A federated internet archive, I’m wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.
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i wish cars had more of a conventional computer, more sensors, modular expansion, and completely open.
you would see some pretty cool shit.
A federated internet archive, I’m wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.
I know lots of people are crypto-reactionaries… But there are like dozens of these projects in the (primarily open source) crypto space. The basic idea seems to be that a crypto-archive uses a blockchain for hosting and a cryptocurrency to fund it. I don’t know how successful these projects have been. Here are a few quick examples from a search:
Using a blockchain to store any data beyond a little bit of text e.g. images and videos(hence why NFTs are stored as links to where an image was hosted, rather than the image file data itself living on the blockchain) is just incredibly inefficient and impractical however you slice it
A PeerTube like architecture would be far better(faster etc)
Reviews in OpenStreetMap, so that google maps can have a real competitor.
Its not FOSS, but I use to use foursquare for years because of how good it was at finding good restaurants / things to do in a new city. Now that its shut down, there’s no real alternative that comes close.
I don’t know if there’s such thing but i wish there was a foss alternative for street view too
It’s nowhere close to Street view’s quality or quantity, but there is Panoramax
There are some people working on this and proposing some options.
IMO, as someone who regularly edits OSM, the maps need much more info and basic editing before reviews. I had to add many of my fave restaurants. Forget about reviews when the restaurants aren’t even on there. Just saying. Maybe as it gets more users.
(Tangent: I was just in a foreign country where I didn’t have much mobile data. But I had downloaded OSM maps beforehand and made edits beforehand for my trip. The only downside is that OSMand doesn’t update their maps very often in some places so I almost never got to use all my edits. Overall though the offline maps were very helpful for navigation, etc.)
If you have OSMand, you would be interested to know about the Live Updates feature, which lets you download newer versions of maps on top of your existing downloaded maps, kind of like a software patch. The feature states that you can download map updates as recent as one hour, but I’ve personally seen the “patches” reflect the changes as soon as 15-20 minutes into upload.
To view live updates, assuming you didn’t heavily customise your OSMand interface:
- Open the drawer through the hamburger icon button on the bottom left corner of the screen
- Select ‘Maps & Resources’ from the drawer
- Select ‘Updates’ tab from the tab list below the ‘Maps & Resources’ title bar on the top of the screen
- Select ‘Live Updates’ just below the ‘Device Memory’ graph
- Enable the toggle below the ‘OsmAnd Live’ title bar on the top of the screen
- Select a map of your choosing among the list displayed under ‘Available Maps’
- Select the ‘Update now’ button in the bottom sheet to manually update the map and wait for a moment
Once the steps have been followed, you show see something like this below the title of the bottom sheet:
“Updated: Today - <current time>. Includes OSM changes made until <current timestamp>.”
If you see this, you can go back to the map and verify that the changes have been included without downloading the entire map of the location from scratch. The “patches” are only a few MBs at most and you can set the live updates to happen automatically on an hourly, daily or weekly basis.
I was recently in a different country and two of us were navigating an area that had been built up over the last three years. Only OSM had the streets and buildings. Google was way behind and would have been useless.
So for those people editing, thank you, it actually matters.
GarageBand. It’s literally the only proprietary software that I prefer over open source DAWs.
Shouldout to LMMS, Audacity, etc. I appreciate and use these too. But GB makes things so easy…
Have you tried Ardour?
Wish Linux on mobile was just as mature as on desktop.
To be fair, it’s not much of linux’s fault, but mostly due to shitty hardware restrictions and proprietary drivers
due to shitty hardware restrictions
regulatory restrictions?
Yeah, from what I understand, hardware manufacturers need to ensure that no one uses the mobile chip to send on reserved frequencies. And the way they typically do that, is with a proprietary, undocumented driver for the mobile chip. So, you basically need to reverse engineer that for each mobile chip, to be able to make calls and such…
Yes because of isps
can you explain how?
Most isps do not support linux mobile
isn’t mobile linux just linux but you use it on mobile devices? SIM cards have the same architecture to read, and I can use wifi on linux just fine, what do you mean?
ISPs need to approve mobile data antennae. Any phone they don’t like is not approved. Using an existing antenna just brings the problem of propietary drivers.
Remember, your PC does not have mobile data (even if it is a laptop).
i don’t even ask for that much, just a basic mobile linux that can emulate android apps with less than 15% performance loss.
