Improvements for TROM.tf :

Our TROM Social first page (login) is not anymore just an empty page with a simple login, it provides you a peek into the fediverse:

Now you can see what's going on on the network, maybe to convince you to join 😀. It took a lot of CSS and HMTL gymnastics to achieve this. From my tests on desktop with mobile emulators all looks good on mobile, but for some reason when I check it on my phone it does not look as it should....I shall investigate.

Implemented some dark toggles for some of our services, where it was doable, such as Call

Search

Speed

And made our TROM Call, Jitsi Meet, more reliable.

Lastly we spent many days trying to figure out how to make our Peertube Live work better. Hours of tests, lots of logs. Hopefully we can make it more reliable.

#peertube #trom #tromsite #jitsi #searx #opensource #foss #friendica #fediverse

@Tio

A big thank you to the anonymous donor who sent 500 Euros for @Rokosun to buy a laptop. Roko has been helping with our TROM projects for a while now. TROMjaro would not be possible the way it is now without him. He is the one coding our layout and theme switchers and a lot more.

Roko got TROM's "legacy" laptop a year ago 😀 but unfortunately the motherboard died 🙁. So he ended up using an old laptop that barely worked. He could barely test stuff for TROMjaro. So he really needed a good machine.

Now he will buy one and will be able to more easily help with the TROM project. We have a lot of plans! Follow us on the fediverse ;)

#linux #trom #tromjaro #donation #laptop #foss #trade-free

After many months we are bringing back our TROM.tf Search! https://search.trom.tf/ thanks to Danny!

But with a twist. Instead of hosting a SearX instance we are using a script that checks the best and most reliable instances and uses them randomly for every search. It is a meta-search engine. This way we make sure it is reliable and our IP will never get blocked by google and the rest.

For those who do not know, SearX is itself a sort of meta-search engine, pulling results from google, DDG, yahoo and more, removing the ads and trackers, and basically allowing you to search without those viruses.

So, we are finally back!

To add it to Firefox simply right click the URL after the page loads, and then add the TROM Search as a search engine. From Firefox's settings make sure you select it to be as default for your browser.

#searx #searxng #search #foss #opensource #tromtf #trom

TROMjaro is alive and well. And we keep it up to date and relevant - https://www.tromjaro.com - I love our Linux distro! 😀 I love when it is stable and just works. And we also ship with so many tweaks you can simply use it. No ads, no trackers, all apps available in Linux from one single place - click and install. I love it. A very positive project indeed 😀

#tromjaro #linux #foss #opensource #operatingsystem

Quoting directly from the GPL: `The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.`

If a project is so difficult to build, package or redistribute that the only practical way is to use docker then this is hardly #FOSS.

Please boost for visibility if you don't mind.

We now have 6 servers dedicated to transcoding/transcribing our Peertube videos https://videos.trom.tf - thanks to @Alexio who is providing 4 of them! Peertube is now a complete replacement for Youtube and I will make sure to push it a lot more in terms of use and promotion! We need to get people to use it, else without content, it won't go anywhere....

Feel free to use our instance!

#peertube #youtube #video #opensource #foss

CC @fedora (https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/142117?lang=en)

#GenerativeAI #AI #LLM #ethics #fedora #openSource #FOSS #BigTech #RedHat #IBM https://det.social/@jlink/112811798901196501

For the past several months no one could install flatpaks from our Trade-Free TROMjaro app Library - https://www.tromjaro.com/apps/ - and now we finally fixed it thanks to @Rokosun ! One click installs 😀

We have curated around 700 trade-free apps for the library and we plan to add a lot more the following months. Check it out!

#tromjaro #linux #trade-free #opensource #foss #flatpak

Thank you so much Eduard for becoming the 77th supporter of TROM! We run a unique fundraiser for TROM in that we need only 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month in order to support us for the long run.

Distributed support so that it won't put a big toll on anyone, and a limited goal so that we do not get rich.

If you appreciate the so many things that we do at TROM (see https://www.tromsite.com) then please consider supporting us.

#tromlive #foss #opensource #privacy #documentary #fediverse

A couple things to think about here:

This appears to be a malicious maintainer - not a compromised account. Meaning the person themselves, coded this in an pushed it out.

So:
1) Did they try and backdoor any other code?
2) Are they part of a greater campaign or is anyone else helping them.

This is a massive breach of trust.

That said! Huge kudos to Andres Freund, Florian Weimer, and others in finding this.

A lot of eyes are on this now. CISA is involved. Major distros are involved, etc. Many eyes and such.

#infosec #linux #foss #hacking #cve20243094 #cve

Our Frienica instance got updated to the latest stable and all of our custom themes were updated and we added 2 more: Brown and Grey.

