First Open Source dating app
Alovoa - Meet new, exciting people!
Meet new people in your area, absolutely privately using open-source technologies. You're only a few clicks away to find new friends, dating and sexual partners.alovoa.com
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Orion Browser
Any mac users out there who tried this browser? Linux alpha is coming this month so will try it myself then.
It sounds like they are building a new browser from the ground up.
Orion Browser by Kagi
Orion — a web browser designed from the ground-up. Native WebKit speed, full extension compatibility, and absolute privacy is finally together in one browser that respects you.orionbrowser.com
I'm so confused with this random audio issue
Speakers -> Worked via Line OUT for months
Take PC apart and change PSU, assemble PC back.
Speakers - Line OUT detected but can't test Left/Right audio channels, options missing. No AUDIO from speakers unless I select them as default in Pavucontrol or manually assign outputs via Helvum.
Fedora 43 GNOME
How do I get my GNOME audio settings to work again?
This is so random and funny at the same time... yet frustrating because it makes no god damn sense :D
Help managing access to multiple VPN services (Tailscale, Wireguard, Twingate)
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34942012
I find everyone using different services, so unsure how to best manage (and balance) concurrent access in Ubuntu/Debian to:
- Local network services
- Tailscale services from userA
- Tailscale services from userB
- Wireguard (OpenVPN also option) from userC
- Twingate from userDEach user is wanting to share different services via VPN, and pressuring any to change their production setups to a different style of VPN is not going to happen.
- Management via software
- Possibly up a routing device along the lines of OpenWrt or OpnSense.
- Could even distribute such devices between these friends.Thanks for all thoughts!
AI controls is coming to Firefox
Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.
They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Software engineers at Microsoft are now expected to use both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot and give feedback comparing the two, I’m told. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot as its AI coding tool of choice to its customers, but if these broad internal pilot programs are successful, then it’s possible the company could even eventually sell Claude Code directly to its cloud customers.
Guys? Are we going to have to rename Microsoft products from Copilot to Claude soon?
Microsoft Claude 365?
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Microsoft is increasingly adopting Claude Code, despite selling its own GitHub Copilot AI tool. Microsoft’s developers are now testing out both to compare them.Tom Warren (The Verge)
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos - Panorama-Mundial
El 29 de enero de 2026, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump emitió una nueva orden ejecutiva declarando un "estado de emergencia nacional" debido a la "inusual y extraordinaria amenaza" que la nación isleña supuestamente representa para Estados…world-outlook.com (Panorama-Mundial)
Wiarton Willie predicts early spring, but Punxsutawney Phil disagrees
Wiarton Willie, along with most of his Canadian counterparts, has predicted an early spring after he did not see his shadow on Monday morning on Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day is a long-held tradition of watching animals coming out of hibernation to predict whether there'll be an early spring or six more weeks of winter.
Every Feb. 2, groundhogs and even a crustacean emerge from their shelters to see if they see their shadows.
predict whether there'll be an early spring or six more weeks of winter.
Where I live 6 more weeks of winter is an early spring.
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy
After "awareness" campaigns that failed to move the needle for years, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy. The Rights Alliance confirmed it will begin filing civil lawsuits against individual students who are caught sharing even a single digital textbook. The anti-piracy group prefers not to mention the targeted platforms but says it uses undercover monitoring of private groups to gather evidence.
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy * TorrentFreak
After "awareness" campaigns failed, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
The world is trying to log off U.S. tech
U.S tech backlash grows as countries and startups seek alternatives - Rest of World
Proton Mail and UpScrolled attract users looking to quit Big Tech services like TikTok, Meta and Google.Rina Chandran (Rest of World)
Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion
Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion
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Also this isn't even stealing just a digital copy sent by spotify servers
blog.zaramis.se/2026/02/02/att…
gup.exe making network requests for other than: notepad-plus-plus.org, github.com and release-assets.githubusercontent.com
doublepulsar.com/small-numbers…
The write up is from December when it was first disclosed afaik
Kinda sad the flagship instance is the biggest turnoff to wider adoption. Also, I gotta try / switch to Piefed.
Doing an "Orphan Black" re-watch and this scene gets me every time.
Oh, there's an "-ism"
Felix goes to a club and is disappointed to learn there's an "-ism" required to be there.
NGram
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in reply to mlody • • •Isukun
in reply to NGram • • •Hi everyone.
Then I guess isn't worthy trying to use it. It's sad cause sounded like an alternative for Tinder and the rest of meeting apps from the Play Store that have the Google infestation on them.
NGram
in reply to Isukun • • •Unfortunately I think projects like this have extra challenges over even regular social media platforms. There's also retromeet which seems even more dead (it may have not even made it to a stable release).
