I tried using #PulseSMS 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 #CalyxOS' 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 #AOSP Messages and #QUIK for the features I need, or whack a great deal of my #SMS history in order to reduce the db size so that #Fossify messages can run reasonably well without burning up my battery.
Ok, sorry for complaining. I'm thankful for #FOSS. :D
Hey #foss /#opensource 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 #UX 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?
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
@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)
Did you know that #LibreOffice 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...) #foss#opensource#freesoftware
A wiecie, że projekt #FOSSGralnia, promujący granie w gry open source (również najczęściej darmowe) ma od pewnego czasu bardzo ładną (i przydatną 👍) stronę www?
Jeśli lubicie pograć (niekoniecznie na Linuksie!) w fajnym towarzystwie, bez wydawania miliona monet, to polecam:
@FlockOfCats This response from the dev team is a good one. Basically - if they do decide to do a rug pull and change the licence from AGPL, people (including the original team) are free to walk out and fork it.
@libreoffice I've been using #LibreOffice for many years. Only when I'm forced I use another office suite, and that did not happen in the last 2.5 years.
Vejen FREMAD er åben. Vi bør slå ind på den nu - vi kan ikke blive ved med at tage så magne dumme beslutninger og købe så meget software vi ikke ejer og ikke har kontrol over!
".. vi er overbeviste om, at det på sigt vil være for det bedste, økonomisk såvel som sikkerhedsmæssigt, både af hensyn til databeskyttelsen og landets suverænitet, at indføre denne klausul, om at al offentlig software skal være fri software/open source" #foss https://community.fsfe.org/t/digitaliseringsproblemer-kan-loses-med-fri-software/1152