Soon I'll be that crotchety old lady grumbling at the youngins: "Back in my day, we had Google Reader! And Highly! And Mailbox! We *trusted them*. Don't make the mistakes I made. Trust no one."
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I'm now at the point in life where I've seen enough proprietary software shut down that it's one of the biggest reasons I prefer open source In other words, I've become a digital prepper
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Sadly, access to the code often isn't sufficient for software to be useful. It often depends on vast infrastructure, especially for shared webs like Twitter. Maintenance and funding of that infrastructure is hard and expensive (at least with traditional web tech)
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And just *building* the darn thing can be tough Even open source projects that actively think about how to make the codebase accessible to continual newcomers struggle with this. Packaging software is hard! Software contains a lot more process knowledge than we'd like to think
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Of course this all assumes you're comfortable programming. Even an easy to build, run, & maintain OSS project is intimidating for someone who doesn't see themselves as a developer It's like dumping a city kid into a zombie apocalypse; they just don't have the survival skills
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In other words, I'm not thrilled with my solution to proprietary shutdown Just like real-life prepping, insisting on open source is pretty limiting. It puts a lot more responsibility in your hands, and while I'm not one to shirk responsibility there are only 24 hours in a day
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So the middle ground I've been settling on is to prioritize open source for the tools I depend on most, or where the effort to maintain an open source stack is minimal. Hopefully this ROI-driven approach covers enough of my bases without taking up all of my brain cycles
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Oh one final thought: it's sad and a bit scary to me that folks who don't think of themselves as developers really don't even have this open source option. They're just completely dependent on the whims of corporate product teams and strategy
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I guess this is how survivalists must see my inability to start one puny fire without a match, let alone fully survive in the wilderness...
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The problem isn't really the software. It's that (a) everyone insists on making their "product" a service so they can try to capture you forever, then the service shuts down. (b) we have lost the idea that you can just have a precompiled program and run it for decades with no
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"maintenance" required on the software. That used to be how it was! For the convenience of just running something on a browser like the service aspect kind of provides, why have we converged away from a design for the internet where you can just put up any random program
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