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Lilbits: Retro gaming hardware, another BlackBerry clone, and a DIY UMPC with an E Ink color display
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At least 47 Palestinians injured in Israeli shooting at aid hub in Gaza: UN human rights official
At least 47 people were injured, most of them by gunfire from Israeli forces, when large crowds surged toward a newly opened aid distribution center in Gaza, a UN human rights official said Wednesday.
Ajith Sunghay, the head of the UN human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territories, told an Association of Accredited Correspondents at the United Nations (ACANU) media briefing in Geneva that "most of those injured are due to gunshots," and those injuries were "caused due to shooting by the IDF (Israeli army)."
On Tuesday, starving Gazans stormed a US-backed aid distribution facility, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the southern city of Rafah, local authorities said.
It said Israeli forces opened fire after thousands of starving Palestinians rushed into the aid distribution facility.
At least 47 Palestinians injured in Israeli shooting at aid hub in Gaza: UN human rights official
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[AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!
Bonjour, c/opensource@lemmy.ml!
Framasoft (that's us!) is a small French non-profit (10 employees + 25 volunteers), that has been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture to a French-speaking audience for 20+ years.
What does Framasoft do?
We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society. That is why we maintain and contribute to lots of projects that aim to empower people to get more freedom in their digital lives.
Among those tools are:
- 20 FOSS based web-services that we host (mainly for our French-speaking audience) on our Degooglify Internet website, including Framadate and Framaforms… ;
- many talks, workshops, and participations to conventions ;
- A blog, where we share our views and where a group of volunteers translate into French news from the English-speaking FLOSS world ;
- Many, many ressources to help people and organizations in their transition to ethical digital tools (guides, documentation, even card games!) ;
Framasoft is funded by donations (94% of our 2024 budget), mainly grassroots donations (75% of the 2024 budget). As we mainly communicate in French, the overwhelming majority of our donations comes from the French-speaking audience. You can help us through joinpeertube.org/contribute.
We develop PeerTube
In the English-speaking community, we are mostly known for developing PeerTube, a self-hosted video and live-streaming free/libre platform, which has become the main alternative to Big Tech's video platforms.
From a student project to a software with international reach, our video platform solution is now, seven years later, used and acknowledged by many institutions!
The last major version of PeerTube, v7, has been released at the end of 2024, along with the first version of the official mobile app, available on both Android (Play Store, F-Droid) and iOS.
Now that the PeerTube platform has matured significantly over successive versions, we believe that the way to enable even more people to use PeerTube is to improve the mobile app so that it can be carried around in people's pockets.
Ask Us Anything!
Last month, we have published the roadmap for the project. This week, we also launched our new crowdfunding campaign which focuses on our mobile app.
We want to give you the opportunity through this AMA to give us feedback on the product and the project and discuss the crowdfunding campaign and our next steps!
If you have any questions, please ask them below (and upvote those you want us to answer first).
We will answer them to the best of our abilities with the /u/Framasoft account, from May. 28th 2025 5pm CET (11 am EST) until we are too tired ;).
EDIT (8:16 pm CET): This wraps it for the day, thanks for all of your questions and feedback!
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Ye I know that there's a lot of self-fulfillment coming from FOSS work. It's why I do it even though I'm not getting paid. However being in Luxembourg, even market competitive rates are barely affordable, and good vibes doesn't pay my rent, so alas if our org had enough money to pay someone, I would personally still have to continue with the wage work.
It's unfortunate that people give so much to for-profits, but people doing things that are objectively better for the world, have to tighten their belts to get by.
Anyway, thank you for your time. You explained pretty much what has been my observations in the FOSS space. I agree with all your takes. Perhaps in the future Framasoft and Haidra might be able to collaborate.
Hi!
We're not for now but we'd probably look for a full-stack dev in the future! Nothing sure yet!
Keep an eye on our social media if you're interested in this position!
