How extreme do you have to be to only use websites if they are open source?? That’s roughly 0% of the web.

Gitlab is ok, and Codeberg is getting there.

I think the main thing that keeps me on GitHub is the network effect - all the other projects are there. They also have very generous (basically anti-competitive) free tiers.

Wait so what would you have to do if you were covered by the CRA? The article mentions limited reporting & policy requirements for “open source stewards”. I’m curious what the requirements are for full on commercial entities though.

Pretty disappointing that some people think this is acceptable behaviour.

At least it’s still very obviously “AI slop” as they put it. If ChatGPT ever stops its distinctive patronising waffle it’s going to be much more annoying to filter out.

It’s a Settlers 2 clone. It’s deliberate.

Ok first impressions:

1. Rotate is Shift-Right-Click?? Very weird default choice. Most programs use middle-click.
2. I created a simple sketch with a couple of slots. Surprisingly smooth! Vastly improved from when I last tried it. Still not quite as good as SolveSpace for sketch creation, but to be fair SolveSpace was originally created to demo of a state of the art sketch solver… I couldn’t find the Dimension tool, but guessed the shortcut was D, which was correct.
3. Extrude is misnamed as “Pad”. Why?
4. Clone icon is a sheep :-D - actually the icons are all pretty great.
5. Cut is called “Pocket”?? Actually the icon for this is not great. Minor issue though.

I only made a very simple part, but I am impressed. This is significantly better than when I last tried it, when it basically didn’t work at all. I haven’t tried assemblies or anything complex (e.g. extruding up to a non-flat surface, degenerate geometry etc.), but definitely for simple tasks you could use it.

I tried FreeCAD years ago and it sucked balls. The best FOSS CAD software that I currently know of is SolveSpace.

However it has been a few years. Maybe they discovered UX… I will give it another try and report back!

Dunno why you’re being downvoted. It’s very obviously deliberately chosen to make 12 year olds giggle.

Krita is quite far ahead of GIMP at this point. I’m not a pro Photoshop user but if you are and you’re looking at alternatives, that’s the place to look.

Any from reputable manufacturers?

Even that’s ok. I couldn’t find anything at all when I looked about a year ago. Only one model that the Thread people were still recommending despite it being discontinued.

I had another look and still couldn’t find anything vendor neutral and cheap. Can you post some links?

Freeing home energy gear from vendor lock-in. Matter 1.4 adds some big, expensive gear to its list of device types and control powers, and not a moment too soon. Solar inverters and arrays, battery storage systems, heat pumps, and water heaters join the list.

Yeah I seriously doubt solar inverter providers will sign up to this. Here’s what QCells said when I asked them about an API:

I’m sure it is possible and we’re in discussions with some providers over opening up to their requirements, but it’s not something we’d offer to individuals unfortunately.

They view control of their “virtual power plants” as a commercial asset and they don’t want to give it away for free.

Don’t buy a QCells solar inverter btw. I should have done more research! I believe GivEnergy are less stuck in the 80s but don’t quote me on that.

Ugh, I was working on a DIY smart lock. “I’ll use Matter!” I naively thought.

Ok you need a border router for Thread support. No problem, I’ll buy one. Should be cheap right since an ESP32 can handle it. Nope! You pretty much can’t buy a standalone border router. All the articles are “don’t worry, you might have one already if you have a Nest Hub or a Home Hub or…”. Well I don’t have one.

Pretty lame. I guarantee if they make a vendor neutral border router dongle you can just plug into your router’s ethernet port and sell it at cost price (like £5) they’ll see triple the uptake.

Interesting how they build a community starting with rebasing on top of Gitea, and then hard-forked later. Probably a good blueprint for forking.

GPL move also seems like a good idea - it reduces the chance of needing yet another fork.

Can they get whoever came up with the excellent name “Codeberg” to fix the terrible name “Forgejo” though? It’s not quite as bad a name as GIMP or Got, but still…

Also i absolutely hate how they talk about moderation. You can’t just say “someone was banned for some actions”. That doesn’t inspire confidence at all! Imagine if the police were always saying “one of your peers was sent to prison for a crime” and refused to say who or what they did. That’s communist Russia territory…

They claim they can’t say because of the right to be forgotten but that’s not what the right to be forgotten means.

Yes but they frequently ask for optional donations too. Are you a parasite for not donating?

I think he meant the idea of shaming companies for not donating to things.

I don’t think you can blame them for this. How many resources do you use without voluntarily paying extra above your legal requirements? Do you donate every time you go to free libraries, museums, parks, cathedrals, etc? I certainly don’t and I don’t think that makes me “the parasite class”.

Does it work properly on Mac yet? Or does that depend on GTK4?

Yeah that sounds very unlikely to me. I guess the definition of “open source maintainer” and “unpaid” are wide open. Does it count if a company pays your salary and you are allowed to do the open source stuff as part of your job? How popular does your project have to be before you are an “open source maintainer”?