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What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

RiMusic basically saves me about 6 bucks a month from spotify subscription lol
Droid-Ify much better interface to F-Droid
Grayjay newpipe but with much better ui, worth nothing is developed by louis rousmann
NixOS not necessarily improve my daily life but i've been having a really good time trying it recently

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Grayjay isn't open source

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Actually you're kinda right, their own license doesn't allow commercial redistribution (kinda similar with CC:NC) which make them not open source. I personally have no problems with that though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I think it is: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is open source. But the license is not foss at the moment. They expresed their desire to make something that send revenue to creators

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

@isthereanydeal therefore it's not open source. See for something to be called "open source" it needs a bit more than just for the code to be readable. The only people who define open source as source readable are the people who don't want to create open source software.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Open source is when the source code is available.

Free software is when the source is available and the license lets you exercise your 4 freedoms.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@n0x0n You are wrong though: https://opensource.org/osd

> Introduction
> Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code.

Literally the first sentence.

The definition you are using is being spread by the likes of Meta and Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Taking only a part of my post does not make sense in this context.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

@n0x0n Providing an authoritative source which directly contradicts your statement, that does not make any sense to you? I'm sorry then.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a clear difference between open source and free open source software. It is open source but the licence is not "free". Not entirely at least

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

@isthereanydeal Nope. That distinction only appeared when big companies kinda became afraid of open source software, so they wanted to redefine the term, create some confusion, corrupt it..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You may have a point but there's a difference anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did you unselect your upvote?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@heyoni I'm commenting from mastodon, I don't even see any upvotes. Someone just started downvoting me because they ran out of arguments 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That must be why. On lemmy, like reddit you automatically upvote your own comments. Yours was at 0 probably cause mastodon doesn't do that.