What are /r/freesoftware's favorite Products & Services?

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Reddit's code is proprietary (as opposed to Mastodon or PeerTube, which are FOSS), and there is a fair amount of data collection/sharing, advertising, etc. on the platform.

For reference, PrivacySpy gives Reddit's Privacy Policy a 5.6/10, and TOS;DR gives their Terms of Service a Grade E ("The terms of service raise very serious concerns."), so it's not as "free" as many of us would like.

You might be interested to hear the story about Blender, the 3D modeling software. Website text version or FOSDEM presentation version In summary Blender was first proprietary software, then the company of lead developer and entrepreneur Ton Roosendaal went bankrupt. He had the parties handle the bankruptcy put a price on the software, and then got the community to crowd-fund a free software version.

As others point out, the promise of continual development seems important here. Too many startup projects started with a free software license, only to stop developing them on favor of proprietary 'enterprise features' that fill the same need. Elasticsearch and Neo4j for example. From that original code community-maintained were branched off, but it is often difficult to keep that going unless there is serious money involved.

Another interesting idea in this space are licences that only keep source code proprietary for a limited amount of time. IIRC Elasticsearch is licensed in such a way that the source code is readable but pretty much proprietary for 2 years, after which it becomes available under an Apache 2.0 license. Perhaps it was a different software, I don't now.

From the UTM FAQ:

> # Does this require a jailbreak?

> UTM is supported on iOS 11, 12, and 13 for non-jailbroken devices through sideloading. UTM requires a jailbreak to use on iOS 14. > # How do I sideload an app?

> Sideloading allows you to load unofficial apps on your iOS device. If you have a free Apple account, you must re-sign the app every 7 days. If you have a paid ($99/year) Apple developer account, you must re-sign the app every year. For more information checkout the install page.

This makes me nauseous. There is so little freedom on iOS, and it's getting worse. Yet people keep buying the garbage.

I use Trisquel. It's stable and easy to use. Version 7.0 (which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 with the non-free parts removed) was recently released so it's up to date. It is 100% libre and recommended by the FSF.

Salut !

Thanks for the AMA! It's been a crazy ride for this crowdfunding campaign, especially since the Blender/Youtube debacle and the subsequent creation of their Peertube instance...

I have two questions: one regarding Peertube, and one regarding Framasoft and the decentralization in general.

1. I've followed the online discussions regarding the Peertube crowdfunding campaign, and the major drawback from people is that, much like when you share something on Bittorrent, your public IP is visible. What is your answer to this? Is there a goal in the mid- or long-term to mitigate this issue?
2. People use centralized services mostly because it's easy, it's usually free (but then it means you are the product!) and because all of their friends are using them. Decentralization is hard and requires being somewhat involved technically. I regularly use Framasoft services such as framapic or framadrop. I am a very seasoned technical user, but even I am too lazy to install my own instances of Lutim or Lufi... I know the goal of these Frama-services is to make people understand there are alternatives you can install on your own instance, but do you think this message is successful? If not, do you have plans to address this?

Thanks again!

P.S.: Good thing you reminded us the crowdfunding campaign is ending shortly, I had forgotten to chip in! Done now :)

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Vrms

> The vrms package is however somewhat misleading since its name suggests it has to do with RMS while it in facts follows the Debian definition of free. For example things under the GFDL are considered non-free by Debian and free by RMS.

On my system, vrms mostly complains about GNU info manuals.

The main page of the directory says

> The Free Software Directory (FSD, or simply Directory) is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). We catalog useful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems, not limited to the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants. Many of those programs also runs on proprietary operating systems which can be used to replace nonfree software.

And further

> Licenses are verified for each and every program listed in this directory.

Considering the FSF doesn't joke around on recommending non-free software I'd assume that everything in there is strictly Free Software.

Unfortunately there's not a lot to choose from. There used to be TORCS, but I have not heard anything from that project in a long time. There is a fork of it that is more recently updated — maybe check it out: <https://libregamewiki.org/Speed_Dreams>.

See <https://libregamewiki.org/Racing_games> for some others, but note that those are completely free games. I don't know of a good catalogue for games which merely are free software, but there probably is one.

> what would be the perfect messaging platform from the point of view of the free/libre community?

That would ideal be some federated system, which people could add their own servers to without hierarchy (like email). https://matrix.org anyone? XMPP but trying to appeal to the masses. Much of the featured and software are still in beta though.

I don't know of any that are perfect yet. We use OmniROM with F-Droid on Nexus 5 phone which is getting closer... F-Droid is great and looks like it has some good growth.

