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probably a long shot but are there any lightweight alternatives to windows file explorer for 2024?

i'm stuck on windows for now until the time comes to grab a new laptop. so sick of the default one in windows 11 though.

ImageToolbox is a great android app for editing and working with images.

> ## What's Changed > > * Make camera unnecessary to run the app > > * Added Jpeg 2000 format: .jp2 .j2k > > * Added Tiff compression and previewing > > * Added 39 new filters: > > * Low Poly > * Sand Painting > * Palette Transfer (Image Color Transfer #1205) > * Enhanced Oil > * Simple Old Tv > * HDR > * Simple Sketch > * Gotham > * Color Poster > * Tri Tone > * Clahe Oklch > * Clahe Jzazbz > * Clahe Oklab > * Yililoma Dithering > * Clustered 2x2 Dithering > * Clustered 4x4 Dithering > * Clustered 8x8 Dithering > * Polka Dot > * LUT 512*512 > * Amatorka > * Miss Etikate > * Soft Elegance > * Soft Elegance Variant > * Cube LUT > * Palette Transfer Variant > * Bleach Bypass > * Candlelight > * Drop Blues > * Edgy Amber > * Fall Colors > * Film Stock 50 > * Foggy Night > * Kodak > * Pop Art > * Сelluloid > * Coffee > * Golden Forest > * Greenish > * Retro Yellow > > * Add Image Splitter option by Add Image Splitter for carousels #724 > > * Added quality controlling for watermarking option by Requested features #1192 > > * Added Aspect Ratio preset by Fit to aspect ratio, fill space (no crop) #1201 > > * Added choosing between crop/fit in Aspect ratio preset by Bulk Cropping support #1149 > > * Added ability to Import/Export OCR models by Path of OCR (Recognize Text) files + Issue. #1196 > > * Added ability to choose position when using crop resize mode by Precise trimming/cropping of images #1138 > > * Improved Image Preview option, new grid layout, also added ability to select and process multiple images at once by [BUG][REQUEST] Image Preview Bug and Request for adding batch conversation from Image Preview section (Multi Select) and support for .txt format in format conversion tab. #1209 > > * Fix many bugs in crop resize mode preview > > * Added ability to move to the next/previous image by swiping in batch modes by 🔴 (#1206) NEW FEATURES #1206 > > * Added ability to edit OCR extracted text by 🔴 (#1206) NEW FEATURES #1206 > > * Added ability to reorder favorite filters by 🔴 (#1206) NEW FEATURES #1206 > > * Added ability to add rotation to rectangle in drawing by Paint #1058 > > * Fix crashes by Bug #1214 > > * Speed up dithering filters and some others too > > * 8 New scale color spaces > > * Oklab SRGB > * Oklab Rec.709 > * Oklab Gamma 2.2 > * Oklab Gamma 2.8 > * Jzazbz sRGB > * Jzazbz Rec.709 > * Jzazbz Gamma 2.2 > * Jzazbz Gamma 2.8 > > * Added Favorite Options when grouping disabled by Favorites #1238 > > * Fix cipher double click by ⚪ (#1236) NEW FEATURES #1236 > > * Added ability to capture picture from camera in OCR without changing image picker mode > > * Move draw color selection nearer to color picker > > * Fix apng crash > > * Added Color Tools option > > * Mixing > * Conversion > * Harmonies > * Shading > > * Neutral LUT exporting to create own Lookup Tables > > * Fixed Camera Permission in Document Scanner by @egmsia01 in Fixed Camera Permission in Document Scanner #1270 > > * Fix Preset selector conflicts with quality options by Preset selector conflicts with JPG quality options #1257 > > * Added QOI Image Format support by QOI support #1260 > > * Map JXL effort from 1..10 instead of 0..9 by JXL effort matched to cjxl #1274 > > * Added ability to enable link previews in OCR and QR Code Scanner > > * Added zoom to QR Scanner > > * Added scanning from image by Add a feature to select local image and scan QR code in it #1282 > > * Fix Watermark Text sizing doesn't match preview by Watermark: Text sizing doesn't match preview #1276 > > * Improve quick tiles > > * Added ICO image conversion support > > * Added GIF to WEBP tool > > * Added WEBP tools by [Feature Req] Add webp animation #1297 > > * WEBP to images > * Images to WEBP > > * Fix JXL Tools layout > > * Improve embedded media picker ui > > * Added PSD decoding > > * Added JXL and QOI support for embedded picker by Fixed Camera Permission in Document Scanner #1270 > > * Improve UI of image pagers > > * Added Choosing the defaults for the Draw feature (color, mode) by Choosing the defaults for the Draw feature and when sharing pictures to the app #1259 > > * Added DJVU images loading > > * Added Option to remove timestamp from filename by Option to remove all suffixes from batch processing #1309 > > * Added Option to use non formatted timestamp > > * Imrpove Emoji Selection UI > > * Added One time save locations editing to settings also > > * Added Recently used colors in selection of them > > * Added 10 New Icon Shapes > > * Shuriken > * Explosion > * Bookmark > * Pill > * Burger > * Shield > * Droplet > * Arrow > * Egg > * Map > > * Added ability to change QR code shape by ⚫ (#1233) NEW FEATURES #1233 > > * Added ability to save OCR recognized text into file by ⚪ (#1236) NEW FEATURES #1236 > > * Improve accessibility of color selection by 🟥 (#1246) NEW FEATURES #1246 > > * Added Fit Resize mode by 🟫 (#1327) NEW FEATURES #1327 > > * Added default resize type setting by More default settings #744 > > * Added Ability to control system bars visibility by 🟫 (#1327) NEW FEATURES #1327 > > * Add Ultra HDR preview support in embedded picker and Image Preview tool by Ultra HDR photos support #1124 > > * Added Noise generator by Noise generator #948

