AMD Preparing "openSIL" For Open-Source Silicon Initialization With Coreboot (www.phoronix.com)
SimpleX File Transfer Protocol - a new protocol for sending large files efficiently, privately and securely. (simplex.chat)
Fasting App
Is there a FOSS fasting tracking app that can be used for IF tracking?
Recoll; how to add a file to skip?
The manual says add ".*" to stop it from indexing hidden directories, but in preferences > index settings, there is no text entry option to add that. I can add specific directories to it as long as they are clickable
This RISC-V Laptop Will Be Easy to Make and Upgrade (www.tomshardware.com)
r/programming - I'm building Memories, a FOSS alternative to Google Photos with a focus on UX and performance (www.reddit.com)
Reddit Crosspost. I'm not the author of the post, nor the developer of the app.
Boxy SVG Editor (boxy-svg.com)
A good guide for how to use clamTK for noobs (www.youtube.com)
Simple and beautiful Breathly meditation app reworked from ground up in new update (github.com)
VanillaOS needs help translating, if you speak another language consider helping out (hosted.weblate.org)
Vanilla OS - The new consumer grade linux (vanillaos.org)
Spoke - FOSS text campaign tool (opensource.moveon.org)
Just set this up for my local Food Not Bombs chapter so they can coordinate with volunteers and others better.
LibreSpeed - Speedtest. Free and Open Source, No Flash, No Java, No Websocket (librespeed.org)
What's your fav newpipe alternative that works on linux? Not invidious, it lags behind in features and has very significant loading times (imo) compared to newpipe.
newpipe is a youtube player
Why I don't recommend the MIT license (oklomsy.com)
Bypass Your ISP’s DNS & Run A Private OpenNIC Server (2600 Article) (famicoman.com)
Mozilla created VR chat for your browser. No VR headset needed (hubs.mozilla.com)
Keyoxide is a privacy-friendly open source tool to create and verify decentralized online identities using a cryptography-based approach to bidirectional linking (keyoxide.org)
Just like passports for real life identities, Keyoxide can be used to verify the online identity of people to make sure one is interacting with whom they are supposed to be and not imposters. Unlike real life passports, Keyoxide works with online identities or "personas", meaning these identities can be anonymous and one can...
Extensity is an open source extension for Chromium browsers to quickly enable/disable extensions to save RAM and speed up the browser (github.com)
One reason for browsers getting sluggish is having too many extensions open, which just consumes extra RAM. Sometimes, too, they can interfere with each other. Even though my computer has 32GB of RAM, using a lot more than is needed, certainly increases the browser start up time a lot....
One Utility Tool for Everything on MS Windows (christitus.com)
Chris Titus has done a video about this awesome open source tool he has built to install various common applications, do global software updates (yes I also can’t believe Windows does not yet do that), various system tweaks, and config settings....
Cross-Platform Open-Source Fluent Reader is my current best choice for an offline RSS news aggregator (github.com)
I’ve happily been using self-hosted web-based FreshRSS for a while now. I chose it mainly because it suited my needs, and when I travelled regularly, I could work from the same shared source of articles. But the last while I’ve noticed some feeds lag really slowly with fetching the feed content (it may be my slowish hosting...
Open source Five Filters Full Text RSS can be self-hosted in a Docker container to retrieve full text from RSS articles (christitus.com)
Chris did a nice breakdown of how this can work in conjunction with a self-hosted Fresh RSS reader (same as I’m using). It solves that issue with some RSS feeds only showing a short snippet of the content....
The Mastodon Social Network Just Released a Big Update (www.howtogeek.com)
I love the ability to follow hashtags and get the results in the home stream. Friendica has that option for many years but for me it's a very welcome feature.
Fedora Linux 37 released! (fedoramagazine.org)
DXVK Version 2.0 released (github.com)
