Some projects from 50 Free and Open Source Projects Selected for NGI Zero grants that caught my attention for a variety of reasons:
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FUSS – The GNU/Linux Distribution for a Digitally Sustainable School
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Farewell buggy software! Welcome KOReader & Plato!
Since the native software of my Kobo aura is so buggy that always crash with certain EPUBs, after reaching a specific page I finally decided to follow the One-Click Install Packages for KOReader & Plato. I installed both KOReader and Plato. I started trying KOReader. Needless to say it works like a breeze, and as…
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Migliori applicazioni di messaggistica istantanea
In questo articolo vediamo quali sono le migliori applicazioni di messaggistica istantanea disponibili al momento. Per ognuna di esse darò una valutazione soggettiva e personale in 3 categorie con … Source: Migliori applicazioni di messaggistica istantanea In sintesi, “vincono” SimpleX e Briar Per una comparazione più approfondita consultare https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm
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Ho provato i migliori software AI Open Source
- Upscayl,
- Scontorno automatico con rembg,
- Fooocus… meglio di midjourney?
- Ultimate Vocal Remover,
- Trascrizioni con Whisper,
- LLM – LLAMA3 , OLLAMA, Qwen2.5 7b
Ok, forse è arrivato il momento di cambiare macchina e mettere una “generosa” GPU
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TOTP on Windows
Recently I had to suggest a 2 factor authentication applicative for Windows. Of course I searched on alternativeto.net for a free-as-in-freedom program running on Windows founding this: 2fast (acronym for two factor authenticator supporting TOTP) is a free, open source, two factor authenticator for Windows and other platforms. 2fast has the ability to store the…
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SpaceFM
Many years ago I tried PCManFM the grand-father of SpaceFM. I think I will try it. sudo apt install spacefm and sudo apt -t testing install spacefm and sudo apt -t unstable install spacefm keep telling me that Also installing from source would break many other things as the dependency libffmpegthumbnailer-dev that seems to be…
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How to wirelessly send docs and e-books to your Kobo
As we are a family of avid readers, having the luck of having a public library very near our house, we also ended up having several Kobo ebook readers. I’m a life-long user of free-as-in-freedom software and I like to meddle with “low level” thingies but I can’t ask my daughters and wife to do…
Recently, I’ve been interested in the DuckDB project (like a SQLite geared towards data applications). And one of the amazing features is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can natively read and parse JSON as a database table, among many other formats.
I work extensively with JSON day to day, and I often reach for jq when exploring documents. I love
jq, but I find it hard to use. The syntax is super powerful, but I have to study the docs anytime I want to do anything beyond just selecting fields.Once I learned DuckDB could read JSON files directly into memory, I realized that I could use it for many of the things where I’m currently using
Source: DuckDB as the New jqjq. In contrast to the complicated and customjqsyntax, I’m very familiar with SQL and use it almost daily.
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Loselesscut or Video trimmer?
Recently I needed to cut several videos for a little presentation I gave in a school about earthquakes and buildings. So I started using LosslessCut, a free and open-source video trimming and cutting tool (that you can easily install from https://flathub.org/apps/no.mifi.losslesscut). Then I moved on my laptop and accomplice to my fallacious hamster memory I…