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I had no idea this sort of project existed. Great, how more and more health professionals and hospital administrators hear about it.
... and good alternatives, where available. To the best of my knowledge, and no guarantees obviously. All the apps listed here are distributed with libre licences (except where otherwise stated), but some may rely on non-libre backends.
Productivity
- DAVx5 - the easiest way to synchronize your Nextcloud contacts/calendar/tasks with corresponding Android apps. GPLv3. Available on F-Droid.
- K-9 Mail, or these days it is perhaps just as well to use Thunderbird for Android.
- Nextcloud
- Nextcloud Notes
- Tasks.org - a great tasks app that synchronizes with your Nextcloud tasks.
Chat, messaging
- Signal messenger. The app is FOSS, but relies on a proprietary and centralized service.
- Nextcloud Talk
- Beeper
Keyboard
- Unexpected Keyboard, F-Droid - keyboard with a smart swipe-inside-each-key UX that exposes a massive amount of special characters in a smart way.
- HeliBoard, F-Droid
- https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard
- Thumb-Key - cool keyboard meant for thumb typing and swiping inside each key.
Audio & video
- Audio Recorder, F-Droid. Easy to integrate with Nextcloud's "Auto Uploads" functionality, in my experience. But the default quality settings (bitrate, etc.) are quite low and I suggest raising them.
- Jellyfin, F-Droid - mobile client for Jellyfin media server.
- NewPipe, F-Droid - I recommend you install it on F-Droid using their repo to get updates faster (but note that this means you trust their repo to push updates to your phone).
- Tempo - music client for Subsonic-compatible servers.
- VLC
Misc
- Binary Eye, F-Droid - a competent QR code scanner.
- FreeOTP+, F-Droid - 2FA authenticator.
- Kvaesitso launcher - it looks great by default and can be customized in lots of useful ways.
- Librera Reader, F-Droid.
- OpenKeychain - in combination with Password Store to sync
passto Android. - OsmAnd - OpenStreetmap for Android.
- Tailscale - app is FOSS, but the underlying service is proprietary, but can replaced with Headscale (but unfortunately I cannot recommend it - tried it once and never figured it out).
- Transdroid - Bittorrent client that lets your monitor and control your server.
- Transportr - public transport timetables. Works well in Stockholm.
- Tusky - Mastodon client that works well with multiple accounts across different instances.
- Wallabag
This is a user-friendly guide to retrieving your digital life from the Tech Giants.
In it, you will find an awesome guide split over 21 steps:
- Day One: Getting Set Up
- Day Two: Better Browsing
- Day Three: Your Data Roadmap
- Day Four: Secure Your Email
- Day Five: Masking Email Addresses
- Day Six: Leave Gmail (or another insecure provider)
- Day Seven: Settle In
- Day Eight: Contacts and Calendars
- Day Nine: Secure Messaging
- Day Ten: Leave Social Media
- Day Eleven: Get Social Again
- Day Twelve: Password Protection
- Day Thirteen: Shop Securely
- Day Fourteen: Replace your Accounts
- Day Fifteen: Trash Unwanted Accounts
- Day Sixteen: Get a VPN
- Day Seventeen: Control your Collaborations
- Day Eighteen: Personal Photos
- Day Nineteen: Adios, Alexa!
- Day Twenty: Fix your Phone
- Day Twenty-One: Look Forward
Stellarium is a planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free.
Your periodic reminder that Stellarium is an amazing planetarium tool. Free, #OpenSource and very easy to use. There are desktop apps, mobile apps and a web version. https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/111965151861766848
The Open Knowledge Network connects specialists of the open movement and promotes them through the Open Knowledge Global Directory.
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data.
CKAN is a free open source Data Management System (DMS) to build open data portals, and its code is held in trust by the Open Knowledge Foundation.
I suppose this should be seen in light of the official endorsement of Matrix by eSam over a year ago, which I noted at the time.
Sweden’s public sector is keen to adopt open source and open standards to ensure data sovereignty and protection against vendor lock-in
As a part of Tele2 Collaborate, Element is seen as a natural Skype for Business (S4B) replacement for Sweden’s public sector, and an alternative to US-based Big Tech vendors.
Keep code, data, containers under control with git and git-annex
Built in Python.
