I keep having to explain to people that building powerful developer tooling (from programming languages to ide plugins) is mainly hampered by the broken economics of the field.
So I wrote down a summary of these economics from my pov, hoping it helps inform the discussion and spurn some actions. Let me know how wrong I am ;)
This is not exactly about #opensource, but it is adjacent to it.
📢 New blog post! Released last week, Weston 12.0 brings a number of highlights including two new backends, support for multiple scanout devices & new protocol implementations. Here's a look at some of the changes that have landed: https://col.la/weston12#Wayland#OpenSource
You can move assets from #Unity3d to the #GodotEngine in just a few seconds, using two awesome #opensource projects, unitypackage_godot and unidot importer. This is amazing!
SimpleX E2EE messenger for iOS and Android has no user IDs at all – It could be the most secure and private messenger ever
Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy.
When users have persistent identities, even if this is just a random number, like a Session ID, the ...continues
#MeetTheTeam
Meet Robin Wagner, our COO, who was with OpenProject nearly from the start. He is in charge of customer success, sales and training teams, yet still finds time for everyone else if help is needed. We are lucky to have you, Robin! #teamspirit#openproject#opensource
We would love to partner with a design-focused #rustlang gamedev to do work on Fish Folk.
The fundamentals are all there. What our game is missing most right now is gameplay-oriented polish. If you have a knack for “juicing”, please get in touch!
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenSource#LLMs#Chatbots: "I’ve been leading and researching generative AI system releases, including OpenAI’s GPT-2, since these systems first started to become available for widespread use, and I now focus on ethical openness considerations at Hugging Face. Doing this work, I’ve come to think of open source and closed source as the two ends of a gradient of options for releasing generative AI systems, rather than a simple either/or question."
Open-source tools for behavioral video analysis: Setup, methods, and best practices. #OpenSource#Neurosciencehttps://elifesciences.org/articles/79305?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
@dsfgs the code is #opensource - so we are trusting that the is nothing bad in there, though it's always good to get some knolagable people to have a look every so often, maybe some people could get together to do this.