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22 votes
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Los Angeles County gets state approval of new vote-counting system using open source software
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Personal Wikis
I have been looking for some software where I can brain dump all the things I need to remember on a constant basis so I can easily find it again in the future. A personal wiki basically. I am...
I have been looking for some software where I can brain dump all the things I need to remember on a constant basis so I can easily find it again in the future. A personal wiki basically. I am wondering what any of you tilderians are using?
The things I am looking for:
Absolute requirements:
- Open Source: I want to be in control of the data myself, and I want to be able to hack on it myself as the need arises.
- Self Hostable: Goes hand-in-hand with with open sourceness, I want the data to live on the server in my apartment, under my own control.
- An API of some sort so I can programmatically add/read/modify data.
Nice to haves:
- Revision history of some sort.
- Common/simple data format for easy backup and longevity.
- Web interface, with mobile compatibility.
- Lightweight as possible, so I can run it on a low powered server.
Does anything know anything like that?
Options I have heard of:
25 votes -
Ghost 2.0 released
8 votes -
FOSS Alternatives
I got into FOSS recently and have been researching replacements for common proprietary software. Along with reddit (r/privacytoolsio) I have used alternativeto.net & privacytools.io. I would love...
I got into FOSS recently and have been researching replacements for common proprietary software. Along with reddit (r/privacytoolsio) I have used alternativeto.net & privacytools.io. I would love to make a list on Tildes for anyone that is also interested in this stuff.
Telegram -> Signal: signal.org
Discord -> Riot: riot.im (surprised this isn't as popular)
Google -> FindX: findx.com (there are many others but this is my favorite)
.................searX: searx.me
Reddit -> Tildes: tildes.net (obviously)
Chrome -> Firefox: mozilla.org (there are many others but this is my favorite)
LastPass -> Bitwarden: bitwarden.com (my personal favorite but there are others)
Photoshop -> GIMP: gimp.org
FireAlpaca -> Krita: krita.org
Microsoft Office -> LibreOffice: libreoffice.org
Windows Media Player -> VLC: videolan.org (Best FOSS ever)
uTorrent -> qBittorrent: qbittorrent.org
...................Deluge: deluge-torrent.org
Adobe Illustrator -> Inkscape: inkscape.org
Adobe Premiere Pro -> Blender: blender.org (mainly 3d stuff but can be used as animation)
Windows -> Linux: ubuntu.com (ubuntu is just one distro, there are so many)
Adobe Audition -> Audacity: audacityteam.org
..............................Ardour: ardour.org
Github -> Gitlab: gitlab.com
Trello -> Taiga: taiga.io
Fraps -> OBS: obsproject.com
Gmail -> ProtonMail: protonmail.com
Youtube Client -> NewPipe: newpipe.schabi.org
Outlook -> Thunderbird: thunderbird.net
Adblock+ -> uBlock Origin: (you can get it in your browser's addon store)
Unity -> Godot Engine: godotengine.org
USD -> Bitcoin: bitcoin.org (I would suggest an altcoin like Stellar though)
... anything else? any programs you don't know a FOSS alternative to that I can find?66 votes -
The Tragedy of systemd
13 votes -
Google has kicked Ahoy! the anti-censorship app from the Chrome store
22 votes -
Elon Musk announces plan to open source part of Tesla's vehicle security software
@elonmusk: Great Q&A @defcon last night. Thanks for helping make Tesla & SpaceX more secure! Planning to open-source Tesla vehicle security software for free use by other car makers. Extremely important to a safe self-driving future for all.
7 votes -
Reading the NSA’s codebase: LemonGraph review
5 votes -
DAS Keyboard banned a guy on forums for providing open source alternatives for their keyboards
@sebirdman: So I got banned from the @daskeyboard forums for telling people there's an open source alternative to the windows only software they provide. I'll never buy one of these keyboards again.
17 votes -
Michael MacInnis: Oh a new Unix shell - BSDCan 2018
6 votes -
Battle of the Schedulers: Linux's CFS vs FreeBSD's ULE
7 votes -
Google open sources "Filament is a physically based rendering engine for Android, Windows, Linux and macOS"
9 votes -
Microsoft forces Krita to change their Windows Store listing
24 votes -
An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs
28 votes -
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
16 votes -
The blog post about Tildes being open-source is up - please feel free to share it with people/communities you think would be interested
69 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
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Has anyone here backed the Librem 5?
For those unaware the Librem 5 is an upcoming Linux smartphone developped by Purism that seems to be doing everything right. Frankly I think this might be humanity's last chance to have a Libre...
