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[-] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago

The unmaintained repo has a link in the readme pointing to the best fork

[-] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 46 points 9 months ago

My dad comes home with the milk

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[-] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is the problem, making the fork known to the userbase of the original software. When the Atom text editor was killed by Microsoft we decided to fork it as Pulsar but it was an uphill struggle to really get the word out. We got a massive boost when the youtuber Distrotube featured us in an episode and again with an itsfoss article but we still routinely find people who have been using Atom without knowing we even exist.

[-] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

TIL Pulsar exists

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 15 points 9 months ago

You found some more by commenting about it now.

But if the fork is on GitHub there are some ways to search for the most maintained forks, albeit not with the GitHub tools which is unfortunate

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[-] kadotux 13 points 9 months ago

Wow, first time I'm hearing about this. Gonna check it out ty.

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[-] dan@upvote.au 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Keep in mind that software doesn't have an expiry date. If a piece of software is unmaintained and doesn't have an active fork but it still fulfills your use case and doesn't have any major issues, there's no need to replace it. Some of the software I use hasn't seen any updates in five years but I still use it because it still works.

Edit: As an example, a lot of people still use WinDirStat even though the latest release 1.1.2 is now 17 years old.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 47 points 9 months ago

I'd say that problems mostly come from the need to update dependencies in case of vulnerabilities being discovered. But not every software needs elevated privileges or can become a vector of attack, I guess

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

If a software is compromised to allow remote code execution, then the situation is pretty dire even without elevated privileges.

Basically your entire userspace will be compromised, and in terms of personal computing that is pretty much all you can lose.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Desktop - Linux - Yes, likely. If not, here's a flatpak
Desktop - Windows - Maybe it still runs in a compatibility mode?
Desktop - iMac - Here's an emulator, good luck.

Mobile - PostMarketOS - Yes, likely. If not, here's a flatpak
Mobile - Android - Maybe? Try it and see if you get permission denial
Mobile - iPhone - Fuck you, no.

[-] dan@upvote.au 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Windows is pretty good with backwards compatibility, probably the best out of anything. I can run Visual Basic apps I wrote in the early 2000s on Windows 11 and they still run fine. Some old 32-bit games work fine too. You can even run some 16-bit Windows 3.0 apps on 32-bit Windows 10 if you manually install NTVDM through the Windows features (it was never ported to 64-bit though)

Linux is okay for backcompat but I'm not sure an app I compiled 20 years ago would still run today.

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[-] IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 9 months ago

WinDirStat works but is super slow though. WizTree is a much better modern equivalent.

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[-] roon@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago

Isn't WizTree a lot faster?

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[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 9 months ago
[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

YT-DL is greater than YT-DLP?

Edit: Oh, it’s an arrow. Got it.

[-] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 37 points 9 months ago
[-] mggnn@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago

StarOffice -> OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

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[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 36 points 9 months ago

Simplemobiletools --> Fossify is pretty epic

[-] greencactus@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Do the Fossify versions already have new features? I'll still using Simple Mobile Tools from F-Droid, without ads, and am asking if it makes sense to download Fossify apps already

[-] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 13 points 9 months ago

They have material you by default instead of the weird accent theming there was before

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 8 points 9 months ago

No big changes yet afaik but its a good idea to switch anyways

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[-] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 35 points 9 months ago
[-] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 40 points 9 months ago

The fork is yt-dlp

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[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 27 points 9 months ago

"PIN number"

vs.

"FOSS software"

Who'd win in a fight?

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mplayer -> MPV

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

yo but tbh this gets old.

i just want my stuff to update without me having to find out a year later its unmantained and had a fork all along.

or having to watch the repositories of stuff i use for signs it might be unmantained. i didnt know half the (popular!) stuff mentioned here was abandoned then forked.

libforknotifier when (or even how)?

[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it would be nice if it was easier for devs to just turn over the project to an "official" fork. Unfortunately, I'm sure that would get abused by scammers taking over projects forcefully and adding in malware before anyone notices.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

You're spot on with the latter, I've come across a few projects over the years where the ownership is transferred and it's then loaded up with malware or even just instantly abandoned again because the new owner just wants it on their GitHub to get a job or something.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've come across a few projects over the years where the ownership is transferred and it's then loaded up with malware

See: The Great Suspender

The original developer sold the repo to a new, anonymous maintainer. The new maintainer abandoned the repo but continued updating the Chrome Web Store version of the addon. That version eventually got delisted by Google for including malware.

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[-] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 9 months ago

sandboxie. The final update from the original makers made it open source.

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[-] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Paperless -> Paperless-ng -> Paperless-ngx

[-] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 14 points 9 months ago

It may be a game, but....

Pixel Dungeon -> Shattered Pixel Dungeon

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[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago
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[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Even better when someone forked it away from proprietary, closed-source, publicly-traded, for-profit, US-based, account-required, training-AI-on-your-code-then-selling-it-back-to-you Microsoft GitHub forge/social media network often with vendor lock-in to some other forge without all that BS.

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[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago
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