At the same time, the "World Wide Web," composed of the HTTP protocol and the HTML format, was invented by a British citizen and a Belgian citizen who were working in a European research facility located in Switzerland. But the building was on the border with France, and there’s much historical evidence pointing to the Web and its first server having been invented in France.

It’s hard to be more European than the Web!

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Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?

Roomy is an open-source Discord alternative built on the AT Protocol (ATProto), the same protocol that powers Bluesky, with ActivityPub (the protocol behind Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pleroma, and others) planned for the near future. Currently in alpha, it sits somewhere between Matrix and Discord in terms of its practical position in the broader chat ecosystem.

That said, it aims to fill the niche currently dominated by Discord, while remaining a free, fully federated solution for full user freedom and greater privacy. In this article, we'll look at what Roomy is today, what it’s aiming to become, and what it could bring to this space.

Source code:

https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

https://github.com/tommybee456/OpenSplitDeck

I just found Hiori. I was wishing for such an app for a long time. Finally, I can take a photo of a product and rate it such that I won't buy it in the future again.

It happens very often that I buy something again because I forget it. E.g. tofu in a carton where you can't see what's inside.

Over the past year, we have been busy to modernize our app. The work supported by the NGI Mobifree has progressed nicely and we are now at a point where we are releasing the first alpha version and ask the community for feedback and testing. Note that for now this release is only for F-Droid Basic as the full version isn’t ready, yet.

Found this while searching - https://farside.link/redlib/r/roblox/comments/1qbxvf9/working/_on/_a/_roblox/_alternative/_its/_open/_source/

Edit: they have a CodeBerg (based on ForgeJoe) org, former link: https://github.com/orgs/OkutuProject/repositories

[4.0.0] - 2026-1-23

API updates

• Major release with new API updates that are not backwards compatible.
• Extended the crf range to 70 reducing the impact or QP scaling allowing the encoder to reach lower bitrates
• Added quarter steps between crf increments to allow for further granularity in qp selection
• Added support for setting a custom global logger for library consumers (!2570 (merged), !2579 (merged))
• Cleaned up public API headers including removal of deprecated macros, structs, and fields (!2565 (merged), !2568 (merged))
• Additionally cleaned up anything marked using SVT_AV1_CHECK_VERSION().
• Added ability to calculate per-frame PSNR and SSIM metrics (!2521 (merged))
• Allow sending more than 1 but less than 4 frames with avif mode (This is not for AVIF image sequence, but for encoding an alpha layer) (!2551 (merged), !2560 (merged))
• Added tune IQ and MS-SSIM for Still Image coding mode

Encoder

• Significant improvements in AVIF and still image modes (!2552 (merged),!2567 (merged)):
• ~5-8x speedup M11-M0 at the same quality levels with tune MS-SSIM
• ~5-8% BD-Rate improvements at the same complexity with tune MS-SSIM
• Tradeoff improvements for the RTC modes (!2558 (merged)):
• ~5-15% speedup at similar quality levels in --rtc mode across presets 7 - 11
• Tradeoff improvements for the Random Access mode (VOD use case) showing a 10-25% speedup across presets M7 down to M0 for --fast-decode 1 and 2 (!2558 (merged))
• Major feature updates for the visual quality mode with the completion porting all SVT-AV1-PSY applicable features for --tune vq for video and --tune iq for avif (!2484 (merged), !2489 (merged), !2491 (merged), !2494 (merged), !2496 (merged), !2503 (merged), !2504 (merged), !2507 (merged), !2514 (merged), !2522 (merged) , !2561 (merged), !2562 (merged), !2576 (merged)):
• Added AC Bias, a psychovisual feature that improves detail preservation and film grain retention
• Update S-Frame support to allow setting it in a specific decode order option and with more qp options (!2477 (merged) !2523 (merged) !2534 (merged))
• Further Arm Neon and SVE2 optimizations that improve high bitdepth encoding by an average of ~5% in low resolutions

Some time ago I started replacing all services and apps that I use with FOSS altnernatives. Most of them were easy to replace but some corpo/big-tech apps had ecosystems too advanced to be conveniently replaced. For example, substituting Google Maps on Android (or I guess Apple Maps on iOS) was a bit of a struggle as the most popular FOSS alternative app was OsmAnd. First of all mad respect and huge kudos to OsmAnd team of contributors but for me the UX was overwhelming and too customizable which is probably a huge bonus to power users but IMO that makes it very unlikely to become a large scale alternative to Google maps. Probably other people realized that too and some 6-7 months ago CoMaps was released, a FOSS app that is also based on OpenStreetMap layer but this time with a simplistic and smooth UX/GUI.

In case somebody is not familiar with OpenStreetMap (OSM) - basically it is a non-profit org, but its heavily maintained by community members and anybody around the world is allowed to contribute and enrich map content. Even if org can theoretically get corrupt I think anybody can make a fork and continue with community contribution. Creating an account is easy, you could start contributing in like 3 minutes. A huge number of services and apps are basing their map layers on OpenStreetMap, such as CoMaps above.