RedNotebook is free as in freedom and free as in lunch. It keeps a word cloud, but what would probably be more useful to you would be that you can tag words, such as names, in the entry for later reference. The entries are also organized primarily by a calendar.

As an aside, it also supports rich text so your journal entries look pretty and you can back up and export your journal to different formats like HTML and PDF.

This is just proposing newspeak. If you allow words to change their meaning based on political agenda, all words degenerate into either "us" or "them", and honest discussion becomes impossible.

Noam Chomsky on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wriQGI5NGOM

It's worth noting that the FSF would not exclude a free program from their database due to unreleased server-side software (as is the case with Telegram), or even released proprietary-only server-side software. See, here's the desktop version of Telegram right in their database.

The FSF's position on this can be read in Network Services Aren't Free Or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues, but the conclusion is such:

> Thus, we don't have a rule that free systems shouldn't use (or shouldn't depend on) services (or sites) implemented with nonfree software. 

They do state, however, that they prefer services that contribute to the community by releasing their server-side software (as free software), as well as decentralized services over centralized ones.

Very nice, you sure did a lot of stuff to protect our provacy, but there is one problem:

>Web peers are not directly sent by the tracker: because we use WebRTC inside the web browser

WebRTC can leak your IP address even through a VPN, I understand there aren't many other ways to do this, but just a heads-up ^^([Source])

Not sure what you mean by 'at risk' but if you stumbled into this subreddit accidentally I encourage you to stay and learn about the many free software options at your disposal. Not only are many options gratis (without financial cost) but they are also libre (respectful of your personal freedom).

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I called out www.libreoffice.org below. For a recently unemployed person I think you'll agree that you can't be the price.

• Something equivalent to Substance Designer
• A health/fitness tracking software (along with equipment like heart rate monitor that work with it)
• A free bootloader that would work with modern computers

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There are tons of free chat software: Matrix, Signal, Riot, IRC, Jitsi, etc... and some of them work almost exactly like their proprietary equivalents. With communications software it's not about the availability of alternatives, but for some reason no-one uses them.

There is also https://kallithea-scm.org/ by the SFC. It doesn't seem to include issue tracking so far, though.

bettercodes says it is AGPL, but I haven't been able to find any (public) repo with the actual code. http://bettercodes.org/projects/bettercodes seems to be members only.

>How do I earn a living from this app?

Your not. Make money yes, make a living off of this app no.

First it has to be a hit to make decent money. If you every get a major hit off this app. It's possible to make a living off of it, but a slim one of that.

Created a website to see you the creator of this app. So we know what this app all can do. Get great feed back. News about coming updates or bug fixes. Have advertising on the site, to produce income. Have a donate button, you'll be surprise of people that donate now of days. Have a download link; mirror sites if you get real heavy traffic.

Have a option for a pay version for full support of this app. Some might click on this one. Instead of the free option.

You can created a free website using this webhost.

https://www.000webhost.com/

There is other ways to make income too. But, this is a simple draw one. I'm sure you'll get other ideas from these post responses.

ownCloud and NextCloud are both free software and are both under the same copyleft license (AGPLv3+). The distinction is that ownCloud uses a CLA (contributor license agreement) which allows them to distribute a proprietary fork of ownCloud (their "enterprise edition"). NextCloud forked from the AGPLv3 public edition and contributing doesn't require a CLA (which means that they cannot make it proprietary since they are not the sole copyright holders and don't have CLAs with all of the copyright holders).

A language to keep your eye on is julia; it's targeted for the same audience as matlab, but designed elegantly learning from python, lisp, and quite a few other languages. It's also jitted with llvm, and can run code often times as fast as c. While it doesn't have nearly as many libraries as matlab, it has a very active community that are quickly working to fix that.

Nothing is stopping you. In fact this is exactly what XChat has done back in the day. Their Linux version was free software and free to use, while the compiled Windows version had a 30 day trial after which you had to pay. Link

From their FAQ:

> Q. Why can't XChat for Windows be free?
> A. It's free to try for the first 30 days! Developing XChat for Windows is a difficult process, it requires quite some skill and expertise to accomplish. We ask for a small fee that helps continue development and cover expenses.

> Buying it through Steam, or the Microsoft Store directly supports the devs. (Yes, I know neither platform is free, don't @ me.)

Krita can be donated to via other means as well.

