I dont have anything technical to add about the viability of modding Hytale but closed source means anti-user every time. I forgot have we talked about luanti or mineclonia?
I'm a little sus about the #Hytale modding infrastructure. Like if "no client mods" (which is a lil problematic but not the point) means even the mods ¿installed? by joining the server can't execute on the client (and instead has to wait for the server to respond), then we are kinda cooked.
I dont have anything technical to add about the viability of modding Hytale but closed source means anti-user every time. I forgot have we talked about luanti or mineclonia?
#iran mostly shut down now their own state-aligned national messengers that they previously positioned as alternatives to Western messengers and Telegram, especially for when the internet is nationalized and locked down.
There remain some islands of functioning delta messaging but the lockdown of private comms is truly dire, and likely a precursor for heightened violence.This correlation is not a political stance but reflects research in internet shutdowns of the last decade. Ask eg @Xeniax
In these situations Briar messenger https://briarproject.org is better because they have mesh networking using bluetooth and or wifi which can allow a crowd to communicate even when theres no internet
Meshtastic does something similar but requires custom lora radio nodes to have already been placed nearby
#PSA #FLOSS #Privacy #Anonymity #E2EE #Briar #BriarMessenger #Meshtastic
How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.
New on // foss.events: German Perl/Raku Workshop by Perl Community on 16-18 March 2026 in Heilandskirche in #Berlin, #Germany
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New on // foss.events: German Perl/Raku Workshop by Perl Community on 16-18 March 2026 in Heilandskirche in #Berlin, #Germany
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I just learned about https://sepiasearch.org/ which searches every known instance simultaneously it has a lot of search filter options
@ambiguous_yelp @FediThing if the freaking peertube app actually worked. It only works half the time and search results aren't accurate.
I just learned about https://sepiasearch.org/ which searches every known instance simultaneously it has a lot of search filter options
thinking about foss stuff, and I know I've groused about licensing stuff before, and how I feel like my only way out is to just Parity7 everything and fall into obscurity but...
...I think we need a different movement around open source, with new terminology, that clarifies the intent and opens doors to more pro-social behavior and capabilities (up to and including the potential for "ethical licensing").
I've been spitballing the terms Common Software and Community Software. The core idea is that things that count as Community/Common Software can't enter the realm of the proprietary (so, strong copyleft a-la AGPL and Parity, virality not necessary). What's the difference from "Free Software"? We get rid of "freedom zero", aka "the freedom to run software for any purpose". Common Software licenses may have Non-Commercial clauses, Anti-Particular-Industry clauses (such as anti-MIC stuff), etc.
I think "freedom zero" was a grave mistake. I get where it came from--a desire to remove discrimination--but what it resulted in was a hijacking of Free Software by the corporate "Open Source" wing to exploit an otherwise healthy community of people openly sharing their creations... for an enormous profit that we can't even quantify right now.
We need a strong return to copyleft, and we need to gather together and grow its existing ecosystem, away from the MIT/BSD poison that our world has turned towards.
Your thoughts are welcome on this. I want to have a conversation about this stuff and maybe eventually record all this in a longer-form blog post. If you know folks who have had similar thoughts please link them so we can chat, too.
💬 Digital cash without privacy is meaningless. If money moves digitally but your data is exposed, we haven’t gained freedom; we’ve only traded paper trails for digital footprints.
🔗 Read why this matters: https://medium.com/@jnebos/digital-cash-without-privacy-is-meaningless-63470fc52688
#FLOSS #FreeSoftware #PrivacyTech #DigitalCash #OpenPayments #UserRights
