cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25312852

Flathub

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20306561

Hi everyone! For... I guess over a year now? I've been observing and trying out lots of software recommended by the privacy community and internet as a whole. With that time, I've been able to slowly put together a list of all the software I personally believe to be the best for their own various reasons. I finally have enough to be able to share it with all of you!

I'm also looking for feedback. I haven't tried all the software on that list, and I'm sure there's software I've never heard of that needs added. I'm looking for your feedback on what you think should be added, removed, or changed. That includes the list itself, if you think there are any design improvements.

Do note: Any software marked with a ⭐️ I am not looking for feedback on. This is software that I firmly believe is the best of the best in its category, and likely will not be changed. However, if there is a major issue with the software that you can provide direct proof of, then there is a chance it will be changed in the next release. There are no grantees.

The sections marked with ℹ️ are lacking, and can use your help! Some software there may not be the best one, or may have many software or sections missing. I am absolutely looking for help and feedback here, and would love your help!

My goal with this project is to help people find the best software from many standpoints, and to prove that there really are good open source alternatives for almost anything! I hope this helps someone, and I look forward to your feedback!

Thank you all for reading and taking the time to look through my list!

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25183123

WebReady is a simple tool for converting videos to animated webp images and thus allowing users to use them as animated wallpapers for KDE. The tool is primarily designed for steam deck, but works perfectly on any KDE powered desktop.

I'm looking for suggestions for programs to help manage an archive of family photos and video clips. I have a large family and a few photographers can pump out a lot of photos at family events. I've sorta become the unofficial archivist of the family as I have a lot of photos and videos myself and I've become responsible for my parent's collection as well as they are not very tech savvy.

I'm kinda distrustful of cloud storage in general so I'm kinda looking to avoid using something like Google photos or even Proton Drive. I'd also like to try and stick to open source if I can. At this point I don't think my ideal program exists but I'm going to describe it and see how close we could get. Sorry if the following sounds too much like fantasy.

Ideally I'd like a program that could synchronize a media collection across the internet to 3 or 4 different households. For one thing so that there is redundancy if something bad like a fire happens so nothing is lost, and for another thing so that those households have local access to the archive. I'm hoping I wouldn't be needing any crazy hardware for this. Something like a raspberry pie with an attached spindle Drive would be acceptable, both for low power use and small physical footprint in the houses of family members I would be asking to host these.

Ideally some program could be used to interact with the archive locally and do things like add new media, edit metadata of media that's already in the archive or just view things.

That's it, Lemmy know what you guys think!

cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/2418820

For me, the most interesting point was the short mention of open sourcing Factorio (around 2:40). Kovarex seems to be very much open to the idea, he mentions that (as an approximation) maybe two years after the DLC after things calm down ...

(Hope this is not much of a titlegore)

Fucks Given lets you keep track of the things that made you care. Whenever something happens that you needlessly concern yourself with, jot it down with a tap. The app creates a chart of how many fucks you’ve given, so you can work to give none.

The same opensource app, downloadable on both stores but paid on playstore and free on fdroid. Is it legal and is it ethical? Why?

WaveTracker is a free and open source music-making software for Windows. It uses basic wavetable synthesis and sampling to generate sounds, with endless combinations of effects to warp, modify or distort waves and sounds.

It's just a week old and looks super dope. Wavetracker is inspired by Famitracker and pxTone Collage.

Wavetracker github

Dn-FamiTracker that is also open source^[1]^

[1] It's under GPLv3 with various blobs

Today I had to downgrade fastapi from 0.114.0 to 0.112.4 to make a software work. And it just hit me - what if pip didn't support 0.112.4 anymore? We would lose a good piece of software just because of that.

Of course, we can "freeze" the packages into an executable that will run for as long as the OS supports it. Which is a lot longer. But the executable is closed source. We can't see the code that is run from an executable.

Therefore, there is a need for an alternative to which we still have access to the packages even after the program is built. That would make it safely unnecessary for pip to store all versions of all packages forever more.

Any ideas?

F-Droid

Hi,

I'm a technical writer looking to build my portfolio in technical documentation. I've written technical blogs, how-to guides, and white papers for SaaS brands, but I want to gain experience working on back-end documentation.