Hello, welcome to /r/freesoftware. I have a feeling you mean "free" as in price (zero cost), but when we say "free" we mean free as in freedom. Free (as in freedom) software gives you the freedom to use, study, change, and share (copy) the program however you want. Most software that is free as in price doesn't let you study, change, or share it.

That said, InfraRecorder seems to be a good burning program for Windows that is free as in freedom as well as in price. (However, Windows itself is not free software, so if you are concerned about software freedom this isn't enough.)

"No Blobs" is misleading.

The "blobs" the OP is referring to, are firmware that is loaded into the firmware of a hardware device.

These are not in-fact blobs loaded into the kernel.

See also http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39

Sure. You run some Facebook embed (e.g. like button, page preview, Facebook pixel) on your website and it runs JS on the users' machine. Its goal is to identify Facebook users for each website visited via third-party cookies (and presumably browser fingerprinting), so that they will know where you go on the internet.

In HomeBank's case, it looks like an innocent embedded Like button but this stuff is blocked for me, too. Firefox now blocks third-party tracking cookies and code, and in addition to that I use the DuckDuckGo extension and hosts file blocking. This way I don't have to bother with NoScript - most sites break without JS. I'm a JS dev, so I don't want to block JS anyway. :)

For Windows, I found Webcamoid, which seems like it would suit your needs. Also UniCam, but that one doesn't advertise video recording, so it might just be a viewer.

I'm one of the developers of the project. We've actually been getting a ton of requests about buildind one for use with the BeagleBone Black. After talking with the rest of the team, we are going to add a BBB version as a stretch goal.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1455616350/yacypi-turnkey-raspberry-pi-based-internet-search/posts/733449

Please remove this, it doesn't help anybody:

> I may be alienating much of the free software community by saying this, but the GPL is flawed and not truly an example of freedom and we will not be using it, ever.

Also, CC0 1.0 Universal is preferable to Unlicense.

By the way, are you aware of Minetest and Terasology?

Also, don't include DLLs in the Git repository.

Use any Debian-based system and add the KXStudio repositories and to stick to 100% free software, remove the non-free one from the list. KXStudio has tons of the best audio stuff and plugins all packaged for you.

Think Penguin is a great company! They endeavour to provide part of the ecosystem that free software and free hardware needs.

Think Penguin are based in the USA but also operate from the UK.

If you include "libre." before "thinkpenguin" in the url, they will make a contribution from your purchase to the Trisquel free software project.

http://libre.thinkpenguin.com

I did not know what whonix was, i saw its webpage and says:

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" Whonix is a desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy. Whonix mitigates the threat of common attack vectors while maintaining usability. Online anonymity is realized via fail-safe, automatic, and desktop-wide use of the Tor network. A heavily reconfigured Debian base is run inside multiple virtual machines, providing a substantial layer of protection from malware and IP address leaks. Commonly used applications are pre-installed and safely pre-configured for immediate use. The user is not jeopardized by installing additional applications or personalizing the desktop. Whonix is under active development and is the only operating system designed to be run inside a VM and paired with Tor. "

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https://www.whonix.org/

Qubes is great :), but you do need supported hardware to run it. I was able to use Qubes 3, however changes made in Qubes 4 prevented me from being able to upgrade. https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2016/09/02/4-0-minimum-requirements-3-2-extended-support/

Yeah, protonmail is cool, but they are also new and developing rapidly and under continuous attack, so I wouldn't call them reliable at this point. Also they haven't implemented openPGP for outgoing emails, so there's no way to communicate privately with non-protonmail users. Worth keeping an eye on though.

That gets you just the browser, which they were legally obliged to keep under MPL. The helper apps they developed are under a freeware license. If their level of commitment to free software stops at the bare minimum, I'm not very impressed.

GNU IceCat is better in that respect.

OpenNote is built to be an open web-based alternative to EverNote but is still in development: https://github.com/FoxUSA/OpenNote

Maybe the Zim desktop wiki is an alternative to you: http://zim-wiki.org/ All information are saved in plain text files including attachments and can simply be syncronized between different devices (i.e. by dropbox). There is also a firefox plugin to copy selected text of a web page or bookmarks into Zim.

Have you ever thought it was sad that your presentation software was NOT powered by javascript yet? I sure did. http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/ MIT license You can even do them online and host them publicly with the free as in free beer plan https://slides.com/explore To be honest I've never used it myself but it looks fancy.

Good question. I have limited time (I run Turtl as a side project) and have a number of things to complete before the next release (import/export, native crypto, and others, see &quot;Dev&quot; list).

iOS is definitely a target of mine. I have an iPhone and a working Mavericks VM, so really I just need to purchase the Apple dev account and get to work.