We prefer monthly donations because they help us maintain financial stability throughout the year, whereas one-time donations tend to come in mainly when we run fundraising campaigns like this one (which means that some months our cash flow is low).
Thank you for your support!
Hello!
Yes, we're actually working on modernizing our de-google-ify suit!
However, it'll take time since we need to review each service and identify what are our needs and how we can fit them! Do we need to develop new features for an existing software? Are we able to do so? Is there a new software fully fitting our needs? Or maybe there are other promising softwares but not ready yet?
There are a lot of things to consider, especially when we're talking of services being used by 2M people each month!
I think we are indeed more efficient, more agile and adaptive than larger orgs, but it's probably also because we were lucky enough to have many very skilled team mates :)
However, it also means that not everything is as polished as some bigger players, but we think we manage to give the best value for the price!
We strongly believe that Free-Libre software is one of the essential tools for achieving a Free-Libre society.French-speaking audience
Why is your user target group mainly a French-speaking audience? It seems like hosting services in English would be more in-line with having a "Free-Libre society"; instead it is "Free-Libre society but only in French-speaking regions"
(I'm not from USA), but online I still prefer to use a language that almost everyone speaks, instead of creating content only few peopke can enjoy
(Μπορώ να γράψω την ερώτηση και στα ελληνικά άμα θέλετε να την καταλάβετε καλύτερα)
Nevertheless, I really am grateful for your work in Peertube and your other projects!
Because we're a very small team, and we're okay with it staying this way. Not all of us are speaking English correctly. Having a worldwide audience would mean communicating in English all the time, providing assistance in English.
Also, we want to grow at a pace that suits us. We would much prefer if there were other organizations doing exactly the same thing as us in other countries that we could refer people to.
Ευχαριστώ για την απάντηση! Ναι φυσικά, δεν αναφέρθηκα στον ρυθμό ανάπτυξής σας, απλώς αν ο στόχος είναι η διάδοση του ελεύθερου λογισμικού, θα έχει μεγαλύτερη επιτυχία η παραγωγή περιεχομένου σε μια γλώσσα που μιλάνε περισσότεροι άνθρωποι.
Αλλιώς καταλήγουμε με περιεχόμενο που ήδη από τη στιγμή της συγγραφής του, έχει εξ' ορισμού ένα παραπάνω εμπόδιο στο να έχουν πρόσβαση άνθρωποι, και μάλιστα εσκεμμένα από τον συγγραφέα. Συνήθως το ελεύθερο λογισμικό προσπαθεί να έχει και διάφορα πλεονεκτήματα, όπως η εκπαίδευση του κόσμου, η βελτίωση της ιδιωτικότητας του ατόμου, κλπ κλπ.
Γράφοντας ο καθένας στη γλώσσα του, είναι σαν να λέμε ότι μόνο οι λίγοι που μιλάνε την γλώσσα αξίζει να χρησιμοποιήσουν πχ ένα λογισμικό που έχει μεγαλύτερη ιδιωτικότητα. Αυτό προφανώς δεν συμβαίνει άμα κάνουμε τις ίδιες ενέργειες αλλά χρησιμοποιώντας μια γλώσσα που μιλάει ο μισός πλανήτης
Οι άνθρωποι που μιλάνε αγγλικά, είναι πάρα πολύ περισσότεροι από εκείνους που μιλάνε γαλλικά, κι αν πρέπει κάθε κείμενο να το ξαναγράφουμε 200 φορές σε 200 γλώσσες, αφιερώνουμε ενέργεια που θα μπορούσε να βοηθήσει και με άλλους τρόπους το έργο
online I still prefer to use a language that almost everyone speaks
i wonder how many languages this mindset would kill off
ehm no, fuck english
I get it, and I have been ambivalent throughout my life about it - but I think every time I sit down and think about it, I am still more appreciative of the benefits of a global "Lingua Franca", compared to the problems. I do appreciate that I can enter the majority of communities online, and immediately, there's one language everyone can participate in the discussions with, without the need of machine translations and other hoops.
