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Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by spartanatreyu »

hperrin wrote: post #3

The commit log is filled with AI generated commits. I wouldn’t trust that on my server.

Blocking AI users on github is such a quick way to avoid most slop and get advanced notice when an existing project has started going into tech/cognitive debt.

You'll get a warning banner for those repos if you go to these users and block them:

- github.com/claude

- github.com/cursoragent

- github.com/gemini-code-assist

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Example of the warning banner and more discussion here: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116115453811522063

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by yellowapple »

> No licensee or downstream recipient may use the Software (including any modified or derivative versions) to directly compete with the original Licensor by offering it to third parties as a hosted, managed, or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product or cloud service where the primary value of the service is the functionality of the Software itself.

No thanks. These “almost-but-not-quite-FOSS” licenses are a blight.

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by superice »

argee wrote: post #5
hperrin wrote: post #3

The commit log is filled with AI generated commits. I wouldn’t trust that on my server.

I want to know why this [0] needed to be co-authored by Claude. Especially because it seems like the kind of change you'd explicitly want to make without Claude's "help" (presuming that's how that got in there). [0] https://github.com/smgdkngt/dobase/commit/597684fc67b67f5a2a...

Asking Claude to commit and push triggers the Co-Authored-By thing typically, even if the change was made by hand. It could entirely be possible the author just asked it to generate a commit message for this change (although the style doesn't strike me as very Claude like).

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by BoorishBears »

argee wrote: post #6
samdixon wrote: post #4

Clickup is kinda like this (trash software btw) where it combines all these things. Its super cumbersome to deal with all of them in the same UI. For example, you will be chatting with someone, need to look at ticket, you have to completely leave the context of the chat to find the ticket. Yeah you can have multiple tabs, but still cumbersome. Would rather have a chat app for chat, documentation in documentation... s…

Could you elaborate on what makes Clickup "trash software", is it something specific to Clickup or your opinion around this entire "class" of all-in-one workspace?

ClickUp is known to be extremely slow and buggy, in a way that technical people can infer is a reflection of their mission to literally do everything an organization needs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1s0tkz8/disappoint...

https://www.reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1rxbtla/im_so_tire...

Who ever built a piece of quality software by setting out to build multiple otherwise unrelated pieces of software with extremely tight coupling to satisfy enterprise bargain hunting?

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by nick-sta »

yellowapple wrote: post #14

> No licensee or downstream recipient may use the Software (including any modified or derivative versions) to directly compete with the original Licensor by offering it to third parties as a hosted, managed, or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product or cloud service where the primary value of the service is the functionality of the Software itself. No thanks. These “almost-but-not-quite-FOSS” licenses are a blight.

I don't see the issue - the creator is reserving the right to create their own paid hosted version?

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by chopete3 »

What is stopping one to have a chrome or other browser window with pinned links to Email, Calendar, Drive and other web links?

Why build a full app?. They could released a Chrome extension to let users configure their links for each of those apps. Wasted effort.

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by whilenot-dev »

chopete3 wrote: post #18

What is stopping one to have a chrome or other browser window with pinned links to Email, Calendar, Drive and other web links? Why build a full app?. They could released a Chrome extension to let users configure their links for each of those apps. Wasted effort.

> They could released a Chrome extension to let users configure their links for each of those apps. Wasted effort.

This app isn't just some link aggregator or an admin dashboard, though. It's workplace software that hosts all your data, self-hosted on your system of choice if you wish. I'm neither a user of nor am I affiliated with this project, but it seems like there's the aspiration to provide a unified client interface for every app, and it looks like you could BYOC as well (for CalDAV and Email).

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by EvanAnderson »

nick-sta wrote: post #17
yellowapple wrote: post #14

> No licensee or downstream recipient may use the Software (including any modified or derivative versions) to directly compete with the original Licensor by offering it to third parties as a hosted, managed, or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product or cloud service where the primary value of the service is the functionality of the Software itself. No thanks. These “almost-but-not-quite-FOSS” licenses are a blight.

I don't see the issue - the creator is reserving the right to create their own paid hosted version?

That's absolutely fine for them, but they shouldn't call it "Open-source" and "Fully open source" (like they do on the linked page).

This software is source-available. Open Source licenses don't discriminate on the basis use of the software.

Using the term Open Source for license like this is dishonest. It seeks to profit from the goodwill from actual Open Source software.

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