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Re: Open Source Alternative To

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List of mod comments about why lists of things don't work well as HN posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

No, dang says they don't work well, which is not the same thing.

Remove the "author=dang" and you can see that it's not a sentiment rarely (ever?) expressed by anyone else.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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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.

RabbitMQ is a more natural alternative to SQS than Kafka I’d say. Redis can also be leveraged as a message broker depending on your needs.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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post #20

List of mod comments about why lists of things don't work well as HN posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

No, dang says they don't work well, which is not the same thing. Remove the "author=dang" and you can see that it's not a sentiment rarely (ever?) expressed by anyone else.

Remove the "author=dang"

Then they wouldn't be mod comments.

not a sentiment rarely (ever?) expressed by anyone else.

This is unsurprising given other people rarely if ever publicly moderate HN.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Brave is listed there as an open source alternative to Firefox (as well as Chrome and Edge). But isn't Firefox (which itself is not listed on this website) open source as well or am I missing something?

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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I have also been building something similar at

https://ossdatabase.com

Recently released code under AGPL-3.(https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase)

But I want to go beyond aggregation and add following things

- User reviews, ratings

- Researcherd guides comparing features in most common usecases

- Interviews with Opensource maintainers, founders.

- Being able to create collections like awesome lists

- Everything being user editable and basic karma system for accepted edits.

Edits: Formatting and added links.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Can someone explain this to me? > Verdaccio > Open Source Alternative to npm in lieu of https://github.com/npm

Verdaccio is an NPM registry server implementation, for hosting private packages. NPM doesn't provide an implementation for the server, they have their own closed source version that they provide as a free/tiered SAAS. The CLI and API specification are open source though

Re: Open Source Alternative To

#38

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.

Going simpler as possible:

Redis has a simple (but extremely powerful) Pub/Sub implementation[1] that should get you going for a long time.

Postgres also have a simple notify API[2] you can mix it with your own tables and just "notify" that some changes were made (when people say you can do anything with postgres nowadays they are not joking).

You probably can also roll your own implementation in any ACID database. Just keep adding records to an event table and consume them in scheduled batches. Should be more than enough for non real-time applications.

[1]: https://redis.io/docs/manual/pubsub/ [2]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-notify.html

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because of https://basicattentiontoken.org/ For a group that's largely bet their fortunes on internet companies, it's kind of funny that anything crypto is so toxic here, but that's probably the reason. The actual browser is under good technical stewardship from what I know. It's essentially not-evil Chrome with an optional crypto-for-ads monetization model, a crypto wallet, and some primitive default privac…

My particular gripe with BAT is noted here[0] and AFAIK nothing has changed; you still have to use their KYC-compliant platform to ever exchange BAT for real-world money, as they'd much rather you re-donate the BAT to websites via brave's reward system instead of ever exchanging for USD. Other problems that they'd had: - were inserting referral tokens into the URL when visiting popular websites, so presumably brave w…

You can still donate your BATs to institutions and websites (or should I say "pay for not having ads", at least this is what is being marketed for). I mostly contribute to wikipedia, as it is always in need of new donations and I like the idea of not having trackers/ads on it.

Edit: better wording

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