For those unaware the Librem 5 is an upcoming Linux smartphone developped by Purism that seems to be doing everything right. Frankly I think this might be humanity's last chance to have a Libre mobile option before the Google/Apple duopoly gets too far ahead.
I really, really want to back the thing but after going through the exchange rate, duties and customs I think it works out to nearly 900CAD which I just can't afford right now, though I might end up pulling the trigger anyway. Call it 400$ for a phone and 400$ to support a worthy cause, eh?
12 votes -
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project
7 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2
7 votes -
GIF-for-CLI: Convert GIFs to animated ASCII art.
7 votes -
OpenBSD on my fanless desktop computer - Roman Zolotarev
6 votes -
Richard Stallman's Free Software, Free Society Essay Collection
7 votes -
Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging
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Tildes Extended
I posted about it three days ago but in these last three days I really worked my ass off to include lots of functionalities and feel like the community is missing a lot of topics... So, sorry, I...
I posted about it three days ago but in these last three days I really worked my ass off to include lots of functionalities and feel like the community is missing a lot of topics...
So, sorry, I won't spam this for the next days every three days but I felt like it deserved to be "bumped" in the activity feed at least once now that the default is just 24h.As of today, the features are:
- management to choose which links top open in a new tab
- button to quickly jump to new comments in a topic
- button to quickly get back to the top of the page in topics (no, there isn't one to go to the bottom)
- live preview of the reply/topic box
- load external CSS to customize the UI
- add label to users
I'll just link to the original topic so you can have some context if you want, otherwise these are just the links to download it:
- Original Topic: https://tildes.net/~tildes/1oa/browser_extension_tildes_extended
- Chrome: chrome.google.com
- Firefox: addons.mozilla.org
- Source: Github (feel free to do modification and open pull requests if you'd like!)
I need feedback to know what else you'd like to see implemented or what have bugs or could be done in a different/better way!
37 votes -
OpenBSD pledge and unveil [security] [system calls]
4 votes -
News Desk Updated!
A few weeks ago I posted a project I was working on to read news from the command line. I incorporated the suggestions given in that thread (license, requirements.txt, etc), incorporated...
A few weeks ago I posted a project I was working on to read news from the command line. I incorporated the suggestions given in that thread (license, requirements.txt, etc), incorporated suggestions I've received elsewhere, and added a few features.
Here's the updated link: News Desk
Any feedback would be much appreciated!
Edit: And a specific point for feedback. I store the user's API key in
~/.nd_config/key
which I think is a step up from requiring the user to set their key as an environment variable (which is how I had it originally). Still though, is there some way I can not store the key in plaintext and still have it in a format that is readable by the computer and can be used to verify API access?7 votes -
Mailing lists vs Github
9 votes -
Nouveau (open source Nvidia graphics drivers)
So I tried to install sway on my desktop today. This required a lot of fiddling, as I had to pull in bleeding-edge dependencies for the Wayland libraries, and had to build the compositor framework...
So I tried to install
sway
on my desktop today. This required a lot of fiddling, as I had to pull in bleeding-edge dependencies for the Wayland libraries, and had to build the compositor framework wlroots. Finally however, I had everything compiled and ready to go and....Proprietary Nvidia drivers are not supported. Use Nouveau.
I had completely forgotten that
sway
requires open-source Nvidia drivers. So - has anyone had experience using Nouveau? How usable is it from day-to-day? How noticeable is the performance hit when switching from proprietary drivers?8 votes -
Mozilla will not update its privacy policy: It doesn't need to.
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Mozilla to remove “meritocracy” from governance docs because it's “problematic”
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I made a thing: News Desk
I've only been seriously programming for about a year now (and mostly in R), but I've been digging into Python for the past few months. Mostly I use pandas/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn, etc. for data...
I've only been seriously programming for about a year now (and mostly in R), but I've been digging into Python for the past few months. Mostly I use pandas/numpy/scipy/scikit-learn, etc. for data analysis and some ML stuff, but in an effort to expand my skills I've also been playing around trying to build a few projects.
It's not much, but I built this: News Desk
Feedback is welcome. One bug that I'm aware of is that when you refresh the program, the
url_list
isn't cleared and the URLs from the refreshed articles are just appended to the list. So even though only 20 articles will show, you can select, for example, article 35.11 votes -
Computer History Museum makes the Eudora email client source code available to the public
6 votes -
The Emacs Web Wowser: Browsing and Searching the Web with Emacs
9 votes -
What would happen if historians made their research notes public?
9 votes -
Conway's Law and creating worlds that create worlds
13 votes