Free and Open Source Software
- FOSS AI painting with Krita
It's so awesome that I can let my kid paint with Krita and let her enhance the picture with AI live. She wanted to have an AI picture editor on her phone but I didn't like the privacy policy. But Krita AI Diffusion came to the rescue.
After testing it out myself I showed her Krita, the most important tools and how to use layers and before I could say anything she was off to paint a nice landscape. When she was finished I actually got to enable the AI plugin and show her the ropes around that. And after enabling live painting she went ham and added a phoenix and a giant hand.
Hardest thing about it was that she had to describe what she wanted in English. But she's already learning that in school so it shouldn't give her too much trouble in the long run.
Anyways, FOSS rules!
- Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men
> Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
- That word, Open, it doesn't mean what they think it means
I was very excited to learn about this project...only to discover it's neither free nor open source. Does anyone know of any true open source and accessible tools for Syllabus sharing/curating/researching?
- Winamp is going open source
I used this for years, from version 1.9 all the way to 5.x when I moved onto other software.
EDIT: Here is the full press release.
> Press Release- Inside information May 16, 2024 – 08:30 CEST Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows. Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide. Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development. This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve. Winamp has become much more than just a music player. It embodies a unique digital culture, aesthetic, and user experience. With this initiative to open the source code, Winamp is taking the next step in its history, allowing its users to contribute directly to improving the product. "This is a decision that will delight millions of users around the world. Our focus will be on new mobile players and other platforms. We will be releasing a new mobile player at the beginning of July. Still, we don't want to forget the tens of millions of users who use the software on Windows and will benefit from thousands of developers' experience and creativity. Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version," explains Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO of Winamp. Interested developers can now make themselves known at the following address: about.winamp.com/free-llama
- Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're herewww.ghacks.net Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Settings homepage - gHacks Tech News
Microsoft launched a new build to the Windows 11 Insider Dev channel on Friday and with it comes a Game Pass ad in Settings.
The writing is on the wall--I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
- Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15691030
> As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus. > > For example, Github is the most popular place to store your project code and we all know, who owns it. And not to forget that sketchy AI training on every line of your code. Don't we have alternatives? Oh, yes we have. Gitlab, Codeberg, Notabug, etc. You can even host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance if you want. > > Also, Crowdin is very popular in terms of software (and docs) translation. Even Privacy Guides and The New Oil use Crowdin, even though we have FLOSS Weblate, that you can easily self-host or use public instances. > > So, my question is: if you are building a FLOSS / privacy related project, why using proprietary and privacy invasive tools?
- Proxy Raye: an alternative frontend for adult websites
SEX SEX SEX PROXY ALT-FRONTEND
Now that I have your attention...
Proxy Raye is a self-hostable alternative frontend for browsing adult websites without tracking or ads.
Think Invidious for porn.
Working demo here:
https://proxyraye.copyriot.xyz
Repo (codeberg):
https://codeberg.org/lamacchinadesiderante/proxyraye
Currently (v0.2.0) supported platforms are XVideos and XNXX. More coming soon!
- FOSS support in the local community
Is anyone aware of an existing framework or educational tools for delivering in-person FOSS workshops?
- Ada goes to the set: let’s make an animated movie - FSFE - Help us make a film of this story to spark more kids’ interest in coding and tinkering!fsfe.org Ada goes to the set: let’s make an animated movie - FSFE
What do a Prime Minister, an MIT professor, and a child from Rajasthan have in common? They, along with other public figures and thousands of children, lov...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15670510
> Ada goes to the set: let’s make an animated movie - FSFE - Help us make a film of this story to spark more kids’ interest in coding and tinkering! > > - https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/112444907254210958 > - About the book : https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann > - Book reading : https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/book-reading-ada-zangemann-a-tale-of-software-skateboards-and-raspberry-ice-cream > - Audio only version of the book reading : https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/book-reading-ada-zangemann-a-tale-of-software-skateboards-and-raspberry-ice-cream-audio-only
- How do I build my own software from source?
I'm trying to get tic80 working on RIScv but i ll need to build a custom version cos there are no prebuilts, how do I go about this?
- How being FOSS fan/advocate annoy you at work/school?
Started my first job, it's a helpdesk. It looks that I get tickets and try to help people on the other side, have build some PCs and am at first week.
But after ~3 years of using almost exclusive FOSS, I found out corporate software (especially Windows!) to be so absolutely unbearable.
Having Windows as example, on the surface it is bearable, but as I need to do more advanced stuff, oh GOD!\ I needed iperf3 to test LAN speed, traceroute to test why some device is not responding, rsync to copy files... But none of it is installed and installing every single program is super annoying and troublesome. After that I get countless update popups from all sides, ugh.
- Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious
Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there's any other ones, thanks
- Suggest unto me a new FOSS operating system
I have a 1TB harddrive on my desktop computer that isn't doing much of anything, so I'd like to dual-boot something "interesting". Suggestions are greatly appreciated, so let me know what y'all find intriguing/interesting/frustrating/innovative.
