Malus, which is a piece of "satire" but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the "clean room" argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software -- and somehow the output of the LLMs isn't considered a derivative work.

I am looking for an RSS reader that is web based and preferably FOSS, I am trying to move from Vivaldi to Waterfox but I am using the Vivaldi RSS reader and need to switch to something else.

We have launched our wiki and forum that is built around collaboration on Libre projects. The aim is to create a community built around genuine and lasting connections, where people can work together on various projects across various disciplines - from artists to software developers...we hope to create a hub for skill-sharing and project creation.

In an age of instant connection, we are still remarkably lonely in our creative work. You can have a niche interest and instantly find someone across the globe who shares it — but sharing isn't the same as collaborating. At some point in your creative journey, you may lack a specific skill or just need fresh ideas to move forward.

UnfinishedProjects is an attempt to connect you with other creative individuals and serve as a hub for open-licensed work. Our goal is to enable small, meaningful contributions across multiple projects, allowing us to move them forward together. It is an experiment in breaking isolation . . . an attempt to bring stalled ideas, or those simply too complex to finish alone, back to life through the power of collective contributions.

We aren't just another place to talk about what we like. We don't want to be yet another modern social media platform. We have faith in selfless connections and aim to build a place for meaningful and thoughtful discussions. We want to promote collaboration over self-promotion — a space where "incomplete" is not a shame or failure, but an opportunity to exchange with others, to build together, and eventually . . . to share the feeling of pride in what you've achieved.

We hope some of you will check out our platform as we try to establish our community.
Feel free to stop by our forum and introduce yourself at https://forum.unfinishedprojects.net/ - or read more about or community vision on our wiki at https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/About/Vision

In an age with modern social media and internet, it can sometimes be hard to sit down and dedicate time to build lasting relationships and communities, but we hope that our forum is taking a step in the right direction, and that you will help us build it into a community that brings back some purpose into our digital lives.

Back in 2005, a bug report was filed by Kjetil Kjernsmo, then running KDE 3.3.2 on Debian Stable. He wanted the ability to have each connected screen show a different virtual desktop independently, rather than having all displays switch as one unit.

Over the years, over 15 duplicate reports piled onto the original as more people ran into the same wall. And that's not a surprise, because multi-monitor setups have become increasingly common.

The technical reason why this issue stayed open this long comes down to X11. Implementing it there would have required violating the EWMH specification, which has no concept of multiple virtual desktops being active at the same time.

The KWin maintainer Martin Flöser had said as much in 2013, effectively ruling it out for the entire KDE 4.x series. The only realistic path was through Wayland, and that path needed someone willing to actually walk it.

Someone finally did. The feature has now landed in KWin's master branch and is set for a Plasma 6.7 introduction.

I am proud to announce that my open source software including games now has a license grant to use the polyform noncommercial license or polyform strict license instead of GNU GPL v3.0 in specific cases. Why did i do this you may ask, well there maybe times when developers have to use proprietary tools or programming languages and there maybe a TOS or EULA with either of those things that says you cannot release software commercially made with these tools unless specific requirements are done or only specific people can work on your software that uses these tools and thats what the license grant solves. To find out more go to the link to the site and the links to repos are in this link: https://daniel-hanrahan-tools-and-games.github.io/

Documentation: https://docs.searxng.org/index.html

I finally self host my own private instance of the meta search engine SearXNG. I did not install it manually, so there is not this deep understanding how it works or anything like that. But at least its compiled from source and runs on my local machine.

Thanks to the AUR script: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/searxng-git (View PKGBUILD install script) Now I can use the search engine in my web browser at the configured address. It was surprising easy and quick process (thanks to this script). There are other methods of installing too, official: https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation.html

# Archlinux, AUR

# Build and install from source:
yay searxng-git

# Configure the search engine (shouldn't need to):
sudoedit /etc/searxng/settings.yml

# Start server when needed:
systemctl start searxng.service

# Or automatically start the server whenever you login:
systemctl enable searxng.service

This feels so good and liberating. Before that I was using DuckDuckGo, then tried Startpage and then used public instances of SearXNG. So I still had to trust them. The only downside is, that my IP is still known to any search engine I have enabled in SearXNG. I could enable Proton VPN for that, but I'm not enabling and disabling VPN each time I want to do a websearch.

