Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93 ( www.nytimes.com )
See also ESP Wiki’s entry on Martin Goetz.
Websurfx - An open source alternative to Searx which aggregates results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind. ( programming.dev )
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/2678496...
Terraform fork OpenTF renamed and relocated as OpenTofu ( www.theregister.com )
OpenTF – the fork of HashiCorp’s Terraform infrastructure management project – is no more. The software has been renamed OpenTofu and placed under the oversight of The Linux Foundation.
FOSS Alternative to Microsoft Lens? The development of OpenScan has been halted for 3 years. ( github.com )
What is a good FOSS Android app to scan documents and immediately convert them to pdfs? On Microsoft Lens, you can take multiple scans and also merge different ones together to create a combined PDF. Thanks.
BorgBackup – Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption ( www.borgbackup.org )
GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required. ( github.com )
Mastodon 4.2 ( blog.joinmastodon.org )
OSS Notetaking App: Notesnook ( notesnook.com )
Just wanted to share my experience with notesnook as a daily note taking and information organizer app. The free tier is fairly barebones but you can use it for simple stuff, but I’ll say that the paid $50 per year tier is really nice. I’m surprised at the polish and feature set for a OSS project from 2019 but it’s also...
GIMP 2.10.36 Released(GPLv3 image editor) ( www.gimp.org )
Ajnabee - An Omegle-inspired web application that enables users to engage in anonymous video chats with random peers. ( github.com )
Hosted @ ajnabee.live...
FOSS Microsoft Office for Linux
Looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office for the Linux....
Best lemmy client for android
Title + Why you like that client?...
FOSS-alt to Authy?
I currently use Authy on my android and my Linux system....
Best privacy tv's? Or dumb none smart tvs?
cross-posted from: monero.town/post/431688...
How I made a heap overflow in curl ( daniel.haxx.se )
In association with the release of curl 8.4.0, we publish a security advisory and all the details for CVE-2023-38545. This problem is the worst security problem found in curl in a long time. We set it to severity HIGH....
Aegis vs Authy
Hey y’all!...
CinePI: OpenSource Cinema Camera using Raspberry Pi ( github.com )
Video by Mental Outlaw
After 17 years and 761 episodes, FLOSS Weekly ended ( doc.searls.com )
Loom - Open source Lemmy client - macOS Beta Release ( github.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2566125...
FOSS Podcast app for Android?
I’m using Google’s but I don’t really like it....
Porting of the original WipeOut with some enchantments ( github.com )
Where would you host your code if you prefer non-for-profit communities with FLOSS commitment?
My first idea was to use the Gitea instance of the Free Software Foundation Europe, but T&Cs strongly encourage only projects with direct relation to the FSFE activities, so personal projects don’t seem welcome....
What FOSS projects in need torrenting?
I read that The Internet Archive is having financial and legal troubles, despite being one of the most important projects on the internet....
LocalSend - An open source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop ( alternativeto.net )
Seeing a lot of outdated apps being recommended, is that safe?
I’ve come to realize that a lot of foss android apps are pretty outdated and usually abandoned. Is that even safe to use? Like even the fdroid archive repository, are those safe to use? I’m still rather new to the foss world, but in my mind it seems a very outdated app is probably not safe or am I missing something here?