But I do agree that it would be wrong to extrapolate from English being such a language that everyone speaks "well enough" (often with local quirks, like my German bleeding through when I provide run on sentences en masse), to saying content should be made exclusively/primarily in English only.
I think Framasoft are good enough at providing their technology offerings with English documentation, which is I think the important part. They also accept English feedback, and can communicate with people in English like here. And their more local, French focus has, I think, helped them with a stable foundation at home and a supportive community.
Hi,
The Framagames website was set up a long time ago and it only features FLOSS games made by external devs, we do very very little development apart from PeerTube.
As almost all of our services are built on third-party free software, our lack of adaptability to mobile devices is simply a reflection of a general lack of expertise in this area within the free software community.
However, we are well aware that we missed the boat on this topic many years ago.
That is why we are exploring the publication of mobile applications, first with PeerTube, as in this case, but also with Lokas, an audio transcription application.
Finally, several of our services are also aging and need to be replaced by other solutions that are more compatible with mobile use.
On a more technical side, there are also companies that are specifically positioning themselves on these issues.
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I've been using FramaGit ever since Github went Microsoft.
I write closed source, proprietary code for a living.
That makes me sad.
Have your developers any advice on how to get paid to write Free Software?
I have a friend that does this.
They're right. First build an amazing profile contributing to Foss. Then apply for grants. If you don't like writing grants, get a part time job doing evil closed code and another part time doing Foss.
Not Framasoft, or affiliated with them - but I managed to set it up from basically having 0 practical experience and only very basic, non-professional knowledge. I'd say it's not especially hard, and compared with setting up Lemmy and Mastodon, I'd even call it easy, personally.
I'd say the definitive source is the online docs, with a good installation guide included:
docs.joinpeertube.org/install/…
PeerTube documentation
Documentation of PeerTube, a free software to take back control of your videos!docs.joinpeertube.org
PeerTube documentation
Documentation of PeerTube, a free software to take back control of your videos!docs.joinpeertube.org
Let’s improve PeerTube!
We need your input! Bonjour, we are Framasoft. Our small French nonprofit maintains and develop PeerTube (among 50+ other projects), with only one (1!ideas.joinpeertube.org
GIGABIT per SECOND?!?!!! i will blow you to mirror my videos once i set up an instance
eye contact too
PeerTube platform follows & redundancy | PeerTube documentation
Documentation of PeerTube, a free software to take back control of your videos!docs.joinpeertube.org
Hey thanks for responding. I submitted a post about it in more detail.
For a quick summary this, is ideally and particularly how I was planning for communities to work on Peertube.
What they ideally would do.
Act like public playlist, where any one can add their video to the community, possibly with an optional approval list.
Approved/submited videos should show in chronological order of the submitted video, not the original video upload date.
Communities would be managed by the specific dedicated server that created them.
What Peertube communities ideally should not do:
Change where (hosted instance) the video is hosted, except when necessary, such as backup or otherwise.
Oh, sorry to hear this. We'll make sure to follow your observations to the team.
As we can now afford to pay designers, some parts of the interface are being improved, but it's a slow progress. Here are some resources on our work in v7: joinpeertube.org/news/share-re…
About finding your favorite YouTube creators on PeerTube, this is still hard, as they're probably aren't as much as you think they'd be, if you think the scraping tool would be very useful. Using browser extensions such as addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/… or addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/… which redirect you to a PeerTube version of a YouTube video could give you a view of the content currently on both platforms.
Otherwise, accounts such as Fedivideo mentioned in this thread are doing a very good job to curate content you might like, and we want to help that (with our limited resources).
Design, mobile development, documentation: let's share resources! | JoinPeerTube
In the last few months, we released the v7 of PeerTube (7.1 is also out!) and our official mobile app (with a major update incoming). Both those proje...JoinPeerTube
I want to run a PT instance that just mirrors 100% of the CC-licensed videos on YouTube, so folks using Tor and VPNs can access it.
