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I would suggest everyone to ditch Oracle products then.

Alternatives for two of their major ones:

Java: OpenJ9 (an improved OpenJDK by IBM under management of the Eclipse Foundation)

MySQL: MariaDB (fork by some of the original MySQL devs)

Hi Mortanian,

Since you contribute code to Krita, you must know me -- me being the maintainer of Krita. So I sort of wonder why you didn't ping me with your concerns :-)

In any case, as a contributor to Krita, you must also know that we've been trying get funding for Krita development in several ways:

• sell support contracts for Krita Studio to VFX studios who need support before they can start using an application
• sell Krita Gemini on Steam, with the main selling point being instant updates and Steam integration
• running a kickstarter to fund full-time developers (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve)
• maintaining the Krita Foundation and its development fund

The fact is, if a project like Krita wants to grow beyond a hobby and become something people, artists, can depend on, it needs a big time investment. And that means that we need to get money... And that's what the Krita project is trying to do.

As you know, nothing about this has been done in secret or hidden from the community -- and the upshot is that, as a user of Krita, you will have an application that gets better and better, and as a code contributor, you will be part of a really lively, fun community, where every contribution is welcome and where you can be sure that your work is getting out there, where the users are, under a proper Free Software license.

FUD!

>Jennifer Caukin, a spokeswoman for Skype, has a different slant. Caukin said, “Skype made the decision to retire Skype for Asterisk several months ago, as we have prioritized our focus around implementing the IETF SIP [Session Initiation Protocol] standard in our Skype Connect solution. SIP enjoys the broadest support of any of the available signaling alternatives by business communications equipment vendors, including Digium. By supporting SIP in favor of alternatives, we maximize our resources and continue to reinforce our commitment to delivering Skype on key platforms where we can meet the broadest customer demand.

Basically, instead of continuing to use their shitty proprietary standard they decided to use an open, ratified standard. Asterisk supports SIP just fine, meaning anyone with an asterisk pbx can still integrate with the skype network just fine. Only now Asterisk doesn't even have to bundle the proprietary code anymore! This isn't even a hypothetical, it's already available.

This is a win for open source and standards, not the other way around.

Hi all; I designed a site called Iconduck (iconduck.com).

There are so many dope open source icon sets out there. I brought a bunch of them (132 so far) under one roof. I made them searchable (using typesense.org), and list out the license details and link back to the site or GitHub repo.

I'm not much of a designer, and it's just a first stab at the concept. It's been done, but I wanted to also build it API-first, since I know it would be useful to be able to search through them all for developers.

I'm always on the lookout for new icon libraries to include, and plan on making it easier to learn more about the designers themselves. If you have any ideas on icon sets or libraries to include please let me know in the comments :)

We've got a bunch of utilities that MS-DOS did not have! For example, we added Unix-like utilities to make Linux users feel more comfortable.

Our complete software list is at https://www.freedos.org/software/

And of course - the most important improvement is FreeDOS is still developed and it's open source software!

Here is the title and article re-written so I can understand it.

>Maru is not open source. We've not released it but here is a long article exclaiming excitement.

>We've also not said what licence we might use if we actually do what we are saying.

>If you do want to just Download the image to flash to your Nexus 5 then you have to Subscribe. No indication if this leads to a downloadable image or just a waiting list.

>We also don't actually say what it is. Is it ASOP with some unspecified changes? We're not telling you even in our FAQs.

This has been posted around and a credible app named Linux Deploy always gets mentioned.

Check the FAQ. The code for the server, which is really the most important part, isn't opensource, and you can't run one yourself. You have to use their closed-source centralized cloud service. Maybe they honestly intend to make it opensource in the future, but at this stage, calling this opensource is a gimmick. This is currently not opensource in any meaningful way, except perhaps that you can more easily figure it out if they're sending up extra personal data about you to their service which they shouldn't be because the client side is opensource.

> Q: Why not open source everything?

> All code will be released eventually. We started with the most useful parts — a well-documented API that allows developers to build new Telegram apps, and open source clients that can be verified by security specialists.

> Q: Can I run Telegram using my own server?

> Our architecture does not support federation yet. Telegram is a unified cloud service, so creating forks where two users might end up on two different Telegram clouds is unacceptable. To enable you to run your own Telegram server while retaining both speed and security is a task in itself. At the moment we are undecided on whether or not Telegram should go in this direction.

