Now that Apple is forced to open their mobile operating systems for third party devs in an unprecedented manner, can we work on an indie foss podcatcher that does not suck?
Pop!_OS Tip of the Week! Run commands straight from the launcher. Open the launcher with Super (by default) then type t: and add your command! #Linux#TryPopOS#FOSS#OpenSource
The person in this position will work directly with helping us maintain existing systems, and design new systems for gathering and analyzing Tor network data.
The bulk of our code is currently written in #java, smaller portions are written in R, #Python, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript. We are transitioning to a new pipeline mainly in #Rust and Python.
The Gnome Project is a wall-garden, but not of the Apple kind. It's a club of mostly #Redhat programmers & a few select others, and either you're in it, or you're not. Your user needs, your bug reports, your patches, all end up on /dev/null. They listen to no one. Never have, never will.
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
Contrary to what I read on social media and in the mainstream press, when I think of the average software developer, I don't think of someone "moving fast and breaking things" in a cutting-edge tech start-up. I think of someone working in an established business on legacy systems that end users have come to rely on. Because that's what the vast majority of us actually do. Most software developers are in the distinctly not-cutting-edge business of keeping the proverbial lights on.
I really wish more designers were excited about using and designing free and open-source software.
Good design often means thoughtful, accessible, future-proof, frugal over slick, smoothly animated or "bleeding edge", yet most of the design discourse appears to be about gradient blurs, fancy color profiles, or the latest proprietary hardware.
Sorry designers, this discourse doesn't interest me. Let's talk about how we build apps that don't rot, or need the internet, or use too much energy.
@lobau I see where you're coming from, but designers are designers because they care about those gradient blurs, fancy color profiles and slick animations over the software itself.
Although I do agree we need more communication between FOSS developers and designers, I think the key to excite designers about free and open source software is to build apps that are designed well and intuitive to people in that profession.
I'm building #umpire, an anonymous registration of #missing and #murdered people, intended to match missing against murdered people's profiles. My spouse is a forensic genetic genealogist who specializes in marginalized communities and found existing sources to be lacking in their ability to search, match, and review. Follow my progress live on Mastodon, here, or over on GitHub: https://github.com/aeveltstra/umpire-web and https://github.com/aeveltstra/umpire-db.
Umpire is being built in vanilla PHP, HTML, JS, CSS, and SQL, backed by a MySQL database. The intent is to distribute the system as #FOSS, and have instances around the world federate with each other much like #ActivityPub instances do. We already created a different application (written in Python and SVG) that can extract the data and turn the people's profiles into paper posters and social media posts. We seek to keep the tech stack as straightforward as possible, to allow easy collaboration.
Groups of people just coming up with new ideas, new designs, new innovations.
Not Google vs Apple vs Facebook and no one else.
This is pretty amazing. This list has grown tremendously since I started checking out the #Fediverse in I think like 2017. This just blows me away and makes me excited again for the internet.
I want to ask a question to the #Headscale community which is on #Discord, and it's asking me to "verify my identity via my phone" before I can even post once? What the heck is this? I've used Discord before and have never been asked this. Is this a "server" setting or a new Discord thing?
In any case it makes really not want to participate there. Please #FOSS people, what the heck, why this love of Discord?
Ironically I got less pushback signing up for a functional @tailscale account 🤦♂️
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:
„Promocja oprogramowania open source powinna być w takim samym stopniu częścią usług publicznych, jak transport publiczny czy wodociągi. Jest dobrem wspólnym, z którego w równym stopniu czerpią administracja, biznes i społeczeństwo obywatelskie.”
If my MagicaCSG modeling posts have attracted your interest in the SDF modeling method, you might like to have a look at Womp, a free online SDF editor (with a "Pro" subscription option).
I've just played with it for a few minutes, and you can export your scene as an OBJ file, complete with textures for recreating the Womp materials in Blender, as you can see in the screenshot.