niavy, French Bon, allez, parlons d'autre chose.
Je suis très content de timelimit.io, qui est beaucoup + complet et réglable que #FamilyLink, on peut faire PLEIN de choses avec c'est GÉNIAL.MAIS…
Timelimit.io ne permet pas de paramétrer des bornes horaires quotidiennes d'utilisation de l'appareil. Sur Family Link, on pouvait bloquer l'appareil par exemple entre 20:00 et 08:00.Connaissez-vous 1 appli #FOSS qui permette de le faire ? Ça fait plusieurs jours que je cherche sans succès.
libreoffice, Update time: #LibreOffice 24.2.4 is now available. This is the fourth minor update to the 24.2 branch, which we originally released in February this year (with a new "year.month" version scheme): https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/06/06/libreoffice-24-2-4/ #foss #OpenSource #news
autonomic, (edited ) Switching to Linux is great. It’s main benefits are privacy (no tracking), customisability (make it suit you) and flexibility (no lock-in or drawbridging).
Autonomic has the skills to move entire organisations over to Linux. We’ve worked with a variety of clients from providing a few laptops to entire offices full of desktop machines that boot over the network using LTSP (https://ltsp.org/), access a share filesystem and can be reached remotely using a VPN.
Once the hill of the initial switchover has been climbed, the ease of supporting these systems is a dream for us and our clients.
It’s never “We’re sorry, we can’t do that”, it’s “hey, here are your options”.
libreoffice, Another #LibreOffice feature you might not know about! Starting from version 7.6, you can add page numbers quickly and easily thanks to a new Wizard (Insert > Page Number...) #foss #OpenSource
brianhough, Better safe than sorry with a utility that requires as many permissions as Bartender does. I’ve loved and used Bartender for years - decades, maybe? - but that was because I trusted the developer.
These new developers, whoever they are, have not earned my trust. Trying out Ice now, a #FOSS alternative: https://icemenubar.app/ https://mastodon.cc/@jgarber/112560761955454817
tallship, As a longtime provider of services in one form or another since the late 80's and early 90's, I felt the pain of having to write out the following blog post/update.
Drew is an opinionated perfectionist with an attention to detail and his perspective that chafes some, endears others, and deservedly, receives the respect earned when someone strives toward par excellence for those for whom they provide services for.
I have some differing set of conclusions from my understanding of what he laments as the ordeal he's been through in the past year, like, "why would anyone consider a carrier besides DHL for international overseas shipments?" Also, I fail to see the logic in moving his entire infra from the U.S. (where there are many affordable top-tier carrier hotels - aka datacenters) to Amsterdam, which also has fine facilities and maybe it is because of privacy concerns which depending on what those are, may indeed be quite valid from my perspective.
But not having IPv6 fully deployed (as a result of datacenter choice?) is puzzling, although almost inconsequential operationally, in production, ... Almost.
Considering I've always looked directly at the carriers themselves, used my own delegated IP infrastructure for core operations, I tend to look at a datacenter as three things:
- Electricity
- Fail-over electricity (Generators)
- Air conditioning
Most folks rent a rack that comes with transit, I ask how much the XC is - I can find, mix, and pick my transit providers. I just wanna know that my shit is secure in a suite or cage behind locked cabinets that I personally have 24/7 access to at anytime (even though I'll rarely do so) and have 24/7 remote hands to swap drives, hot-pluggable power supplies and plug cables into the designated ports I specify, etc. Those things typically come w/zero cost.
For DDoS'ing, I do like to outsource this as part of a package, and I'm open to any offers of included transit/XC and want to know how much each additional 20A of electricity cost me each month in addition to the rack fees. Putting the onerous of protecting my customers from a good DDoS'ing on someone else like my upstream takes a lot of worry away.
Shipping machinery though, that's a bit distinct too, I've been burned a few times domestically, although always recovered my *tangible costs - time? well, I've lost a couple of customers because their infra was lost or damaged in transit, but insurance is important - Drew had that. What I'm really wondering though, is who besides DHL would you even trust to ship servers over the Atlantic Ocean?
That's a cost I would not consider skimping on - A girl I almost married worked for DHL for over 20 years and they'll cut a check at the drop of a hat, which might have worked out well for Drew considering these were old boxes ready for retirement anyway and the replacement cost (new stuffs) is what you insure for.
Anyway, I've really admired much of what Drew has done over the years, was cheerleading for him as he migrated from full time paycheck person to finally being able to announce that he "thinks" he can make enough money for a living by devoting himself full time to FOSS with his fledgling SourceHut.
