Opensource

> Cloud provider moved most of its 20,000 VMs off VMware.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48734056

> With Elisa by KDE, you can browse your local music collection by genre, artist, album, or track, listen to online radio, create and manage playlists, display lyrics, and more. > > Screenshots: > > * Android > > ! > > * Desktop > > !

floss.fund is offering $1 million per year grant to open-source projects. But very few applications have been received so far, and it needs help spreading the word.

Please RT/boost and upvote it on HackerNews:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42273107

> RomM (ROM Manager) allows you to scan, enrich, and browse your game collection with a clean and responsive interface. With support for multiple platforms, various naming schemes, and custom tags, RomM is a must-have for anyone who plays on emulators.

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Release v3.6.0 · rommapp/romm

> This Thanksgiving, we’re serving up 3.6.0, a hearty update stuffed with QOL improvements and bug fixes that will leave you as satisfied as a plate full of turkey with all the trimmings. 🦃

> Track your game progress, completions, and star ratings under the new "Personal" tab, and use them to filter your games by "backlogged", "finished" or "100% completed". We've also moved your (and shared) notes under the same tab.

> - Display and filter games by age rating (requires a quick sync) > - Use filename without tags or extension when matching unmatched game > - Skip hashing games on desktop platforms for faster scans > - Improved memory usage during 7zip decompression > - New env variable UPLOAD_TIMEOUT allows for larger file uploads > - Edit file exclusions for config.yml from the UI

>It is predominantly easy to just accept bad conditions when an alternative is seemingly unfeasible. "I need this software", a lot of us will say when even presented with a better alternative. A lot of us will argue to our bones that being subject to cruelty from software developers is necessary for one potential gain or another. All of which creates a feedback loop of re-enforcement of this parasitic idea that proprietary software is somehow inescapable and we need to give up trying to do something about it. But we shouldn't give up and we should fight. Not just to switch from Windows to GNU / Linux, but to make it so Windows itself will start respecting you too. > >... > >With software a lot of people lose freedom all the time. Windows is so predominately used that I don't understand why people don't get crazy over this. Yet banning Windows would be a problem, arguably a worse problem, than all those people using it. You should have the right to use software that you want to use, the same way as you should have the right to agree with that drug-lord. The fact that people have the choice to use something like Windows is not a problem. The problem is that Windows is not respecting the person back. There are two ways to solve this problem. One would be to chose something else. Another would be to make Windows better. > >If you think that it is impossible to push on corporations with enough force, so they would yield, and start respecting freedom of people, you don't know nothing. Progress in this area has been done numerous times. Netscape Navigator, a popular 90s web-browser, became Free Software, and now it is known as Firefox. Linux, the kernel so associated with Free Software, was at some point proprietary. Blender was proprietary before 2002. Unreal Engine started releasing their sources to people. Not under a very freedom respecting license, but it is a start. And it is way better than having nothing at all. Hell Microsoft, of all companies, started developing Free Software. Visual Studio Code, their text editor from Microsoft is mostly Free Software. Hell "Meta" the Facebook company jumped onto the Mastadon bandwagon with their Threads. Not a very good thing. But them embracing Freedom is progress. And there are more examples of this, which I hope you would provide by using the comment section, that I worked so hard to make, in the bottom of this article. > >We did all this by not yielding. Most web-servers are running on Free Software because configuring proprietary software is a nightmare. Proprietary software is basically incompatible with configurability. And configurability is a key to development. Hell, most software development happens on GNU / Linux for that same reason. So much so that Microsoft reacted and put what they call "Windows Subsystem for Linux" on their system, to get some developers away from GNU / Linux. But they are doing bad job themselves. They are constantly worsening the conditions on their systems so much so that people fly out of there as soon as they know how. > >Enshitification cannot happen forever. At some point people just can't take this no longer. They would not use computers at all if that came to it. But it doesn't need to come to it. There is software available right now to switch to. Software protected from enshitification by respecting freedom. But no... "I have to use it!", right? > >Computers are interesting beasts. They are designed to run anything. Any computation can be done. Any digital information can be processed in any way what so ever. All you need to do is to tell the computer how to do it. And it will! > >There was a time where almost nothing was possible with Free Software. It was many decades ago. And what people did about it? Did they yield to the corporations? Well some did, yes. But a lot of us stood up and said "Enough!". And we developed one tool after another. First a text editor. Then a compiler. Then a whole operating system. Why? Because we wanted those same features as in proprietary software, but without the terrible terms. Without the disrespect. Without the slavery. And it was not impossible. > >Those corporations did not like it. They still don't like it. But they have no choice. We can always tell the computer to do something ourselves. And the only way they can stop us from having this freedom is if we yield to them. > >The more people using Free Software, the less they can control us. The less they will have a choice. More people using Free Software is more pressure on those corporations to release their software as Free Software. They can. And they will. If people will not yield under any circumstances to their dubious demands, they will remove the demands. If people will not blindly use a program that they don't like, that disrespects them constantly, the program will have no other choice, but to stop disrespecting. > >But more than that. The more people respect themselves, the more people use Free Software, the more feedback loop, more re-enforcement Freedom itself has. And in a few decades, after the war for Freedom is over, those trying to argue for proprietary software will be met with "I need to use it" as a counter argument. Which this time I will support. > >Happy Hacking!!!

