That's why we specifically mentioned Fediverse and FOSS alternatives to get the word out about Software Freedom Day here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDMarketingSites The DFF board discussed this topic and wants to continue to reach out to people who don't know about FOSS and the Fediverse. So, we are trying to meet them where they are and let them know about the benefits of using FOSS. Also, one of the groups did a talk on switching from X to Mastodon: https://mobilizon.fr/events/1ab64af3-b99e-473d-87da-7ad07497ab41 If you have suggestions for the web site, please join the SFD discussion mailing list and add your input. The new DFF board will be redesigning the entire site for next year, but did not have time to do so for the 20th edition of Software Freedom Day. Their main goal was making sure that we still had a Software Freedom Day this year after the old board stepped down.

I got roped into helping to get the word out for Software Freedom Day 2023. I used to write the FAQ and let people know about the MinGW compiler.

I would love to find a cohousing project in my area. Have not found any good ones. Most of them seem like money making schemes. We had a group (not specifically ND) try to create a cohousing project locally. They went bankrupt and the developer bought out the property and made a profit selling regular homes. Most of the housing situations I've investigated geared to autistic people were very expensive. If there was a decent option in my area or anyone wanted to help put together a group to do this, I'd definitely want to get involved.

I'm also a programmer by profession. Haven't been as lucky as you with finding friends through programming even though I've probably been to every computer related Meetup or group in my area. Speaking of computer science, anyone doing anything for Software Freedom Day in September? I've tried the past few years to hold an event for it online and no one showed. Would love to do something for it, but it's really not much fun doing it alone.

I liked the Interlac alphabet Easter egg in the Legion of Super-Heroes TV series DVD. I also really like the cat game in certain versions of Android. Accidentally stumbled across it when looking through the Android code.

Workrave is usually mentioned most often as a break timer. I know prevrsi has short and long breaks, but you'd need Wine to run it on Linux. The other break timer software I've located so far are xwrits, stretchly ( https://github.com/hovancik/stretchly ) and breaktimer ( https://github.com/tom-james-watson/breaktimer-app ). Always looking for other interesting options.

This is one of my favorite RSS readers.

Wasn't thrilled with CMake when I was unable to build it without having to have a working copy of CMake already installed to build it with. It's also now so complicated to build, it won't build on older versions of some compilers. Directories it searches for libraries and includes are always wrong on my systems and I'm always having to override that information. Personally, I really like CDetect and use that in place of CMake and GNU autoconf/configure any time I can.

I've been doing some experiments with sixel: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/24382.html

I've tried pdftotext and a few others. So far, my favorite is the pdftxt program I've mentioned.

Wondering if imagemagick or graphicsmagick would be useful. They can be used as libraries instead of just programs. libmupdf has some interesting graphics routines. As to boundary detection, might need to look at machine learning libraries for that. Some C machine learning libraries that deal with image detection include ccv ( https://github.com/liuliu/ccv ), yolo ( https://pjreddie.com/darknet/ ) and vlfeat ( https://www.vlfeat.org/ ).

I've been searching for and collecting a list of machine learning source code in C/C++. One project I came across was this one: https://github.com/GHamrouni/Recommender