The logo is just for attention, but EFF is a great cause that we should all support.
- Graphite progress report (Q1 2024) [2D procedural graphic design app written in Rust and Svelte]graphite.rs Graphite progress report (Q1 2024)
Graphite's Q1 2024 update introduces a precise snapping system and a customizable grid for enhanced design control. The update also includes improved procedural scattering with the 'Copy to Points' node, demonstrated in new demo artwork.
- LibreOffice 7.6.7 Is Here as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.29to5linux.com LibreOffice 7.6.7 Is Here as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.2 - 9to5Linux
LibreOffice 7.6.7 is now available for download as the last update in the LibreOffice 7.6 office suite series fixing 44 bugs and regressions.
- Does anyone know of a FOSS Firewall for Windows
I currently use TinyWall Firewall, it works very well, it's small/portable, no complaints I even donated to the Dev but I would really prefer open source, also it needs to be user friendly like TinyWall so my non-tech family members can/will use it like they do with TinyWall.
- FLOSS sound level meter for Android?
Is there such a thing? I wasn't able to find anything in the F-Droid repository.
- Youtube Music frond-ends like ViMusic for Linux
So there are so many Youtube front-ends for Android like ViMusic/RiMusic, spmp, SimpMusic and a big etc.. They basically extract the music and add a lot of functionality to the app like translating lyrics, downloading/caching songs, local playlists without Google account, radio mode and that kind of thing.
I know of three programs of this type for Linux (or desktop OS in general) and they're Moosync, Nuclear Music Player and Youtube-music.
I love Moosync but I miss the radio mode feature that I use a lot in Android apps, then Nuclear I haven't used for years since I know Moosync and Youtube-music doesn't appeal to me at all because it's just a Youtube music web application with plugins... and it doesn't even have local playlists...
So, does anyone know of any other programs of this kind that actually support radio mode and local playlists?
- what happened to VLC for Android ?
A lot of the issues reported here, started showing up on my device after each OS update, but VLC didn't push any updates for over a year now... VLC is king, but what went wrong?
Edit: I think I saw a post on Mastodon saying it something to do with Google Play Store policies change, but what about the Fdroid version.. ?
- Official Blog: Ondsel ES 2024.2 released: more assembly tools and UX/UI polish | Ondselondsel.com Ondsel ES 2024.2 released: more assembly tools and UX/UI polish | Ondsel
We’ve just released Ondsel ES 2024.2 with new assembly tools, improved Sketcher and TechDraw workbenches, and built-in Sheet Metal workbench.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15185181
> Official Blog: Ondsel ES 2024.2 released: more assembly tools and UX/UI polish | Ondsel
- Advanced AI agentlemm.ee Advanced AI agent - lemm.ee
I’ve written an AI agent with a full frontent similar to the BingAI with the capability to look up information and access files within the current “context” and a python interpreter for mathematics etc. If anyone wants to add to the project please do I’ve been working on this for a couple days so it...
- Basedflare - Open source alternative to Cloudflarebasedflare.com BasedFlare - Sovereign solutions for DNS, CDN, WAF and DDoS mitigation
BasedFlare,dns,cdn,ddos,waf,mitigation,protection,open source,freedom
- GIMP 2.10.38 Released
New features and improvements
- Improved support for tablets on Windows
- Backports of other GTK3 features
What’s next
Clearly one of the smallest releases ever in the 2.10 series, and it might be our last. We’ll see, though we also know some people get stuck longer than others on older series (especially when using LTS distributions of Free Software operating systems), so we might do (if we feel like it’s needed) a 2.10.40 release with bug fixes only just before or just after GIMP 3.0.0 release, as a wrap up.
In any case, we are now stopping backporting features in the 2.10 series. These graphics tablet support improvements for Windows are huge enough that they had to get in; yet from now on, we want to focus solely on releasing GIMP 3.0.0.
Now you might wonder when that is? Very soon! We are on the last sprint towards the release candidate. This includes a lot of bug fixes, but also still some API changes going on. We will keep you updated!
Don’t forget you can donate and personally fund GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development of GIMP. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger! 💪🥳
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- What details/tools have you found help people transition to similar, open software from closed software, or think could help?
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/30719639 in !ask_experienced_devs@programming.dev
> I'm thinking of ways to help people move from established software to more open, flexible forms that don't lock them to another organization.
- New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative)codeberg.org Subscribe to anything
Currently, posters can be notified about replies to their posts or comments, or subscribe to a community for notifications about posts in that community. It'd be good to be able to subscribe to a post or comment too.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15109471
> This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.
- IMDB alternative
I really would like to delete my account there and move on. Is there anything, solid enough, with a good rating system, some lists that I can make for myself or at least a simple “to watch”?
Would be cool to have a “where to watch / stream / buy” section and some basic info like people behind the movies and so on.
