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Thread for general FOSS culture/news. There may be a side benefit of offloading fluff from Haxx Chat and Privacy.
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#2
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/a0w801/paint_it_green_a_suse_music_parody/
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/a0wwhg/international_space_station_switches_from_windows/ - 2013
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/a0mz7g/nasa_uses_kde/

Deepin 15.8 looking sexy - https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9zfuw1/deepin_158_promo_most_beautiful_grub_menu_and_more/
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#3
BIG N NEWS:

Privacy

Google:
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/a4av1v/f_you_leakers_a_former_senior_google_employee/
^ https://www.businessinsider.com.au/jack-poulson-ex-google-says-management-obsessed-with-stopping-leaks-2018-12
^ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/
Android work profiles (foundation for Island and Shelter apps) - https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949?hl=en

https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/google-is-losing-users-trust.html
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/01/21/google-confirms-it-uses-dummy-phone-numbers-to-record-calls-with-local-services.html
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/27/google-and-iab-ad-category-lists-show-massive-leakage-of-highly-intimate-data-gdpr-complaint-claims/
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/28/google-alphabet-sidewalk-labs-replica-cellphone-data/

New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking - https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/google-manipulates-users-into-constant-tracking

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking
https://www.androidauthority.com/nest-secure-google-assistant-mic-950134/

http://fortune.com/2019/02/21/privacy-group-to-ftc-divest-google-of-nest-over-hidden-mic/
^ https://www.businessinsider.com/senator-warner-criticizes-googles-failure-to-disclose-nest-mic-2019-2

Google admits it tracked user location data even when the setting was turned off - https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/21/16684818/google-location-tracking-cell-tower-data-android-os-firebase-privacy
^ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-location-tracking-android-iphone-mobile
^ https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-tracks-you-even-when-location-is-turned-off-google-exec-finally-admits-to-congress/


Apple:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/02/26/government-can-access-any-apple-iphone-cellebrite/

Apple CEO Tim Cook: It's time for action on data privacy - https://time.com/collection/davos-2019/5502591/tim-cook-data-privacy/
Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up - https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/28/facetime-bug-hear-audio/
^ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/28/apple-facetime-bug-lets-you-listen-even-if-someone-doesnt-answer.html

Facebook:
https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/a3sp3c/facebook_employees_are_so_paranoid_theyre_using/
^ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebooks-tensions-zuckerberg-sandberg
Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/17/facebook_users_mostly_unaware/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/technology/personaltech/facebook-online-privacy.html
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-account-rental-ad-laundering-scam
(Whatsapp related) - https://gizmodo.com/paul-manafort-learns-that-encrypting-messages-doesnt-ma-1826561511
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transparency-tools
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/01/30/facebook-has-just-been-caught-spying-on-users-private-messages-and-data-again/
^ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
^ https://www.recode.net/2019/1/30/18203231/apple-banning-facebook-research-app
Facebook uses its apps to track users it thinks could threaten employees and offices - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html
Quote:
The bar can be pretty low. While some users end up on the list after repeated appearances on company property or long email threats, others might find themselves on the BOLO list for saying something as simple as "F--- you, Mark," "F--- Facebook" or "I'm gonna go kick your a--," according to a former employee who worked with the executive protection team. A different former employee who was on the company's security team said there were no clearly communicated standards to determine what kinds of actions could land somebody on the list, and that decisions were often made on a case-by-case basis.


https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-portal-2019-2

Facebook admits it stored ‘hundreds of millions’ of account passwords in plaintext - https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/21/facebook-plaintext-passwords/
^ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/facebook-employees-had-access-to-millions-of-user-passwords.html

Researchers find 540 million Facebook user records on exposed servers - https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/03/facebook-records-exposed-server/
^ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy/facebook-removes-exposed-user-records-stored-on-amazons-servers-idUSKCN1RF2C0

Facebook Caught Asking Email Account Passwords From Some Users - https://news.zillowtech.com/facebook-caught-asking-email-account-passwords-from-some-users/
^ https://i.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/04/03/facebook-caught-asking-users-passwords-email-accounts/
^ https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-asks-new-users-email-passwords-2019-4



