Free Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 23, 2022

• FOSS Weekly #22.35: Linux Crossword, EuroLinux, GNOME 43, Files and Directories

  As promised in the previous edition of FOSS Weekly, we have created a crossword for you. This one is focused on various desktop environments and window managers.

• Microsoft-funded 'analyst': The Dead End - tecosystems

  If we normalize projects baiting developers with an open source license to gain traction and switching to a non-open source license to monopolize the returns on that traction, then the logical next step for investors will be skipping that first step entirely.

• drones run linux: the free software movement isn't enough

  richard stallman. rms. if you've spent time in tech, you may know his name. in popular tabloid culture, he's painted as a sexist pedo - in 4chan-esque dungeons, he's heralded as a savior.

  in reality, he's a very flawed human that discovered something most of us never will. a single cause to commit the rest of his entire life to.

  rms has led the free software movement for 40 years. his asset is his flaw. he is stubborn. extremely stubborn. absolutely unwilling to deviate, admit fault, change, or back down. a staunch revolutionary on a blazing battleground. the world will see free software as a moral right, and he will die fighting, no matter what anyone says.

• OpenAI Hears You Whisper

  Should you wish to try high-quality voice recognition without buying something, good luck. Sure, you can borrow the speech recognition on your phone or coerce some virtual assistants on a Raspberry Pi to handle the processing for you, but those aren’t good for major work that you don’t want to be tied to some closed-source solution. OpenAI has introduced Whisper, which they claim is an open source neural net that “approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.” It appears to work on at least some other languages, too.

• NMKD, An Easy GUI for the Stable Diffusion AI Art Generator - Invidious

  NMKD Stable Diffusion GUI is an easy to use, and easy to install, graphical front end to the Stable Diffusion AI Art Generator. In this video, I go through the steps involved in finding the tool, installing it, and creating your own AI masterpieces on your own PC.

• Lox365 extension: XLOOKUP (and more) for LibreOffice Calc

• Shared With Me files in KIO GDrive

  I’ve just merged in kio-gdrive master the support for Shared With Me files. This new feature will be shipped with the next KDE Gear 22.12 release.

  Your shared files and folders will be presented in a virtual “Shared With Me” folder (similar to the “Shared With Me” tab in the Google web-UI)...