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Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Add it to the list?

https://ethical.net/resources/

https://switching.software/

https://www.privacytools.io/

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives

https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/

I think if alternativeto.net just adds a setting to only view FLOSS alternatives maybe this genre of websites would be threatened

Re: Open Source Alternative To

#22

I honestly had no idea Brave was an open source. Why is it being so heavily criticized on HN ( from what I saw whenever it comes up )?

Also, because their build system is closed source; my personal perspective is that if I cannot build your project, it is not "open source"

I have taken some inspiration from AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave) and I think I got it to compile all the way through once, but that's not nearly the same as how easy it is to build -- and then run -- Firefox every day

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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post #21

Add it to the list? https://ethical.net/resources/ https://switching.software/ https://www.privacytools.io/ https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/ I think if alternativeto.net just adds a setting to only view FLOSS alternatives maybe this genre of websites would be threatened

https://opensource.builders/

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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I honestly had no idea Brave was an open source. Why is it being so heavily criticized on HN ( from what I saw whenever it comes up )?

Probably because it's a browser wrapped in a crypto wallet, and there is virtually no use case for cryptocurrencies that are not powered by scams or crime.

I'm not saying there couldn't be, but so far, the entire ecosystem is just burning gigawatts of energy to sell jpegs of monkeys.

Oh yeah, and it removes ads from web pages and then shows its own. I'm always surprised people aren't more offended by that.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

#26

What do people use as an alternative to SQS? I've had Kafka mentioned a few times but that's way heavier/more complicated than I need. Just a simple queue is perfect, and SQS' API is gloriously simple.

If SQS meets your needs then you don't need an alternative, but there are Azure Storage Queues and GCP PubSub are the closest.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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post #21

Add it to the list? https://ethical.net/resources/ https://switching.software/ https://www.privacytools.io/ https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/ I think if alternativeto.net just adds a setting to only view FLOSS alternatives maybe this genre of websites would be threatened

That setting exists, you can show only open source, or only proprietary, or only Linux, etc.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

#28

I honestly had no idea Brave was an open source. Why is it being so heavily criticized on HN ( from what I saw whenever it comes up )?

Interesting, I don't think I've noticed the same criticism for Brave. But many times when it has come up in discussions at work, people will say they don't want to use it and don't trust it because Brendan Eich is behind it. He donated money to Prop 8 in California many years ago (which at the time, was very popular. More than half the people in California supported it), and he was fired/cancelled for it (long before…

Got a citation for Eich changing his view on same-gender marriage? I couldn't find any evidence of that.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitLab Community Edition is MIT licensed. I don't know that it gets much more open source than that. I've survived at very very large companies on CE, never needing any of the paid features.

not having multiple approvers on merge requests is a pretty big limitation.

It's pretty trivial to emulate with a bit of code as a bot and the "conversations must be closed" setting.

But if you're relying on that feature rather than just agreeing, training, and trust, then I'm also not sure that's the best way to go about it. I'd personally much rather be somewhere where the rule is flexible and can be left to the MR submitter to decide when it's important to have more eyes on a change.

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