Free and Open Source OnlyOffice 7.0 Released with Form Filling, Windowed Mode + More… LibreOffice is not the only alternative out there

OnlyOffice 7.0 is now available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux. Now has the ability to create and edit forms (often distributed in the .docxf format). Filled-in forms can be saved as a PDF file to share elsewhere or the native .oform format. In addition to Nextcloud, OwnCloud and Seafile you can now connect kDrive and Liferay to OnlyOffice.

See https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/01/onlyoffice-7-0-released-with-form-filling-windowed-mode-more

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VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code, minus the telemetry stuff

Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under a not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.

The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.

They have a page too on how to migrate your settings, extensions, etc across.

See https://vscodium.com/

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PhotoPrism is an AI-powered app for browsing, organizing and sharing your self-hosted photo collection

If the idea of having your photo collection sitting at Google or Apple bothers you, but you still want to auto-upload your mobile photos, and want family and friends to be able to browse using a modern interface, PhotoPrism may be worth looking into.

It installs in Docker and will run on Windows, Linux, macOS, or Raspberry Pi. Since the client user interface is a Progressive Web App, it provides a native app-like experience, and you can conveniently install it on the home screen of all major operating systems and mobile devices. You can use PhotoSync mobile app to securely backup iOS and Android phones in the background to PhotoPrism.

The AI is the wonder part though, as it sorts and searches by recognising faces, locations, automatic classication based on content, colours, chroma, etc.

See https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

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GitHub - photoprism/photoprism: Photos App powered by Go and Google TensorFlow 🌈 🎄

Photos App powered by Go and Google TensorFlow 🌈 🎄 - GitHub - photoprism/photoprism: Photos App powered by Go and Google TensorFlow 🌈 🎄

PhotoPrism is an AI-powered app for browsing, organizing and sharing your self-hosted photo collection

If the idea of having your photo collection sitting at Google or Apple bothers you, but you still want to auto-upload your mobile photos, and want family and friends to be able to browse using a modern interface, PhotoPrism may be worth looking into.

It installs in Docker and will run on Windows, Linux, macOS, or Raspberry Pi. Since the client user interface is a Progressive Web App, it provides a native app-like experience, and you can conveniently install it on the home screen of all major operating systems and mobile devices. You can use PhotoSync mobile app to securely backup iOS and Android phones in the background to PhotoPrism.

The AI is the wonder part though, as it sorts and searches by recognising faces, locations, automatic classication based on content, colours, chroma, etc.

See https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

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vutuv is a free and fast open source career network alternative to Microsoft’s LinkedIn, but without spamming and post updates

Think of it as a free, fast and secure open-source alternative for LinkedIn or XING (remembering that LinkedIn has featured plenty of times as the number one collector of user metadata, even above Facebook). This is one of the very few fully open source alternatives to LinkedIn. It is designed around speed and lack of clutter, so it is suited to slow network speeds.
Your profile consists of job experience listings as well as tags to identify your various skills. Users can follow and vote up those specified tags.

There are no status update posts, and also no user to user messaging, so this keeps everything very focussed and spam free. A profile can optionally publish an e-mail address, and have links to other sites and to social media accounts, as different ways to contact a person.

It’s not all perfect though as some concerns are the last code submit was 17 months ago, and users have been asking for a proper listing functionality for certifications and education, along with books / papers published, and also for Mastodon accounts to be linked to profiles.

See vutuv is a free and fast career network | Hacker Noon

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I was tired of the endless “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” emails from LinkedIn and I was tired of them trying to sell me a so called “Premium account”. I like the idea of LinkedIn and the German equivalent XING but I don’t like how they are solving the given problem. Too many emails, too many pop-ups, too…

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PeerTube 4.0 (open source self-hosted decentralised alternative to YouTube) with channel customization, playlists search, custom instance homepage and more video filters is out!

PeerTube is decentralised by most useful definitions of the word. Anybody can run their own PeerTube instance, and the instances can follow (or “connect”) to each other to form a larger whole. This is not an option you have with YouTube.
When you watch a video on PeerTube the data will come from the instance hosting the video, any other instance that follows that instance and has redundancy enabled and other people watching the video at the same time as you do.

See the new features at PeerTube 4.0 Free Video Platform Comes More Powerful Than Ever

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An overview of the new version of PeerTube, a software solution to create alternative platforms to YouTube.

