"Seven new projects have been selected to contribute to the three NGI Pilots. IzzyOnDroid and OWASP blint will join forces with NGI Mobifree which works on a more ethical mobile ecosystem. Nuxt, Flohmarkt & Open Banking Gateway will work on integrations with Taler, the privacy-preserving digital payment system. And NGI Fediversity - the effort to create a hosting stack in-a-box - will be joined by Drupal & Source-based Nextcloud + Onlyoffice."

via @nlnet@nlnet.nl

Hi everybody. I have a rooted phone and I was thinking, If I can spin up something like Samsung DEX on my phone, alongside my android, that uses Linux, I can do 80% of my work just with my phone. Is that doable? Can someone provide me with more information?

Hello,

Does anyone know of a FOSS CCTV design software as an alternative to JVSG or CCTVCad?

Thanks

I'm creating a JavaScript UI framework for my own projects. It's a learning journey and I'd like to share my progress.

I've written some blog posts about my progress so far:

1. Functional Web Components - https://positive-intentions.com/blog/dim-functional-webcomponents
2. Functional Todo App - https://positive-intentions.com/blog/dim-todo-list
3. Async State Management - https://positive-intentions.com/blog/async-state-management
4. Bottom-up Browser Storage - https://positive-intentions.com/blog/bottom-up-storage

Note: The UI framework is far from finished. I want to share progress to see if there are any outstanding issues I'm overlooking.

Hi, I have recently found this as an alternative to the great RCX which has been outdated for quite a long time now. RSAF has been updated a few days ago to use the latest version of rclone, 1.69.0. I am just leaving this here in case someone doesn't know about it.

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/RSAF

I'm trying to get TTS working on OSM, but I read that you have to have a TTS engine outside of the app. Any recommendations for an FOSS (and private) TTS engine from f-droid?

Hello,

I wanted to finetune StyleTTS 2 with my own voice and it was very tedious to create the training data by hand. I could not find an application specifically to create this kind of voice training data, so I made my own. I have been working on this for about a week so it's still a work in progress. Please feel free to add ideas, suggestions, or requests.

Here is the description:

Phonotate.App is a local, open-source Electron app built with React designed to simplify creating training data for StyleTTS 2 and voice cloning models. Phonotate provides a seamless workflow for recording, analyzing, and managing voice samples. Whether you use open-source backend services or OpenAI APIs, this app ensures that all your data remains secure and within your control.

You can see screenshots of the application in action on the README.

https://github.com/LoganRickert/Phonotate.App

I just found out DivestOS is dead and could use it.

App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/

A p2p encrypted file transfer and messaging app. Here are some features below:

• Open Source
• Cross platform
  • PWA
  • iOS, Android, Desktop (self compile)
  • App store, Play store (coming soon)
  • Desktop
    • Windows, Macos, Linux (self compile)
    • run index.html on any modern browser
  • Decentralized
• Secure
  • No cookies
  • P2P encrypted
  • No registration
  • No installing
• Messaging
  • Group Messaging (coming soon)
  • Text Messaging
  • Multimedia Messaging
  • Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
  • Offline Messaging (in research phase)
  • File Transfer
  • Video Calls
• Data Ownership
  • Self Hosting
  • GitHub pages Hosting
  • Local-Only storage

Check it out!

• App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/
• More info: https://positive-intentions.com/blog/introducing-decentralized-chat
• GitHub: https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/27882871

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/27852459

It allows to launch exported activities from various apps and helps to create useful shortcuts

2 examples where I find it to be quite useful:
1. Quick Record shortcut for Audio Recorder

It currently does not have a quick recording shortcut.

Audio Recorder Gitlab issue where a user requests the feature. Maybe attention from someone here would be helpful?

You can directy search for the app in Activity manager, open it and create a a shortcut for the Recording activity.

2. Shortcut to open Android/data folder in the native Files app

Context for the folder location I use here

For Android 11 & onwards, you can't access the Android/data folder(without root) from regular file manager apps like Material files(awesome opensource file manager).
The Telegram X app stores it's downloaded files in a folder there.
Material files calls the native Android Files(not GFiles, documentsui.files) app to open the Android/data folder.
Activity manager can be used to create a shortcut for that

1. Search for and open the Files app in Activity Manager and choose the Launch with parameters option for the FilesActivity
2. Action, choose ACTION_VIEW
3. Data = content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/primary%3AAndroid%2Fdata%2Forg.thunderdog.challegram%2Ffiles%2Fdocuments or any other directory you like
4. Mime type, choose vnd.android.document/directory

You can then launch the activity with the parameter.
This will be recorded in History(the clock sign). You can long-press the entry and create a Shortcut.

