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niavy, French
@niavy@masto.bike avatar

Bon, allez, parlons d'autre chose.
Je suis très content de timelimit.io, qui est beaucoup + complet et réglable que , 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 qui permette de le faire ? Ça fait plusieurs jours que je cherche sans succès.

XilefJr,
@XilefJr@masto.bike avatar

@niavy je me suis pas franchement pencher sur le sujet
Donc je suis preneur aussi.
Perso ce que j'aime pas avec family link c'est l'impossibilité (ou je n'ai pas trouvé) de définir un groupe d'application
Par exemple : jeux limité a 20 minutes et on y colle tout les jeux et colle ça quelque soit le jeu ça décompte le même chrono
Alors que la c'est par jeux, donc #11ans fait le tour de tout les jeux qu'il a...

libreoffice,
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org avatar

Update time: 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/

autonomic, (edited )
@autonomic@sunbeam.city avatar

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,
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org avatar

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,
@brianhough@mastodon.social avatar

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 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 users like myself, this seems like a nice little alternative.

https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

TheDJ,
@TheDJ@mastodon.social avatar

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.

brainwane,
@brainwane@social.coop avatar

@TheDJ :(

libreoffice,
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org avatar

Did you know that 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/

thb,
jarno, Dutch
@jarno@mastonederland.nl avatar

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 of course.

Skyper,

@jarno I personally use @organicmaps on my mobile, and I love it.

jarno,
@jarno@mastonederland.nl avatar

@Skyper @organicmaps thanks, this looks like a potential winner. Runs very smooth as well!

DrPen,
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How do I become more involved with aspects and initiatives of NGI? Anyone know? Please pass it on!
@NGICommons @fediversity

NGICommons,
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@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,
@amxmln@mastodon.design avatar

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,
@amxmln@mastodon.design avatar

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,
@garrett@mastodon.xyz avatar

@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.

https://thisweek.gnome.org/

(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,
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

Finally found a 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 thanks to https://github.com/encukou/lastscrape-gui/blob/master/lastexport.py, and I can delete my account. XD

cc: @amin

RL_Dane,
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

@graphite @amin @youronlyone

Yeah, I noticed that. I haven't messed with any of the *omas yet.

My only experience has been mastodon and , and of course and .

RL_Dane,
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

@graphite

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

@amin @youronlyone

thefrankring,
@thefrankring@mastodon.social avatar

Softwares that I literally use every day that are free and open source

etc.

thunderbird,
@thunderbird@mastodon.online avatar

@thefrankring You and your open source journey are awesome, and we're happy to be a part of it! 💙 😊

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