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MagicLike, (edited )
@MagicLike@mstdn.social avatar

Hey fedi - does anyone own a GL.iNet GL-E750 V2 (Mudi V2) and can help to make it officially supported by OpenWrt?
I am looking into getting a travel modem/router for a trip and would really like to have an option to go for a completely FOSS OS/firmware.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/is-there-already-support-for-gl-inet-gl-e750-v2/197542?u=magiclike

:boost_requested:

@askfedi

vel,

@MagicLike Only have the v1 ​:neocat_floof_googly_woozy:​

MagicLike,
@MagicLike@mstdn.social avatar

@vel Do you (still) have a specsheet for the V1?

osjobhub,
@osjobhub@fosstodon.org avatar

92% of respondents said work-life balance and remote work were top priorities when considering a new position. Read the full 2024 Open Source Professionals Job Survey report now to learn more. https://bit.ly/osjobsurvey
#jobs #career #OSJH #LPI #FOSS #WFH #RemoteWork #training #certification

libreoffice,
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org avatar

LibreOffice 24.2 (with new "year.month" version scheme) is our latest major release – but we're still maintaining the older 7.6 branch for a while longer. And today we're releasing 7.6.7, a minor update: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/05/10/libreoffice-7-6-7/

gamingonlinux,
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar
libreoffice,
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org avatar

Check out all the development and activity in the project last month! New features, improvements, bug fixes and more: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/05/09/qa-dev-report-april-2024/

ottaross,
@ottaross@mastodon.social avatar

Aha - #FOSS tools for the win. Wondered to myself, can I export an #SVG out of #Blender?

A quick Duck Search tells me yes, there's a plugin called #freestyleSVGExporter which will do it!

You convert an object to a greasePencil object then export that as an SVG. Nice.

ottaross,
@ottaross@mastodon.social avatar
ottaross,
@ottaross@mastodon.social avatar

My KiCad update download has completed. I'm doing a re-install, then back into the saddle to learn it all over from scratch with a small circuit board project.

But first some lunch.

NGIZero,
@NGIZero@mastodon.xyz avatar

Apply for Summer of Nix 2024 to join one of four teams in making selected free and open source software (FOSS) projects work reliably on a whim using Nix and NixOS.

Deadline May 10.

Summer of Nix is a rare opportunity for students or early-career professionals with diverse technical skills and interests to practice disciplined software development with Nix while contributing to the public good and receiving some payment for it.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/summer-of-nix-2024-call-for-participants/43249

librecast,
@librecast@chaos.social avatar

@NGIZero

As one of the projects that benefited from the last year, we can say that packaging a project for a distribution you love is an immense public good. It helps the distribution of projects and helps to strengthen that distribution as well.

https://chaos.social/@librecast/111147953393401941

NGIZero,
@NGIZero@mastodon.xyz avatar

Listen to the @projetslibres_podcast with Walid interviewing Lwenn Bussière, Technology Assessor at NLnet, about and NLnet.

Lwenn: "The Internet infrastructure that we know very well comes from free software and is based on an often invisible, often unpaid work of volunteers and enthusiasts. We fund people who actually build sustainable solutions for the Internet."

The podcast is in French with transcriptions in both French and English.

https://www.projets-libres.org/en/nlnet-foundation-funding-free-software-in-europe-lwenn-bussiere/

smallcircles,
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

"I wanna work in "

"Welcome in the sweat shop, my dear friend. Slave away with us until the whip of wears you out. Here's a set of FSF quality approval labels to plaster on your work of hard labour."

"Thank you! Let's change the world then. I'll start burning myself out, right away.. 😍"

--

dot dot !

air_pump,
@air_pump@post.lurk.org avatar

😵 shocked to find there is no teleprompter app on ?!

any recommendations?
just big scrollable text really, no fancy scrolling
:boost_requested:

NGIZero,
@NGIZero@mastodon.xyz avatar

Radically Open Security, the nonprofit computer security company donates 90% of its profits to NLnet. Today @ros turned 10 years old and crossed the magical number of 1 million euro in donations to NLnet.

Happy birthday ROS! And thanks a million :-).

We interviewed ROS co-founder and CEO Melanie Rieback to learn why she decided to give the company such an unusual business model.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20240507-ROS-10y.html

libreoffice,
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org avatar

New features are coming to , thanks to participants in the Google Summer of Code 2024! Here's what they'll be working on: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/05/07/projects-selected-for-libreoffice-in-the-google-summer-of-code-2024/

matt,
@matt@oslo.town avatar

I just discovered the robot vacuum cleaner I have is based on software. And you can download the source code from the website.

https://www.electrolux.co.uk/wellbeing/discover/explore-robot-vaccum-cleaners-pure-i-9/open-source-software-information/

:kakao_shock:

matt,
@matt@oslo.town avatar

But maybe that explains why it doesn't fucking work right now and I am spending my evening troubleshooting the vacuum cleaner. :kakao_sweat:

LibreOfficeDE, German
@LibreOfficeDE@social.tchncs.de avatar

Hier ist eine weitere #LibreOffice-Funktion, die Sie vielleicht noch nicht kennen: Textschwärzung! Damit können Sie sensible Informationen schützen und Vorschriften zur Vertraulichkeit oder zum Datenschutz einhalten.
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/de/text/shared/guide/redaction.html
#Datenschutz #foss #opensource

marcel,
@marcel@waldvogel.family avatar

AKTION! SONDERANGEBOT!

