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Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding
Sentry has moved to a new license for its products called Functional Source License, and explains in [this article](https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functional-source-license-freedom-without-free-riding/) the story of the licensing for these products and why they throw BSL for FSL.
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PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas !
PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols. Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers. If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check [the official website](https://joinpeertube.org) to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server. The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by [Framasoft](https://framasoft.org/en/), a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you! Framasoft is also involved in the development of [Mobilizon](https://joinmobilizon.org/en/), a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup. If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to: * report bugs and give your feedback on [Github](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) or on [our forums](https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube/38) * submit your brillant ideas on our [Feedback platform](https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/) * Help to translate the software, following [the contributing guide](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-getting-started?id=translate) * [Make a donation](https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/) to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.
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Openreads is looking for funding for IOS development.
Become a [Github sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/mateusz-bak) or buy the dev a [coffee](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mateuszbak).
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I'm looking for an application (windows or maybe web) that can be used to combine images vertically and horizontally. I usually go with PhotoScape (screenshot) to for this but that's not free nor updated anymore. Important features for me are to be able to combine horizontally or vertically, set the number or rows or columns and have the ability to resize the final image. Thank you.
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Matrix 1.9 to be released this week!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8808885 > In a recent [Matrix blog post](https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/24/this-week-in-matrix-2023-11-24/) dated November 24, they wrote: > > "_Matrix 1.9 is due out next week. Keep your eyes peeled for an update._" > > This means that we can expect the new version this week. All new features are described [here](https://matrix.org/category/releases/). > > The most important are: > - Role-Based Access Control > - Account locking (by server admins) [MSC3939] > - Official spec support for **custom emojis and stickers** [MSC2545/MSC1951/MSC3892/MSC4027] > > I am so excited especially about the custom emojis! > Stay tuned 😎
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Libre Arts - GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule
Their goal is to release for may 24.
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Clipshare: Copy anywhere, paste anywhere, end to end encrypted
Hello everyone, I would like to share my little project I've been working on recently. There are many awesome data sharing solutions around. However, I've always wanted to be able to just alt+C on one machine and Alt+P on another, clipboard is just such a handy thing! so, I finally decided to get this done. Welcome Clipshare, a foss, end to end encrypted universal clipboard, written in Rust! Only Text and desktop platforms supported for now, but Android is definitely coming and files / images perhaps too.
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invidtui - An opensource cross-platform Invidious client v0.3.6 is released
Hello Lemmy, invidtui is a TUI-based Invidious client, which can: - Search for and browse videos, playlists and channels - Play audio or video from any instance - View, open, edit and save m3u8 playlists - Download video/audio in any format - Authenticate with the preferred instance, and show user feed, playlists and subscriptions This release contains the following new features/fixes: *** - Playlists are downloadable as well, with progress display in the "Downloads" page. Deleted/private videos are stored separately from the public ones. To use this feature: - Select a playlist with the `i` key, wait for the playlist to load - Press `Ctrl+S` to initialize the download - To view the progress of the download, press `Y` *** - Optimizations to the playlist file loading and queue rendering (reduced CPU usage) - Updating the queue only for new/updated items - Rate limiting the calls to MPV - Cancellable loading of playlist entries - Open the queue and press `x` to cancel loading the playlist entries. *** - An "Initializing" indicator is shown when the player is hidden and about to start playing a file *** I hope you enjoy this release, and any feedback is appreciated.
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does Google severly dislike Firefox??
with the recent news about the things that were said about Google slowing down Firefox on purpose, are they doing this because they severily dislike Firefox/open source? :c If so, that wouldn't make a lot of sense!!! Because Google loves open source too. I read they were doing this to stop adblockers, and well if you use Firefox without those, it can work maybe! I use Chromium and Google Chrome on Ubuntu ^u^
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BlopperPY, a fake hacking simulator that is available on all operating systems and runs on Python, its source code is fully available.
It's also made with plenty of Tkinter modules and other libraries, and it's a small application but it's very universal since it runs on anything!! Thank you Python :3
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Any Travel Log w/Map and Dates?
