]]>Il y a une forme de violence à dire — de manière plus ou moins directe — à des personnes que les outils numériques qu’elles utilisent ne sont pas appropriés. D’autant plus en ne proposant pas d’alternative réellement utilisable :
- dans le contexte de littératie numérique de la personne,
- dans le contexte culturel du groupe de travail autour de la personne,
- dans les priorités actuelles du groupe pour lequel l’informatique reste un outil et/ou
- dans la situation de détresse en cours.
Si la ré-action est inappropriée, c’est peut-être que l’action initiale ne l’était pas non plus…
Re-implement this in OSS and MIT licence.
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Those two nonfree programs have something else in common: they are both malware. That is, both have functionalities designed to mistreat the user.
If you use a program to carry out activities in your life, your freedom depends on your having control over the program.
Nonfree software was the first way for companies to take control of people's computing. Nowadays, there is another way, called Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS. That means letting someone else's server do your own computing tasks.
In some cases, nonfree software causes indirect harm (secondary injustice): it puts pressure directly on others to use this software (Teams, Skype, Zoom, ...), it encourages to develop the non-free software further. All the forms of indirect harm are magnified when the user is a public entity or a school.
]]>Public agencies exist for the people, not for themselves. When they do computing, they do it for the people. They have a duty to maintain full control over that computing so that they can assure it is done properly for the people.
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An open source platform for building a writing space on the web.
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]]>I found that the current solutions mainly focus on the gallery-type application. However, I want a simple-to-use backup tool with a native mobile app that can view photos and videos efficiently. So I set sail on this journey as a hungry engineer on the hunt.
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There are silo sites, unrepairable miniaturized hardware, and streaming services...
]]>The irony …is that they used our tech to do all three of these things. Oh well. AGPL for the win, next time.
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Based on XMPP.
Snikket lets you run your own service, that you control, on the system of your choice.
The Snikket server lets you create and manage user accounts, and acts as a central safe place to manage your data.
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A tool similar to Reddit but open and connected to the Fediverse.
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A FLOSS alternative to reddit. It is gaining traction since Reddit announced to make their API not free anymore.
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Ode for free software workers that leverage these awesome tools :D
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It started by putting up optional sign up forms with a cleverly hidden opt-out link. Over time, sign up became mandatory. Now I can only share files with other Dropbox users. That's not what i signed up for. I understand that Dropbox needs to make money. Today, they do that by showing investors that they are growing. One key measure of growth is the number of user accounts they have. So, it makes sense to make every effort to get people to sign up. But, in this case, they are not gaining users through the value of their service – they are using the value of my relationships and my data to force people to sign up. Not cool, guys.
And they provide a solution :) There is also a lot of open source software that can be used.
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A software that stores objects and massive amounts of data. An open-source version
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About software supply chain attacks and FOSS software:
There is a small problem here. We are not suppliers. We do not have a business relationship with all these organisations. We are volunteers, writing code and putting it online under these Licences. And yes, we put it online for people to use them. But we do not get anything from it.
[With the MIT licence, maintainers] do not have a business relationship with all these organisations. [Maintainers] are volunteers, writing code and putting it online under these Licences. And yes, [Maintainers] put it online for people to use them. But [Maintainers] do not get anything from it.
To get a supplier, you need to give people what they need to live and they have to agree to these terms.
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Because without reproduction, it takes so much time!
Open Source Software is served "as-is"
So provide a repro or don't open an issue.
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]]>Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Installing is a matter of seconds. Upload, manage and share photos like from a native application. Lychee comes with everything you need and all your photos are stored securely.
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A captcha with proof of work (~2s). This can definitely be better for every user as they do nothing. It's free software, privacy-friendly, and it doesn't use IP addresses (so users won't suffer what reCaptcha or CloudFlare impose).
They have a GitHub organization: https://github.com/mCaptcha
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The more recent the proprietary product is, the faster an open-source version will be developed. It tends to be one year nowadays.
The unit (in days) is the TTOSA: Time Till Open Source Alternative. It is established on the first commit date.
About the data:
Two things become clear with this chart: first, there is an explosion of dots after the mid-2000s, and this probably is correlated with the rise of the Web and subsequently the GitHub era (GitHub was founded in 2008). Second, the trend is downward.
But an open-source alternative is not directly of higher quality yet.
The final result tends to be that everything will be open-source!
There are two ways to compete in the software-for-sale market: support, hosting, and other or monetizing the database.
