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Built for data storage in small personal projects, or mocking an API for development. Advantages are simplicity, interoperability (JSON files, APIs, multiple filesystems) and performance (using the cache system).

The API is based on your JSON files/structure. So, the example below is for CRUD-ing [key1][key2] in file.json. The value (which can be anything) is then added to the body of the request. Moreover, there are helper functions for appending and incrementing values. As a result, the data creates the API.

DELETE/PUT/GET: /api/file/key1/key2/...

The Free Software Foundation has announced the winners of the 2024 Free Software Awards, annual honors presented to individuals and projects that make significant contributions to software freedom.

Established to recognize work that advances users’ ability to use, study, modify, and share software, the awards highlight the technical, social, and community impact of contributors across the free software ecosystem.

This year’s Award for the Advancement of Free Software went to Andy Wingo, co-maintainer of GNU Guile, reflecting his long-running work on Guile, a central component of the GNU operating system and the Scheme foundation of GNU Guix.

OpenTofu, an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool for defining, provisioning, and managing cloud and on-prem resources declaratively, maintained as a community-driven fork of Terraform, has released version 1.11 with two main new additions.

The first one is support for ephemeral resources and write-only attributes. Ephemeral values exist only in memory during a single OpenTofu operation and are never written to plans or state snapshots. This allows temporary data—such as time-limited credentials, SSH tunnels, or transient configuration inputs—to be generated and consumed securely without appearing in stored files.

Mozilla has released Thunderbird version 146 of its widely adopted free and open-source desktop email client, now available for download.

On the new features side, the update introduces UI-based configuration of a preferred OpenPGP keyserver, giving users clearer control over where their public keys are fetched and published. Alongside this, Thunderbird migrates all existing logins to modern AES-based cryptography, improving security without requiring user action.

Is there is any active fork or repo containing info about how to deCloudflare?

Framework Computer BV have announced a nice big expansion of their sponsorship program with many open source events and Linux distributions benefiting from it.

In a blog post originally posted October 14th, they detailed a few different events they were sponsoring along with projects like GNOME and LVFS. In an update to the post from December 3rd, they've detailed a whole lot more that have been receiving handouts bringing the total Framework has put out during 2025 to over $225,000.

I initially tried FUTO and switched to Heliboard (which uses a closed-source glide typing library) because FUTO's open-source version frankly sucked.

I didn't know I could make it better.

Credit to @Nednarb44@lemmy.world :

It takes a lot of time and a lot of peoples typing data from my understanding. It's relatively easy for Google to make the glide/Swype type since they have a huge amount of peoples typing data. FUTO on the other hand has been making an open source version for probably 6 months or so no, solely relying on volunteers inputting words on their website.

For those interested in helping make the library better: https://swype.futo.org/ (it ~~probably~~ only works on mobile)

Anyone recommend a video editor that is great at quick and dirty editing and transitions? I really want something that I can really iterate quickly with like almost in a photobashing style where the end result doesn’t have to be perfect, just easy and fast.

PeaZip 10.8 has been released today for this open-source, cross-platform, and free file archiver utility based on 7-Zip / p7zip archiver, Zstandard, FreeArc, and other open-source file compression tools.

Coming one and a half months after PeaZip 10.7, the PeaZip 10.8 release overhauls the previewing of items inside archives by adding the ability to launch the built-in image viewer within archive types supported through the ARC, BCM, Brotli, and Zstandard backends. Previously, this only worked for 7z/p7zip archives.

Moreover, the users can now access the Context menu > Preview and Context menu > File tools submenus within the aforementioned archive types. Also, the image viewer’s window will now automatically snap to the on-screen image size when leaving full-screen mode.

I used this back when I was on Windows in order to make some much needed tweaks to the windows UI. You can see a list of mods here: https://windhawk.net/mods

Looks like they added some nice UI and stability improvements with this update. See the linked changelog for full details

OpenJam's rc-servers is a collection of re-implemented Robocraft web services. Robocraft was an online vehicle combat game where you build your own vehicle (robot) out of blocks and then fight others' vehicles in a few different game modes. The official servers were shut down by FreeJam in January 2025.

These servers are intended for self-hosting but I've also got a reference instance running. There are also other instances running in Japan and the USA. I've been having a fun time reverse-engineering the expected server behaviour from the client as well as figuring out the niche communication protocols.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to raise awareness of UltraPlot — a succinct wrapper for Matplotlib. The project is aimed at scientists and researchers who need to create professional, publication-ready figures while keeping their code expressive and minimal.

