TikTok open sources Depth Anything for robust monocular depth estimation by training on a combination of 1.5M labeled images and 62M+ unlabeled images. (depth-anything.github.io)
github.com/LiheYoung/Depth-Anything...
TU/e coordinates EU project to push next-generation private and secure online payments (www.tue.nl)
Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. (www.synfig.org)
What if I paid for all my free software? (www.cynicusrex.com)
I’ve always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let’s change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?
BusKill Warrant Canary #7 Published (www.buskill.in)
This post contains a canary message that’s cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key...
Tailchat - The next-generation noIM Application in your own workspace (tailchat.msgbyte.com)
Haven’t seen much of this around, but I’ve spun my own instance up and suffice to say it fits my needs.
Microsoft's Windows 12 is expected to be even worse than Windows 11, functioning as a paid "subscription service" or forcing users to watch ads in order to use it without paying (hexbear.net)
Witchcraft | A Minecraft server written in bash (git.sakamoto.pl)
Blog post
StarUML-Watermark-Removal | A tool for removing watermarks from diagrams created by StarUML™ software. (github.com)
The issue to create a new main menu for Minetest has been open for 6 years. (github.com)
Years have gone by and hundreds of comments have been written about the proposal, but the main screen still looks like this:...
OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations (codeberg.org)
Just saw the discussion around the Haier Home Assistant takedown and thought it would be good to materialize the metaphorical blacklist.
Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL? (blog.tidelift.com)
Composition | Manage your ⎄ compose sequences (github.com)
NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone (taler.net)
A bit hyperbole headline, but good to hear that GNU Taler got some NGI funding.
Common misconceptions about privacy and security (www.privacyguides.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10833312...
History of Backgammon (bgammon.org)
What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it (www.theregister.com)
Perens says there are several pressing problems that the open source community needs to address....
Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February (www.tomshardware.com)
Memtest86+, the little RAM tester, flexes FOSS muscles with v7.0 (www.theregister.com)
A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust) (github.com)
It's joever. Tachiyomi will no longer be actively developed. (tachiyomi.org)
project will no longer be under active development due to recent events involving Kakao Entertainment Corp’s threats to both myself and others...
ClimateTriage - Discover Good First Issues focused on climate and sustainability (climatetriage.com)
Harness the power of open source collaboration to tackle environmental challenges such as climate change, clean energy, biodiversity, and natural resource conservation. ClimateTriage brings you all the impactful projects that welcome new developers with Help Wanted and Good First Issues. Whether you’re an experienced...
Statement regarding the ongoing SourceHut outage (outage.sr.ht)
Platformer is leaving Substack for Ghost, an Open-Sourced publishing platform (www.platformer.news)
“After much consideration, we have decided to move Platformer off of Substack. Over the next few days, the publication will migrate to a new website powered by the nonprofit, open-source publishing platform Ghost. If you already subscribe to Platformer and wish to continue receiving it, you don’t need to do anything: your...