I've spent a good portion of the last three years redesigning and rewriting #Firefox crash reporting machinery. It is a complex patchwork of tools that served us we'll but had an important limitation: it was tightly integrated in the project and almost unusable outside of it.
One of my goals for the rewrite was to make it useful to the broader #FOSS ecosystem and I feel that we're being successful on that front. 1/2
@raucao yep, we need better account migration in #AP and the is nothing in the speck to stop this happening. The is the problem of the #fedualisam of our "governance" of #FOSS and #opensource that we do need to address that is currently not prioritizing this.
Many apps are inaccessible for blind/VI people. Developers usually have to implement #Accessibility features from scratch for each platform they develop on, which can scare them away. The good folks over @accesskit are trying to change that with their #Foss project, #AccessKit. Their goal is to create a cross-platform solution for accessibility that only has to be implemented once. I'm posting this to spread the word. Let's help them reach their goals! https://accesskit.dev/#Blind#A11Y
I'm looking for folks discussing the overall quality of open source software, either from the product, privacy, or design perspective. Any recommendations? Thank you in advance #ux#uxdesign#privacy#ProductManagement#foss#OpenSource
Intalled #Darktable on the laptop tonight, so I can process images on the road. I'll be underway for the next 8 days, so I need me some image processing power to go.
Gallery for Android is a light-weight Media Gallery app for Android made with Jetpack Compose. It supports albums, favorites and more. It also features an integrated video player.
Since reddit is making changes to the way 3rd party apps work i'm considering moving all my news related stuff over to an rss feed, does anyone have recomendations for feeds that i can add for the following topics? #Gaming#LGBTQ#Linux#FOSS#Anime#Lego#ComicBooks#RetroGaming
Today I received the first payment for the Free and Open Source Software work. It's of course is not a sustainable business yet, but a good step towards.
Clipious
Android client application for invidious, the privacy focused youtube front end
Features:
◾Use own or public server
◾Subscription Management
◾SponsorBlock
◾Video View / Progress Tracking
◾Playlists
◾Background Playback
◾Live Stream Support
◾Android TV UI
I started the #delightful project. It's similar to Awesome project on #Github by Sindre Sorhus, but only curates lists related to #FOSS, #OpenScience and #OpenData resources. If @abundance wants that, they might maintain their own sublist and be part of https://delightful.club that is steadily growing.
🟢 #FOSS with AGPL license (in theory)
🔴 In reality it depends on a closed source module responsible for sync, dubious legality and misleading
🟡 Developed almost privately by a Venture Capitals funded company but accepting small contributions on GitHub and donations on OpenCollective
🟢 Store notes in #Markdown (or in less supported #OrgMode) locally
🟡 Forces indented lists in .md files and it doesn’t support normal paragraphs at all
🟡 Introduces syntax that breaks Markdown in a very bad way instead of using code blocks where possible (in Advanced Queries?)
🟡 Based on Electron, NodeJS and NPM
🟡 UI and business logic mixed together, it forces you to always run the whole UI, including for sync
🟢 Available for Linux on FlatHub (unofficially)
🔴 AppImage is the only officially supported way to install on Linux
🟡 No official reproducible builds but unofficial Flatpak ones are reproducible
🟡 Not in F-droid (and the closed source sync feature wouldn’t be allowed there anyway), you have to grab their APK manually or automatically
🟢 Supports Wayland but not by default
🟢 Custom CSS
🟡 Fixed UI, no tabs, no split view
🟡 Multi-window means multiple conflicting whole instances
🟢 Plugins platform
🔴 Plugins marketplace based on GitHub
🟡 Poor integration of plugins especially from UI/UX PoV
🟢 Very interesting concept of PDF annotations
🟡 PDF annotations not stored in the .pdf as standard annotations
🟡 PDF annotations stored in their own .md files with odd names
🟢 LaTeX formulas support
🟡 No native PDF export and in general problematic
🟡 Too many menus, command palettes and other redundant UI elements
🟢 Queries with simple syntax and UI
🟡 Advanced Queries are too often needed
🟢 Datalog query language in Advanced Queries
🟡 Very broken aliases feature
🟡 Inconsistent requirements of capitalize, lowercase etc in query syntax and elsewhere that even break some functionalities
🟢 Macros
🟡 Macros don’t work with most syntax, including Advanced Queries
🟢 Supports HTML and Hiccup syntax
🟢 Supports embedding Web pages using iframes
🟢 Sync is e2e encrypted
🔴 The code for e2e encryption can’t be audited because it is closed source
🟡 Tons of functionalities must be configured by editing a EDN file that it is very easy to break
🟢 Forum based on Discourse
🔴 Use (and abuse) of Discord, even release announcements are made there
🟡 Some Matrix bridges