Iran and Syria is not GH's choice, it's an U.S. embargo forced on any company that wants to do business in the U.S.. E.g. GitLab has the same issues, they just phrase it less explicitly in their terms of service – and seem to have been surprised when their move to GCP cut off access from Iran.

Open source is useful because software cannot be embargoed effectively, but services certainly can be. The only solution is to self-host everything?

Mycroft is always one of my favorite opensource projects!

I see so much potential with voice user interfaces and ai chat, that it's exciting to have one to actually tinker with!

Main website Github r/mycroftai

Nice article! Be sure to try out Friendica and Hubzilla! They are really mature, interesting projects that can federate with Mastodon (ActivityPub), Ostatus, Zot, and Diaspora* Networks! Using them feels like Facebook, where as Mastodon feels like Twitter.

> Summary of every SJVN blog post: "OMG! MICROSOFT IS EVIL! YAY LINUX!" Even the summary just reeks of blind overreactionary anti-Microsoft fanboyism.

It took Microsoft two decades of bullying, extortion, strong-arming and other such skull-duggery to earn themselves this level of contempt. It's thoroughly deserved.

> # Nothing about UEFI itself requires secure boot.

Support for secure boot is a Windows 8 requirement though, so your point is irrelevant.

> # You can disable secure boot and load any boot loader you wish.

Not unless the OEM includes this option in the firmware. It will likely be cheaper to not include this option.

> # If an OEM disables the ability to disable secure boot, you're more than free to not buy from that OEM.

And if 80% or 90% of OEMs don't provide this option? Will you be forced to spend months searching for OEMs willing to sell you computers that aren't locked down? Worse, what happens if you buy a computer running Windows and then you decide that you have had enough and want to install Linux, you find that you can't?

> # SJVN is one of the biggest blowhards in the world of pseudojournalism blogging on the internet.

Just because he doesn't swallow every lie and piece of propaganda emanating from Redmond, this makes him a blowhard? Hell, even his co-journalist, Mary-Jo Foley, known for writing about MS, is not dumb enough to believe the garbage being put out by MS on this one. See:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-dont-blame-us-if-windows-8s-secure-boot-requirement-blocks-linux-dual-boot/10781?tag=content;siu-container

> Microsoft's response to the criticism

Already debunked by Redhat's Matthew Garret: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html

I'm no longer a user of CAD programs so this might be a bit outdated. But for 2D take a look at QCAD. For 3D modeling and lots of other functionality you have FreeCAD.

Nice. On Linux we already had an open source alternative in Redshift, but I've been hard-pressed to find one for other OS's (although Redshift also has a beta Windows version).

Still my go-to password manager. Funny thing is the EU gave this project a free security audit and besides using a weaker rand function it came out with flying colours! They also fixed that issue almost instantly. See all of its accolades. It really is the true libre alternative, and it's so powerful.

Check Matomo: https://matomo.org (ex:piwik)

It's really good, some people considering it to be on par with google analytics.

You can install it on your server via terminal (the hard method)/CLI. However, if you have access to cpanel (non-oss solution), you can easily install it via a few clicks. After installing it, a certain code needs to be embedded in your website to start analysing the behaviour of your visitors - they have plenty of GDPR-related settings available which you can use to make it non-intrusive)

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Basically, you need a server/location where to store the "analytics data" via Matomo. Once you got the server/location where to store the data and install Matomo, everything else is pretty straightforward imo.

What kind of implications will the recent move by Microsoft have on the Mono community? Do you foresee any kind of influx of disgruntled .NET developers moving on to the Mono/Linux platform once Win8 (along with the $500 framework) becomes standard?

Thanks for doing this, by the way.

I like pidgin and I've used it for quite a while, but OMEMO support is spotty and the sip plugin is not that great in my experience.

There are a few good XMPP clients, most notably conversations.im (on android) and chatsecure (on iOS) but I've moved on to matrix/riot. Riot is a better skype for business replacement in my opinion, it includes way more features than skype does.

OpenOffice is an Apache Project. The official homepage links to sourceforge. So yes, that’s where you download the official releases.

However, back in 2010, LibreOffice was created as a fork from OpenOffice. A lot of the community and developers moved to LibreOffice, which many consider to be the successor of OpenOffice.

