'A George Mason University scientist and team of researchers developed a new camera system that allows ecologists and filmmakers to produce videos that accurately replicate the colors that different animals see in natural settings, according to a report in the open access journal PLOS Biology.'
"This novel camera system will open new avenues of research for scientists and allow filmmakers to produce dynamic, accurate depictions of how animals see the world around them, the authors say. The system is built from commercially available cameras, housed in a modular, 3D-printed casing, and the software is available open-source, allowing other researchers to use and build on the technology in the future."
"This year marks the 10th anniversary of Hacktoberfest, and we’re calling on your support! Whether it’s your first time participating—or your tenth—it’s almost time to hack out four pristine pull/merge requests as we continue our month of support for open source."
What's the best self-hostable tool for adding a survey to your website. Looking for something that's 100% Free Code, not a mostly proprietary tool with source code released for a few non-essential bits released for openwashing purposes.
I was thinking about a model for doing Free Code maintainership.
I know a few older hackers who can't be bothered writing whole software packages themselves anymore. But if there's a project they personally use or care about, and they're familiar with the programming language(s) used (or willing to brush up), they might be willing to review and merge patches.
Sparing enthusiastic coders from review duties, and maybe increasing code quality.
It just occurred to me that it could be really useful to have a standardised HX (Human eXperience) rating system for Free Code apps. With a regular review process (eg annual) by a group of HX experts who support software freedom, and a set of trademarked symbols illustrating the ratings. Once reviewed, app projects could display the symbol on their homepage, if they want to.
"I'm coming to understand that open source is largely about a community and only partially about shared code development. Since I'm a writer I'm especially intereted in the crucial role that documenters (and community managers!) play in that community."
I love the way @nickcolley prioritizes accessibility issues in the Semaphore.social tracker. That's a fantastic Free Code dev pattern that I'd love to see widely adopted.
Another pattern I'd like to see, although it's not so easy to do in existing code forge platforms, is a second issue tracker specifically for #UX issues. Again with accessibility as a top priority.
Now that a bunch of code in GitHub repos isn't visible without running MicroSoft's proprietary JS, it would be great to have a software freedom-protecting front-end for browsing GH itself. Of course, Free Code projects moving off GH onto community-hosted code forges is the ideal solution, but in the meantime...
I don't think it's possible to stop the tide of meaningless text and spam that LLMs will wreak on an open system, but how do we build sustainable semi-closed ones? I really don't want Discord to be the end result, as it's both totally unsearchable and will get more and more user hostile over time, much like Reddit.
Tibor Kaputa spends his days developing the Simple range of apps for Android-based OS and makes them available free of charge on F-Droid. I use a bunch of them and they're fantastic. Please consider trying out his apps and making a contribution to support his work:
Another shameless plug for the Simple range of apps for Android. I've installed a bunch of them using F-Droid. I love them so much I wish Tibor Kaputa (the developer) would put out a Simple OS; a deGoggled Android fork with all the Simple apps as defaults, and the Simple aesthetic applied to the UI of the whole OS.