Amazon:
Alexa DOWN – Amazon helper stopped working, ‘ignored users’ and wouldn’t turn off - https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8205649/alexa-down-not-working-amazon/
Amazon explains how Alexa recorded a private conversation and sent it to another user - https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/24/17391898/amazon-alexa-private-conversation-recording-explanation
^ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/business/amazon-alexa-conversation-shared-echo.html
Amazon sent 1,700 Alexa voice recordings to the wrong user following data request  - https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/20/18150531/amazon-alexa-voice-recordings-wrong-user-gdpr-privacy-ai

Microsoft
https://www.hipaaone.com/windows-10-and-hipaa/
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-president-says-its-cruel-to-not-give-governments-facial-recognition-tech

Twitter:
Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46918859
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/15/18226785/twitter-deleted-dms-stored-years




Unconfirmed/Speculation:
Facebook:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolemartin1/2019/01/17/was-the-facebook-10-year-challenge-a-way-to-mine-data-for-facial-recognition-ai/
https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/facebook-messenger-instagram-whatsapp-encryption.html
^ https://threader.app/thread/1088914192847917056
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252458229/Facebook-asked-George-Osborne-to-influence-EU-data-protection-law
^ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment

(Hypocrisy) Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them. - https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-old-posts-mark-zuckerberg-disappeared-2019-3

Google:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/
Google Helps Government Conduct Warrantless Searches, Alleges EPIC - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-government-warrantless-searches-epic,38955.html




Non-privacy stuff:
Facebook:
https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-game-playing-kids-and-their-parents-out-of-money/
Facebook moderators are in revolt over 'Big Brother'-style working conditions - https://outline.com/BLbFuD

Facebook is partnering with a big UK newspaper to publish sponsored articles downplaying 'technofears' and praising the company (FB)
- https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/facebook-daily-telegraph-positive-sponsored-news-stories-2019-4-1028084228

Less controversial stuff:

Apple:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/7/18131220/apple-beddit-3-5-sleep-monitor

Facebook:
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action/
^ https://www.pcmag.com/news/366067/unsealed-docs-will-detail-how-facebook-made-money-off-childr
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https://raddle.me/wiki/foss_games
Windows XP in Linux - https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/ad2hbc/my_blissful_mint_desktop/

https://www.f-droid.org/forums/topic/open-source-input-methods-for-east-asian-languages-chinese-and-japanese-imes/
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/any-open-source-pinyin-chinese-ime/1473
^ https://code.google.com/archive/p/openwnn-legacy/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ag82rn/nuclear_a_free_alternative_to_spotify_no_drm_100/
^ https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ag6h9t/i_want_to_promote_this_awesome_software_called/
^ https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ah6t6p/for_newbies_how_and_why_i_transitioned_to/
^ http://larrysanger.org/2019/01/how-and-why-i-transitioned-to-linux-how-you-can-too/

Instagram/Snapchat alternative federated ActivityPub - https://pixelfed.social/

https://boilingsteam.com/valve-breaks-the-shackles-of-proton/

a free and open-source web browser that aims to recreate aspects of Opera 12.x using Qt framework - https://otter-browser.org/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/akglpj/191_cinnamon_is_there_an_easy_way_to_do_this/

http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/
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#5
https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/de6avl/my_linuxmint_setup_standalone_runs_well_but_there/
https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/d4cvs7/plasma_enhanced_light_windows/

Tyson Tan does free animal/mech mascot design for FOSS projects (he did the bird thing for Akira design tool) - https://tysontan.com/

slimbook sells linux laptops - https://slimbook.es/en/store


https://www.zdnet.com/article/sophos-open-sources-sandboxie-a-utility-for-sandboxing-any-application/

https://perkeep.org/
^ Perkeep (née Camlistore) is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem.

https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
^ Timeliner is a personal data aggregation utility. It collects all your digital things from pretty much anywhere and stores them on your own computer, indexes them, and projects them onto a single, unified timeline.

https://github.com/akinomyoga/cxxmatrix
^ I wrote a simple terminal program of Matrix digital rain. A part of the purpose of this program is to test the performance of terminal emulators. Another purpose is just for fun. Enjoy it with fast terminals (e.g., urxvt, alacritty, terminology, etc.)!

