Split versions is usually the first step. Many projects have done so before. Next year there will be some technical reason they can’t keep feature parity with the commercial repository, and it will drift from the OSS repository. Oops, we broke compatibility, sowwy guys. A couple of years later the OSS repository will be closed because it is a security risk. By that point the company and management would’ve drifted so far from the initial values of the project that people won’t notice. Those who cared will have jumped ship to alternatives sooner, those who noticed later will be already too deep into depending on the software that they will keep paying the subscription.

I have no evidence, but I also don’t have any doubts this is the plan.

It currently doesn’t work with Vaultwarden. The Linux client doesn’t accept custom certificates. And the Android client is paid. It is a dead-end for self-hosting.

The license is also stupidly a single sentence. Which means that use could be nuked at any minute, and any money you use to pay the developer means nothing. If they wanted to kill the project today and nuke the repo, you have no legal rights, the project dies and fuck you and your passwords. That doesn’t exactly inspires confidence.

KeyGuard is proprietary on Android. Certain features are locked behind a subscription or one time purchase.

I’m starting to also hate on this model. People who claim to be open source but still throw hurdles and obstacles at anyone trying to either use or contribute to the project. I understand people need to support themselves financially, but I have donated to many free projects and open projects in my life. Whenever I see a paywall it makes me not want to use the project, however interesting it might be. It sucks they are usually the only almost decent android clients. (Looking at Symphonium and their developer’s shit ass attitude too)

EDIT: Just tried it and it seems like vaultwarden login and custom certificates on linux have been fried since December. It is currently a dead-end for selfhosters.

Two entities can be shit, and also malicious, at the same time.

Never said they developed it. They bought it for a reason though.

Can we self-host a RCS server and hub with all the RCS network?

Then federate, decentralize it, or abandon it to die. Let’s not pretend Google is saving something sacred like a baby’s life. They took up RCS to compete with Apple. This is not a tragedy, it was made this way by design.

I like RCS. I hate it was kidnapped by Google and they’re the only ones hosting the servers instead of the carriers as it was supposed to be. Instead of the agnostic infrastructure we were supposed to have, we got another corporate monopoly hell scape.

Exactly. People always have a bias or interest. Even if, globally speaking, I or you care for the humanity of all people and the victims of all conflicts. Time, space and resources in general are limited. So our bias, attention span, education, etc. Create a background filter for what we dedicate our time and attention.

This is why the “of course” clause in leftist rethoric always have to apply. Free Palestine, of course has to necessarily mean a care for all human suffering across the globe. It is implied by default. It is just this three seconds are dedicated to this issue in particular.

When people have objections they usually include them. Like terfs who can’t shut up about how much they hate trans people even when, on the surface, they seem to be using feminist rethoric. Antisemitic assholes will always include a qualifier to insult Jewish people. And even reject other areas of pro-palestinian discourse. Because they want to focus on the hate, the positive message is being coopted. Just like feminist messages are coopted to hate on trans women. It becomes obvious that the point is to promote hate, not to support people being oppressed.

I love how this phrase out context makes absolutely no sense, and might as well be alien to 99% of the population of the world:

Resolution and frame rate are no longer tied to the PS4 hardware, while the game supports NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 3.1/4.1, and Intel XeSS, alongside native-resolution DLAA and FSR Native AA. NVIDIA RTX 40 Series GPUs can also use DLSS Frame Generation, while AMD FSR 3 Frame Generation is supported on Radeon RX 5000 Series and newer GPUs.

Hell, it might as well be Chinese for over half of gamers.

EDIT: try to say it out loud, it is just gibberish and random letters. Doesn’t even sound like english.

Sure, everything costs effort and money. But not $400 per image download like what some commercial sites want to charge.

There’s two comments mentioning AI, and people happily and cordially correcting them. What the fuck are you on about?

You are the only angst comment here, calling people stupid.