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Mettled@reddthat.comto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Ecosia and Qwant team up to launch an independent search index, challenging Google & BingEnglish9·8 months agoThey should focus on beating Brave search before going after Bing, much less Google.
When you mix being an ideologue with software will forever lose.
Mettled@reddthat.comto Open Source@lemmy.ml•New Tuta Calendar app is now on F-DroidEnglish4·8 months agoAny email service that works with K-9/Thunderbird and OpenKeychain.
Mettled@reddthat.comto Open Source@lemmy.ml•New Tuta Calendar app is now on F-DroidEnglish152·8 months agoIt connects to proprietary services which makes it not an option. The same situation for Tuta Mail. We can talk after they publish their server source code. Proton is also not an option for the same reasons.
Mettled@reddthat.comto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•NetBSD: the portable, lightweight, and robust UNIX-like operating systemEnglish3·8 months agoNetBSD does work for toasters, coffee machines, and fridges, absolutely!
Mettled@reddthat.comto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•NetBSD: the portable, lightweight, and robust UNIX-like operating systemEnglish2·8 months agoI question the claim about Apple Darwin using NetBSD since Mac is based on a 10+ year very old version of FreeBSD, and Playsttion 4 and 5 uses FreeBSD. Sony aubmits code to FreeBSD to get it supported for Playstation.
Mettled@reddthat.comto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•NetBSD: the portable, lightweight, and robust UNIX-like operating systemEnglish3·8 months agoMacOS is a modified butchered version of FreeBSD
Mettled@reddthat.comto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•NetBSD: the portable, lightweight, and robust UNIX-like operating systemEnglish1·8 months agoWholly, entirely, irelevent. Search the number of people who use NetBSD once a week compared to the number of people who use FreeBSD once a month or OpenBSD once a month. Check the number of people who have at least installed NetBSD. See what it’s used for. NetBSD is completely forgettable.
Mettled@reddthat.comto Open Source@lemmy.ml•FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly codeEnglish12·8 months agoDoes the BSD’s heavy emphasis on code correctness, that’s when the quality and security of the code will be revealed. I will watch what the OpenBSD developers say when they try to port the new code for FFMpeg.
Mettled@reddthat.comto Open Source@lemmy.ml•FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly codeEnglish11·8 months agoWhen this comes to the BSD’s, it will be interesting to see if there is a significant difference in multimedia. I bought Intel 11th gen over 10th for it’s AVX-512.
Mettled@reddthat.comto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Symphony, One of the best open source lite weight offline android music playerEnglish1·8 months agoAnything released on Github has no code requirements or restrictions, that is why some people do reproducible builds of software, to verify is has 100% functionality of a binary release. Any app from F-Droid is repoducible.
Mettled@reddthat.comto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Symphony, One of the best open source lite weight offline android music playerEnglish2·8 months agoIt’s too bad that the F-Droid releases are far behind. I do not install from Github to prevent against proprietary dependancies.
I was refersncing the difference in user numbers.