Open-source KOReader is an alternative to the default Kindle interface “Firstly, KOReader supports way more formats than the default Kindle reader. It can read EPUBs natively (no conversion required). It even loads digital comic

Open-source KOReader is an alternative to the default Kindle interface

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#opensource #reading #technology

Bitsocial is an Open Source P2P Network for Social Apps There are so many peer-to-peer networks now in existence that I have seriously lost count of them. You may think that they just come and go, but that is

Bitsocial is an Open Source P2P Network for Social Apps

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#opensource #P2P #socialnetworks #technology

Immich Kiosk turns any screen into a photo display "No processing happens on the tablet, it is just a display for the image output. In fact, you won't even have much of configuration options since all of that

Immich Kiosk turns any screen into a photo display

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#Immich #opensource #technology

France’s government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk “The French government has decided that enough is enough. It has announced that it will shift away from proprietary technologies from outside the European

France’s government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk

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#France #linux #opensource #technology

PacHub finally lets you manage pacman and the AUR on Arch without touching the terminal “PacHub provides a GTK4/libadwaita GUI for pacman and AUR, so you can avoid the terminal. PacHub can install/uninstall packages, perform upgrades, and provide

PacHub finally lets you manage pacman and the AUR on Arch without touching the terminal

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#linux #opensource #technology

Dangerzone — an open source app to safely open suspect PDFs, office docs, or images Dangerzone works like this: You give it a document that you don't know if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside a sandbox, Dangerzone

Dangerzone — an open source app to safely open suspect PDFs, office docs, or images

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#opensource #security #technology

ClipCascade is an open-source lightweight utility that automatically syncs the clipboard across devices This is a nice private option to sync across all your devices in real-time, and you can self-host you own sync device, rely on peer-to-peer between devices,

ClipCascade is an open-source lightweight utility that automatically syncs the clipboard across devices

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#clipboard #opensource #privacy #technology

I just moved from Manjaro Linux to EndeavourOS I've been on Manjaro Linux for a good ten plus years now and been pretty happy with it. Not only that, but I love the rolling distro type updates as there has

I just moved from Manjaro Linux to EndeavourOS

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#endeavouros #linux #opensource #technology

Big Win for Open Source as Germany Backs Open Document Format “Germany has strictly standardised its digital document requirements. The Deutschland-Stack (in Deutsch), the country's new sovereign digital infrastructure

Big Win for Open Source as Germany Backs Open Document Format

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#ODF #opensource #openstandards #technology

OpenSpeedTest an Open-Source Self Hostable HTML5 Network Performance Estimation Tool “OpenSpeedTest is written in Vanilla JavaScript. No Third-Party frameworks or libraries were used. The unexpected side effect of using Vanilla JavaScript is

OpenSpeedTest an Open-Source Self Hostable HTML5 Network Performance Estimation Tool

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#networks #opensource #selfhosting #speedtest #technology

Hister indexes every web page you visit and lets you search the full text of your browsing history offline “Have you ever wished your browser history was more than just a collection of URLs? As it is, the standard search history is kind of useless. Sure, you can

Hister indexes every web page you visit and lets you search the full text of your browsing history offline

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#browsers #history #opensource #search #technology

DBAN is a relic for HDD wiping, and ShredOS is the only software you should use “When “wiping a hard drive clean,” a quick format doesn't actually erase anything at all. Instead, it just removes the drive's file index. That leaves the

DBAN is a relic for HDD wiping, and ShredOS is the only software you should use

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#opensource #security #technology

Europe is building an alternative to Microsoft Office “Office EU is a cloud-based office suite built entirely on open-source software and hosted exclusively on European servers, has launched as a direct

Europe is building an alternative to Microsoft Office

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#digitalsovereignty #opensource #technology

Portracker – an open source self-hosted real-time port monitoring and discovery tool I'm using this tool to identify which docker container ports are published or exposed (from the container) as well as which internal ports are available on

Portracker – an open source self-hosted real-time port monitoring and discovery tool

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#docker #networking #opensource #selfhosting #technology

Why OOXML is not a standard format for office documents “Why OOXML has never been, is not, and will never be a standard format unless Microsoft decides to completely redesign its office applications.”

