Notices by James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world), page 2

@alcinnz @usernameswift @abasu @yuletide Wow that does affect my opinion I guess. TIL. thank you

@alcinnz @usernameswift @abasu @yuletide Thank you for mentioning that hypothetical security concern. Interesting…

Is that vector one that is taken advantage of on Android? I assume Blink is used predominantly on Android.

@alcinnz @usernameswift @abasu @yuletide Ah interesting. I hear ya re: expectations I think.

But re: this point “allowing non-WebKit browsers on iOS will lead to there being no browser competition” do you mean v8 or Chrome would just crush WebKit and other players? I’m not sure if that’s what you mean. I think they should not lock developers out of rolling their own web engines the security thing is bogus to me. Unless I’m uninformed infosec wise.

@alcinnz @usernameswift @abasu @yuletide WebKit sucks doesn’t it? I’m constantly having CSS issues with it? At LEAST it is open source. Now let us use non WebKit based browsing apps on iOS.

Hard disagree with this take. “Adding more components to the formula would only complicate the experience for non-tech-savvy customers.” 🙄

Third party app installation without jailbreaking would be amazingly net positive. I hope it comes to #iOS.

https://www.xda-developers.com/app-sideloading-ios-editorial/

@alcinnz @lykso @ramsey @flabberghaster That'd be a wonderful thing. #ImagineTheEndOfCapitalism

@freakazoid @lykso @ramsey @alcinnz @flabberghaster That's my opinion on the state of things in the US as well. Sadly. Perhaps electing younger and more tech aware representatives will one day change that.

For now, love to see GDPR and right to repair and USB-C and such actually fought for in the EU.

@lykso @ramsey @alcinnz @flabberghaster I strongly agree with this take. The US could spend idk maybe some of its enormous defense budget on it?

@flabberghaster @ramsey @alcinnz Yes! I LOVE this business model.

@ramsey @alcinnz @flabberghaster A package repo that charges Fortune 500 and other companies with > some millions of ARR to pay based on their usage of #FOSS.

Open source developers should be paid by companies regardless of if they are hired by them, if they are building the software they are using

Open source is the backbone of modern capitalism. Something like this is the only truly fair way open source can be used by for profit companies.

@alcinnz @flabberghaster @ramsey #TideLift is a great name, I had not heard of that service yet.

Hopefully 2023 will be a good year for donating to open source contributors. A rising tide for #OSS would lift all of us into a more technological sophisticated world.

@ramsey @alcinnz @flabberghaster Right. It’s a crazy misalignment of incentives. I don’t see a clean economic model for open source though so I see how it has come to be this way. Many of those hobbyists have full time jobs working on closed source that makes their ‘hobby’ possible.

@alcinnz @flabberghaster @ramsey wow yeah that’s a good point.

@alcinnz @flabberghaster @ramsey Maybe we need like a Patreon / Mastodon combo of community / user based financial support for Open Source projects? 🤔

@alcinnz @flabberghaster @ramsey That’s an interesting point and I hear you. Ultimately the best solution(s) will win if all are made available though right? Idk that’s my response to that point. I’d rather have everything and it be messy than neat and incomplete.

@alcinnz @flabberghaster @ramsey
I think I feel more sadness / frustration about all the repeatedly implemented closed source solutions of the same problems that are surely out there and NOT available on the internet, than I do about having too many homegrown but publicly available solutions.

@flabberghaster @ramsey @alcinnz One day I hope to be in a position career-wise and financially to make all my code contributions #Copyleft.

I think more people thinking this way would lead to a golden age of software development. #ImagineTheEndOfCapitalism

@flabberghaster @ramsey @alcinnz I agree with this take so deeply. Not a lot of software engineers I talk to seem to be in a position to care about this or feel this way. Thank you for saying it.

I personally have felt, at least thus far in my career, overwhelming incentive to work on copyrightable, private codebases. For work. #Capitalism. Perhaps that is why so few comparatively seem to act upon this idea.