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9 votes
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Open source alternatives to Slack, Google Drive and Google Docs
So I recently started working at a company that uses Slack (free tier), Google Drive and Google Docs. Being a privacy conscious person I decided to do some research to see if we could transition...
So I recently started working at a company that uses Slack (free tier), Google Drive and Google Docs. Being a privacy conscious person I decided to do some research to see if we could transition out of at least 1 of these tools.
For Slack I thought about Element. However I have a question: is it possible to create a closed channel (meaning no unauthorized person has access to or can discover the company chat) on Element with only the free tier (it's easier to convince my boss to transition if it doesn't add to the cost structure)?
For Google Drive I don't think there are other free options that offer the 15GB of storage we have. 10GB would probably be enough. But I am also open to paid solutions.
I found out about CryptPad. They offer cloud storage but one has to pay to be at the same level of Google (which is totally understandable). They also have productivity tools integrated with the storage solution which is great.
Maybe there is some cloud storage solution that doesn't have integrated productivity tools and offers more storage. I would like to know.I'm open to suggestions and thoughts. My functions at the company have little to do with all this, I am just interested in open source and privacy. EDIT: I am not interested in self-hosting.
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Musician Holly Herndon open sources her voice
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NotOnlyFans: An open source, self-hosted digital content subscription platform like `onlyfans.com` with cryptocurrency payment
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The promise of open-source intelligence
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Employee at Muse Group threatens rival open source developer with deportation to China
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GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright
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Quit Social Media - An educational website that argues against proprietary social media and its risks
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Antirez on managing burnout in Open Source
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New in progress Blender render engine: Cycles X
7 votes -
eProcessor is a project that will create an open source RISC-V core for High Performance Computing (HPC)
7 votes -
Richard M. Stallman addresses the free software community
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Open letter to Richard M. Stallman
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OpenHW Group and Mitacs announce a $22.5M research program for open-source processors
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Signal's server repo hasn't been updated since April 2020
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Data Transfer Project
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Gab removes their public Git repository after it reveals their developers adding (and struggling to fix) basic security issues that led to a 70GB data leak
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Riff.cc, a torrent website for Creative Commons and free culture
Riff.cc is a private tracker torrent site that is completely focused on works distributed with creative commons, public domain, gpl or other free culture licenses. It has some plans to allow...
Riff.cc is a private tracker torrent site that is completely focused on works distributed with creative commons, public domain, gpl or other free culture licenses.
It has some plans to allow tipping creators and seeders using digital currency.You can use this invite to signup (I believe there is a limit of 90 people who can use it).
https://u.riff.cc/register/fb4dc3bf-af81-43f4-94fb-5afc6b24b159
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The Great Suspender and the problem of malware being introduced into open-source browser extensions
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PeerTube v3 : it’s a live, a liiiiive !
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Open-source developer and manager David Recordon named White House Director of Technology
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Linux for Apple Silicon effort kicks off
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Xfce 4.16 released with major changes
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NewPipe: A FOSS alternative to classical YouTube
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Pine64 December update: The longest one yet
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RISC-V International reports another strong year of growth with new technical milestones, educational programs, RISC-V adoption and more
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disroot.org (providers of hosted open source services) is getting his emails blocked by Microsoft and wants your help
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Mutt releases version 2.0
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Teddit: A privacy-friendly Reddit frontend similar to Invidious/Bibliogram/Nitter
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Primary Lemmy instance enables federation
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Tool for adding trigger warnings to links
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OpenStreetMap is having a moment; The billion dollar dataset next door
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Librem 5 mass production phone has begun shipping
Announcement Details on the phone itself (Both are the same, the USA refers to supply chain): Libram 5 - $799 Libram 5 USA - $1999 I think it's quite a tell about how much our electronics are...
Details on the phone itself (Both are the same, the USA refers to supply chain):
Libram 5 - $799
Libram 5 USA - $1999I think it's quite a tell about how much our electronics are subsidized by sourcing from inordinately cheap labor compared to the (mostly) German/USA labor for the USA phone.
PureOS itself looks like it could be a decent entrant to breaking the mobile duopoly. The only sticking point for me would be various applications that don't offer browser options (read: 2 factor authentication apps).
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Librem 5 mass production phone has begun shipping
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Introducing the Pinephone KDE edition
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JSHint: Watching the ship sink (A lesson on ambiguous licenses)
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Guido van Rossum, the Python language's founder, joins Microsoft
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Mobilizon, a free-libre federated events and groups platform has launched v1.0
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Freetube rewrite with Newpipe-like local API released
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Spritely - A project to improve the capabilities of the federated social web, from one of the co-authors of the ActivityPub standard
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How open-source software transformed the business world
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Where’s the Yelp for open-source tools?
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Arm officially supports Panfrost Open-Source Mali GPU driver development
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Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth makes peace with Ubuntu Linux community
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What's new in the Linux kernel
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Breaking up is hard to do: Chrome Web Browser separates from Chrome OS
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Hive mind: In the early 2000s, there was a website that tracked and reviewed open source applications. What was it?
You could look up, say, CMSes, get some basic info about each one (to make useful decision), and learn who its active committers were. The site closed, I know. Do you remember its name? Or people...
You could look up, say, CMSes, get some basic info about each one (to make useful decision), and learn who its active committers were. The site closed, I know. Do you remember its name? Or people who were part of it?
I asked someone to write an article for me about "review sites for open source" -- think Yelp for Software -- and neither of us can remember its name. But if you have others that you think should be included (for positive or negative reasons), please let me know.
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The Anti-Capitalist Software License has a goal of "contributing to a world beyond capitalism"
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The main Invidious (YouTube frontend) instance is shutting down and Omar Roth is stepping down as project owner
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Zulip 3.0 released: Open source, self-hostable, threaded team chat
12 votes