Yeah I think it’s pretty clear what’s going on at this point.

Frankly I’m surprised they fund any of those in the first place. I would have thought F-Droid would be a bit less shit if it has actual employees!

The vast majority of people use smartphones for music.

Wow, that activated some seriously ancient neurons… I just looked up some of the models it supports and surprisingly they were made within the last decade. For some reason there’s still a market for cheap dedicated MP3 players.

I guess they cost basically nothing to manufacture and some people might need them…

Ok so if I’m understanding correctly Hyperlight lets you sandbox components of your embedded system using hypervisor/VMs. Hyperlight WASM is an alternative sandbox that uses WASM for sandboxing instead.

I guess if you only have WASM there would not be much need for Hyperlight at all, but if you have a mix of WASM and non-WASM code this would be useful.

Yeah true. It definitely has downsides. But so does begging corporations for money…

Pretty unclear if this has any actual teeth - if you don’t pay it says “don’t create issues” etc. but is anyone going to stop you?

But let’s assume that it did stop you. I’m going to give a dissenting opinion - I don’t think it’s a necessarily bad idea. Phabricator had that business model for years; without paying you got zero support. No ability to open issues, etc.

My company ended up paying for support… so that we could get support. There’s absolutely no way they would have paid if it was a standard license and you could just open a GitHub issue, even if the issues were ignored.

Annoying for non-corporate users though I guess.

Seems like one of the areas where Rust is least pressing, but I guess if uutils does become dominant it will be a lot easier to work on the code and add new features & tools.

What on earth are you talking about? There’s no enshittification here.

I guess it’s just because they don’t want things cluttering up the open issue list that are completely irrelevant. But I agree many projects go way too far, especially

• Locking issues. Just don’t. Unless there’s some spam or political issues or something, don’t do it. I have several times come across an issue that was closed and locked but maybe not actually fixed and I have relevant info but can’t add a comment. Why?
• Stalebot. Don’t use it. It is bad. It’s ok to ask “is this still relevant?” and close it if you don’t get a reply, but don’t imagine you can automatically clean up your backlog with something as blunt force as just closing everything without a recent comment or enough emojis or whatever. Some bugs just exist for a long time. Ignoring them doesn’t mean they are fixed.

Yeah definitely Blender. It’s not that hard to write a media player (hence why there are others like MPC). It’s also not that hard to write a Unix kernel (hence why there are others like *BSD). A 3D modeller as complex as Blender though? I can easily imagine a world where it didn’t exist and we were all stuck with Povray or whatever.

Kind of like the situation with CAD. (Though the FreeCAD 1.0 release seems to be finally vaguely usable based on my brief play with it so that might have changed.)

There’s no reason for any developers to participate in such surveys, it’s nothing to do with experience. I do though because I am nice.

I don’t agree that dragging keeping wires is sane behavior.

Well… I’m afraid you’re wrong about that. It’s the behaviour almost all users expect, it’s the most useful behaviour, and it’s the behaviour of virtually all software that has wire-like interfaces.

Can you imagine if all the nodes in Blender disconnected every time you moved them? Ridiculous.

I would consider it still horribly broken if you have to use a special hotkey to get sane behaviour.

I agree, I tried FreeCAD a couple of years ago and it was unusable. I tried 1.0 and it was actually decent. Not amazing but definitely usable.

IIRC when you dragged a component in the schematic view all of the wires would get left behind. Have they fixed face-palms like that?

Ah yeah LibrePCB is the only one I haven’t tried actually. I guess I was put off by the name - I’ve found that projects that focus on geeky freedom tend to not care at all about UX, but it sounds like that isn’t the case here so I’ll definitely give it a shot, thanks!

Have they ever fixed the usability issues? I tried it like 5 years ago and it was pretty terrible. Not as bad as gEDA or Eagle but still, worse than DesignSpark PCB for example, and the people that wrote that thought warping your mouse was a reasonable thing to do.

Eventually I found Horizon EDA which is basically the Kicad engine with a mostly fixed UX (it still has some quirks). But that’s pretty much a one man project so it would be nice if Kicad actually improved.

I assume there’s some barrier to creating accounts that makes it difficult? If not there’s pretty much nothing they can do.

I guess an easy fix for that particular issue is to severely rate limit mentions. E.g. if a user mentions more than 100 users in 1 hour then delay them and flag the account. Then you can whitelist it if it’s a legit CI bot or whatever.