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Zulip 9.0: Organized chat for distributed teams (blog.zulip.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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PeerTube v6.3 released! (joinpeertube.org)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20425929

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20425811

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19900393

PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

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Sly: Friendly image editor written in Flutter | Cross-Platform (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42499628

Flathub

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Release 3.0.0 · T8RIN/ImageToolbox (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/opensource
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ImageToolbox is a great android app for editing and working with images.

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best alternative to windows file explorer? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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probably a long shot but are there any lightweight alternatives to windows file explorer for 2024?

i'm stuck on windows for now until the time comes to grab a new laptop. so sick of the default one in windows 11 though.

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Neofetch is over, but many screenshot system info tools stand ready (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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Dev behind a popular screenshot tool checks out, but the successors are good.

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Building a browser using Servo as a web engine (servo.org)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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As a web engine, Servo primarily handles everything around scripting and layout. For embedding use cases, the Tauri community experimented with adding a new Servo backend, but Servo can also be used to build a browser.

We have a reference browser in the form of servoshell, which has historically been used as a minimal example and as a test harness for the Web Platform Tests. Nevertheless, the Servo community has steadily worked towards making it a browser in its own right, starting with our new browser UI based on egui last year.

This year, @wusyong, a member of Servo TSC, created the Verso project as a way to explore the features Servo needs to power a robust web browser. In this post, we’ll explain what we tried to achieve, what we found, and what’s next for building a browser using Servo as a web engine.

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The EU wants to cut funding for Free Software. Tell them why they should reconsider. (fsfe.org)
submitted 2 months ago by Gobbel2000 to c/opensource
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In its current plan, the EU commission intends to cut €27 million in funding for Free Software. The article has a link to a questionnaire that you can fill out and express your opinion about the plan. I believe non-EU citizens can participate as well.

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A Post-Open World (www.linux-magazine.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/opensource
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Have FOSS licenses outlived their usefulness? Bruce looks at what might come next in the world of free and open source software.

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2407 and 2409 (dolphin-emu.org)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1161771

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FT-Sync, unofficial utility to sync Freetube data (gitnet.fr)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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Linux only (I think), only between desktop clients, and it requires a server.

In the short time I've tested it, everything worked.

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New Windows PowerToy launches, repositions apps to saved layouts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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​Microsoft has released a new Workspaces PowerToy that helps launch sets of applications using custom desktop layouts and configurations with a mouse click.

Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

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Favorite FOSS Android Apps for a De-Googled Phone (dubvee.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/opensource
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Just setup a new de-Googled phone and figured I'd share some of the good FOSS apps I'm using. Please feel free to chime in with any you'd recommend (or better options than what I have listed)

  • Weather: Breezy Weather. Note that the version in F-Droid is the "freenet" version and only has one source (Open-Meteo I believe). The "standard" release is available on Github and has additional sources like AccuWeather, OpenWeather, etc. Absolutely gorgeous app as well as widgets.
  • Maps: Organic Maps What Google Maps should be. Absolutely gorgeous, functional, and works 100% offline.
  • Google Play Store: Aurora Store. Sometimes you need an app that's only available in the official Play store. Aurora store lets you download apps without having Play services installed or requiring a Google account. Even if you do have Play services and Play store available, Aurora is just so much more usable since it's not a flaming dumpster fire of "suggestions", "recommendations", and ads.
  • Email: K-9 Mail. Basically Thunderbird Mobile. Enough said.
  • Calendar: Etar Fast and efficient, syncs easily with my DAVx5 synced calendars from Nextcloud
  • Tasks: OpenTasks. Create, edit, update, and complete tasks. Can sync to a CalDAV server via DAVx5.
  • Contact/Calendar/Task Sync: DavX5 WebDAV sync utility that I use to sync my calendar, contacts, and tasks from Nextcloud to my phone.
  • Matrix: SchildiChat. So much better than Element for Android. Was having constant issues with encryption keys failing to sync in Element that hasn't (yet?) been a problem with SchildiChat.
  • Launcher: FastDraw: This is more of a preference, but I really like this launcher for its simplicity and ease of organization. Don't recommend this if you use a lot of widgets as it only supports one at a time (feature, not bug).
  • Authenticator: Aegis
  • SIP/VOIP: Linphone I really wish the desktop version of Linphone had this kind of polish.
  • MPD Client: M.A.L.P Absolutely gorgeous and intuitive MPD client. I pair it with Snapcast to control my whole-house audio.
  • Quick Share: Snapdrop/Pairdrop I don't use the app (rather, I have my self-hosted one pinned as a PWA), but this is great for sending one-off files or text between devices.
  • Music: Tie between Apollo and Mucke. The default LineageOS (AOSP?) music player is nice, but the phone I setup wasn't supported with LineageOS and didn't have a good music player included. Additionally, those two scale well on the small screen of the device I'm using where others would crop off the controls at varying points.
  • Web Apps: NativeAlpha. Uses the Android System WebView to wrap any website into a standalone "app". While most mobile browsers will let you do that with the "Add to home screen" button, only ones with a manifest.json will work as apps; the rest are just shortcuts. Also includes other niceties such as adding adblock, controlling cookies, defaulting to a desktop version, and modifying the user agent string (among other options).
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I created a blog for my app. Roast my blog. (positive-intentions.com)
submitted 2 months ago by xoron to c/opensource
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https://positive-intentions.com/blog

https://www.reddit.com/r/positive_intentions/

i normally use reddit for what people normally do with a blog. this is because i dont know enough to drive traffic to my site. i recently created a Docusaurus blog for my app and id like to see more traffic go there when i set up ads. the amount of traffic i have right now is barely anything (about 30 per day), compared to the number of "views on reddit".

i regurgitated old reddit posts into articles. im not much of a writer and im sure the content can be improved to "flow better".

i created some images on my phone... i justify it as "it matches the theme"... its actually the best i can do without using some AI or an actual artist.

id like to set up some kind of ads on it when its looks like its in a better state and i can attract traffic.

let me know what you think i could/should do to make it better.

