Denys Nykula

There’s free web software LibreTranslate, which is a frontend to the Argos Translate library, built around the OpenNMT machine translation models. It still makes a lot of serious mistakes, but you can self-host it (after downloading models from, well, AWS) and find a way to contribute so that they can improve.

The Vi editing mode in Kate is also good, without a need to install any extensions, just one tick in the settings.

My netbook has a keyboard without Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, Ins and Del keys. Vim and Emacs modes make it significantly more usable while remaining small. Vim is also convenient in Termux, for quick remote fixes from a phone.

Looks like a good starting point for municipalities implementing live bus location maps.

It’s like they don’t understand the reason for this success is how different their road taken has been compared to all-in on AI companies.

Haven’t had memory issues on my Windows 11 laptop so I don’t check how much is free. On the other hand, free disk space is jumping between 0 and 10 GB without notification as to what appears or disappears. This is annoyingly unreliable because the space often gets closer to 0 right at the time when I need to Syncthing files with others.

Remembered that I made such a tool for myself ten years ago. Dusted off a backup, updated dependencies (and replaced some), refactored somewhat, changed license to AGPL and uploaded here: https://codeberg.org/nykula/imgie

Should be very easy to install because the backend is just ImageMagick and SQLite.

Beware of a 250M node_modules, though. My code is less than 1K lines in the initial commit, but the linters, bundlers etc are the same as I use for big projects.

Note: Lufi encrypts uploaded files and lets one share a link containing a decryption key. It doesn’t let one expose images for other websites to embed. Thus a good tool but not for OP’s purpose?

Slink might be easy enough to set up with Docker: https://docs.slinkapp.io/getting-started/02-quick-start/

Upd 22:04: tried setting it up with Podman instead of Docker, and the instructions didn’t work, first because of missing directories and then a permission issue. However, this can be because I tried on WSL rather than a dedicated GNU/Linux box.

Chimera uses udev and elogind, almost unavoidable on desktops. One is a major part of systemd, the other is a fork of another major part of systemd backporting updates from systemd upstream. Trying new distros is good, just let’s not mislead ourselves, apart from switching to the BSDs altogether, boycotting systemd is only possible at the moment when building an embedded system or a server.

Probably like this: a threat actor [for authoritarians pushing ID laws and locked-in hardware], just not in a way that any of us [computing freedom enthusiasts] would consider as being a real theat [for the people].

I remember the shared storage location functionality in the Password Store app but I no longer see it in any versions released since last year. That’s why I had to switch to Termux. Also a control freak, just a different kind 😅

Are there mechanisms for fully automatic synchronization on every file change and every initialization in the Android and console apps for password-store out of the box these days? Using Syncthing with password-store at the moment to get a user experience as close to that as possible. Had to switch from the Android app to Termux and the CLI because the app no longer supports usage with Syncthing.

Yay to the arrow brush! Feels weird to draw arrows beginning with the end, but I’m very glad to see this feature as a GIMP built-in now. Should make annotating screenshots much more convenient.

It’d be cool if your app was installable from F-Droid, for which the sources have to be somewhere under a free license. I most likely won’t be able to contribute code but would indeed like to look through the sources, and maybe help with translation if the code supports internationalization.

Do some parts of go-notes have proprietary sources? I can’t find the source for the native Android client in the repo or instructions on how to download and build it from elsewhere.

BTW the demand for bigger screens and bigger resolutions is something I don’t easily understand. I notice some difference between 1366x768 and 1920x1080 on a desktop, but the difference from further increase is of so little use for me I’d classify it as a form of bloat. If anything, I now habitually switch to downloading 480p and 720p instead of higher definition by default because it saves me traffic and battery power, and fits much more on a single disk easy to back up.

The article itself seems written by AI? Maybe I’m missing something when reading, but when I packaged a Preact application and sent it to F-Droid, I needed to code a few hundred lines of Java and Gradle boilerplate: https://codeberg.org/nykula/sapfir/src/commit/fce6fcd34e/android - the article doesn’t seem to mention many necessary steps in building a web-based hello world for Android? The choice of web-based technology (React) and F-Droid as a distribution channel is also a very weird combination in the context of postmarketOS, which targets many legacy, slow devices and thus its FAQ recommends using native Linux alternatives to Android and web apps whenever possible.

Have you tried adding Tor hidden services? It was the easiest solution for me to expose ports from behind the provider’s NAT to my phone when not at home.

Corollary from the article: if every major distro uses Red Hat tech, it’s a sign that there’s a lack of funding from other sources for the core OS development. The goal of an “EU OS” project should be to identify and push forward the yet-unexplored or resource-lacking areas of such development, with EU funds. To be a friendly competitor and collaborator to Red Hat. Not to rebrand whatever distro for local usage.