Go to Settings - Display to test them out.

They will be shared with the Friendica's developers if they want to include them in the default Friendica's themes or get some ideas about future changes.

Big thanks to these people who create Friendica for being so awesome and for keeping Friendica so useful and feature-rich!

#friendica #foss #activitipub #fediverse #fedi

We provide Mastodon/Peertube/Nextcloud/Friendica and more, as a service. For a cost. Just order and have your own instance, no headaches.

I always do trade-free stuff, but since I am trapped in this trade-system and I do not get enough financial support via the projects that I do, I have to also trade a bit.

WebApe https://webape.site/ is what I do to trade. Basically we create websites, install Mastodon/Friendica instances, Peertube, Nextcloud, etc.. We setup, manage, update, customize.

We try to do something decent and make some money with that, to then support our free projects.

So if you want a Mastodon instance for example, or any other website/service, please see https://webape.site/. I have lowered the prices now, so a Mastodon instance starts at 30 Euros per month.

We will take a limited amount of websites so to not overwhelm ourselves.

Please share if you think others might be interested. In a way, we can make the fediverse more known and accessible via the WebServices that we provide.

#foss #opensource #fedi #fediverse #mastodon

If you see the AGPL licenses on my free and open source work and you think “damn you, I can’t use this to enrich myself or my corporation without sharing back what I’ve built on top of what you’ve freely shared and thus contribute to cultivating a healthy commons where others might enjoy the same benefits from my work that I want to obtain from yours” (a) you really have long-winded thoughts and (b) well, you already see the flaw in your reasoning.

#foss #licenses #freedom #copyleft #gpl

The Krita monthly development update is here!

https://krita-artists.org/t/krita-monthly-update-edition-13/86177

#krita #foss

Krita Monthly Update – Edition 13

Welcome back! This monthly ‘zine is curated for you by the @Krita-promo team. Jump to: Development report Community report Featured artwork Noteworthy Plugin Tutorial of the month Ways to help Krita Notable changes in code Development report Chan…

^{Krita Artists}

We need help to pay for our backups. This is a yearly funding campaign that we do, so if you can help us please see here https://www.tromsite.com/trom-backup/ - we only need 300 Euros for a full year of 4TB encrypted backups.

This means everything from our videos and documentaries, books, websites, including trom.tf (meaning all of the files that users have uploaded to our services - from Peertube videos to Nextcloud files). Everything!

300 Euros to make sure that we have everything backed-up in a secure place.

Please help if you can and thanks a lot for doing that!

#tromlive #opensource #foss #volunteering #alternative

Now TROMnews has categories for the news to make it a lot easier to sort through them.

The homepage also got a bit of a rework for the News section:

TROMnews is now far better than it was before. If you'd like to support this work please consider helping us here https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

#tromlive #news #science #environment #climatechange #tech #foss

Updated our TROM Files to Nextcloud 28. Biggish update. We had to remove the following apps tho, since they were not compatible: files_3d, files_markdown, metadata, video_converter, extract. Whenever these are available for Nextcloud 28 we will enable them.

Take advantage of our TROM Files https://files.trom.tf - you get 10GB of storage space and access to better tools than Google's Drive. All trade-free.

#tromlive #foss #opensource

Big thanks to those who support our 200 for TROM donation campaign https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - there are 44 people donating 5 Euros a month and we need 200 in total. We provide a lot of materials and tools - see the donation page. Your support allows us to keep these alive and relevant, and if enough support to continue to produce more.

Remember, among many things, we provide a video platform with unlimited uploads for anyone, a file hosting platform with 10GB of storage for any user that registers, a social network and a chat platform. Also a Linux Operating System. A lot, and for everyone. So please, consider donating 5 Euros a month if you can. It is the only amount we accept.

Thank you!

Donate https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

#opensource #foss #fediverse #help #donation #campaign #free #trade-free #tradefree #tromlive

TROMjaro 2024.01.07 (and a longish article) https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2024-01-07-and-a-longish-article/207 - improvements to our Layout Switcher thanks to @Rokosun and new default apps ;)

#tromstuff #linux #foss #opensource #arch

TROMjaro 2024.01.07 (and a longish article :) )

TROMjaro Layout Switcher revamp In this release we are bringing the new TROMjaro Layout Switcher. @rokosun rewrote the entire application in the Nim programming language with use of owlkettle library for GTK.

^{TROMjaro Forum}

BETA TEST OpenTalk 💬

Ein neues Open Source Videokonferenzsystem ist bereit für den Test!