RedactOffice 2024 Pro

Nur CHF 1 pro geschwärztes Wort!

Jetzt zugreifen!!!!1!!!!111!!!!!!!eins!!!!!elf!!

Angebot endet morgen!

@adfichter @LibreOfficeDE

adfichter,
@adfichter@chaos.social avatar

@marcel Witzbold 😉Apropos die Bundeskanzlei ist auch bei Mastodon. @LibreOfficeDE

thelastpsion,
@thelastpsion@bitbang.social avatar

I'm in the mood to try to get more old software open sourced. If you can think of any old apps that you used on your Series 3a (or Series 5/Revo, but you all know I'm more of a SIBO/EPOC16 fan) that you remember fondly, I'll see if I can track the developer(s) down.

trancefish, German
@trancefish@det.social avatar

Meine Mastodon-Instanz ist ja det.social.

Die ist vom ZDF.

ARD und ZDF machen jetzt noch mehr Open Source:

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/in-eigener-sache/zdf-ard-mediathek-streaming-100.html

Aakerbeere,
@Aakerbeere@mastodon.social avatar

@trancefish det.social und edi.social sind KEINE Server

Betreiber ist:
Unterhaltungsfernsehen Ehrenfeld UE GmbH
Vitalisstr. 164
50827 Köln

slink, (edited ) German
@slink@fosstodon.org avatar

so geht das nicht. ihr habt falsch verstanden. sie bedeutet nicht zwang und überwachung, sondern zusätzliche optionen und mehr . meine forderungen:

  • alle websites und apps
  • alle apis frei zugänglich
  • kein tracking
  • kein 3rd party content
  • anonyme buchung und zahlung
  • alle services auch mit analog-äquivalentem nachweis (zB QR code gedruckt)
    ein stinksaurer kunde. @digitalcourage @PRO_BAHN @echo_pbreyer
XR_Nuernberg_sunny2,
@XR_Nuernberg_sunny2@mstdn.social avatar

@slink @digitalcourage @PRO_BAHN @echo_pbreyer
Ich dachte, zumindest -KundInnen könnten einfach einsteigen und losfahren !? Nein? 😮

slink,
@slink@fosstodon.org avatar

@XR_Nuernberg_sunny2 akut sauer bin ich nicht, weil ich selbst betroffen wäre, sondern allgemein aufgrund der gefährlichen frechheit, banking-logins abzufragen und der abschaffung anonymer spartickets.

die bc100 funktioniert im kern derzeit schon noch so, aber sie wird auch zunehmend kaputt gemacht: https://fosstodon.org/@slink/111806775297708120

asperamanca,

I have often wondered why isn't more popular. Today I tried a very simple design with . Basically three rounded rectangles with texts of different alignments. Really nothing fancy.

I gave up in frustration after 20 minutes when rendered text alignments would not match the object's settings no matter what I try.

For a relatively new project, I would start writing bug reports. For something as mature as LibreOffice, if such basic features don't work, it's not for me.

jeromechoo,
@jeromechoo@masto.ai avatar

Honest question — Why is open source software usually ugly?

Programming is just as much work as designing. Is it a cultural thing? Designers are less inclined to share?

jeromechoo,
@jeromechoo@masto.ai avatar

@robcee @pheonix another thougjt came to mind — most open source projects don’t have a front end. They’re libraries, CLIs, databases etc.

An end user facing open source app is relatively unique.

robcee,
@robcee@fosstodon.org avatar

@jeromechoo @pheonix very true! I focused on the “whole app” angle, but libraries and back end tools are way more numerous.

rl_dane,
@rl_dane@alpha.polymaths.social avatar

I tried using for a little bit today, because I remember liking it back in 2018 when I actually paid for the service.

I downloaded it and disabled its networking access immediately through ' firewall.

Even though it wasn't able to download ads, it still had blank ad banners, pop-up "buy premium!" screens and premium feature teasers like a thumbs-up icon next to the most recently received text with some small text saying something like "Try reactions!" (which sends you to the TRY PREMIUM! page.

This is without any internet access. It's all just hard-coded into the app.
I don't have a problem with these guys charging for their app, or charging a REASONABLE subscription fee for the service (being able to send SMS through any web browser), but man, apps in 2024 are just SO horrid. :'(

The state of SMS in the FOSS world is still pretty bad.
I either have to live with flip-flopping between Messages and for the features I need, or whack a great deal of my history in order to reduce the db size so that messages can run reasonably well without burning up my battery.

