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SiDock is an international scientific collaboration using the computers of volunteers to search through vast chemical space to find a cure for COVID-19. This will produce an open source, patent-free, shelf-stable antiviral that can be used across the world and purchased for low cost.

You can contribute to their work with a simple download.

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I am in need of reader applications that are specifically optimized for textbooks. I would really appreciate if the application allows to search for and download textbooks directly without being restricted to content within a specific region/country, bookmark pages and have a simple and clean UI, apart from which I do not have any special requirements. I would ideally be looking for an application that can be installed both in my PC and mobile and allow syncing, however it is optional.

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Full Disclosure : I am not the Developer, I Just think that this app is pretty cool.

For people interested in installing it:

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If HashiCorp is unwilling to switch Terraform back to an open source license, we propose to fork the legacy MPL-licensed Terraform and maintain the fork in the foundation. This is similar to how Linux and Kubernetes are managed by foundations (the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, respectively), which are run by multiple companies, ensuring the tool stays truly open source and neutral and not at the whim of any one company.

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I am seeking a solution that will enable me to mirror the screen from Android (LineageOS 20) to Android TV (LineageOS 20 for Android TV). Chromecast is only accessible for Google-certified devices; therefore, Chromecast will not function here.

Is there a project in which I can install the receiver app on the Android TV and the client app on the Android phone to accomplish this?

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I often observe that people that started a small open source project seem to abandon it sooner or later. I'm guilty of this myself in numerous cases. Reasons there are many probably, from new obligations in life to shifts in interest and whatnot.

At some point somebody comes by with an issue, or a merge request even, but the maintainer does not take care of it. Usually this ends up in forks, often though forks undergo the same fate. Apart from the immediate forks-jungle, stuff like software stores or other things might be hardlinked to the original repo, which means places like these end up with dead originals and a number of forks with varying degree of being maintained as well.

To me its just a sad situation overall. And yet I cannot find the time or motivation to maintain some stuff, because circumstances just changed. And I also do not think one is obliged to do so, just because they where nice enough to share their code when the project mattered to them.

Is there a better way? Usually these are very nieche projects, and there is not a circle of regularly active developers that could share administration of a repo, but rather a quiet one-man-show with a short timespan of incredible activity. Some kind of sensible failover mechanism once the original maintainer vanishes would probably be cool. Or any other way that introduces some redundancy in keeping a repository alive. You know how package maintainers in Linux distributions open their package(s) for adoption by somebody else if they run out of capacity? I think that is nice.

I will publish a small project soon I think, but somewhere in the future I fear to leave one or the other person frustrated again when I have moved on to other things...

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Looking for a good README editor. With maybe git functionality, but not necessary

  • Like adding shields/badges/assets within automatically

  • managing a directory like structure by generating new MD files in a directory like folder structure.

Essentially an IDE like environment just for markdown file management and a WYSIWYG editing experience

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Besides Thunderbird, is there any good desktop mail client for Windows that doesn't involve uploading mail to a cloud first?

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  1. Be a huge company
  2. Buy one of the biggest FOSS hosting websites
  3. Train AI model on code from your purchase
  4. Paywall and restrict access to the model for everyone except you
  5. Laught at Stallman and his lifework
  6. Profit
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Hi! I'm looking for an SSH client for Android, but open source. Termius is great, but it's closed source and has its subscription-based pricing model, so it's out. I use ConnectBot rn but it's buggy and looks awful. Would you recommend any?

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Hello! I'm looking for a foss navigator app for my android device, but all navigator apps I've tried (OSMand, organic map) are missing a feature: when I calculate the route from point A to point B, on Google Maps a few possible routes are displayed, and then I chose the one I prefer; on other apps only one possible route is displayed, and if for any motivation I don't want to pass from a certain street or something like this, I have no other options. Is there an app (or a way on these apps) to make it calculate a few possible routes instead of just one?

thanks in advance!

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Hej hej,

Simply wondering if peeps here has any experience with any good apps for managing finance with either friends or spouse. Open for any suggestions, looking for something privacy focused.

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We are currently in an age where a large portion of open source apps are actively maintained, users understand more about open source than ever before and open source software is almost as good, if not better, than their proprietary counterparts.

This is just a huge thank you to anyone and everyone involved in the making and maintaining of open source software.

As a regular tester, I do my best to provide any feedback I can to make your vision come to fruition.

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The main features I want are:

  • Import PDFs and annotate them in the app’s native format (so that I’ll still be able to remove previous changes after I save and re-open it)
  • Quickly add text boxes anywhere on the PDF
  • Draw some basic shapes and lines with different colors (can either be notability-style “draw and hold to make shape” or just a classic “insert shapes” option from the toolbar)
  • Have a page thumbnail option and can search text in the PDF file and quickly go there
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Before I buy another Roku, are there any options for a streaming box/stick that run FOSS? A foss derivitive of android TV would be nice if that exists, ideally preloaded on an inexpensive and compact piece of hardware.

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i've found this cute little app called photon that does exactly what I need. Unlike snapdrop, it doesn't need to connect to a server. Unlike warpinator, it works.

but I hate the GUI. It's too cute for me :/

What other apps are there to share files through a hotspot.

some sharing apps require the 2 phones to be connected to the same WiFi, we're travelling and a hotspot is our only option.

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I'm working on a little project that would benefit from using QUIC, I think, but I need both client and server side and I'm finding it hard to find a drop-in solution I can make use of.

  • OpenSSL seems to only support client side
  • Chromium's implementation says it's just for testing and not performant at scale (although I'm not sure what their frame of reference is when they say that, for me it might be fine)
  • I'm not real sure that I want to go the route of msquic or s2n-quic

Can anyone recommend a good solution for this? Or is FOSS support for it just not available quite yet?

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I'm using Google's but I don't really like it.

EDIT: is there anything that can sync with a linux podcast app (desktop)?

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