So unless there is a specific reason to use OpenOffice, you should download LibreOffice IMHO.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

Zstd is a compression method, not a container format, I believe.

So you could use the 7z format, and have it use zstd compression. There's a version of 7zip which has this (https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd), but mainline 7zip doesn't want to add it (https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/a7e4f3f3/)

Launchpad is (was) targeted primarily for Linux developers, who tend to take the subject of openness very seriously. Github is primarily used by an entirely different demographic, at least according to its language statistics.

[I work at Elastic]

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we are dual licensing these products, so if SSPL doesn't work then you can use it under the Elastic License. check out the image under the "The change" section on the blog post - https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change

This has been posted on various subreddits like /r/linux and /r/technology already, thought it belonged here too.

Statement from GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/

Statement from Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/

From the webpage on Krita Gemini:

> Krita Gemini is still open source, and you can get the source code from our git repository, but we make Krita Gemini exclusively available through Valve’s Steam app store.

You can grab the code and build it, but they don't provide builds on their page. Some FOSS projects do similar things. It's okay with me. FOSS doesn't mean that you can not ask for money for pre-built binaries.

I don't have a suggestion, but I just switched to Duck Duck Go (SSL) as my default search engine. And disabled Adblock Plus for that site (not that they have any ads at present).

You asked for an open source alternative and an open source alternative was provided, what you do from now is your own business.

Also this is zero work on your behalf as all you will need to do is install it.

Good luck with Speedify and btw on iOS they route the connection thru their servers don’t know about desktop clients though.

Yay, yet another misleading title by Phoronix.

Well, anyway, the idea of shortening even more the release policy seems really vague to give any conclusion. I do think that the 18 weeks cycle was very good for Firefox. If you use Firefox for more time like me and paid attention you may remember how the transition from Firefox 3.6 to 4.0 was a hell, delayed multiple times and with reduced funcionality than expected. The new release cycle matches what we expect from a modern web browser much better.

Now, the fact that they seem to want to remove XUL/XBL and use full web technologies to render the interface instead is great. So much time is spent to make HTML/CSS/JS and other web technologies fast, and they need to do everything again to XUL/XBL. I believe that modern browser UI should be just another "web page", something similar that what Vivaldi does (it uses Electron). After that, you simple render a window using any native widget (and should be easy, since is just a window) and you get a multi-platform UI that is consistent between OS for free, and fast since your browser should be fast in rendering HTML/CSS.

Duckduckgo is a search engine, Duckduckhack is a site that explains how to make search plugins for duck duck go. The site allows users to submit instant answer plugins that add search specific features, like for example a small lyrics window, or a embeded bible verse window upon searching for a bible verse. These are known as goodies (that page also requires javascript to view the availible goodies)

The javascript is required for duckduckhack because it is used for animations, specifically for things like a scrolling animation that fills the page with more info, plus a few links that expand content

Duckduckgo's main selling point is that it will respect your privacy, so I would assume it's also safe to view duckduckhack with javascript enabled. Duckduckgo is also the main search engine of linux mint.

Check /r/duckduckgo for more info

edit: tl;dr Duckduckhack tells you how to add instant answer plugins you created to duckduckgo, It uses javascript for some small animations.

nope, the code is open source but the brand isn't!

https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses/

"This License does not grant any rights in the trademarks, service marks, or logos of any Contributor (except as may be necessary to comply with the notice requirements in Section 3.4)."

http://mypaint.org/about/

It's rather simple to use. Should be doable for your little one.

I got lucky on Ebay and got a rather old Wacom Intuos 2 (I think over 10 years old), but the drawing area is really big (bigger than DIN A4), works 100% fine, has all the features of newer tablets and only cost me 10 bucks. Maybe you could look out for something like this. It's nice to be able to make strong and long strokes.

Absolutely fantastic work from a fantastic team.

When I was 13 I got on the ReactOS forum and asked if they needed help writing wireless drivers. I had just figured out how to write choose-your-own-adventure software and I figured drivers were probably a cake-walk in comparison to reading from stdin.

In spite of an embarrassing post where I tried to sound like a real-deal programmer, someone named "EmuandCo" (or was it Andrew?) spent HOURS over the summer teaching me how to go about writing windows drivers.

In a years time I knew enough to modify an existing driver's source code to support promiscuous mode (a much darker time for wireless chipsets)

I love you guys!!!!

Accepting donations is common practice among open-source projects.

Liberapay is another option which charges no fees, while buymeacoffee charges 5%.

Why does it take 2 months to update your terms of service? Why don't you volunteer yourself to update it?

Here a snippet from your site. You might want to refresh yourself with it:

>Please remember to listen to the concerns of your fellow users. If the community is overwhelmingly telling you that something you're doing is abusive, be willing to reconsider your actions and engage in introspection. Digging your heels in when real concerns are brought to you is a sign that you're acting in bad faith and you'll likely be treated as such.

Not updating a terms of service within a reasonable time is a serious concern.

> I'd much rather they create some sort of P2P arrangement like Bittorrent, but with no trackers required.

Sounds like Syncthing. That's what I use for file-sharing. It's peer to peer, doesn't require trackers, and is relatively easy to use. The only problem is that the setup is more involved than just sending a link and you have a long-term link between the people you have a shared directory with. It's not meant for one-off usage, though I guess you could use onionshare for the latter use-case.

K-9 Mail will hopefully soon see the next release (which took quite some time!), if you are asking because it is outdated. I am running the latest beta at the moment and happy with that. https://k9mail.app/2020/06/01/Whats-Up-With-K-9-Mail.html

Ardour and Audacity are the best linux offerings as far as editing/recording goes , JACK being the best sound system for recording. The best alternative for software like Reason is LMMS( I can't really comment at all) I have no experience with this, but I know Audacity is used by many musicians i know. Most of these also run on OSX as well.

> EDIT: A representative has informed me that the TOS is outdated, and that 24 hours is correct.

Just so people are aware the TOS is 2 months out of date. While that rep did clarify the 24 hr rule this isn't a good sign for the site's management and administration.

While the numbers aren't as high as in your examples, Xonotic definitely also has an active community.

In any timezone it is usually possible to join a public server with enough people on for some fun, minstagib or not. Loads of PUGs organised through irc and loads of tournaments organised through forums. You do tend to run into the same people again and again though :)

Not really my kind of article but I highly recommend smplayer over VLC any day. I recently found it after VLC started giving me more and more issues playing movies from external harddrives.

ViewVC != Sourceforge

ViewVC just happens to be one of the more popular web front-ends of Subversion repositories. Many, many projects use it (random example: gcc). I'm not sure what your rant has to do with Sourceforge, other than the fact that they apparently chose to use the default ViewVC stylesheet which offends you greatly.

Federation / interoperability will be crucial if new social media platforms wants to make a noticeable dent in the user base of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. One new platform wont stand a chance on it's own, but if multiple projects are compatible across many platforms, I think we might see some interesting results after a few years. I'm quite optimistic regarding Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed etc. There are some other "facebook-killers" built on more radical decentralized tech (blockchains and IPFS), but they suffer from the same problem: it's practically a walled garden.

EDIT: My ideal facebook-like social network should have the following features:

• Subscribe to a wide variety of people/content across many platforms (through RSS, Atom, ActivityPub, PubSub etc).
• Instant messaging system built on the Matrix protocol (which is compatible with many other IM protocols)
• Have a decent event/calendar system, built on open protocols
• Possible to self-host as well as joining a public server/instance

What more do you need, really?

This is something I've looked for forever. Never truly knowing how good or safe a VPN is. Of course, you can read reviews on various sites but you never know if they're fake or not

For example, according to , and does not meet PrivacyToolsIO Criteria, has Contradictory Logging Policies, and Falsely Claims Service is 100% Effective, is very expensive, has poor SSL server rating...

Once in a while, you still have to drop down to editing files but most of the time, its great.

Apart from single click to open a file instead of double is annoying

edit: ppa for a tweaks control https://launchpad.net/elementary-tweaks

where do you get the idea that firefox is (still) a memory hog? i thought that was old news that was addressed long ago? i just did a quick search and http://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/02/chrome-34-firefox-29-internet-explorer-11-memory-use-2014/ seems to show it's fine. http://blog.en.uptodown.com/browser-comparison-chrome-firefox-explorer-opera/ also doesn't show anything unusual (both those from this year).

Cryptpad is a fully open source productivity suite that includes a forms/survey creator here. You can use their official hosted instances, other public instances, or self-host your own.

Is the sourcecode for the platform available anywhere? How does this project qualify as open source? Also, are the videos licensed in a way that permits re-use and/or remixing?

Otherwise, while this educational effort may have positive impact, it may not be on topic for this sub. Please consider publishing the platform sourcecode publicly under an OSI approved license and publishing the videos under one of the Creative Commons Approved for Free Cultural Works licenses.

https://choosealicense.com/

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/freeworks/

There are also a couple good GUI native applications for using Pandora on Linux.

• Pithos (GTK) -> http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/
• eAndora (EFL) -> https://github.com/JeffHoogland/eandora/blob/master/screenshots/detour.jpg

I personally would absolutely have a use for this project.

I refuse to be on Facebook, and Events is a project I've been sorely missing. Both for inviting friends (email invitations and coordinations are wonky) and for organizing local meet-ups. I've done a few open-source meet-ups here, teaching people how to contribute to UX design in open-source, and I had to use Meetup.com to do it, because there was no other fitting platform. That was both expensive and not in line with the open-source ethos.

Kinda agree. But the author also wrote about Ubuntu and Firefox phone. Both are free and secure. Also to the author, there is Open Broadcaster Software (https://obsproject.com) for screencasting. Anyway, good article and the takeaway should be: always use FLOSS programs. (One has to fight for his freedom constantly, even today.)

LibreOffice has been trying to rebase their entire codebase onto the new Apache OO code for licensing reasons. Since they based their original fork on code that was LGPL3, they can only offer LO under LGPL3, but they'd like to dual license it as LGPL3/MPL. All of their additions/changes have explicitly been LGPL3/MPL, so as long as they can swap out the old base with the new base, they should be able to eventually reach that goal of being able to offer the whole under both.

Anyone know if the vuln is in KiTTY? They're a lot more active fork of putty and there's a few memleak notes from back in October/November when this was originally discovered but nothing related I can see.

R with RKWard is quite awesome.

I have used it daily since 2006. Here's video on installing RKWard on windows

>But apparently it's not considered an open-source license :(

The free software foundation doesn't consider any license FLOSS if it puts restrictions on what the user is allowed to do with it. By prohibiting AWS et al from providing your software as part of a commercial service, you're restricting a user (AWS et al). The general FLOSS agreement is "do whatever you want with it, but if you give it to anyone else, you have to give them the source code, too".

AGPL plugs a hole where users were able to modify software and distribute it to other users in a way that wasn't technically distribution under the GPL and other licenses.

If Elastic License V2 provides the protections that you as the copyright holder want, then that's the license you should use. If you want a FLOSS license, AGPL is a good option. If you don't care more about restricting commercial use than FLOSS, then you might also want to look at Mongo's Server Side Public License which requires anyone that uses your software to provide a service provides the source code for their entire stack, including operating system, web server, backup management, etc.

Generally I think GPLv3 is the way to go for the idea of sharing something while preventing use by large corporations. It allows commercial use but only if they share-alike. Large corporations generally won't touch these projects, and if any competitors came along they would be on equal ground with you - anything they made on top of it would need to be shared back.

You could go a bit further with the server side public license which is used by e.g. elastic search and mongo db, which is similar to GPLv3 but essentially extends the requirement of sharing-alike to any infrastructure-related code if someone sells your project or a derivative project as a service, regardless of if the code actually touches the project.

However, if you're not willing for anyone to use your code for commercial use, even if literally every piece of code they have is completely open source, then I'd argue it's better for you to keep the code private and all rights reserved -- this is the most bulletproof technique and will make legal battles immeasurably simpler

On Android you can try Newpipe (It also downloads audio and video files from within the app! ). But I never heard about a browser like the one you're describing on a computer...

Lots of people in the open-source sphere use Mastodon.

I see the situation as very similar to desktop Linux. Most people might be on proprietary alternatives, but for those that don't want to participate, there's a perfectly usable alternative.

BTW, I've personally been waiting on a project like this, both because I need a good way to organize personal events (email doesn't cut it for me) and because I've been wanting to organize local meet-ups (and MeetUp.com is just not worth the financial investment).

It'd be best to release them under a copyleft license, as just saying they are copyleft is a bit unclear. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ and http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ are your obvious choices, and there isn't much fundamental difference between them.

Maybe create decent art assets for one of the most popular open source games. Some of them like Battle for Wesnoth, OpenTTD, OpenRA, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and corsixTH seriously need a face lift. I'm not sure how much work would be involved though. Or what you consider a small project. It should garner a lot of attention and publicity, however.

I like to use Titillium Web, because it's the typeface used by Qt in all their online documentation. :-)

I read it all the time, so there's no break in continuity.

Can't help you with the question of what license to choose.

BUT this seems to be a viable business model! At least this awesome application to share your keyboard and mouse between devices does it the same way.

Exactly, and the larger the project, the more people involved, the more likely you're going to find disagreements that aren't just about the code.

Good CoCs offer frameworks for expected behavior, an outline of unwelcome behavior, and a method of conflict resolution.

Bad CoCs are excessively broad ("halp halp he said a word I don't like that isn't offensive in any possible context but he's a big meanie halp halp"), insufficiently detailed ("don't be a jerk" is too vague because sometimes people are jerks without realizing it), too open to subjective interpretation, or worse, so narrowly defined that rules lawyers will have a field day breaking the spirit of the rules without breaking the wording.

I haven't ever seen a good CoC. For example, I really like Debian's CoC, but it's so, so damn vague and doesn't offer a conflict resolution method.

Theora is a lossy format.

You may want to look into Dirac, but there are some other codecs mentioned here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/768999/what-is-a-good-lossless-video-codec

Note that lossless video is rather impractical, with little to no advantage in most cases. You're probably better off looking at FOSS lossy codecs, such as VP9 or (in the near future) daala.

Not true. The problem was not Thunderbird's fault or PGP, it was Enigmail extension in Thunderbird's case and it was corrected. https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/home/news/66-2018-05-16-efail-vulnerability-affects-encrypted-mails

If you are concerned about this then you should use Claws Mail which had not any problems while efails affected other emails clients.

Posteo offers a paid (11 euro's yearly) email and calendar solution with an emphasis on privacy.

edit: I should add that while its not difficult to have their web/calendar service on your mobile, it does require the installation of a few separate applications.

It's about time Linux users get a simple GUI based firewall with per application control. I also noticed that Douane is not on AUR yet. Mailed one of my known maintainers to place it there. To automatically generate packages for Debian based distros please refer to the tools directory of Buku. I use the script to auto-generate packages on Travis whenever there is a release.

I think you might be getting confused about the different versions of uBlock. There are two branches (different versions) run by different people now:

• uBlock
• uBlock Origin

uBlock Origin is the one this article pertains to. It's very clear on its philosophy, right there on the front of the project page:

> uBlock Origin is not an ad blocker; it's a general-purpose blocker.

Also, a big difference between uBlock Origin and uBlock is that uBlock Origin starts with all its blocking lists enabled by default, whereas uBlock only has one (or two?) enabled by default and you need to manually enable all the rest.

It's just a matter of taste - but I prefer having everything blocked, and I can choose to view the content temporarily / permanently at the click of a button.

The reason you should have left AdBlock+ is because they reportedly started accepting payments from companies to allow their ads through if they were considered unobtrusive!

A sufficient (better) infrastructure already exists! All it requires is enough users running and using i2p and posting on the postman and other trackers on i2p... https://geti2p.net https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/supported

FYI: one of the latest and most powerful laptops without AMD PSP is Lenovo G505s that is also Corebootable ( r/coreboot ).

You can max it out with a 4 cores CPU (2.5Ghz - 3.5Ghz), a dGPU and 16G of RAM - which is good enough for most day-to-day tasks and even gaming - all of this while having as much freedom and privacy as possible!

btw, Lenovo G505s is a Libreboot candidate! :3

notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/issues/104

If you're into more hands-on programming, the preferred alternative is R.

They have extensive documentation but I don't think its open source, but it is extremely collaborative and extensible through packages.

Check it out here: http://www.r-project.org/

RStudio is a common IDE for the language.

https://matrix.org/ is a better option. It is federated (like email) so that you can run your own server and still communicate with people on other servers.

With signal you need an account on their central server to communicate with existing users, and they are hostile to 3rd party and modified clients. It might technically be opensource but it is against the philosophy.

Not requiring personal information (except email) and offers security (AES-256): AirVPN, IVPN, Mullvad, , , , , VikingVPN. Cheapest of them is

EDIT: cheapest is AirVPN, I looked at the wrong row. is cheapest per connection

Newpipe is definitely the go to YouTube client if you use an android phone.

If you want a good open-source client for Linux/Mac/Windows I would recommend Freetube.

And like Ingots mentioned. Youtube Vanced is also solid but not fully open source.

Good luck!

Conversation view and the Lightning calendar extension are essential additions, but I can't fault this new version so far.

There was a project on Drupal.org... The creator left but he was still listed as a contributor.

The project was then run by a few other contributors and the community.

Out of the blue the original project author came back, removed some stuff and put his.

The whole thing was a big mess.

Edit

Found the link, https://www.drupal.org/node/2259035

Good luck!I agree with the other commenters, that it will likely be hard to find people to commit at the start: if you build it, they will come!

There is Wekan an open source kanban board (a la Trello): https://wekan.github.io

Competing will make it harder, so in those instances you may be better off contributing to those projects than starting your own…

There's always Open Street Map and everyone can help: with their time (mapping stuff), skills (writing more software), money (servers and developers rely on it), or hardware (again, servers).

My favourite project around OSM is StreetComplete. It's a free android app that lets you add more information to OSMap in your local area by answering really simple and clear-cut questions.

Yes... originally. However you can plug it into Mozilla's dataset, or into Mycroft's own dataset (which is anonymized), or you can download their dataset and plug it into your own server and not go out to a third party at all.

But, hey, allow me to insist: Got to the AMA and ask there. They have more info than I do.

It actually used to be open source and now is source available. You can still modify the source code for noncommercial purposes though.

Source: https://www.aseprite.org/faq/#if-aseprite-source-code-is-available-how-is-that-you-are-selling-it

Interesting article.

I've switched to linux as my day-to-day OS (from Win7) and the two things I miss regularly are Notepad++ and Irfanview. Two of the greatest little handy utilities ever.

Now I have to resort to using them inside wine, which isn't great, but they work!

Other systems you could use to translate (I don't know which system is best):

• Transifex (Used by Pidgin, Universal Subtitles, etc.)

• Translatewiki.net (Used by MediaWiki, StatusNet, Shapado, etc.)

Congrats on getting so close to v 1.0! I love Etherpad. Thanks for all the great work you're doing! :)

From How does Opera make money (aka our most asked question ever)?:

> For the Internet embedded market, we receive revenue as a mix of engineering fees, maintenance fees and shares of sales income. The balance varies from contract to contract. This model accounts for the majority of Opera’s income.

What would be the incentive for partners to sign a contract for using an open source browser?

There are many! :)

1. No censorship! A server prohibits free speech? Just switch your complete profile to a new one.

2. Only interested in a specific topic? Join a mastodon server with a topic. https://joinmastodon.org/communities

3. Are you a data privacy focused human being? Communicate with the whole Mastodon Network without sharing your personal data with it.

4. Currently living in a shitty country wich blocks sites like Twitter? Much fun trying to block the whole Mastodon Network.

5. Not a single point of failure. It's impossible to shutdown Mastodon. As long as a single person hosts a server it's online.

6. Neither ads or personal data collection stuff.

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Edit: the link in 8m4ck's comment actually went to atmail.com before he edited it. He subsequently accused me of smoking crack, instead of admitting his mistake. What a dick.

Thanks for the link. MyNotex looks like an alternative to KeepNote.

Surprised that I never came across it when searching for Linux note taking software.

Gnome Tomboy, runs on mac.

You can also Twine it is a interactive story telling app, but it has a wiki nature and saves to plain html, so can view it in a browser.

> You can download Aurora 11 here to check out the 3D feature.

Yeah, right... or you could just install the tilt extension. It's the same thing, without having to replace the whole browser.

And the videos are back on youtube, as always, blamed the human factor

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/

Let's hope they will keep their peer-tube instance.

Owncloud isn't supported anymore if I believe correctly.

The problem is, with google drive and dropbox u get lots of gigabytes of free storage, whereas with nextcloud u can get max 1 gb of storage for free (from most providers, unless you host it yourself). It's the ease of use and free gigs vs privacy. Normal people want things that just werk. Without the hassle of setting up servers and so on

Also

https://www.privacytools.io/#cloud

It's a blogging platform, and if you paid closer attention, you'd see the author of the medium.com post is Andrey Karpov. No one is "still"ing anyone's thought, he simply chose to repost the content on medium.com.

I would love to use your app but I don't have a google account. I'm downloading your app through Aurora store, it's a Google play alternative which doesn't need a Google account to install apps from the play store.

Is it possible to have a way to store the data locally? I don't really need syncing between multiple devices because I just have one android smartphone.

Thank you.

There absolutely is source code for hardware. Do you think intel lays out those billions of transistors by hand? Of course not, they use computers and ECAD platforms, and you can treat those data files as source code -- schematics, netlists, PCB layouts, HDL files, etc. There are plenty of projects where these are treated as source code, for example the Beagle board. On that page you will see download links for schematics and PCB layouts and cadence files.

OpenBSD has always been open source and free, and it also has had a long history fighting against binary blobs.

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

The creators of this "LibertyBSD" project have been utterly confused from the start about what a binary blob is (..closed source kernel drivers, not firmware). All device firmware included with OpenBSD is freely redistributeable with licenses in /etc/firmware. Additional firmware is installed through fw_update(1) if the hardware is detected. There are absolutely no binary blob drivers, OpenBSD doesn't even support loadable kernel modules.

This is merely an attempt for them to solicit donations, a bitcoin address has been prominently displayed on their website, and originally they withheld their "deblobbed" version until a goal was reached..

They have absolutely no involvement in the development of OpenBSD.

Definitely NixOS. One of the major complaints of that OS is that documentation is pretty bad.

Ask around their community for pointers on where to start.

https://nixos.org/

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edit: Writing docs is probably one of the best things you can do for a project, since it's so undervalued and many programmers can't write. Thanks for volunteering your time and skills.

This sentence is very misleading:

> Previously, OpenSSL was the sole widely used open source solution for encrypting traffic sent to and from Web pages on millions of servers.

OpenSSL is not the sole anything. There's GnuTLS -- created because OpenSSL is not GPL-compatible -- and PolarSSL to name two of the more popular options, and Wikipedia lists another dozen. While it's not commonly done, you can use e.g. GnuTLS with Apache through mod_gnutls. The popular library libcurl can be built against no less than nine different TLS libraries.

The recent forks are really only about having alternatives that are API and ABI compatible with OpenSSL, which is an important distinction, because it allows them to be used as direct replacements without having to modify the client code.

That's the intent, although I don't know if they have any specific goals as to games. There are some game screenshots in the gallery, I do believe they would like everything that would run on true Windows to run on ReactOS.

From the front page:

ReactOS is a Free - Community - Opensource - Collaborative - Compatible operating system.

Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That's ReactOS. Not just an Open but also a Free operating system.

BTW a link would have been nice:

https://www.reactos.org/

The Linux distribution you installed on your Raspberry Pi isn't an especially user-friendly one. Ubuntu, Solus, Fedora, OpenSuse, elementary OS, and others don't show you a terminal unless you ask for one, and they all look pretty nice, some more than others.

Lux is here: https://luxcorerender.org

I'm not sure what all the API options are for these, but I know they can all be used with Blender's python API.

Definitely nothing wrong with have more options though!

I am most excited about MediaGoblin and ownCloud.

MediaGoblin is a decentralized flickr. Pictures, videos and soon 3D models.

ownCloud is a decentralized Dropbox. It seems there is great support coming from the KDE community.

I have found Kdenlive to work pretty well for video editing.

It has official support for Linux and Mac, but from some quick searching it looks like some people have been able to compile it for Windows.

This will kill the project.

https://mxtoolbox.com/problem/smtp/smtp-reverse-dns-resolution

It is required and most home isp's will not cooperate with you and those who buy the device will not have a clue so most if not all the email will be rejected and the ip will be blocked.

Also most ISP's do not allow access to port 25 meaning you will have to have credentials on the server you are trying to deliver to.

I hate email and gave up email administration because of the hassles.

There's a whole bunch actually. Konqueror or Midori or Epiphany are the most robust.

But you should NEVER lump Firefox in with Safari and Chrome. Firefox is NOT guilty of the stuff those others do. Firefox really isn't a company that sells your info, they seriously are not that. The worst they do is to encourage use of Google search, and you can switch to DuckDuckGo. Google and Apple are the sleazy companies, but not Mozilla. Mozilla is more dedicated to respecting user privacy and freedom and is non-profit (in an admittedly weird kinda way). Firefox with privacy add-ons is perfectly fine (see http://fixtracking.com/ for good info, and I add RequestPolicy to their list) You can also get forks of Firefox like GNU IceCat and Abrowser.