Yah, sometimes his head swelled up pretty big, making it hard to fit through doorways, and I've butted heads with him here and there on technical matters only, but have always respected him, and in truth, he was never not correct even if his way was the wrong way, or there was simply a better way - usually those were matters of opinion coz there's more than six ways to Sunday to skin a cat.
Anyway, he's been kicked in the balls really hard, which if you know much of him, must have been really hard to lay all of that out in some manner of detail (He's almost always brutally transparent). For that, and moreover for getting right back up after being knocked down (maybe by da man?), I applaud his candidness. His devotion to those of you reading this that may have free repos at SourceHut, and I'm also encouraging everyone to kick in at least a few bucks - fuck that dumb app that you don't need, let alone pay $2.95 for the exclusive right to be tracked - I urge you with all FOSSiness in mind... Give it a read, and send him whatev, ... I guarantee it will come back to you tenfold.
Drew is a consummate FOSS warrior, do it for yourself, please - Five bucks, fifty bucks, heck, whatever isn't going to cut into your budget for porterhouse steak this weekend would be nice.
And it will make you feel good too.
Full disclosure: I'm not getting shit from this article. Drew and I only converse occasionally and usually it is to disagree - some folks are just good coz of what's in their heart, their commitment to the community, and whether you're a fan or not doing this for him really is doing this for yourself and everyone else in the FOSS world.
Here's the link to the article/update.
#tallship #FOSS #OpenSource #SourceHut #Git #repo
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beardedtechguy, For all you #Bartender users like myself, this seems like a nice little #FOSS alternative.
TheDJ, When you see some of what WMF has to deal with in terms of massive scraping of not only Wikipedia, but also the gigantic codebase and ticketing system and many of the other services, you start to understand why GitHub killed off unauthenticated search.
Commercial and non-considerate activity, really is grinding the open Internet to a standstill at times.
libreoffice, Did you know that #LibreOffice has hundreds of extra templates and extensions? They're made by community members around the world, like Isabelle Dutailly: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/06/03/community-member-monday-isabelle-dutailly/ #foss #OpenSource
thb, Munich's Long History with Open Source in Public Administration
jarno, Dutch Also, is there really a good alternative for google maps? I keep coming back to it, as much as I don't want to. Preferably #foss of course.
Skyper, @jarno I personally use @organicmaps on my mobile, and I love it.
jarno, Dutch @Skyper @organicmaps thanks, this looks like a potential winner. Runs very smooth as well!
DrPen, How do I become more involved with aspects and initiatives of NGI? Anyone know? Please pass it on!
@NGICommons @fediversity
NGICommons, @DrPen @fediversity Good afternoon, thank you for your message! Of course! Please check our website 👇 https://commons.ngi.eu/ you can 📩 also subscribe to our newsletter and check the event page. We might organise an @NGICommons event next to where you live. Speak soon!
amxmln, Apparently the German government paid Microsoft 198 million Euro for software licenses in 2023 alone…and all I can think of is the good that such a large sum could do if instead it was donated to the Linux foundation and various other #FOSS projects. 😳
amxmln, You know, spending all that tax money on something that would actually benefit all the tax payers instead of ending up in shareholder pockets? 😅
“Yes but they tried Linux and it failed” I hear some people say and to that I can only reply: well, maybe it wouldn’t have failed if they had invested nearly 200 million into it every year. 😒
garrett, @amxmln There's been so much good that's come from the Sovereign Tech Fund giving GNOME 1 € million to work on important projects.
https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure/
This Week In GNOME has a section with so much happening each week as a result.
(Several of these projects aren't even GNOME specific, but improve the stack for everyone, like many accessibility improvements.)
I can't even begin to imagine the impact if it were nearly 200× more per year.
RL_Dane, Finally found a #FOSS #android #scrobbler that supports saving to a self-hosted service or a local file: https://github.com/kawaiiDango/pano-scrobbler
Many thanks to @youronlyone for pointing me in the right direction. Added their f-droid repo to Droid-ify, and bob's your uncle!
Now I've exported my last.fm #scrobbles thanks to https://github.com/encukou/lastscrape-gui/blob/master/lastexport.py, and I can delete my account. XD
cc: @amin
RL_Dane, Yeah, I noticed that. I haven't messed with any of the *omas yet.
My only #Fedi experience has been mastodon and #GoToSocial, and of course #Pixelfed and #PeerTube.