Anmeldung/Registrierung mit adminForge Account!

https://talk.teamjoin.de

Features:
- Meetings planen
- Einladungen per Mail
- Gäste einladen
- Aufnahmen
- Protokolle gemeinsam schreiben
- Whiteboard
- Umfragen
- Breakout Räume
- Warteraum
- Kaffeepausen-Timer
- Konferenz-Timer
- Raum Moderatoren
- Chat
- Bildschirm teilen

Bitte und Feedback geben.

#video #foss #opentalk #meeting

@AntennaPod surprised me with this cool feature today!

I think Spotify had a similar feature for the songs you listen to, but I haven't been on Spotify for a long time so I don't know what it's called now. But it's cool to see this on a FOSS podcast app like #AntennaPod, and the amazing thing is that they generate it locally on your device so it's privacy friendly 🙂

#FOSS #Podcast #AntennaPodEcho

hi everyone i'm creating an open source fast and simple digital painting software
right now i have:
- brush engine similar to popular manga software
- antialiased bucket fill with gap closing
- opengl canvas view
- first bits of intuitive ui/ux

i'm preparing a demo for linux folks, next i will do layer system also similar to popular manga software

repository: https://github.com/mrgaturus/npainter

#art #mastoart #gamedev #indiedev #opensource #linux #foss

So did I mention that no company or government pays me for the work I do?

But you can support my work if you want to live in a world where we have the Small Web as an alternative to the Big Web of Google, Facebook, and other people farmers.

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #funding #foss #freeSoftware #openSource #web #dev #tech #technology

Fund Small Technology Foundation

We’re a tiny team of two funded by individuals like you. Your patronage goes towards keeping a roof over our heads as we build a better future for the Internet.

^{Fund Small Technology Foundation}

#Framasoft is doing some amazing work to better the internet, by creating alternative free/Libre #Software for everybody to use 😎 For instance, they've made #PeerTube. PeerTube is a YouTube-alternative using P2P tech combined with #ActivityPub!

As a non-profit they are dependent on donations to keep going. Please consider checking out their awesome work in the following link, and evaluate if this is something you're willing to support 😃 Go #FOSS 🟢👌🏻

https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

Support Framasoft

Because freedom doesn’t means it’s free…

^{soutenir.framasoft.org}

The new interview with @davidrevoy highlights the importance of #FOSS in art.

Check it out if you want to learn about David’s past, his philosophy, and the wonderful Pepper&Carrot #webcomic he's been working on!

Full article: 🎨✍️ https://perephoneia.art/blog/david-revoy-interview/

KeeperFX open-source remake and expansion of Dungeon Keeper 1.0 out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/keeperfx-open-source-remake-and-expansion-of-dungeon-keeper-10-out-now/

#DungeonKeeper #OpenSource #FOSS

If anyone else has noticed the delay of videos being posted from #bcon23 on the official #peertube instance, not to worry, they are still encoding, but unfortunately not being published as quickly as hoped.

All the videos are being mirrored, and available, though not fully transcoded, on the #bcon23 playlist here:

https://video.blender.org/w/p/tJNAU76DL5Vs1M6niWksPE

Go watch them there, hot and fresh😀

#blender #b3d #foss #opensource

Anyone have experience using #Krita on an android tablet? I feel like it's really designed to be used with a keyboard from what I've seen. Not to mention the overwhelming amount of UI for an android app.

Right now, I'm using #IbisPaint, but I really want to switch to a #FOSS option.

#Android #DigitalArt #DrawingTablet

I did my yearly donations to open source projects. This time …

– @thunderbird
– @organicmaps
– Simple Mobile Tools (https://www.simplemobiletools.com/)
– TeX User Group (https://tug.org/)

I rely on this software daily.

If you use #FOSS and you have some money to spare, consider supporting them so they can be around for a long time.

Simple Mobile Tools

A group of simple, open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors.

^{Simple Mobile Tools}

The GitHub repo for PeerTuber, the upcoming opensource mobile app for #PeerTube is now live. There's still a bit of housekeeping to do, but this is where you'll find the project: https://github.com/PeerTuber/PeerTuber

#vidiverse #fediverse #foss #ios #android

GitHub - PeerTuber/PeerTuber

Contribute to PeerTuber/PeerTuber development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

OpenSource softwares needs funds and it's simple:
- You can't help or you don't want to help? No problem you can still use the software for free
- You can help? help

If developers put a simple banner in software for donate campaign, what do is cost to you? Nothing

Especially if banner is not blocking and not visible when you start to use software

But..
https://github.com/xTibor/kra-adblock

I can't understand why
Seeing this make me feel 🤮
#krita #foss #donate

GitHub - xTibor/kra-adblock: Ad blocker for Krita

Ad blocker for Krita. Contribute to xTibor/kra-adblock development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub