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What are some powerful open source projects everyone should know? (lemmy.world)

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The goal of this post is to provide a hub to discover some powerful internet resources out there.

For example here's one I wanted to share.

Open Source Ecology is a project for open source hardware that is significantly cheaper than retail costs. Some of the equipment include open source designs for CNC machines, windmills, tractors, plasma cutters, power supplies, motors, generators, and much more!

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

Additional Resources

The List of Awesome: https://github.com/topics/awesome
Library Genesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

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[–] balderdash9 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anna’s Archive. 37,666,367 books, 105,835,081 papers — preserved forever. I've replaced my entire physical library and can now take my reading on the go.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Thank you, great resource! It's very sad to see the feds going after libraries with the recent attacks against libgen (And potentially Internet Archive). Hopefully these libraries truly will be preserved forever. Information belongs to everyone.

In his ruling, Judge McMahon wrote, 'The plaintiffs (the publishers) have suffered irreparable harm as a result of the defendants' (LibGen operators') unlawful conduct and will continue to suffer harm if the defendants are permitted to continue operating LibGen,' and said LibGen's operation should be stopped.

Source: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20240927-libgen-must-pay-30m-to-publishers/

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lichess.org is the best website to play and study chess on, hands down, and it's entirely Libre/FOSS, with zero ads or trackers (e. g. read here: https://lichess.org/about).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought it was a girl lich

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No no, it's a board game for lichen

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Everybody on Lemmy gets kinda weird and cagey about them for reasons I could not give less of a shit about, but I have a hopeful eye on everything FUTO is doing. Some of it's really not public-ready yet, but they seem like a good organization to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Oh? I didn't know that. They seemed like a good organization to me too. Open source hardware is quite lacking compared to the software side so I hope they succeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen anything bad about them (haven't been looking though). I've been using the futo keyboard and like it so far, the swipe isn't great but they're crowdsourcing the training so I have high hopes

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Not sure if it’s exactly what you mean, but the YouTube channel Project Kamp is a bunch of folks who’ve bought some land in Portugal to experiment with sustainable living.

They have a website, in which they house “research modules” which are basically open forums for ideas about what to do and how to do it. https://projectkamp.com/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I love this kinda crap. "Hack the planet" and so on. Is someone working on an open source car?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I have thought about it, but the assembly process has to be extraordinary simple. I would be terrified to know that the fastener I recommended sheared, taking someone's life.

Also, there seems to be at least two extremes in DIY. One would be the individual who understands the processes and is doing it to show their technical prowess. The other would be the individual who desperately needs the end product.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know right? Open source hardware has so many potential benefits over commercial. Significantly decreased price, privacy, good documentation, right to repair, no conflict of interest and potentially one day performance. Imagine we have engineers from across the world improving a single computer chip design, generator design, solar panel fabrication process, or maybe even perhaps an open source fusion reactor blueprint someday in the next 20 years (pun intended).

I'm seriously considering starting something like this myself. Open source blueprints for power generation/energy storage (regular batteries, thermal sand resevior based batteries, hydro power generation), water filtration, machine tools for fabricating anything, CNC machine, plasma cutters, hand tools, etc. Basically everything you could need to live Open Source.

The problem as always is getting enough designers, engineers, and volunteers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ever hear of a hackerspace aka makerspace?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thank you! I didn't know about them!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My Chevy bolt proudly proclaims that its dashboard UI is open source software

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I imagine it follows the splash screen with "you can submit PRs to https://github.com/my-chevy/dashui.git" lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Openstreetmaps has 10.5 million contributors and has an open license that provides more detail and has many third party apps unlike Google Maps or Apple Maps.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hundred Rabbits is a two person collective living aboard a boat, planning for the collapse of modern technology and how we will rebuild it. They have a wonderful knowledge base about off-grid living and you can view it offline with Kiwix, a wiki reader designed for situations without internet. You can download Wikipedia, medical articles, stackexchange forums etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Aren't the Hundred Rabbits the UxN people ? I think I saw their work in a Tsoding stream

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

https://github.com/m-labs/artiq

ARTIQ (Advanced Real-Time Infrastructure for Quantum physics)

State of the art control system for physics experiments, for example atomic clocks or ion-trap based quantum computers. Originated at NIST.

Open source and open hardware. Official way to install on Linux is via Nix package manager. Very awesome and very fun. Experiments are written in Python.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Might be a stupid question, but I'd there a GNU license equivalent to patents? Could you patent something that could be used for free, but not used by a company in a for-profit matter?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As long as you control the patent, you're the one who determines who can make it. I'm not sure if there's a license that provides a boilerplate version of that, but it's certainly something you'd be allowed to do with your patent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That doesn't really have the same rigidity. There would be no guarantee for others that it would remain available to them as long as they adhere to those principles.

Said another way, a bad faith actor could create a patent and make it available to FOS developers, but then turn around and sell that patent to someone who will charge those same developers.

I suppose you could have a third legally binding document that stipulates the terms of use, but kinda wish it was just handled under the patent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just don’t take a patent license anything that isn’t perpetual. The new owner can’t unilaterally change the contract.