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6 votes
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A drive to Taco Bell
4 votes -
KeenWrite 3.3.0
6 votes -
Ushering in a new era for open-source silicon development
2 votes -
Show Tildes: a little, portable, hackable graph-drawing tool
13 votes -
After 2 years of working full-time on my open-source project (Mockoon), I have been accepted to the GitHub Accelerator program!
5 votes -
freeciv21 (a civilization like strategy game and a fork of freeciv migrated to C++) releases first stable release 3.0
10 votes -
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (A open source survival RPG) is now on steam with the money from the sales going to fund one of the developers
7 votes -
What are the potential negative consequences of open-sourcing the Twitter recommendation code?
I'm not sure anything quite like this has happened before. What problems could happen as a result of this?
4 votes -
I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer (how a maintainer is now making an income equivalent to his google compensation)
9 votes -
The rise of self-hosted apps
14 votes -
A guide to open source project governance models
3 votes -
Dear Quora, please stop holding information hostage on the internet and remove the paywall
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who...
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who can afford access to it. These benefits are something that makers of quora platform themselves used in the form of open source software like Python, Django, HTML, etc. to build that very platform in the first place.
But now, by denying those benefits to others and bringing in a paywall, quora is striking on its own proverbial roots. There are much better ways to reward their content creators than holding their answers hostage with a paywall. The plain old advertising revenue sharing model can be still used, just like Adsense does. This is a win-win thing where everyone gains including the platform, content-creator and advertiser.
It's extremely important to oppose this paywall move by quora because this attacks the very foundation of the free and open Internet as we know it. Imagine what happens tomorrow if other informative sites like StackOverflow, Wikipedia, etc. start following quora's path. Imagine the plight of the poor and under-privileged sections of the society who cannot afford costly subscription to information. And yet, as members of the evolved human race of 2023, they very much deserve access to this information.
I urge all netizens who consider themselves part of this free and open culture tribe to sign this petition and through it, convey our grievance to quora and let them know why this is wrong and what is at stake (our freedom).
If you agree with my cause, I urge you to sign this change.org petition created in this regard requesting Quora to revert the Paywall move.
5 votes -
core-js: So, what's next?
15 votes -
Honest question: Are Windows or Linux laptops more suited for freelancers?
I know it's a technical question but I want to know specifically from freelancer perspective. A freelancer's decision making differs from that of regular corporate worker in this regard due to...
I know it's a technical question but I want to know specifically from freelancer perspective. A freelancer's decision making differs from that of regular corporate worker in this regard due to many reasons:
- Freedom to choose: Unlike corporate, a freelancer isn't imposed any process or specific software guidelines to follow. They're free to use Linux and open source if they want to.
- No team compatibility: A freelancer can work on specific project with a geographically distant team but they don't have to submit to any long-term compatibility constraints.
- Budget constraints: A freelancer can't typically afford costly licenses. With corporate, they can scale well and bring down the licensing costs which isn't true for freelancers. Hence, open source software is typically more suited to their workflow (even when using a Windows OS).
Given all these factors, do you think a Windows or Linux laptop is more suited for a typical Freelancer? What do you happen to use?
4 votes -
Veloren: An open-source Cube World inspired multiplayer voxel RPG
7 votes -
Mycroft Mark II: The end of the campaign
10 votes -
Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
12 votes -
FOSDEM 2023: Glad to be back
3 votes -
OpenAssistant - ChatGPT's Open Alternative
11 votes -
Triple screen portable computer build
4 votes -
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape (2000)
4 votes -
Open source maintainers: What they need and how to support them
2 votes -
Kiwixotherapy: A weird but working therapy for introverts suffering from sleeplessness
4 votes -
KmCaster – Screencasting software to display keyboard and mouse status
4 votes -
Readup's 2022 in review
4 votes -
The limited utility of the phrase “GNU/Linux”
6 votes -
Twitter turns its back on open-source development
9 votes -
Looking for smallish feature suggestions for an open source project
I'm thinking about increasing the level of my open source contributions a bit. Instead of searching blindly until I stumble upon an issue that: A) Piques my interest B) I feel somewhat qualified...
I'm thinking about increasing the level of my open source contributions a bit. Instead of searching blindly until I stumble upon an issue that:
A) Piques my interest
B) I feel somewhat qualified to implementI figured I'd check with the tildes community. Is there any Open Source software that you use that is missing a feature/capability? Can you give a brief description of it (bonus points for links to an issue tracker with an open ticket :))?
