cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21036647

Take a skim through the link for full details (especially the breaking changes), but I have included some parts that I thought were important:

This release has been over two years in the making, so we're really glad to finally get it out to you. The long cycle does mean quite an extensive changelog however, with well over 1100 pull requests merged into our master branch since 10.8.0 first dropped back in 2022.

General

• We now support "trickplay" a.k.a. live video scrubbing. When scrubbing through a video with this enabled, you will be able to see a live preview of the video at that timestamp. Note that this requires explicit client support, which may require some time to become available depending on your client.

• [...]

• We now support AVIF and WEBP images for Pictures libraries.

• Tags are now accounted for during searches, allowing one to search by tag.

• We now support multiple simultaneous subtitle tracks (maximum of two, a primary and secondary) in the web player.

• We've revamped the administrative dashboard UI to help improve usability and ease of finding options.

API & Security

• All API endpoints now return proper return codes, ensuring that API endpoint results can be reliably interpreted without additional parsing.

• Parental ratings are significantly improved, with better enforcement, inheritable ratings, and more.

• LiveTV and Collection permissions are now discrete and configurable per-user.

• The EasyPassword (PIN) feature has been removed as this was a big security risk especially for administrator accounts; QuickConnect login is still supported however.

• User permission handling has been unified and numerous bugs fixed, ensuring a more secure server from untrusted users.

Core Server & Networking

• [...]
• The server now supports in-process restarting, and removes the old hacky restart.sh method. This should make things like installing plugins much more robust and ensure a consistent restart experience regardless of platform or install method.
• [...]
• The backend SQLite database now supports connection pooling, which should improve performance for database operations.
• [...]

Also sections on Packaging, Transcoding & FFmpeg improvements/support, Scanning, Library & Playlist Management, and Casting

The Next Version

With our continuous integrations improvements outlined previously, we're quite confident that this will be our last "very long" release cycle. Our plan is for the next major version (10.10.0) to be released at most 6 months from now, some time in October. We hope this increased cadence will help alleviate the problems with large releases such as a very long time-to-stable for new features, translations, etc. and help lower the number of major bugs at each major release, streamlining the upgrade process. But this needs everyone's help. Back in October 2023, we made a call for developers, and we've gotten a lot of interest, but this is not a one-and-done event. We need contributions now more than ever, especially around the web frontend to help implement our planned design changes. If this interests you, please reach out and we can help get you set up.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15185181

Official Blog: Ondsel ES 2024.2 released: more assembly tools and UX/UI polish | Ondsel

Even though this question has probably been asked countless times in other communities, I still want to know: what tool do you think comes closest to ShareX? I'm particularly interested in features like image capture, video recording, GIF creation, and OCR reading all in one tool for Linux.

This is a robust, locally hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool using Docker. It enables you to carry out various operations on PDF files, including splitting, merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application has evolved to encompass a comprehensive set of features, addressing all your PDF requirements.

Stirling PDF does not initiate any outbound calls for record-keeping or tracking purposes.

All files and PDFs exist either exclusively on the client side, reside in server memory only during task execution, or temporarily reside in a file solely for the execution of the task. Any file downloaded by the user will have been deleted from the server by that point.

What I am after is something that I can use to plan out a home project and not have to deal with realigning things manually like if I did in something like libre office calc. (It would be a bonus if I can self host it across a few devices.)

It doesn't seem like any of the recent threads are questions, so apologies if I have missed a rule or FAQ by asking this. (I left reddit in the debacle last year and have only just made an account)

I'd also love it if somebody could point me at any aggregated lists of open source software since I have already picked up some new ones and confirmed my intention to use some that I had heard of.

Thanks in advance!

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18496690

I've written an AI agent with a full frontent similar to the BingAI with the capability to look up information and access files within the current "context" and a python interpreter for mathematics etc.

If anyone wants to add to the project please do I've been working on this for a couple days so its complete spaggetti code but I'm pretty happy with it as of present.

Fair-code is not a software license. It describes a software model where software:

• is generally free to use and can be distributed by anybody
• has its source code openly available
• can be extended by anybody in public and private communities
• is commercially restricted by its authors

There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren't OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also been targets of vitriol.

So, let's say we wanted to make it possible for the majority of developers to work on software that strictly follows the definition of opensource, which models would be acceptable to make enough money to work on those projects full-time?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9289381

Very interesting and understandable explanations of low level architecture and filesystems, namespaces, userspace, kernel functions, drivers etc.

Highly recommend!

Hi all,

I have seen lately that the 'source available' N8N (which is excellent), has starting increasing pricing and restricting what you can get for your pricing.

In time, I can only assume this will get worse. Now, they deserve to get paid, and that's fine, but I had gone in thinking this was open source, but I see now it's not that at all.

This has led me to wonder if there's a true open source / self hosted alternative to N8N out there? Doing a bit of a hunt shows 'source available' alternatives, with a price point, and restrictions. I'm wondering if any team has tackled this in a truly open manner and if there's something out there?

Thanks so much

OSS Weather: An open source weather app for iOS/Android

iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/oss-weather/id1499117252

Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.akylas.weather

Source Code: https://github.com/Akylas/oss-weather

@opensource

Dillo is a fast and small graphical web browser with HTTP, HTTPS and FTP support.

Other protocols like #Gemini #Gopher and #Spartan are available via plugins.

Dillo is on Fediverse : https://fosstodon.org/@dillo

UPDATE, available on Arch Linux now : https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dillo

Anyone know of any scriptable asynchronous communication tools?

The closest so-far appears to be Kermit. It's been around since CP/M, but apparently there's still no centralised language reference and the syntax predates Perl.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13631934

Github repo: https://github.com/Nitwel/Immersive-Home

This is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks.