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The same opensource app, downloadable on both stores but paid on playstore and free on fdroid. Is it legal and is it ethical? Why?
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>WaveTracker is a free and open source music-making software for Windows. It uses basic wavetable synthesis and sampling to generate sounds, with endless combinations of effects to warp, modify or distort waves and sounds. It's just a week old and looks super dope. Wavetracker is inspired by Famitracker and pxTone Collage. [Wavetracker github](https://github.com/squiggythings/WaveTracker/tree/main) [Dn-FamiTracker that is also open source^[1]^](https://github.com/Dn-Programming-Core-Management/Dn-FamiTracker) --- [1] [It's under GPLv3 with various blobs](https://github.com/squiggythings/WaveTracker/blob/main/LICENSE)
Today I had to downgrade fastapi from 0.114.0 to 0.112.4 to make a software work. And it just hit me - what if pip didn't support 0.112.4 anymore? We would lose a good piece of software just because of that. Of course, we can "freeze" the packages into an executable that will run for as long as the OS supports it. Which is a lot longer. But the executable is closed source. We can't see the code that is run from an executable. Therefore, there is a need for an alternative to which we still have access to the packages even after the program is built. That would make it safely unnecessary for pip to store all versions of all packages forever more. Any ideas?
Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?
[F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/packages/one.zagura.IonLauncher)
Hi, I'm a technical writer looking to build my portfolio in technical documentation. I've written technical blogs, how-to guides, and white papers for SaaS brands, but I want to gain experience working on back-end documentation. I'm familiar with Python, HTML, CSS, C/C++ (to some extent), and SQL. Additionally, I've done considerable writing for cloud computing clients, so I have a solid understanding of cloud concepts. I can work with Markdown, Git, or even Google Docs. Please let me know if you're working on an open-source project that could use some documentation. Alternatively, if you know of an existing open-source tool that could benefit from documentation, I'd be happy to contact the developer.
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I just came across this amazing app. Idk much about yt-dlp but the app seems to fully support it, even with custom commands and stuff. Of course I tested it and it worked well (with just 1 video fail to download out of approximately 10). Though by default it seems to download videos without audio so make sure to click the small "Audio" button in the download menu and enable it. I recently saw someone recommending using a privacy respecting frontend for searching videos and downloading them instead of watching them online for better privacy and consistency so I hope someone will find it useful... or just use it to download videos because that's what most people do anyways. Also I hope I'm not copying anyone's post here. My Lemmy client doesn't support search so I can't check if there are any posts about this app. P. S. Excuse my usage of the foul phrase "YouTube downloader" to describe this app. I just wanted to make it easier for less tech savvy people to understand what this app is and how it can be useful for them.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21298994 > I'm trying to feel more comfortable using random GitHub projects, basically.
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HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404064 Similar tools: https://github.com/dividuum/html-vault https://github.com/MaxLaumeister/PageCrypt https://github.com/a-nau/password-protected-website-template https://github.com/sowbug/quaid https://github.com/mprimi/portable-secret Thanks to [@refalo@programming.dev](https://programming.dev/u/refalo)
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[D.N.A] Elasticsearch and Kibana can be called Open Source again. It is hard to express how happy this statement makes me. Literally jumping up and down with excitement here. All of us at Elastic are. Open source is in my DNA. It is in Elastic DNA. Being able to call Elasticsearch Open Source again is pure joy. [LOVE.] The tl;dr is that we will be adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks. We never stopped believing and behaving like an open source community after we changed the license. But being able to use the term Open Source, by using AGPL, an OSI approved license, removes any questions, or fud, people might have. [Not Like Us] We never stopped believing in Open Source at Elastic. I never stopped believing in Open Source. I’m going on 25 years and counting as a true believer. So why the change 3 years ago? We had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing. So after trying all the other options we could think of, we changed the license, knowing it would result in a fork of Elasticsearch with a different name and a different trajectory. It’s a long story.
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**Disclaimer this is my own project**
codeberg.org
Demo: https://ozean.dev/
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40942420
AlternativeTo is a site I use quite a bit. Personally I use it when I get fed up with an Android app having too many ads / creepy network behavior or want to find a self-hostable version of a freemium service. It has filters for free, open source, platform type, etc. From my understanding it's all crowd sourced, so if you disagree with a rating put in a vote! Sharing this in hopes that others find it as useful as I do. If you know of similar or better resources I would love to hear about them. Edit: many people are noting that the comments and reviews are out of date. I agree! Despite that I still find it to he useful. It would be great if this little bit of visibility gets more folks engaged over there to improve it.
> Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative. Let's take a look at 10 FOSS tools designed to replace popular tools like MS Office, Notion, Heroku, Vercel, Zoom, Adobe, and more. ... > ⭐ Repos mentioned > - [LibreOffice](https://github.com/LibreOffice) > - [Mattermost](https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost) > - [Nocodb](https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb) > - [Plane](https://github.com/makeplane/plane) > - [Appflowy](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy) > - [Jitsi](https://github.com/jitsi) > - [ERPNext](https://github.com/frappe/erpnext) > - [Coolify](https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify) > - [Dokku](https://github.com/dokku/dokku) > - [Instant](https://github.com/instantdb/instant)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1040526 > A judge has dismissed the majority of claims in a copyright lawsuit filed by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI. > The lawsuit was initiated by a group of developers in 2022 and originally made 22 claims against the companies, alleging copyright violations related to the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant. > Judge Jon Tigar’s ruling, unsealed last week, leaves only two claims standing: one accusing the companies of an open-source license violation and another alleging breach of contract. This decision marks a substantial setback for the developers who argued that GitHub Copilot, which uses OpenAI’s technology and is owned by Microsoft, unlawfully trained on their work. ... > Despite this significant ruling, the legal battle is not over. The remaining claims regarding breach of contract and open-source license violations are likely to continue through litigation.
> The Mono Project (mono/mono) (‘original mono’) has been an important part of the .NET ecosystem since it was launched in 2001. Microsoft became the steward of the Mono Project when it acquired Xamarin in 2016. > The last major release of the Mono Project was in July 2019, with minor patch releases since that time. The last patch release was February 2024. > We are happy to announce that the WineHQ organization will be taking over as the stewards of the Mono Project upstream at wine-mono / Mono · GitLab (winehq.org). Source code in existing mono/mono and other repos will remain available, although repos may be archived. Binaries will remain available for up to four years. > Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork. > We want to recognize that the Mono Project was the first .NET implementation on Android, iOS, Linux, and other operating systems. The Mono Project was a trailblazer for the .NET platform across many operating systems. It helped make cross-platform .NET a reality and enabled .NET in many new places and we appreciate the work of those who came before us. > Thank you to all the Mono developers! Explanation of the differences between all the versions of mono from a [Hacker News comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41372086)
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* Website: https://www.beyondallreason.info * Trailer: https://youtu.be/8K_fSWfOC1w
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https://nordup.itch.io/the-gates
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pidgin.im
> Greetings everyone. It is with much regret that I am writing this post. A plugin, ss-otr, was added to the third party plugins list on July 6th. On August 16th we received a report from 0xFFFC0000 that the plugin contained a key logger and shared screen shots with unwanted parties. > We quietly pulled the plugin from the list immediately and started investigating. On August 22nd Johnny Xmas was able to confirm that a keylogger was present.
Hi everybody, just checking in to see if there's anything like the subject is requesting. I really love the pinterest back in the day, but it's privacy abuses are obscene. And I just want to know if anybody is aware of anything that is a better option for someone who's more privacy focused. Thank you so much.
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Just want to share it. Found it on fdroid.
www.spacebar.news
a promise without a remedy: the supposed incompatibility of the GPL-2.0 and Apache-2.0 Any comments from #fsf #osi ?
They have an Android tablet of their own that I've configuredb strictly for child use and it has helped them learn many things easily using apps such as Khan Academy Kids and Duolingo Kids. There is precious little beyond that that is not not infested with ads or needs subscriptions that are bound to cost a lot in the long run. I have an old machine with Debian connected to my TV that I can also attach a PS3 controller to, if needed. What software can I explore in the Debian world that can help my child continue her learning journey. I'm open to suggestions not just for learning tools, but also for games that might help. PS: they get plenty of outside time too, so that's not a worry. I just want them to explore things and discover things they might like. I'm amazed by their ability of assimilate stuff so any help about diverse things like gamified music theory, art, logic will be highly appreciated. Cheers!
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It's a Web Lemmy client.
plus the usual betterfox
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Title copied from HN since it's more descriptive
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Hi all, Building the [Quiblr](https://quiblr.com) client has been my passion project on the side. I'm excited to share it with the community! Check out the [repo here](https://github.com/Technicolor-Dreamcoat/Quiblr)
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I hesitated for a long time before posting this because I didn't think it having copyrighted materials (even in the client itself by default) is something the FOSS community necessarily likes the sound of but now I'm sharing it anyways. I guess I'm making my image of the most controversial Lemmy user official with this one.
I've been looking into all sorts of them recently: logseq, appflowy, vikunja, etc. What tools do you use? Why? What problems did you run into with the previous set of tools you used for this job? Right now I'm primarily interested in finding a "zero-knowledge" (cloud provider doesn't have access to my data) system for task management. Needs to be able to have recurring tasks and tasks organized in some interesting/useful ways (by projects/labels/something, maybe a kanban and table view). Deadlines and time tracking/planning interesting but not required.
forgejo.org
> Forgejo is changing its license to a Copyleft license. This blog post will try to bring clarity about the impact to you, explain the motivation behind this change and answer some questions you might have. ... > Developers who choose to publish their work under a copyleft license are excluded from participating in software that is published under a permissive license. That is at the opposite of the core values of the Forgejo project and in June 2023 it was decided to also accept copylefted contributions. A year later, in August 2024, the first pull request to take advantage of this opportunity was proposed and merged. ... > Forgejo versions starting from v9.0 are now released under the GPL v3+ and earlier Forgejo versions, including v8.0 and v7.0 patch releases remain under the MIT license.
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I recently discovered this firefox\chrome extension that make streaming videos soo much faster. It also has built in subtitle support that lets you upload subtitles or search through opensubtitles. It's incredible how much faster videos load https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream
I am a long-time NoScript extension (https://noscript.net/) user. For those who don't know this automatically blocks any javascript and let you accept them (temporarily or permanently) based on the scripts' origin domain. NoScript as some quality-of-life option like 'accepting script from current page's domain by default' so only 3rd parties would be blocked (usefull in mobile where it is tedious to go to the menu). When I saw LibreJS (https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/) I though that would be a better version of NoScript but it is quiet different in usage and cares about license and not open-source code (maybe it can't). Am I the only one who thought about checking for open-source JS scripts filtering (at least by default)? This would require reproducibility of 'compilation'/packaging. I think with lock files (npm, yarn, etc) this could be doable and we could have some automatic checks for code. Maybe the trust system for who checks could be a problem. I wanted to discuss this matter for a while.