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47782541

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48471069

> Github: https://github.com/MediaHarbor/mediaharbor

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22856616

> Hey! ✌️ > > Open up for myself and want to share it with everyone this cool program to create LAN over Internet (P2P) -> https://gitlab.com/Monsterovich/lanemu/ > > I had success to create\join room but not chat, not ping ain't works for me > > Does anybody had try it or could try? Maybe there's something blocking over NAT settings, don't know... I also don't get how it works over Torrent\DHT connection 🥲 > > Maybe any alternatives? I know Tailscale and NetBird, but maybe there's some more? > > Thanks 😀👍

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15554016

> Hey good selfhosters! > > Here is a quick 12-question survey to nominate/announce what people find the most worthy projects of 2024. Feel free to submit your answers only takes 2-3 mins to fill out :) > > The survey aims to find folks favorite projects within the following categories: > - Best Self-Hosted App of the Year > - Best Text Editor of the Year > - Best Linux Desktop Distro of the Year > - Best Desktop Environment > - Best Shell of 2024 > - Best Power CLI Tool of 2024 > - Best Linux Hardware of the Year > - Best F-Droid / Obtainium App / Free App > - Best Open Source Project > - Best Newcomer Project > > Go Vote! > > > This is a yearly survey hosted by Jupterbroadcasting folks, LinuxUnplugged in specific.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22731855

> Hi everyone! > > **Postiz is an open-source social media scheduling tool that offers scheduling on: > ** > Instagram, YouTube, Dribbble, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, Threads, X, Slack, Discord, Mastodon and BlueSky. > > Check it out here :) > https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app/ > > I have been working on mostly bug fixes lately and improving the platforms, some of the latest things: > > - Many failures of posting on small things like character limit or uploading size. > > - Fix problems in LinkedIn not loading pages. > > - Team invite was fixed :) > > - A bunch of docker changes to make it super easy to load. It's now live on: Coolify, Ptah soon Cloudron > > **But the most important thing in the roadmap here is what I was mainly asked: > ** > > - Add and an option to schedule stories on Instagram and add music to them > > - Public API > > - YouTube community posts schedule > > - Google Business schedule > > - Auto Plugs (I'm super excited about this one): Once tweets get X likes, they will auto-repost, add comments to tweets, and so on; this will be sent to all social media. > > - SSO > > - I am happy to hear about more requests. > > One clarification after seeing many comments over and self-hosted: Postiz will always be apache-2, no weird dual license thingy, and no enterprise-only SSO. > > Postiz is not making much money. Today we are on a product hunt. If you can help me out, it would be amazing, but if not, I love you anyway :) > > Thank you so much for this community for helping me with every post! > > https://www.producthunt.com/posts/postiz

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28427031

> cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28426937 >

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22751468

> - Up to > 100 GB files > - End-to-end encrypted file transfer > - Parallel upload > - One-time download link > - 7 day retention period (Download link expires and files are being deleted afterwards.) > - Files are stored in Switzerland > - OpenSource, no account needed > - Free (a Donations will be nice)

• F-Droid.