Ok, sorry for complaining. I'm thankful for . :D

gairdeachas,
@gairdeachas@mastodon.social avatar

Hey / community, how do you source skillsets outside of your core dev team's wheelhouse, be that volunteer or paid?

@DProofreaders is embarking on a proofreading UI redesign and the dev team doesn't have deep expertise. What we do have are two existing ~20-year-old UIs, a laundry list of requested improvements, and a very opinionated community.

Any suggestions on how you find someone to help you wrangle that?

jvschrag,
@jvschrag@hachyderm.io avatar

@gairdeachas What level of expertise are you looking for? There are a lot of just-graduated UX folk that might be interested in a “real” project they could add to their portfolio as they job-hunt. The university of Toronto near me has a summer intern program for their masters of information UX program, which is really good. (I’ve hired a number of people from there).

Although if you are talking full redesign, I’m guessing you want someone with more experience.

gairdeachas,
@gairdeachas@mastodon.social avatar

@jvschrag Some just-graduated UX folks would likely be a huge help vs going it all on our own (and I do think it could be a good portfolio builder). Part of the problem is I don't know what I don't know -- or rather as a dev I know I don't know enough about this.

I suspect we'd benefit most from someone who could help us look at our current UIs (remember: 2 of them), our most-important feature requirements, and distill that down into some mockups we could discuss with the community and iterate.

lamacchinadesiderante, Italian
@lamacchinadesiderante@mastodon.lamacchinadesiderante.org avatar

https://proxyraye.copyriot.xyz

Proxy Raye è un frontend alternativo per XVideos. Permette di guardare i video senza tracciamento e pubblicità, tramite un'interfaccia pulita ed essenziale.

L'ho riscritto da zero in Next.js. La nuova versione contiene le seguenti migliorie:

  • video HD e selettore qualità video.
  • rotazione user-agent anti ban.
  • switcher tema dark/light.

Il tutto è facilmente self-hostabile. Il sorgente è sul mio repo gitea e su codeberg.

Nelle prossime release aggiungerò altre cose importanti come i filtri per la ricerca e la possibilità di cercare su altri siti oltre a XVideos.

La pornografia è sostanzialmente innocua e sopravvalutata. La divisione porno/non-porno è un costrutto borghese originario della metà dell'800. La sessualità e il desiderio non sono confinate (se non illusoriamente) a certe pratiche o parti del corpo. Da una parte le piattaforme come XVideos hanno reso la pornografia più accessibile, sdoganando e permettendo la pubblicazione di contenuti con pratiche e corpi esclusi dal porno mainstream. Dall'altra rappresentano esperienze utente orrende: banner e popup ovunque, annunci ai limiti del distopico. Il senso di questo progetto è: attaccare il contenitore, non il contenuto. Far bruciare banda e impedire la monetizzazione. Un modo anti-capitalista di usare la pornografia. Questa serie di facciate malcela il tentativo di nobilitare qualcosa di banale e poco interessante come la pornografia. L'immagine è la prigione del desiderio. Buona masturbazione.

tallship,

I'm unable to pull this up and boost here. Was able to get the whole stream on a Glitch-soc box np, and I can follow the curator here too, but I'm too tired to try testing on Hubzilla or Friendica at the moment; so I'll just post the link then, which may be of interest to some, ... Actually, I suspect, many.

We've had some discussions about this over in the Fediverse-City Matrix room, Where Ryan is also a participant. It's apropos of the recent onboarding with respect to Flipboard curators and also the nacent interoperability we're experiencing with Bluesky's ATP.

Baby steps folks, baby steps, as they say ;)

Building Bridges to the Fediverse, with Bridgy Fed’s Ryan Barrett

I'm interested in hearing any feedback you may have to offer and as always, boosts are welcome :)

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #ActivityPub #bridges #interprotocol_federation #ATP

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opensoul, Italian
@opensoul@mastodon.uno avatar

Uso praticamente da sempre, e negli anni ho donato varie volte

Ma negli ultimi anni devo dire il lavoro che è stato fatto per migliorarlo è senza eguali: merita solo premi ed elogi immensi!

(specialmente l'arrivo di TB sul mobile con )

Per questo ho donato di nuovo oggi una somma maggiore

Chiunque usi Thunderbird e ami il , consideri la possibilità di donare per il progetto e renderlo sempre migliore oltre che

https://www.thunderbird.net/it/thunderbird/115.0/spring24/

thunderbird,
@thunderbird@mastodon.online avatar

@opensoul Siamo molto grati per il vostro continuo e crescente sostegno! Ci auguriamo che sappiate che queste donazioni hanno reso possibili miglioramenti come lo sviluppo di un'applicazione Android, quindi grazie per tutto ciò che fate! 😊 💙 (via DeepL)

libreoffice,
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Did you know that has a tabbed user interface option? Make sure you're using the latest release, LibreOffice 24.2, to get the most from it! (And you can find it in the menu under View > User Interface...)

max,

@libreoffice what about libadwaita + gtk 4

libreoffice,
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