Can't of course promise anything will come of it, but if I do pick up your suggestion at least I'll give you a ping if I make any progress!
7 votes -
Re-Nav: a WebExtension to create custom redirects for any website
17 votes -
Open source is democratizing video game development
6 votes -
Celebrating five years of Pop!_OS
7 votes -
Open source is democratizing video game development
9 votes -
Adventures with old worprocessors
7 votes -
Stable Dreamfusion: An open source implementation of Google's text-to-3D synthesis
9 votes -
What the Securing Open Source Software Act does and what it misses
6 votes -
How to pay your rent with your open source project
5 votes -
F-Droid status update: Slowly getting faster
8 votes -
openbb terminal is a open source investment research platform (stocks, index funds, crypto etc)
3 votes -
Open source recommendations for a photo/post voting site?
TLDR: I need a website that let's signed in users vote on each others photos, and stores that data on who voted for what in a database. Background I run a facebook group of about 2,000 members....
TLDR:
I need a website that let's signed in users vote on each others photos, and stores that data on who voted for what in a database.
Background
I run a facebook group of about 2,000 members. This group is designed for analog (any non-digital format) photographers to swap high quality artistic prints with each oter. The community was essentially dead and the admin wanted to throw in the towel so I took over. We've made progress, the group growth jumped by over 500% in the first month after I took over.
Right now trading prints doesn't work well. People make a post using the facebook selling format, and those who are interested comment with the image they'd like to trade for. The problem is that the posts get limited visibility due to facebook's algorithms, and stale posts hang around. All of this reduces over all activity, and the majority of posts don't end up in a trade.
My solution is to do a trade event with everyone participating at the same time. Since facebook doesn't lend itself to this I'd like to whip up a quick site for the event. My time is so limited these days I really don't have the capacity to build something from scratch, and the group certainly doesn't have any other developers to help out with it (it skews heavily on the older side).
I'd like to find an open source project that lets users sign in (sign in using facebook would be a bonus) and upload/vote on images. After the voting closes, I'll write code to pair everyone up in a way that optimizes for everyone getting to make a trade. If Alice votes for Bob's image, and Bob votes for Alice's image, they would get paired up to make the swap.
I feel okay writing the code to map out swaps, but I'm pretty terrible at web design and especially at front end design. I've looked across github, but I wanted to reach out and see if anyone could recommend something that I might of missed.
I don't expect to have 2,000 members participate, I think it may be as few as under 100, so hopefully I won't need to worry about scale.
Thanks in advance for the help!
11 votes -
EchoSVG: Pure Java SVG renderer with level 4 CSS selectors
2 votes -
One week of Stable Diffusion
4 votes -
The real problem with Mozilla
5 votes -
Time till open source alternative
6 votes -
Cemu 2.0 announcement. Linux builds, open-source and more
17 votes -
Stable Diffusion public release - a fully open text-to-image generator
20 votes -
Alexandria Search is a open source ad free nonprofit web search engine
11 votes -
Limit Theory (a cancelled space sim with procedural generation) releases its source code under a open source license
14 votes -
Xfce's Xfwm4 sees Wayland port with Wlroots
8 votes -
RISC-V only takes 12 years to achieve the milestone of 10 billion cores, 5 years faster than ARM
14 votes -
Major Xonotic update 0.8.5 releases
12 votes -
Letter from Codeberg: We are now an employer! (Codeberg is a democratic open source github alternative)
7 votes -
Don't be that open-source user, don't be me
9 votes -
Notkia: Building an open and linux-powered numpad phone
2 votes -
Email client K-9 Mail will become Thunderbird for Android
10 votes -
The Helios microkernel
10 votes -
gron - Make JSON greppable
7 votes -
Marginalia search (an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content) is now open source
11 votes -
Rocket.Chat leverages the Matrix protocol for decentralized and interoperable communications
9 votes -
Thunderbird's donation-driven revenue rose 21% in 2021 to $2.7 million
8 votes -
NVIDIA releases open-source GPU kernel modules
28 votes -
MiSTer Playstation core officially released
10 votes -
What are the best open source Content Management Systems? A comparison
5 votes -
Ubuntu 22.04: An Excellent Linux Distro
8 votes -
My experience switching to Linux and the need for guidance
Hello everyone, This will be a long post because I want to give my post the proper context. I apologize in advance for taking your time. About five months ago, with the help of relatively high...
