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As part of Intel's Scalable Video Technology (SVT) initiative they had been developing SVT-HEVC as a BSD-licensed high performance H.265/HEVC video encoder optimized for Xeon Scalable and Xeon D processors. But recently they've changed course and the project has been officially discontinued.

Grafana Labs, the open-source company that probably powers at least a few operational dashboards in your company, today announced the completion of a primary and secondary transaction worth about $270 million, with the proceeds going to the company and some of its stockholders.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18304280

markdown-oxide: Robust, Minimalist, Unbundled PKM for your favorite text-editor through the LSP.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16316509

TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components.

However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases.

So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

Updates in this version:

• Order of Web Apps in menu can be changed
• File downloads are supported
• Native Alpha custom context menu can be deactived so that the standard browser context menu is shown
• Italian translation added
• General, technical version updates

There are a few nowadays

• Firefox vanilla
• Librewolf: https://librewolf.net/
• Arkenfox: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
• Floorp: https://floorp.app/en
• Zen browser (similar to Arc): https://www.zen-browser.app/

Which one is your favorite, and why?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/988335

The Sovereign Tech Fund is piloting a fellowship program to pay open source maintainers, aiming to address structural issues and support open digital infrastructure in the public interest.

Over the past two years, STF has successfully contracted over 40 FOSS projects, enhancing their technical sustainability through targeted milestones. While some contracts are with individual maintainers, most involve software development companies or foundations. Despite this success, a new and innovative program is needed to acknowledge the lived reality of how many maintainers work: stretched across multiple technologies, multi-faceted, and often behind the scenes.

Most maintainers are unpaid, working in their spare time, which both impacts projects’ stability and can lead to stress and burnout. The Tidelift Open Source Maintainer Study found that 59% of maintainers have quit or considered quitting, posing a risk to the digital infrastructure we all rely on. To even begin to mitigate this risk, it's crucial to understand the role of maintainers, who typically lead and oversee project development, review changes, manage community interactions, release updates, and fix security issues.

The application phase will start by the end of the third quarter of 2024, and with the goal that selected maintainers can begin the fellowship in the fourth quarter. The first fellowship pilot will run throughout 2025, and we will evaluate it on an ongoing basis. Based on these evaluations, our experiences running the fellowship, and feedback from participants, we’ll determine how to expand and grow the program for a stronger and healthier open source ecosystem.

Have you ever wondered if your keyboard shortcuts are set up optimally? Well, I did, so I decided to visualize it with a heat-map.

It proved to me that I rely on my left pinky too much, so I'll try to rework my shortcuts.

You can check out the project here, currently it only works on Linux.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39549299

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39549599

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22153657

I aim to create a high-quality index of CC (Creative Commons) sites to make it easier for enthusiasts to access and use daily. My goal is to enhance content accessibility. I also plan to develop an Arabic version for Arabic resources and eventually expand to make it multilingual .

Here is my website link: https://crtv.pages.dev/

Please criticize and offer more resources as much as you can.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39429103

I'm looking for an open-source medication/pill tracking app.

Requirements:

• Android support
• Ability to create custom medication/pill entries
• Ability to set notification reminders for taking pills
• Ability to arbitrarily create entries at any date/time

Nice-to-haves:

• Data export/backup
• Data-at-rest encryption
• Data visualizations

Cross-posted at https://sh.itjust.works/post/23572611

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39350987

Similar Project:

• https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c
• https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
• https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

Spotted this one on Fdroid

LibreTrack (Private, cross-platform package tracking app.) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.proninyaroslav.libretrack/

Wanted you to be aware of the abandoned Github organization, as no one may hear about a Roblox FOSS clone.

UPDATE: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/openblox-an-open-source-re-implementation-of-robloxs-api/11566

Would anyone revive it? Will you add federation (presumably ActivityPub) on revival?

Findroid is third-party Android application for Jellyfin that provides a native user interface to browse and play movies and series.

https://github.com/jarnedemeulemeester/findroid

This version includes support for Jellyfin 10.9 and other changes

https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/docs/EXPERIMENTAL_PUBLIC_TRANSPORT_SUPPORT.md

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