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Google will be deleting inactive google accounts together with all data on them starting December 1, 2023 by cybersandwich in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] cybersandwich@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Can I ask why you think that's too short? It seems like a long time for no activity on an account. And they are fairly generous about defining activity.

This seems reasonable to me.

In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? by cybersandwich in c/foss@beehaw.org

[-] cybersandwich@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Part of my rexxit so far has included me dusting off newsreaders and rss feeds again.

Im trying to find a good set up. Newsblur seems to be a front runner. I have nextcloud selfhosted, so I could use that with the $2.99 android app or I could pay for newsblur or feedly a few bucks each month.

Either way, having a self-curated feed of news these last few days has been pretty amazing. There is no algorithm tuned for engagement pumping news in my face. It's just stories, articles, YouTube videos, and podcasts that I want to see (on my terms).

In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? by cybersandwich in c/foss@beehaw.org

[-] cybersandwich@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I think you meant vim or neovim--the one true vim.

How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse? by cybersandwich in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] cybersandwich@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

We would be opening the door to allow a large corporation to do what they've done with open source for a while. They'll privatize the public commons.

But all this work [GPL licensing] was ridiculed. Microsoft, through Github, Google and Apple pushed for MIT/BSD licensed software as the open source standard. This allowed them to use open source components within their proprietary closed products. They managed to make thousands of free software developers work freely for them. And they even received praise because, sometimes, they would hire one of those developers (like it was a "favour" to the community while it is simply business-wise to hire smart people working on critical components of your infrastructure instead of letting them work for free). The whole Google Summer of Code, for which I was a mentor multiple years, is just a cheap way to get unpaid volunteers mentor their future free or cheap workforce.

Our freedoms were taken away by proprietary software which is mostly coded by ourselves. For free. We spent our free time developing, debugging, testing software before handing them to corporations that we rever, hoping to maybe get a job offer or a small sponsorship from them. Without Non-copyleft Open Source, there would be no proprietary MacOS, OSX nor Android. There would be no Facebook, no Amazon. We created all the components of Frankenstein’s creature and handed them to the evil professor.

This article is actually pretty great.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-19-more-rms.html

And for emphasis:

We created all the components of Frankenstein’s creature and handed them to the evil professor.