The next logical step would be to have a dedicated server machine to run this (and possibly other servers) and access it from the web on any other computer I want to. But that is something I'm not getting into right now.

"A huge thank you to the Sovereign Tech Agency for their support of open source and the Fediverse!

We are grateful for this funding, but this is not all that we need! We have even more plans and ideas to tackle the complex challenges that we need to address for everyone. We really appreciate all the donations from the people who use Mastodon every day, so please continue to donate when you can, to help us to build a sustainable open social web for everyone."

I used to adore the Feedbro extension for Firefox - until I learned that browser extensions are a privacy concern and stopped using them. Unfortunately, I've been unable to find anything similar for the Linux desktop. I just can't seem to find the 'sweet spot' with all the readers I've tried. Some are bloated with features and complicated configurations that I will never use. Others are too simplistic. Still others haven't seen an update in years. I feel like this is an impossible quest.

The readers I have tried (and discarded):

• Liferea
• RSS Guard
• News Flash
• Feeds
• Feed Deck
• Feed Flow
• Akregator
• Thunderbird
• Raven Reader

Here are the features I need:

• FOSS (obviously)
• Import/export OPML
• Scale the size of the UI and all text elements
• RSS feed discovery
• Fetch full articles
• Configure update interval
• Privacy-conscious
• Desktop only (I am currently unable to self-host)

Things that would be nice, but I can live without if I have to:

• Dark mode
• An uncluttered, two-column display

That's about it. Now tell me that I am asking too much and there's no hope for me. :D

• CorridorKey-Engine on GitHub
• EZ-CorridorKey on GitHub
• CorridorKey-Runtime on GitHub, DaVinci Resolve plugin

Corridor Digital released an open-source greenscreen keyer/extractor, powered by AI, usable on consumer GPUs.

The video covers what happened after their initial release, community and professional responses, interviews with professionals about what can be improved, and finally a practical test/example in Davinci (Video Editor).

Hi all! I'd like to request suggestions for a secure messaging app, ideally that doesn't require mobile phone for registration, to stay connected to my family In Russia.

The country wages war on the Internet, messengers and VPNs. Options are blocked one by one, and one can't register in Signal because numbers that send registration confirmation from Signal are blocked...

I'd need an app that allows group chats, calls, media attachments and audio messages, easy enough for older people would be able to install. Ideally, something niche enough it won't be blocked right away...

It's a lot of requirements, but I hope something like this exists and would be very grateful for any recommendations.

Android / iPhone / desktop.

TL;DR: The advent of AI based, LLM coding applications like Anthropic’s Claude and ChatGPT have prompted maintainers to experiment with integrating LLM contributions into open source codebases.

This is a fast path to open source irrelevancy, since the US copyright office has deemed LLM outputs to be uncopyrightable. This means that as more uncopyrightable LLM outputs are integrated into nominally open source codebases, value leaks out of the project, since the open source licences are not operative on public domain code.

That means that the public domain, AI generated code can be reused without attribution, and in the case of copyleft licences - can even be used in closed source projects.

[IMAGE ALTERNATIVE TEXT: “Unfinished Projects - In solidarity we can build a future that benefits us all."]

We have a new community and would love if you came and checked us out ( ദ്ദി ˙ᗜ˙ )

A couple of us have been working on a project that took quite longer than we expected, but we finally have opened registration on our forum, and would love for you to come check it out if you are interested :)

Our intent: We are trying to create a community focused on collaboration and genuine connections to create and make things with others. From software developers to artists, to handicrafts, and etc. We are working on a public wiki that can be used for creators to display and collaborate on each others projects that are openly licensed.

We want to create a community that is different than the much of the fast paced, superficial communications that happen on modern day social media - and instead try to build lasting connections where creative people and projects can grow and contribute to the commons.

From our "About Page":

An unfinished project is a seed that someone else can water when you no longer have the time or the tools.
The community thrives when we treat every piece of unfinished work as a stepping stone for the next person. You don’t need a long-term commitment to make a difference. Whether you finish a single page on our Wiki or solve one small problem in the Forum, you are making a project "slightly less unfinished" than it was yesterday.

