I’ve been using netbird for couple of months now.

The good:

• I was able to do everything using the free version (exit node, DNS)
• in theory you can self-host it (haven’t tried)
• it has an Android client app in f-droid
• stable, everything works really nice

The bad:

• it eats up a lot of battery on Android. There’s a bug open for it for months now. After playing around with some settings I got it to the point where the battery usage goes up on mobile data only. Once I’m back to WiFi it’s ok. I have deployed netmaker locally and testing it is on my to do list but as things are now I can go through the day without issues with netbird and I’m kind of hoping they will fix it before I’ll have the time to test netmaker

Netmaker was easy to setup locally but I don’t know if it can fully replace netbird.

I tried headscale and it wasn’t easy to set up. From what I read tailscale apps treat self-hosted solutions as an afterthought so it’s not as easy to set up. I would be worried they will drop it and force you to use their servers at some point. Netbird at least is marketed as a self-hosted solution.

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Why the urgency? You’re linking to a normal, patch release. Did GIMP devs say something? Are you a GIMP dev?

I’m not your bud, friend.

Do you pay for your open source code? I don’t.

I think the issue here is that 12 million has been donated to a fascist, not just that some people use said fascist’s software.

I agree. It’s an issue that some right wing foundation got 12 million dollars. It’s a political issue. The fact that some people use some free software is not an issue at all. What I was talking about is people mixing those two things, exactly like you did in this sentence. I wrote more about in a comment below so I’m not going to repeat it here.

The main idea of open source is that code should be free (as in speech) so people can really own it, modify it, contribute and work on it together. So no, open source is not about Kindness and Empathy. I can accept your PR for my project and I don’t have to know anything about your values, opinions or gender. If you run into a bug in an app you’re using you can submit a fix without getting into the politics of the maintainer. Open source is a technical solution for a practical problem of locked down code.

What your talking about is another layer of ideology and politics built on top of the open source movement. It’s natural that people from communities and need some rules on interacting within them. In different groups different views become mainstream and different types of people join them. Then groups with different ideologies start fighting with each other. It’s all normal. And yes, right wing influencers always get more funding simply because rich people are mostly right wing and are willing to support them.

The problem here is that people now start to mix those two layers and try to govern the technical part using tools from the ideological part. If code is useful, if it does something we need (it’s a driver, it’s a protocol implementation, it’s offers some crucial functionality) it doesn’t really matter who wrote it. You can use it and it will not contaminate your computer with fascist/liberal ideology. If you want to engage will all this drama on political level you’re free to do it, just like you’re free to be a political activist in any other space. Just be careful not to mix politics with code. What is happening now is that people start rejecting code because they don’t like who wrote it. It makes no sense. It’s just code.

Jesus kurwa ja pierdole… Code is code. Who the fuck cares who wrote it? Unless project itself serves racist/transphobic/homophobic/etc purposes (like an app specifically build to doxx gay people or something) I don’t care who’s developing it. If you don’t agree with the developers simply don’t donate or contribute to the project. If it’s paid don’t support their business. If it’s free - who cares?

I don’t really care that some influencers use open source to promote their shitty agenda. There are shitty influencers everywhere and there’s plenty of fascist money to go around so yes, they will always find some sponsors. Don’t donate, don’t contribute, don’t engage. But if the code is already written and does something useful… who cares who wrote it?

This is what most people who complain about Rust rewrites don’t get. It’s not just about memory safety and some new language features. Rust simply did a lot of things right and is nice to work with. New developers actually join Rust projects while old tools written in C struggle to survive.