The mass exodus from #Windows to #Linux (and #Mac) due to #Windows11 and #AI continues. More and more articles, more and more youtube videos about it, or posts on forums. People are switching. If it continues like that, Linux should have 10% desktop marketshare by the end of the decade (and yes, that's a lot).
Though, "we" know most of the #opensource alternatives around, I like @Framasoft's approach of presenting and promoting various #degoogled services in a bundle. And, I have to admit, there is always one or the option in that range, that I had not known about! Merci, #Framasoft! 👍
Oooooof. @baldur's take on the Jobs to be Done of modern software development is brutal.
The conclusion is pretty sobering too: that LLMs will become embedded in software development because they truly deliver on this promise of churn, and do it at lower cost than software developers.
@elizayer
I remain hopeful. Products ultimately have to work and when they don't those behind them lose.
Reminds me of Jobs and the Apple Newton, the doomed forerunner to the Apple iPod and ultimately the iPhone. All from Jobs' vision and drive, one an utter failure, like the car 🤷♂️. I can hear someone saying why didn't we just put #LLMs in it... 🤦♂️
#p2p can change this, or at least make a dent as big as #FOSS. Together? 🥳 @jimkreft
Advocating for #Wasmcloud to adopt a OSS-first approach and use #LinuxFoundation#OpenBAO as their example of a secret store integration in upcoming RFC implementation..
@linuxfoundation projects are already seen as overly corporate, and sticking as much as possible to at least #OSS and preferably even #FOSS in docs + elaborated examples would help to not further reinforce that notion.
Great morning in #Oslo visiting Boye & Co's #DigitalStrategy group. My topic: how certain software procurement choices deserve a #PeacePrize. 🕊️ A very interesting discussion followed! Yay! 😃 #OpenSource#FOSS
1 year ago I made an important document using a 30 days trial of a #proprietary#software. Today I had to update the document. I could have bought the proprietary software for 75€, but instead I’ve tested #Inkscape for the first time in my life. Inkscape has ingested a #PDF version of my original document and allowed me to update it. Bonus, the exported PDF size is only a tenth of what the other software produced.
So I’ve just donated 75$ to Inkscape via Software Freedom Conservancy. #FOSS
Software launches, updates, new directory apps, a spotlight on Alex Kretzschmar @ironicbadger - a content creator and frequent contributor to the self-hosted community, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?