Why OOXML is not a standard format for office documents

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#opensource #openstandards #technology

Tugtainer is a self-hosted app for automating updates of your docker containers Another modern Watchtower alternative but after testing it today I'm sticking with What's Up Docker (WUD) for now.

Tugtainer is a self-hosted app for automating updates of your docker containers

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#docker #opensource #technology

This is Probably the Best Video Downloader App (And it is Free and Open Source) “You come across an interesting video on social media and thought of downloading it so that you can send it to someone or modify it to share it on some other

This is Probably the Best Video Downloader App (And it is Free and Open Source)

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#downloader #opensource #technology

LastSignal Is a New Open-Source Dead Man’s Switch You Can Self-Host “A new open-source tool called LastSignal has emerged to let users run their own encrypted dead man’s switch on a self-hosted server. The software is designed

LastSignal Is a New Open-Source Dead Man’s Switch You Can Self-Host

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#deadmanswitch #opensource #selfhosting #technology

Rallly is an open source self-hosted tool to make organising events and meetings easier If you've ever had to try to find a time for an event of meeting that suites a family, colleagues, or other large group of people, you'll know what a pain

Rallly is an open source self-hosted tool to make organising events and meetings easier

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#opensource #scheduling #selfhosting #technology

Matrix secure chat is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty "Matrix is currently talking to circa 35 countries about FOSS communications infrastructure. For instance, Hodgson told us the United Nations is on board:

Matrix secure chat is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty

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#chat #digitalsovereignty #opensource #privacy #technology

Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralised Web “Roomy is an open-source Discord alternative built on the AT Protocol (ATProto), the same protocol that powers Bluesky, with ActivityPub (the protocol behind

Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralised Web

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#decentralised #opensource #socialnetworks #technology

French government announces move from US based video conferencing to open source Visio

French government announces move from US based video conferencing to open source Visio

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#digitalsovereignty #France #opensource #technology

Healthchecks.io emails me when my automation jobs don’t run We all "should" have scheduled backups running, and sometimes other automated tasks as well. In some cases you may see an error popup, but often it is just an

Healthchecks.io emails me when my automation jobs don’t run

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#monitoring #opensource #technology

FavBox is an open source browser extension that enhances and simplifies bookmark management without cloud storage or third-party services It extends your browser's native bookmarking features.

FavBox is an open source browser extension that enhances and simplifies bookmark management without cloud storage or third-party services

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#bookmarks #browsers #opensource #technology

Make Jellyfin look like Spotify and Plex: 5 clients you need to install “Are you looking for a better way to enjoy content from your Jellyfin server? There are tons of clients to choose from made by passionate volunteers, and each

Make Jellyfin look like Spotify and Plex: 5 clients you need to install

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#Jellyfin #opensource #technology

Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat App Sees Downloads Spike in Uganda Over Internet Shutdown Worries “Recently, the app drew attention during Nepal’s Gen Z protests, where it supported protesters in overthrowing the government. On September 4, authorities

Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat App Sees Downloads Spike in Uganda Over Internet Shutdown Worries

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#decentralised #disasters #opensource #protests #technology

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using Handy, a Free Speech-to-Text App “In recent years AI models like Nvidia's Parakeet and OpenAI's Whisper, both open source, have made great strides in turning human voices into text. Both

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using Handy, a Free Speech-to-Text App

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#dictation #opensource #technology

Pebble’s round smartwatch returns in an unexpected reboot “The original Pebble Time Round's sizeable bezels are gone and replaced with a sleek-looking, edge-to-edge 1.3-inch colour e-paper display that's both bigger

Pebble’s round smartwatch returns in an unexpected reboot

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#opensource #smartwatch #technology

13 Open-Source Apps You Can Use from a Web Browser “When we think of open-source apps for design, productivity, or even just for fun, we usually picture desktop software running natively on our computers. The

13 Open-Source Apps You Can Use from a Web Browser

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#opensource #technology

LanguageTool ends free use of Browser Extension – Here are some Options LanguageTool is an AI-based grammar checker. They just announced that the browser extension will only be usable to their cloud service with a premium

LanguageTool ends free use of Browser Extension – Here are some Options

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#languagetool #opensource #selfhosting #technology