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testman ,

doesn't Steam Hardware Survey report way higher percentage of Linux users?

(Statista, Blackdown)

wouldn't Valve's numbers be more reliable?

testman ,

Funny how people tend to quote Linus Torvalds on technical issues in order to prove a point. I hear the guy barely made it through college.

Actually, I lied about even that. I was thrown out of fourth grade
because I couldn't write my own name, and it's been all downhill from
there.
I had to lie about getting into college just so that I'd have better
chances of making a career here at McDonalds - if you have a college
degree (or you lied about having one), they don't make you scrape the
burger pans.

heh, he had good sense of humour already back in 1999

Open source Linktree Alternatives? ( supermeter.social )

Hey all, I've been using Singlelink for a while now as an open source alternative to Linktree. Issue with it has been that development has been incredibly slow, and now it's completely unreliable for me as my page now gives a 403 and my account no longer works for unknown reasons....

testman ,

I just have a HedgeDoc presentation and a subdomain on some public FreeDNS domain:
http://testman.kak.si/

testman ,

there is a bridge, but some parts of the fediverse got very mad about it
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/
https://fed.brid.gy/

testman ,

this is what open source dialer app died for?

testman ,

Yes, and there are probably other FOSS applications for that as well.
But it is a bit sad to see that Google considers the "phone" part of the "smartphone" be so obscure functionality that they left it's development to community.
Maybe I should stop living in the past and just accept that the glowing rectangle that we carry around is actually a tiktok machine that can occasionally do some other stuff as well.

testman Mod ,

Other comments already pointed to some very good software solutions.
But I would argue that absolutely the biggest barrier to entry for the masses is hardware.
Restoring an old PC or making some cable spaghetti with some SBC is currently too advanced for average person.
Self-hosting for the masses would require some new form of home servers.
Something modular, where adding new components would be as easy as playing with Lego bricks.

testman ,

Your post is missing the most important information that you wanted to share

testman ,

Problem is that the whole concept of advertising is "telling other people what to do".

  • People use Google.
  • Google tells people to use Chrome
  • Chrome becomes most popular browser
  • Chrome removes the " this site has RSS" icon from URL bar
  • People forget that RSS is a thing
  • People now rely on Google News and other biased sites to get information
  • biased sites tell people what to do

RSS is freedom
go tell other people to use it
also Lemmy RSS community

testman ,

sup dawg, heard you like advertisments

testman ,

toaster

retiolus , to Open Source
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Do you know of any online solutions for creating forms (open-source if possible) that have an API for generating unique links to the same form? @opensource

testman ,

Something like Cryptpad Form?
https://cryptpad.fr/

Alternative github frontends?

Github has become more bloated, slower and more user-hostile with each update (just like all other big corp platforms). SPA navigation slow like hell, the "new" file viewer/browser is hardly usable in my opinion, code search does not work without login, etc. So are there any good alternative FE where the following work (read...

testman ,

GotHub seems to display basic GitHub stuff decently well.
https://gh.whateveritworks.org/

testman ,

I wonder how angry will the maintainers be in 2036:

aaaa, why do we have to support this ancient release, why did we promise 12 years of support

testman ,

Listen, strange penguins biting people is no basis for a system of government.

testman ,

didn’t read the article because it wants me to disable adblock
but wow, the title really triggers me
do normalfriends really do nothing else besides take pictures and videos with their phones?

testman ,

I want the effort that would otherwise go into making camera even better to go into making other aspects of phone better.
Figure me out a better battery instead, give me more features that make my phone capable of doing tasks that can currently be done only on computer, stuff like that.

testman ,

that’s what I have

testman ,

ah, I checked again, it works fine for me now as well

testman ,

!stallmanwasright

testman ,

laughs in OSMAnd

testman ,

you are correct, I do

testman , (edited )

so this is similar to LibRedirect?
github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
libredirect.github.io
check out this list of privacy frontends and see if you can implement any of them in Predirect

Also, I see that you only handle one instance for redirect. Either the default instance or custom instance.
Consider implementing multiple instances. Here is list of instances that LibRedirect uses:
raw.githubusercontent.com/…/data.json
Here is a list of instances that Farside.link uses:
raw.githubusercontent.com/…/services-full.json

Both LibRedirect and Farside still have to deal with the rate-limiting problem with Youtube and Reddit and I assume other sites as well. Invidious instance or Teddit instance can be rate-limited, resulting in video not playing or post not showing up.
If your extension does not distribute user traffic across multiple instances, then I assume that your chosen instances will get hammered into ratelimit even faster than other instances.
So consider thinking about solution for this.
One of suggestions that I like is to allow user to provide an URL to a list of instances.
That way, someone or some automated system can periodically compose a list of instances and users can “subscribe” to that list.

