Notices by Bojidar Marinov (bojidar_bg@mastodon.social)

@morph Sayy... that looks a lot like my post for this week! (https://mastodon.social/@bojidar_bg/114420922582844249) 😂 Almost as if we used the same place-stuff-around-center algorithm, but with slightly different tiles! 😁

@awoodsnet The magic is in the package managers: redis moving to AUR means that anyone using e.g. `yay` won't feel the difference, while users of `pacman` that stick to official repositories would just get a warning that the package doesn't exist, yet nothing would be deinstalled.

...that said, still somewhat surprised at the move, given that obviously-proprietary software like Discord exists in the `extra` repository. 🤔

@krisfreedom @awoodsnet Okay, I checked 😅; here's the relevant issue for redis: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/redis/-/issues/1/ - apparently the same happened with MongoDB, when they adopted SSPL.
The main issue at hand seems to be licenses that limit the _distribution_ of the software, in ways that make package maintainers potentially liable. Discord is in only because Arch got permission to distribute it (https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/discord/-/blob/main/Permission_to_Distribute.mbox?ref_type=heads), and Vivaldi likewise partners with Linux distributions (https://vivaldi.com/partners/linux/).

@eliseo01 No offense, but, even if I did stay away from Arch for those reasons, my admiration would still go to software that makes life easier and bearable for humans - even humans that end up using proprietary software.
As of today, free software package managers like pacman, chocolatey, or homebrew deliver a thousand times better experience than any competing proprietary solution, and I'd rather celebrate that win, than bemoan the fact that it also makes proprietary software easier to use.

The addition of dark mode in #LibreOffice 25.2 earlier this year took me by surprise at the time, but today I opened a Google Sheets document and... I'm honestly appalled that it still doesn't have a dark mode! 😂
Good job setting a higher bar of user expectations to the @libreoffice team, and long live #opensource going where even large companies are too afraid to! 💚✨
#libremonday