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Ion Launcher: A beautiful, functional & customizable launcher (gitlab.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41310855

F-Droid

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Seal: a fully featured YouTube downloader for Android based on yt-dlp (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19811329

I just came across this amazing app. Idk much about yt-dlp but the app seems to fully support it, even with custom commands and stuff. Of course I tested it and it worked well (with just 1 video fail to download out of approximately 10). Though by default it seems to download videos without audio so make sure to click the small "Audio" button in the download menu and enable it.

I recently saw someone recommending using a privacy respecting frontend for searching videos and downloading them instead of watching them online for better privacy and consistency so I hope someone will find it useful... or just use it to download videos because that's what most people do anyways.

Also I hope I'm not copying anyone's post here. My Lemmy client doesn't support search so I can't check if there are any posts about this app.

P. S. Excuse my usage of the foul phrase "YouTube downloader" to describe this app. I just wanted to make it easier for less tech savvy people to understand what this app is and how it can be useful for them.

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Seal: a fully featured YouTube downloader for Android based on yt-dlp (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19811329

I just came across this amazing app. Idk much about yt-dlp but the app seems to fully support it, even with custom commands and stuff. Of course I tested it and it worked well (with just 1 video fail to download out of approximately 10). Though by default it seems to download videos without audio so make sure to click the small "Audio" button in the download menu and enable it.

I recently saw someone recommending using a privacy respecting frontend for searching videos and downloading them instead of watching them online for better privacy and consistency so I hope someone will find it useful... or just use it to download videos because that's what most people do anyways.

Also I hope I'm not copying anyone's post here. My Lemmy client doesn't support search so I can't check if there are any posts about this app.

P. S. Excuse my usage of the foul phrase "YouTube downloader" to describe this app. I just wanted to make it easier for less tech savvy people to understand what this app is and how it can be useful for them.

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An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises (arxiv.org)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://links.hackliberty.org/post/2559706

Abstract

This paper examines the potential of the Fediverse, a federated network of social media and content platforms, to counter the centralization and dominance of commercial platforms on the social Web. We gather evidence from the technology powering the Fediverse (especially the ActivityPub protocol), current statistical data regarding Fediverse user distribution over instances, and the status of two older, similar, decentralized technologies: e-mail and the Web. Our findings suggest that Fediverse will face significant challenges in fulfilling its decentralization promises, potentially hindering its ability to positively impact the social Web on a large scale.

Some challenges mentioned in the paper:

  • Discoverability as there is no central or unified index
  • Complicated moderation efforts due to its decentralized nature
  • Interoperability between instances of different types (e.g., Lemmy and Funkwhale)
  • Concentration on a small number of large instances
  • The risk of commercial capture by Big Tech

What are your thoughts on this? And how could we make the Fediverse a better place for all to stay?

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Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again (www.elastic.co)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19734027

[D.N.A] Elasticsearch and Kibana can be called Open Source again. It is hard to express how happy this statement makes me. Literally jumping up and down with excitement here. All of us at Elastic are. Open source is in my DNA. It is in Elastic DNA. Being able to call Elasticsearch Open Source again is pure joy.

[LOVE.] The tl;dr is that we will be adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks. We never stopped believing and behaving like an open source community after we changed the license. But being able to use the term Open Source, by using AGPL, an OSI approved license, removes any questions, or fud, people might have.

[Not Like Us] We never stopped believing in Open Source at Elastic. I never stopped believing in Open Source. I’m going on 25 years and counting as a true believer. So why the change 3 years ago? We had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing. So after trying all the other options we could think of, we changed the license, knowing it would result in a fork of Elasticsearch with a different name and a different trajectory. It’s a long story.

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Plan Less, Do More: Introducing Appointment By Thunderbird (blog.thunderbird.net)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/Thunderbird/t/1140808

Plan Less, Do More: Introducing Appointment By Thunderbird - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird has a new project under its wing: Appointment. Learn all about our approach to appointment scheduling, and try it yourself.

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UltimaDark: Firefox Web Extension that uses agressive technique to get dark mode everywhere (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21733808

Restrictive AI model licenses claimed as "open source" spark for clear standard.

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Beyond-All-Reason: Open source RTS game built on top of the Recoil RTS Engine (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40779019

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there's a new "zen" Firefox fork on the block focused on theming and has some features from Edge, all licensed under MPL (www.zen-browser.app)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/[email protected]/t/424247

plus the usual betterfox

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Quiblr: Quiblr is an intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse. (github.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40524574

It's a Web Lemmy client.

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