With Libreboot moving away from 100% blobless and adopting their blob-reduction policy so as to accept more hardware, is it (on laptops like Thinkpad W530) really any different from normal coreboot (+ ME Cleaner) now? At this point, is it just coreboot but precompiled and not compatible with Windows?

Incoanhyto is a simple php/mysql application to allow the collaborative writing of hypertext literature.

Running at https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/cassandra (with already some hypertexts available there).

Source available at https://notabug.org/ThunderPerfectWitchcraft/Incoanhyto

Hello, hello Jamers 🙂

It’s been a month since our last #DevUpdate, so this week we've prepared something special for you:

• New versions of Jami have been released for iOS and Desktop (including Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40).
• We've fixed major connectivity bugs, significantly improving reliability on mobile devices.
• Exciting new UI designs are now available on iOS, with an Android update scheduled for release next week.

Have you noticed the improvements? We would love to hear your feedback!

#p2p #opensource #privacy #security

github 2 codeberg

Hello there!

I just made a script that allows the user to "bulk migrate" repositories from github to codeberg directly, if anyone is interested, more here: https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/github_to_codeberg

Hi all;

If i licence required distribution to inform the recipient of restriction or obligations placed on them or the supply-chain by third parties, would you consider that a violation of free-software principles (i.e. 2 and 3) ?

A scenario is that in Australia, government can compel individuals to compromise security without disclosing their motivation. e.g. A developer could be legally compelled to put an XZ style backdoor in their code (irrespective of how long they got away with it).

Maybe distribution should come with a warning of jurisdictional and corporate risks to end users who are recipients of free software.

I wrote a simple software to learn Clojure. I found that the stack I used to start coding called Leiningen set my code licence to either EPL or GPL V2, which gave me some chills, finally I changed it to GPLV3 https://kanipaan.codeberg.page/blog/kanipaan-loves-gnu.html , and I feel much better.

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Is this a legit source for icecat?

I need a softwares that can calculate employee attendance in monthly. Suggest me any application.

Why is it the case that most GitHub repos are licensed under the permissive licenses as MIT. Am I missing something or that permessive licenses give litterally no advantage over GPL?

I came to the conclusion that developers think GPL would make their piece of software/ source code less popular because it not permessive, and by permessive they assume it's less "free".

When someone license their code under MIT, BSD or Apache, it's clear or even self declaration that he has no intention of making money from the code, but to help others and help free software open sourcers. So why not restrict the use of the software only for the open sourcers.

So, for context, I'm trying to work through a few math textbooks (self-study, trying to prepare for college in the fall after 10+ yrs of being out of high school) in PDF form. Which is challenging.

I like Xournal++ well enough because it lets me draw on PDFs and add new pages with grid paper or lines. But the biggest problem is it's basically impossible to navigate the document, other than using the table of contents that's already there, or just scrolling through 1200 pages and hope I find what I'm looking for.

Is there any free software (for Windows) that lets me do all this? Or does anyone know of some kind of workaround for Xournal++ that will let me bookmark pages?

I am sure there is but google is overflooding us with results that comply with its search criteria instead of really free and accurate results

Also it doesn't have to be with AI , I know it's the actual trend but you don't need AI to transcribe , we didn't need before and it's surely not a necessity now

it's urgent , for a school test

I'm drowning in a sea of WMV files with all sorts of different specs - bitrates, frame rates, resolutions, you name it. I'm looking to convert them all to MP4 for better compatibility, but the manual work in Handbrake is killing me.

Ideally, I'd love some free software that can analyze these WMV files and automatically choose the best MP4 settings to minimize quality loss while keeping the file size reasonable. Any recommendations from the video conversion gurus out there?

Thanks in advance!

I'm working on a project and need to create animated GIFs from a bunch of videos. Ideally, I'd like a free software tool that can do two things:

1. Extract frames: Automatically capture a snapshot of each video every second (or user-defined interval).
2. Batch processing: Process all the videos in a folder at once, saving them as individual GIFs.

Does anyone have any recommendations for free software that can handle this? Open to all suggestions, even if they involve separate tools for each step. Thanks!

Edit: Solution found (For Window):

Here's how you can create the batch script:

1. Open Notepad: Open Notepad or any other text editor you prefer.
2. Write the Script: Copy and paste the following script into Notepad:

"u/echo off

for %%i in (*.mp4) do (

mkdir "frames"

ffmpeg.exe -i "%%i" -vf "fps=1/20" -q:v 2 "frames\%%~ni_%%03d.png"

ffmpeg.exe -framerate 4 -i "frames\%%~ni_%%03d.png" -vf "fps=4,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos" "%%~ni.gif"

rd /s /q "frames"

) off

for %%i in (*.mp4) do (

mkdir "frames"

ffmpeg.exe -i "%%i" -vf "fps=1/20" -q:v 2 "frames\%%~ni_%%03d.png"

ffmpeg.exe -framerate 4 -i "frames\%%~ni_%%03d.png" -vf "fps=4,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos" "%%~ni.gif"

rd /s /q "frames"

)"

1. Save the Script: Go to File > Save As. Choose a location to save the script file. Name the file something like convert_videos.bat and make sure to select "All Files (.)" from the "Save as type" dropdown menu. Click Save.
2. Close Notepad: Close Notepad.
3. Place the Script in the Video Folder: Move the convert_videos.bat file to the folder where your video files (.mp4) are located.
4. Run the Script: Double-click the convert_videos.bat file. A command prompt window will open, and the script will start converting the videos to GIFs.

This script will loop through all .mp4 files in the folder, and for each file, it will use FFmpeg to create a GIF by taking a snapshot of one frame every second (fps=1) and scaling the output to a width of 320 pixels (you can adjust this value as needed).

