Free, Libre, and Open Source Software an Programming Leftovers
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Mass File Renamer: Batch Rename Large Number of Files with Ease
Mass File Renamer is a powerful and user-friendly desktop application that is designed to make file renaming easier and more efficient. With its intuitive interface and advanced features, this app provides a comprehensive solution for users who need to rename multiple files quickly and easily.
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FileMasta: The Open-source Desktop Federated Search Engine Is Abandoned
FileMasta is a federated search application that allows you to discover a wide variety of files being shared online. Whether you're looking for video, music, books, software, games, subtitles, or anything else, FileMasta has you covered.
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XODA: A Free Self-hosted Document Management System
XODA is a simple yet powerful system for organizing documents using AJAX. It was designed with the KISS principle (Keep It Simple and Stupid) in mind, which means that it is easy to use and understand.
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TagSpaces: is a Free Offline Document Manager For Daily Users
TagSpaces is a comprehensive, versatile, and user-friendly application designed to help users organize and manage their local files with ease. This open-source software is free to use, and it doesn't involve any vendor lock-in.
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YaCy: Free Self-hosted Privacy-First Decentralized Search Engine
Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance
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Is Meta's arrival on the fediverse good news?
The fediverse (a blend made from “federation” and “universe”) is a group of social media consisting of a multitude of platforms and software, each of them communicating with the others using a common protocol. Mastodon is one of the software applications used to offer an instance on the fediverse1More information on the fediverse on fediverse.party.. Last June, Meta announced its arrival on the fediverse, with the launch of a Twitter challenger called Threads, which will eventually be able to interoperate with other instances of the fediverse. For several years now, La Quadrature du Net has been calling for mandatory interoperability for these major social networks. So, is the interoperability of a service from Meta good news? Certainly not.
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As Gov’t Agencies Turn to K8s, Cost Control is Critical
Cloud-fueled technology change is happening at the federal level—but it is not without challenges, including K8s.
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Use web components for what they’re good at
Dave Rupert recently made a bit of a stir with his post “If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?”. I’ve been working with web components for a few years now, so I thought I’d weigh in on this.
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Qt for Android Automotive 6.5.2 is released
The latest patch release for Android Automotive 6.5.2 is just released. This release is based on Qt LTS 6.5.2 with 290 bug fixes, security updates, and other improvements to the top of the Qt 6.5.1 release.
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Optimizing and Sharing Shader Structures
When writing large graphics applications in Vulkan or OpenGL, there’s many data structures that need to be passed from the CPU to the GPU and vice versa. There are subtle differences in alignment, padding and so on between C++ and GLSL to keep track of as well.
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SQLite Release 3.43.0 On 2023-08-24
Add support for Contentless-Delete FTS5 Indexes. This is a variety of FTS5 full-text search index that omits storing the content that is being indexed while also allowing records to be deleted.