I'm looking for an open-source alternative to Samsung Notes, which I use every day to take notes with my pen.

One of the main problems with this application is that you can't open a storage directly, every time I make a change to a document I have to export it manually to Nextcloud. You can't sync without Samsung Cloud.

Edit: This is an example of the usage I do of Samsung Notes and what I'm looking for:

I would love a program where I can browse the world and see countries, cities, oceans, all fully labeled (preferably in English which I speak, but a dual English+local native script would also be good). It would be all the nicer if there were stats and facts and some representative photos and stuff to learn a little about different places, without needing to dive into a full Wikipedia article.

Basically, what I'm hoping for is like a modern MS Encarta Atlas, but offline and good.

As for web options, Google Maps, unfortunately, works really well. But I despise Google. OpenStreetMaps doesn't have all that extra data, it is just a map. What are the options available, if any?

I’m glad to announce v0.4.0 release!

The major feature of the new release is fltk-frontend and improvements BEP protocol implementation.

You can download ready-to-use binaries for Linux x86_64, Windows (WindowsXP is supported!) and Mac OS X (Apple silicon).

Syncspirit is a syncthing-compatible synchronization program that implements BEP-protocol. Syncspirit is a syncthing-compatible is written from the scratch software in C++ as classical desktop application, which had different technical decisions on its foundation to overcome syncthing limitations.

Syncspirt source code uses GPLv3 license.

Any feedback is welcome!

WBR, basiliscos.

Select the square on OpenStreeMap and the app will generate the world directory, which can be opened in Minecraft Java Edition.

I haven't figured out yet what's the best world scale ratio, but visiting known locations is fun.

If you use Freetube, you haven't failed to notice that Google is on the war path again and broke it a few days ago. See this bug report.

Please note that it's been fixed in this PR. If you download the nightly build #5652, it now works like a champ.

Thanks team Freetube!

The last update was in 2020. Electron version is 8.0.

I have been using it since then on linux.. however, I am not too sure if I should keep using it?

If I am moving to another app, I am thinking of rednotebook, unless there is something better.

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When i try to find reviews or people talking about Kdenlive on places like YouTube, I mostly find things that are 2-5 years old at this point and just seem relatively outdated. Does it have an active community of users? Is it worth using in 2025? I think it seems really promising but i haven't given it a shot yet.

Edit: up to this point I've been a user of premier pro and more recently DaVinci resolve

Another edit for further context: I wouldn't say I'm a "professional editor" but I'm not just making simple cuts either. I make video essays on YouTube and my style is pretty edit heavy. Lots of text, sometimes I'll have like 10 things on screen at once, etc

Was reading this article, and it got me thinking. There's lots of people who are happy to complain at length, but what if we made it a point to pick a particular day each year to express our collective gratitude for the work people do for FOSS?

Whether in the form of donations or kind words (maybe even joining a project), it might be something that helps keep people going on the things they love but for which they don't get a lot of appreciation.

Curious to hear y'all's thoughts.

Edit: Someone mentioned I Love Free Software Day, which is cool that it exists. I like the idea behind it, but I'm hesitant to piggyback upon a well-known holiday, for fear of being wholly overshadowed (Valentine's Day is already stressful enough for some people).

I was looking for a good and quick file transfer method and stumbled upon Warp on Linux (flatpak). It says the app is open source but I did a quick Lemmy search and someone mentioned the protocol magic wormhole is closed.

Even though I found the application very useful, like I can transfer files even when connected to a VPN service, the closed source nature turns me off.

Also when operating without a VPN, wormhole connects via local network, my desktop is behind a firewall, but the transfer still happen! How does it do that without opening a port in f/w?

Any alternate suggestions are welcome as well.

Edit 1. The domain for the magic wormhole relay and transit server that most open source clients (like Warp) use is magic-wormhole.io. I have to check if they really are open source.

Edit 2. There seems to a mention of the magic-wormhole.io domain in their PyCon 2016 presentation.

Hi, looking for recommendations and or thoughts on open source software for Windows, specially for audio, video and media playback?

I'm currently using VLC for most video files, but don't really enjoy using it for my music collection. I've been looking into the following so far:

• Audacious
• Kodi
• Clementine

::edit:: Forgot use case! I'm mainly looking for something to play my local MP3 collection, with metadata intact as I've spent years making sure it all correct thanks to mp3Tag. Playlists are a bonus, visualisations would be nice, but it's mainly for an album at a time from my harddrive while I work or read.

Thank you!

For Context: Am in the process of replacing Office365 and Windows default apps on my personal laptop with open source due to the intrusive Copilot etc. I am also looking at the eventual move back over to a Linux OS down the line.

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ArcaneChat is a FLOSS private and secure messenger focused on privacy and friendly user experience.

💬 Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support.

⚡️ Sign-up easily and anonymously, no phone number or any private data required.

🎮 Interactive mini-apps in chats for gaming, shopping lists, productivity and collaboration.

🔒 End-to-end encrypted chats safe against network and server attacks.

ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and it is compatible with other Delta Chat clients.

Source code: https://github.com/ArcaneChat/

Someone else tried to get this added a few years ago but it didn't get enough votes.

Fluvio is a distributed streaming runtime for building event driven analytical applications.

Relevant for Builders who are writing applications in Rust. Software & Data Architects who are building intricate data processing workflows to build intelligent applications using Rust, Python, or JavaScript, and of course SQL.

Fluvio currently is version 0.15.2, closing towards version 1 steadily. The past release notes and features are here - https://www.fluvio.io/news/

Documentation updated as of last release - https://www.fluvio.io/

We released a benchmarking utility in v0.15 and a blog showing some basic benchmark runs here : https://infinyon.com/blog/2025/02/kafka-vs-fluvio-bench/

After dabbling in the world of LLM poisoning, I realised that I simply do not have the skill set (or brain power) to effectively poison LLM web scrapers.

I am trying to work with what I know /understand. I have fail2ban installed in my static webserver. Is it possible now to get a massive list of known IP addresses that scrape websites and add that to the ban list?