Found this launcher last week and I've been playing with it since.

It still works with "muscle memory" but instead of placement, it's the gesture (or direction) that triggers the action. With time it can become quicker and easier, i think, than lawnchair, eblan &c or search based launchers

also on https://github.com/Elnix90/Dragon-Launcher

Pinta 3.1 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform paint program written in GTK# for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Coming more than eight months after Pinta 3.0, the Pinta 3.1 release implements a new axonometric grid under View > Canvas Grid, a new Cells effect, a polygon selection mode to the Lasso Select tool, a Radius Percentage parameter to the Twist effect, and a revamped canvas widget to improve performance.

Pinta 3.1 also updates the Gradient tool with handles for adjusting the gradient length and direction, updates the Dithering effect to use Pinta’s current palette in addition to the effect’s preset color palettes, and updates the Splatter brush to repeatedly draw while holding the mouse down.

With the upcoming LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite release, they are getting rid of the "Community Edition" branding for the standard version of this widely-used cross-platform office suite.

LibreOffice previously was going for "Personal Edition" branding for this popular free software office suite. The "Personal Edition" branding was confusing and panned by users and ultimately then decided to brand it as the LibreOffice Community Edition. That too led to some user confusion and is now being phased out.

LibreOffice Community Edition was intended to distinguish between that common version of LibreOffice and any enterprise-focused versions of the office suite offered by other software partners. But back in June it was decided by the Board of Directors to drop that "Community" branding from The Document Foundation's LibreOffice builds.

QEMU, a popular open-source machine emulator and virtualizer, has officially released version 10.2 (following a four-release candidate cycle) as the second point update to the 10.x series.

A notable change is a clarification of QEMU’s security policy. The project now explicitly defines which machine types fall under the “virtualization use case” when determining what qualifies as a security bug.

Several legacy components have been removed. The long-deprecated -old-param option is gone, and the Arm PXA CPU family has been fully removed.

More than a 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are now freely available and open source for software builders, under the Apache 2.0 license.

After eleven months in development following its previous 0.8 release, Clapper, an open-source media player for Linux built on GTK4 and GStreamer, has just released version 0.10.

The main novelty is the migration of MPRIS, Server, and Discoverer functionality out of the core application and into enhancer plugins. These features are now deprecated as built-in components. Applications that bundle Clapper as part of containerized distributions are advised to disable these features at build time and instead ship them as plugins.

GnuCash 5.14 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform double-entry accounting software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Highlights of GnuCash 5.14 include support for US Bonds (usbonds) on the New Finance::Quote module to get prices for series E, EE, or I bonds, a new Postponed column to the Scheduled Transactions list for postponing scheduled transaction instances, and the removal of the Bulgarian Lev (BGN) currency as it’s replaced by EUR from January 1st, 2026.

This release also adds support for changing the Transaction report only when “Show only subtotals” is selected, improves the algorithm behind autoclearing transactions to handle up to 30 uncleared transactions in an account reasonably quickly, and improves stale account balances and the grand total during transaction import.

Recently I wanted to cut a video (just export few seconds of a long video).

When everything still was AVI it was easy for me and I used VirtualDub. There I could decide if I just do a keyframe cut without having to encode it again, or a frame cut with having to encode this.

Nowadays having MKV, MP4 etc. I tried Lossless Cut which just gave me a black video. Open Shots Video Editor which is too complicated for this task and where I struggle to maintain the aspect ratio of the original video. Handbrake is a bit better, but also offers too many options for that purpose.

So I ended up using Online Video Cutter. But I wonder that there isn't any open source that just works as easily as that.

Darktable 5.4 has been released today as the latest version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Coming more than eight months after Darktable 5.2.1, the Darktable 5.4 release adds base support for new cameras, including Canon EOS R1, Canon EOS R5 Mark II, Canon PowerShot D10 (DNG), Canon PowerShot S100V, Canon PowerShot S2 IS (DNG), Fujifilm FinePix HS33EXR, and Fujifilm X-E5 (compressed).

The list of newly supported cameras continues with Kodak DCS Pro SLR/c, Kodak P712, Leica D-Lux 8, Leica M EV1 (DNG), Leica Q3 Monochrom (DNG), Leica X-E (Typ 102) (DNG), Nikon Z fc (14-bit uncompressed and 12-bit uncompressed), OM System OM-5 Mark II, Olympus SP550UZ, and Olympus SP565UZ.

