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Why bother? just use opensource Minetest or something.
Because I didn't know it existed. (And apparently it's called "Luanti" now.)
There are several OSS alternatives to get one out of the commercial hut. That was just one i remember seeing some time ago, as being the highest rated alternative.
Why bother? just use opensource Minetest or something.
Because I didn't know it existed. (And apparently it's called "Luanti" now.)
hadn't heard of Tinc ... looking at that, it looks a lot like
Tailscale)
I've been aware of it for a long time but never actually used it. Always wanted a good excuse to give it a spin.
And another 'opensource project' seems to have lost its way...
Exo company, 'bla bla opensource toolkit bla bla ' for about a year.. Now they have stopped even commenting on GitHub, let alone zero contributions for months ( and several things are broke, its not mature..) I suspect they used the community for free testing/bug fixes to get over the hump for their internal product, then walked. The company still exists, they still are selling products.
Scumbags.
Seeing this far too often.
Richard Stallman is basically just Nikita Khrushchev with a keyboard, but the GPL itself is good. I'll continue to use it and encourage others to use it.
i don't know much about him since i wasn't really around at the time, but i do think the concept of 'help out and make it better, but keep it free' is a good thing.
Who knows where we would be today in tech if that didn't happen, and 'take off'.
Fri Jun 06 2025 00:52:06 UTC from IGnatius T FoobarScumbags for sure. As a companion concern, there are those who posit that the "rewrite everything in rust" crowd is actually the "rewrite everything with a license more permissive than the GPL" crowd.
Richard Stallman is basically just Nikita Khrushchev with a keyboard, but the GPL itself is good. I'll continue to use it and encourage others to use it.
Some observers have pointed out that the effort to establish an open source ecosystem was absolutely the right thing to do, but if it weren't for his abrasive antics it might have gone mainstream at least a decade earlier.
We all know how i feel about AI, but i think Sam is a scumbag, and OpenAI is abomination. Their latest plan, their own browser, so they can start doing google-like data mining on its users. No thanks.
Ya he is uncool, but he did bring LLM AI to the masses attention ( no pun intended there ) and kicked off the current race we are in now..
Ya he is uncool, but he did bring LLM AI to the masses attention
...by promising it would always be open source, because it is a technology that should not be in the hands of any one company ... and then basically sold it to Microsoft. Yeah, that kind of needs-to-be-stabbed.
Not sure a good place for this, and wont go into the details, but thought it was interesting enough to pop on and tell the story.
This evening, got to witness 2 'signs of destruction' ( 'coming housing.. bla bla' builders put up after they buy out our farmland ) down the street go up in flames. And later, 2 corporate "for sale" signs on farm land down in the next county, pulled down into the street and run over by several local cars.
Sure, it wont really matter in the long run, but it was glorious to watch. And a sign people are getting fed up.. perhaps... just perhaps ...
Sure, it wont really matter in the long run, but it was glorious
to watch. And a sign people are getting fed up.. perhaps...
just perhaps ...
Yeah, that happens. Here, peace keeper units are complaining that they are having their equipment vandalized regularly. Somebody from theirunion posted a complaint in social media and 90% of the posts were on the lines
"If you chased cattle rustlers and chicken thieves instead of issuing speeding tickets because some grandpa drove 3 MPH over the limit, maybe you would get some sympathy."
I commend those folks. They deserve medals.
While i wont participate due to legal reasons, Id love to see more of that here, and have much more drastic efforts than simple vandalism.
WThu Aug 07 2025 10:02:21 UTC from darknetuser
Yeah, that happens. Here, peace keeper units are complaining that they are having their equipment vandalized regularly.
Great. More farmland replaced by concrete and warehouse.
"Amazon is investing $4 billion to expand its rural logistics network across the U.S., supporting faster delivery to millions of customers in less densely populated regions. The expansion will reach an area the combined size of Alaska, California, and Texas"