most important patch since 1995.

Current version is actually still MIT: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2#license (which is the most preferred license for a low-level library like this)

Switching the license to GPL (ideally GLPv3 or compatible, although IMO we are due for a GPLv4) is a pretty good outcome, hopefully it works.

Actually that means that no company will use it anymore. Since if you have low-level library like that under GPL, then all the source code need to be GPL compatible as well. And 99% of the source code that is build on top of libxml2 is most likely not GPL / no GPL compatible.

Also he was getting every week cve issues, which are often not urgent issues. Yet it costs him a lot of time. He also considers security issues now just the same as a normal issue. Not giving it priority anymore, since that doesn’t make sense anymore for him.

Another maintainer already jumped in and he is now maintaining it. The original author forked it actually his own project, and is planning to release it under gpl license (instead of MIT), basically making it open source in a sense I can’tbe used by big tech. Since that was his point, large software projects and companies relied on his work. Yet nobody is paying him.

Flock is a disgrace for the technology and innovation section.

And governments just like it way too much. Do with your tax money govements are paying these companies a lot of money so they can track you again. It’s insane and I don’t believe this should be legal.

For example we have ap issues with lemmy, lemmy doesn’t support multiple attachments. We use attachments for both links (url, other than image links) as well as images themselves can be an attachment.

But again AP fails, and lemmy only shows the picture.

I fully agree. And you nailed it. This was exactly what I try to explain what is wrong with ActivityPub FEPs.

Thank you, we do indeed publish those schemas, these are coming from the code. So our documentation build is also relying on our code to expose these schemas, and that’s also why I can guarantee it’s always up to date.

Hi Melroy from Mbin. It’s true what you are saying Julian. These FEPs forms the basic of the fediverse. But at the same time I hate those FEPs alot. I would rather see a more detailed and better described ActivityPub protocol v2.0 or 3.0. My point is that the current ActivityPub is way too vague.

And we need dozens of various FEPs to get the features we actually need and want to get the basis features of today. Currently it’s hard to read, there is no single document. No single source of truth. All FEPs are actually optional to implement. And it’s a mess.

Could you imagine if an internet standard like http or TCP was documented like this? It would never have worked.

Thanks! Also I’m always disabling anti alias in my terminal and editor console text, see: https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/dotfiles/-/blob/main/home/melroy/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf?ref_type=heads (I’m using mono fonts)

one year later a follow up: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/13509/It-Took-23-Days-for-Lemmy-Posts-to-Double-from/comment/10282217#entry-comment-10282217

Sure! Just one problem the title is saying “Total Mbin Posts by Month”… but it doesn’t look like a total, but more like an average? Disclaimer: I don’t know how reliable this source is.

Source: https://mbin.fediverse.observer/stats

I also notice a decline in servers of both Lemmy: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats server as well as Mbin servers. Lemmy peaked around 1396 servers and is now down to 370 (73.4% decrease). Mbin peaked around 26 and is down to 15 (42% decrease). I can’t give you an answer why there is a decrease in servers in the threadiverse realm…

Even outside of the threadiverse there is a downtrend going on with Mastodon. Peak of 11773 down to 7666 (34.8% decrease).

200%. Avoid windows 11 for sure.

No it’s not immune to viruses or malware. Like you said it’s less likely. But also in general Linux is more safe, for root permissions it will ask you your password.

And just in general I think you’re better off using Linux.

Just use Linux

I never had a device that needed firewire (luckily?). I always found it a strange standard and connector.

Luckily today we just have usb c, specifically usb 3.2 gen 2. Which is the default for some time now. Another benefit is it will often also come with power delivery as well, something that firewire doesn’t support at all.

And for audio I always use optical audio cables. Also known as S/PDIF.

Ow sorry to hear that 😥. That sucks indeed.

Yes because you spent all your money on compute already. Haha

Well and Linus wasn’t lying about it. He is the person who ironically knows least about the whole Linux ecosystem which we have today…

At this point I think he’s not even aware of Valve Steam Machine. Not following the news on distros. Not following any discussions. Not into gaming. Not into memes. Not into anything, other than compiling the kernel.

Donating?