]]>The social utility of a given software package is not necessarily tied to mass-market adoption. A software package can be trendy in a tight-knit community, while holding very little social utility for the mass market, and this is fine. This is the case for most software packages that exist in the world.
If a FLOSS matches the need for a small part of the community, it is then fine too !
Unfortunately, society teaches us that we should grow at any cost, which means that inexperienced maintainers can be swayed by such arguments to make harmful decisions about their projects.
The sucess of a project is measured by the biggest number: the number of stars on GitHub, amount of forks, ...
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Pour le seul confort de la hiérarchie, l’idée est de migrer d’une solution libre de droits, coopérative et économe en deniers publics à une solution payante, maîtrisée par une multinationale.
Mais.... chiffre à l'appui cela coûtait moins cher et était apprécié. Mais certains veulent utiliser les produits Microsoft, et puis pas grave si cela coûte plus cher... mais on est pas censé moins dépenser ?!
Et puis cela fait de l'emploi perdu, pour plus d'argent dépensé :x Du gâchis de compétence et de bonnes volontés des gens qui développent ces solutions libres.
]]>As LibreOffice exists, why OpenOffice is still considered as an alive project by Apache ?
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PhPBB, but this time modern and easier to use.
Frontend can be plugged on it.
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]]>an open-source encrypted backup app for inclusion in Android-based operating systems
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StreetComplete vous permet de contribuer au projet OpenStreetMap en effectuant des "quêtes".
L'application vous propose d'ajouter des informations manquantes sur des zones près de votre position.
J'ai testé et je valides: la prise en main est rapide; on sens l'utilité de ses contributions; et on peut choisir quel type de quêtes/informations on veut renseigner
👍
Lien du projet: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/tree/v43.2
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Apps.education.fr est une plateforme développée au sein de la direction du numérique pour l'éducation pour proposer les outils essentiels du quotidien à l'ensemble des agents de l'Éducation nationale.
On retrouve: peertube, Etherpad, CodiMD, Mastodon, Nextcloud, ....
Super !
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A FLOSS multi-account Mastodon and Pleroma desktop client
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Selon une étude publiée récemment par la Commission européenne...
Le postulat:
Plus précisément, l'étude a démontré que le milliard d'euros environ que les entreprises de l'UE ont investi dans les logiciels libres en 2018 ont déjà généré entre 65 et 95 milliards d'euros de croissance économique
Nice !
L'étude prend cependant uniquement Github comme source de vérité :/
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Client-alternative to Youtube that has a better UX 👍
I always had the problem that Youtube is hitting my CPU so hard !
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Cette ambition a trouvé un écho fin 2021 avec l’adoption d’une « décision sur l’octroi de licences open source et la réutilisation des logiciels de la Commission ». Par cet intermédiaire, Bruxelles consacre sa volonté d’ouvrir l’accès à ses solutions « lorsqu’il existe des avantages potentiels pour les citoyens, les entreprises et les services publics ».
L'ambition en question est l'Open Source software strategy 2020-2023
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L'état francais a donc contribué via DesignGouv à Framadate, et ce serais la première contribution d'autres à venir 👍
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Au niveau de la liberté des licences:
WTFPL > MIT > Apache
Rendre le code libre mais limiter sa distribution est un contre-sens.
]]>Je comprends parfaitement l’idée de RMS d’obliger les distributions d’un code libre a rester libres tout au long de chaîne : ça permet à toutes les modifs d’êtres publiques et disponibles par tous.
Mais cette obligation de liberté est en soi un privation d’une liberté (celle de faire du non libre). Si ton code était réellement libre, cette liberté ne me serait pas retirée.
Quand on est vraiment pour la liberté, on doit pouvoir accepter que son code soit utilisé pour des choses qu’on ne cautionne pas, ou distribués d’une façon qu’on ne cautionne pas.
Je ne dis pas que tout le monde devrait faire ça. Je dis juste que tout code qui ne respecte pas ça n’est pas véritablement libre.
La direction interministérielle du numérique permet de travailler sur du logiciel libre, pour l'intérêt des citoyens français.
Elle recrute: https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/rejoignez-nous
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Un point de vue plus que justifié sur le mode de financement du logiciel libre.
Ce billet fait suite à la faille dans la bibliothèque Log4j.
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A floss Minecraft-like game
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A shazam-like program for GNU/Linux.
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A FLOSS clone of Google Sheets (Excel) 👍
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