Also some useful links:
github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#social-networks-…
github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
matrix.to/#/-frontends:tchncs.de

"We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop." ( floss.social )

Hello Fediverse, We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop. :linux: 📣 Please reach out or boost :boost_love: Thanks! #Linux #tts #accessibility #a11y #GNOME #KDE #FreeSoftware #freedesktop #ml...

testman ,

Check if whatever is left of Mycroft AI has anything useful for you.

testman , (edited )

>Ctrl+F cockpit
>0 results
my dudes, I am dissapoint
cockpit-project.org

but ok, yes, for actual remote desktop, VNC or RustDesk, despite RustDesk being some open-core implementation that holds the good stuff in the proprietary release. At least it was when I last checked it out.

testman ,

Is there any collection of such inspirational / wisdom quotes?
If not, then one should be started.
And this quote should be added to it.

I expected the classic “be the change that you wabt to see in the world”, but despite being similar, this one is very good as well.

testman ,

so this is something similar to celestiaproject.space but made with Godot engine?
sounds cool. Now we just need to convert it into a space-themed game.

testman OP Mod ,

I am aware of those two, but those are just for file storage. I was thinking something more general. Like having a Virtual Private Server, that people can extend with their donated resources. VPS can be used for more than just file storage. It can do processing as well.

testman ,

gotta fail fast

testman ,

this is just one of the instances
there are many more instances according to farside.link (which is a thing that will automatically redirect you to one of them: farside.link/teddit/ ) so by using this, you help reduce the load on individual instance, resulting in less “too many requests” errors for everyone.

Seeking an Open Source Alternative to Element Chat for Cross-Platform Communication

I am currently in search of a reliable and privacy-focused alternative to Element Chat that can be used seamlessly across Linux, Android, and Windows platforms. Unfortunately, I’m experiencing some issues with Element Chat at the moment, and I need a trustworthy communication solution that prioritizes privacy, offers ease of...

testman ,

check out other Matrix clients
matrix.org/ecosystem/clients
github.com/search?q=matrix-client

testman ,

This article makes it look like EU CVP defines “metaverse” as “lol connected stuff I guess” and not as “VRChat by Zucc”.
Which is good.
Still, I wonder if they will take (and contribute to) ThirdRoom or Mozilla Hubs instead of reinventing the wheel when they come to the VR part of their plan.

testman OP ,

As far as I understand, StatCounter gets data from people browsing the internet.
They are probably partnered with a lot of sites in order to get all the useragent data of their visitors or something, idk. They probably have their method described somewhere.
This is not Steam, where stats are gathered from random monthly surveys.

testman OP ,

lol
but this does bring up a real concern:
I highly doubt that “desktop PCs” will still be a thing in 7 decades.
the desktop/laptop will most likely get replaced by something else
and if modern PCs have some roadblocks for installing any OS you want (SecureBoot, and soon Microsoft Pluton), then imagine how much harder it will be on the next iteration of personal devices.
Well, “will be”. Already is. On phones. Most phones require serious wizardry or make it basically impossible to install other OS on them.
And as far as I see, phones will be the thing that takes place of PCs.

so yes, I would not mind if the FOSS community abandons the whole Year Of The Linux Desktop™ meme right now and instead starts to focus on ensuring that the upcoming platform will allow us to have the freedom. Let Microsoft enjoy the dominance on PC. Maybe challenge them every now and then. But the primary focus of FOSS community should be the preemptive liberation of the platform that will follow PC.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Can you please ELI5 tmux?

I am fairly familiar with Linux, I’ve been using different distros for some years now and have done some config editing here and there. I am also a web developer and use the terminal quite a lot and so I always stumble on people’s recommendation to use tmux and how good it is, but I never really understood what it does and,...

testman ,

sup dawg, heard you like sessions

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