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How do these go with OS support? Not much in the way of reviews on Youtube but I've seen a few where the driver support leaves a bit to be desired.

They have something similar in Aus called the Capital Gains Tax and it is something that is inherrently political, unfortunately you can't uncouple the government from as they provide the public service that maintain and collect taxes. Honestly the public service should be answerable to parliament, not government.

Not to mention CGT been tweaked to ineffectiveness by previous governments by excluding assets from its calculations, notably housing, which has skewed CGT away from its original purpose and it's now more of a stick to whack at industries that aren't cozy with the current government.

Someone is working on a LineageOS-like project for KaiOS called GerdaOS, and there's code for the Jiophone 2 in the branch.

Not sure if it compiles yet for that particular phone but here's the repo if you're interested: https://gitlab.com/project-pris/system

FirefoxOS was also exclusively targeting the touchscreen market, which by that point was already totally saturated. Their partner deals weren't the best either, and they really launched their product before it was ready which sullied their image quite a bit.

KaiOS had the benefit of hindsight to see where Mozilla fell over, put in mitigations, and then shift focus to non-touchscreen devices to lower costs even further.

A lot of their stack is still open source under the MPLv2, however there are rumours that Google is 'encouraging' KaiOS to shift their rendering engine over to Blink. Whether this happens or not remains to be seen.

Actually, there's not been much change from the original fork of FirefoxOS besides the UI changes to be better for non-touch devices.

GerdaOS (LineageOS for KaiOS) allows people to import and run FirefoxOS packages without modification, though many apps will need some changes to allow it to work without a touchscreen.

The unofficial rumour mill says that with the extra investment from Google, KaiOS will probably shift to Chrome(ium) at some point in the future, but that's just a rumour and remains to be seen.

Just had a look over Harvey OS, looks like a pretty neat direction to take Plan 9.

But it got me wondering, is there any shared collaberation between any of the next-gen 'Plan 9-like' OS's like 9atom, 9front and Harvey OS?

Also, it looks as though Harvey OS is only using Slack for its discussion forum, which is a bit odd for an open source project.

So, this is essentially a continuation of the Natami project, but you still need original hardware?

Mastodon is a decentralised Twitter, Hubzilla would be the decentralised Facebook.

Has the code always been licensed CC-BY-NC-SA or is that a recent change?

Under Australian law public domain exists but only after the full copyright term expires. There's no legal mechanism for an author to relinquish their copyright over their works and dedicate it directly to the public domain.

I just want a solution that I know is FOSS, secure and won't use my data for analytics. I have no way of knowing that from a proprietary application so it doesn't fit my use case.

But that's not the case most of the time. Many apps aren't just one man operations, they pull in contributions from other authors and if it is GPL in any way, it becomes a mess to change that after the fact.

and to respect my privacy, and I'll happily pay good money for that

That's the issue for me. If it's proprietary, I simply don't trust it to keep my data secure. I have no way of knowing that myself.

And that's the great thing about gpodder too, you can host your own instance of it so you are in total control of your services.

Antennapod and gpodder will work for the web and Android, I don't own an iOS device so I don't know of any solutions for that platform unfortunately.

To add to that, there are issues between the GPL and the Apple App Store ToS so open source apps on that platform are at a disadvantage as a result.

If you're so concerned about a 'podcast ecosystem being built on open, decentralized standards limits' then why are you even talking about a proprietary app in the first place? You're trying to set up a strawman here that you yourself say that you don't agree with.

Just tell people to use a FOSS podcast app like Antennapod and to avoid closed silo listings and move on.

Australian here, government 100% funds the ABC and the reporting produced is better than the commercial networks of 7, 9 and 10.

It also funds most of the SBS, a foreign language service meant to foster multiculturalism and introduce foreign cinema and television to those who wouldn't normally have easy access to it. And they do a lot of English language subtitles for smaller foreign releases.

I've never seen the appeal of Pocket Casts or these almost-a-service podcast apps.

I've been using Antennapod for over a year now and it a great podcast app and does a lot of stuff the paid ones won't even do, including syncing what episodes I've listened to to gpodder.net, searching iTunes and other websites and just having an easy to use, simple UI.

It's just a shame that these FOSS apps which have much lower overheads as well, just can't market themselves as a commercial proprietary application like Pocket Casts can.

Depending on the jurisdiction it's an offence to withhold or destroy information that is meant to be available under FoI.

For what it's worth, Hubzilla is working on getting an ActivityPub API up soon.

They're also looking to implement OpenID2 so it can be used to log into websites just like Facebook currently can.

It's called ActivityPub and it's been made an official w3c protocol recently.

It's more GNU Social with a UI that isn't clunky, so Twitter.

Diaspora* is more Google+ but without some of the stuff that people need in a social network like event management. True that isn't available in Mastodon either but it isn't really suited to the use cases of microblogging anyway.

ActivityPub is only two years old though in its current form, and the previous ActivityPump protocol really wasn't used at all so it can be considered a new protocol in the grand scheme of things.

When they were stiill using drop down boxes to select the days and months.

From what I've read, Diaspora as well as Hubzilla and Friendica are also going to be integrating ActivityPub so there's movement going on that front.

One thing these services are sorely lacking though is decent event management support. Friendica is alright, but the UI lets it down. Diaspora has no support for it at all from the user's perspective either.

I don't think Adium is doing much in terms of active development sadly.

The C++ routers have now largely become feature complete, IIRC they've even ported I2P-Bote to work on them. And you have the JVM reference router still being developed, so there's at least three different implementations of the router and that helps with finding bugs and the like.

Would it be possible for you to port your work to I2P as well?

It's good to have a fallback network in case issues arise in Tor and something needs to plug the gap in the interim, and I2P would fulfill that roll pretty well.

This is nice, but considering the animosity the modding community receives from official channels I'm really surprised why FOSS Minecraft clones that specifically focus on mods, like MineTest, haven't taken off comparatively.

https://www.minetest.net/

PearPC looks rather incomplete and dead unfortunately.

What about data stenography? I've heard of people using DNS packets to transmit HTTP data.