https://agnos.is/posts/tech-recruitment-is-out-of-control.html

This was my experience at the beginning of 2024. It was bad enough that I had to write a blog post about it.

Not necessarily. While of course in many many cases, open source is a volunteer effort, there's usually some implicit transaction going on. Whether that's improving the software for yourself and passing that on to others, being a business and improving a library or something you use that helps your project generate revenue, or even a straight up commercial transaction.

But in all these cases, the open source project can be taken by you (or others) and you can do whatever you want with it. In the case of Winamp here, you cannot do any of that. It would be different if they were paying for contributions. But they're not, so.

They basically want free labor.

That is exactly the plan.

Depends on the continuity and who's writing it, but often yes. He was notably portrayed this way in the Justice League cartoon.

The fork was originally created because upstream NewPipe elected not to include sponsor block functionality.

Depends on the language. There is no explicit typing in JavaScript, for example. That's why Typescript was invented.

It used to be open source, then it went completely closed. As mentioned, Organic Maps is the fork that is the continuation of the GPL app.

I think "complex" refers to the various dark patterns used by Windows and Mac/iOS to scare and/or force users that know nothing of computers into using the default browsers.

You should probably add what license the icon will be under, if it's submitted to the project. Creative Commons? GPL?

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that BBC experiment is going well. They've barely posted anything, relative to what they could post. They should set up their systems to auto-post to Mastodon when they post to Twitter or where ever else.

Am I missing something? Or is the link to this tool not actually present in the post? I only see a screenshot.