In its current plan, the EU commission intends to cut €27 million in funding for Free Software. The article has a link to a questionnaire that you can fill out and express your opinion about the plan. I believe non-EU citizens can participate as well.

> Dev behind a popular screenshot tool checks out, but the successors are good.

> As a web engine, Servo primarily handles everything around scripting and layout. For embedding use cases, the Tauri community experimented with adding a new Servo backend, but Servo can also be used to build a browser. > > We have a reference browser in the form of servoshell, which has historically been used as a minimal example and as a test harness for the Web Platform Tests. Nevertheless, the Servo community has steadily worked towards making it a browser in its own right, starting with our new browser UI based on egui last year. > > This year, @wusyong, a member of Servo TSC, created the Verso project as a way to explore the features Servo needs to power a robust web browser. In this post, we’ll explain what we tried to achieve, what we found, and what’s next for building a browser using Servo as a web engine.

> Have FOSS licenses outlived their usefulness? Bruce looks at what might come next in the world of free and open source software.

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/emulation@lemmy.ml/t/1161771

Linux only (I think), only between desktop clients, and it requires a server.

In the short time I've tested it, everything worked.

> ​Microsoft has released a new Workspaces PowerToy that helps launch sets of applications using custom desktop layouts and configurations with a mouse click.

Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

Just setup a new de-Googled phone and figured I'd share some of the good FOSS apps I'm using. Please feel free to chime in with any you'd recommend (or better options than what I have listed)

• Weather: Breezy Weather. Note that the version in F-Droid is the "freenet" version and only has one source (Open-Meteo I believe). The "standard" release is available on Github and has additional sources like AccuWeather, OpenWeather, etc. Absolutely gorgeous app as well as widgets.
• Maps: Organic Maps What Google Maps should be. Absolutely gorgeous, functional, and works 100% offline.
• Google Play Store: Aurora Store. Sometimes you need an app that's only available in the official Play store. Aurora store lets you download apps without having Play services installed or requiring a Google account. Even if you do have Play services and Play store available, Aurora is just so much more usable since it's not a flaming dumpster fire of "suggestions", "recommendations", and ads.
• Email: K-9 Mail. Basically Thunderbird Mobile. Enough said.
• Calendar: Etar Fast and efficient, syncs easily with my DAVx5 synced calendars from Nextcloud
• Tasks: OpenTasks. Create, edit, update, and complete tasks. Can sync to a CalDAV server via DAVx5.
• Contact/Calendar/Task Sync: DavX5 WebDAV sync utility that I use to sync my calendar, contacts, and tasks from Nextcloud to my phone.
• Matrix: SchildiChat. So much better than Element for Android. Was having constant issues with encryption keys failing to sync in Element that hasn't (yet?) been a problem with SchildiChat.
• Launcher: FastDraw: This is more of a preference, but I really like this launcher for its simplicity and ease of organization. Don't recommend this if you use a lot of widgets as it only supports one at a time (feature, not bug).
• Authenticator: Aegis
• SIP/VOIP: Linphone I really wish the desktop version of Linphone had this kind of polish.
• MPD Client: M.A.L.P Absolutely gorgeous and intuitive MPD client. I pair it with Snapcast to control my whole-house audio.
• Quick Share: Snapdrop/Pairdrop I don't use the app (rather, I have my self-hosted one pinned as a PWA), but this is great for sending one-off files or text between devices.
• Music: Tie between Apollo and Mucke. The default LineageOS (AOSP?) music player is nice, but the phone I setup wasn't supported with LineageOS and didn't have a good music player included. Additionally, those two scale well on the small screen of the device I'm using where others would crop off the controls at varying points.
• Web Apps: NativeAlpha. Uses the Android System WebView to wrap any website into a standalone "app". While most mobile browsers will let you do that with the "Add to home screen" button, only ones with a manifest.json will work as apps; the rest are just shortcuts. Also includes other niceties such as adding adblock, controlling cookies, defaulting to a desktop version, and modifying the user agent string (among other options).

