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Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by nyolfen »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #25
A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #6

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.

i use brave and i have never used its crypto tooling. it's effectively an up-to-date chromium fork with a bunch of extra features and privacy-respecting defaults.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by V-2 »

HKH2 wrote: post #73
V-2 wrote: post #68

I'm not sure how it works at first glance. OK, let's search for "Word". I'd assume LibreOffice and the like would come up - but instead, I get "WooCommerce" and "Wordle Global, Open Source Alternative to Wordle". I understand apparently this is not how the page is supposed to be used - but isn't it how an average user would use a service named "opensourcealternative.to"? What am I missing?

'office' and 'docs' both have relevant matches.

True, because their descriptions literally contain the words "Office" and "Docs".

But one of the alleged alternatives for Docs is Athens Research, which is totally unrelated; there's just a link to its "docs" in the description. These are not the docs you are looking for.

And again, "Excel" or "PowerPoint" return zero results. Same goes for "Photoshop".

"Windows" returns, among others (also completely unrelated): "Brave Browser" - because the description happens to mention that the browser works on Windows.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by fmajid »

remram wrote: post #84
fmajid wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same with Netdata (DataDog alternative) where only the agent seems to be open-sourced (so is DataDog’s BTW). Seems like a bait-and-switch.

You are wrong. Netdata does have a paid hosted service, but you can self-host the whole thing.

Including the cloud component? I can understand a freemium model, but an agent without the analytics service is “free” as in “free puppy”.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by remram »

fmajid wrote: post #93
remram wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are wrong. Netdata does have a paid hosted service, but you can self-host the whole thing.

Including the cloud component? I can understand a freemium model, but an agent without the analytics service is “free” as in “free puppy”.

If by "cloud component" you mean the server that receives and stores metrics and serves the dashboard, then yes.

If you mean the paid registry thing that they sell, which allows you to keep track of your installations of Netdata on multiple servers, then no.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by BaronVonSteuben »

gilrain wrote: post #80
paulryanrogers wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

He didn’t. That he did comes up sometimes, but it seems to be wishful thinking or worse.

Oh interesting, no I don't have a source for that. Just something I've read a bunch of times. Probably falls into the "if you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes true" (although I don't know that there was nefarious motives behind it, could be honest mistakes like mine)

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by BaronVonSteuben »

erikcw wrote: post #32
BaronVonSteuben wrote: post #16

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.

Rabbit is definitely interesting. How is the maintenance/management on RabittMQ? Is it comparable to say a Postgres instance, or is it more or less?

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by SkipperCat »

josephcsible wrote: post #90
SkipperCat wrote: post #76

This is a cool site, and I use a lot of these open source products. But let's not forget, when operating at scale, using a commercial version of these products becomes the right choice. While OSS InfluxDB is a great piece of software, we need HA and other features which are only available via their commercial version. You can administer a group of peoples vaults with 1Password, I don't think you can do that with Keep…

The right solution to that problem is to avoid open core. Instead, use products that are fully open source, so that even the "commercial" features are free.

I'd argue that open core products are what keeps open source alive. Without the ability to monetize the enterprise features, there'd be no justification for products like InfluxDB or others to exist.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by josephcsible »

SkipperCat wrote: post #97
josephcsible wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The right solution to that problem is to avoid open core. Instead, use products that are fully open source, so that even the "commercial" features are free.

I'd argue that open core products are what keeps open source alive. Without the ability to monetize the enterprise features, there'd be no justification for products like InfluxDB or others to exist.

But there are a bunch of companies with open source projects that aren't open core, like Red Hat and Grafana.

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by woojoo666 »

culi wrote: 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

For a more updated version of privacytoolsio:

https://www.privacyguides.org/

(Some history: the privacytoolsio website was created by the subreddit r/privacytoolsio. A while ago the founder was kicked out after being inactive for over a year, but that founder happened to own the website domain and refused to give it to the remaining moderators. The founder also started adding affiliate links into the privacytoolsio website. So the remaining mods decided to rebrand completely, creating a new sub r/privacyguides and a new website as well. You can read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/pnhn4a/rpriv...)

Re: Open Source Alternative To

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Post by culi »

woojoo666 wrote: post #99
culi wrote: 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

For a more updated version of privacytoolsio: https://www.privacyguides.org/ (Some history: the privacytoolsio website was created by the subreddit r/privacytoolsio. A while ago the founder was kicked out after being inactive for over a year, but that founder happened to own the website domain and refused to give it to the remaining moderators. The founder also started adding affiliate links into the privacytoolsio w…

Interesting, thanks for the context! Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to edit my original comment, but I'll keep that in mind for next time
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