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Document written for CNLL by inno3 to talk about Cyber Resilience Act and open source projects in EU

CSMWrap is a cool little hack that brings back the good old PC BIOS on those fancy-pants UEFI-only systems. It utilises the CSM (Compatibility Support Module) and VESA VBIOS from SeaBIOS project to emulate a legacy BIOS environment.

It's like to hackterms but opensource. I found myself having to look up some terms and not finding them on wikipedia. When I finally find the meaning, I add to my own personal dictionary and rarely hackterms, because contributing to a closed-source project that might just someday disappear seems wrong.

Remember ThiefMD?

Hey, anyone remember ThiefMD? It was an awesome markdown editor that I used to use a lot for keeping notes and writing school essays. Unfortunately, the maintainer disappeared from GitHub a couple years ago and the app has just sat abandoned since then.

Last year I tried to pick it up and port it from GTK 3 to 4, but gave up as most of its functionality relies on things that were removed or substantially changed. It's also written in Vala, which seemed like a cool language until I found out it's super dead.

Rewrite it in Rust meme

About a month ago I got a notification from ThiefMD's discussions page as someone there asked about the future of ThiefMD. After the reminder of its existence, I found myself trying again, this time building a spiritual successor from scratch in Rust. It's getting close to a minimum viable product, and I can maybe try publishing it soon. Check out the repo here. There's just one roadblock before I can get to that.

What do I call this?

I'm kinda experiencing decision paralysis with the name, hence this post. I've been trying to find words related to ThiefMD, the cat mascot in the icon, or just writing in general. The approach got me a couple ideas, but I'm not sure how well they fit. Maybe I have to admit I can't have it as clever as I hoped. Any thoughts?

• Copycat - This is kind of a ThiefMD imitator, and the name mentions cat.
• Scratch mark - Cat reference that mentions markdown.

Other things

• I'm also struggling with the icon design. If you're a better artist than me, I very much accept help. See the icon issue with my sketches here.

• If you have experience working on programs that manipulate files, I'd like to know how you handle them and minimize the risk of data loss. Destroying someone's work is the last thing I want to do.

Thanks!

tl;dr: need name for markdown editor

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30324960

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our crowdfunding campaign! This campaign is focused on our PeerTube mobile app. You can read more about why we are doing this crowdfunding campaign and how we want to improve our mobile app in the blog post!

PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, we can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

• Report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
• Submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
• Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
• Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

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GNU Taler begins operating in Switzerland, distributed by the Taler Operations AG. Gnu Taler aims to be a “digital wallet” and has been used by the swiss national bank as well as the european national bank as a example for how a digital currency handed out by the state could work. It aims to be as privacy preserving as cash for the buyer while not allowing the seller to evade taxes.

Currently the Taler is brought out by a special organisation, the “Taler Operations AG”, and not the national bank, although both the national bank as well as the Taler Team have shown interest in a official digial currency by the national bank based on the Taler. But we need to relativate as the national council has stated that the introduction of a digital currency would probably take relatively major legislative changes and therefore take a bit of time.

Update details:

• Speed up thumbnail requests
• cut request time in half by skipping cors options request
• Add option to show original on hover of entire video card
• Fix titles not being replaced when original title is blank
• Make sure no duplicate edit buttons can appear
• Fix casual mode causing casing changes to not be used
• Don't show onboarding when defaults have been changed already

Given Mozilla’s recent development push to remove support for bookmark keywords & bookmarklets, I wanted to discuss how I use these features of Firefox and why, in a hope that the new system will support important use cases.

A few people pointed out that many rust projects were MIT licensed and since then I indeed have seen MIT licensed projects everywhere in Rust. Then I found the link of this post and it looks like MIT was by far the most popular license in all of opensource in 2023.

Any ideas why?

Update details:

• Fixed cases where OK button could not be pressed on intro screen
• Changed system top bar to neutral color again
• Fixed an issue with desktop mode on large screens
• Fixed crashes when opening pop up menu
• Information dialog regarding adblock-related crashes

For those unfamiliar with NativeAlpha, here is their description:

• Shows any website in a borderless full-screen window using Android System WebView.
• Create home screen shortcuts and retrieves icons in suitable resolution.
• Various settings (JavaScript, cookies, adblocking, location/camera/microphone access) can be set for every web app individually
• Navigation with multi-touch gestures while browsing.
• Opt-in adblock with user-selected filter lists.
• Less memory footprint and no privacy-invading app permissions in comparison to native apps
• Dark mode for Android 10+