Mastodawn

It greatly bothers me when software ported to Windows keeps polluting the user folder with .folders;
first, Windows doesn't have the *nix bug where folders starting with a dot are hidden, there's a flag to set the folder to hidden, but these programs don't bother to use it;
second, the user folder in Windows is not for this, these folders should go in %APPDATA% (IMO Windows has a bit saner design).

#rant #software #OpenSource #OpenSores

Hot Mustard Express 🇨🇦Dec 19, 2025

HarfBuzz (an oss project) was named for the sound of a cat coughing up a bumblebee.

#OpenSores

blaue_Fledermaus Dec 16, 2025

It is almost 2026 and there's still software that breaks with paths with spaces...

Windows might have many issues, but the idea of using the "Program Files" folder to force developers to fix their broken shit was very good.

#windows #Linux #OpenSource #OpenSores

David Cantrell 🏏Sep 4, 2025

@pndc probably won't help with the sync rate, but I expect #rockbox will cope just fine with large libraries and weird files. And it's #OpenSores so if it doesn't cope I think that means it's your fault.

ティージェーグレェ Jun 14, 2023

Somewhere earlier today someone boosted a toot that rambled on about a lot of things.

I thought about replying.

Hours later, the thoughts kept creeping into my mind.

I have now searched, unsuccessfully for a while to find this boosted toot again.

I can certainly forgive whining about "but reddit let me find things on subjects rather than by authors" from a n00b who never used NNTP or IRC as just some examples of prior art which had similar features.

Yet they used the phrase, "God Emperor" of FOSS people lording over users or some such and like:

wtfh?

Yep, clearly that is why I am in debt and sleeping in a car yet still contribute to libre/free open source software: because I am a God Emperor? </sarcasm>

Maybe @brynet repeatedly asking for donations to not starve, is God Emperor behavior?

I am no expert on hyperbole referencing Frank Herbert's franchise that is way too long in the tooth, but perhaps OpenBSD could hit its fundraising goals (unlike last year) and be closer to not shoving its "God Emperor" like status in everyone's faces?

Linus Torvalds, purportedly gets $10million/year from The Linux Foundation, yet was posting to the FediVerse about dishwasher recommendations, is that God Emperor behavior?

Meanwhile: Reddit has a valuation of something bonkers like $10 billion.

Apple: over a trillion USD.

Jeff Bezos net worth roughly: $149 billion.

Bill Gates: $115 billion.

Do you know *any* billionaire FOSS contributors? Because I know a lot of libre/free open source software developers and have for decades.

Last I checked, jkh was working for NVidia, not: CTO. Not CIO, not a billionaire, the search engines suggest: *maybe* he has as much as $5 million? Code he has written is in every Apple device that has shipped for the last two decades, at least.

"God Emperor" FOSS canards.

JFC, who is that ignorant? I guess they won't be getting a direct reply from me.

#OpenSores #FOSS #GodEmperor #FrankHerbert #DuneHyperbole #Reddit #Capitalists #haters #n00bz

Wuzzy Apr 1, 2023

I am very unimpressed by pretty much all "#opensource" initiatives of corporations. There's always a catch. There's always a piece they want to control.

And when the same corporations use aggressive takedown requests, all the chirping about "open source" is just that: all chirping, zero substance.

#opensores #copyright

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Wuzzy Apr 1, 2023

Problem 2: There is still a HUGE amount of things about Twitter that is kept secret, kept proprietary. What they released is backend stuff. But what is relevant for users even more is e.g. the frontend code, things the user *actually* execute on their machine. Can they actually trust this code? Who knows? Can they legally copy and share it? Hell no, because it is #proprietary. The whole Twitter #algorithm nonsense is a farce.

#opensores #Twitter