Quite so. I just think it will be fine to stick to GitHub for a while. Yet, I or we (depending on the project) need a plan B. And Activity Pub for GitLab with accounts for potentially all collaborators worldwide is not on the horizon. And intricate CI-setups are not simply ported with a few key stroked ...
"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
#Windows Safty Exit #Sticker & lecker süße #MagicMushrooms
Die Echtwelt #TakeAways vom IT #Drogen Talk zu #VendorLockIn beim #Winterkongress der @digigesging weg wie warme Semmel.
there is no cloud, only greedy Service as a Software Substitute companies
Die #Agenda für den #VendorLockIn <> #Drogen Vortrag beim #Winterkongress der @digigessteht und alle folien sind seid heute Nacht schon mindestens "rudimentär vorhanden" •schulterklopf• :)
Noch zwei Nächte & es wird ein richtig leckereres rundes Ding
SET $vorfreude = TRUE;
Was mein Essen von gestern mit #Sucht und #VendorLockIn zu tun hat, erfahrt ihr dann am Samstag beim #Winterkongress der @digiges in deroder später auf media.ccc.de.
P.S.: Könnte USA bitte mal aufhören so freizudrehen, damit ich dem Spin des Vortrags nicht nochmal ändern muss?
I created the fist issue for the #OpenLLM #Europe #manifesto on GitHub:
Move to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) infrastructure
I suggest to move the software development to a real Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) hosting platform, to ensure #strategic #autonomy and #digital #sovereignty. With starting the project on GitHub, the fist step towards vendor lock-in has been set.
Everyone whines about #Amazon stop offering the "Download & transfer via USB" option soon, which is a pity for the affected, but not worth more than a laugh by me, because I never went into that vendor-lockin trap. You shouldn't too. Buy non-drm #ebooks or download them (there are a lot of old ebooks liberated on archive.org or gutenberg.org and elsewhere).
@sarahdalgulls Because the ECW driver is not Free Software, full of patents, and its owners have never been open to collaboration with opensource communities over the years.
A lot of users switched to other free formats, even if they can be less efficient in terms of storage.
Note that CoG ( Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs ) are now everywhere, since they offer very good streaming capabilities despite lower compression.
Sich freiwillig bei Hyperscalerwahl in ein IT #VendorLockIn Verhältnis zu begeben ist ja strategisch eine „spannende“ Entscheidung.
Dies aber bewußt in Zeiten eines aufkommenden Wirtschafts- und Handelskriegs zwischen &
zu tun, hat für mich einen nochmals skuril interesanteren Spin.
Mein Vortrag für den #Winterkongress bei der @digiges in der wird dieses Spannungsfeld aus Sicht von Suchtabhängigen bzw „freiwillig-bewustSuchtmittel nutzenden“ mal sezieren.
#PubliekeWaarden in het #onderwijs zijn essentieel. Hoe komen die tot uiting in de #IT die wordt gebruikt op scholen? Wat zijn de risico's van oncontroleerbare, #proprietary software? Hoe zit het met #privacy van #leerlingen en #vendorlockin van #scholen?
Welke rol kan vrije- #opensource software spelen in #educatie?
Geert-Jan en @remark gaven een #analyse met #oplossingsrichting op #FOSDEM.
Sterk aanbevolen, zeker aan degenen die actief zijn in het onderwijs:
https://video.fosdem.org/2025/ud6215/fosdem-2025-6042-public-values-and-foss-for-education.av1.webm
@zwartboekaanbesteden #vendorlockin is denk ik toch het meest algemeen en makkelijk om op te zoeken.
You know what grinds our gears? #VendorLockin.
Here is why: https://cloud68.co/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-vendor-lock-in
Should we migrate the communication platforms of our FOSS projects (e.g., Python, Django, …) to Matrix?
The idea of avoiding the vendor lock-in is increasingly widespread
Migrate social networks to the Fediverse, self-host your blog, regain control of your Git repository, …
I wonder if it's time to migrate to “an open network for secure, decentralized communication”
Answer here or share your experience
#Matrix #VendorLockIn #Communication #Freedom
CC @matrix
Anvil looks interesting. Unfortunately, it appears to be 100% proprietary. Even if you're okay with software you can't examine and modify, you appear to be stuck with using the vendor's website/app for designing your app's UI. They also push you hard to use their cloud-based, SaaS-type deployments.
There's an open source runtime you can apparently run your app with once it's built. But who says that's gonna stick around?
Investing a lot of time in building an app that is one proprietary license change away from being impossible to continue to use seems unwise.
Was für ein absoluter Müll.
Das ist nicht nur ein Abo, sondern auch #Vendorlockin und #righttorepair Einschränkung.
Man wird sich also sicher nicht einfach irgendwelche Akkus kaufen können.
Meinetwegen könnte man Akkus ja irgendwie einmal "freischalten" und sie können dann nur an einem Gerät genutzt werden, oder mit dem Passwort des Käufers in einem Laden wieder entsperrt werden.
Aber so... warum nicht analog festschließen?
@alper : forget the marketing blah about public key encryption; it's advantages are extremely exaggerated.
Just think of each passkey as an extremely strong and unique password tied to the domain name of a website.
The strength of passkeys (the WebAuthn protocol actually) lies in the fact that software (not the user):
1) Insists that the connection uses https;
2) Uses the passkey only if the domain name of the website (as shown in the browser's address bar) is the same (*) as the one used when the passkey was created.
(*) It's a bit more complicated than that: subdomains may be permitted under certain conditions.
Unintentionally logging into a fake website with a look-a-like domain name (phishing) is impossible (an "Adversary in the Middle" attack is possible only if a fake website possesses a certificate deemed valid by your browser, like I wrote about in https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/112914050216821746).
However, passkeys suck in practice (Dan Goodin is right), see https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/113730072998238596.