Opensource

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20172957

Krita 5.2.5 is here, bringing over 50 bugfixes since 5.2.3 (5.2.4 was a Windows-specific hotfix). Major fixes have been done to audio playback, transform mask calculation and more!

https://hacktoberfest.com/participation/

https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-maintainers-unpaid/

https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/software-freedom-day/blog

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2989211

Mastodon Toot.

Project.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20448316

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20425929

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20425811

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19900393

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, I 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

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.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42499628

Flathub

ImageToolbox is a great android app for editing and working with images.

What's Changed

• Make camera unnecessary to run the app

• Added Jpeg 2000 format: .jp2 .j2k

• Added Tiff compression and previewing

• Added 39 new filters:

  • Low Poly
  • Sand Painting
  • Palette Transfer (Image Color Transfer #1205)
  • Enhanced Oil
  • Simple Old Tv
  • HDR
  • Simple Sketch
  • Gotham
  • Color Poster
  • Tri Tone
  • Clahe Oklch
  • Clahe Jzazbz
  • Clahe Oklab
  • Yililoma Dithering
  • Clustered 2x2 Dithering
  • Clustered 4x4 Dithering
  • Clustered 8x8 Dithering
  • Polka Dot
  • LUT 512*512
  • Amatorka
  • Miss Etikate
  • Soft Elegance
  • Soft Elegance Variant
  • Cube LUT
  • Palette Transfer Variant
  • Bleach Bypass
  • Candlelight
  • Drop Blues
  • Edgy Amber
  • Fall Colors
  • Film Stock 50
  • Foggy Night
  • Kodak
  • Pop Art
  • Сelluloid
  • Coffee
  • Golden Forest
  • Greenish
  • Retro Yellow

• Add Image Splitter option by Add Image Splitter for carousels #724

• Added quality controlling for watermarking option by Requested features #1192

• Added Aspect Ratio preset by Fit to aspect ratio, fill space (no crop) #1201

• Added choosing between crop/fit in Aspect ratio preset by Bulk Cropping support #1149

• Added ability to Import/Export OCR models by Path of OCR (Recognize Text) files + Issue. #1196

• Added ability to choose position when using crop resize mode by Precise trimming/cropping of images #1138

• Improved Image Preview option, new grid layout, also added ability to select and process multiple images at once by [BUG][REQUEST] Image Preview Bug and Request for adding batch conversation from Image Preview section (Multi Select) and support for .txt format in format conversion tab. #1209

• Fix many bugs in crop resize mode preview

• Added ability to move to the next/previous image by swiping in batch modes by 🔴 (#1206) NEW FEATURES #1206

• Added ability to edit OCR extracted text by 🔴 (#1206) NEW FEATURES #1206

• Added ability to reorder favorite filters by 🔴 (#1206) NEW FEATURES #1206

• Added ability to add rotation to rectangle in drawing by Paint #1058

• Fix crashes by Bug #1214

• Speed up dithering filters and some others too

• 8 New scale color spaces

  • Oklab SRGB
  • Oklab Rec.709
  • Oklab Gamma 2.2
  • Oklab Gamma 2.8
  • Jzazbz sRGB
  • Jzazbz Rec.709
  • Jzazbz Gamma 2.2
  • Jzazbz Gamma 2.8

• Added Favorite Options when grouping disabled by Favorites #1238

• Fix cipher double click by ⚪ (#1236) NEW FEATURES #1236

• Added ability to capture picture from camera in OCR without changing image picker mode

• Move draw color selection nearer to color picker

• Fix apng crash

• Added Color Tools option

  • Mixing
  • Conversion
  • Harmonies
  • Shading

• Neutral LUT exporting to create own Lookup Tables

• Fixed Camera Permission in Document Scanner by @egmsia01 in Fixed Camera Permission in Document Scanner #1270

• Fix Preset selector conflicts with quality options by Preset selector conflicts with JPG quality options #1257

• Added QOI Image Format support by QOI support #1260

• Map JXL effort from 1..10 instead of 0..9 by JXL effort matched to cjxl #1274

• Added ability to enable link previews in OCR and QR Code Scanner

• Added zoom to QR Scanner

• Added scanning from image by Add a feature to select local image and scan QR code in it #1282