I'm not looking to make money, but I do need to cover the monthly costs of the server. What methods are available to monetize the site? Is there some plugin that can simply inject (privacy friendly) pre-watch ads?
For now, it's mostly only the possibility writing in the "About" page of the server ways to support it, possibly with a banner above videos to encourage people to give money. Creators can also add a "Support" button below videos to tell viewers how to support them.
But I think some people are working on requiring people to login and have a subscription to view videos.
I don't know of an existing plugin that injects pre-roll ads, but it could probably already be developed with the current available APIs.
Not sure if it's a question. I was looking into PT, but there aren't hardly any instances that are 1. open and 2. have much activity. Also, it seemed like you only got the content on the instance, it wasn't easy at all to find non-local content.
(Also, most of it was playthroughs)
I think you must have gotten unlucky there, which does highlight a real problem of discoverability/onboarding. There definitely are instances, which provide (easy) access to more of the overall PeerTube ecosystem. To self-promote, mine for example is connected to 782 other platforms at the time of this writing, and utilises a global search index (like a lot of instances do). As another example, peertube.wtf is connected to a whopping 1086 other platforms, due to being in the game longer and following an overall more permissive moderation policy.
It's regrettable that turned out to be your experience with PeerTube, and it does highlight an issue with onboarding/discoverability - but it is not necessarily the most common experience people have with PT. Although, I must admit, there is no representative surveying or anything, so I can't be sure what the most common experience is.
How does it seed videos anyway? I'm not familiar with this feature of Peertube, is it using Bittorrent? if so one could just use any Bittorrent client assuming Peertube exposes the magnet link (they really should).
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They used to utilise an implementation of WebTorrent, and compatibility for it is still in the system, but discouraged. Enabling it essentially doubles the storage space needed, due to different requirements of how videos have to be encoded/stored. They switched to HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) with a P2P protocol implemented via WebRTC since then:
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Configuration | PeerTube documentation
Documentation of PeerTube, a free software to take back control of your videos!docs.joinpeertube.org
Hi! One day I want to move from YouTube to PeerTube (in the process of getting some things done before I do) and when I was trying to explore it, one thing that frustrated me was trying to search for anything on the platform.
I tried to do a searches for random topics and the top search results instances/servers that had nothing to do with what I was looking for.
This frustration was also echoed by somebody with experience on the platform that I ended up talking with. They were able to direct me to the specific instances I'd want because they're a part of them too, but it shouldn't be so difficult to find what you want, so my question is are you trying to fix the search engine on your platform to make it more user friendly so that most of your platform isn't seemingly word of mouth (so to speak)?
Not Framasoft or affiliated with them. Depending on how long ago your attempt was, their Sepia Search tool may be what you are looking for. That search index has also become the main search option for many instances and it's definitely a lot better than the options a few years ago.
That being said, discoverability is still a problem. Search algorithms are actually deceptively hard to create and optimise - and with no personalised algorithm, creating a good experience needs more invested time and work at the moment (finding and adding subscriptions).
Speaking of algorithms, there's a promising project with a lot of potential: PeerTube Picks, which currently is in the form of a Firefox add-on that implements a very basic personalised algorithm, which, anecdotally, has helped me discover a few channels/videos I would have otherwise missed. There's also !peertube@lemmy.world and !peertube@lemmy.wtf to find and share videos, channels and playlists, although that is of course kind of word of mouth, still.
Sepia Search
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by FramasoftSepia Search
I was looking at it around the beginning of this year, so it would have been with Sepia. And if you search something simple like 'sewing' or 'movies' you shouldn't get topics such as modern politics as your top results. That's not just out of left field, that is a whole different ballpark. If I did a search for 'sewing' and got embroidery results...ok. Same game, just different position. Makes a bit more sense. You're still stitchin'.
