Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Free and Open Source TeleConsultation Software for Healthcare
If you are looking for a free embeddable telehealth app that provides secure and reliable communication functionality try Q-Consultation Lite powered by QuickBox. Q-Consultation Lite provides a virtual room experience, enabling providers to conduct private video consultations with patients, together with a virtual patient queue.
As a leading CPaaS provider, QuickBlox has a track record of providing high quality communication solutions for a variety of industries. Q-Consultation was originally built to meet the extraordinary demand for remote communication by QuickBlox’s customers during COVID-19.
Having seen firsthand the benefits in healthcare delivery using this app, the QuickBlox team have expanded the availability of the app, and just launched a free version with open source code downloadable from GitHub. Developers are able to try the software at no cost.
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Home invasion
Well, it looks like it's finally happened. As news sites began reporting that Elon Musk had finalised his purchase of Twitter, the fediverse's Eternal September — hoped for and feared in equal numbers amongst its existing user base — began.
We've had waves of new people before — most recently earlier this year when Musk first announced his purchase offer — but what's been happening for the last week is different in both scale and nature. It's clear that a sizeable portion of Twitter's users are choosing to deplatform themselves en masse, and many have been directed to Mastodon, the most famous and populated software on the fediverse.
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Fediverse
I joined Mastodon in 2018. It was one of many days on Twitter that felt like it’s finally enough. I don’t exactly remember why. Twitter has been my social home on the internet since 2008 and it boosted my career in many ways. I made a lot of friends there. Some online friends turned into offline friends, into friends for life. But Twitter changed over the years.
I started to feel anxious whenever I scrolled my timeline. The lovely conversations with friendly human beings vanished. They where replaced by retweets and breaking news and the ever growing search for attention. The world through the lense of Twitter started to look darker and darker every day.
The promise of a new social home with the old friendly vibes seemed exciting. But my friends from Twitter only stayed around for a bit and then returned to Twitter – and so did I. We repeated this process a couple times. Whenever something went terribly wrong on Twitter, a group of refugees gave Mastodon another try, but it didn't work out.
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Don't store TOTP in Bitwarden for your online accounts! - Patryk's blog
Since I’ve started working in Information Security space, I’ve been talking to a lot of people about the topics related to protecting ones identity online. Basically, trying to answer the question: What does it take to sufficiently secure my online accounts? Of course the meaning of sufficiently is very subjective here, but I’ve always kept it vague to gauge what it means to them specifically.
I did make sure to talk people of various backgrounds – from deeply technical all the way to not technical at all. Surprisingly many of them, even among the quite technical crowd, turned out to be lacking the understanding of some important fundamentals. In particular, it’s not always clear to them, what problems Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is targeting and solving. What threats do Password Managers are targeting and solving.
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VirtualClinic: An Open-Source Clinical Practice Management System
Virtual Clinic is a free open-source EMR and clinical practice management system for small and medium size clinics.
The project is written on top of the Django Web Framework, and can work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Oracle.
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About Twitter and Mastodon
When I saw a lot of people are moving to Mastodon, and that network became overloaded, it was clear we needed an instance for the Java community. I’m very thankful that Foojay provided that possibility. This happened in three steps: [...]
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Joe Brockmeier: Vivaldi jumps into social while Twitter burns: Dissociated Press
Looks like Vivaldi is the first to jump on Mastodon/the Twitter exodus as an opportunity to boost their other offerings. The company launched “Vivaldi Social” on November 15th, which is a Vivaldi-run instance of Mastodon tied in with their other offerings.
From their post, “Vivaldi Social is a natural progression for us, given our existing reliable alternatives to Big Tech — a feature-rich and flexible browser with a built-in mail client, calendar, and feed reader. We also give you the ability to express yourselves through a free and ad-free blogging platform, a thriving forum, and a webmail service.”
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How To Contribute To Open Source Privacy Projects | Bogomil Shopov
Contributing to open source project is something you should care about in any stage of your career. Here is a guide on how to contribute to privacy related projects.
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LibreOffice Conference 2022 videos: Events, GSoC, CJK issues, graphics subsystems…
Here’s a new batch of talks from the recent LibreOffice Conference 2022! Watch the individual videos below, or click here to view the playlist.
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Firefox Regional feedback: Let's start with Europe
We work hard as an organization to ship the best browser possible every 4 weeks with about 1000 new patches per release.
We ship new features to make our browser useful and easy to use. We also do platform work to be able to render new sites and web applications while remaining compatible with millions of websites created a decade (or more) ago.
This ongoing work also includes updating our translations in more than 100 languages thanks to our impressive community of localizers.
Yes, we want to make sure that Firefox can be used everywhere by everybody.
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YH4F winners awarded in ceremony in Brussels
The awards for the winners from the first edition of the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom competition, Stavros, Miquel, Artur, Ekaterina, Hector, and Mark were handed over in a ceremony in Brussels. We wish them a bright future, with many contributions to software freedom.
Four of the six winners of the first Youth Hacking 4 Freedom competition. From left to right: Ekaterina, Miquel, Hector, Stavros. After five months of coding and the subsequent evaluation,the last and super exciting part of the competition finally took place at the beginning of October with a two-day trip to Brussels where the winners received the awards!