Mozilla support wants me to report fDroid / divestOS 🤔

Chromium... I'm so getting downvoted with this one.

Anyways,

I have an old Android 6 phone that is still not completely unusable and my older family members want to use it as a backup phone (in fact, they already do). They can't live without Facebook (obviously) so I installed Firefox on it and made a PWA for Facebook. It works surprisingly well but Firefox itself is quite sluggish and slow to open on that piece of hardware. So I'm thinking of installng a Chromium browser on it, as well as on my other old devices to make them run a bit better and just out of my extremely unhealthy curiosity.

But the problem is they all do not support modern arm64 apps that most Android phones use nowadays. Instead they need this other type called armeabi-v7a. There were Chromium based browsers that had a v7a version (Bromite for example) but they all suspiciously died at the same time more than a year ago. Does Chromium really not support the old architecture (or whatever it is) anymore or I'm just not searching well enough?

P. S. Advices to buy a newer device will not be accepted and will be treated with appropriate level of hostility.

If so, how do you choose which ones to donate to? Do you prefer regular or recurring donations? What payment methods do you like to use?

Can I have some help regarding using yt-dlp.

1. How to select a specific duration of video to be downloaded like from 00 to 600 seconds in video of 8 hours.
2. When downloading songs from youtube with metadata and thumbnail I get thumbnails in rectangular shape instead of square. How to turn them square?

Asking it here cause, Discussion on repository is closed and it is FOSS software.

Webassembly build.

If I decide to self-publish a book what happens to the copyright? Is there a way to prevent others from claiming copyrights for a book published autonomously? Are there OS licenses specifically tuned for books?

"Create P2P tunnels instantly that bypass any network, firewall, NAT restrictions and expose your local network to the internet securely, no Dynamic DNS required."

I want to showcase the project I have been working on for the last weeks. GitHub and Gitea/Forgejo allow you to upload files and directories created during a continuous integration run (Artifacts). These can be downloaded as zip files. However there is no simple way to view individual files of an artifact.

That's why I developed a small web application that allows you to view the artifacts of any CI run in your web browser. This allows you to quickly look at test reports or preview your web projects.

I am hosting a public instance with support for GitHub and Codeberg under https://av.thetadev.de/.

Features

• 📦 Quickly view CI artifacts in your browser without messing with zip files
• 📂 File listing for directories without index page
• 🏠 Every artifact has a unique subdomain to support pages with absolute paths
• 🌎 Full SPA support with 200.html and 404.html fallback pages
• 👁️ Viewer for Markdown, syntax-highlighted code and JUnit test reports
• 🐵 Greasemonkey userscript to automatically add a "View artifact" button to GitHub/Gitea/Forgejo
• 🦀 Fast and efficient, only extracts files from zip archive if the client does not support gzip
• 🔗 Automatically creates pull request comments with links to all build artifacts

Examples

Here are some artifacts to try:

SveltePress documentation site: https://cb--thetadev--artifactview--28-2.av.thetadev.de/

A bunch of test files: https://cb--thetadev--artifactview--28-1.av.thetadev.de/

Artifactview's own test report: https://cb--thetadev--artifactview--65-1.av.thetadev.de/junit.xml?viewer=1

Automatically created pull request comment: https://codeberg.org/ThetaDev/artifactview/pulls/2

Does anyone know the status of #funkwhale? The website (funkwhale.audio) has been down for a couple days now. #fediverse @opensource

A lot of old games have become unplayable on modern hardware and operating systems. I wrote an article about how making games open source will keep them playable far into the future.

I also discuss how making games open source could be beneficial to developers and companies.

Feedback and constructive criticism are most welcome, and in keeping with the open source spirit, I will give you credit if I make any edits based on your feedback.

Cross-posting to the OpenSource community as I think this topic will also be of interest here.

This is an analysis of how "open" different open source AI systems are. I am also posting the two figures from the paper that summarize this information below.

ABSTRACT

The past year has seen a steep rise in generative AI systems that claim to be open. But how open are they really? The question of what counts as open source in generative AI is poised to take on particular importance in light of the upcoming EU AI Act that regulates open source systems differently, creating an urgent need for practical openness assessment. Here we use an evidence-based framework that distinguishes 14 dimensions of openness, from training datasets to scientific and technical documentation and from licensing to access methods. Surveying over 45 generative AI systems (both text and text-to-image), we find that while the term open source is widely used, many models are ‘open weight’ at best and many providers seek to evade scientific, legal and regulatory scrutiny by withholding information on training and fine-tuning data. We argue that openness in generative AI is necessarily composite (consisting of multiple elements) and gradient (coming in degrees), and point out the risk of relying on single features like access or licensing to declare models open or not. Evidence-based openness assessment can help foster a generative AI landscape in which models can be effectively regulated, model providers can be held accountable, scientists can scrutinise generative AI, and end users can make informed decisions.

Figure 2 (click to enlarge): Openness of 40 text generators described as open, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (bottom) as closed reference point. Every cell records a three-level openness judgement (✓ open, ∼ partial or ✗ closed). The table is sorted by cumulative openness, where ✓ is 1, ∼ is 0.5 and ✗ is 0 points. RL may refer to RLHF or other forms of fine-tuning aimed at fostering instruction-following behaviour. For the latest updates see: https://opening-up-chatgpt.github.io

Figure 3 (click to enlarge): Overview of 6 text-to-image systems described as open, with OpenAI's DALL-E as a reference point. Every cell records a three-level openness judgement (✓ open, ∼ partial or ✗ closed). The table is sorted by cumulative openness, where ✓ is 1, ∼ is 0.5 and ✗ is 0 points.

There is also a related Nature news article: Not all ‘open source’ AI models are actually open: here’s a ranking

PDF Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3630106.3659005

https://github.com/umutcamliyurt/Anon-File-Upload

p2p.positive-intentions.com

github.com/positive-intentions/p2p

a thin wrapper around peerjs with some functionalities for "intuitive" p2p communication.

this is a lighweight version of what is being used in our chat app. it will be developed with the aim to replace what is being used.

this is early development on this and it's missing all the bells-and-whistles seen in the chat app. It's an unstable experimental work-in-progress. it may contain bugs and/or incomplete features. provided for demo and educational purposes only.

Meet the new projects

Trustworthy hardware and manufacturing

Collection of Verified multi-platform Gatewares — Comprehensive repository of open source gateware designs
Flashkeeper — Write Protection on SOIC-8 flash chips without soldering
foaHandler — Reverse engineer the OpenAccess file format
FPGA-ISP-UVM-USB2 — Open hardware FPGA-based USB webcam
MEGA65 Phone Modular MVP — OSHW mobile device with form-factor of hand-held game consoles
nextpnr for GW-5 — Add support to nextpnr for Gowin GW-5 FPGA family
VexiiRiscv — Next generation of the VexRiscv in-order FPGA softcore

Network infrastructure incl. routing, P2P and VPN

Movedata — Privacy-preserving, energy efficient data replication and verification
NixBox — Nix integration with netbox
OpenHarbors — Dynamic Tunneling of WPA over IP/L2TP
Toward a Fully-Verified SCION Router — Formal verification of the reference open source SCION Router

Software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs

Diesel — Safe and performant query builder and ORM written in Rust
lib1305 — Microlibrary for Poly1305 hashing
libvips — Add animated PNG and enhanced JPEG XL support to libvips
MailBox renewal — Performance upgrade of MailBox mail modules
PTT — Unikernel Mailing list server in OCAML
Support for OpenPGP v6 in rPGP — Implement draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh in rPGP
Tracing and rebuilding packages — Improved metadata/provenance for build artifacts
UnifiedPush — Decentralized and open-source push notification protocol

Operating Systems, firmware and virtualisation

Arcan-A12 Directory — Server side scripting API for Arcan's directory server
Arcan-A12 Tools — A12 clients for different platforms and devices such as drawing tablets
postmarketOS daemons — Add modern service daemons to postmarketOS
Redox OS Unix-style Signals — Add Unix-style signal handling to Redox Operating System
TrenchBoot as Anti Evil Maid - UEFI boot mode support — Add UEFI to the Qubes integration of Trenchboot with AEM
tslib — Better configuration and callibration of touchscreen devices
Wayland input method support — Better specification for Wayland input methods

Measurement, monitoring, analysis and abuse handling

Back2Source next — Better matching of binaries with source code
Enhance the vulnerability database — Enhance the VulnerableCode vulnerability database
LANShield — Constrain local network access for mobile devices
OWASP dep-scan — Security and risk audit tool

Middleware and identity

Client Proof-of-Work in TLS — Mitigation against DoS amplification on the TLS handshake

Data and AI

LabPlot — Scientific and engineering data analysis and visualisation

Services + Applications (e.g. email, instant messaging, video chat, collaboration)

bluetuith — Bluetooth connection/device manager for the terminal
Draupnir — Moderation bot for Matrix servers
Gancio — Shared agenda for local communities that supports Activity Pub
Miru — Multi-track video editing and real-time AR effects
Openfire IPv6 support — Add IPv6 support to the Openfire XMPP server

Vertical use cases, Search, Community

COCOLIGHT — Lightweight version of Communecter
OpenCarLink — Security tooling for vehicle ODB2 ports

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