UltraPlot provides tools that simplify many common but cumbersome plotting tasks, including:

• subplot sharing and layout management
• panel and grid organization
• automatic subplot tagging
• easy geo plotting and better GeoAxes handling
• and many other quality-of-life features for complex figures

If you regularly work with Matplotlib and want a cleaner, more structured plotting workflow, UltraPlot might be helpful.

Checkout our docs at https://ultraplot.readthedocs.io/ or star us on github: https://github.com/Ultraplot/UltraPlot/

OC by @PurpleClouds@lemmy.world

MinIO, the widely used high-performance, S3-compatible object storage system for cloud-native applications with millions of deployments worldwide, is about to reach the end of its life cycle. But the way this shift has unfolded has left many in the open-source community raising their eyebrows. Here’s the background.

At the start of the summer, MinIO suddenly stripped nearly all useful features from its admin console, leaving them available only through the command line. As expected, the change triggered a wave of frustrated user reactions. What no one realized then, however, was that the move would later prove to be a deliberate and carefully planned step in light of what followed.

Share your favorite open-source F-Droid apps so more users can find and enjoy them.

How to contribute:

• Single app per comment: mention a single app per comment so popular ones are simple to find.
• No duplicates: check existing comments first.
• Upvote what you like: if you like an app someone shared, upvote it to help others discover it.

Let’s build a useful collection of must-have F-Droid apps!

excited to see what this means for the project, the poor UI/UX of libreoffice is easily its most glaring flaw imo

The open-source SVT-VP9 project started by Intel as a high performance VP9 video encoder has seen its first new release in five years.

Coming as much surprise today is the release of SVT-VP9 v0.3.1, the first update to this former Intel open-source project since t he v0.3.0 release back in October 2020. The SVT-VP9 encoder was part of Intel's Scalable Video Technology (SVT) initiative under their Open Visual Cloud umbrella. SVT-VP9 was developed alongside the SVT-HEVC encoder for H.265 that they then discontinued the project last year and the most notable SVT-AV1. With SVT-AV1 it ultimately got punted off to the Alliance for Open Media organization and continues seeing new open-source contributions from different companies and is continuing along healthy. Since Intel stopped maintaining SVT-VP9 there hasn't been much to report especially with having laid off many of the developers involved.

Audacity, a free, cross-platform open-source audio editing and recording software used by hobbyists, podcasters, musicians, and professionals alike, just released version 3.7.6.

One of the most notable additions is support for FFmpeg 8, ensuring compatibility with the latest version of the multimedia framework. Users also gain access to a new Spectrogram Wavelet analysis mode, contributed by Klaus Gram-Hansen, offering more detailed and flexible time–frequency inspection for advanced audio work.

Members of OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, have approved the Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications V1.4 as an OASIS Standard, the organization’s highest level of ratification. ODF V1.4 improves developer documentation, adds new features, and maintains full backward compatibility.

The release of ODF V1.4 coincides with the 20th anniversary of ODF as an OASIS Standard. Over two decades, ODF has served as a vendor-neutral, royalty-free format for office documents, ensuring that files remain readable, editable, and interoperable across platforms. Governments and international organizations, including NATO, the European Commission, and countries across multiple continents, have adopted ODF for document exchange.

“ODF V1.4 is the effort to evolve the ODF format to its newer challenges, adding relevant clarification and additions to the existing ODF V1.3,” said Patrick Durusau, OpenDocument TC co-chair. “We are pushing hard to meet expectations of the Office software industry.”

OpenDocument V1.4 contains enhancements in accessibility, professional document formatting, and advanced functionality across text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Improvements include better support for assistive technologies, enhanced visual design capabilities, and expanded features for data analysis and technical documentation. These updates strengthen OpenDocument’s role as a comprehensive solution for modern workplace productivity and inclusive document creation.

“ODF provides a vendor-neutral foundation for office productivity and collaboration worldwide. With V1.4, the standard continues to evolve, supporting cloud collaboration, richer multimedia, and standardized security,” said Svante Schubert, OpenDocument TC co-chair. “The format will remain reliable across platforms for years to come. Looking ahead, ODF is moving beyond document exchange toward standardized, semantic change-based collaboration — enabling precise, meaningful sharing of interoperable changes across platforms.”

I'm currently working on a file converter app that lets you easily convert your files in bulk without needing to mess around with 500 settings or confusing command-line apps. It's mostly a replacement for all those "convert X to Y" websites.

This is just a front-end for ffmpeg and imagemagick, but the goal is to make something so simple even my parents could use without uploading sensitive files to shady websites on the internet. I've looked around, and I found all the local GUI converters like Handbrake are unwieldy to use, especially if you just want to convert in bulk.

The project is still very early, but I'd like some feedback:

1. Does anyone think this project is worth finishing, or are there too many GUI file converters out there already?

2. What do you think about the UI so far?

Cheers.