We still have a lot of work to do to improve our platform (primarily our wiki - which is invite only until we ensure everything is working and in order), but we figured it was time to open up registration on our forum and see if we can get our few first members to help establish our community and maybe stick with us through a few more hurdles until we get everything more polished.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in being a part of, and are willing to stick around as we polish things up and try to grow, we would love to have you :)

I hope to maybe see one or two of you over at our federated forum!

PS: We will eventually be looking to "partner" with some other federated communities that share our values, so if you have a community that would be a good fit, feel free to reach out - as it would be great to have a network of communities that can support each other and provide value for the members.

I love my iPhone but care more about more about FOSS. All my computers and servers run Linux and I want my phone to as well. GrapheneOS sounds nice but I’m worried about switching from an iPhone. Before getting my first iPhone 7, androids would never last more than a year before they become slow and buggy (LG and Samsung flagships). I also worry about how trustworthy GrapheneOS is, I see them getting in random fights with users on Mastodon—that doesn’t exhibit a stable group to me.

TLDR really love FOSS, considering switching from iPhone but am unsure.

E1 found this on wiki lol

In a detailed review of GrapheneOS for Golem.de, Moritz Tremmel and Sebastian Grüner said they were able to use GrapheneOS similarly to other Android systems, while enjoying more freedom from Google, without noticing differences from "additional memory protection, but that's the way it should be." They concluded GrapheneOS cannot change how "Android devices become garbage after three years at the latest", but "it can better secure the devices during their remaining life while protecting privacy."

I am proud to announce that my open source software including games now has a license grant to use the MPL 2.0 instead of GNU GPL v3.0 in specific cases and now my site has info on how to optimize/tune my open source software for your experience and hardware. Link to site: https://daniel-hanrahan-tools-and-games.github.io/

coalition of European enterprises and community organizations today have launched Euro-Office, a solution for editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, developed as a true sovereign community collaboration of over a dozen different organizations.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/40329794

Is there a good, simple/basic opensource alternative available for TradingView. Not with alot of fancy stuff, but just the possibility to save a portfolio with charts, etc...

Hey, this suggestion is for the sub's moderators. As you know, many FOSS services have paid versions, and it turns out many of us can't afford to pay for all of them every month or year. My suggestion is that the sub's mods set aside one day a month to highlight service subscriptions that are on sale; this would help the community A LOT in several ways. Upvote if you agree and share what you think in the comments, thanks for your time (:

I am FOSS-friendly? How can I do better?

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/38140147

I got into free and open source software, you can take an idea about it from fsf by watching the video https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

So, I have been in this rabbit hole for years now. And I convinced myself that using non-free software is haram and I shouldn't do it, however when I looked it up I found no discussion about it In Muslim communities anywhere, no fatwas about it. But how can that be, don't anyone else see big tech companies evil? Shouldn't Muslims use these free as in freedom software instead of Google and Facebook products? Shouldn't products by Facebook, openai and Microsoft and the rest of them be haram with existence of free alternatives that respect user privacy and freedom? Why there's no discussion about it at all?

🚀 OpenCal Version 1.1.0 has been released.

I am pleased to announce the release of OpenCal 1.1.0 - an open-source scheduling application that makes appointment booking processes more efficient and secure.

What's new in OpenCal 1.1.0?

New features:

• Modernization of the appointment booking frontend
• Admin User Management: Users can now be managed directly through the dashboard UI - including creation, editing, deletion, and activation/deactivation.
• Role system: Introduction of admin roles for differentiated permission management.
• In-person/On-site appointments: Support for face-to-face meetings with location details in event types.
• Audit Log: Full tracking of system events for increased transparency and security.
• Calendar view: Integration of a scheduler to visualize booked appointments.

Bug fixes & improvements:

• Security by fixing vulnerabilities in dependencies.
• Optimized login process for smoother use.
• Clear error messages when event type creation fails.
• Optimized frontend build configuration.

Documentation & maintenance:

• Updated README and project documentation.
• Guides for next steps after user creation.

OpenCal is based on Symfony 7.4 (PHP 8.4+) on the backend, Vue 3 + TypeScript on the frontend, and supports CalDAV for seamless calendar integration. Deployment is simple and scalable with Docker & Docker Compose.

Whether you're a developer, designer, or user - feedback and engagement are welcome. For questions or interest in contributing: create issues or contribute code.