I’m not sure when you were using it, but Navidrome definitely let’s you play individual songs and shuffle.

I also don’t see how the term applies only to ActivityPub, wouldn’t any federated protocol ecosystem be a ‘federated universe’?

Matrix is federated though, so why wouldn’t it have something to do with the fediverse? Is that not the definition of the term?

The agency (FTC) can seek civil penalties, I do not see anywhere that companies could bring a lawsuit that they couldn’t before (libel?).

Also only differences are stored, so if your files don’t change much each backup costs very little. I keep hundreds of backups for the previous year of changes, and it uses less than double the amount of storage the files take up. You can also enable compression, which I do, so it’s even smaller.

I use backblaze storage with Kopia, which supports using object lock. Every time a backup is made the objects for it are locked for a configurable amount of time. I use 30 days, so an attacker would have to compromise my backup software for a month before being able to erase my backups.

Does it treat forks differently?

I don’t think the server software is open source.

Yeah this is why I don’t use cloudflare, I have my domains on porkbun.

This is just false, there is a mathematical framework for aggregating data in a way that prevents de-anonymization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy. This is what the US census department uses to release census statistics without impacting anyone’s privacy.

Why would they pay them, just use the power of the free market and raise the price of electricity (or even just for industrial users like bitcoin miners) when supply is low until they bow out because it’s not profitable and demands matches supply. Weird how the free market is only good when it’s not free, but dominated by monopolists.

Because they are selecting proposals for the program, which includes a stipend (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-stipends) of $1,500-$6,000 for the summer. So the process looks a little more like the process for applying for an internship.

Thanks for the recommendations! FlightGear looks very interesting to me, I’ll definitely check it out.

I just mean games that feel a little more polished and less like a toy project; games that have a stable release separate from development would be one example of a more mature polished project.

Yeah I saw a recent post about that one and am trying it out. It seems pretty good so far, and that’s what got me to ask this (most open source games I’ve tried have felt really unpolished, whereas with other software I primary use open source). But because the creative aspect of games I’m perfectly fine with using closed source games (they aren’t really as fungible as other software).

Making a docker container can make it really painless, for example I’ve found Vaultwarden (self hosted Bitwarden server implementation, https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden) to be really easy to install. Just docker pull, and what Linux distribution and other particulars about your system don’t matter.

https://xkcd.com/908/

They do allow you to profit off the software though, by using it to host the service for yourself (even as a company), you just can’t offer hosting as a service to compete with them. Obviously this doesn’t offer as much freedom as just a straight MIT or Apache license, but I feel like it still qualifies as open-source; they are only really adding one restriction, and it could even be considered less restrictive than something like GPL (no requirement to open source derived software). I think this license makes a good compromise of being as open as they possibly can without AWS/GCP/Azure eating all of their business without doing any real engineering work.

I think this is a pretty reasonable compromise to stop big cloud companies from offering their service using their code. Putting the code under either Apache or MIT after 2 years seems like a good approach to me, I like it a lot more than the ‘open core’ scheme a lot of SaaS companies use.

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