The quality of OpenStreetMap/CoMaps/OsmAnd is as good as the contributions to it are - so the more people use it - the better and more content it will contain. I would like to invite everybody to give it a chance and use openstreetmaps.org on desktop and CoMaps on mobile devices. You should have enough motivation to abandon Google or Apple products, but final piece of motivation is that eventually Google Maps will start censoring content (like Reddit or Instagram) or just share your location history to ICE or perform some other serious violation like that (like Microsoft did recently).

CoMaps has a really nice and simple interface where you can add missing places (business, community services, recreation areas etc) while OpenStreetMap on web browser allows to update anything you imagine (e.g. see a missing street? Add it. A new building was developed - just add it!). If everybody enriched only their local neighborhood with features on the map we could really build something beautiful. Existing layer probably already contains 90% of the stuff you'd ever search for as contributors really did a outstanding job throughout all these years. But that additional 10% makes a real difference for it turning into a much bigger scale tool, and this feels like the right time to kick that off.

It is important not to get demotivated that not many people maintain and contribute as your neighborhood might remain a lonely detailed places for years. OSM existed for a long time now and is very likely to keep existing for decades to come, everything that you update or create remains a legacy that stays forever saved in the map (unless somebody further updates it). Perhaps, in 20 years time people will be grateful. And to tidy up and make max out of your neighborhood you really need one weekend or so.

For example, in my local area I've started adding location marks of recycling bins, dumpsters, parking lots, playgrounds, pathways, building tunnels and monuments, but also I've added missing shops and updated working hours and websites for shops that existed.

Also #1, be responsible when making changes, don't overwrite other people's work unless it is an improvement. Double check everything that you add, and also if you don't have any experience with map editors or GIS software take a watch of some OSM editing tutorial.

Also #2, I most likely omitted some other useful FOSS tools, and it doesn't matter which one you decide to use as long as it is based on OpenStreetMap or any other community driven layer.

Also #3, tell all your friends and family to do the same.

Yeah, this might not be the most important thing to cure the world at this moment but developing community-driven mindset where everybody takes a small or big part in it is the way to go. Cheers!

OC by @frondo@lemmy.ml

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

It is similar to the old gopher: text files, links, and images form a hypertext optimized for reading. Text is formatted like Markdown - but even simpler.

Clients display text, like an eBook, or images / media.

Servers can run on a PC or Raspberry Pi which needs half a Watt of power. No FAANG companies needed. No expert knowledge needed - not more difficult than running a file sharing client.

I think it is the right thing for defense of democracy and sharing your voice in the digital realm.

The developer of the popular curl command-line utility and library announced that the project will end its HackerOne security bug bounty program at the end of this month, after being overwhelmed by low-quality AI-generated vulnerability reports.

The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop.

“We are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,” Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of the open source app cURL, said Thursday. “It is not in our power to change how all these people and their slop machines work. We need to make moves to ensure our survival and intact mental health.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/49454704

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Digitization has made administration more efficient, but also more vulnerable. In a world where government processes are almost exclusively digital, collaboration across networked systems forms the central nervous system of the state. If failures occur here, standstill threatens. To escape this fate, the major German social insurance providers are now relying on strategic redundancy, which is intended to serve as a digital lifeline in an emergency.

Under the name "Cloud-based communication in crisis situations" (Cloudbasierte Kommunikation im Krisenfall, CKKI), a pilot project was launched a few days ago, marking a change in perspective. The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, and the IT service providers Bitmarck and BG-Phoenics are trialing OpenDesk, the open-source alternative to the Microsoft 365 office suite developed by the Center for Digital Sovereignty (Zendis). The goal is to establish a fully functional emergency workplace that exists independently of the primary IT infrastructure.

According to Zendis, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs is funding the project, which is intended to demonstrate the resilience of the planned digital safety net by April. OpenDesk is more than just a chat application for crisis times. The suite offers a package of office software, email, calendar, project management, and video communication. Since the solution works purely browser-based, it allows employees to access it from almost any location and device. This flexibility is particularly crucial when physical locations or local networks can no longer be used safely.

[...]

The four participating organizations each installed their own OpenDesk instances on different cloud infrastructures. The systems are now being tested in various scenarios to see how well they can communicate with each other. Whether interoperability will be maintained even when different cloud providers, such as project partners Ionos, Stackit, or T-Systems, serve as the basis is important. Zendis CEO Alexander Pockrandt sees this as confirmation of the chosen path: the flexibility of the solution ensures that critical infrastructure (Kritis) can be maintained even in extreme crisis.

[...]

