I made some off-hand comments on a post on 196 and didn't realize they'd be taken the wrong way. I made a few more comments to help clarify my idea but caught a blanket ban from blahaj.zone with no warning or message.

I know that many people don't like complex or intransparent recommendation algorithms.

Hello, I would like to hear your open source alternatives for programs that we use everyday.

I don't use apps like whatsapp or skype because they sell my data and don't trust them.

We need a system like a RockChip processor based single board computer, paired with a trusted protection module, and all fediverse services prepackaged for minimal user input required to self host any fediverse services. All updates should be safely installed over the air via the TPM chip based encryption just like with Graphene OS. All of the necessary connections should be preconfigured to punch a hole for the port into the internet. The hardware should be completely locked down with an immutable base system and SE Linux fully configured. There shouldn't be any accommodations for obscure edge cases outside of the base configuration. It should not require any further payment or services.

https://piped.video automatically linked to my music post (started c/ListenParty a bit earlier) - what is it? It's not loading, as far as I can tell. https://piefed.social/c/listenparty/p/1462454/who-is-william-onyeabor

Does such an app exist?

I recently noticed that Piefed handles cross instance reports better than Lemmy, i.e. if you moderate a remote community and a Piefed user reports someone from yet another instance, the report actually seems to reach you.

Liz is a Linux enthusiast. She uses Linux as her only operating system for the last two decades, and she is very knowledgeable about it. She is keen to help other Linux new-comers solve issues they run into frequently.

I'm a very much pro free software person and I used to think that GPL is basically the only possible option when it comes to benefits for free software (and not commercial use), but I've recently realised this question is actually much more ambiguous.

Fediverse projects are maturing and adoption of them is trending up. I'm excited for the further development of the underlying technologies as well as the apps being built to leverage those technologies into even more integrated, user-friendly experiences.

A comment I posted is missing from where I posted it, but I can't find anything about it in modlogs. What's this mean?

TL;DR: Stop running a Jellyfin server. MPV can directly play anything from your NAS, stream YouTube ad-free, handle literally every codec, and is infinitely customizable. It's like vim for video.

A feature I miss from Google Maps is the ability to create a map w/ pins on all the places I've been to, sorting them into lists, etc. Is there an open source app on Windows or Android that I could use instead of google? It doesn't have to be a navigation app, although that would be a plus.

Hi,

I'm sorry if this question has already been asked, but I'm just wondering, what your opinions are about lichess and chess.com? Lichess is a nonprofit and open-source and seems more ethical to me, but chess.com has more features. I've been using chess.com for years, but thinking of switching over to lichess or some other application.

Think of This As: What Would You Suggest To People Who Want to Grow And Be Part of Open Source Community?

I've been looking at some music players for Android, but so far they've all had bugs. Can you recommend something similar to Musicolet that's available on the Play Store?

Lack of granular privacy / profile control

Hello all,

Basically, I'd like to be able to get SMS messages from my android phone sent to my Linux laptop, primarily for getting 2FA codes, since that's the way pretty much every business-type site out there insists on doing it.

I used to use feeder but stopped reading news for a while. With feeder, I have to know each feed and add it myself. This is good but I don't see new or other stuff. I think I'd like to have both, everything and only my stuff. Or something where I can opt out instead of opt in.

How would I build a Python bot that automatically reposts or highlights statistically outlier posts from my Lemmy subscriptions—like anything more than one standard deviation above the average? I’m looking for a general approach covering data retrieval from the Lemmy API, outlier detection, and reposting mechanics.

Software to check PDF-UA compatibility?

My university is pushing for us to ensure that all our documents are accessibility-friendly. I write all my documents in LaTeX and have been taking the steps and measures to ensure that everything I generate is tagged, has alt text, and colour-blind-friendly.

I stopped using piefed a week ago when I got a message some random quack banned my account in some community I had never engaged with but I could not figure out who did it or where it happened. Any lack of modlog accountability for mods and admin with full transparency are an absolute no-go for me.

I'm trying to follow the guide here https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html

Hello! I've been mostly away from Lemmy/Piefed for a bit (important to take a break for mental health) but, was hoping that someone could point me to Piefed plugin examples/docs.

Just gathering ideas.

I imagine it would be a matching engine that projects can apply to their own specific needs. Or are the brains of DoorDash and Uber already open source, like how most of the WWW runs on FOSS?

Hello! I'm an admin on ttrpg.network. Recently, our hosting provider let us know that they are going out of business. I'm trying to find a new provider to migrate to.

NO FUCKING WONDER IT'LL GO NO WHERE! NOT WITH THE TRASH INFECTING IT! TRASH OUT FROM REDDIT AND TRASH INTO THE FEDIVERSE!

There is perennial discussion about what fediverse servers (Lemmy or otherwise) to recommend to new users. I have a proposal, perhaps not very original but I haven't seen it made often.

Recently switched to Linux and have been looking for alternatives for Musicbee, which I used for ages in Windows. I guess I could make it work with Wine but thought I'd ask here for suggestions first. Features I'm looking for are not a lot to ask IMO:

This directory contains known content creators and their channels in the PeerTube vidiverse. The directory is a work-in-progress and everyone is welcome to suggest content creators.

Yattee is a free and open source invidious/piped client for iOS and iPadOS. It’s great for those who want to watch YouTube without the ads garbage. It also supports sponsorblock. It’s a bit buggy, but it still works fine.

On my old android, I used AccuBattery but now I'd prefer an open source alternative. I've seen Battery Bot and another called Plus Plus Battery. The former is really old, last updated like 3 years ago and the latter seems like it is in early stage and built for a few brands in particular. What apps do you use to keep track of battery health?

Iirc, in one of his last public appearances before abandoning Kbin was commenting he had health issues.

I just realised that already for a while I seem to have lost the option to set the notification bar color in KISS launcher. It is just not there anymore. Did it get removed or is it a bug?

Currently, "bold" and "italic" markup doesn't actually output bold and italic text (semantically); instead, it outputs strongly emphasized () and emphasized () text. This is completely wrong and semantic markup abuse, since we can't guarantee that bold text will only be used for strong importance or that italic text will only be used for emphasis. HTML output for this markup should be changed to general-purpose elements (i.e. *%text%* (_%text%_) should be %text%, not %text%, and **%text%** (__%text%__) should be %text%, not %text%).