A self-hosted media tracker that automatically curates all media (tags, descriptions, etc)
foss nas software that isn’t corporate controlled or vibe coded (looking at you true nas and open media vault)
An application that would make donating to FOSS projects, especially GPL-licensed works (or at least: those not trying to cater to corporations) in desperate need of support, effortless. In that: a periodic budget can be determined, time spent actively using applications is tracked, an application’s userbase is taken into consideration (as their cumulative income may eat too much into budgets: possibly better spent supporting smaller projects), and personal preference can be given (including an option to filter license types); as to rank the applications based on perceived value, and fraction the budget accordingly.
I would be happy to support projects that I actively, or to a lesser degree, rely on. But the process of taking all steps required to support a project is simply too manual, and outright unmanageable, when trying to take into account all system components. I really want the incentives to shift from MIT to GPL, so that maintainers don’t effectively end up being controlled by corporate paychecks; and are rather supported by individual end users. This should in theory make FOSS more resilient to any future restrictions to source access, which could hamper the long-term parity of forks, seeking to strip anti-features.
Devs should provide some info for donating directly in-app (something like this example below, and definitely give a few choices not paypal only. For me, whenever there is available buymeacoffee (in app I frequently use), I make donation with cc.
An open source 2D animation suite that can compete with Toon Boom Harmony. I bought an (expensive) perpetual license for Toon Boom Harmony years ago, and then they moved to a ridiculously overpriced monthly subscription model and deactivated my license, essentially ripping me off for hundreds of dollars. So ever since then I’ve wanted something to come along and put them out of business.
What about OpenToonz? AFAIK Studio Ghibli used it
Last time I checked it seemed like it wasn’t quite there yet in terms of features, but admittedly that was a few years ago so I’ll have to give it another look. Thanks for the reminder!
There is a cool fork: https://tahoma2d.org/
A foss decentralized marketplace that costed very little or nothing at all to small stores to participate, to fight back against amazon and others
It would be nice to have the same, but for uber-like drivers
Also food delivery.
In Finland, there used to be “pizza-online” which was really just a directory and ordering system for restaurants that already did delivery themselves.
They took a very small comission, as the site didn’t really do anything except connect restaurant and customer (and provide a review platform). For a long time, they didn’t even have an app.
You’d log in, select a restaurant, browse their menu and place an order. The order goes to the restaurant, and after that the site’s job was done.
It was massively succesful. Every hole in-the-wall pizza place was on there. Finding good food was easy and cheap, and the restaurants reached more customers than ever. And the platform including reviews led to competition in not just price, but quality.
Then pizza-online sold to foodora, and they got shut down, and participating restaurant were no longer allowed to deliver themselves, and the cut taken by the platform skyrocketed.
I think what you want is a CO OP. It would be nice if the software was FOSS of course.
But a coop would make things like uber type services be worker owned.
Also members can make decisoons.
Flohmarkt is probably the closest. Basically federated ebay.
Cool stuff. Its a shame not many people are using it.
Something like that is what society needs.
software with 1:1 feature parity with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop (except genAI crap)
As far as InDesign—I don’t think it will probably ever have 1:1 feature parity, but LibreOffice Writer has recently gotten some new features that allow for more fine-tuned word and letter spacing as well as glyph scaling. A paragraph composer is on the horizon as well. There’s also Inkscape and Krita, but I’m guessing you probably already know about those…
EDIT: Also agitating for optical margin alignment on Writer; will see how that goes…
Hmm thanks, but yea a word editor would probably be missing a ton of layout and image features. The closest I’ve found was Scribus but it seems pretty rough.
Yes, I tried Inkscape, but sadly found its UI very unintuitive. Also bc it only works with SVG files, it doesn’t properly support CMYK colours.
I know of Krita, but I mostly use Photoshop for image editing, not painting. And it’s the one of the three I use the rarest and has the most alternatives, so my main pain points are the other two, as long as the three programs work well together. (Which is another weakness in FLOSS software, they don’t tend to come in “suites”. Not to say that Adobe apps don’t have a ton of little inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies, but at least they can smoothly work with each other’s files.)
I hear ya. I have never had good luck with Scribus despite several dedicated tries. Still kind of learning Inkscape; I mentioned Krita instead of GIMP because it has full CMYK support. Depends on what your needs are I guess! 🙂
