org/~viktor/papers/asplos2021-vsync.pdf - Award https://twitter.com/ASPLOSConf/status/1384162699920044047 > When did Chinese law become global law? When did US law become global law? The point is: any telecom gear provider that wants to sell telecom gear in the EU or US is required to add law enforcement backdoors. > Huawei was caught with its pants down stealing code from Cisco. Like most companies in developing countries, they started out making knock-off gear. Over 3 decades they went from copying other people's ideas to world leadership in 5G. Congratulations!

This is as daft as Googling "email" and expecting a de facto client. You're on HN, it's nerdville, expect more interest in the protocol than clients. People search for "email clients. Try searching for "Matrix clients". Element is the best thus far, IMO. "Widespread adoption" includes the EU's military, healthcare and government, so I wouldn't be so certain you'll end up being right. It's hit 60m publicly addressable accounts, which doesn't include any private servers or any kind of healthcare, gov or military: https://news.itsfoss.com/matrix-sixty-million-users/ EU is forcing interoperability standards. I have a gut feeling that you will look silly in five years time, but I'll buy you a very nice craft beer if I'm wrong. Hit me up on the bet in 5 years time: [email protected] You were discussing "drop-in replacements", I gave you a drop-in replacement that still maintains interoperability with WhatsApp et al, which Signal does not. Classic shifting of the goalposts.

I think we meant different things when we said "drop in replacement" and therefore were referencing different ideas of what makes something a "drop in replacement," which is why it sounds like there are feelings of goal posts shifting. If the messages are still sent via Facebook servers, that is not a WhatsApp replacement, it's an alternative WhatsApp Client, it's still at it's core "performing" WhatsApp. It is not a WhatsApp replacement, but a WhatsApp client replacement. I moved to signal specifically to sever my relationship with Facebook because I don't trust Facebook. Not communicating with Facebook is the feature that made signal appealing and made me want to replace WhatsApp (not the client, but the service as a whole) with something else. I think conflating the idea of replacing "WhatsApp the service" and replacing "the WhatsApp Client" is the crux of our talking past each other and why my focus is on how it's UI compatible and ignoring the idea of protocol compatibility. > You're on HN, it's nerdville, expect more interest in the protocol than clients. We are on HN, and it's nerdville, it's true. It is the place where the very same comment (rsync files around) I am using to criticize the hubris of nerds (myself included) was made. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863). Plug and Play (referenced in the HN link) is a winning idea. The crux of my statements here is how amazingly plug and play signal is, specifically for WhatsApp users. > This is as daft as…

Depends on if you look at it based on a narrative that the former-staff wanted people to hear, or if you base it on the truth [1][2]. Specifically, this person states that I was in a position to "abuse my power" at freenode, such would mean that the statements he and others made in the past saying I had nothing to do with freenode until I "came in with lawyers" untrue, no? It's probably not worth spending cycles to research, but I'll leave these links if you're interested. That said, a person simply can't defeat the cryptographically secured names of Handshake, so even if I was the boogie man, unless I have found the One Piece of Quantum CPU and harnessed its chakra[3], I'd be hard-pressed in fulfilling the boogie man role. ;) [1] https://old.freenode.net/static/files/on-freenode.pdf [2] https://news.itsfoss.com/freenode-controversy/ [3] intentionally put chakra and not haki here to make that more playful.

Coming after the Austrian military ditched MS Office (365, Copilot, whatever it's called now) for LibreOffice [0]. Similar stuff going on in Denmark and to some extent in Germany [1]. Way to go! [0] https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-forces-ditch-microsoft-office/ [1] https://cybernews.com/tech/microsoft-why-germany-open-source-taking-de…

It technically is source-available, as of Nov 2024, anyway: https://news.itsfoss.com/cockcroachdb-no-open-source/ So yes, license (and compatibility - see https://pgscorecard.com) are two major differences between pgEdge and CockroachDB. pgEdge version updates also come in very close alignment with upstream PostgreSQL intentionally to make sure security patches/bugfixes and the latest features get to users ASAP.

