The link is to a merged PR, but this is great news since custom folders were a common request from people leaving NovaLauncher

Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM.

> Dorsey and his colleagues want to get us up to speed on what Block is working on these days. Allow me to give you a preview: in addition to posting $5B in revenue and a 21% increase in YoY profit in 2024, Jack Dorsey laid off 1,000 employees, ordering them not to publicly discuss board member Jay-Z’s contemporary sexual assault allegations on their way out, and announced a new bitcoin mining ASIC in collaboration with Core Scientific, who presumably installed them into their new 100MW Muskogee, OK bitcoin mining installation, proudly served by the Muskogee Generating Station fossil fuel power plant and its 11 million tons of annual CO2 emissions and an estimated 62 excess deaths in the local area due to pollution associated with the power plant. Nice.

Even if these licenses cannot be considered as open source and libre (according to OSI and FSF definitions, the only ones which matter), several licenses prohibiting use of source code to train AI are listed in this repository. Nice initiative.

The (2?) maintainers of Fluent Assertions have changed the license in the GitHub repository from Apache 2 to a proprietary commercial license. This happened yesterday, it looks like the other 200 contributors were not asked. Commercial users can now buy a license for $130 per developer, per year.

There are some suggestions that the take-over and the new license are violating some articles in the Apache 2 license.

My question is: Suppose that -with reasonable certainty- the maintainers and new owners violated the Apache 2 license. Is there anything that can be done? Is there any way violations like this can be brought to court?

(I'm just asking, not using FluentAssertions and not involved nor affected by this).

App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com

A p2p encrypted file transfer and messaging app. Here are some features below:

• Open Source
• Cross platform
  • PWA
  • iOS, Android, Desktop (self compile)
  • App store, Play store (coming soon)
  • Desktop
    • Windows, Macos, Linux (self compile)
    • run index.html on any modern browser
  • Decentralized
• Secure
  • No cookies
  • P2P encrypted
  • No registration
  • No installing
• Messaging
  • Group Messaging (coming soon)
  • Text Messaging
  • Multimedia Messaging
  • Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
  • Offline Messaging (in research phase)
  • File Transfer
  • Video Calls
• Data Ownership
  • Self Hosting
  • GitHub pages Hosting
  • Local-Only storage

Check it out!

• App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/
• More info: https://positive-intentions.com/blog/introducing-decentralized-chat
• GitHub: https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat

GitHub repo

Examples

``` > (15 kg/m) * 7cm

(((15 * kg) / m)) * 7 * cm

out = 1050 * g ```

``` > 1 |> cos |> log

1 |> cos |> log

out = -0.6156264703860141 ```

``` > display dev

Display mode: dev (Developer)

>>> 1.5

1.5

out = 1.5 # IEEE 754 - double - 64-bit # = 0x_3FF80000_00000000 = 0x____3____F____F____8____0____0____0____0____0____0____0____0____0____0____0____0 # seee eeee eeee ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff = 0b_0011_1111_1111_1000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000_0000 # 63 48 32 16 0 # # sign exponent |-------------------- fraction --------------------| = 1 * 2 ^ (1023 - 1023) * 0b1.1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ```

Much like everyone else, I got fed up with search engines. So I decided to make a giant blocklist that cleans up garbage search results!

I browsed other blocklists and wasn't very satisfied from what exists now; the goal of this one is to be super organized and transparent, explaining why each site was blocked via issues. Contributions welcome!

Even though around 100 domains are blocked so far, I already noticed a big improvement in casual searches. You'd be surprised how some AI generated websites can dominate the #1 page on DuckDuckGo.

This post contains a canary message that's cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key

| [!BusKill Canary #009](https://www.buskill.in/canary-009/) | |:--:| | The BusKill project just published their Warrant Canary #009 |

For more information about BusKill canaries, see:

• <https://buskill.in/canary>

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Status: All good Release: 2025-01-14 Period: 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-01 Expiry: 2025-06-30

Statements ==========

The BusKill Team who have digitally signed this file [1] state the following:

1. The date of issue of this canary is January 14, 2025.

2. The current BusKill Signing Key (2020.07) is

   E0AF FF57 DC00 FBE0 5635 8761 4AE2 1E19 36CE 786A

3. We positively confirm, to the best of our knowledge, that the integrity of our systems are sound: all our infrastructure is in our control, we have not been compromised or suffered a data breach, we have not disclosed any private keys, we have not introduced any backdoors, and we have not been forced to modify our system to allow access or information leakage to a third party in any way.

4. We plan to publish the next of these canary statements before the Expiry date listed above. Special note should be taken if no new canary is published by that time or if the list of statements changes without plausible explanation.

Special announcements =====================

None.

Disclaimers and notes =====================

This canary scheme is not infallible. Although signing the declaration makes it very difficult for a third party to produce arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force or other means, like blackmail or compromising the signers' laptops, to coerce us to produce false declarations.

The news feeds quoted below (Proof of freshness) serves to demonstrate that this canary could not have been created prior to the date stated. It shows that a series of canaries was not created in advance.

This declaration is merely a best effort and is provided without any guarantee or warranty. It is not legally binding in any way to anybody. None of the signers should be ever held legally responsible for any of the statements made here.

Proof of freshness ==================

14 Jan 25 01:01:33 UTC

Source: DER SPIEGEL - International (https://www.spiegel.de/international/index.rss) A Miracle? Pope Francis Helps Transsexual Prostitutes in Rome Boost for the Right Wing: Why Did a German Newspaper Help Elon Musk Interfere in German Politics?

Source: NYT > World News (https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml) What an Upended Mideast Means for Trump and U.S. Gulf Allies Russia and Ukraine Battle Inside Kursk, With Waves of Tanks, Drones and North Koreans

Source: BBC News - World (https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml) Gaza ceasefire deal being finalised, Palestinian official tells BBC Watch: Moment man is saved from burning LA home

Source: Bitcoin Blockchain (https://blockchain.info/q/latesthash) 0000000000000000000042db9e17f012dcd01f3425aa403e29c28c0dc1d16470

Footnotes =========

[1] https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/security/pgpkeys.html

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To view all past canaries, see:

• <https://www.buskill.in/category/Canary/>

What is BusKill?

BusKill is a laptop kill-cord. It's a USB cable with a magnetic breakaway that you attach to your body and connect to your computer.

| [!What is BusKill? (Explainer Video)](https://www.buskill.in/#demo) | |:--:| | Watch the BusKill Explainer Video for more info youtube.com/v/qPwyoD_cQR4 |

If the connection between you to your computer is severed, then your device will lock, shutdown, or shred its encryption keys -- thus keeping your encrypted data safe from thieves that steal your device.

Research paper: https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf

> Linux (KDE?) integration for Home Assistant via MQTT - davidedmundson/kiot

> It allows to launch exported activities from various apps and helps to create useful shortcuts > > 2 examples where I find it to be quite useful: > 1\. Quick Record shortcut for Audio Recorder > ::: spoiler It currently does not have a quick recording shortcut. > Audio Recorder Gitlab issue where a user requests the feature. Maybe attention from someone here would be helpful? > ::: > > You can directy search for the app in Activity manager, open it and create a a shortcut for the Recording activity. > > 2\. Shortcut to open Android/data folder in the native Files app > > ::: spoiler Context for the folder location I use here > For Android 11 & onwards, you can't access the Android/data folder(without root) from regular file manager apps like Material files(awesome opensource file manager). > The Telegram X app stores it's downloaded files in a folder there. > Material files calls the native Android Files(not GFiles, documentsui\.files) app to open the Android/data folder. > Activity manager can be used to create a shortcut for that > ::: > > 1. Search for and open the Files app in Activity Manager and choose the Launch with parameters option for the FilesActivity > 2. Action, choose ACTION_VIEW > 3. Data = content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/primary%3AAndroid%2Fdata%2Forg.thunderdog.challegram%2Ffiles%2Fdocuments or any other directory you like > 4. Mime type, choose vnd\.android\.document/directory > > > You can then launch the activity with the parameter. > This will be recorded in History(the clock sign). You can long-press the entry and create a Shortcut. > _____ > Do you have any other cases or ideas where this would be usedul? Please do share them here. > ______ > On a tangent, Material files allows making shortcuts to files and folders. Markor, text editor app, allows the same too.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35550841