The idea is great but for a dating app to work, it needs to quickly get past two network effects: the global network effect (there must be enough people globally, or in a larger region, to get other people interested in trying out the platform) and the local network effect (there must be enough people to match with in most users' local areas to keep enough people interested). With corporate backing that's easy enough to do with a dedicated team to market and develop, but FOSS rarely has that sort of manpower. Slow growth is hard too, since users tend to leave dating apps quite often.
There's also the funny problem if the dev gets a partner usually the partner doesn't appreciate them staying on dating apps. Developing a dating app could be even worse for the relationship... actually now that I think of it, maybe I should make start a similar project since I don't like dating...
GitHub - retromeet/core: This is the core API of RetroMeet, an open-source dating app
GitHubMouldyCat
in reply to NGram • • •Sounds like a job for Fedi-date! If you could somehow hook a dating app into the fediverse, then maybe it could survive long enough to get sufficient users. If it also offers more general IRL meet-ups (like meetup.com but without the corpo rent-seeking), then it could perhaps begin to get popular that way too.
NGram
in reply to MouldyCat • • •That's exactly what Retromeet was trying to do :)
Though I do agree that having a broader scope than just the hot-or-not swipe thing would really help to attract enough people to join. Retromeet doesn't seem to do that, though I haven't used it so I could be wrong.
Limerance
in reply to NGram • • •Local network effect is enough, even when it’s restricted to a specific demographic or subculture. Once a dating platform grabs a hold in a location and demographic, it can extend from there.
Of course to keep a project like this running, you need a way to pay for hosting and development.
NGram
in reply to Limerance • • •Maybe we can agree to disagree because I don't think a specific demographic is enough to overcome the negative network effect at the start. The problem, imo, is that the attrition rate of dating apps is really high and dating apps are only good if a lot of people are located geographically nearby. You either need broad appeal to avoid running out of people early on or a demographic that is unusually geographically concentrated and usurps the attrition rate (ENM comes to mind for the latter).
Of course, you could always make something for dating without the geo proximity, but I think most people won't want to use something like that at all.
The beauty of new FOSS projects is that they're quite often hosted and developed for free, so I don't think that's much of a limiting factor as long as the community is there. That's also why I think it's important to make it big quickly, because that's the way to get a big enough community before the creator loses interest.
Limerance
in reply to NGram • • •Churn is an issue you mentioned.
I was specifically thinking about men who have sex with men. Grindr and similar platforms are very successful. Most of it is about casual sex between promiscuous men. They are also a great target group otherwise. Travel between gay metropolises is common as. Pride tourism is big.
mmmm
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in reply to NGram • • •I think a lot of engineers underestimate the amount of non-technical effort that goes into running platforms with users.
It's a shame I think there are some really interesting problems that a less profit driven dating app but currently anything without a big marketing budget isn't going to have the userbase to support it.
nimpnin
in reply to NGram • • •This kinda app would need at least an attempt at a technical solution to the bot problem. An open source app can't just pay people to kick bots out. And even the paid apps that can are drowning in bots.
Something cryptographic maybe. Tor is kinda magical, makes anonymity possible while the each machine knows who they are talking to. Maybe something where you can show that you are "a verified user" without showing exactly which one.
NGram
in reply to nimpnin • • •Other apps do have some good anti-bot measures which could be adopted for a FOSS project. The problem with a lot of cryptographic solutions for this is that often cryptography is usually more about proving your identity more than proving something about your identity. Tor is also focused on privacy from middle-men, which doesn't really make sense for a dating app.
I think the challenge boils down to how to prove you're human without biometrics or other PII. And I think the sad reality is that you can't prove it. Though you may be able to prove you have unique PII with some sort of zero-knowledge proof...
MouldyCat
in reply to NGram • • •Maybe it would need to draw on experiences of moderating chat rooms and forums - these are very often done by volunteers who put a lot of time and energy into it because they believe in it.
There is also the "Web Of Trust" concept, where, given that everyone can prove their identity, people can then vouch for each other.
hexagonwin
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in reply to mlody • • •Krafting
in reply to mlody • • •actually, the biggest ratio is human to bots being prolly something like 1:100...
But the idea is awesome tbh, could have been activitypub powered though!
altphoto
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in reply to ☂️- • • •Not yet. Craigslist was a great example of free to use dating site based on a generic platform.
Just make a channel for your city and advertize it. That's probably all there is to it. If you build it, they will cum.
ZeroHora
in reply to altphoto • • •The joke with the quote of that shit movie.
Perfection.
altphoto
in reply to ZeroHora • • •☂️-
in reply to altphoto • • •you are technically right, but easier said.
might as well try to build a community on an app dedicated to this, like the one advertised.
which is still hard because of network effect.
altphoto
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FirmDistribution
in reply to VaalaVasaVarde • • •lmao this is gold
thingsiplay
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in reply to mlody • • •Sivecano
in reply to mlody • • •I really appreciated how unmonetized and not emotionally manipulative it was.
There's like no people on there though.
Victor
in reply to Sivecano • • •Be the people on there that you want there to be
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