CKKI is not just designed as a disaster protection exercise for the German administration. The findings from the project are to be directly incorporated into the European cloud initiative 8ra. Thus, the German initiative is transforming into a building block for a larger, European vision of a sovereign and cross-provider IT infrastructure. Harald Joos, Cloud Commissioner of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, emphasizes that the use of OpenDesk not only strengthens their own resilience. The participants also want to demonstrate to their European partners that sovereign cloud solutions are practical at the EU level.

[...]

After OpenDesk has already been able to find its way into other areas such as the Bundeswehr or the public health service, the acid test in the discipline of high availability now follows. If the concept proves successful, the "emergency workplace from the cloud" could soon become standard repertoire for any authority that wants to assert its digital sovereignty not just on paper.

Managarr v0.7.0 has been released with Lidarr support!

What is Managarr?

Managarr is a terminal-based application for managing all your Servarr instances from one place. It provides a user-friendly interface to interact with your media libraries, making it easier to manage your downloads, monitor your artists and albums, and perform various actions directly from the terminal.

It sports two modes: a TUI mode (Text-based User Interface) and a CLI mode (Command Line Interface).

TUI mode gives you an interactive User Interface right inside your terminal window, allowing you to navigate through your Sonarr and Radarr libraries, view details about your series and movies, and perform actions like adding or removing items, all through keyboard shortcuts.

CLI mode lets you execute commands directly from the terminal to manage your Servarr instances without needing to open the TUI. This is great for quick tasks or for integrating with scripts and automation tools.

Screenshots

Try it out for yourself using the in-browser demo!

If you want to try it out for yourself without installing it first, you can use the Managarr demo-site: https://managarr-demo.alexjclarke.com/

What Lidarr operations are supported?

📚 Library Management

• Artist Library - Browse, search, filter, and sort your music collection
• Add Artists ➕ - Search for new artists and add them with full config options (quality profile, metadata profile, root folder, monitoring options)
• Edit Artists ✏️ - Tweak artist settings including quality profiles, metadata profiles, tags, and monitoring status
• Delete Artists 🗑️ - Remove artists from your library with optional file deletion
• Artist Details 🔍 - Get the full picture on any artist:
  • Overview, disambiguation, type, status, genres, and ratings
  • Album list with release dates, track counts, and download status
  • Artist history with detailed event info
  • Manual discography search with release selection and download

💿 Album & Track Management

• Album Details - Drill into individual albums to see:
  • Track listing with audio info (codec, channels, bitrate, sample rate, bit depth)
  • Album history
  • Manual album search for grabbing specific releases
• Track Details 🎼 - View individual track info and history
• Delete Albums - Remove individual albums from your library

⬇️ Downloads & Queue

• Downloads Tab - Keep an eye on active downloads and manage your queue
• Blocklist 🚫 - View and manage blocked releases

📜 History

• Full History Support - Browse, search, filter, and sort Lidarr event history
• History Details - Dig into the details of any history event
• Mark as Failed ❌ - Mark history items as failed

🔎 Indexers

• Indexer Management - View, add, edit, and delete indexers
• Indexer Settings ⚙️ - Configure global indexer settings
• Test Indexers 🧪 - Test individual or all indexers at once

📁 Root Folders

• Root Folder Management - Add and manage root folders for your music library

🖥️ System

• System Status - View Lidarr system info and health checks
• Tasks - View and trigger system tasks
• Queued Events - Monitor queued system events
• Logs 📋 - Browse system logs
• Updates 🆙 - Check for and view available updates

⌨️ CLI Commands

Full Lidarr CLI support for all the things!

managarr lidarr list artists|albums|tracks|indexers|root-folders|tags|quality-profiles|...
managarr lidarr get artist|album|track|...
managarr lidarr add artist|root-folder|tag|...
managarr lidarr edit artist|indexer|indexer-settings|...
managarr lidarr delete artist|album|root-folder|tag|blocklist-item|...
managarr lidarr search artist|album|...
managarr lidarr refresh artist|downloads|...
managarr lidarr trigger-automatic-search artist|album
managarr lidarr manual-search artist|album

Managarr also supports Radarr and Sonarr!

If you're running the full *arr stack, Managarr has you covered - It supports Radar and Sonarr too, all from the same interface!

This is a passion project so I'd love to hear your feedback, feature requests, or any bug reports you find.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/875869

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Richard Stallman Makes a Come Back in his first public appearance at an US event

The free software movement has been around for over four decades now. It started as a response to proprietary software licenses that restricted people from understanding, modifying, or sharing the programs they ran on their computers.

At the center of this movement is the Free Software Foundation (FSF), founded in 1985. It has been the organizational backbone for promoting software freedom, maintaining crucial free software licenses like the GPL, and supporting projects that respect user rights.

Dr. Richard Stallman has been at the forefront of this movement from day one, along with countless other people who joined up to make their collective vision a reality. If you want to hear from him directly, he's speaking at Georgia Tech on January 23.