Beeper is a universal chat app. built on the open source chat protocol Matrix, Available on Linux and Android (and also on most widespread proprietary systems).Beeper contributes back to the Matrix community. All of their Matrix bridges are open source on our Github. Don’t want to pay for Beeper? Self-host your own instance for free.…
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Android, Proprietary software, Smartphones
How to Uninstall Any Android App With ADB (Including System Apps and Bloatware)
Android phones often come with lots of extra apps installed. If you can’t uninstall them normally, you can remove them using the ADB tool. Here’s how. Source: How to Uninstall Any Android App With ADB (Including System Apps and Bloatware)
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I used to run du -hsc / |sort -hr | less but it seems that people needs this
dutree is a free, open-source command-line tool for analyzing disk usage, written in Rust programming language that reports disk usage in a tree-like format.
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SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge – https://github.com/zknill/sqledge
Role Play Games, Software Libero
HexGimp: D&D maps with Gimp
Do you want to create a D&D like hexagonal maps? Try D&D Horizons – HexGimp!
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cbconvert saved my day
Ethics, Proprietary software
Il monopolio della tecnologia: un disastro
RIcopio qui l’intervento che Roberto Foglietta ha scritto su LinkedIn: È arrivata finalmente la carta d’indentità digitale. Una roba che schifavo già quando se ne parlava a Genova nei congressi di Liguria Digitale, che penso fosse il 2010/11. Dopo 12 anni, il male sembra aver prevalso. Ma come spesso succede, piove sul bagnato. Infatti, se…
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Is Advanced AI a Reason to Decouple from The Centralized Internet?
That’s the question posed by Purism, the USA manufacturer of Linux hardware, laptop, servers and the Librem5 phone.
Interesting. Obviously but without hiding in the end they propose their products but I think they do well
If only Librem5 USA didn’t cost so much… 😅
Patents, Proprietary software, Software, Software Libero
JPEG-XL, WebP or AVIF?
FSF Says Google’s Decision to Deprecate JPEG-XL Emphasizes Need for Browser Choice – Slashdot Personally, I never used nor remember having saw a JPEG-XL picture.I see WebP happily replacing Jpeg and PNG and GIF thought.I just wonder how an open, royalty-free image file format should not be desirable (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF )
Proprietary software
Don’t trust proprietary
Microsoft Is Testing a Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet For the Edge Browser (source Slashdot).I strongly, strongly suggest everyone to avoid using this functionality because it is proprietary software. Not having the sources you can’t be sure what it really does. It can easily have a backdoor to let some external entities come in and raid (i.e.…