> It's a bugfix, and bugfixes are allowed at and time (...) I'm afraid you sound like you're trying to gaslight everyone in the thread. https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-bcachefs-drop/

I have, and I have declined them all. Prompting an LLM and pointing it to somebody else's repo is not helpful, it's distracting and disrespectful, and also delusional to think that it helps the maintainers. For a couple of bucks I can drown my own repos in low quality slop, so I don't need some well wishers to do it for me. As a matter of fact I have yet to see an OSS maintainer that accepts AI generated slop MRs. https://news.itsfoss.com/curl-ai-slop/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/ai_slop_bug_reports/ https://biggo.com/news/202508220113_Ghostty_Requires_AI_Disclosure_in_… If you can't code, don't code and try to contribute to OSS projects. Claude or whatever trash one uses to make this outburst of garbage is not a substitute for skills. Don't waste mainteners' time and attention.

GTK were talking about dropping X11 support at some point, so X11 folks using GTK apps would probably need to some sort of Wayland to X11 proxy, or to migrate from Xorg to some sort of multi-protocol display server that supports both X11 and Wayland, like Mir from Canonical/Ubuntu, or Arcan. https://news.itsfoss.com/gtk-drops-x11/ https://arcan-fe.com/

I use XFCE[0] which doesn't have full Wayland support[1]...yet. I'm not opposed to using Wayland, but I am a dedicated XFCE user. As such, I won't move to Wayland until XFCE fully supports it. And once it does, I assume my preferred distro (Fedora[2]) will make Wayland the default for XFCE (as it already does for Gnome and KDE). [0] https://xfce.org/ [1] https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap [2] https://news.itsfoss.com/fedora-41-gnome-wayland/

Or it could be that they announced an entirely new leadership team last week: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning… And their "aquisition" of an adtech company last year, and their rollout of its data collection into the browser: https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-ppa-ad/ And the US DoJ ruling last year that Google had an illegal monopoly on web search, and one of the mooted remedies was to bar Google paying to be the default search engine in other browsers... and about 90% of Mozilla's income is Google paying to be the default search engine. But sure, "why now", maybe someone reported a typo or something.

I think "source available" at this point: https://news.itsfoss.com/cockcroachdb-no-open-source/

"Going forward, we will refer to the open, freely available versions as “community”. The BSL license is open, free, and source-available. However, it does not meet the definition of open source as defined by OSI" https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq From Open Source to Source Available https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-source-available/ "The BSL (also sometimes abbreviated as BUSL) is considered a source-available license (..) Unlike open source licenses, the BSL prohibits the licensed code from being used in production — without explicit approval from the licensor." https://fossa.com/blog/business-source-license-requirements-provisions…

This is a similar idea to run0 by Systemd: https://news.itsfoss.com/systemd-run0/

It's FOSS suggest to not link their site https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

Yes, radio silence for two years, then he archived all his repos and added a notice somewhere that he has taken up farming: https://news.itsfoss.com/neofetch-rip/

There's a bridge nowadays, but… see https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/mastodon-dated-and-brok… which also links to https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-havin… and https://news.itsfoss.com/bluesky-mastodon-bridge/

The certification is only OpenGL ES 3.1, a completely separate thing. In either case, both pieces of information are newer than the blog post they sourced which only notes OpenGL ES 3.0. I think the root is there wasn't a full blog post about either of these events so they just saw that and assumed it was the latest update. This article gets the GPU info and sources for it spot on: https://news.itsfoss.com/fedora-asahi-remix-39-release/#:~:text=up%20t…

The creator of Ansible is doing just that but in Rust: https://news.itsfoss.com/ansible-creator-new-rust-platform/

itsfoss publication that is not directly linked in article: https://news.itsfoss.com/skiff-mail-review/ Still not deleted.

A bit more detail: https://news.itsfoss.com/openkylin-linux-os/

"homegrown" "based on the existing open-source Linux operating system" [1] suggests it's a distribution that isn't directly based off another distribution. [1] https://news.itsfoss.com/openkylin-linux-os/

Wait, what? I thought I read recently that they were phasing out snap? Did I dream that? Edit: I'm talking about this https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-ditch-snap/ Oh JEEZ it was april fools. It seemed so reasonable. I thought they were coming to their senses.

>they're [Intel] still tied to Windows Nonsense. Intel is one of the largest contributors to the Linux kernel, the biggest depending on what measure you count by[0]. They even have their own distro. Moreover, much of their profit is from the server market, which tends to run Linux. >the Apple M1 laptop Is very expensive and is running MacOS. [0] https://truelist.co/blog/linux-statistics/ https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/ https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/

Damn, i was wondering why is everyone still talking about snap and nobody is mentioning what I clearly remember reading recently, so i went back and looked for it and lo and behold the publishing day: https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-ditch-snap/