You know who will never mine your private communications to train an LLM?
Better yet, you know whose words you don't need to trust, because you aren't obligated to use any particular server? And the software is open source? And regularly audited by security researchers?
Matrix.
It's not perfect, but no tool is. It's a matter of what trade offs you're willing to accept. Just sayin' ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Rainfall is a Bandcamp exodus tool that lets you upload your music and create a static site using the lovely Faircamp (https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/). You can download this site as a ZIP and host it anywhere on the web.
Future features include editing of ID3 metadata (which Faircamp uses to generate song titles and release/artist names) and one-click deployments to Netlify.
This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have something special to share! @github made a movie about our founders Mick & Jamie & the story of not only NVDA, but also OSARA. Two life-changing open-source projects. Both actively providing access & employment to blind people around the world.
My job is to work toward bringing secure, decentralized, open source licensed communication tools with open governance to the masses with Matrix.
But if folks prefer XMPP or IRC, that's still a win in my book. I think Signal is a step in the right direction, too!
It's open vs. the world, and I'm looking forward to working together to challenge the status quo of surveillance capitalism and proprietary, centralized walled gardens.
Check out this shiny new little website covering some of the basics, but the gist: every desktop supports these APIs with a native UI that makes sense to their desktop. But cross-platform apps can just use Portals and their app will work across desktop environments, OSes, etc.
I got to use it today on a work project, making a video for all the vertical video platforms. The multiple sequences is an absolute game changer.
That plus all the other tools like color clips, gradients, transforms & crops, keyframing, corner tool and so on meant I didn't need to turn to Resolve, let alone (horror) Adobe for a relatively complex project.
This is getting closer and closer to replacing proprietary for everything I need.
A little bit of internet history. Firefox 1.0 (project name "Phoenix") was released on November 9th 2004. On December 2nd 2004 this print ad was published in the German national newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). Over 2400 people have donated nearly $60.000 at the time for this campaign. I was one of them (line 4).
These were exciting times. When you open your favourite browser today, think about how the world would look like without a free browser.
🕵️♀️ ScummVM | HeR Interactive’s Nancy Drew games ready for testing!
Put your sleuthing caps on; a soap opera star needs your help in uncovering who is behind a series of death threats that sound a little too real for comfort.
ScummVM? Play your fave classic adventures such as Monkey Islands on modern systems they weren't designed for 🙉 💓 :linux:
While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si [http://meet.jit.si], for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a “Know Your Customer” policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account. If you prefer not to...
Tuta, PeerTube is an open source video platform that is a YouTube alternative.
Please provide a PeerTube option for people that do not want to support Google.
PeerTube has a feature that allows you to automatically import all the content from your YouTube channel and also synchronize the channels so that when a new video is published to YouTube it is automatically published to #PeerTube.
Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service. - Beehaw (beehaw.org)
While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si [http://meet.jit.si], for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a “Know Your Customer” policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account. If you prefer not to...