- https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03262 (paper)
- https://github.com/datalad/datalad (repo)
- https://www.datalad.org
- http://docs.datalad.org (docs)
- http://handbook.datalad.org (crash course)
A very nice resource!
I found it while reading up on presentation software (pdfpc and such).
Feels like I keep hearing about new FOSS tools and services interfacing with Mastodon every day.
I need some place to keep track of them.
- https://github.com/toelke/mastodon2rss - Serve your mastodon home feed to RSS (including boosts!)
- https://rstockm.github.io/mastothread - split your long text into bitesize posts. Via @vicgrinberg.
- https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends
- https://streetpass.social a browser extension that helps you find Mastodon users as you browse
- https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon - a collection of various lists of academics on Mastodon servers.
- https://lemmyverse.net - search Lemmy instances or communities
Det här var ju goda nyheter!
34 svenska myndigheter (inom ramen för eSam och dess projekt digital samarbetsplattform, dSam) har tagit tydlig ställning för e-tjänster med hög säkerhet, garanterad suveränitet, öppen källkod och öppna standarder.
Veusz is a scientific plotting and graphing program with a graphical user interface, designed to produce publication-ready 2D and 3D plots. In addition it can be used as a module in Python for plotting. Veusz is multiplatform, running on Windows, Linux/Unix and macOS.
It supports vector and bitmap output, including PDF, Postscript, SVG and EMF.
When considering automation apps for Android, Tasker immediately comes to mind. And although it has name recognition, it's source code is proprietary and the app requires the Google Play store on the device (beyond a 7-day trial version).
So, what FOSS automation apps are there out there?
- Easer by Rui Zhao. Source on Github (449 stars, 1295 commits), F-Droid. Note that there is also a beta version of this app.
- Automation by Jens Schröder. Source on developer's Gitea instance (88 commits), F-Droid.
Other non-free automation apps for Android (not recommended)
- Tasker
- Automate by LlamaLab
- AutomateIt
- MacroDroid
- RuleBot by KF Software House (Hong Kong)
Directories of alternatives
- https://switching.software - a list of easy-to-use alternatives to well-known software.
Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software.
The source code for its website is published on Codeberg (meaning you can suggest changes, etc.). - https://www.privacyguides.org - lots of categories. The website itself is built from a public Github repo. Via https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/privacyguides/statuses/113002199475214098
- https://guide.yuuire.com/recommendations/software/foss-alternatives - list of open source and privacy-friendly apps. Website's source code on github
- https://divestos.org/pages/recommended_apps - F-Droid recommended apps by divestos.org.
- https://european-alternatives.eu - European alternatives for digital products.
- https://selfh.st/apps - A directory of self-hosted software.
Other lists of directories
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Windows, Mac or Linux.
I heard about it just recently, and in short order stumbled on a number of interesting ideas:
- The OBS Screen Timer Zoom Trick, CogDog
- OBS Livestreaming vs Zoom for Dynamic A/Synchronous Teaching, anth101
- Hosting Studio20 using OBS with Zoom, EdTechFactotum
- Recorded livestream on how to set the foundation for your OBS Studio setup, stream starts at 3:18, starts talking about OBS studio at 6:25. Eric Nantz shares best practices and tips for showcasing R analyses. Via R Weekly 2021-W28.
Podcast (Hanselminutes) with OBS project lead Hugh Bailey (July 2020)
Plugins
Free and open source PDF readers. A list by the FSFE.
Fantastic little tool. I used it on Baahubali 2, whose subtitles were drifting more and more with time, and it corrected it without any user intervention. Very nice!
It is even integrated into Bazarr (automatic subtitle synchronisation can be enabled in Bazarr's settings).
This could perhaps be a much more stable alternative to my reverse SSH tunnels for keeping connections with various servers, especially desktops inside FM-NET and other machines inside other LANs.
The main downside is that Tailscale is not FOSS. So perhaps we should look for other solutions built on WireGuard, or perhaps learn to configure WireGuard directly.
OPSIN is the (open source) standard for parsing IUPAC names.
Fraidycat is a desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. You can use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube, Instagram or even on a public TiddlyWiki.
So it's like a feed reader, and if you use your browser sync functionality, it will sync between your devices. Really worth trying out this concept, especially if you don't want to setup your own web-based feed reader. The built-in (and increasing) support for many non-RSS sources is also nice.