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
^ wormhole-william is a go (golang) implementation of magic wormhole. It provides secure end-to-end encrypted file transfers between computers. The endpoints are connected using the same "wormhole code".

https://gitlab.com/cleardental/cleardental
^ FOSS dental office management software

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
^ Sidebery provides the list of tabs structured in a tree and bookmarks within the customizable panels.

https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/
^ The hydrus network client is a desktop application written for Anonymous and other internet-enthusiasts with large media collections. It organises your files into an internal database and browses them with tags instead of folders, a little like a booru on your desktop.

https://github.com/skallwar/suckit
^ SuckIT allows you to recursively visit and download a website's content to your disk.
^ https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/gdwuat/suckit_a_fast_multithreaded_website_downloader/
^ supposedly faster than httrack

https://www.home-assistant.io/
^ Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
^ https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/

https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
^ Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows

https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K
^ A High-Quality Real Time Upscaler for Anime Video https://bloc97.github.io/Anime4K/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/glmygl/easy_iso_multiboot_usb_flash_drives_including/
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
^ Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many iso files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them (screenshot). Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported in the same way. 200+ ISO files are tested (list).
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#6
Lively - Animated Wallpaper System (alternative to wallpaper engine)
^ https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively
^ https://old.reddit.com/r/LivelyWallpaper/

wallset - use a video as your wallpaper (linux command-line tool)
^ https://opensource.com/article/20/7/linux-wallset
^ https://github.com/terroo/wallset

Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps.
^ https://gramps-project.org/blog/
^ https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/

Tachiyomi J2K - Tachiyomi fork with more features:
https://tachiyomi.org/forks/TachiyomiJ2K/
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#7
sweet
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#8
(07-10-2020, 11:56 PM)Interovegas Wrote: sweet

[Image: amazed-face.jpg] a post outside of the korner!
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#9
https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/08/21/alibaba-on-the-bleeding-edge-of-risc-v-with-xt910/

https://github.com/geigi/cozy - Cozy is a modern audiobook player for Linux.

https://github.com/cheesecakeufo/komorebi - Komorebi is an awesome animated wallpapers manager for all Linux platforms. It provides fully customizeable image, video, and web page wallpapers that can be tweaked at any time!

https://libretranslate.com/
^ https://github.com/uav4geo/LibreTranslate
^ https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/m9jzov/which_are_some_private_alternatives_for_google/
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#10
Fantasy Map Generators:

World map:
https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/
^ https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator/blob/master/LICENSE

Town map:
https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator
https://github.com/watabou/TownGeneratorOS

https://old.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/o4743j/guitar_note_recognition_gdscript_spectrumanalyzer/
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#11
https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core#readme
^ Grist is a modern relational spreadsheet. It combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database to organize your data and make you more productive.

https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/tb40ch/opensource_kahootclone/
^ https://github.com/mawoka-myblock/classquiz - ClassQuiz is a quiz-application like KAHOOT!, but open-source which is very important if it is a product for educational purposes. You can create quizzes and play them remotely with other people.

https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/tc8gcm/reactive_resume_a_free_and_open_source_resume/
^ https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume
^ https://rxresu.me/
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#12
https://languagetool.org/libre-office - FOSS grammarly alternative
https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
https://languagetool.org/about
They have browser and office suite plugins
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#13
https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/uepfht/actual_budget_going_open_source/
https://actualbudget.com/
https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html#sandboxing

https://moonlight-stream.org/
https://github.com/FlyGoat/RyzenAdj/

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/slaez6/open_source_routers_out_of_the_box_2022/
https://opensource.com/article/22/1/turris-omnia-open-source-router

https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/uw2jlj/an_open_source_and_more_private_solution_for/
There are some alternatives to spotify [here](https://alternativeto.net/software/spotify/?license=opensource), [here](https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#video-and-audio), and [here](https://www.slant.co/options/733/alternatives/~spotify-alternatives). Funkwhale for instance is a self hosted solution.

To find new music you can use [LibreFM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre.fm), [certain reddit music subs](https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicPlayer/wiki/subreddits), reddits r/listentothis, [Gnoosic](https://www.gnoosic.com/), or the reddit music player (https://reddit.musicplayer.io/)

edit. some other ones are [Music-Map](https://www.music-map.com/), [RateYourMusic](https://rateyourmusic.com/), [Hype Machine](https://hypem.com/latest), [Every Noise](https://everynoise.com/), [Tastedive](https://tastedive.com/music), and [Jamendo for free license music](https://www.jamendo.com)
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