We are currently in an age where a large portion of open source apps are actively maintained, users understand more about open source than ever before and open source software is almost as good, if not better, than their proprietary counterparts.

This is just a huge thank you to anyone and everyone involved in the making and maintaining of open source software.

As a regular tester, I do my best to provide any feedback I can to make your vision come to fruition.

The main features I want are:

• Import PDFs and annotate them in the app’s native format (so that I’ll still be able to remove previous changes after I save and re-open it)
• Quickly add text boxes anywhere on the PDF
• Draw some basic shapes and lines with different colors (can either be notability-style “draw and hold to make shape” or just a classic “insert shapes” option from the toolbar)
• Have a page thumbnail option and can search text in the PDF file and quickly go there

Before I buy another Roku, are there any options for a streaming box/stick that run FOSS? A foss derivitive of android TV would be nice if that exists, ideally preloaded on an inexpensive and compact piece of hardware.

i've found this cute little app called photon that does exactly what I need. Unlike snapdrop, it doesn't need to connect to a server. Unlike warpinator, it works.

but I hate the GUI. It's too cute for me :/

What other apps are there to share files through a hotspot.

some sharing apps require the 2 phones to be connected to the same WiFi, we're travelling and a hotspot is our only option.

I'm working on a little project that would benefit from using QUIC, I think, but I need both client and server side and I'm finding it hard to find a drop-in solution I can make use of.

• OpenSSL seems to only support client side
• Chromium's implementation says it's just for testing and not performant at scale (although I'm not sure what their frame of reference is when they say that, for me it might be fine)
• I'm not real sure that I want to go the route of msquic or s2n-quic

Can anyone recommend a good solution for this? Or is FOSS support for it just not available quite yet?

I'm using Google's but I don't really like it.

EDIT: is there anything that can sync with a linux podcast app (desktop)?

I've been trying to move away from Google Translate, it's so good though. Any adequate open source alternatives? Bonus points if it has a phrasebook and if I can import mine from Google.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1924228

Hey everyone, check the Linguist

• you can translate texts offline (with sent no one single byte to a Google and stay private)
• a lot of features and flexible configuration
• dictionary + history for learn languages
• it is are hackable - you can write code to use your own translation service

What's the state of IPFS?

I remember a few years ago there was excitement about using it to back video distribution but that seems to have fizzeled out.

Is there any video streaming service using IPFS?

Is the IPFS network growing? What is the best way to see the health of IPFS?

@[email protected] @[email protected] I was just curious. If a project is started as opensource and we have bunch of community members contribute to the project, either to the code or financially. What happens to the community contributions when that project decides that it is no longer going to be opensource?

Are there no license restrictions against this practice as the contributors were led to believe that they are contributing to an opensource project.

Can they close source community contributions?

Hi all,

I'm currently using Firefox with a self-hosted sync server, and since I have to use Chrome on a Chromebook (because Firefox for Android's UI is terrible for tablet/laptop mode), I use Floccus to sync there. I've been using this setup for years and it works great. (And no, I don't want to run Firefox for Linux on the Chromebook, it doesn't work well.)

However, I'd like to switch to a standard browser that has a tab-based UI on Android tablets (vs Firefox's click the box, then choose a tab from the list method). I'm looking for a browser that is Open Source (sorry Vivaldi) that I can use in Linux and on Android with a UI that's good in tablet/desktop mode. It must support some form of self-hosted sync, preferably for settings/themes/etc in the browser.

Does anyone know of anything? As far as I know, nothing exists short of Chromium with no settings sync and something like Floccus. I've built sync extensions before, so I'm tempted to look at Chromium source and see if I can modify it to sync to another API interface.

Thanks.

If proprietary app is better and more robust I am willing to try it and assess it myself.

cross-posted from: https://gehirneimer.de/m/[email protected]/t/57607

The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

Hello! I'm trying to import my youtube "watch later" playlist into my piped account on piped.yt. I extracted the videos links with this js script:

let p = [];
document.querySelectorAll("ytd-playlist-video-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint").forEach(v => {
	if(v.href.includes("/watch?v=") && !p.includes(v.href)){
		p.push(v.href.split('&list=')[0]);
	}
})
console.log('"' + p.join('","') + '"');

I then created a dummy playlist on piped and exported it as json, in order to modify it to add my videos. this is how it looks like:

{"format":"Piped","version":1,"playlists":[{"name":"WatchLater","type":"playlist","visibility":"private","videos":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somethinghere","https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somethingheretoo"]}]}

and I replaced the videos list between [ ] with the output of the script, making sure that all quotation marks are closed. I then imported the file and.... the playlist created has 0 videos. why? am I doing something wrong?

Is there a way to show traffic on Osmand+ or another foss app which includes navigating around traffic jams or calculates the rout based on traffic?

Hello! I'm looking for a foss weather app for android, so I went ahead to f-droid and tried a bunch of them, but didn't find any that fully satisfies me: I want to be able to see the hourly forecast of any day of the week, not just the "global" forecast, and I want the weather service used not to require a credit card (openweathermap.org for example requires the credit card to get an API key). Geometric Weather is the one that I'm currently using, with open-meteo as provider, but sadly it displays hourly forecasts only for the current day, but not for other days.

Do you have any suggestion? Thanks in advance!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3468141

I have been looking all day for a FOSS keyboard that's under active development. It seems like more of not all of the ones I've seen recommended haven't been updated in over a year some three years. I don't mind if it's a long time between updates but I want to know bugs will be fixed eventually.

So i wanna start using OSMand+ instead of gmaps, but I want to have the arrow that symbolizes me to be focused by the app like gmaps does. Does anyone here have an idea on how to do that? Am I missing an option here?

Hi there,

I wanted to improve my native language dictionary (there is a lot of words missing) in OpenBoard app and I was wondering if anyone could help me out with it?

This is how it's described on their Github page, but I never used github so I'm not even sure where to start.

Dictionary creation

To create or update a dictionary for your language, you can use this tool. You will need a wordlist, as described here. The output .dict file must be put in res/raw, and its wordlist in dictionaries.

For your dictionary to be merged into OpenBoard, you must provide the wordlist you used, as well as its license if any.

Also, is this project still supported? It seems to be the best FOSS keyboard for me, but it seems the last update was a year ago.

Thanks