The Open Source Initiative, a nonprofit organization that promotes and protects open source software, has published its annual ranking of the most viewed open source licenses in 2025, reflecting the preferences and priorities of developers, organizations, and open source communities worldwide.

At the top of the 2025 rankings is the MIT License, maintaining its long-standing position as the most sought-after open-source license. With approximately 1.53 million pageviews and 925,000 unique visitors, the MIT License’s permissive terms and minimal restrictions remain highly attractive for projects ranging from personal open source repositories to large-scale commercial products.

The team behind Immich, a popular open-source, self-hosted photo and video management platform, has released version 2.4. One of the most visible changes affects shared albums on the web, where users can now enable an option to display the asset owner’s name directly on thumbnails.

A notable new feature in the web interface is the command palette. Accessible via Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux, or Cmd+K on macOS, the palette lets you quickly navigate between administration pages by typing their names. In its first iteration, it also supports a growing set of context-aware actions and keyboard shortcuts.

Search has also been refined. Users can now change the search type directly from the search bar by clicking on the pill indicator, eliminating the need to open the full filter panel. This adjustment reduces friction when switching between different search modes and makes browsing large libraries more efficient.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51831042

In honor of the great RAM price gouging shortage of 2025-2026, this release cuts the memory usage of VoidAuth in half! I noticed that my own instance was pretty thicc at nearly 300MB of memory usage after stabilizing and not doing anything, so decided to do some trimming and optimization.

(Un)Scientific Results:

• RAM Usage: 280MB -> 150MB
• Image Size: 660MB -> 360MB

This release also brings better support for public OIDC Clients, but more testing is likely needed to catch edge cases so if something isn't working let me know. Thank you everyone for your engagement and support, I am feeling the love as this project crosses past 1000 stars 🥳. If you are interested, please try it out!

Here are the Release Notes:

What's Changed

Features 🚀

• Reduce Image Size and Memory Usage
• Better support for Public OIDC Clients
• Allow Native OIDC Clients Non-Reversed-Domain Schemes

Fixes 🔧

• Fixed Issue That Could Cause Stuck Loading Spinner While Prompting to Create Passkey

Docs 📖

• Docs: add Memos SSO configuration instructions in OIDC guides and fix a typo by @FrostWalk

And a bonus meme:

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.8.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with various bug fixes.

LibreOffice 25.8.4 is here a little over a month after LibreOffice 25.8.3 and it’s packed with more fixes to address various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.

In numbers, the LibreOffice 25.8.4 point release addresses a total of 76 bugs. Details about these bugs are available in the RC1 and RC2 changelogs. LibreOffice 25.8.4 is available for download right now from the official website as binaries for DEB and RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions.

LibreWolf is one of the best browsers for people who don't like generative AI.

Here is the statement posted on Mastodon:

As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

VLC Media Player 3.0.23, codenamed “Vetinari,” has been released as the twenty-fourth update in the long-running VLC 3.0 branch.

The new version focuses primarily on fixes rather than new functionality. Most of the changes target Windows, where the update resolves issues related to image display, security warnings, and OpenGL rendering. Alongside these platform-specific corrections, the release also introduces a minor enhancement to the reporting of audio codec information.

On the security side, while VLC 3.0.22 already stood out as the release with the most security fixes in the project’s history, version 3.0.23 addresses additional security issues discovered since then.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/42508495

Issue and PR threads are invaluable documentation for a project, it's difficult to migrate to another code host when years of knowledge are locked into your old hosting service. So I built a couple of scripts to archive issues, pull requests, comments, and source code from github repositories, and to turn them into static sites! With the accelerating exodus away from github, I've heard from a lot of people that there aren't any good tools for archiving that knowledge in a human-readable format, so I thought this would be a useful tool to make. The initial release is ready, and just in time for github to start charging for self-hosted runners!

If you try it out, let me know what you think. There's definitely areas that can be improved on :)

Version 1.6 of libopus as the library for the open-source Opus audio codec is now available. Opus 1.6 brings new machine learning "ML" based features in building atop the machine learning features initially added to Opus 1.5.

Opus 1.6 changes include:

• A new wideband-to-fullband bandwidth extension (BWE) module
• Support for 96 kHz audio with Opus HD
• Significant improvement to Deep Redundancy (DRED)
• A new 24-bit encoder/decoder API
• Fixed-point improvements

I learned about calc pad today. It looks to be an awesome equation editor that just happens to be open source.

