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Cake day: November 19th, 2022

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  • i’m all for periodic contributions through channels like open collective but bounties rarely get to the point of being persuading.

    for a couple of years now my favorite foss project has been blender bim addon and its community osarch.

    it has a unique aspect. the software stack it’s trying to be an alternative of includes giants like autodesk, nemetchek etc. although it’s a gigantic shoe to fill, it has been really really successful at doing what it’s doing. i have been using it for a year now and cannot fathom to go back.

    the community consists of experienced construction sector people and a decent amount of them are directly involved in the software development, be it coding, bug triage, educational content, technical support etc.

    i guess the thing that makes a project tick is having a working state software, the degree to which is not important, and being community oriented.





  • if you’re looking for an original distro, you should try void. it’s super lightweight. i used to keep away from gentoo because it was a source only distro, i would otherwise go fulltime on it, but now that it also has binary compatibility you should check that out, too.

    as for wm, i love wayfire as a floating wm, and sway as a tiling wm.






  • i have an idol3 from 2016 and even that has all the phone capabilities (except the camera) and it’s not listed as a community grade. you would be surprised at how many phones are working fully. and with sxmo/swmo every phone ever has a chance to be a daily driver.

    i remember a time when the thing blocking linux migration was audio calling on msn messenger. it got solved but nobody cared. these things take time to go over the tipping point. hardly anybody used android when it first came out, symbian was all the hype.

    if you are willing and have a spare phone you should try postmarketos now.



  • ldap is a central authority server. when you have ldap supported software, you can alliviate authorization to a central server. and if you make it so that you only need username for credentials (uid=%s,dc=example,dc=com in ldap jargon), you centralize your user database.

    that’s what i use on my home server. it takes most of the user registration hassle away.

    edit: by the way dc=example,dc=com is just an arbitrary value, you don’t have to have certbot certification for that or anything.