I think this app is a pretty essential app to anyone who want to leave Google Maps, so I am sharing it here for anyone who might need it.

I've never used Matrix, and I'm overwhelmed at all the options and feature criteria on the project website.

I'd prefer a native app over electron/similar, but ideally would like something that works on most desktop platforms (windows, mac, linux), although I'm open to it if it is truly superior.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48062206

> ! > Welcome to a new era of interconnected content discussion with PieFed – a link aggregator, a forum, a hub of social interaction and information, built for the fediverse. Our focus is on individual control, safety, and decentralised power. > ___ > Like other platforms in the fediverse, we are a self-governed space for social link aggregation and conversation. We operate without the influence of corporate entities – ensuring that your experience is free of advertisements, invasive tracking, or secret algorithms. On our platform, content is grouped into communities, allowing you to engage with topics of interest and disregard the irrelevant ones. We utilise a voting system to highlight the best content.

• Source Code (Codeberg)
• Roadmap
• Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed
• Instances ______ Video introduction the codebase !

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47771637

> > Extractify.zip is open source progressive web app (PWA) website to view and extract zip files online without downloading them (client side). It is a free and open source project. > > Website: https://extractify.zip/

Advent of Open Source is a community-driven event that aims to introduce newcomers to Open Source Software development, and to help all participants to create or enhance their repositories.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47587175

A friend was asking, and it would be nice to have one or two to recommend.

Bonus if it's on Google Play in addition to Fdroid, but not necessary.

Some recommendations in these threads:

• https://lemmy.ca/comment/12756204
• https://lemmy.ca/post/32878118

Some discussion on apps (including non-FOSS) here:

• https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/reproductive-health/

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Leading Recommendation from the comments

The leading recommendation seems to be Drip (bloodyhealth.gitlab.io)

Summarizing what people shared:

• accessible: it is on F-droid, Google Play, & iOS App Store
• does not allow any third-party tracking
• the project got support from "PrototypeFund & Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Superrr Lab and Mozilla"
• Listed features:
  • "Your data, your choice: Everything you enter stays on your device"
  • "Not another cute, pink app: drip is designed with gender inclusivity in mind."
  • "Your body is not a black box: drip is transparent in its calculations and encourages you to think for yourself."
  • "Track what you like: Just your period, or detect your fertility using the symptothermal method."

Their Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dripapp

> Apply with your ideas for innovative open source software in the public interest! You will receive up to €95,000 over six months or €158,000 over ten months of funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research. We will also provide you with coaching, consulting and networking opportunities.

> A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47013032

> Visit F-Droid to See Screenshot: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.eanema.graph89/

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/23557305

> Allow me to spread the word about ListenBrainz, the occasion being that ListenBrainz now stores over 1 billion entries of listening data from it's users. ListenBrainz is a FOSS project that aims to crowdsource listening data and release it under an open license. Basically it’s Last.fm but better. > > Whatever you use to listen to music, you can probably link it up with ListenBrainz. For instance you can connect Spotify, Apple Music, Soundcloud, Last.fm. You can link it up with loads of music players. If you’ve kept track of your what music you’ve listened to up to this point, don’t worry, there are several ways to import them into ListenBrainz. > > All ListenBrainz listening data is available for all to use. This means that we don't need to rely on big companies like Spotify for recommendation algorithms. We can use whatever algorithm suits us best. All sorts of other services could be build to make use of the ListenBrainz data set. The dataset can also help analyze other services' algorithms, for instance the Fair MusE project uses LB-data and LB-users to investigate the fairness of different music service algorithms. > > Obviously ListenBrainz initially suffered from being a comparatively small service, For good recommendations you need loads of data. But it's growing every day and I feel like the 1 billion listens is an impressive milestone. And ListenBrainz has the advantage of having listening data from several services, Spotify could never recommend you music that's not on Spotify. ListenBrainz, because it's open, doesn't have such inherent blindspots. > > I am not working for ListenBrainz in any way, I just really like this project as well as MusicBrainz, and I like to spread the word. I think the aims of the ListenBrainz probably align with some Fediverse-folks. If you don't care about the service itself, you could still link up to support FOSS music services, not only LB itself, but other services that are, can and will be built using LB's data. If you use another service to store your own listening data, for instance Last.fm, you could use ListenBrainz as a backup for you data in case the other sevice ever enshittifies. Note: you shouldn't sign up if you want your listening data to be private, that's not what LB is for. I care very much about privacy, but in the case of LB I consciously choose to share my music listening data with others for my own benefit. > > Curious to hear peoples thought on all this.