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Do you have any other cases or ideas where this would be usedul? Please do share them here.

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On a tangent, Material files allows making shortcuts to files and folders. Markor, text editor app, allows the same too.

Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is an minimalistic AI-powered search engine that combines multiple data sources to provide comprehensive answers. The name ‘Scira’ is derived from the Latin word ‘scire’, meaning ‘to know’ - reflecting our mission to make knowledge accessible and intuitive.

https://github.com/zaidmukaddam/scira

I really hope the answer is "yes," but gosh-darned if I can find one. The FreeTube app still works as long as my VPN is off, but as for Invidious . . . (also, sorry if this has already been covered earlier).

EDIT: Ok, well now it looks like I can get FreeTube to work with some Mullvad locations but not others . . .

Is there was a software (preferably on Linux) where I can drag and drop to quickly make a website with HTML and CSS and export the resulting code?

I know of a lot of online site that charge a lot of money for this, but I was hoping that an open source software exists for this.

P.S: I want to make a simple static personal website. Possible have a link from where they can download PDF samples of my writing/ literature / creative work.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24707054

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24707049

from #TheRegister #Register Thomas Claburn Fri 10 Jan 2025 // 13:37 UTC

Sebastian Steck, a software developer based in Germany, has obtained the source code and library installation scripts for his AVM FRITZ!Box 4020 router, thanks to a lawsuit funded by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC).

Are there any Snapchat or BeReal like FOSS alternatives?

Why are open source projects too rigid and stuck in dogmatic position ?

take for example mastodon, its CEO recently posted a toot asking who has already considered deleting facebook / threads after the recent controversies, but on the other hand ignores that his stubbornness about certain points like not adding quotes just doesn't make the project appealing for ordinary people, this feature has been the most request since twitter exodus two years ago. and at every surge of new users mastodon struggles to keep them using the platform, why do these projects struggle to acknowledge what people want the most and deliver on it.

another example is LibreOffice, I was trying to get acclimated to this new office suite and was happy to find that I can theme it to my liking to ease up my transition. but it wasn't long before I found out how tiny dogmatic decision really pushes to give up on it. I found that LO doesn't auto-capitalise first letter after line breaks but only after end of sentences, something Word has been doing as long as I can remember, LO argument is that only a . and ! characters mark the end of a sentence in "proper English". line breaks don't qualify as a proper end of a sentence for them.

For people coming from proprietary software that among many short comings still strive to offer the best features and smoothest user experience, it is hard to try and stick to open source projects and even contribute back.

Should big OSS project shift to more democratic structures, where decisions are made based on consensus? or do you think the actual models are fine, and I am an entitled user ??

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/17051418

• Obsidian
• AppFlowy
• Coda
• Anytype
• Logseq
• (Probably more I haven’t come across yet)

I love the idea of having all my quick notes, to-do lists, knowledge base, journal, plans, etc., in one single, neatly organized place. Why wouldn’t I? But deciding on which Notion alternative to use is overwhelming.

There are so many options, and all claim to be the best. Online opinions are all over the place (as expected), and these apps aren’t exactly simple—they’re complex for good reasons, but that makes choosing one even harder. And don’t get me started on the endless YouTube videos on the topic—I could spend weeks or months researching this and testing every single one of them, but honestly, this is not how I wanna spend my time so I will ask you guys instead.

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My Current Setup:

• Markor: Used it for quick thoughts, journaling, and to-do lists but stopped using it because it’s not suited for everything, and there’s no sync between Android and Linux (becsuse it is android only).

• Obsidian: Currently using it as my knowledge base and for long notes, simple to-do lists, and occasional journaling. Haven’t fully migrated to it or created an organized setup because I’m looking for a FOSS Notion alternative.

• Standard Notes: Good for quick notes, but most features are paywalled, making it feel limited.

• jtx Board: My go-to for journaling—it’s simple and quick to use.

