I've been trying to move away from Google Translate, it's so good though. Any adequate open source alternatives? Bonus points if it has a phrasebook and if I can import mine from Google.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1924228

Hey everyone, check the Linguist

• you can translate texts offline (with sent no one single byte to a Google and stay private)
• a lot of features and flexible configuration
• dictionary + history for learn languages
• it is are hackable - you can write code to use your own translation service

What's the state of IPFS?

I remember a few years ago there was excitement about using it to back video distribution but that seems to have fizzeled out.

Is there any video streaming service using IPFS?

Is the IPFS network growing? What is the best way to see the health of IPFS?

@[email protected] @[email protected] I was just curious. If a project is started as opensource and we have bunch of community members contribute to the project, either to the code or financially. What happens to the community contributions when that project decides that it is no longer going to be opensource?

Are there no license restrictions against this practice as the contributors were led to believe that they are contributing to an opensource project.

Can they close source community contributions?

Hi all,

I'm currently using Firefox with a self-hosted sync server, and since I have to use Chrome on a Chromebook (because Firefox for Android's UI is terrible for tablet/laptop mode), I use Floccus to sync there. I've been using this setup for years and it works great. (And no, I don't want to run Firefox for Linux on the Chromebook, it doesn't work well.)

However, I'd like to switch to a standard browser that has a tab-based UI on Android tablets (vs Firefox's click the box, then choose a tab from the list method). I'm looking for a browser that is Open Source (sorry Vivaldi) that I can use in Linux and on Android with a UI that's good in tablet/desktop mode. It must support some form of self-hosted sync, preferably for settings/themes/etc in the browser.

Does anyone know of anything? As far as I know, nothing exists short of Chromium with no settings sync and something like Floccus. I've built sync extensions before, so I'm tempted to look at Chromium source and see if I can modify it to sync to another API interface.

Thanks.

If proprietary app is better and more robust I am willing to try it and assess it myself.

cross-posted from: https://gehirneimer.de/m/[email protected]/t/57607

The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

Hello! I'm trying to import my youtube "watch later" playlist into my piped account on piped.yt. I extracted the videos links with this js script:

let p = [];
document.querySelectorAll("ytd-playlist-video-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint").forEach(v => {
	if(v.href.includes("/watch?v=") && !p.includes(v.href)){
		p.push(v.href.split('&list=')[0]);
	}
})
console.log('"' + p.join('","') + '"');

I then created a dummy playlist on piped and exported it as json, in order to modify it to add my videos. this is how it looks like:

{"format":"Piped","version":1,"playlists":[{"name":"WatchLater","type":"playlist","visibility":"private","videos":["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somethinghere","https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somethingheretoo"]}]}

and I replaced the videos list between [ ] with the output of the script, making sure that all quotation marks are closed. I then imported the file and.... the playlist created has 0 videos. why? am I doing something wrong?

Is there a way to show traffic on Osmand+ or another foss app which includes navigating around traffic jams or calculates the rout based on traffic?

Hello! I'm looking for a foss weather app for android, so I went ahead to f-droid and tried a bunch of them, but didn't find any that fully satisfies me: I want to be able to see the hourly forecast of any day of the week, not just the "global" forecast, and I want the weather service used not to require a credit card (openweathermap.org for example requires the credit card to get an API key). Geometric Weather is the one that I'm currently using, with open-meteo as provider, but sadly it displays hourly forecasts only for the current day, but not for other days.

Do you have any suggestion? Thanks in advance!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3468141

I have been looking all day for a FOSS keyboard that's under active development. It seems like more of not all of the ones I've seen recommended haven't been updated in over a year some three years. I don't mind if it's a long time between updates but I want to know bugs will be fixed eventually.

So i wanna start using OSMand+ instead of gmaps, but I want to have the arrow that symbolizes me to be focused by the app like gmaps does. Does anyone here have an idea on how to do that? Am I missing an option here?

Hi there,

I wanted to improve my native language dictionary (there is a lot of words missing) in OpenBoard app and I was wondering if anyone could help me out with it?

This is how it's described on their Github page, but I never used github so I'm not even sure where to start.

Dictionary creation

To create or update a dictionary for your language, you can use this tool. You will need a wordlist, as described here. The output .dict file must be put in res/raw, and its wordlist in dictionaries.

For your dictionary to be merged into OpenBoard, you must provide the wordlist you used, as well as its license if any.

Also, is this project still supported? It seems to be the best FOSS keyboard for me, but it seems the last update was a year ago.

Thanks

I've made an open source tool for scheduling posts to Lemmy, you can find it at https://schedule.lemmings.world. It can be used by users from any instance and it can be self-hosted if you wish so!

Changes since the last time I posted about it:

• you can now login with 2FA enabled
• you can schedule pin and unpin of posts in a community if you're the mod
• you can schedule pin and unpin of posts in an instance if you're the admin
• when creating a post, you can choose to pin it to the community (if you're a mod)
• you can choose the language of your posts
• an official support community has been created at [email protected]
• you can post the same post into multiple communities easily, just select the communities and multiple scheduled posts will be created

Let me know what you think!

Bismuth. Making tiling window management easy. On KDE Plasma. Thanks to this fine person, we have a working Bismuth on Plasma 5.27. It only took the addition of one question mark to the code to bring it to life. Huge kudos to developer. Unfortunately, we will have to build Bismuth from source code. I built a package for Fedora 38, here you go, maybe someone will find it useful! ❤️

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4530083

hi as above, tx 4 reading.

Hey, so we have a chemistry lab in our university. We were looking into keeping an inventory of all the chemicals and equipment present there. Initially the plan was to just keep a spreadsheet, but I was interested in something more robust . Some features that would be nice to have:

• Cross platform: Linux, Windows, Android
• Simple interface
• Searching functionality
• Invoice management
• Tracking new orders of chemicals

All suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

So, this is my latest project. Pretty complete, very fast and (I hope) easy to use label maker for use with relegendable keycaps.

It supports different layouts:

• single center icon
• split-screen like labels
• up to four icons on one label

Other notable features:

• easy to make and read configuration files
• ability to color and rescale icons
• support for PNGs and SVGs (automatically converted to PNG)
• speed (under 1s for about 30 labels)

What's left to do?

• automatic downloading of icons
• support for text instead of icons

I was trying to find open source alternative to rentry.co and find this. Even it's have more feature than rentry.co e.g Animations.

If anybody don't know what is rentry.co? It is a popular Markdown Pastebin. Official Piracy community and FMHY use this as wiki.

From my understanding hugging face is open source, but while they have lot of opensource work including clients to their website, I cannot for the life of me find the webserver's source code!

OSSCi (non-profit working on open source science tools) is working on a project that maps the OSS ecosystem, specifically tools that are used in science, and we're starting with generative AI, machine learning, and materials science. Here's a very very very minimal demo of the map:

https://map.opensource.science/

and here's a discourse forum we're collecting info on

https://community.opensource.science/t/mapping-the-oss-tool-landscape/28