> will it support share extension

I hope so. Right now, not even Android supports this (tracked), but it's high on the list so I'd like to just release it with iOS if I can.

The OP must be referring to .NET Framework. The new .NET is open source and cross platform, much faster and would be great to learn. Tons of packages on https://www.nuget.org/ as well

I tried to run Debian GNU/Hurd on one of my older PCs two years ago. I was not able to make it work as I kept getting errors during the boot process. However I have heard it should work better if you run it in a virtual machine.

Edit: Found this recommendation on their site: >The easiest (and well-tested) method of trying Debian GNU/Hurd is to use a virtual machine via KVM. Some pre-installed images are available on http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/current/README.txt, but one can also use the Debian Installer to install in KVM or a native machine (but hardware support vary, so it is more recommended to give a try with KVM).

I've never heard of Odysee, so I looked it up. This article was the fourth Duck result. I don't know if the title is accurate or defamatory, but either way, big yikes.

Have you considered putting your content on PeerTube?

https://www.gandi.net

> We offer an alternative approach to that of our competitors, spending no money on advertising, and instead supporting the community of people working on the technology that opens the Internet for business, but also works for the free and unrestricted sharing of information, and fights for the respect of individual and citizen rights. We rely on your words to promote our services.

It may not be the cheapest (domains cost a few dollars more), but their no bullshit promise is worth every penny.

The only way I can think of to completely remove non-free software is to install one of the FSF approved debian based distros, such as gNewSense. I'm running an arch-based FSF distro, Parabola, that includes a package called your-freedom that conflicts with a large blacklist of nonfree software available on Arch and Arch-based distros, but if there's one for Debian, it'd have to be made specifically for Debian.

There's also a free software database, which you can check before you install something.

Edit: There's also a thing called Virtual RMS, or vrms

I wasn't even aware that this meme was going around.

The "Why I've been throwing Open Standards under a bus" piece is especially odd.

> It used to be that I tried to use the same tools at home and in my personal life that I used at work. But now that’s all changing.

I'm trying to picture the situation that would cause me to go back to Windows or OS X at home, and drawing a blank. The iPad would have to open up its hardware and software quite a bit before I ditched my Debian-based netbook for it.

> This one ? https://quiterss.org/

Thanks! I think this one will do! (Edit: seems very crashy though, at least on GNU. Will keep it for now but more suggestions welcome)

> Also, this http://www.rssowl.org/

I ruled out Java-based ones, because they require the additional step of install JRE, and for Windows users that's going to be Oracle's implementation and not OpenJDK. I didn't want to encourage the installation of any other nonfree program other that what they are already using (Windows or OS X).

While http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made explains how Ubuntu packages are prepared for Trisquel GNU/Linux, my question is why was it done this way. Are there any public mailing list posts featuring the Trisquel GNU/Linux developers discussing the reasoning behind choosing Ubuntu? Understanding the logic for the decision is what I'm interested in.

From link: >Trisquel is a fully-free Ubuntu-based derivative, so the process for building the distro starts by doing a local mirror of Ubuntu and cleaning it.

To paraphrase RMS, "I'd like to just interject for a second..." My apologies if I've come across as having an agenda or the like; I ask questions like this to understand something on a mechanical level, if you will. "How does this work? Why does it work this way?" That sort of thing.

There isn't anything fully Libre. What I do to get close for now is a Nexus 5, running OmniROM without the google apps and the F-Droid free software repository. So for this case, the hardware isn't libre, there is a bunch of non-free firmware, there's probably non-free drivers, but there is a bit of a free kernel and the application layer is mostly free. Basically this setup could be overlaid on a free phone, should one be released, and it would be a free system.

As an developer, programmer or as an user?

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=317.0

I learn all about free software through magazines. So visited some of there websites. I'm sure they have some kind of discussion board there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_magazines

Yea, me too, that's why we need to make the world know about him and tell everyone to stop using Internet like that: centralised services and programs are not the solution, but decentralised services and free software are. There's a lot of information on Internet for now, like https://prism-break.org or https://securityinabox.org/

E.g. I use GNU/Linux instead of Windows, Jabber instead of Whatsapp/Skype, DuckDuckGo instead of Google and Diaspora and GNU social as free social networks.

Let's continue his fight. Let's make a better Internet.

Unfortunately I don't have a great recommendation. Mozilla has gone out of their way to not support alternate browsers either forking Firefox or embedding their rendering engine. Further, addons are pretty important to making the web usable.

