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  • Well, hobbyist projects are surely not the only pillar of the open source systems

    Your hunch is correct, they are, because the differentiator between open source and walled garden projects is freedom, and freedom will spontaneously generate projects based on an unfulfilled need. A paid market by itself will not.

    In my early days of programming (late 80s), I was copying code from books and magazines. Then came windows and mac, and these were far less friendly to devs, and became more and more so.

    Most of these tools were born of need and want, not because any infrastructure existed to pay them. Look at the list of apps in frdroid; most are very obviously solving a problem unique to the dev.

    And there is one more thing to account for: for all the apps and scripts you see in a public code repo, there are many times more than that living on someone’s HDD that will never see the public eye.

    The point you’ve ignored in your article is that this is simply the split free market creates. We’ve had this issue since the invention of transmissible ideas.



  • With respect, help me out here…

    I process PDFs all the time, both assembling text and images into PDFs and extracting images, text, layouts, etc. My uses are mostly cleaning up metadata and unwanted elements so they render correctly in more environments. I use pdftk and imagemagick for this, generally.

    Is bentopdf just a nice GUI for tools like these?

    I’m struggling to understand what part of bentopdf is “self-hosted”.


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    Maybe I don’t understand the use case for bentopdf, and considering how popular it is, that is likely true. However, I don’t get what this does…

    • it’s self-hosted, but the processing happens on the client? Is this just a local application?
    • it only works with PDF documents?
    • What advantage does bentopdf have over something like paperless ng?

    Again, if this is obvious to most ppl, forgive me.









  • Calling it “disobedience” is a clear indication that following the big corporations is considered “normal”.

    Stop thinking like that.

    It’s YOUR INFORMATION. You can be harmed by its abuse and you already know this.

    I do not “disobey” anyone by self-hosting. The information belongs to ME. I alone have rights to its access and control. If google doesn’t like it, they can fuck off.




  • There aren’t really a preponderance of client applications that will work with my TV remote. I did kodi for years a decade ago and asking someone to pass the wireless keyboard is a pain in the ass.

    The real issue is that my wife sometimes likes to watch her streaming services, so I can’t just tell her to use what is effectively a web browser for this.

    At the moment, I heavily filter what the TV can access outside its subnet and that seems to be the best compromise.