Daniel Quinn

Fun! But if you’re going to post to OpenSource, you should be sharing the code too.

I’d never heard of this list, so thanks for sharing. I have to say while some of the projects seem to have been included due to minor offences, I’m really disappointed in some of my favourite FOSS projects.

I didn’t understand what you meant by Joplin not being “fully FOSS”, so I went looking for the license. Is really quite strange. Basically they’ve used a “personal license” for some parts and the AGPL for the rest. That’s… annoying.

If the work is a “clean room” reverse engineering job, as in: you didn’t read the original source to produce your version but rather looked at the input and output and wrote new software that had the same behaviour, the this new software is not a derivative work and you can use whatever license you like.

The easy option is public domain, which effectively is a “this belongs to everyone” thing. There’s not much of a practical difference between this or MIT in my understanding.

Another option would be something that preserves the freedoms you attach to the software like the GPL or LGPL if youre feeling less aggressive. These licences compel would-be modifiers to share their changes with everyone else, preventing (for example) companies that want to build their business on top of your work and then charging you for it.

But basically, if you wrote it without referencing the original, it’s your work and you can do as you like. If you were referencing the original source though, then that’s a derivative work and you may be in violation of the copyright holder’s rights.

Or, https://justuse.org/curl/

Buy two 4tb extern drives. Copy your photos onto both. Leave on at your mom’s house in a closet. Leave the other in a locker at work or a safety deposit box.

No monthly fees, no techbro cloud capitalists.

Honestly, I’d buy 6 external 20tb drives and make 2 copies of your data on it (3 drives each) and then leave them somewhere-safe-but-not-at-home. If you have friends or family able to store them, that’d do, but also a safety deposit box is good.

If you want to make frequent updates to your backups, you could patch them into a Raspberry Pi and put it on Tailscale, then just rsync changes every regularly. Of course means that wherever youre storing the backup needs room for such a setup.

I often wonder why there isn’t a sort of collective backup sharing thing going on amongst self hosters. A sort of “I’ll host your backups if you host mine” sort of thing. Better than paying a cloud provider at any rate.

From a read of that issue, it looks like it never was.

I keep seeing Zulip tossed around as an alternative, but I don’t know what’s up with their licencing. There’s also Framateam, but I think that might just be Mattermost as a service.

Matrix would be great if it wasnt so user-hostile, but it is :-(