RL_Dane, If you do try it out, let me know how it goes. I'd be curious to see what the output looks like on the #fedi
thefrankring, Softwares that I literally use every day that are free and open source #foss
- #joplin for notes
- #wordpress for websites
- #obs for recording
- #shotcut for videos
- #gimp for images
- #inkscape for vectors
- #thunderbird for emails
- #brave for web browsing
- #linux (pop_os) for operating system
etc.
thunderbird, @thefrankring You and your open source journey are awesome, and we're happy to be a part of it! 💙 😊
libreoffice, As May comes to an end, check out what happened in the #LibreOffice project and community this month! New releases of the software, GSoC updates, announcement of our conference and more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/05/31/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-may-2024/ #foss #OpenSource
smallcircles, Advocating for #Wasmcloud to adopt a OSS-first approach and use #LinuxFoundation #OpenBAO as their example of a secret store integration in upcoming RFC implementation..
https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2141124236
@linuxfoundation projects are already seen as overly corporate, and sticking as much as possible to at least #OSS and preferably even #FOSS in docs + elaborated examples would help to not further reinforce that notion.
smallcircles, And great news. #Wasmcloud discussed the issue and decided:
#HashiCorp #Vault will not be the reference implementation.
Wasmcloud looks forward to presenting #OpenBAO as one of their main integrations once it reaches GA.
The awareness that Vault constitutes "faux-pen source" made Wasmcloud implement automated license checks.
Read the details in this comment on the RFC:
https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2143021790
smallcircles, And great news. #Wasmcloud discussed the issue and decided:
#HashiCorp #Vault will not be the reference implementation.
Wasmcloud looks forward to presenting #OpenBAO as one of their main integrations once it reaches GA.
The awareness that Vault constitutes "faux-pen source" made Wasmcloud implement automated license checks.
Read the details in this comment on the RFC:
https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2143021790
osjobhub, According to our recent survey with @LPI 89% of respondents said an organization's open source policy was a key consideration when looking for a new position. Learn more and download the full survey report https://opensourcejobhub.com/blog/open-source-policy-a-key-consideration-for-job-seekers/
#career #OpenSourcePolicy #FOSS #jobs #hiring #contribution #OSPO
NGIZero, Hope to see you at T-DOSE. The Technical Dutch Open Source Event is a free and yearly event to promote use and development of Open Source Software.
@fsfe and NLnet will be present with stands and talks and lots and lots of hex stickers.
This weekend June 1 & 2 in Geldrop.
libreoffice, Want free LibreOffice stickers? Just tell us how much you love the software, with the #LibreOffice hashtag, and you can claim a sticker pack at the end of the month! 😊 More info here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/05/01/do-something-awesome-join-the-month-of-libreoffice-may-2024/ #foss #opensource
MrDblH, @libreoffice love the csv-import, much better than excels kind of import. formula editing and syntax (comparing to #LaTex) bit confusing and not that intuitive; would love to see better integration, but works very well. Thanks!
libreoffice, @MrDblH Cool! You can submit enhancement requests for formula editing at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org 👍
tdforg, In 2023 we had an election for a new Board of Directors, plus new team members, Advisory Board calls, and support for many other projects and activities: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/05/29/the-document-foundation-in-2023-annual-report/ #LibreOffice #foss #OpenSource
teleclimber, Released version 0.13.2 of #Dropserver today:
https://github.com/teleclimber/Dropserver/releases/tag/v0.13.2
It adds an HTTP proxy to the sandbox as a starting point to monitor outbound requests from the app.
It fixes some leaking file descriptors and goroutines which caused problems for long-running instances.
Lots of code cleanup to clear the path for the next things I'll work on.
MyLoFy, #fedivision2024 is over, time to pursue new projects. Thanks for the incredible 15 votes we got for our song! Also, we are very grateful to the organizers, giving us this wonderful event once a year!
It was a lot of fun, both as artist and as listener; especially the love, spirit and community of it all. See you next round!And here's our track:
https://soundcloud.com/mylofymusic/the-funniest-thing
@convolution #fedivision #FOSS
jarno, Dutch Anybody know of a #FOSS location share application for families maybe? Sorta like Glympse (like it) or Hauk (only Android) maybe?
libreoffice, Our community is working hard on our next major update – #LibreOffice 24.8, due in August! And you can help them to test the new features, and fix issues before the final release 😊 https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/05/21/libreoffice-24-8-alpha1-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #OpenSource