Notices by Kyle Davis (linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org)

@koz @3dprinting Jesus, those are scary pictures.

It’s interesting that the OP calls out cheap parts instead of bad engineering. Probably a little of this, little of that.

@lispi314 @koz @3dprinting let me be clear, I’m not defending qidi, but I don’t agree that cheap parts are equal to bad engineering.

"The Wayne Gretzky statue outside Rogers Place in Edmonton #yeg has been vandalized with feces."

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"The four-time Stanley Cup winner has recently caught the ire of many Canadians because of his close relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump"

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"It’s unclear if the vandalism has political motivations."

No, it's clear. Very clear.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/feces-smeared-on-edmontons-wayne-gretzky-statue/

@sszuecs @jawnsy the docs problem in OSS is nearing a crisis.

@jawnsy @sszuecs it’s especially bad in OSS but software in general has a docs problem.

Overall, I think there is a wholesale undervaluing of those who write docs vs someone who is doing “engineering” (hint: docs _are_ engineering).

If you’re wanting to go and support your family you are incentivized to be an engineer (higher pay, better career prospects, etc.)

Yet writing good docs are (IMHO) harder than writing good software.

@jawnsy fork count is probably a better metric, but not by much.

Staring has no agreed use. Is it a save-for-later? Is it a I-use-this? Is it functionally a read receipt? No one agrees.

(On top of this, it’s often an empty call-to-action “star the repo on GitHub” y tho?)

The other insidious thing about stars as a social proof is that picking something because it is popular is anti-engineering.

Look at requirements, evaluate component. No short cut to that.

@dalias I've heard bonkers stories of people selecting dependencies based on number of stars.That should alarm basically anyone.

OTOH: there is a disease of being data driven to the point that bigco leadership people can't operate without a number that indicates up-and-to-the-right. Consequently, they latch their jaws into anything that looks like that type of metric. Then people start playing games...

No metrics is a _feature_ of OSS, not a bug.

Another reason GitHub stars are a garbage metric, they are actively gamed and exploited.

If you get request for measuring #oss growth with them: push back hard.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings/

Welp. The future of #3dPrinting just dropped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEgwnhLHy3g

This hurts a bit.

It also normalizes stretching the meaning of open source. So, when I try to explain that various source available licenses are not open source, I'm fighting against people with major audiences saying otherwise.

(3/3)

First, I love this project and want to build it.

However, I'm going to go 'Old Man Yells at Cloud' on calling it open source and how the maker projects and #3Dprinting may be unintentionally damaging the general understanding of #OpenSource.

a) the model is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. That is unambiguously not open source: NC means it restricts fields of endeavour.

b) It 'remixes' code without a license from pastebin.

(1/3 - edited to show YouTube preview)

https://youtu.be/2xAk-wegS9o

"The point I’m attempting to make is that when a company, built on Open-Source, tries to lock it down, almost always in defence of falling margins and a perceived “ripping off” by others, it fails to re-invigorate the community"

https://freshbrewed.science/2024/04/09/redisforks.html

@roadriverrail @djsundog I was also a tg 16 person 😉

From one of the non-Redis Inc leadership team members before the license change:

https://github.com/madolson/placeholderkv

@csolisr @ThunderComplex probably very little seeing that it was forked before the license change.

That’s how #OpenSearch came from Elasticsearch when similar shenanigans were pulled. They are on their own from this point forward.

(I haven’t played with KeyDB, but the other multithreaded Redis clones or forks substantially changed the dynamics of use, so it might not be a drop in replacement)

@codepope Don't I know it.

I'm having déjà vu from when I had to write this blog post a few years ago.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/

@ThunderComplex You'd need a law degree to fully understand the parameters in that (and IANAL), but I wouldn't personally fork Redis after the license change.

Welp. It's official. #Redis is no longer #OSS

While I wasn't a contributor to the core, I presented on it dozens of times, talked to thousands, and wrote a book about it.

I probably wouldn't have done any of that with that kind of license.

Very disappointed.

I've spent 81 minutes of my life watching the history of the skull trumpet gif.

I have no regrets.

The story telling skill between these two videos is just legendary.

https://youtu.be/-naVu19GMqg