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The Open Knowledge Network connects specialists of the open movement and promotes them through the Open Knowledge Global Directory.
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data.
CKAN is a free open source Data Management System (DMS) to build open data portals, and its code is held in trust by the Open Knowledge Foundation.
I suppose this should be seen in light of the official endorsement of Matrix by eSam over a year ago, which I noted at the time.
Sweden’s public sector is keen to adopt open source and open standards to ensure data sovereignty and protection against vendor lock-in
As a part of Tele2 Collaborate, Element is seen as a natural Skype for Business (S4B) replacement for Sweden’s public sector, and an alternative to US-based Big Tech vendors.
Keep code, data, containers under control with git and git-annex
Built in Python.
- https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03262 (paper)
- https://github.com/datalad/datalad (repo)
- https://www.datalad.org
- http://docs.datalad.org (docs)
- http://handbook.datalad.org (crash course)
A very nice resource!
I found it while reading up on presentation software (pdfpc and such).
Feels like I keep hearing about new FOSS tools and services interfacing with Mastodon every day.
I need some place to keep track of them.
- https://github.com/toelke/mastodon2rss - Serve your mastodon home feed to RSS (including boosts!)
- https://rstockm.github.io/mastothread - split your long text into bitesize posts. Via @vicgrinberg.
- https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends
- https://streetpass.social a browser extension that helps you find Mastodon users as you browse
- https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon - a collection of various lists of academics on Mastodon servers.
Det här var ju goda nyheter!
34 svenska myndigheter (inom ramen för eSam och dess projekt digital samarbetsplattform, dSam) har tagit tydlig ställning för e-tjänster med hög säkerhet, garanterad suveränitet, öppen källkod och öppna standarder.
Veusz is a scientific plotting and graphing program with a graphical user interface, designed to produce publication-ready 2D and 3D plots. In addition it can be used as a module in Python for plotting. Veusz is multiplatform, running on Windows, Linux/Unix and macOS.
It supports vector and bitmap output, including PDF, Postscript, SVG and EMF.
When considering automation apps for Android, Tasker immediately comes to mind. And although it has name recognition, it's source code is proprietary and the app requires the Google Play store on the device (beyond a 7-day trial version).
So, what FOSS automation apps are there out there?
- Easer by Rui Zhao. Source on Github (449 stars, 1295 commits), F-Droid. Note that there is also a beta version of this app.
- Automation by Jens Schröder. Source on developer's Gitea instance (88 commits), F-Droid.
Other non-free automation apps for Android (not recommended)
- Tasker
- Automate by LlamaLab
- AutomateIt
- MacroDroid
- RuleBot by KF Software House (Hong Kong)
switching.software, a list of easy-to-use alternatives to well-known software
https://switching.software
Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software
The source code for its website is published on codeberg (meaning you can suggest changes, etc.).
privacyguides.org
https://www.privacyguides.org lots of categories
The website itself is built from a public Github repo
Via https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/privacyguides/statuses/113002199475214098
yuuire, a list of open source and privacy-friendly apps
https://guide.yuuire.com/recommendations/software/foss-alternatives
Website's source code on github
F-Droid recommended apps by divestos.org
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Windows, Mac or Linux.
I heard about it just recently, and in short order stumbled on a number of interesting ideas:
- The OBS Screen Timer Zoom Trick, CogDog
- OBS Livestreaming vs Zoom for Dynamic A/Synchronous Teaching, anth101
- Hosting Studio20 using OBS with Zoom, EdTechFactotum
- Recorded livestream on how to set the foundation for your OBS Studio setup, stream starts at 3:18, starts talking about OBS studio at 6:25. Eric Nantz shares best practices and tips for showcasing R analyses. Via R Weekly 2021-W28.
Podcast (Hanselminutes) with OBS project lead Hugh Bailey (July 2020)
Plugins
Free and open source PDF readers. A list by the FSFE.
Fantastic little tool. I used it on Baahubali 2, whose subtitles were drifting more and more with time, and it corrected it without any user intervention. Very nice!
It is even integrated into Bazarr (automatic subtitle synchronisation can be enabled in Bazarr's settings).
This could perhaps be a much more stable alternative to my reverse SSH tunnels for keeping connections with various servers, especially desktops inside FM-NET and other machines inside other LANs.
The main downside is that Tailscale is not FOSS. So perhaps we should look for other solutions built on WireGuard, or perhaps learn to configure WireGuard directly.
OPSIN is the (open source) standard for parsing IUPAC names.
Fraidycat is a desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. You can use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube, Instagram or even on a public TiddlyWiki.
So it's like a feed reader, and if you use your browser sync functionality, it will sync between your devices. Really worth trying out this concept, especially if you don't want to setup your own web-based feed reader. The built-in (and increasing) support for many non-RSS sources is also nice.
- No ads
- No need to create a Google account
- Tools for managing subscriptions
- Adds ability to listen only to audio
- No need for YouTube app in order to listen to videos on mobile (or use Newpipe on Android)
- No need to "ding" bell, just being subscribed is enough to receive all notifications
- No age-gate
- Dark mode (although YouTube has this now too)
- Free software (AGPL v3 license)
A good Firefox add-on is Privacy Redirect. Apart from handling Youtube can also redirect other services, and it also automatically rotates each redirect from a list of Invidious instances so as to avoid overloading any single one.
See Invidious Instances for a list of publicly available instances.
- "Small acts of resistance are all we need. Together, we make change", Yarmo Mackenbach
- https://reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/8wvazc/invidous_alternative_frontend_to_youtube/
- https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
Other Youtube front-end alternatives
- yt-dlp
- NewPipe (Android)
- PipePipe (Android), includes SponsorBlock
- yt-local , via reddit thread
Replacing Youtube altogether
Another approach is to replace Youtube with an open-source, federated video host service.
That would be PeerTube (see this blog post by LazyBear).
- https://fedi.video - a good place to get started with PeerTube, by FediThing
- The League of Moveable Type, the open-source font foundry. All the fonts from The League of Moveable Type are free & open source, available to use commercially and subject to the Open Font License.
- Guide to Only the Best Open-Source Typefaces, by Chad Mazzola.