Tag: Source

New Report Builds on the Wealth Gap ~ Greatest Source of Income No longer a Home

If you wandered to my profile, you’ll note I have only 40ish followers. Yet some of my articles have more than a thousand views and many comments. Now, why I don’t do the follow-for-follow game? Two problems, I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work. My job ...

My Top 10 Open Source Mac OS Apps of 2023

I think this is a really good list of open-source apps you will enjoy. I made sure not to include any repeats from my previous Top 10 list. It’s incredible that we live in a time where people give up their free time and effort to create wonderful applications for everyone to use. They ...

Why Are There So Many Competing Open Source Projects?

It has happened to all of us: you go looking for a software package to solve a problem and you find a great open source project. And then another. And another. Why does this happen? There’s More than One Way to Pet a Cat Photo by Yerlin Matu on Unsplash Sometimes mu...

Add New Product in AOSP Source Tree

Building on the foundation of our previous discussions about compiling Android’s built-in products for verification, we now shift our focus to the process of adding our own products. Adding a new product allows you to customise the Android system for your specific device and use case, and that...

Is Terraform no longer Open Source?

For many developers, licenses have become something they barely even think about. Few if any of the most popular libraries use anything but open and permissive licenses like MIT and even GNU. Gone are also the days when large corporate entities like Microsoft shunned open source. It has never seemed...

Using Docker in open-source projects

What is Docker? Docker is a containerization platform that gathers all packages and their dependencies in the form of containers to make sure that your application works seamlessly in any environment that can be developed, tested, or in production. It is a versatile platform that simplifies appli...

My Response to Open Source ???Creative??? Generative AI

I have a grayish dual position regarding generative art and, well, basically, generative creativity. One view is extremely cynical, and the other perspective is hopeful. I wrote earlier about this topic here (note: a bit gloomy). Let me start with the cynical view, hyperbolized for ease...

Top 10 Best Open Source Projects on GitHub 2023

Open Source Software (OSS) has revolutionized the way software development is done today. With millions of Open Source GitHub projects available, it can be overwhelming to navigate and find the best open-source projects that match your needs. This article lists the top 10 fastest growin...

FinGPT: open-source LLM for finance

The transformer has changed artificial intelligence, and today the number of LLMs has increased almost exponentially in the past two years, making it almost difficult to keep up. While LLMs are profitably used for various applications, why not apply them to finance as well? Speak about money...