https://positive-intentions.com/blog

https://www.reddit.com/r/positive\_intentions/

i normally use reddit for what people normally do with a blog. this is because i dont know enough to drive traffic to my site. i recently created a Docusaurus blog for my app and id like to see more traffic go there when i set up ads. the amount of traffic i have right now is barely anything (about 30 per day), compared to the number of "views on reddit".

i regurgitated old reddit posts into articles. im not much of a writer and im sure the content can be improved to "flow better".

i created some images on my phone... i justify it as "it matches the theme"... its actually the best i can do without using some AI or an actual artist.

id like to set up some kind of ads on it when its looks like its in a better state and i can attract traffic.

let me know what you think i could/should do to make it better.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41310855 >F-Droid

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19811329

> I just came across this amazing app. Idk much about yt-dlp but the app seems to fully support it, even with custom commands and stuff. Of course I tested it and it worked well (with just 1 video fail to download out of approximately 10). Though by default it seems to download videos without audio so make sure to click the small "Audio" button in the download menu and enable it. > > I recently saw someone recommending using a privacy respecting frontend for searching videos and downloading them instead of watching them online for better privacy and consistency so I hope someone will find it useful... or just use it to download videos because that's what most people do anyways. > > Also I hope I'm not copying anyone's post here. My Lemmy client doesn't support search so I can't check if there are any posts about this app. > > P. S. Excuse my usage of the foul phrase "YouTube downloader" to describe this app. I just wanted to make it easier for less tech savvy people to understand what this app is and how it can be useful for them.

cross-posted from: https://links.hackliberty.org/post/2559706

> > Abstract > > > > This paper examines the potential of the Fediverse, a federated network of social media and content platforms, to counter the centralization and dominance of commercial platforms on the social Web. We gather evidence from the technology powering the Fediverse (especially the ActivityPub protocol), current statistical data regarding Fediverse user distribution over instances, and the status of two older, similar, decentralized technologies: e-mail and the Web. Our findings suggest that Fediverse will face significant challenges in fulfilling its decentralization promises, potentially hindering its ability to positively impact the social Web on a large scale. > > Some challenges mentioned in the paper: > - Discoverability as there is no central or unified index > - Complicated moderation efforts due to its decentralized nature > - Interoperability between instances of different types (e.g., Lemmy and Funkwhale) > - Concentration on a small number of large instances > - The risk of commercial capture by Big Tech > > What are your thoughts on this? And how could we make the Fediverse a better place for all to stay?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19734027

> [D.N.A] Elasticsearch and Kibana can be called Open Source again. It is hard to express how happy this statement makes me. Literally jumping up and down with excitement here. All of us at Elastic are. Open source is in my DNA. It is in Elastic DNA. Being able to call Elasticsearch Open Source again is pure joy. > > [LOVE.] The tl;dr is that we will be adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks. We never stopped believing and behaving like an open source community after we changed the license. But being able to use the term Open Source, by using AGPL, an OSI approved license, removes any questions, or fud, people might have. > > [Not Like Us] We never stopped believing in Open Source at Elastic. I never stopped believing in Open Source. I’m going on 25 years and counting as a true believer. So why the change 3 years ago? We had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing. So after trying all the other options we could think of, we changed the license, knowing it would result in a fork of Elasticsearch with a different name and a different trajectory. It’s a long story.

