Merry Christmas from the LabPlot team! 🎅 🎄

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Merry Christmas from the LabPlot team! 🎅 🎄

@opensource @kde
#Christmas #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #KDE #LabPlot #DataScience #DataViz

Is there an open source app or tool like TestDisk/PhotoRec, but for Android?

Hello Lemmy,

invidtui is a TUI-based Invidious client, which can:

• Search for and browse videos, playlists and channels
• Play audio or video from any instance
• View, open, edit and save m3u8 playlists
• Download video/audio in any format
• Authenticate with the preferred instance, and show user feed, playlists and subscriptions

A new demo video has been uploaded here.

This release contains the following new features/fixes:

Redesigned Media Queue

The queue is now completely managed by invidtui, with MPV being used only for playback. This change resulted in a big reduction in CPU usage, especially when loading large playlists.

• Shuffle mode is on-demand, with a focus on not playing the same item more than once in a single cycle.
• Media statuses (fetching/loading/playing) are shown for the currently selected item
• Dynamic audio/video switching of any item in the queue
• Media items are fetched from the selected instance, and can be reloaded as the instance is changed.

Media Fetcher

The new media fetcher will show statuses of each added media item, and allow for viewing any errors and performing reload/cancel actions on each or all media items being added.

Playlist/Player Improvements

Playlists are now downloaded faster, and are generated in the proper M3U8 format. The player also shows media statuses, as well as the buffering percentage of the current media.

Note that playlists may have to be regenerated/redownloaded if they were previously generated by older versions.

I hope you enjoy this release, and any feedback is appreciated.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9820251

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:

• report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
• submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
• Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
• Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

Zilla MQTT highlights include:

• MQTT v5 and v3.1.1 Support:
• MQTT-Kafka Proxying: Zilla maintains the MQTT client state across Kafka topics, providing all of the features and guarantees of a dedicated MQTT broker, such as Keep-Alive, Last Will and Testament, and all three Quality of Service (QOS) agreements. MQTT over WebSocket is also supported, so Zilla can deliver MQTT messages from Kafka down to a browser.
• Manage Millions of Clients: Zilla is stateless, scales out linearly, and handles MQTT to Kafka connection offloading.

Try out the MQTT-Kafka proxying guide. We also have a fun Taxi Hailing Demo that simulates IoT vehicle tracking.

Read the full feature announcement.

Zilla is open source, so please consider starring the repo to help us improve Zilla for the IoT community!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9752285

A slightly delayed update, but MineClone2 had a big release recently! :)

Release notes: https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/src/branch/master/releasenotes/0_85-the_fire_and_stone_release.md

Hello! I'm looking for a FOSS replacement for the calculator app that I currently use, N-CALC, that is now not even released in the play store (http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duy.calc.casio) and only available from sites like APKFree. I tried all the various calculator apps on F-droid but none of them supported "rich text" (I don't know how to call it):

Any tips?

thanks in advance!

Updated.

I have used Microsoft Office for many years and wanted to see how LibreOffice has come along in the meantime and it does not do as well as I would have hoped for on Windows. There is no included updater tool as in Firefox, so my old version stopped working completely (frozen UI) and the ancient hassle to download .exe files. Not a great start.

The dark mode switch causes buttons to be in the wrong colour looking like a buggy mess until a restart, but even then some of the icons and application colours were not applied correctly until I manually changed them so.

The ribbon view in Calc has its setting burger button on the right and it opens on another screen next to it?

What completely breaks it for me is the broken window resize. The ribbon tab titles are not rescaled and become inconveniently small. I then discovered the the compact grouped view and it made a better initial impression on me. Then I snapped the the window to the left and the UI is just cut off. Manually resizing it horizontally just breaks everything even more until the UI is empty and the rest is moved into the arrow.

The old school UI view meanwhile works and resizes, but it might be the slowest and laggiest UI on resize with goofy stretching I have seen in quite some time.

Also I really think the default theming and the 6 presets are questionable in fashion, but this is the least of its problems.

Wondering what happened to the development of LibreOffice? There are definitive improvements and probably there are even better under the hood changes, but why would such a large project ship such a bad experience? Was the core of the UI never touched the past 15 years? I have to to use an alternative.

EDIT: Resize runs better after forcing Skia Software renderer. Should not have to do that with an up to date AMD driver. Skia/Vulkan was the culprit. Disabling Skia leads to flicker on resize, so even more rendering bugs.

Sorry for my ignorance, but how do you download these apps. I see nothing in releases.

Thanks for your assistance.

Edit: yes, the Fossify Fork, not the original Simple Mobile Apps version

I have macbook air with M1 chip, I wish I could change to linux but unfortunately I cant so I try to stick as much as possible to using open source on macos. But i cant understand why FOSS apps take up so much space in memory. I'm even getting messages that says that I dont have space left in memory and i must close apps, and I thought that chip M1 was enough with 8gb of ram. I send a pic of my memory usage.

I am really struggling to replace facebook messenger / whatsapp for a few casual conversations. My friends and I are all wanting to move away. We are not heavy users of this but need it to work. I think the requirements are:

• floss client for android, linux, windows

• persistent history across devices

• reasonable security

• don't need to self host server

• can send a message to offline user, they get it when they come online

• not tied to or reliant on phone number / cell service

• ETA: end user documentation explaining how to set up and common troubleshooting

tried:

• matrix: the thing with having to keep track of room keys and stuff is too complicated. every time someone uses a new device it is a ton of issues and we could never quite get it ironed out

• signal: tied to phone number, no history across devices

• xmpp: similar to matrix the key situation is confusing, also no cross device history

• ETA: simpleX: a lot of people here are mentioning simpleX. It didn't come up in previous investigations so will give it a shot.

  • ETA 2: It doesn't seem to have persistent history across devices. Clarification?

I actually didn't think this would be such a problem but it is breaking us. we don't need a lot of sophisticated features like voice, video, moderation, 1000s of participants, spam protection etc that seem to be of concern to the projects. just simple text chat.

People who use GPLv3 want the code to stay open/libre under any circumstances. If this is the goal, why not use the AGPL instead, even for applications which are not served over a network?

This takes away the possibility that people integrate parts of your program into a proprietary network application, even if this seems improbable. There's nothing to loose with using this license, but potentially some gain.

Only reason I can think of is that AGPL is less known and trusted which may harm adoption.