! rant || question
Preparing slides on "how to pick the right open source software" right now.
Any story you care to share?

Use github stars as an indicator? I also prefer them to have a decent website if it's something bigger. If the site's shit why wouldn't the product be shit. It's not always true but on average it tends that way

Tried to find a implementation of blake2 for nodejs, I'd preferred a pure JavaScript implementation but could only find a c++ plugin, a few months pass and i randomly found a pure JavaScript implementation named blakejs which implements blake2 even though blake exists in and of itself

TL;DR opensource is often misslabled, because marketing doesn't exist in opensource

@IwraStudios what's Blake?

@Froot it's an hashing algorithm allegedly just as secure than sha2 but faster

Edit: blake2 that is, blake was an md5 competitor back in the day

@IwraStudios Ah, cool. Thanks

Don't refer to articles as much as on forums and choose sources that contain a variety of projects

I could tell a story behind the reason I distrust closed source software but I don't think it'll be of much help, sorry :/

Thought about open sourcing the slideshow afterwards? (no joke/kidding)

Everything that start with open like
openCV, openBR, OpenCL .....