Hello everyone,
This will be a long post because I want to give my post the proper context. I apologize in advance for taking your time.
About five months ago, with the help of relatively high ceiling of Windows 11's system requirements, I finally pushed myself to use Linux exclusively on my desktop. It was a decision between using Windows LTSC or Linux and I went with the better long term option.
I am not a programmer but I'm also not unfamiliar with the Linux world. I believe I've used one distro or another on a spare computer for shorts period of time since at least 2008. But those use cases have always been to satisfy the curious side of my brain as I am always interested in technology. So after installing distros ranging from Ubuntu to Arch, my curiosity waned enough to never look deeper into how these systems work. They were, after all, a hobby project on a spare computer that was often gathering dust.
When I decided to switch exclusively to Linux, the next decision I had to make was to pick a distro. Naturally, I looked for the established players first. Ubuntu was the obvious choice because it has long been the distro for newbies and there are a lot of guides on the internet if I ever needed help, which was inevitable. But then I read about snaps and thought that was a deal breaker. I was moving to Linux specifically because I don't want things shoved down my throat. I had no intention to relive that1.
So Ubuntu was a no go, but I was certain I wanted a Debian based distro as their support and software availability was unmatched, maybe save for Arch2. At this point, why not Debian right? It's known for being rock solid and it's Debian itself, not some derivation. Well, because I had various issues with Debian before. These issues were always fundamental and not very specific too, so I didn't want to risk wasting a lot of time fixing things I didn't understand, only for them to break again after a couple of days. Then I came across Pop!_OS, which seemed like a perfect fit. It was Ubuntu without its worst parts, came with Nvidia drivers and it had a company behind it that seemed to be committed to Linux. I installed it and everything just worked. I had zero issues.
But then I started getting that FOMO itch again. GNOME 42 was out and it looked great, but Pop!_OS was two versions behind. I also found out that they're working on their own DE, which might end up being great (it looked nice) but I didn't want to leave an established player like GNOME behind, including all the benefits you get from its wonderful extensions. I started looking for other distos again and Fedora caught my eye. I was obviously aware of Fedora, I even used it once back when YUM was still a thing, but it didn't leave a lasting impression on me. The fact that it wasn't a Debian based distro was also a disadvantage because that meant something different and at this stage of dipping my toes into Linux, I didn't think different might be the best way to go for me. Still, despite my best judgment, I installed Fedora on a USB and used it live. When my gut feeling was confirmed by my research about how Fedora leaves things as stock as possible and is ahead of the curve in terms of upcoming technology (btrfs, PulseAudio, Wayland et al.3) without sacrificing on stability, I was hooked.
After renewing my Timeshift backup, I formatted my Pop!_OS system and installed Fedora. The installation process could use a facelift, but it handled everything perfectly. I didn't even have some of the issues I had with Pop!_OS right after installation. It was literally problem free. I'm now on day #3 of using Fedora and the experience remains the same. The only issue I had to deal with was trying to get Timeshift to work (apparently it doesn't play nice with btrfs on Fedora), but instead of wasting my time with that, I just installed Déjà Dup and I'm good to go again. Barring any drastic issues, I don't plan on changing my distro again.
Now, onto my plea for guidance.
I'm looking for comprehensive resources that will teach me how Linux works under the hood. Considering my non-programming background, I'd appreciate it if the language is approachable. The reason why I want this, for one thing, is to learn more about the system I'm planning to use probably for the rest of my life (in tandem with macOS) but also, I want to do some cool stuff Linux allows users to do.
Just to give a quick example. Yesterday, I installed Rofi, which is, besides many other things, an app launcher. I got it to work just fine, I even got a configuration of my own with a theme of my choosing, but when it comes to using some scripts, I just couldn't do it. Every video I watched on YouTube told me how easy it is to use scripts with it as if it's a self-explanatory thing, but I was simply clueless. There was a lot of lingo thrown around like environment variables, setting up
$PATH
, making the scripts executable withchmod
etc. I have very little knowledge of these things. I want to learn what they are, why they exist, and how they all tie together. I want to learn how/etc/
is different than/usr/
and the difference between X11 and some DE (or if they're even in the same category of things). Now, at the risk of sounding impatient and maybe even worse, I also don't want to go way too deep into these things. I am not, after all, trying to become a kernel developer. I just want to be better informed.There are a lot of information on the internet but most of this information is scattered and out of context. If I try to learn more about one thing, I'm bombarded about other things that I don't know, so in the end I learn nothing. In short, I'm looking for a comprehensive, entry level video series or a book about Linux written in an easy to understand language that assumes no prior knowledge.
