What open-source software would you like more people to know about?

LocalSend, a cross platform alternative to airdrop and nearby share.

My family uses it for almost all of our filesharing. IPhone to android, iPhone to windows PC, android to macbook, etc. Its works really, really well.

TrailSense, an easy to use, comprehensive wilderness tool.

The goals of the developer are fun to consider:

Goals

• Trail Sense must not use the Internet in any way, as I want the entire app usable when there is no Internet connection

• Features must provide some benefits to people using the app while hiking, in a survival situation, etc.

• Features should make use of the sensors on a phone rather than relying on stored information such as guides

• Features must be based on peer-reviewed science or be verified against real world data

Likewise, the features being developed under those goals are great for getting outside:

Features

• Designed for hiking, backpacking, camping, and geocaching
• Place beacons and navigate to them
• Follow paths
• Retrace your steps with backtrack
• Use a photo as a map
• Plan what to pack
• Be alerted before the sun sets
• Predict the weather
• Use your phone for astronomy
• And more

Syncthing, a peer to peer file synchronize that basically everyone needs, they just don't know it.

Bitwarden an open source, simple password manager it does it's job very well

KDEConnect - I use it on Windows and android phone. Very nice when you get security codes or links on phone, want to send files or when I want to control audio|video and I watch from the couch.

in general: Fdroid nearly always has a more feature rich and performant alternative

OpenStreetmap as an alternative to the closed source maps.

OrganicMaps or OsmAnd to navigate and StreetComplete or EveryDoor to improve it.

Paperless-ngx that allows you to self host an easily browseable archive of your documents. Fully featured with OCR, ML-powered categorization and the works.

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

VSCodium is the open source part of VSCode, so I prefer to use that.

Mull is firefox on android without the proprietary parts. Heliboard is a good android keyboard.

KepassXC for PC and KeepassDX for Android phones.

I personally would recommend it over Bitwarden since with Bitwarden you NEED internet to access your passwords, and even if is open source, i canmot trust it, security breaches can happen in any time, having your vault locally stored helps a lot.

There are more but i can't Remember them right now.

Video Downloader. https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader

Strips all junk off any video url so you have the mp4 or mkv.

Use this to add youtube videos/playlists to jellyfin. Doesn't have to be youtube. Downloads any videos from a link.

Can also save audio only from video links if you want to.

linux, unironically. literally all local infrastructure is running on windows, despite the security risks this entails.

Jitsi - Open-source and self-hosted video conference platform. You can even try it directly on their website.

IPFS - A distributed file sharing technology which is wonderful for file or site hosting (edit: wether it is uncensorable is open for debate)

Rust - A programming language and a powerful compiler that creates compiled memory-safe programs and can be used nearly everywhere

Fedora + KDE - A combination of a stable modern OS and a complete desktop environment

Wine - launch Windows programs on the latter

Lemmy

Bonus : AlternativeTo to find good open-source alternative software

Xournal - a great way to draw on pdfs

The todo.txt format and the software being built around it.

Namely sleek and ntodotxt

Shotcut an amazing video editor.

Openwrt Routers can be fun too!

Ruffle: You may not know it but most old Flash games (and basically every anmiation) can be played again with this, modern and in a Browser sandbox. Website owners can include it in the backend with a few lines of code and all flash games work again automatically, and it's also available as desktop app :D

Keepass/KeepssXC/KeepassDX (password manager for desktop)

Syncthing to synchronize database between devices.

Seal (Android)

It's an audio/video downloader that uses yt-dlp internally.

It's not only useful for YouTube, it can download media from most sources.

It also has a little "quick download" share target that comes handy when browsing YouTube (Music) and Po...other sites with tons of media 👀

Gadgetbridge, an app to use your smartwatch without the proprietary brand one.

PostmarketOS to actually own your phone.

GrapheneOS!

btop is a TUI (or TTY) resource monitor and management tool

• Very intuitive and easy to use
• Highly configurable
• Supports mouse
• Option to filter processes
• Theming support

Immich. Just found out about it, still gotta try, but looks good, an app that allows you to configure a Google Photos like app locally hosted, with automatic phone backups

Darktable Great digital photography RAW editor. Alternative to Adobe Lightroom.

Universal UnifiedPush support so we can manage our own push notifications through something like NextPush on your Nextcloud. At that point I could completely remove Google Play Services from my phone without much trouble.

croc is a tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.

https://schollz.com/tinker/croc6/

• allows any two computers to transfer data (using a relay)
• provides end-to-end encryption (using PAKE)
• enables easy cross-platform transfers (Windows, Linux, Mac)
• allows multiple file transfers
• allows resuming transfers that are interrupted
• local server or port-forwarding not needed
• ipv6-first with ipv4 fallback
• can use proxy, like tor

I say this a lot, but "nomacs" image viewer/editor. I take a lot of time lapse videos and I have directories of like, 50000 identically-sized images each on a smb server over gigabit ethernet and nomacs can open from a directory and quickly cycle through the photos using the arrow keys, without resetting the current pan/zoom setting (important for me), without any trouble. It takes about as long to open the directory of photos as it takes for my samba client to download the directory data.

It also has a lot of cool little quality of life features, including lots of shortcut keys for overlaying metadata and such. It has basic image editing capability as well. The only other image viewer I use is digikam, which is more for organizing personal photos. Otherwise it's all nomacs, baby.

For all note taking, I enjoy ZimWiki.

Owncast Stream whatever you want on your own platform and announce natively to the Fediverse!

IDK why but tons of folks think it's not feasible as they need million dollar computers. I've streamed to 70+ open streams, albeit as a test, on a like $5/month VPS. The key is that the resources needed are how many qualities you're transcoding, not how many folks are viewing. Yes bandwidth is needed for each viewer, but that's significantly less than people imagine.

Full transparency I run the [email protected] community, but I'm in no way affiliated with the project. I just love open platforms and open source.

DietPi, for setting up an SBC (ie raspberry pi) with common server software. very good for a first-time self hoster like myself.

I would like lemmy as a whole to know more of this comic. Hell, the entire tech and coding space. Look, i love tech but some of you guys can be absolute bellends to people not knowing something and it turns plenty of people off from even learning.

"WhAt YoU dOn'T kNoW hOw To MaKe A fIlE? It'S eAsY, iF yOu DoN't KnOw ThEn YoU sHoUlDn'T bE uSiNg ThIs PrOgRaM!!!"

My brother in Christ maybe they want to learn, some people are neurodivergent and they don't pick up new information as easily the first go around

Sorry rant over

ubuntu touch, its actually at a usable state

Thanks for making me feel like an idiot for not knowing things after age 30.

A more private and secure messenger than WhatsApp, signal and telegram, like simplex

Gnu Guix. By default Guix uses only free libre software, but there are ways to install it with a non-free kernal. Systemcrafters has a guide (this is what I used) as well as non-guix (guix repo for non free software).

linux

Helix is a modal text editor, but I haven't used it as much as I'd like because it lacks the plugins I use in Neovim.

I am surprised that no one mentions this.

Firefly III this is an amazing financial tracking and budgeting tool that literally saves me so much time and money, I even donate monthly since it's so good and essential to me that I think it's only fair that the developer gets something back.

Couple I've come across recently and haven't seen here yet:

micro - a nano-style terminal text editor with modern features and plugins.

termscp - a terminal FTP (et al) client heavily inspired by WinSCP.

Vorta is a great program for backing up files. Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

xpra: it is like tmux but for X windows (works on wayland), but it can do much more than that. You can seamlessly run GUI programs from a container or VM on your main desktop while still sandboxing their X capabilities, forward windows from Windows desktops, and it has efficient encoding so it is usable over poor connections as well.

MusicBrainz Picard

Amazing music tagger and batch renamer, for those of us who still have all our music as files.

For 3D Modelling / Printing, if you have even a little bit of programming / scripting ability, OpenSCAD is amazing.

It's basically just a small scripting language for generating 3D objects and performing 3D modelling operations and its so handy to be able to store important info as precise variables, and create new objects and cuts and stuff just with for loops and if statements.

I use the web version a lot of the time, and while it could use a little work, it's pretty amazing.

Shutter encoder, it has a ton of useful tools built in for quick video conversion, compression, trimming, etc, and it works very well for batch encoding of a lot of different video files

Affine, its a surprisingly feature rich notes app (open source but all cloud features are currently paid)

KopiaUI, an easy to use automatic backup program

More people should code Csound. Doesn't matter if you're musically inclined or not. Just do it. Make weird noises. Have fun!

Typst, Nix, Git, Blender

Open street maps

More of a couple of features. Python venv makes it much easier to work with third-party libraries. That said, the standard library is fantastic for everything from parsing json to subnetting to quick regex searches.

Is there room here to ask about software? I've been interested lately about getting into hosting my own server for multiple things. It'd be nice to be able to access it remotely for files for work, as a media server locally and remotely, and to access my Stable Diffusion instance remotely. I suppose those all require different solutions right? I'd love to know more!

Kanipaan https://yu7.in/kani, a CLI calculator.

Collabora Office. It's a free LibreOffice fork for iOS/iPadOs. I stumbled across it when I taught regular expressions to my pupils and only had MS Office at hand, on the school computers, which is crap at searching for pattern matches in documents. Libre Office is really good at that. And all my pupils have iPads and they could use Collabora Office.

Forth. Not forth compilers like gforth but the whole environment. Esp32Forth is a great implementation.

the fact that you can just guerilla administrate services using shit like LXC.

It's so much fun.

Fuck integrated services, my homies like removing integrations.

I suppose I would choose Darcs & Pijul for version control systems to bit into Git hegemony (& if you prefer Git hegemony, don’t use proprietary code forges).

Additionally just the general vibes of IRC & XMPP for battle-tested chat applications that are lightweight for clients & servers alike. These are the kinds of tools your next community should be built on if you want to minimize resource usage (data plans, storage capacity, battery, CPU churn).

Claude 3. Most people don't even know what it is, let alone the fact that it's as good and better than GPT4 in some ways.

SSLATT - an open source markerplace for the darket, supports btc/xmr, tor

Wazuh

Defold.

I think two assumptions to this whole 10k people/day metric cause it to be inaccurate pseudoscience:

1. It assumes people learn things at random times, causing the distribution to average over 30 years.

2. It assumes everyone learns a thing by age 30. If you talk to anyone over 80 years old I guarantee they'll tell you they don't know everything.

It's a sweet sentiment, but it bugs me how people keep quoting this like there's any truth behind it.

Floorp. It's open source fork of Firefox made by mostly Japanese developers. It's noticably faster, privacy focused than the original and have more customisation options.

I'm surprised it's not well known to be honest.

'Open source' misses the point of libre software.

I use Arch btw. 😅 (well, actually I don't any more, but this had to be here)