GNU IceCat seems to be kept moderately up to date and has at least some addon support. Something like Librefox or Ungoogled Chromium might be even better.

Here you go. This is clearly a non-Free license. The BitTorrent Sync Wikipedia entry also classifies it as proprietary software.

I work for a bank. The bank pays Elastic for support and consulting. I don't think they pay per instance but per support ticket or something like this.

We also have RHEL servers. RedHat takes old packages and applies security fixes for them extending the support for old version that the original devs do not. RHEL enforces this by having per server subscriptions. If you cannot share the subscriptions among servers so if you have 1 subscription and 2 servers only one will get update. If you try to copy yum cache or do all sorts of hackish solutions I think you loose the support from RedHat.

Another example is that I know how to run an ownCloud instance, but I lack the time so I get a payed version from ownDrive.

In fact, with gedit, it looks like you could make a quick change to this line by removing the *60, and accomplish your goal: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/tree/gedit/gedit-tab.c#n217

If you're willing to follow the steps here, you could compile your own version: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/DevGettingStarted

I'd recommend doing the build on a Linux machine, or at least a Linux VM. Once the build is complete you will get a Windows binary to run.

There's Mattermost: an open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative, which IMO is already better than Slack and they just keep adding features. It's Slack-compatible, too so if you like those integrations, you can keep them.

Oh, probably you never heard about jitsi?

https://jitsi.org/

Also check this extremely powerful web base jitsi:

https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitMeet

works only in chrome/chromium but is really really nice for one time meetings where you don't want to expose your nick name etc

Ive always had a fondness for HNB though it is terminal based. It likely compiles anywhere you have gcc and ncurses.

I also have a fondness for Tomboy which has more than one synchronization option these days and is cross platform.

On Android, I use Writeily Pro, a beautiful markdown editor (it was just handed off to a new maintainer, so it lost all its reviews on google Play), and sync the notes using Syncthing. On my computer I edit them with gedit.

Scratch is a fun programming tool. My 6 likes to make scenes and animation for characters she draws. With my help she's able to be more creative while learning programming concepts. https://scratch.mit.edu/

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I tried accessing server from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.zhanghai.android.files

Of course you are free to believe anything you want, sadly that does not mean what you believe is the truth:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-javascript-can-used-breach-privacy-security/

Javascript is not a sandboxed enviroment.

The word "libre" is not used outside discussion of free software. It is free software itself which has brought the word into use by English speakers. And Wikipedia editors.

Don't let Wikipedia fool you: use of the word "libre" is extremely limited and not widespread. Indeed, if you look at Dictionary.com, you will see that there is no entry:

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/libre

Unfortunately I can't think of a OSS music player. I am going to recommend mine though. I've used it for a few years. I personally enjoy it, but I use Bose earbuds with it. It does support Gnu/Linux, some distros can be finicky; but I think that is more user error. It also isn't cheap when it's not onsale :( It goes for about $120, I bought it for I want to say $80. It's an older style, so it uses a click-wheel.

As for formats it supports everything I've thrown at it (MP3, FLAC, OGG), and has decent battery life. Not sure why the battery life says 10 hours, I easily get 15 or so out of it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VWK4FP3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

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I'm going to try to do some research for you later this week and see if I can find a FOSS music player, but if it is anything like my quest for a FOSS ebook reader, it may be a fruitless endeavor.

I've never heard of this "commons clause" thing before, so thanks for bringing it up.

First of all, I have a problem with the name: the acronym "CC" in the copyright licensing context is already taken by the much more well-known Creative Commons, so naming this scheme "Commons Clause" is confusing at the least, and makes me wonder if it was intended to be deceptive.

Second, it's definitely not Free Software, for reasons others have already explained.

Third, although I sympathise with the sentiment behind it, I think it's harmful and a misplaced effort. Anybody who wants to stop corporations from taking predatory advantage of open source would be better off advocating for the use of strong copyleft licenses (e.g. GPLv3) instead of permissive ones (e.g. BSD). Advocating for already-well-protected GPLv3 code to have fairness enforced beyond the point of diminishing returns is a waste, compared to advocating for the protection of all the BSD, MIT, etc. code that's currently vulnerable to being made proprietary.

It does indeed use uboot. There is a google group where some people are working on kernel support: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel

The mainline kernel already has enough support to boot a working system.

>But most dumb phones are running on proprietary software, witch i don't like, expecially when the phone support GPS or other tracking things.

Then it is not such a dumb phone, pick a dumber one and then you probably won't care if it is running on proprietary software or not because your carrier has access to your contacts list and phone location etc anyway.

>Any reccomendations?

There are many of them, such as Nokia 150 (2017):

• WLAN No
  
• GPS No
• etc..

You could use something like draw.io which is free.
I just found penpot.app , but don't know how good it is.

Then there's Figma, but that is free as in beer, not as in speech.

By free software, we mean free speech (as seen in the description of the Subreddit) not free beer.

You can install gimp with photogimp which will make it look, work, and feel like photoshop.

Other alternatives to adobe software:

Gimp, Inkscape, ShotCut/Kdenlive/Olive, Blender, Krita. And many more.

If you are looking for alternatives:

Go to alternativeto search up the product (game/software/service/OS) and select the "open source" filter. Sometimes you will not find an alternative. If so, try to surf the web for one. Also flip through the degoogle list.

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I know that the end of this post is a bit off-topic, but it's better if you know it from the start.

I'd look for other like-minded people who are also advocating for GNU/Linux on the desktop. The KDE and Gnome communities would be a good starting point. I wish you success!

• https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Promotion

• https://www.gnome.org/get-involved/

When it comes to capturing the perfect moment, there are numerous apps out there that can help you do just that. Most of them have a free option that allows you to record a video or screencast with your device, but they often come with a host of limitations or a required subscription. Cloudapp is the best free screen recorder is a free and easy-to-use recorder for Windows. You can make a screencast of anything on your computer screen, save it as a video, then share it with your friends, post on a forum, or use it as a tutorial.

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Ok I can understand the game example, I'm not sure but believe gog.com works a bit like that, at least for older games, no DRM and really cheap games, works out a lot more convenient because they're going to always be reliable and patched in comparison with games found on bittorrent sites for example.

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$10k to a company is peanuts surely if you're trying to hire good programmers?

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I guess there are other ways of making money, like Blender does through merch, events etc. But it frustrates and conflicts me, I like the idea of free software but I also want programmers to be paid well for good work.

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The open source thing really clicked for me when I heard about the new Blender - I realised that 3DS Max is kinda doomed when you have the entire world, most of whom can't afford the overpriced subscription, all making their own addons and improving the software organically. If you have the best software in the world through a hive mind generated by open source, surely there's some way of making decent money from that, it seems like maybe the people contributing will have a hard time making money though, just the ability to improve their own experience and the experience of others if they choose to share their code freely.

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I guess a lot of this stuff hinges on the idea of good will and charity.

For browsing reddit without running proprietary JavaScript, I recommend checking out Teddit which is a free software front-end that doesn't require any JS. You can even install a simple extension to redirect automatically.

So you are asking for a hosted web service that someone else has already set up?

You posted in /r/freesoftware thinking the "free" means zero cost, but it doesn't, it means freedom here.

I'm not aware of anything that does what you want, but your requirements sound a bit like a private E-bay style site with 20 items on sale at once, but with an extra rule of 1 item per person.

It's definitely possible to create that using existing Free software, there are lots of choices here: https://sourceforge.net/directory/os:linux/?q=online%20auction. Probably nothing on that page would already do exactly what you want, but because they are Free (as freedom, not cost), then you are free to modify them to get them to do what you want, or even pay someone else to do that, which is still fully compatible with free as in freedom. (still would need to pay for the web hosting though)

Slightly late response, but I'm working on one, with a particular focus on tablet input: Notekit. There isn't quite feature parity with Typora since using native instead of HTML-based rendering makes things like tables hard and many aspects of it are still work in progress in general, but several people (including myself) do already use it on a daily basis.

Same concept as Mastodon and Peertube. Those who have a use for it will use it.

I can imagine a variety of uses:

- I have a privacy-conscious friend who runs a teahouse where they have some event every night — he could use this for these events.

- Open-source organizations could self-host their own instances and feature conference pages and meet-ups.

- I have a friend who organizes meetings through Meetup.com, and I'm sure he'd be willing to also post them on Mobilizon (and if he gets enough people through Mobilizon, he'd cancel his Meetup subscription).

- I personally would use it for hosting meetups.

We use Nexus 5 phones and install OmniROM (Cyangenomod fork). We don't install any google apps or google play. We add the free software repository F-Droid, which is awesome:

• F-Droid repo

I’m currently working on an ERPNext implementation.

In addition to the already mentioned ofbiz and Odoo, off top of my head I can think of Tryton and Compiere.

Check out alternative to ERPNext list

What kind of text editor do you need? If spell check is your only requirement, you can use the browser's spell check and one of the many no-login notepad services available, e.g., the one offered by Disroot.