Discovering your application by usecase validation. Make test writing fast, understandable by any human understanding English or French. Open source under MIT license.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21666337

> >Bitwarden isn't going proprietary after all. The company has changed its license terms once again – but this time, it has switched the license of its software development kit from its own homegrown one to version three of the GPL instead. > > > >The move comes just weeks after we reported that it wasn't strictly FOSS any more. At the time, the company claimed that this was just a mistake in how it packaged up its software, saying on Twitter: > > > >>It seems like a packaging bug was misunderstood as something more, and the team plans to resolve it. Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model in place for years, along with retaining a fully featured free version for individual users. > > > >Now it's followed through on this. A GitHub commit entitled "Improve licensing language" changes the licensing on the company's SDK from its own license to the unmodified GPL3. > > > >Previously, if you removed the internal SDK, it was no longer possible to build the publicly available source code without errors. Now the publicly available SDK is GPL3 and you can get and build the whole thing.

Opensource geodata of celltowers, wifis and bluetooth beacons is crucial.

It allows apps like UnifiedNLP to give the OS the location data it needs, without relying on GPS Sattelites.

GPS can be tampered with, and A-GPS is not privacy friendly at all.

UnifiedNLP is only found included in microG, which is pretty insecure.

But GrapheneOS devs are working on a regular user app that serves network location data, using Apple, Apple (proxied) or a local BeaconDB database!

BeaconDB is a new service to replace MozillaLocationServices which has shut down unfortunately.

Apps like TowerCollector dont yet support it, but NeoStumbler does, and also has more advanced features.

Collect network info in your region, and in the future you (and everyone else using it) dont need GPS anymore!

(You can also use the screenshots in that mastodon thread as reference)

Hi all, we’re building an open-source, self-hostable alternative to platforms like Klaviyo, Braze, and Mailchimp.

The core functionality of the platform includes a user segmentation builder, low-code email template editor, and low-code drag-and-drop journey builder for creating automated messaging workflows. Right now, fully supported channels are email, SMS, and webhook, with mobile push under development.

Link to repo: https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

If you need any help with deploying an instance, reach out on Discord! https://discord.gg/HajPkCG4Mm

definition: https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

endorsements: https://opensource.org/ai/endorsements

In particular, which tools meet the requirements and which ones don't:

> As part of our validation and testing of the OSAID, the volunteers checked whether the Definition could be used to evaluate if AI systems provided the freedoms expected. > - The list of models that passed the Validation phase are: Pythia (Eleuther AI), OLMo (AI2), Amber and CrystalCoder (LLM360) and T5 (Google). > - There are a couple of others that were analyzed and would probably pass if they changed their licenses/legal terms: BLOOM (BigScience), Starcoder2 (BigCode), Falcon (TII). > - Those that have been analyzed and don't pass because they lack required components and/or their legal agreements are incompatible with the Open Source principles: Llama2 (Meta), Grok (X/Twitter), Phi-2 (Microsoft), Mixtral (Mistral). > > These results should be seen as part of the definitional process, a learning moment, they're not certifications of any kind. OSI will continue to validate only legal documents, and will not validate or review individual AI systems, just as it does not validate or review software projects.

well then.

Hi all, I’m one of the creators of ChartDB.

Free and open-source database diagrams editor, visualize and design your DB with a single query. This database diagram tool is similar to traditional ones you can find: dbeaver, dbdiagram, drawsql, etc.

https://github.com/chartdb/chartdb

Key Features:

• Instant schema import with just one query.
• AI-powered export to generate DDL scripts for easy database migration.
• Supports multiple database types: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Mssql, ClickHouse and more.
• Customizable ER diagrams to visualize your database structure.
• Fully open-source and easy to self-host.

Tech Stack:

• React + TypeScript
• Vite
• ReactFlow
• Shadcn-ui
• Dexie.js