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/Thunderbird/t/1140808

> Plan Less, Do More: Introducing Appointment By Thunderbird - The Thunderbird Blog > > Thunderbird has a new project under its wing: Appointment. Learn all about our approach to appointment scheduling, and try it yourself.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21733808

> > Restrictive AI model licenses claimed as "open source" spark for clear standard.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40779019

> * Website: https://www.beyondallreason.info > * Trailer: https://youtu.be/8K_fSWfOC1w

cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/opensource@lemmy.ml/t/424247

> plus the usual betterfox

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40524574

> It's a Web Lemmy client.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40478082

Super exciting update that I've been working on for a while. Finally able to pull together a single Quiblr repo for folks to explore and follow.

Check it out here

From my previous post: https://programming.dev/post/17848699

Will update post when I found more links from web search and archive _____

The homepage (Internet Archive link, since its no longer accessible): https://web.archive.org/web/20190118040619/https://openblox.org/

Lua API docs (from mirror repo): https://github.com/openblox/api-documentation

OpenBlox using Ogre3D, Bullet Physics and OpenAL (except for Android, which uses FMOD LLP API): https://devforum.roblox.com/t/openblox-reboot/19115

Project page in TuxFamily: https://projects.tuxfamily.org/?do=group;name=openblox

OpenSSF Best Practices page: https://www.bestpractices.dev/en/projects/80#changecontrol

> As part of Intel's Scalable Video Technology (SVT) initiative they had been developing SVT-HEVC as a BSD-licensed high performance H.265/HEVC video encoder optimized for Xeon Scalable and Xeon D processors. But recently they've changed course and the project has been officially discontinued.

> Grafana Labs, the open-source company that probably powers at least a few operational dashboards in your company, today announced the completion of a primary and secondary transaction worth about $270 million, with the proceeds going to the company and some of its stockholders.

Updates in this version:

> - Order of Web Apps in menu can be changed > - File downloads are supported > - Native Alpha custom context menu can be deactived so that the standard browser context menu is shown > - Italian translation added > - General, technical version updates

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18304280

> markdown-oxide: Robust, Minimalist, Unbundled PKM for your favorite text-editor through the LSP.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16316509

> > TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components. > > > >However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases. > > > >So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/988335

> > The Sovereign Tech Fund is piloting a fellowship program to pay open source maintainers, aiming to address structural issues and support open digital infrastructure in the public interest. > > > Over the past two years, STF has successfully contracted over 40 FOSS projects, enhancing their technical sustainability through targeted milestones. While some contracts are with individual maintainers, most involve software development companies or foundations. Despite this success, a new and innovative program is needed to acknowledge the lived reality of how many maintainers work: stretched across multiple technologies, multi-faceted, and often behind the scenes. > > > Most maintainers are unpaid, working in their spare time, which both impacts projects’ stability and can lead to stress and burnout. The Tidelift Open Source Maintainer Study found that 59% of maintainers have quit or considered quitting, posing a risk to the digital infrastructure we all rely on. To even begin to mitigate this risk, it's crucial to understand the role of maintainers, who typically lead and oversee project development, review changes, manage community interactions, release updates, and fix security issues. > > > The application phase will start by the end of the third quarter of 2024, and with the goal that selected maintainers can begin the fellowship in the fourth quarter. The first fellowship pilot will run throughout 2025, and we will evaluate it on an ongoing basis. Based on these evaluations, our experiences running the fellowship, and feedback from participants, we’ll determine how to expand and grow the program for a stronger and healthier open source ecosystem.

There are a few nowadays

• Firefox vanilla
• Librewolf: https://librewolf.net/
• Arkenfox: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
• Floorp: https://floorp.app/en
• Zen browser (similar to Arc): https://www.zen-browser.app/

Which one is your favorite, and why?

Have you ever wondered if your keyboard shortcuts are set up optimally? Well, I did, so I decided to visualize it with a heat-map.

It proved to me that I rely on my left pinky too much, so I'll try to rework my shortcuts.

You can check out the project here, currently it only works on Linux.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39549299

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39549599

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22153657

> I aim to create a high-quality index of CC (Creative Commons) sites to make it easier for enthusiasts to access and use daily. My goal is to enhance content accessibility. I also plan to develop an Arabic version for Arabic resources and eventually expand to make it multilingual . > > Here is my website link: https://crtv.pages.dev/ > > Please criticize and offer more resources as much as you can.