The EU passed laws that require companies (under conditions) to ensure base requirements in their supply chain.

I think a digital equivalent could be possible and similar. Requiring reasonable security and sustainability assessment.

It’s not very obvious or simple to enforce, but would set requirements, and open up opportunities for fines and prosecution.

Even C# has something that few people use, but it has something.

Huh? Are you claiming few people use NuGet?

Read/Inspect and contribute to FOSS. They’ll be bigger and longer lived than small, personal, and experimental projects.

Study computer science.

Work, preferably in an environment with mentors, and long-/continuously-maintained projects.

Look at alternative approaches and ecosystems. Like .NET (very good docs and guidance), a functional programming language, Rust, or Web.

That being said, you ask about “should”, but I think if it’s useful for personal utilities that’s good enough as well. Depends on your interest, goals, wants, and where you want to go in the future.

For me, managing my clan servers and website, reading online, and contributing to FOSS were my biggest contributors to learning and expertise.

When you draw a parallel to social charity both are largely volunteer based and underfunded. And both have direct and indirect gains for society.

Physical charity often serves basic needs. I’m not sure selecting qualifying quality open source projects is as easy. Need and gain assessments are a lot less clear.

If it’s about public funding distribution, I would like to see some FOSS funding too, but not at the cost of or equal or more than social projects.

How many FOSS projects actually benefit “millions and billions of people”? That kind of impact feels like it’s few and far between.

Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave.

What is Tails?

and Tails, a portable operating system that uses Tor

Formatted, so I can read it

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: 
 Cannot invoke "String.toLowerCase()" because the return value of 
"com.baeldung.java14.npe.HelpfulNullPointerException$PersonalDetails.getEmailAddress()" is null
 at com.baeldung.java14.npe.HelpfulNullPointerException.main(HelpfulNullPointerException.java:10)

Now that you say so, I feel like I’ve read about this before. In comments about Diatraxis/one of them years ago. :)

I’m using the website / native website interface. It’s at least possible there to edit the post and url. May be different for “Lemmy clients”.

I like that even here on Lemmy, with inline code format, colors.ini is not being colored but color.ini is. Great symbolism for your issue.

If you only care about contributing improvements, no, it doesn’t matter.

If you want to at least be recognized as an author, and be able to say “I made this”, the license opposes that.

Waiver of Rights: You waive any rights to claim authorship of the contributions […]

I don’t know how they intend to accept contributions though. I guess code blocks in tickets or patch files? Forking is not allowed, so the typical fork + branch + create a pull request does not work.

I’ve been using TortoiseGit since the beginning, and it covers everything I need. Including advanced use cases. I can access almost all functionality from the log view, which is very nice.

I’ve tried a few other GUIs, but they were never able to reach parity to that for me. As you say, most offer only a subset of functionalities. Most of the time I even found the main advantage of GUIs in general, a visual log, inferior to TortoiseGit.

GitButler looks interesting for its new set of functionalities, new approaches. Unfortunately, it doesn’t integrate well on Windows yet. Asking for my key password on every fetch and push is not an acceptable workflow to me.

That’s less than I expected. If there’s 141 commands that on average comes down to 10 per.

git has 17 million options

proof needed /s

I wonder how many it actually is.

I think using display: grid; as your default is the better default, so you’re all set. :)

Looking at the Web Archive; Diatraxis has been around since 2021. That divio docs since May of this year.

I doubt they didn’t “get inspiration” from Diatraxis.

It’s certainly something that looks better, but contrary to green washing, I see real, practical value.

I would rather be able to see and inspect source code than not. And I would rather have the right to take and fork a two year old version than not. Or be able to wait two years to fork the current version.

Those are real good value. Those bring certainty in infrastructure robustness and freedoms.

You posted the article link in the post content instead of linking it in the post. Was that deliberate?

You can still edit the post and set the link. (Then people can open it from the post title.)

The conversion is part of the license. It does not require the company to take any action.

The source is available with a restricted license, and e.g. two years later it relicenses itself to a FOSS license, automatically, as defined by the original license.

You are going to get lots of downvotes, and this comment will too.

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