Additionally, I'd appreciate any website, YouTube channel and what have you to keep up with recent developments in Linux. I already found a couple as there are plenty of them, but I'd like to learn more about how people here keep up with this fast changing environment.
Thank you for reading and sorry for being so verbose! 😊
1: I know you can remove snaps, but I didn't want to deal with the hassle of any possible issues deleting a core system functionally might bring about.
2: Despite finding its approach fascinating, I had no intention to get into Arch because it's a rolling distro and I didn't want an advanced system that can break at any moment in the hands of a novice like myself.
3: To be clear, I don't know how most of these technologies are better than alternatives, but the Linux community at large seems to think they're drastically better than alternatives and are the future.21 votes -
DIY haptic input knob: BLDC motor + round LCD
8 votes -
Doom Classic: Ray traced | Trailer
11 votes -
Vega Strike (an open source space trading and combat game) releases 0.8.0
5 votes -
The SerenityOS browser now passes the Acid3 test
@Andreas Kling: The SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test! 🥳🐞🌍AFAIK we're the first new open source browser to reach this milestone since the test originally came out.This has been a team effort over the last couple of weeks, and I'm so proud of everyone who contributed! 🤓❤️ pic.twitter.com/Vw8GkHWSaj
8 votes -
Shattered Pixel Dungeon (an open source Roguelike Dungeon Crawler RPG) is now on Steam
10 votes -
VRoom is an open source, very high performance, RISC-V implementation targeting cloud servers, it's licensed under a copyleft license (GPL3) but also available as a commercial license (like MySQL)
5 votes -
Google blocks FOSS Android tool – for asking for donations
12 votes -
Lessons learned from my 10 year open source project
5 votes -
Why I think "Sponsor Only" repositories introduced by Github is a terrible idea
9 votes -
Solaris
10 votes -
The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security
7 votes -
The Big Time Public License 2.0.0
8 votes -
Open-source blueprints are inspiring activists to distribute tent-safe heaters that can be built for as little as $7
18 votes -
An open source AI assistant + social network of decision makers to help people make better decisions
2 votes -
How does SourceHut's FOSS business model work? (SourceHut is a Github alternative from the creator of Sway)
9 votes -
Developer nukes his extensively used JS libraries to protest corporate use without compensation
17 votes -
Cemu emulator plans to go open source and release Linux build in 2022
10 votes -
Why and how we raised VC funding for an open-source project
3 votes -
Breaking of "colors" and "faker" NPM libraries show that everything isn't right in the FOSS ecosystem
7 votes -
Remnants of the Precursors (An open source modernization of the 4x strategy game Master of Orion) passed the 1.0 milestone
8 votes -
Fediverse in 2021 (The fediverse is a network of open source social media platforms)
7 votes -
I won't let you pay me for my open source - David Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails)
6 votes -
The gift of it's your problem now
11 votes -
Log4Shell: We are in so much trouble
21 votes -
To secure the supply chain, you must properly fund it
8 votes -
Interfacing with Zig, a BDFL-run project
6 votes -
But why that VPN? How WireGuard made it into Linux
8 votes -
Open-source Vizio lawsuit takes an ugly turn
15 votes -
Is there an open-source version of the Garmin Connect app for Android?
I am considering the purchase of a Garmin GPS watch, but I don't want to run the bloated Garmin Connect app on my phone. Really all I want, is the ability to pull coordinates from my watch (.gpx...
I am considering the purchase of a Garmin GPS watch, but I don't want to run the bloated Garmin Connect app on my phone. Really all I want, is the ability to pull coordinates from my watch (.gpx files) and put them on my phone or computer. Does a privacy-respecting app like this exist?
6 votes -
Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language
19 votes -
Thinking about calibre
18 votes -
Rust Moderation Team resigns
20 votes -
Introducing River, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
10 votes -
Lemmy has implemented federation with Mastodon/Pleroma
12 votes -
The OBS Project has accused StreamLabs of copying their name and trademark
@OBS: Near the launch of SLOBS, @streamlabs reached out to us about using the OBS name. We kindly asked them not to. They did so anyway and followed up by filing a trademarkWe've tried to sort this out in private and they have been uncooperative at every turnhttps://t.co/r1eXr3VxcJ
20 votes