> the data that was sent was not kept for any longer than it took to process it.

yeah, but the extension does not collect it at all.

from their privacy policy:

> We don't store the text that you submit for style and grammar checking on languagetool.org, with the following exceptions: > > When you use our online editor at https://languagetool.org/editor or our desktop app, your texts are stored on our server. They will be deleted once you move them to the recycle bin and then delete them there. > If you explicitly submit feedback, for example about false alarms or undetected errors, we store that feedback. > If you accept corrections, we log the internal rule id of that error (this is something like ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE for word repetition errors). > If you explicitly ignore corrections, we log the internal rule id of that error and the text fragment marked as incorrect (i.e. the small part of the sentence that was underlined as an error) and 15 characters to the left and to the right of the fragment. This enables us to analyze and avoid false alarms. > In case of an internal software error (which is extremely rare), we log the sentence that caused the error so we can reproduce and fix the error. The sentence can be stored for up to 14 days.

There's also the issue with the binaries being licensed under a different one than that of the source. VSCode and Visual Studio Code are an example of this. While the source(VSCode) is distributed under the MIT license, the binaries (Visual Studio Code) are not licensed under MIT. They're licensed under a separate license.

> Signal is not decentralized, at all. They're also somewhat hostile to people developing third party infrastructure. Telegram is no better. Use an XMPP client like Conversations instead and host your own server.

just wanna drop by and mention [matrix]

Hi r/freesoftware!

I'm currently developing a p2p VPN service (FreePN), and I'm looking to gauge the interest of the community in a project like this & seeking signups for beta users. If you enter your email at the linked site, I have a beta tarball of the project I can distribute to let you try it.
The basic idea of the project is to create a free, p2p VPN service based loosely on the architecture of Tor. My theory is that if enough people sign up for the service, it'll be faster, have more locations/nodes to choose from, and have lower latency than just about any other VPN service out there. I have a few personal servers I've dedicated to bootstrapping the network up, so hoping the promise of 'unlimited bandwidth' will come with increased adoption as well.

I've been working on it for quite a while out of personal interest, but at this stage I'm really just seeking feedback on the idea & trying to see if many people beyond just myself would find this project useful (if so, I will definitely try to dedicate more time to working on it!).

(Please excuse the landing page site - it's pretty basic & my design skills are limited!)

Hi r/linux!

I'm currently developing a p2p VPN service (FreePN), and I'm looking to gauge the interest of the community in a project like this & seeking signups for beta users. If you enter your email at the linked site, I have a beta tarball of the project I can distribute to let you try it.
The basic idea of the project is to create a free, p2p VPN service based loosely on the architecture of Tor. My theory is that if enough people sign up for the service, it'll be faster, have more locations/nodes to choose from, and have lower latency than just about any other VPN service out there. I have a few personal servers I've dedicated to bootstrapping the network up, so hoping the promise of 'unlimited bandwidth' will come with increased adoption as well.

I've been working on it for quite a while out of personal interest, but at this stage I'm really just seeking feedback on the idea & trying to see if many people beyond just myself would find this project useful (if so, I will definitely try to dedicate more time to working on it!).

(Please excuse the landing page site - it's pretty basic & my design skills are limited!)

Nextcloud has a list of recommended servers near your location so you get the best performance. https://nextcloud.com/signup/

For reminders I use task.org (syncing it via Davx5 over our family nextcloud to my PC andLaptop)

If you're looking for free software gaming, there's the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective. We have Minetest, Nethack, and Mumble servers. Join us in #libreplanet-gaming on freenode, where community members often organize gaming events (popular games include OpenArena, Xonotic, and Wesnoth).

And to find free games to play, there's Libregamewiki.

Short answer: yes

Long answer: You've got to do your readings.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

On a side note, one of the advantages of the CC licenses when doing games is that it also applies to art, music, level design and everything else, not just code.

> This convinced me fsf is a controlled opposition

Not really, they are just not very smart. I remember they were participated in Outreachy and they sponsored their own old contributor and just ignored all the newcomer candidates with their proposals. That was so much shame...You can see this thread here. No response to newcomers at all. There were some very good proposals but Molly DeBlanc was so incredibly bad...and as I said they took their old mature contributor instead of a new person. Believe me, they are not an opposition, they are just really not very smart people.

No, I'm not 100% certain.

