I'm trying to think of different classes of software and how well FOSS stands up to proprietary software. I'm strictly referring to FOSS versus proprietary here, not commercial versus non-commercial etc. Diversity of software is a plus (e.g. there being three great video editors instead of one), but I'll be trying to judge this by the best of the best rather than all of the applications taken together. Each will have the following rating, basically from 1–5:

• No-brainer – FOSS is at the top of its class and substantially better than proprietary software. If proprietary software does exist, it's at best used for niche reasons, at worst used due to inertia in the userbase or being the default software for an OS.
• Fiercely competitive – FOSS is heavily competitive with its proprietary counterparts and can more or less do what they do. No one would bat an eye if you said you used FOSS.
• Some tradeoffs – FOSS is quite usable but may not have all the bells and whistles (or, if applicable

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Hey all,

Last year I was diagnosed with ADHD, and while I've been making a habit of keeping medicated, I still find myself at times getting too distracted to keep me from getting important stuff done. The most infuriating thing I'm currently dealing with is my troubles in creating a consistent sleep schedule, where I have a sleep schedule that works set out, but find myself getting too distracted and staying up unreasonably late as a result.

Unfortunately I had to swap to Windows recently, so looking for suggestions that can run on Windows 10. The harder to ignore, the better. Thanks in advance!

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A reward-based habit tracker for android.

Have you found it difficult to build new habits? Habit-Maker uses rewards and encouragements to help get over initial willpower required to form new habits.

This post contains a canary message that's cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key

The BusKill project just published their Warrant Canary #009

For more information about BusKill canaries, see:

• https://buskill.in/canary

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Release: 2025-01-14
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Expiry: 2025-06-30

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1. The date of issue of this canary is January 14, 2025.

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He is one of those people who made a huge impact on a lots of people in the community. He started with Debian back in 1996 and held many different roles and most recently was the Ubuntu Platform manager.

How can I add a simple requirement "do not train Al on the source code of the program" to AGPLv3 or GPLv3 and thereby create a new license?

Don't know is it a good place for such a question but I try :).

Why did I come up with such an stupid idea? There have been reported cases where artificial intelligence such as Github Copilot has been trained on many open source and free software projects, and in some cases it can output code snippets from GPL-licensed projects without specifying it. https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1682104779-GitHub-Copilot-may-generate-code-containing-GPL-code

I am not a lawyer, and I do not know where it is better to insert such a requirement. And how to formulate it in the best and correct form.

I understand it maybe complicated to check, to comply with this requirement and it may cause other difficulties, but I still think it can be a useful addition.

How to fit it with the fundamental freedoms of the GPL or it is unfitable?

I understand that this woul

A couple of devs created indie-wall.com for creators to promote their work. The site has recently been re-launched to include many types of Indie content, not just games, and we are hoping to flesh out our list of good tools.

Extra points go to tools that not many people know about. Godot is good, but most people already know about it. Please post your recommendations here. If you take the extra time to post it to the site, that would of course be appreciated, but please do be sure to share your recommendations with this community.

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Luanti is a free software game platform with a focus on community games and mods. It was originally called Minetest but the name changed as of a few weeks ago.

I've used Freemind for a long time, but I'm wondering if there is a recommendation for a more modern version of this? Trying to install on my new PC, it claims me version of Java is old.