Also, using something like 'literature' shouldn't get you the same top results as 'sewing' does.
SUPER FRUSTRATING!!!
Merci pour votre travail, c'est génial ! 👏💪
Have you ever thought about offering compute capabilities (with OpenLambda for ex) or hosting web services ?
I'd personnally pay for that, and there's a need for European cloud alternatives !
That is a good question to which I have to direct answer I guess.
arte is a media producer and server at the same time. Peertube provides the fundament for serving videos. To me it sounds like there should be a big overlap.
arte already has build their system but let's think big and long term, not only one year ahead. Arte could use a peertube backend (with extra steps) and focus on what they do best, producing content. By adjust peertube to their needs, other broadcasters could use it as well and many would profit. The broadcasters could easily share selected media with others, making the services interconnected. The user wouldn't need many accounts for France Télévisions, ARD and others. The user wouldn't need 5 apps for the same type of media.
Don't know about what's on Odyssey - but content on PeerTube is pretty neat, in my opinion - if you like Linux, FLOSS, tinkering and in general, people making videos out of being passionate about something. Also occasional weirdness, and also an increasing amount of "normal" content, at least I had that feeling in the past weeks.
Check !peertube@lemmy.world and !peertube@lemmy.wtf for a rough overview of what to expect and recommendations.
But it is of course also a miniscule amount of content when compared to the giants. And if you go on the wrong instances, there definitely are spammers and grifters to be found. But usually, they get excluded from trustworthy instances.
I have used services hosted by Framasoft many times, but I wasn't aware that you were also the developers of PeerTube!
I have almost stopped using Y*utube and I've been trying to use PeerTube more and more. The main hurdle is finding content, which I'm sure will get easier and easier as the platform gets adopted and known in the fediverse and beyond.
Congratulations for you efforts promoting Free and Libre software, keep up the good work!
what are the problems that need solutions for mobile uploads to be supported?
i do music video production entirely on ipad and have yet to find an aapp that supports mobile uploads. the web UI never seems to complete the upload.
Maybe a survey can disprove my opinion. but i would argue the option of having ads plus paying for the ability to remove ads is something most users would accept (even if there is a vocal minority). especially if you explain that researching and developing some forms of content (documentaries, video courses, investigative journalism) can take dozen of hours and is not feasible to do without getting paid when aiming for the highest quality.
That could be better then just restricting videos (mitra could also be a open source alternative to patreon).
Hey. I'm part of the ad hoc team which is assembling to continue development of Mobilizon. So far it's just a tiny group based out of Lyon France, but we're growing.
Are you willing to provide us at least some small guarantee of access to Thomas for advice and explanations about the decisions he made about the architecture and what direction it should take? I know that her already answers queries, but I worry that it's on his own time.
Vänsterpartiet borde fokusera på ett antal politiska frågor där partiet utmärker sig och har andra lösningar än de andra partierna. Några sådana frågor är kriminalpolitik, skolpolitik, vårdpolitik och bostadspolitik. Där finns möjligheter för Vänsterpartiet att stå för humanism, jämlikhet och solidaritet.
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Politiska frågor Vänsterpartiet borde fokusera på - Svenssons Nyheter
Politiska frågor Vänsterpartiet borde fokusera på. Vänsterpartiet borde fokusera på ett antal politiska frågor där partiet utmärker sigAnders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)
Reverse engeneering a Keyboard software
Im currently trying to get my Keyboards software to work on linux, but since that won‘t be a thing, like ever, im trying to Reverse engineer the software in order to copy the get and set requests the Software sends over USB and send them over a Python Script using libUSB, so I can control it independent of OS
So I set up my Wireshark with a USB snooper and started using the software
Only problem: Since I have no idea how a Keyboard usually communicates, so I have no idea what to look for. Can someone recommend me some already reverse engeneered FOSS Keyboard software as an example? (Like the wooting software, if its even OSS)
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Unless the vendor is rolling something super custom, for the communication TO the keyboard, it should use USB HID.