> !

> The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

i'm using gimp and i want to edit some abr brushes to not be so stupidly big. i've found some viewers for abr files but no editors.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24707049

> from #TheRegister #Register > Thomas Claburn > Fri 10 Jan 2025 // 13:37 UTC > > Sebastian Steck, a software developer based in Germany, has obtained the source code and library installation scripts for his AVM FRITZ!Box 4020 router, thanks to a lawsuit funded by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC).

> PrivTracker allows to share torrent files just with your friends, nobody else. Unlike public trackers, it shares peers only within a group which is using the same Announce URL. It really works like a private tracker, but can be generated with one click of a button.

> Researchers at UC Berkeley have open sourced Sky-T1, a 'reasoning' AI model that can be trained for less than $450.

Right now their page https://upgradefromwindows.com just redirects to https://www.fsf.org/windows which has a wall of text and an infographic. Even I, who doesn't have windows and will never reinstall it unless forced, clicked away from the page within 5 seconds. The FSF desperately needs help with marketing and design, plus it would be great to have tooling for brain-dead linux installation (no, find distribution, backup, put linux on a USB-stick, reboot, hit some button to get into the BIOS, select "USB stick", reboot, click through installation, find alternative software, is not brain-dead).

> TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, "and shielding them from unauthorized access," Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to be "a non-negotiable standard for the future of Windows."

About Habit-Maker

Have you found it difficult to build new habits? Habit-Maker uses rewards and encouragements to help get over initial willpower required to form new habits.

Features

Rewards

Habit-Maker game-ifies making habits by giving you rewards each time you check a habit. It shows the following progress metrics:

• Streaks - The # of days you've completed your habit in a row.
• Points - points for checking habits, with multipliers for continuing your streak.
• % progress to your 66-day-ingrained habit.

Encouragements

Studies have found that encouragements are vital to building new habits. Habit-Maker takes advantage of this by allowing you to create your own custom encouragements.

Before creating a habit, take a few minutes and think about why you want to build this habit. What benefits will it bring you, and how your life will improve by doing it?

A good encouragement should have:

• An initial congratulations for completing the habit.
• A message tailored to you, about the benefits or reasons why you should continue.

Some examples of good encouragements:

| Activity | Encouragement | | ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Brushing your teeth | Great job! Your friends will like seeing your whiter teeth, and less coffee stains. | | Lifting weights for 10m | Nice job! People will notice your better physique. | | Cardio for 10m | Well done! Studies show you're going to live a lot longer! | | Working out for 10m | Excellent! You'll have more energy, and feel healthier by continuing! | | Meditating for 10m | Nice! You're on your way to bettering the lives of those around you, by developing your awareness. |

Completing a habit

Once a habit has been formed, its relatively easy to continue doing it, almost as if it were on auto-pilot. Research shows that ~40% of our daily activities are habits that don't require much (if any) willpower once they've been formed.

Built With

• Android Jetpack Compose
• kizitonwose Calendar
• iSoron/uhabits (For score calculations)

Installation / Releases

• Releases
• IzzyOnDroid
• F-Droid
• Google Play

Support / Donate

Habit-Maker will always remain free, open-source software. We've seen many open-source projects go unmaintained after a few years. Recurring donations have proven to be the only way these projects can stay alive.

Your donations directly support full-time development, and help keep this maintained. If you find yourself using habit-maker every day, consider donating:

• Support me on Liberapay.
• Support me Patreon.

Crypto

• bitcoin: 1Hefs7miXS5ff5Ck5xvmjKjXf5242KzRtK
• ethereum: 0x400c96c96acbC6E7B3B43B1dc1BB446540a88A01
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Social / Contact

• lemmy.ml/c/habitmaker
• Mastodon
• Matrix chat

Habit Resources

• James clear - 3 steps habit change
• I got addicted to a habit app.
• Develop good habits
• James clear - how to build a new habit
• CNN habit tips

Icons

Work in progress icons created by Cap Cool - Flaticon

> ShredOS is a stripped-down operating system designed to destroy data.

GitHub page here.

> This doesn't surprise me at all... Just like bots in games. Selling a service that benefits another. Its shady, but definitely believable. > > Also, what if this is an actual viable way to "market" for an open source project? > > https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings

> A couple of weeks back, we discussed the implosion of startup company Embodied and the resulting bricking of its $800 “emotional support” robots designed for children. Like many other stories about IoT-type products, the post focused on how these robots would cease functioning as designed once the backend support infrastructure for the shuttered business was shut down. As often happens with stories like this, there were several comments pointing out that the company could publish its source code and allow an open source community to pick up the slack here, so that at least these robots wouldn’t become $800 paperweights. > > But what doesn’t typically happen in these stories is seeing a company actually make the effort to do exactly that. But that seems to be what Embodied is planning, with the company announcing an update and a plan to all the open source community to build its own backend software for the devices. > > Embodied CEO Paolo Pirjanian shared a document via a LinkedIn blog post today saying that people who used to be part of Embodied’s technical team are developing a “potential” and open source way to keep Moxies running. The document reads: > > > “This initiative involves developing a local server application (‘OpenMoxie’) that you can run on your own computer. Once available, this community-driven option will enable you (or technically inclined individuals) to maintain Moxie’s basic functionality, develop new features, and modify her capabilities to better suit your needs—without reliance on Embodied’s cloud servers.” > > > The notice says that after releasing OpenMoxie, Embodied plans to release “all necessary code and documentation” for developers and users. > > The company is also pushing a final update to the devices that will allow them to support the OpenMoxie setup.