Agreed that QR codes should be accompanied by text links for accessibility, because many times the scanning fails due to bad light, old camera or shaky hands.

Idk, the author actively participates in discussions by others and doesn’t seem to advertise anything. I think I’d even like if more authors shared their articles here. Of course, it would be beneficial for the platform if they implemented scripts that automatically linked from the website to fedi discussions of their posts, showed some counters, quotes etc.

Syncthing. I connect both devices to same Wi-Fi, copy a file to a shared directory, and wait a minute.

Depends on how they’re organized. If they’re accountable to their community, organized with as little hierarchy as possible, and have rotation of leadership while filling its roles from the members, they’re good. But it’s very rare. If the heads are appointed top-down by the government or self-selected, which is more common, there arise same issues as with companies.

NGOs advertising themselves as offering legal help to vulnerable people promise help and later do nothing but saying in the media how helpful they are, or refuse said help. Playing bureaucratic football when the person is question is member of multiple vulnerable groups: why you go here for help, go there. Other NGOs trying to take control of grassroots youth movements after offering to help with some resources. More NGOs serving as PR vehicles of their solo leaders while pretending to advance human rights. Names: Insight, KyivPride, LGBT Military, EcoAction, many of them tbh, because it’s all the same “community”.

Regarding government entities, there are constant attempts, for years, by state companies providing water, to write generated or fake values for previous month so that you can’t report correct lower values and have to pay more. Do we consider police a government entity? Haven’t helped a single time, but harassed more than once.

About Reddit, I haven’t used it much and I can’t say anything about it besides it not very interesting. Lemmy developers are notorious assholes when it comes to anything about my country, so I’m not trying to promote it. I use other fedi tech because I like it and contribute.

Nonprofits and government entities are just as happy to fuck you over, in my and relatives’ experience.

Basically you give it a directory with a few thousand randomly named meme images, and it asks a model to generate descriptions for each of them, that you can later search? Sounds useful.

Beautifully simple API.

YunoHost application is here: https://apps.yunohost.org/app/languagetool

Docs for installing LanguageTool manually are here: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server - version 20260528 works on Debian 13 under WSL, needs openjdk-25-jre-headless and the --public option. The extension settings have a localhost option, I didn’t have to change anything else.

Note that premium as of today costs $2.50 per month if you pay for two years in advance. Running LanguageTool on a laptop isn’t very fast for languages other than English, so paying them for the cloud might provide a better experience than self-hosting.

For plain text files, such as changelogs and translation updates, I have a pull request that makes FreshRSS track diffs, without overhead of a full browser: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8107

Thought “behind the scenes” in the title, three authors with good credentials, and featured article category, would mean the article presents some interesting technical details about the bugs, from which a software engineer could learn to plan better programs. But the article is just a verbose, non-technical ad for Claude, same as “The zero-days are numbered” by Firefox CTO in the Mozilla blog.

I’m still sure that direct monetary investments in work on software commons, from public budgets, without AI sellers in the middle, would result in similar or better fixes while producing public knowledge and new generations of specialists. Anthropic isn’t doing a public good by donating early access to an LLM API to Firefox developers, it’s doing extortion: we’ll sell this model to anyone who pays, including your enemies, so give us good PR if you don’t want them to get it first.

Because their app is essentially a website. News, videos, photo galleries. WP REST API is useful for writing a front-end using a different language than PHP while keeping the very convenient admin interface that most content managers are familiar with.

The Vi editing mode in Kate is also good, without a need to install any extensions, just one tick in the settings.

My netbook has a keyboard without Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, Ins and Del keys. Vim and Emacs modes make it significantly more usable while remaining small. Vim is also convenient in Termux, for quick remote fixes from a phone.

Looks like a good starting point for municipalities implementing live bus location maps.

I agree that incompatibility of most Android devices with free OS development is a huge problem, and that Android devices taking up an increasing share of all computers is a problem for FOSS rather than a benefit, despite the use of the Linux kernel. In shops around me, none of the phones affordable for someone with a 400 EUR / month salary will ever have LineageOS support, meaning that after two years they’ll all end up running abandoned, outdated, proprietary operating system forks, despite nothing technically preventing these capable computers from running a secure, up-to-date free OS for a few more years. This isn’t because of any issue on the LineageOS side, but because the entire Android device ecosystem is fixated on producing planned obsolescence and locking the user in.

It’s like they don’t understand the reason for this success is how different their road taken has been compared to all-in on AI companies.

Haven’t had memory issues on my Windows 11 laptop so I don’t check how much is free. On the other hand, free disk space is jumping between 0 and 10 GB without notification as to what appears or disappears. This is annoyingly unreliable because the space often gets closer to 0 right at the time when I need to Syncthing files with others.

Remembered that I made such a tool for myself ten years ago. Dusted off a backup, updated dependencies (and replaced some), refactored somewhat, changed license to AGPL and uploaded here: https://codeberg.org/nykula/imgie

Should be very easy to install because the backend is just ImageMagick and SQLite.

Beware of a 250M node_modules, though. My code is less than 1K lines in the initial commit, but the linters, bundlers etc are the same as I use for big projects.

Note: Lufi encrypts uploaded files and lets one share a link containing a decryption key. It doesn’t let one expose images for other websites to embed. Thus a good tool but not for OP’s purpose?