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PeerTube 4.0 Free Video Platform Comes More Powerful Than Ever

An overview of the new version of PeerTube, a software solution to create alternative platforms to YouTube.

ZombieTrackerGPS (ZTGPS) is a Fitness Tracker for Linux, and a Linux alternative to Garmin’s BaseCamp Software

ZombieTrackerGPS is a free and open source application that allows you to view and organize maps, data points and routes from your GPS enabled devices on your computer. In other words, ZTGPS acts as a connection between your GPS device and your computer.

ZombieTrackerGPS is a KDE native PIM application satisfying the same purpose as Garmin’s BaseCamp software, which unfortunately does not run on Linux. It’s a professional quality application with goal to fill a hole in the open source ecosystem and provide an alternative to mainstream software business models which monetize your data.

It’s important to note that privacy of your data is a central design goal in ZTGPS Linux fitness tracker. All program data resides on your local disk.

The software is written for the KDE desktop, but will work on other desktops if the KDE and Qt libraries are available.

See ZombieTrackerGPS (ZTGPS) is a Fitness Tracker for Linux

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The application is a Linux alternative to Garmin’s BaseCamp Software

https://gadgeteer.co.za/zombietrackergps-ztgps-fitness-tracker-linux-and-linux-alternative-garmins-basecamp-software

ZombieTrackerGPS (ZTGPS) is a Fitness Tracker for Linux

The application is a Linux alternative to Garmin’s BaseCamp Software

SpaceHey is a retro MySpace (THE pre-Facebook) clone focussed on privacy without algorithms

Created by a young German coder identifying himself as An the Maker, SpaceHey is a faithful recreation of the spartan social experience in the early years of online media, triggering nostalgia in some users and curiosity in others. MySpace was the most popular social service on the web before Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook surged ahead.

Part of the attraction may be explained by the absence of intrusive advertising and big corporate overseers. SpaceHey promises “no algorithms, no tracking, and no personalized Ads – Feeds on SpaceHey are chronological and there is no suggested content begging for your attention.”

It is a centralised model (not peer-to-peer or federated), and although it uses some open-source libraries it does not appear to be open-source itself. The blogs, groups, and forums though are publicly accessible to read without login, so this is great for bloggers. Blogs also have RSS feed links, which is useful for replication elsewhere, or for followers who are not on SpaceHey.

See MySpace clone blows up

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Tens of thousands of people are flocking to a new social website that resurrects the look and feel of MySpace from the early 2000s.

https://gadgeteer.co.za/spacehey-retro-myspace-pre-facebook-clone-focussed-privacy-without-algorithms

MySpace clone blows up

Tens of thousands of people are flocking to a new social website that resurrects the look and feel of MySpace from the early 2000s.

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Visio to draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams of various types, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple circuits

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft Office family. Database modeling in Visio revolves around a Database Model Diagram (DMD).

I've long been using Dia, but also sometimes LibreOffice Draw.

See Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Visio - LinuxLinks

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Microsoft Visio is a diagramming and vector graphics application. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Visio - LinuxLinks

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming and vector graphics application. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

Fosscord is a free and open source self-hostable and decentralised platform compatible with Discord... There should be such an alternative too for Meta / Facebook

This project really exemplifies what I believe should happen to Meta / Facebook too (the use of interoperable standards). Users should be able to opt to use free and open source self-hostable alternatives that can still keep them in contact with their family and friends that choose to stay behind on a platform. It's the best of both worlds for the individuals, and also means they can more freely move to another platform without being locked in.

Fosscord is free, open source, extendible, self-hostable, decentralised, themeable, secure, encrypted, and compatible with Discord... It's going to be better than Discord! Right now it is still a work in progress, so not everything is fully in place.

See Fosscord

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Fosscord is still a work in progress. If you're an advanced user, read the Documentation for a guide on how to get...

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Ditch Shared Hosting: Digital Ocean (or other hosting provider) plus CyberPanel - Easy and Fast Web Hosting for WordPress, etc.

Cyberpanel is a free and open-source alternative to cPanel and similar panel management servers. The linked video shows how to start from scratch with a $6 pm VPS on Digital Ocean, but you could in fact use any VPS or other hosting, and just install CyberPanel.

CyberPanel includes all the tools you need to set up and securely manage one or more WordPress websites. It is a bit weaker than cPanel/Webuzo/Softacluous as far as including installation scripts to install lots of other applications. But this does not mean you cannot install them yourself, there are just no one-click installation scripts to do that. For example CyberPanel's site has a blog post showing how to install Drupal too.

