GitHub - dylanaraps/neofetch: 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
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🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+ - dylanaraps/neofetch

The author’s profile says this:

“Have taken up farming.”

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    54·
    6 months ago

    Finally it’s official. I think it’s a good move to make it an archived repository, so everyone knows for a fact this is not developed anymore. That means bugs or security issues are no longer actively searched and corrected. I wonder if this program will be taken out from distribution repositories now. My personal alternative is fastfetch .

    Edit: … oh, I didn’t realize all of his repositories are now archived. Not only neofetch: https://github.com/dylanaraps?tab=repositories

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he’s doing now

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        20·
        6 months ago

        Looking at the readme edit history: https://github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commits/master/

        1. First edit 3 years ago: Away till the New Year. Merry Christmas.
        2. Then next edit 10 month ago replacing that line with: On hiatus.
        3. Then next edit 4 days ago replacing that line with: Have taken up farming.

        English is not my native language, and I don’t understand what “Have taken up farming.”, but I have my guesses. means. Normally I don’t interpret such a situation, but it doesn’t look good. Most contributions of the software is 3 years old, and only a few readme and link updates recently are made alongside making everything archived.

        • bjorney@lemmy.ca
          49·
          6 months ago

          English is not my native language, and I don’t understand what “Have taken up farming.”

          It means they aren’t developing software anymore because they are growing vegetables instead

          • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
            10·
            6 months ago

            Hmm, maybe it really means it literally. I mean it would not surprise me if the person really started or taken over by farming and giving up programming. Be it having too much pressure from all sites, for writing software that many people use. Or be it financial. Who knows. I wish him best luck.

            • andrewA
              14·
              6 months ago

              It’s not unheard of in folks who are in software dev because they love the repetition and routine. Farming is pretty similar to programming a computer, just with tons more manual labor.

              • not_amm@lemmy.ml
                1·
                6 months ago

                So true, I’m still a student, but taking care of my plants daily is relaxing and repetitive, also some problem solving when there are plagues lol

            • GreyBeard@lemmy.one
              5·
              6 months ago

              You are probably right that it isn’t literal. In IT I often hear “Goat farming” as meaning getting out of IT.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    47·
    6 months ago

    there should be some kind of notification system whenever something goes unmaintained. ive used unmaintained software for way too long before finding out theres some fork.

    • Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social
      25·
      6 months ago

      As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i’m fine with running abandoned ware.

      If something stops working it’s time to find out the alternatives.

      Not every little tool needs weekly updates

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        8·
        6 months ago

        the finding out alternatives is the annoying part for me, you always have to be on some niche place online (eg lemmy) to discover them. that and ive used a lot of security sensitive abandonware i really wouldnt otherwise.

        • sleepmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          6 months ago

          Hackernews is usually reliable to see what the new hotness is. But yeah this is a frequent problem.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        2·
        6 months ago

        As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i’m fine with running abandoned ware.

        That means Windows XP is perfectly okay as abandon ware, becuase it makes no security related headlines. :p (just joking!)

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      6·
      6 months ago

      On arch’s user repository, packages can get marked as out of date, unmaintained, and sometimes removed entirely.

  • riodoro1@lemmy.world
    382·
    6 months ago

    Software which achieved no actual purpose discontinued. Open source community in tears.

  • deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip
    11·
    6 months ago

    Why would this little bash script that does nothing extraordinary need constant updates? Some pieces of software might just be complete as they are.