Curious if there's any travel apps or sites I'm missing that will log your trips, manually or automatically, with the locations on a map along with your dates of visit. I was just hoping to keep track of my trips in a more comprehensive way, and being able to visualize them while also being able to search by timeframe or by each trip would be nice too. The Polarsteps app does all of this automatically, but it's proprietary and collects a ton of your data. [All alternativetos](https://alternativeto.net/software/polarsteps/) are proprietary as well. OsmAnd Maps has a great looking tagging system, with different folders and icons. I know everyone here likes it, but as a casual observer it's clunky and I don't know how usable it'll be for this under the free plan that allows 7 map downloads. It looks like I'll have to download maps for every place I've been. Organic Maps allows bookmarks, but has less tagging features than OsmAnd and is also clunky and requires downloads. Excel / Libre does great in the manual organization of data for trips, locations, and dates, but Excel's maps are meant for data, with charts where you need to choose either a detailed region or worldview chart. Thanks for any thoughts on this.
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GotoPreview commands not working in Rust with Effective Vim Kickstart
I am trying to use the setup using the kickstart, and I noticed that `gd` ( [G]oto [D]efintion ) was not working. So I implemented goto-preview (https://github.com/rmagatti/goto-preview), and setup like recommended however, the commands (i.e. `gpd` and `gpt`) still don't work. I've implemented rust-analyzer using Mason. Typing `gp` and waiting brings up the hints for all the `Goto *` commands, so I know those parts are set up correctly. Anyone else having this issue?
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https://bitbucket.org/goldkarpfen/goldkarpfen
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What mobile app do you use with your FreshRSS instance?
I downloaded [FreshRSS](https://gitlab.com/christophehenry/freshrss-android) is not updated and is really lacking in functionality... notifications! Edit: I'm on Android (GrapheneOS) but you can share other apps too
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Why is there no BSD 3-Clause + Patent license option?
Recently, I was looking into licensing an open-source project I'm creating. My preferred license is the BSD-3, but was given advice that I should seek a license that offers patent protection as well. I saw there is a BSD 2-Clause + Patent option, but not one for the BSD 3-Clause, not that I found through OSI or SPDX. This seems odd to me, because I'm pretty sure the BSD 3-Clause is more commonly used than the BSD 2-Clause. Because of this, I've had to dual license my project as `BSD 3-Clause AND BSD 2-Clause+Patent`, which is a bit unwieldy, but achieves the same desired results. This seems like an odd oversight though, I'd be curious if there's a reason the 2-Clause was chosen for the patent protection over the 3-Clause version? I could just add in the patent protection part to the 3-Clause version, but creating arbitrary licenses like that definitely makes me feel a bit... uncomfortable. **Edit:** Due to some confusion as to what I meant, I wanted to add some details. I'm definitely aware that licenses such as the Apache 2.0 exist, I just like the BSD licenses for their simpler language (and also don't have that odd state changes clause from Apache 2.0). I'm more so just curious why the choice was made for only the BSD 2-Clause license to gain the Patent Clause, but not the BSD 3-Clause version. That's what I'm not sure about, and why I'm curious about the logic behind this choice. I'm gonna paste in the content of both licenses below, since they are both short and easy to read and understand. ### BSD 2-Clause + Patent >Copyright (c) > >Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: > >1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. >2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > >Subject to the terms and conditions of this license, each copyright holder and contributor hereby grants to those receiving rights under this license a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except for failure to satisfy the conditions of this license) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer this software, where such license applies only to those patent claims, already acquired or hereafter acquired, licensable by such copyright holder or contributor that are necessarily infringed by: > > (a) their Contribution(s) (the licensed copyrights of copyright holders and non-copyrightable additions of contributors, in source or binary form) alone; or > > (b) combination of their Contribution(s) with the work of authorship to which such Contribution(s) was added by such copyright holder or contributor, if, at the time the Contribution is added, such addition causes such combination to be necessarily infringed. The patent license shall not apply to any other combinations which include the Contribution. >Except as expressly stated above, no rights or licenses from any copyright holder or contributor is granted under this license, whether expressly, by implication, estoppel or otherwise. > >DISCLAIMER > >THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. (Fun Fact: A lead developer on the Rust team said they would have chosen the BSD 2-Clause+Patent license if it existed at the time of them first releasing the Rust programming language. Instead, it's why they chose to dual-license under the MIT and Apache 2.0 instead.) ### BSD 3-Clause >Copyright (c) . > >Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: > >1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. >2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. >3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. > >THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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