Any reasons why you can’t recommend it?

Interesting, because I saw a 20 point increase between vanilla Firefox and Mercury when testing last night.

That’s not a bad idea. Surely it could be automated within the image. If my ADHD allows me I might take a look at it later. :D

Looking at the installation instructions, it requires you to run database migrations manually with every image docker image update. Does this mean that running watchtower is going to bork this thing?

Proxmox on physical servers hosting a variety of vanilla Debian installations. I have a physical router running pfsense as well as two HP miniservers running OpenMediaVault.

That’s never stopped us before.

What’s wrong with that?

I don’t think you’ve properly thought through the consequences of not considering IP rights for projects with a significant number of contributors. There are absolutely situations in which having a single IP holder is advantageous to having multiple IP holders. Large open source projects might find governance hard when they’re hamstrung by getting consensus from hundreds or thousands of contributors.

And yes, I did read the title and the post. I understood it.

Copyright and license agreements are not at all the same thing. And just because something is “open source” doesn’t mean that it is free of copyright.

If my understanding of the GPL is correct, you can definitely build it yourself and publish it on fdroid. Can’t use the same name or any trademarks noti has, though.

If they could force you to pay a royalty every time you so much as thought of a book you once read, they’d do it in a heartbeat.

Tomato, tomato, as far as they’re concerned.

It wouldn’t be FOSS because a landing page with nothing but content isn’t software. I’m referring to the site at blender.org vs the source code for an application at a git repository.

I would suggest actually naming the license under which it is released if you’re talking about the website that is generated by your software. If you’re talking about the content of a website describing your project, like a landing page or something like that, I’d either attribute copyright to who wrote the content, or release it under a Creative Commons license such as CC-BY-NC.

You mean Chromium Brave Edition?

The software landscape for XMPP isn’t the best. I twisted the arms of my immediate family and have them using XMPP messaging with a Snikket server I set up, and we’ve had lots of issues between OMEMO support and the lack of good messaging clients for iOS. It works, but it isn’t the smooth-out-of-the-box experience that non-techies want/need.

Not providing builds seems to be a good incentive. I’ve seen some projects that charge for the installation/compiled software with the source freely available. Lots of software is a gigantic pain in the ass to build without the proper configuration and pipeline set up.

I have put complete faith in Google maps in poor lighting before

And that is a very unsafe way to operate a two ton motor vehicle. As the driver, it is your responsibility to operate your vehicle safely. If you can’t operate it safely in the given conditions, you are obligated to not operate it. If lighting conditions are so poor, and your vehicles illumination is insufficient, stop driving.

We test drivers and license them to make sure they know not only the rules of the road but safety measures. Putting “conplete faith” in an automated system is the very definition or irresponsible driving and should be grounds to lose ones license.

Didn’t say it would all be good. Just too good to pass up.

These things will be insanely useful as they improve. I’ve always found Google’s assistant fairly useful, even just answering basic searchable questions and performing basic tasks. The LLMs that are available now have a way better grasp on natural language and thus a much better ability ability to comply with your requests.

The ability to talk to your home assistant like you would a secretary instead of a computer will be a game changer. There comes a point for (almost) everyone where convenience and utility will outweigh the privacy concerns and inertia required to get started. I think having a personal secretary that has a great understanding of your commands and an understanding of your needs and the ability to interact with your online services for you in complex ways is going to check that box.