I'm familiar with Python, HTML, CSS, C/C++ (to some extent), and SQL. Additionally, I've done considerable writing for cloud computing clients, so I have a solid understanding of cloud concepts.

I can work with Markdown, Git, or even Google Docs.

Please let me know if you're working on an open-source project that could use some documentation. Alternatively, if you know of an existing open-source tool that could benefit from documentation, I'd be happy to contact the developer.

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.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404064

Similar tools:

https://github.com/dividuum/html-vault

https://github.com/MaxLaumeister/PageCrypt

https://github.com/a-nau/password-protected-website-template

https://github.com/sowbug/quaid

https://github.com/mprimi/portable-secret

Thanks to @refalo@programming.dev

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21298994

I'm trying to feel more comfortable using random GitHub projects, basically.

[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.

Disclaimer this is my own project

Demo: https://ozean.dev/

Hello Lemmings!

I am thinking of making a community moderation bot for Lemmy. This new bot will have faster response times with the help of Lemmy webhooks, an amazing plugin for Lemmy instances by @rikudou@lemmings.world to add webhook support. With this, there is no need to frequently call the API at a fixed interval to fetch new data. Any new data will be sent via the webhook directly to the bot backend. This allows for actions within seconds, thus making it an effective auto moderation tool.

I have a few features I thought of doing:

• Welcome messages
• Auto commenting on new posts
• Scheduled posts
• Punish content authors or remove content via word blacklist/regex
• Ban members of communities by their usernames/bios via word blacklist or regex
• Auto community lockdown during spam

What other features do you think are possible? Please let me know. Any questions are also welcome.

There's a new version of Nephele WebDAV server (also on Docker Hub) that supports using an S3 compatible server as storage and encrypting filenames and file contents.

This essentially means you can build your own cloud storage server leveraging something like Backblaze B2 for $6/TB/month, and that data is kept private through encryption. That's cheaper than Google Drive, and no one can snoop on your files.

I tried entering the address from the imap mail server provided by disroot and murena. However, this has no effect.

Then I tried to find information on the forum and in the documentation section of Kolab Notes. However, I only found a mention by one of the forum participants that Kolab Notes can be connected to Google mail. I didn't find any details.

Is it possible to connect these applications with free mail servers or do I need to run my own imap server with special settings?

Firstly, I want to say sorry to @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml , considering what we talk in the previous thread. I promised I would create a poll to discuss a page or site aside from Lemmy, or something similar, on github/wtv, but, as I know myself, I know that I wouldn't be able to and have the patience to combine work with another page outside of Lemmy.

I have been honest with you all the time, and I will be again. I don't have a GitHub account, and I only use it to view apps. I have no experience with github, and that would give me more work: maintaining the megathread here and on another site. I am extremely focused on maintaining the megathread here, and I will do so with all pleasure. And I have 100% confidence in myself that I will do a good job.

These are the reasons why I won't open a separate megathread on another site. That being said, if anyone wants to take on and create something outside of Lemmy, they have my support in moving forward.

Once again, apologize to everyone for this inconvenience.

Continuing in relation to the megathread, here you can see the work. I've already built the megathread, made a banner (in which you can choose whether you like it or not, or whether you find it useful), and made an FAQ.

• https://gofile.io/d/wz0UH2

• https://send.vis.ee/download/88ba4b2bcb416c4e/#wFJLr3o_W3eni3xBTad41w

(You have two links, both has the same content. I dont know how to show you the work through these links ^^'' )

Regarding the megathread, I cut Lemmy's apps, taking this into account, and the redline apps are apps that haven't been updated since 2022. This topic also serves to discuss these things. Tell me which changes you will make. How long ago, in relation to the last update, do you think an app should be considered to join the megathread?

Previous polls are still open.

• https://strawpoll.com/XOgONY582n3

• https://strawpoll.com/7rnzmK9oDyO

Taking into account that, at least for now, four times a year is the most voted. Since then, I'm thinking of creating one thread in February, one in May, one in September, and another in November. What you think?

The megathread will finally open between next Tuesday and Wednesday. Cheers