cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/47032660

Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let’s change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:

  1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
  2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
  3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

Check out last year’s post for more inspiration: Last Year’s Post

Let’s create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

I advise you to post any recommendations to the original post, I was just sharing it here so others can find it! I also wanna see those recs myself so that’s the motive for posting this 😅

    • Int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      15 days ago

      But it’s based on a browser that’s not made to be secure, but instead to have the most features and comply to all these standards. So removing them will make it a bit more secure, but it will never be good. The best browsers are the ones that aren’t made to support javascript and all these other standards. A private browser would be something like w3m or links. Ideally, it wouldn’t be HTML but gemini’s gemtext or just markdown.

    • hobata@lemmy.ml
      0·
      18 days ago

      They went too far in pursuing their foolish dogma and castrated a decent browser to the point where you don’t want to work with it at all. For example, they removed the interface element that allows you to save passwords, even though the password manager is still there.

        • hobata@lemmy.ml
          0·
          16 days ago

          Do you even read the bullshit you linked? That’s three lines of selfish nonsense telling me what’s best for me. But if I missed something, I would love to hear from you how to enable password saving the old good firefox way.

          • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world
            0·
            16 days ago

            On that page it gives the setting to enable Mozilla Sync

            If you were remotely nontoxic, I’d copy and paste the setting for you

              • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world
                11·
                16 days ago

                I honestly wonder if the OP in that thread is in good faith or has some other problem screwing up his config. No, neither FF nor LW randomly change settings on you; you have some process, somewhere, that is either corrupting the sqlite db or straight up changing the config.

                Anyway, if you literally did a web search

                how to enable mozilla sync in librewolf

                you would get the correct answer, which works for 99.99% of people 99.99% of the time:

                To enable Mozilla Sync in LibreWolf, go to the about:config page and set the option "identity.fxaccounts.enabled" to true. After that, you should be able to log in to your Firefox account and use the sync features.

                • hobata@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  15 days ago

                  I don’t understand why you’re trying to steer the conversation toward mozilla sync for the second time, ignoring the original saving password problem. If I needed mozilla sync, I would use it. But I don’t need it. I don’t want it.

                  So that you don’t make any assumptions, I’ll just show you what the folks at librewolf have patched out in their struggle against suitable UI:

                  There is no way I know to have it back into the browser except to find and revert the patches and compile librewolf yourself.

  • QuestionMark@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    Florisboard. Android keyboard, doesn’t have spell checking yet but I’ve been using it for years, you might not need autocorrect as much as you think! (Note for Samsung users: Samsung Keyboard keeps adding items to its clipboard history whether it’s default or not. Clipboard history is also accessible through Edge Panels. Your passwords might end up and sit there for a long time… you can use adb to disable com.samsung.android.app.clipboardedge and com.samsung.clipboardsaveservice.)

    • Derpgon@programming.dev
      0·
      17 days ago

      Just to post an alternative (correct me if there is something wrong with the app) but I have been using Futo keyboard for a week now and I’ve been pleayed. Clipboard disabled by default, drag typing, local autocorrect that you can load any dictionary (as a file), can use local text or voice ML model that you have to download yourself (their site has a browser), customizable quick actions, smart key hitbox enlarging (increases key hitbox according to how likely it is to come next). It is free, but asks for a support of about 9€.

        • Derpgon@programming.dev
          1·
          15 days ago

          I mean, should be legal to build it from source, just can’t sell it. It doesn’t use cloud services or remote servers, so that is a plus for privacy.

    • tekato@lemmy.world
      1·
      18 days ago

      Not formerly known. CoMaps is different from Organic Maps. This is the same as saying “Librewolf, formerly known as Firefox”.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        2·
        18 days ago

        Portmaster works from the OS, because this way you can selective allow or block the traffic of every app and even from the OS itself, which with Pi Hole, needed for router level isn’t possible, there you can only monitor the global traffic.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      18 days ago

      Do you find Portmaster to be viable? I’ve seen it around and read a couple brief articles about it. I’ve just never found anyone who uses it. I use MalwareBytes Firewall Control from Binsoft (Alexandru Dicu - https://www.binisoft.org/). It’s fairly bare bones but it does the trick. I’m always looking for something better. I do have the whole network behind a standalone pFsense box. I just needed something local on the machine to silence chatty programs and services.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        1·
        18 days ago

        Malwarebyte may be also valid, better than nothing, but Malwarebyte is proprietary soft, not OpenSource like Portmaster, which also include DNS crypt and custimizable dynamic filters, Optional also an SPN service (paid), something like an VPN on steroids, which permits multilevel tunneling, individual for every app.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        0·
        18 days ago

        Portmaster is the most powerful GUI firewall out there.

        The learning curve is steep and it is not a good fit for the filthy casual.

        It has very good block lists… Too good.

        For example, if you want to play a vidiya game esp online it will likely block half the connections so you need to go in manually unblock what’s needed.

        Ain’t no normie ever gonna figure that out lol so I stopped telling people to get it.

        It needs to have normie config IMHO

        • Zerush@lemmy.ml
          1·
          18 days ago

          Yes, the filters are deadly eeficient, you can block global all tracking from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Ms, but than you need to set what you will block exactly, if you block eg,Google globaly, forget to be capable to access any of its services, including YouTube. Globally I blocked only Facebook, because I don’t use any of the Zuckerbot services and clicking on a Facebook link or any of it’s other services or AIs, I see only this (and in change it’s pixel or any other tracker or logger, embedded in any website, my middle finger)

          Anyway, Portmaster is not so difficult in its settings or the learning curve, well, at least not for someone with minimal basic nocions, I found it pretty intuitive, way more complicated is to set up Pi-Hole, which is certainly nothing for noobs. Portmaster is installing as is and maybe selecting the DNS server you want use from the list, because it has good default settings which guarantee a reasonable privacy. Everything you block is easy restaurable if the result isn’t what you want. No problems to recommend, because it’s save to use and relativ easy to handle, even for newbies

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.ml
    0·
    18 days ago

    There is also signal-FOSS as an alternative to signal and Molly

    Signal-FOSS

    https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

    A fork of Signal for Android with proprietary Google binary blobs removed. Uses OpenStreetMap for maps and a websocket server connection, instead of Google Maps and Firebase Cloud Messaging.

    add the repo to your app store to F-droid basic

    https://fdroid.twinhelix.com/fdroid/repo/

    The twinhelix repo is in the droidify and neostore repo list.

  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
    02·
    19 days ago

    VeraCrypt, Clonezilla, Joplin, Futo voice and Futo keyboard, Sentry, Wasted, Untracker, WTMP app, Fossify app suite.

    • borZ0 the t1r3D b3aR@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      18 days ago

      Futo Voice and Futo Keyboard are rad and getting better (Swipe needs more time in the oven). Ive used VeraCrypt for a while and dig it

      • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
        01·
        18 days ago

        I haven’t ever found a better open source keyboard or voice type than futo. It really is that good. With so many languages. I’m unsure why some of them got downvoted but oh well. I’m sure there’s a ton more to add that are privacy focused open source apps but those were off my head.

        • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
          3·
          16 days ago

          Unfortunately those tools are not open source, they are under some source-available proprietary license. That may be why they (rightfully) get downvoted.

          You can use them if you like of course, but they should not be advertised as open source.