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  • For some background, it turns out organic maps had a for profit llc registered and long poised itself as free and open source. When the llc was discovered the community volunteers wrote an open letter

    When their concerns were not answered they forked the project and created CoMaps which in theory is supposed to be everything organic maps ever portrayed itself as.

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  • Why Not Use…?

    I am aware that there are many other git “forge” platforms available. Gitea, Codeberg, and Forgejo all come to mind. Those platforms are great as well. If you prefer those options instead of SourceHut that’s fine! Switching to any of those would still be a massive improvement over GitHub.

    Unfortunately, I find the need to have an account in order to contribute to projects a deal breaker. It causes too much friction for no real gain. Email based workflows will always reign supreme. It’s the OG of code contributions.

    Ive been using codeberg(a public forgejo) and it felt more familiar coming from github/gitlab. Sourcehut wasn't bad, but it did feel quite a bit different and i admittedly didn't get too far past that. I do like the idea of contributing without an account though. i know that it's a git feature to create a patch file but having a forge support it is neat.

    Semi related, I do look forward to federation of forgejo which i think helps the "needing an account" somewhat. I think it's less unreasonable to expect someone to have an account on -any federated forge- than to have an account at the specific forge my project is on.

    Good article though. It did help make sourcehut make more sense than the first time i looked at it

  • You're not connected to wifi or vpn from the looks of it. jellyfin is hosted on your local network. You need to be connected to that network for any device you want to access it. The most direct way is to connect via wifi. If you want access from outside your house you'll need to look into opening a remote connection via something like cloudflare tunnel

  • Wait, organic is a forprofit publicly traded company?

    Yeah, this is a surprise. And its even called out in the open letter

    The Organic Maps project has been built and promoted under the premise of being an open community project, so it's troubling to discover that the majority of shareholders consider it to be their sole property. [...] (see Addendum for the details)

    Then in Addendum:

    The role of Organic Maps OÜ

    It's a for-profit company (an LLC basically) registered in Estonia:

    ariregister.rik.ee/eng/company/16225385/Organic-Ma...

    The company holds key project assets, e.g. the trademark and the app store accounts. git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps/src/branch/m... states that "The primary purpose of the entity is to shield the project's members from personal liability and to ensure the legal protection of the project's assets."

    Until recently there was never a mention that the shareholders treat their shares as their personal investment. Even that explanation document was only added to project's repository 4 months ago - before that the only brief mention of Organic Maps OÜ's existence was in the footer of the https://organicmaps.app/ website, so the most of users and contributors had no idea about its role and ownership structure.

    Roman @rtsisyk holds 1/3 (33%) of shares, Viktor @vng holds 2/3 (66%). Alexander @biodranik is not a registered shareholder, but allegedly Viktor holds his 1/3 (33%) nominally.

  • Logseq to some extent, but it's set up to be a journal/ meeting notes where you tag pages, add documents, etc. it would be up to how you've tagged things. Does have a graph view of your pages and whiteboard feature.

    Personally it wasn't exactly what i wanted out of a PKM but it is really powerful. It's intended to handle taking notes efficiently from meetings and then somewhat self organizing the notes as long as you tag stuff.

  • Python is case sensitive. I think they're saying their coworkers are writing case insensitive code which is causing errors (perhaps writing myFunction and then calling it via myfunction which would result in an undefined error)

  • Without knowing what reddit is doing, I'm not sure. A JS redirect could be detected, but if OPs paid shortener service is working then reddit is probably working off a simple domain block list. In that case you could use throw away domains.

    But JS redirect, proxy response, etc all could just become a game of cat and mouse. Just depends how motivated either side is. But given how big reddit is, i think you'd have the advantage at least in the beginning. Just gets expensive since each time your domain gets blocked you'll be paying to register a new one.

  • I'm not familiar with the reddit filtering but have you tried using cloudflare page rules? You can try capturing everything after the .tld and then forward it to a lemmy server. So for instance somedomain.tld/12345 could forward to lemmy.world/post/12345. If reddit is checking links for 301 redirects to lemmy though then that wouldn't work.

    A more advanced approach would be to use a cloudflare worker to do a proxy response so the status code is returned as 200 OK instead of 301 redirect. I haven't tried that but i think that would be much harder for them to block and you could always make more elaborate urls to make it harder to find obvious lemmy-like structure

  • Well just speaking for myself, i use git without a forge for personal stuff because i was already familiar with git and it fits my needs. No need to learn another version control system for some basic projects i throw together

  • Did you read the article? The author shares their perspective.

    For me, Git is quite powerful on its own with version control, diffs, branches, merging, etc. Forges just add a UI for some of these things, and add an issue tracker/ discussion/etc. Forges also add a more modem ui for repo access though git does have its own webserver you can use. I use git without a forge for a number of my personal projects that I'm not sharing with others or not yet sharing

  • From a user experience its a social media site, like reddit.

    And an ELI5 for the technical parts:

    • It is decentralized which means that no single company owns the whole thing. Anyone can set up a server.
    • it is also federated which means that servers can communicate with each other. I am able to see your post even though my server is programming.dev, your server is floss.social, and you posted on lemmy.ml.
  • Depends on the programs, but likely statistics if it is a halfway decent program.

    • Statistics is harder to learn on your own than the CS needed for data science. So it's better to go statistics and then you can learn the CS parts on your own before doing a data science program.
    • There's generally a bigger need for statistical foundation than CS foundation in data science, or at least with the angle for any data science needed for data journalism.
    • The OP mentions the "dataset" is composed of maps they created and those works would be copyrightable if they wanted. Additionally the arrangement of the works and composition of the works in the dataset might also be copyrightable.
    • licensing extends beyond copyrights and clarifies terms of use to protect both creator and users even when copyrightability might be debatable in some jurisdictions.
  • Sounds pretty neat. Licensing can be pretty complex but MIT is a pretty much no-frills license that let's them do with your dataset what they want. CC0 (public domain) is similar.

    Alternatively you can also use something like CC-BY license which also let's people use it but it requires attribution.

    A step beyond that is the CC-BY-SA which is similar but requires anything new created with the data to be licensed under the same license (share alike).

    Just depends on what you want to do, and what you want people to do when they use your data. Id recommend MIT, CC0, or the CC-BY-4.0 license since these ensure the most people can use it if that's your goal