Start Wireshark, filter for hid, connect the KB and the first message should be a HID descriptor of the KB, look for Output Reports (it's meant from the POV of the usb master) or Feature Reports.
Though, this will probably not yield much insight - vendors love to do the easy thing, reserve opaque 32x8 bytes as a "downlink" Output communication in the Vendor Usage Page and stuff their own protocol/encoding in there.
On linux I can recommend hid-tools for working with this, in windows I believe your only solution is Wireshark.
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E: About the already reversedsoftware, for logitech (and more) stuff, there is piper but you will want to look into the underlying daemon libratbag, there is also solaar
HID report descriptors and Linux
Technical posts inspired by my $dayjob as Embedded Linux Specialist.Marcus Folkesson
I reversed engineered a keyboard for a presentation in uni. I’ll drop you an excerpt of a written review:
Resources used
I learned the USB protocol from this (the relevant parts I needed). We’re thinking of including some basic understanding of the USB protocol in the slides.
beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/us…
I got an idea of what could be going on from the following link, specifically the section I’ve set.
github.com/openrazer/openrazer…
I deciphered the protocol using the USBHID packets that would be sent. I was highly sure it was USBHID from a pointer from another Linux community member, but this article was my third source to confirming this.
hackaday.com/2020/04/14/revers…
One of the sources for information to develop these procedures was from the openRGB wiki.
This stream has to do with reversing using URB. I find this might be out of scope, and it would’ve been way tougher to reverse engineer with this.
Feel free to ask as needed here. Spam the requests on the software while monitoring wireshark to be sure of what is what.
The other large comment by “taaz” is also very useful and parts of which I did use while reverse engineering.
Reverse Engineering USB Protocol
Open source driver and user-space daemon to control Razer lighting and other features on GNU/Linux - openrazer/openrazerGitHub
What keyboard? There is a small chance you can rip out the chip and replace it with a teensy running qmk. That will allow you to get it to work and be able to config it in Linux.
Not sure if it's more or less work that RE'ing the communication, but it will require soldering
Ytterligare ett tillslag mot släktnätverk i Göteborg. I måndags slog polisen återigen till mot personer som ska vara kopplade till det kriminella släktnätverket Ali Khan i Göteborg. Den senast gången de slog till var för drygt en månad sen.
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Åtal för grova ekobrott inom bilbranschen. Åklagare vid Ekobrottsmyndigheten har åtalat en huvudmisstänkt och en så kallad möjliggörare för grova ekobrott. Båd två är kopplade till en bilåterförsäljare i Sollefteå. Ärendet har präglats av omfattande samverkan med svenska och utländska myndigheter.
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User Experience Study on BookWyrm – Looking for Your Feedback
Hi everyone,
As part of a UX/UI design project for my studies, I’m currently analyzing the user experience and interface of BookWyrm. The goal is to identify areas for improvement while respecting the platform’s core values (decentralization, simplicity, accessibility, etc.).
I’m looking to gather feedback from actual or potential users of the platform. If you have a few minutes, your answers to the questions below would be extremely helpful:
- What do you like most about BookWyrm? Which features do you use most frequently?
- Are there any features or interactions that you find frustrating or unintuitive?
- What features do you think are missing or could be improved?
- How do you feel about the interface (design, readability, navigation)?
- Do you use BookWyrm (or similar platforms) mainly to manage your personal library (individual use), or to get recommendations, join discussions, and engage with others (social use)?
- Do you mainly use BookWyrm on a mobile device or on a computer? And why?
- Do you also use other platforms (e.g., Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing)? If yes, what makes you prefer one over the other?
- If you’ve never used BookWyrm, what’s holding you back? And conversely, what might encourage you to use it regularly?
Thank you so much for your input. I’d be happy to share the results of this analysis here if there’s interest.
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It’s decent for something small but the rampant duplication of books sort of ruins the experience.
