Runterwählen ist kein Gegenargument.
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Open source, not free software.
If your goal is to ever talk to people about open source software, that’s going to create a lot of unnecessary confusion.
I guess that my definition of open source is not that uncommon, given that the terms “free software” and “libre software” exist and are rather well-established by this point.
People often use the OSI’s Open Source Definition when using the term “open source”.
Which is one of the possible definitions. Mine is “you can see the code”. Everything else falls into “free software”.
I think the new one remains closed. Sadly, not locked away.
What is “actually open source”, if “here’s the source code” is not?
That’s the blog’s logo.
Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
You can make embarrassing mistakes in virtually any programming language that’s not too esoteric.
When I still used Python for prototyping (today, I usually use Go for that), it happened much too often that I did this:
if foo:
bar()
foobar() # syntax error
In Lisp, however, both errors are much harder to make (not even considering GNU Emacs’s superb auto-indentation - which is what most Lispers use these days, as far as I know):
(when foo) ;; <- obvious!
(bar))
(when foo
(bar)
(foobar) ;; <- still valid
(quux)) ;; <- also still valid
Dynamic typing is the source of very amazing errors, see JavaScript.
Feel free, it’s still out there!
I still write more Perl than Python these days.
Still easier to refactor than Python. ;-)
For all of those, Lisp is the more logical choice. Plus, whitespace as syntax is the worst possible design decision.
There still is no documented way to migrate an existing WordPress to PostgreSQL. The PostgreSQL plugin assumes a fresh installation, everything else is not assumed to be there.
It still is, as that’s what the developers use.
nextCloud becomes notably faster when you migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
I rewrote the last remaining MySQL-based software of mine this year because I didn’t want to have MariaDB just for this one tool. Everything else had already been migrated. PostgreSQL is much faster in my tests.
Some of our customers rely on Oracle’s database system, because history. Sadly, we can’t teach them.
The only way out of this is to block advertising. I, personally, think that you should not have a website if you can’t pay for it yourself, but the only acceptable kind of website income is a paywall. If you just have “better advertising”, advertising will never go away. And I hate ads.