Nanogram is designed for the enthusiest who wants complete data sovereignty on their social media platform.

Spin up your own instance on termux for Android.

Demo here.

Install instructions are at the bottom of the readme.

GIMP 3.2-RC2 is out today as what could be the last release candidate of GIMP 3.2 before its stable release. This leading open-source image editor/creation alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop continues becoming much more refined and polished in the GIMP 3 series.

Prior to releasing GIMP 3.0 there was a goal to ship GIMP 3.2 within one year and it looks like they will make it. GIMP 3.2 RC1 came in November and 3.2 RC2 out today for what could be the final release candidate. It depends how the GIMP 3.2 RC2 testing pans out and the bug reports to come, but if all looks good, they could go straight to the stable 3.2.0 release without needing any further RCs.

Sound like more AI bullshit in Firefox, but privacy, because Mozilla is "trusted".

Lately I have been using AI more and more in my codebase and that's been a bit of a hit and miss if you ask me.

I reckon it's an amazing tool that allows developers to truly optimise their workflow, however at times laziness take over and code reviews are not as frequent as they should be.

I really REALLY wanted to build something without using AI after having spent months and months getting a bit too complacent. And this is the first idea that came to mind. Of course to celebrate this occasion I went for a technology I hadn't used in almost a decade: jQuery!!!

You can find the repo here: https://github.com/fccview/ackchyually-ai
You can play around with the tool on fccview.github.io/ackchyually-ai

Few disclaimers:

• I am a full stack javascript developer (with extensive knowledge of php and a very good grasp of shell). This means majority of the detection will be revolving around javascript, if you develop in a different language and you feel like you know AI patterns in that language PLEASE do create a pull request so we can make the detection even more accurate for other type of syntax!
• The tool uses MY OWN metrics, this is doing what I usually do to see if something is (in my opinion) been made with AI and barely reviewed by a human. It's not gospel, it's not a scientific method, it's most definitely going to be flawed, so keep it with a grain of salt, it can always be improved and collaboration/community support will definitely help with it
• I don't hate AI, on contrary I enjoy using it and I find value in not needing to "google it" whenever I hit a blocker, more times than not, AI has a valid solution that can be used, refined and applied properly. What I have mostly an issue with is people randomly generating code, not reviewing it and trying to sell you the moon when they barely understand the architecture of what they built
• Please do not make this post a fight between pro/against AI individuals, that's not the aim of it

All the patterns I am using to identify possible AI code are here: https://github.com/fccview/ackchyually-ai/tree/main/data if you come up with more patterns/ideas and have more ideas on what to look for please reply here, open an issue and/or make a pull request, but at ONE CONDITION, do NOT use AI for this. It'd go against the core principle of this one pure little app I decided to build <3

Chief microcontroller rival Adafruit has argued that the new terms threaten open principles by restricting reverse engineering of cloud tools, asserting perpetual licenses over user uploads and implementing broad monitoring for AI-related features.

Arduino has defended the changes, claiming restrictions only apply to its SaaS cloud applications, that data handling is standard for modern platforms, and its commitment to open source hardware remains unchanged.

Taskpony is a self-hosted tasks manager that runs from docker or as a linux service.

"Another tasks app? Seriously?"

I've been trying to de-google and, having used Google Tasks for many years, replacing it proved surprisingly complex for something that seemed so simple. I tried a number of other task managers, both paid and free which, whilst excellent at what they did, I found to be complex or packed with team and group features that I didn't need. So I wrote something for myself and, somewhere along the way, I thought it might be nice to share it with the FOSS community that I've benefited so much from.

It's the first "proper" FOSS app I've released, so please be kind.

Taskpony is over at https://github.com/digdilem/taskpony - it would be great if you could give it a try and let me know how it could be improved.

Developer @digdilem@lemmy.ml

There's another setback to the open-source driver code around Intel's Gaudi accelerator support on Linux.

At the end of November Intel finally posted the Habana Labs accelerator driver code for Gaudi 3 as open-source for upstreaming to the Linux kernel. This open-source Gaudi 3 support was long delayed and suffered from multiple setbacks at Intel in going through several rounds of driver maintainers due to layoffs and departures. That Gaudi 3 kernel driver support was posted too late for merging to Linux 6.19 and thus now will have to target the Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel. But there is another setback: it turns out Intel is no longer maintaining their open-source user-space driver software around Gaudi.