That is anonymity, not privacy.

MS GitHub doesn’t do anything the others can’t besides the social media features which do not need to be so prominent. If you must, it can be one of multiple code mirrors but should not be the exclusive one, or even the primary option.

Matrix is ass. You cannot reasonably scale an eventual consistency model without centralization & it will be a wasteful network like many of the blockchain projects. We already have had IRC & XMPP MUCs for ages that run on toasters & did not need to be reinvented. Chat has its place tho to help steer folks into asking the right questions, but such questions once formed need to be triaged as bugfixes, issues, FAQs, or forum posts to benefit everyone on the discussion.

I will continue to kick & scream at every project that thinks free software is the way to go with their software, but not good enough for the tooling around their project. Fuck Discord. Fuck MS GitHub.

Wat. You are saying you can’t package Python application on a system level? That means the language’s package managament is broken. Nix unlike most package managers can do a reasonable job juggling multiple version of packages at the same time & stuff still breaks, & more frequently than anything in any other language other than Haskell.

There was also the SolarWind attack, Colorama, JarkaStealer, Cobo, pywx, Dropbox, PyTorch 2023. Zero-days galore.

Krita is free—as in freedom & beer.

Meant to be glue but is used in all sorts of places it probably shouldn’t. The way libraries are handled & pinned leads to lots of breakage—a couple applications I have overlays to disable testing since stuff gets merged into Nixpkgs with failing tests so frequently that I is better to just turn it off & deal with failures at runtime.

The ultralytics thing was massive last month https://snyk.io/blog/ultralytics-ai-pwn-request-supply-chain-attack/. These have been coming with regularity—even worse than npm.

I would at least agree Lua is a better place to start—at least for a dynamic scripting language. It is not a complicated language & it even supports tail recursion which you can’t say about far too many languages.

Community still locked to proprietary MS GitHub + Discord?

Yes, you can do the fundamentals & professional design work in these applications—there is no reason to be spending money just to “get into” graphic arts. Hugin + Darktable are great for photography too.

It is slow. Syntax & community idioms suck. The package ecosystem is a giant mess—constant dependency breakage, many supply-side attacks, quality is all over the place with many packages with failing tests or build that isn’t reproducible—& can largely be an effect of too many places saying this is the first language you should learn first. When it comes to running Python software on my machine, it always is the buggiest, breaks the most shipping new software, & uses more resources than other things.

When I used to program in it, I thought Python was so versatile that it was the 2nd best language at everything. I learned more languages & thought it was 3rd best… then 4th… then realized it isn’t good at anything. The only reason it has things going for it is all the effort put into the big C libraries powering the math, AI, etc. libraries.

D) what is AMD support like or is the Python fan boys still focusing on Nvidia exclusively?

What I like about this is that I could theorhetically install a non-QWERTY keyboard instead of being locked to such an inefficient layout. Yes, eventually you can learn to touch type, but learning it would be nice to have the keys since it will be a nonstandard layout at that size & when you hand it off to other folks, it’d be completely unexpected to hit q & get a '.

FYI for the other commenters, UnifiedPush can work thru the Prosody mod_unified_push or any server with a up where Conversations (& its forks like Cheogram, Monocles, Blabber) can be a distributor. This has the added bonus of coming with an awesome decentralized XMPP chat server getting to reuse a single connection & single app to server instead of separate ones. Conversations is the most efficient chat client on Android in terms of resources (battery, network, RAM) so might as well keep it lightweight—which you are probably trying to get push notifications from the likes of Signal or Element, but what is the point when you have an efficient XMPP server for your chat needs?

However, I think UnifiedPush might be a bit flawed—as if the startup that created ntfy is pushing others to try to adopt their standard instead of getting folks on board with the older & capable MQTT (which also can be ran thru mod_mqtt on your XMPP server). I am not yet sure if this is a tinfoil take or not.

netstat -tunl shows all open ports on the machine to help diagnose any firewall issues.

Host your own XMPP node outside the country’s jurisdiction, turn on E2EE if it weirdly wasn’t on by default, & don’t trust the big centralized servers they could easily ban. Apparently everyone wants to dismiss XMPP since you can disable the E2EE (since it is a generic protocol for lots of stuff) despite encryption being on by default on every modern client—so there is your deniability 🙃 Unlike Matrix, the average user can afford to run it on a toaster too.

We need to stop this usage of proprietary MS GitHub + Discord in free software. It completely undermines the philosophy.

since it’s open source

Open core with an open community edition. 100% better than fully proprietary & Microsoft.