Watch at

Ditch Shared Hosting: Digital Ocean Plus CyberPanel - Easy & Fast Web Hosting for WordPress, ETC.
by Tek Syndicate on YouTube

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https://gadgeteer.co.za/ditch-shared-hosting-digital-ocean-or-other-hosting-provider-plus-cyberpanel-easy-and-fast-web

Cleanup.pictures - a free and open-source web application to remove any object, people, text or defects from your pictures

It uses LaMa, an open-source model from Samsung's AI lab to automatically and accurately redraw the areas that you delete. It is open-source under the Apache License 2.0.

It worked really well for two photos I tested with it, but they also have some demo photos you can test it with. If it's not perfect on the first erase, just try a second time.

See Cleanup.pictures

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Remove objects, people, text and defects from any picture - 100% free. Create a clean background for a product picture 📸, re-design any items 👠, fill up some missing space for a youtube thumbnail 🎬, You can use it to iron your shirts 👕...etc!

https://gadgeteer.co.za/cleanuppictures-free-and-open-source-web-application-remove-any-object-people-text-or-defects-your

Cleanup.pictures - Remove objects, people, text and defects from any picture - 100% free

Remove objects, people, text and defects from any picture - 100% free. Create a clean background for a product picture 📸, re-design any items 👠, fill up some missing space for a youtube thumbnail 🎬, You can use it to iron your shirts 👕...etc!

Friendica - A Decentralized Federated Open-Source Social Network That You Can Self-Host

Friendica is a decentralized open-source social network which federates with many other social networks including diaspora*, Hubzilla, and the Fediverse of social networks. It can mirror too with Twitter and IFTTT, or export posts to Discourse, libertree, Tumblr, Wordpress and e-mail.

It is a good candidate for being an alternative to Facebook, and you can either join a public server, or self-host your own instance.

In this video I give an overview of Friendica's functionality and features, a comparison with Hubzilla, a look at it's interface, and a tour through the settings menu. I also make the case for it being a cleaner way to use Twitter.

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Friendica - A Decentralized Federated Open-Source Social Network That You Can Self-Host
by Danie van der Merwe on YouTube

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Viber instant messenger racks up one billion installs - End-to-End Encryption, 30-User Group Video Calls, Unlimited member Communities, and can Call Landlines

When you think of messaging apps, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and any of Google's 47 attempts likely come to mind. As mainstream as those services might be, they aren't the only options you'll find for texting your friends and loved ones. Viber isn't as recognizable a name, but it's been quietly popular for years now. Today, it passed the one billion installs milestone, marking its place among other ultra-successful apps like Google Messages and Snapchat.

It installs on Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows and Linux. Unlike Whatsapp, it will also work even if you don't have your mobile phone with you. Communities can be created with unlimited members. All Community members’ phone numbers are hidden (unlike Signal).

But you need to be aware that there is advertising that funds this service, and associated cookie tracking. This is basically what Whatsapp wants to introduce, and also Telegram at some point. There are some opt-out options, but ads will still be delivered. Their cookies policy goes into a lot of detail about this.

See Viber racks up one billion installs, even without your help

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You might not be using it, but a lot of people are

https://gadgeteer.co.za/viber-instant-messenger-racks-one-billion-installs-end-end-encryption-30-user-group-video-calls

Viber racks up one billion installs, even without your help

You might not be using it, but a lot of people are

Kobo announces two new e-readers, including $260 note-taking Sage... Because Amazon needs good and open competition

Both devices keep the asymmetrical design popularized by Amazon’s Oasis e-reader, offer E Ink Carta 1200 screens with Kobo’s ComfortLight Pro feature (which adapts the screen brightness and color based on the time of day), and add Bluetooth support for wireless headphones (though they can only play Kobo’s own audiobooks).

The Sage is the larger of the two and also functions as an e-note device. It’s compatible with the company’s Kobo Stylus (sold separately for $40), which lets users make handwritten notes on ebooks and PDFs that can be can converted to plain text. With an 8-inch (1440 x 1920) E Ink display, this makes the Sage smaller than Kobo’s dedicated e-note slate, the 10.3-inch Elipsa. It’s also cheaper, too, as the Elipsa is priced at $399.

15 file formats supported natively (EPUB, EPUB3, FlePub, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ, CBR), and OverDrive for public library ebooks.