Others here mention a few different things. Some are confused. I think I might be confused about the Directory in one important way…

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page#About actually links directly to F-Droid and maybe since that's all free software anyway, it's silly to duplicate all the entries for those programs that aren't available outside of Android…

It looks like Luke Smith touts a lot of ideas originating at suckless, and I've come to expect his attitude from that group.

The far-right imagery might be yet another reflection of the odd connection between suckless and neo-nazism which has been pointed out by several people, e.g.: https://lobste.rs/s/kpuj8p/why_i_use_suckless_tools#c_4g2lqi

There are many games that have been replaced with free substitute, see for example the OpenMW project which is a free implementation of Morrowind. So yes, games can be replaced and are not unique in this sense.

However, regardless of what is the purpose of software (i.e. is it for enjoyment or productivity), it still runs, on your computer hardware, code that you do not control if the software is proprietary. You can't even know what exactly it is doing; proprietary software makers sometimes do include shady crap with their programs that has nothing to do with the main functionality of the program (spying features, sneaky DRM, etc.). This is the issue and there is no way around it.

Xonotic isn't that heavy, I've met people ingame saying they are playing on rasperry pis. I've never played 0 AD but the required specs they list aren't very heavy either: https://play0ad.com/download/

I've used nouveau with 980 Ti, and if I remember that worked nicely for 2d games and xonotic without me noticing any big difference, but it couldn't take AAA 3d games natively supported in gnu/linux.

Might want to check if you need to install some sensor software or fancontrol stuff to make the card quiet down, but I don't know if that's even possible, never had any problems with that myself.

Maybe check out https://github.com/foucault/nvfancontrol though I doubt that will work with nouveau, but it might.

They actually make several based on Linux, and the sources are available for the base systems:

https://source.android.com/

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os

As others have said, it's the other parts put on top of these that make Android and ChromeOS, as shipped by Google, respectively.

Not quite 45, but it's at 38. So that's something.
You can't access btrfs partitions with the base system, but the encrypted XFS partition will work fine.
I personally use the softraid method detailed here under "Full Disk Encryption."
I haven't tried accessing the encrypted system from GNU/Linux, but I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work.

I'm not familiar with macOS but you may be able to install this using Homebrew which is a package manager for macOS.

Once you have homebrew installed you would use the command brew install redshift

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/redshift

> when i went to the website to download it

Well, there's your first problem! Use your distro's package manager (or Homebrew or Chocolatey if you're on one of those inferior operating systems) instead.

Your description was vague enough that, for all I know, you might have been trying to get it from some third-party malware site.

You might find something here https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/cool-logo or just use something like Inkscape to create a vector from something that inspires you. Do a google search for free logos and then switch to the Image tab and get an idea of the content from the sites. That's what I'd do :) Hope this helps.

Try either JPEGView or nomacs. Both should have support for GIFs. I don't have Windows, so I couldn't test zooming, but I imagine that smoothing can be turned off in settings if it is present.

It really depends on the use case and the environment. If you're recording multiple sources (webcam, second pc, etc.), or want to take advantage of audio mixing, OBS is a no-brainer.
SimpleScreenRecorder is great, for simpler tasks like recording a software bug, but doesn't support Wayland compositors.

Damn, so close.

That's a shame. Sorry to hear it didn't work out.

For the future perhaps, the kdenlive devs have been working on a major refactor for a while time, so when that's stable it might be another option for you. It's expected in April this year.

I don't use these myself, but other options could be this extension for Blender: https://www.gdquest.com/blender/power-sequencer/

...or later on when development is further along the new Olive editor https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

The link to Windows version on kdenlive download page points to a .7z file, which is a superior archive file type (like .zip and .rar). So i guess you have to extract it and then run the correct .exe. If you dont have any decent archive management (and extraction) software that can handle .7z, you should probably uninstall the previous one and install the open-source 7zip instead.

There are problems but in general open-source software has many advantages over proprietary software (especially in the longer term).

I think its pretty high on the rankings.

The Olimex boards like the LIME2 are about the same, though they would not get the certification from the FSF because they "recommend" the closed MALI drivers. There are also GTA04, beaglebones, GnuBee, Novena ...

> Do you have bad experience with this?

No, cargo-culting.

But it's zero-effort. Android Studio (IntelliJ) has a built in copyright generator which works flawlessly after the initial 5 minute setup. Copyright declarations are auto-hidden (except in Code Reviews)

Onboarding and ensuring new contributors have it set up is a bit of a pain. We just had a 12x influx of new contributors so I'm overseeing getting a lint rule into the IDE to sort this out. Automate out the human ;)

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/8211 for reference