always a pleasure to see big projects going full copyleft amidst the recent influx of projects sadly going source-available

this is the main reason not to sign a CLA. you should not let a third-party use your copyright to restrict user freedom in the future because they swear “they ❤️ open source” now, and would never use your code to only their own benefit.

Celeste deeply impacted me. It immediately turned to be one of my favorite games of all time, even if I suck so badly at it (still hasn’t been able to beat the post-game content lol).

I use one of the beautiful official phone wallpapers (the pixelated one) available on the EXOK Games website. Highly recommend them!

Sou brasileiro, e apoio muito o estudo do português. É uma língua rica, complexa e linda. Para mim, não há obras literárias iguais aos clássicos brasileiros e portugueses, especialmente quanto ao belíssimo uso da língua portuguesa.

Amo Machado de Assis e recomendo muito as suas obras que, além de mostrarem a beleza do português, continuam intrigantes e divertidas. Também recomendo as obras de Fernando Pessoa, caso opte por um escritor português.

well, if I have an object on the heap and I want a lot of things to use it at the same time, a shared_ptr is the first thing I reach for. If I have an object on the heap and I want to enforce that no one else but the current scope can use it, I always reach for a unique_ptr. Of course, I know you know all of this, you have used it almost daily for 7 years.

In my vision, I could use a raw pointer, but I would have to worry about the lifetime of every object that uses it and make sure that it is safe. I would rather be safe that those bugs probably won’t happen, and focus my thinking time on fixing other bugs. Not to mention that when using raw pointers the code might get more confusing, when I rather explicitly specify what I want the object lifetime to be just by using a smart pointer.

Of course, I don’t really care how you code your stuff, if you are comfortable in it. Though I am interested in your point of view in this. I don’t think I’ve come across many people that actually prefer using raw pointer on modern C++.

I strongly disagree. Multiple times I’ve been playing a game and a friend saw my Discord status and chatted with me about it. It’s just another way for my friends to see my interests, nothing new on the internet.

Would I want this status to be displayed somewhere else (especially a more FOSSy place)? Hell yeah. But there isn’t any, and the people that rarely talk to me and are into gaming, aren’t, unfortunately, on anywhere else but Discord.

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wow! I love the technical part of GUI programming, and that, for me, was a great article! props to alex.

I’ve downloaded and tested it for a bit and it does look a bit too good to be true. The source code is licensed under AGPL, and the F-Droid app page didn’t show any anti-features. And I also really liked the app itself.

However, while it does enable self-host of the same data (and it’s pretty easy too. you can even self-host from your phone! I wish more note apps did this) and manual exporting/importing, the cloud syncing (even to a third-party server of your choice) is locked behind a paywall. While I do understand paying for a service to save my data, it does bother me that I can’t sync with my own servers, which should not require any service from their part.

The app also includes a login feature that lets you use a specific text-oriented Chinese social media (that also seems to be fully open source and AGPL licensed!). Honestly, I wouldn’t be bothered by it especially since it’s opt-in, and doesn’t seem to do anything with your notes unless logged-in. Though I don’t know how self-hostable it is, and even if it were, the app does not give me the option to enter my own server.

And to top it all off, it has a bullshit AI feature (that seems opt-in). I don’t think I need to explain why this is very icky.

Considering everything, it seems like an awesome app for people that use the specific social media it is optionally coupled with. But anyone that doesn’t and prefers to sync your data to a self-hosted server will be left without options. Also, you must consider that it apparently doesn’t seem to phone home, according to F-Droid, though it is very strange that the network, social media, and especially AI features are not mentioned at all as anti-features. So if you would want to be sure, I’d recommend you to read the source code and deduce yourself if it doesn’t phone anywhere you haven’t allowed to by default.

I personally wouldn’t use it myself, but if you trust it doesn’t phone home, don’t care about manually exporting and importing your data, and isn’t bothered by the weird network features, I’d say it’s a great notes app.

A lot of people do use Bookwyrm! It just depends on finding the right community.

I am on a fairly small brazilian instance (velhaestante.com.br) and even though I joined while not knowing anybody I still get a fair amount of interactivity. Not enough to be logging in every day, of course, our instance is not nearly as big as something like bookwyrm.social and I don’t read and update that often.

It’s just like any other fediverse software. Even on a small instance you can get a fair level of interactivity and on top of that you can still interact with big instances and large amounts of content! Of course, if you just create an account and forget about it, or you don’t use it very often, and don’t seek out interactions/following other people, of course you won’t get the same level of content in your feed as if you were on GoodReads.

That’s the charm of the fediverse!

As some that used to use an equally potato PC before, the most recent Veloren updates might be hard to run at a playable level, even on the lowest-possible graphics settings (Veloren’s community and devs are doing an awesome job adding stuff and making the game better every month!).

But if you don’t mind the terrible graphics, low FPS, and frequent slowdowns, the game is still very much enjoyable. I was a low-FPS gamer for most of my life, so bad performance never stopped me from enjoying to play a game!

Doom and Quake! When I used a potato PC as a daily driver the thing I played the most were boomer shooters. The source ports for both games are pretty amazing nowadays!

I’m glad that they chose the AGPL when open-sourcing their server. I don’t see that many companies, especially ones offering a “product”, open-sourcing their work with a copyleft license.

Firefox with ublock origin is even better than the DuckDuckGo browser alone. Yes, you can use DuckDuckGo as a default search engine, and even install the extension, if you need to.

OSM is such a badass project

i’m so fucking sad that a shitty¹ company was able to bully a 100% legal piece of FOSS to shut down.

It is THE best app for reading manga, and it single-handedly started my love and (healthy) addiction to reading manga lol. It’s also one of the best examples on how a FOSS model is superior to any competitive proprietary one.

I hope so much luck to the devs and every contributor. Their work through all these years is immeasurable. Makes me regret a little for not trying to contribute to the community with some code at a time I was wanting to. Thanks for all the hours of fun reading manga. I’m sure at this very moment people are already organizing a fork to live on Tachiyomi’s legacy, as is the spirit of FOSS.

that’s such a cool world! which mods do you use?

weird. for me, the “hard engine and framework stuff” is the fun part, while the content creation is not boring, but just very hard for me :P

Celeste screenshots, because every scenario in that game is beautiful. And it’s one of my favorite games of all time.

Here is my favorite one:

it was so much fun reading soredemo ayumu for all these years and following the ups and downs, the development and the stagnation with the translation team and the HM community.

it has been an amazing journey, this manga couldn’t have ended better. thank you Yamamoto for the incredible wholesome experiences over the years!

may we all keep senpai in our hearts 🫡