See Kobo announces two new e-readers, including $260 note-taking Sage

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Kobo’s new e-readers look pretty tempting

https://gadgeteer.co.za/kobo-announces-two-new-e-readers-including-260-note-taking-sage-because-amazon-needs-good-and-open

Kobo announces two new e-readers, including $260 note-taking Sage

Kobo’s new e-readers look pretty tempting

The grommunio project is an open source drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange

The grommunio project functions well as a drop-in replacement for Exchange. The developers connect components to the platform the same way Microsoft does, and they support RPC (Remote Procedure Call) with the HTTP protocol. According to the developers, grommunio also includes numerous interfaces of common groupware such as IMAP, POP3, SMTP, EAS (Exchange ActiveSync), EWS (Exchange Web Services), CalDAV, and CardDAV. With such broad support, grommunio integrates smoothly into existing infrastructures.

There are a variety of usage models, from paid support with cloud hosting through to community free options. Remember though that payments is what keeps the project innovating and improving. Self-hosting will also help achieve full data sovereignty, and with Linux being used as a hosting platform this also provides a lot of flexibility and scalability.

See An open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange

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Microsoft Exchange has for many years been nearly unavoidable as a platform for groupware environments. Late in 2020, however, an Austrian open source software developer introduced grommunio, a groupware server and client with a look and feel familiar to Exchange and Outlook users.

https://gadgeteer.co.za/grommunio-project-open-source-drop-replacement-microsoft-exchange

An open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange has for many years been nearly unavoidable as a platform for groupware environments. Late in 2020, however, an Austrian open source software developer introduced grommunio, a groupware server and client with a look and feel...

Revolt is not just a simple open-source privacy replacement for Discord, but you also get the ability to self-host

It is in public beta testing phase right now and does lack a variety of features that Discord offers, but you get a lot of basic functionalities to get a head start to start experimenting. If you have used Discord, the user experience will feel familiar. You can explore their project roadmap/release tracker to see what you can expect in its final/future releases.

See Revolt: An Open-Source Alternative to Discord - It's FOSS

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Revolt is a promising free and open-source choice to replace Discord. Here, we take a look at what it offers along with its initial impressions.

https://gadgeteer.co.za/revolt-not-just-simple-open-source-privacy-replacement-discord-you-also-get-ability-self-host

Revolt: An Open-Source Alternative to Discord - It's FOSS

Revolt is a promising free and open-source choice to replace Discord. Here, we take a look at what it offers along with its initial impressions.

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Project

OpenProject, MyCollab and ProjectLibre are covered in the article. There are actually many others too, but one of these three should do the trick. One of them is web based, which allows easy access by others too.

See Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Project - LinuxLinks

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Microsoft Project is a project management software product. Here's our recommended free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Project - LinuxLinks

Microsoft Project is a project management software product. Here's our recommended free and open source alternatives.

Uptime Kuma: A free and open source self-hosted alternative to Uptime Robot

Features include:
* Monitoring uptime for HTTP(s) / TCP / Ping / DNS Record
* Fancy, Reactive, Fast UI/UX
* Notifications via Telegram, Discord, Gotify, Slack, Pushover, Email (SMTP), and 70+ notification services
* 20 seconds interval

See GitHub - louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

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A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool. Contribute to louislam/uptime-kuma development by creating an account on GitHub.

https://gadgeteer.co.za/uptime-kuma-free-and-open-source-self-hosted-alternative-uptime-robot

GitHub - louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool. Contribute to louislam/uptime-kuma development by creating an account on GitHub.

Matrix - An Open Network for Secure, Decentralised Communication

Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication. You can self-host and federate, or join existing servers, to enable instant messaging, text chat in chatrooms, voice and video chat, file transfer, and even bridging between many other networks such as IRC, XMPP, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, RSS, Facebook Messenger, Discord, Slack, and many more.

End-to-End-Encryption, device verification and trust, replication of chatrooms for redundancy, are all hallmarks of Matrix. It can serve as a secure communications platform for governments with roving diplomats, or for end users be an alternative to Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp.

It is the opposite of a walled garden, with its vision of acting as a generic HTTP messaging and data synchronisation system for the whole web - allowing people, services and devices to easily communicate with each other, empowering users to own and control their data, and select the services and vendors they want to use.

Watch at Matrix - An Open Network for Secure, Decentralised Communication

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Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication. You can self-host and federate, ...

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