I don’t think one currently exists, but it would be an interesting project. There are plenty of trackers for CVEs but in terms of project ethics, acquisitions, etc., there’s a space for it.

The two main problems I can see are:

1. How do you define ‘negative’? An open source application being acquired is often a bad thing, but not always. An acquisition by FUTO is more likely to be viewed positively than an acquisition by Microsoft, but either can be interpreted positively or negatively depending on the person.

2. Community involvement is absolutely critical. If I were running a service like this (for example), I would only really be keeping up on the services I use and care about. I would need others to submit info and then verify it.

Any issues lately with your network? When DNS is down or having issues, Firefox and forks take forever to start up.

Sorry, I should clarify - the list is items I believe I’ll likely need and the question marks indicate that I’m not sure if they’re necessary or that I’m not sure the specifics about what I should get. For example, I’m sure I need resistors, but I’m not sure if I need everything from 1Ω to 1MΩ, or which ICs to get. I was also unsure if I should get a variable power supply. Hopefully that makes more sense?

If you want your environment to be consistent between desktops, keep it mostly stock. The default KDE themeing and setup is pretty damn similar to Windows 10, and I’ve kept it stock ever since I started using it ~1 ½ years ago.

Yeah, sure thing.

Abominable
Ad Astra
Aladdin (Live Action)
Aladdin
Alien - Covenant
Alien
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Ant-Man
Aquaman
Arrival
Austin Powers In Goldmember
Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me
Avengers - Endgame
Avengers - Infinity War
Baby Driver
Batman and Robin
Batman Forever
Batman
Batman Returns
Big Hero 6
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Brave
Captain Amercia - Civil War
Captain America - The First Avenger
Captain America - The Winter Soldier
Captain Marvel (2019)
Cars 2
Cars 3
Cars
Cinderella (Live Action)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 40th Anniversary Edition
Deadpool 2
Deadpool
Detective Pikachu
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Strange
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald
Finding Dory
Finding Nemo
First Man
From Up on Poppy Hill
Frozen II
Frozen
Gemini Man
Godzilla (1998)
Godzilla - King of the Monsters
Gremlins
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Halloween
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Howl's Moving Castle
Incredibles 2
Incredibles
Inside Out
Interstellar
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Iron Man
IT (2018)
John Wick 3 - Parabellum
John Wick - Chapter 2
John Wick
Joker (2019)
Jumanji (1995)
Jurassic Park III
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park - The Lost World
Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kingsman - The Golden Circle
Kingsman - The Secret Service
Logan
Maleficent - Mistress of Evil
Maleficent
Mary Poppins Returns
Moana
Monsters, Inc
Monsters University
My Neighbor Totoro
Pacific Rim Uprising
Paprika
Ponyo
Ratatouille
Robin Hood
Spider-Man - Homecoming
Spider-Man - Into the Spider-Verse
Spirited Away
Starship Troopers
Star Trek - Beyond
Star Trek - Into Darkness
Star Trek (2009)
Tangled
The Cat Returns
The Expendables 2
The Expendables 3
The Expendables
The Good Dinosaur
The Hulk
The Jungle Book
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Lion King (Live Action)
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
The Matrix
The Matrix -  Reloaded
The Matrix -  Revolutions
The Predator
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret Life of Pets 2
The Secret World of Arrietty
The Shining
The Wizard of Oz
Thor
Thor - The Dark World
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 4
Toy Story
Turning Red
Up
Us
Venom (2018)
Wall-E
Waterworld (2019)
Wonder Woman
Wreck-It Ralph
Zootopia

AV1 is definitely what I’d like to do. I’m not aiming for maximum compatibility; small file size and high quality encodes are my goal. I can transcode if needed.

Mhm, I’m aware. I just figured the nice folks here would likely have more experience with codecs and such than elsewhere!

(That, and, if I can build my own replacement Disney+, I would definitely want to share with friends.)

The issue is storage costs. Currently they (and some Blu-ray shows I ripped) are taking up just over 12TB. I bought all of these movies when I had money to spend on stuff like that, but money is short and times are tough. “Storage is cheap” but my wallet is cheaper right now, aha.

It is not an abuse of anyone’s creative rights to the convert music from a game you legally own to a different format.

I think Obsidian and Logseq are helping to change this.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been running alternative Discord clients for years (Webcord, discord-screenaudio, and now Vesktop/Vencord) and haven’t encountered any issues or bans. By far, the most polished and well integrated is Vesktop/Vencord. I don’t consider my Discord account worth risking either, but given that I’ve yet to see a verifiable report of someone losing access to Discord for using an alternate client (even the ones that enable Nitro subscription features), I think I’m pretty safe.

Personally, I’d say risk it for the biscuit. There are some hacky workarounds but all of them are annoying to set up and finicky. As for alternative platforms, I’m not sure…

Gas fees, fees to convert to fiat, electricity bills for miners / initial investment for stakers… No matter how you frame it, there are still associated fees. Might as well use the standard we have at the moment.

Unrelated, but I would have preferred a stolen, watermarked Getty Images photo rather an an AI-generated one. Fits the pirate vibe better to have blatantly and unabashedly stolen something than to indirectly do so with plausible deniability.

Pardon me, but would this not interfere with partners’ ability to host services via 99% of Linux-based servers?

This reminded me that I wanted to look into open source alternatives to Bionic Reader…

Do you happen to have a Matrix or Discord server set up to talk about development? I’d love to help out if I can.

Went to check out the source code for the front-end and see if there was anything I could help out with… Saw it was made with Angular.

oh no

(Congrats on integrating Fedi into it!)

Always happy to see a new Fediverse service!

My only concern is Python. Wonderful for AI and scripting, but I’m not sure how well it works as a web server. Although, I’d assume that a lot of the web server code is actually C under the hood…