• Fix Watermark Text sizing doesn't match preview by Watermark: Text sizing doesn't match preview #1276

• Improve quick tiles

• Added ICO image conversion support

• Added GIF to WEBP tool

• Added WEBP tools by [Feature Req] Add webp animation #1297

  • WEBP to images
  • Images to WEBP

• Fix JXL Tools layout

• Improve embedded media picker ui

• Added PSD decoding

• Added JXL and QOI support for embedded picker by Fixed Camera Permission in Document Scanner #1270

• Improve UI of image pagers

• Added Choosing the defaults for the Draw feature (color, mode) by Choosing the defaults for the Draw feature and when sharing pictures to the app #1259

• Added DJVU images loading

• Added Option to remove timestamp from filename by Option to remove all suffixes from batch processing #1309

• Added Option to use non formatted timestamp

• Imrpove Emoji Selection UI

• Added One time save locations editing to settings also

• Added Recently used colors in selection of them

• Added 10 New Icon Shapes

  • Shuriken
  • Explosion
  • Bookmark
  • Pill
  • Burger
  • Shield
  • Droplet
  • Arrow
  • Egg
  • Map

• Added ability to change QR code shape by ⚫ (#1233) NEW FEATURES #1233

• Added ability to save OCR recognized text into file by ⚪ (#1236) NEW FEATURES #1236

• Improve accessibility of color selection by 🟥 (#1246) NEW FEATURES #1246

• Added Fit Resize mode by 🟫 (#1327) NEW FEATURES #1327

• Added default resize type setting by More default settings #744

• Added Ability to control system bars visibility by 🟫 (#1327) NEW FEATURES #1327

• Add Ultra HDR preview support in embedded picker and Image Preview tool by Ultra HDR photos support #1124

• Added Noise generator by Noise generator #948

probably a long shot but are there any lightweight alternatives to windows file explorer for 2024?

i'm stuck on windows for now until the time comes to grab a new laptop. so sick of the default one in windows 11 though.

Dev behind a popular screenshot tool checks out, but the successors are good.

As a web engine, Servo primarily handles everything around scripting and layout. For embedding use cases, the Tauri community experimented with adding a new Servo backend, but Servo can also be used to build a browser.

We have a reference browser in the form of servoshell, which has historically been used as a minimal example and as a test harness for the Web Platform Tests. Nevertheless, the Servo community has steadily worked towards making it a browser in its own right, starting with our new browser UI based on egui last year.

This year, @wusyong, a member of Servo TSC, created the Verso project as a way to explore the features Servo needs to power a robust web browser. In this post, we’ll explain what we tried to achieve, what we found, and what’s next for building a browser using Servo as a web engine.

In its current plan, the EU commission intends to cut €27 million in funding for Free Software. The article has a link to a questionnaire that you can fill out and express your opinion about the plan. I believe non-EU citizens can participate as well.

Have FOSS licenses outlived their usefulness? Bruce looks at what might come next in the world of free and open source software.

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/emulation@lemmy.ml/t/1161771

Linux only (I think), only between desktop clients, and it requires a server.

In the short time I've tested it, everything worked.

​Microsoft has released a new Workspaces PowerToy that helps launch sets of applications using custom desktop layouts and configurations with a mouse click.

Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

Just setup a new de-Googled phone and figured I'd share some of the good FOSS apps I'm using. Please feel free to chime in with any you'd recommend (or better options than what I have listed)