The output GIF files will have the same base name as the input video files, but with the .gif extension.

https://youtu.be/4DahcWMVHeM

Team HERMES is proud to reïntroduce Paige, a time-tested, cross-platform, professional-grade solution for building apps featuring long-form styled-text viewing and manipulation capabilities. This is a very loosely circumscribed problem (encompassing everything from e-mail message composition to HTML authoring); this library, therefore, is incredibly full-featured. Moreover, meticulous care has been taken to document each of these features in the official, 841-page OpenPaige User's Guide.

Paige came to us through an I.P. acquisition that was undertaken as part of the industry-typical "yak shaving" for an unrelated project; personnel considerations grapple with the possibility of its further development, and the wisdom or not of moving qualified staff from an application to a mere library, no matter how widely used, is debatably justified.

In hopeful obviation of the difficult questions that would ensue either way, we have embarked upon a third course of action: releasing the complete C source code under the GNU Lesser General Public License, making it free as in speech and free as in beer. In fact, if you have pertinent knowledge and are conversant with Git, we'd welcome your contributions.

The project is hosted on Github at https://github.com/nmatavka/HERMES-Paige and on SourceForge at https://sourceforge.net/p/hermes-paige

I'm using windows 10. I'd like to make thumbnails for my most commonly used URLs.

I was assuming windows software at first, but a browser extension might also work. I use all the browsers.

Thank you.

🤗🤗🤗

Shelf.nu

Free for individuals. Free if you self host.

Paid cloud plans available.

https://github.com/Shelf-nu/shelf.nu

For years and years, you have chickened out and done your tax returns using proprietary software, relying on an accountant, or by hand like the oldies, and the inner nerd in you has been feeling great shame every time. But there is a way out!

I didn't know of any piece of F/LOSS software allowing to do income tax declarations in Canada and started to work on proof of concept code last summer ; a few weeks ago as the new Canadian tax season pointed its nose again, I got a sense of urgency and decided to pursue this, and have open sourced it (AGPLv3 + DCO) and continued to work on it.

For now it is far from being usable for anybody, as there is no graphical user interface, and it takes some Python-fu to operate, but if one can write text and some code, have residence in Québec (we started with this scenario) and a simple situation (T4 + RL-1 slips), and are ready to "invest" time in a solution that doesn't involve proprietary software, it's almost useful ;)

At the moment I am extending a warm invitation for people who could see an interest in contributing, possibly because they can use the software for this year or be ready for the next... I'm looking for people who could hang around in the issue tracker or discussion room, have their 2¢, take a look at the code, maybe try to do dummy declaration, and if they had done one using commercial software or an accountant, compare vs. mapletax's results, maybe integrate code for other provinces, more situations, architectural improvements, user interfaces, thinking about e-filing... anything could help the project from moving further than just processing the current (two) contributors' returns.

The documentation is currently spartan, but the code is also quite small: < 1000 SLOC for the engine part, about 1000 SLOC for 2 years of federal stuff and 1000 SLOC for 2 years of Québec stuff, meaning that if you intend to declare one year you could clone, strip the files you know you don't need, and quickly audit the remaining code to gain absolute trust that it won't do you harm, then you can also audit the code to review correctness of the computations.

The code is written in a way that it's the most auditable, with minimal dependencies and "separation of concerns".

At the guts of the software there is some symbolic computing (using sympy), computational geometry and graph theory (using networkx). Printable PDFs are the government ones (traceability is provided) and they are drawn on using cairo and pypdf.

US people already have UStaxes, but maybe some people with "special concerns" could get inspired from mapletax.

The entry point is https://gitlab.com/mapletax/

Thank you for your attention!

im looking for a Watermark Remover for Videos and Images in batches.

Can someone suggest me a good one? its small watermarks but they are annoying.

I put them on my pictures/videos to protect my work but its more damaging to my business than it is helping so any help is appreciated.

Greetings from Goa...  hope's all well at your end.
Just to let you know that I'm working on an ebook (possibly with a limited print run too) of a book called Who's Who of FOSS in India.  This is my attempt at building links and creating visibility for FOSS in India. It is open to anyone who is committed to the idea of promoting FOSS (Free and Open Source) in India, and has done something concrete to this goal -- coding, community organising, whatever...
If you agree, kindly share the details in the following format:
NAME:  
EDUCATION: 

ALMA MATER (one or more institutions where you studied):

YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO FOSS (FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE): 

YOUR CONTACTS (email, phone, WhatsApp, what you're comfortable with): 

HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE INDIA CONTRIBUTING MORE TO FOSS:

Please share a photo too, close-up and face-only, preferably informal and smiling!

(Kindly help me to share this with others who you feel should be included too.)

Thanks so much, FN

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I see a lot of macro recorder that has premium feature (such as infinite repeat and so on) or are really difficult to learn. So, with my python knowledge, I programmed a totally free and open-source macro recorder with an friendly user interface!

Github repo here: https://github.com/LOUDO56/PyMacroRecord

Oddly, this topic has had little disucssion on popular fronts besides on one reddit thread and on HackerNews. I tried posting this on the python and softwareengineering subreddit but it was deleted. With this sudden and unfortunate change, PySimpleGUI projects running version 5 or newer are now tied to online DRM that could become inoperable at any moment.

Now, end users will need to register an account with PySimpleSoft to bypass the obtrusive "30 day free trial" limitation on unlicensed projects. Commercial developers will need to pay 99$ a year in perpetua to embed developer keys into their software that presumably could become invalid the moment the developer stops paying or has their account deleted. In other words, PySimpleGUI-based projects are now very fragile.

This disaster provides an opportunity for developers to learn the native tk GUI library for Python, which should be the first choice for a developer now since PySimpleGUI has proven itself to be capable of changing its license and direction overnight.

What are your thoughts, Reddit?