Major pros: good website and cross-platform mobile app.
I just installed letterboxd to check how it feels but before migrating anywhere I am more interested what I will read here.
- Rimsort – An open source mod manager for Rimworldgithub.com GitHub - RimSort/RimSort
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- Godot beginner game development tutorial video from Brackeys 🎮👨💻
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- Any apps to find your phone if it's on mute?
My wife and I regularly misplace our phones in the house and we also keep them on mute like 99% of the time.
Are there any apps that allow us to ping the other ones phone audibly despite it being on mute?
One is a oneplus 6t the other a s23 ultra if that makes a difference
EDIT: I found a solution i like; Homeassistant with TTS Notifications. Of couse you can still list some apps and solutions for others to find, but i am happy now!
- unwrap: Wrapper to marry GNU Parallel and 7-Zip for archive extraction [Bash]github.com GitHub - thingsiplay/unwrap: Wrapper to marry GNU Parallel and 7-Zip for archive extraction
Wrapper to marry GNU Parallel and 7-Zip for archive extraction - thingsiplay/unwrap
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13362507
> It uses 7z to extract files from archives. By also utilizing GNU Parallel, multiple files can be processed at the same time. > > The purpose is to streamline option handling and usability of both programs into a unified command line interface, by only incorporating functionality which I need. 7z's option and argument handling is a bit confusing and does things in unique and unfamiliar ways. On the other side, we have Parallel, which is extremely complex and has ton of functionality; also confusing. So I picked up my favorite options and bundled them into a manageable script. > > Name of the script is inspired by unwrap() functionality from Rust programming language. It unpacks certain type of variables to make use what is inside of it. > >
7z
(probably in packagep7zip
) andparallel
are required and need to be present. > >bash > git clone https://github.com/thingsiplay/unwrap > cd unwrap > chmod +x unwrap >
> > usage: > >bash > unwrap *.zip > > unwrap -f -i '*.txt' -o . *.zip >
- Help improve OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete
"This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map."
- NewPipe v0.27.0 releasedgithub.com Release v0.27.0 · TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
⚠️ Important fixes ⚠️ [YouTube] Fix extraction of comments TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1163 The issue happened because YouTube changed the response of comments. Note that this response doesn't r...
- NewPipe/PipePipe-like app for Linux?
Any YouTube client that doesn't track me that works on Linux or in Firefox?
- Suggestions for an organizer app
Hi everyone! Due to so many projects I'm involved into, I need an easy way to organize and visualize tasks, dependencies, and durations in order to properly plan my week.
I'm looking for an organizer app that fulfills the following requirements:
- must have a calendar management systems
- it must support multiple caldav calendars at the same time
- must have a to-do list
- each time the user creates a to-do element, they should have the option to reserve a specific time on the calendar
- when they decide to reserve a specific time on the calendar, the calendar might be chosen among the multiple support ones
- to-do tasks might be visualized as a mindmap
- for every leaf / "outer children" of the mindmap, must correspond a to-do element with the specific calendar
Does anybody knows something that does all of this?
Thank you
- enjoy v0.5.0 - Play any game ROM with associated emulator in RetroArch on Linuxgithub.com Release Maintenance update · thingsiplay/enjoy
As the title suggest, this is not a big update and does not introduce any new features. The opposite is true, as those custom install and uninstall scripts are removed and the Readme file is no lon...
https://github.com/thingsiplay/enjoy
enjoy is a blazingly fast wrapper around "RetroArch" on Linux, to help running emulator cores on the commandline. A user configuration file can be setup, including rules and core aliases pointing to file extensions and emulator paths.
Usage Example:
bash enjoy '~/Emulation/Roms/snes/Super Mario World (U) [!].smc'
Update notes:
As the title suggest, this is not a big update and does not introduce any new features. The opposite is true, as those custom install and uninstall scripts are removed and the Readme file is no longer converted to HTML. This reduces a little bit of complexity and dependency.
Speaking of dependency, the internal libraries it depends on are all updated. The most notable one is the argument parser called
clap
, which is now at version 4.5 and no longer outputs the help in colors. Otherwise a few lines are refactored or reformatted and the README.md is worded differently; at some places. Overall this is a small update to bring the underlying code to the current state of the art. And to find an excuse to compile it with the most recent Rust compiler. If you liked the previous version of this program, then you will most likely like it again.- changed: the options parser and help text from
-h
or--help
has no longer colored output and is reorganized - changed: if an empty
""
entry is included, then entire program assumes nothing is given, in example following does not work:enjoy mario.smc ""
, - changed: logo slightly updated and corrected
- changed: pandoc no longer used to convert README.md to HTML with Makefile
- renamed: CHANGELOG.md to CHANGES.md
- removed: install.sh and uninstall.sh scripts removed
- internal: some code refactor, formatting and dependency upgrades
- changed: the options parser and help text from