• Weather: Breezy Weather. Note that the version in F-Droid is the "freenet" version and only has one source (Open-Meteo I believe). The "standard" release is available on Github and has additional sources like AccuWeather, OpenWeather, etc. Absolutely gorgeous app as well as widgets.
• Maps: Organic Maps What Google Maps should be. Absolutely gorgeous, functional, and works 100% offline.
• Google Play Store: Aurora Store. Sometimes you need an app that's only available in the official Play store. Aurora store lets you download apps without having Play services installed or requiring a Google account. Even if you do have Play services and Play store available, Aurora is just so much more usable since it's not a flaming dumpster fire of "suggestions", "recommendations", and ads.
• Email: K-9 Mail. Basically Thunderbird Mobile. Enough said.
• Calendar: Etar Fast and efficient, syncs easily with my DAVx5 synced calendars from Nextcloud
• Tasks: OpenTasks. Create, edit, update, and complete tasks. Can sync to a CalDAV server via DAVx5.
• Contact/Calendar/Task Sync: DavX5 WebDAV sync utility that I use to sync my calendar, contacts, and tasks from Nextcloud to my phone.
• Matrix: SchildiChat. So much better than Element for Android. Was having constant issues with encryption keys failing to sync in Element that hasn't (yet?) been a problem with SchildiChat.
• Launcher: FastDraw: This is more of a preference, but I really like this launcher for its simplicity and ease of organization. Don't recommend this if you use a lot of widgets as it only supports one at a time (feature, not bug).
• Authenticator: Aegis
• SIP/VOIP: Linphone I really wish the desktop version of Linphone had this kind of polish.
• MPD Client: M.A.L.P Absolutely gorgeous and intuitive MPD client. I pair it with Snapcast to control my whole-house audio.
• Quick Share: Snapdrop/Pairdrop I don't use the app (rather, I have my self-hosted one pinned as a PWA), but this is great for sending one-off files or text between devices.
• Music: Tie between Apollo and Mucke. The default LineageOS (AOSP?) music player is nice, but the phone I setup wasn't supported with LineageOS and didn't have a good music player included. Additionally, those two scale well on the small screen of the device I'm using where others would crop off the controls at varying points.
• Web Apps: NativeAlpha. Uses the Android System WebView to wrap any website into a standalone "app". While most mobile browsers will let you do that with the "Add to home screen" button, only ones with a manifest.json will work as apps; the rest are just shortcuts. Also includes other niceties such as adding adblock, controlling cookies, defaulting to a desktop version, and modifying the user agent string (among other options).

https://positive-intentions.com/blog

https://www.reddit.com/r/positive_intentions/

i normally use reddit for what people normally do with a blog. this is because i dont know enough to drive traffic to my site. i recently created a Docusaurus blog for my app and id like to see more traffic go there when i set up ads. the amount of traffic i have right now is barely anything (about 30 per day), compared to the number of "views on reddit".

i regurgitated old reddit posts into articles. im not much of a writer and im sure the content can be improved to "flow better".

i created some images on my phone... i justify it as "it matches the theme"... its actually the best i can do without using some AI or an actual artist.

id like to set up some kind of ads on it when its looks like its in a better state and i can attract traffic.

let me know what you think i could/should do to make it better.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41310855

F-Droid

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19811329

I just came across this amazing app. Idk much about yt-dlp but the app seems to fully support it, even with custom commands and stuff. Of course I tested it and it worked well (with just 1 video fail to download out of approximately 10). Though by default it seems to download videos without audio so make sure to click the small "Audio" button in the download menu and enable it.

I recently saw someone recommending using a privacy respecting frontend for searching videos and downloading them instead of watching them online for better privacy and consistency so I hope someone will find it useful... or just use it to download videos because that's what most people do anyways.

Also I hope I'm not copying anyone's post here. My Lemmy client doesn't support search so I can't check if there are any posts about this app.

P. S. Excuse my usage of the foul phrase "YouTube downloader" to describe this app. I just wanted to make it easier for less tech savvy people to understand what this app is and how it can be useful for them.

cross-posted from: https://links.hackliberty.org/post/2559706

Abstract

This paper examines the potential of the Fediverse, a federated network of social media and content platforms, to counter the centralization and dominance of commercial platforms on the social Web. We gather evidence from the technology powering the Fediverse (especially the ActivityPub protocol), current statistical data regarding Fediverse user distribution over instances, and the status of two older, similar, decentralized technologies: e-mail and the Web. Our findings suggest that Fediverse will face significant challenges in fulfilling its decentralization promises, potentially hindering its ability to positively impact the social Web on a large scale.

Some challenges mentioned in the paper:

• Discoverability as there is no central or unified index
• Complicated moderation efforts due to its decentralized nature
• Interoperability between instances of different types (e.g., Lemmy and Funkwhale)
• Concentration on a small number of large instances
• The risk of commercial capture by Big Tech

What are your thoughts on this? And how could we make the Fediverse a better place for all to stay?