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What I need:

• FOSS, but only if it’s just as good as proprietary options in:
  • Auto-sync between my Android phone and Linux desktop
  • Journaling
  • Quick notes
  • To-do lists
  • Planning
  • Managing personal projects
  • Writing down thoughts
  • A really good Android app
  • Easy to use
  • Free for personal use

What I don’t care about:

Collaboration. This is for my personal use—no sharing, no team features.

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Given my messy current setup and specific requirements, can anyone give me some recommendations?

Hi, I'm trying to add value to a community by creating a curated feed of webpages about a specific topic. For example, if it was Scottish snakes (it isn't) then I would archive every news article I saw on the topic, and host the feed on a webpage or similar.

I've tried Wallabag, and I can't find a way to publish the whole feed - just an individual article.

Any suggestions for other open source tools for this?

If there with AGPLv3 AI, I would definitely try, would there be a reason not to use it? I wish there was a GPLv3 AI to install. I would not use a GPL2 AI.

As a real would code example of the difference between GPL2 and 3, not license but code, look at Linux kernel vs Linux-libre. For the limited hardware that a Linux-libre distribution supports, it's a much smoother and cleaner system to run.

An AGPL3 AI can't hide any nefarious or bias programming, so I see it truely working as a servant, while retaining zero information of users for data collecting. Look at open hardware like RISC V and how far that has come once companies saw they were free to engineer their own version of a RISC V CPU. It's made RISC V to be at the very beginning point to get closer to ARM, when it was once worthless. Having a AGPLv3 AI for anyone to design their own version with everybody pushlishing their server source code for AI, would there be a downside to using it?

There were some posts over the holiday season asking for projects to donate to, and for those who have the means to comfortably do so, this is an important gift to consider.

If there's only a limited amount each of us is able to give, I assume there's no point giving it all to, for one example, The Linux Foundation, because a small personal donation is trivial next to the ~$15,000,000 USD they receive from sponsors dependent on them[1]. I understand that funding sources can be a major and profound source of bias[2] and ideally we would be, for example, helping to make Firefox independent of Google, but until we have more collective power, it's not worth letting smaller important projects struggle instead.

So, which important projects should we leave to the sponsors, and which really need our support?

Hello Lemmy!

I'm excited to celebrate the 100th release of my project, Open Source Everything! Open Source Everything is my own curated list of open source (or at least source-available) software. It started out with a bit of a bumpy start, even being deleted at one point, but the project is still going strong!

Over the past 4 months, the project has seen releases, both big and small, but it has grown so much since its initial release. It started out with a small list of 128 software I'd kept on my phone for months, but since then it has over doubled, and now has almost 300 pieces of software listed! It's truly inspiring to see the community come together and help the list out, so thank you very much to everyone who suggested software and contributed to the list!

With that said, the list has a long way to go. There are many sections that need improvement, and many mistakes to be fixed. I try to focus on quality over quantity, which means a lot of the software needs to be personally tested before I can definitively make sure that it belongs on the list. Of course, that's difficult for one person to achieve. I kindly ask for community feedback on software listed there, and if you feel there is a better alternative, please let me know!

I'm also considering moving Open Source Everything to a website structure, since I'm currently limited by the functionality of a markdown file. If there's some way to do inline tables and rounded images in a markdown file, let me know. Otherwise, I'll start working on creating a website for it.

Finally, if you're a good SVG artist, many of the software logos don't have high quality svg options available (or some SVGs, like Wikipedia, are broken for whatever reason). I would appreciate anyone with the skills available to help replace all PNG images with SVG counterparts, especially projects that are missing logos.

Thank you so much all of you, and I hope to make 2025 a great year for Open Source Everything!

P.S. Open Source Everything is hosted on GitLab, and mirrored on GitHub. I'm linking to the GitHub version because it supports slightly better formatting and header links are broken on GitLab due to a bug.

Skribisto is born from the ashes of Plume Creator icon Plume Creator , keeping the goals while adopting more recent ways to think an application. Where its ancestor was geared toward writing novels, Skribisto aims to be more generic. Ther user can organize his project with items and folders. Each item displays a 'page' and can be of a different type : Text Dedicated to writing. Texts can have its own plan and can be linked to other items, or create them on the fly while writing. Folder Can contain child items or folders. Whiteboard (to be implemented) Think "OneNote". Write wherever you want on a white board, insert images, tables, lists... Then, you can modify, move and resize elements on the board. Section (to be implemented) Visible separations (book, act, chapter, end of book) Folder-Section (to be implemented) Folder with a section role.