Like there aren’t many users so if we have 12 copies on the same book each with between 0 and 2 reviews it sucks when we could instead have one copy with pretty metadata and 15 reviews and some discussion.
You can help fix this manually but this is really more of a structural issue that needs fixing.
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• What do you like most about BookWyrm? Which features do you use most frequently?Don't use it because it looks dated, like a 1995 website as it's well lacking an app that conforms to the OS's UI/UX
• Are there any features or interactions that you find frustrating or unintuitive?It takes more than one click to add a book to my default list
• What features do you think are missing or could be improved?Adding books I've read with a single press
• How do you feel about the interface (design, readability, navigation)?Feels extremely dated
• Do you mainly use BookWyrm on a mobile device or on a computer? And why?**Mobile because it makes scanning barcodes easier. **
• Do you also use other platforms (e.g., Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing)? If yes, what makes you prefer one over the other?Goodreads, has an app, doesn't feel dated, larger library of books.
I have tried Bookwyrm (two years ago and now) but the database is lacking in entries, and adding new entries feels tedious and confusing to me. (I feel like I am 90% user from 90-9-1 rule) ("sortuj według tytułu:" - "sort by title:" is required but doesn't explain what it means.)
I didn't interact with anything more as I would use it mostly for tracking.
The top blue bar is defenetely something of design choice that feel amateurish. (Mobile)
- What do you like most about BookWyrm? Which features do you use most frequently?
I bounced back due to database stuff. I Also remeber that database wasn't federated 2 years ago and that is dealbreaker, IDK if that changed.
- Are there any features or interactions that you find frustrating or unintuitive?
Adding new book to database.
- What features do you think are missing or could be improved?
DB federation.
- How do you feel about the interface (design, readability, navigation)?
It's alright for a Linux user used to janky UIs. Top blue bar needs to go, feels like wasted space. The footnote is too big.
In "my books" there isn't compact view. Everything has a lot of margins. I don't like horizontal sliders with more menu options that aren't visible. (At least there is an indicator unlike image toolbox.)
- Do you mainly use BookWyrm on a mobile device or on a computer? And why?
Mobile as I can't be bothered to open it on big screen.
- Do you also use other platforms (e.g., Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing)? If yes, what makes you prefer one over the other?
I tried goodreads and storygraph. goodreads forced frequent mobile app updates so I didn't use it. Storygraph has multiple entries for multiple editions so it's also a no. I think I will try lubimyczytac.pl as that's one I didn't test yet. Never heard of LibraryThing.
- If you’ve never used BookWyrm, what’s holding you back? And conversely, what might encourage you to use it regularly?
Good Database
Thank you for contributing your time and expertise to improve UI/UX of open source.
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What do you like most about BookWyrm? Which features do you use most frequently?
Been using BookWyrm for a few months. I add books to my shelves and track reading progress, mostly.
I loved it when I realised that it just lets me add all random books and edit data from the get-go. The service may not have all of the books I have, but I can just add them.
Are there any features or interactions that you find frustrating or unintuitive?
What features do you think are missing or could be improved?
BookWyrm absolutely needs far better abilities to split/merge/consolidate author and book information and do more of the Librarian Stuff. The current system of "you can bring in data and stuff just sits there on its own" is nice if you want to manage a personal library and track individual book progress, but a well-maintained book database is an entirely different beast, and pretty much mandatory for enabling more social stuff.
Also, the ability to import book information from sources is nice, but could use some more integration to a whole lot of other places. I really loved LibraryThing's integration to bazillion different library services.
One minor quibble I have about BookWyrm is that there's still the notion of "shelves" and that one book can be on one shelf and different editions of one book don't count. This is good for casual use - "oh yeah I read this one" - but it's not enough for true book nerdery. I may have a physical, ebook and audiobook edition of one work in multiple languages and the UI doesn't show me that yes, I own/have borrowed these exact editions and I have reading activity on this and that and that one.
On that note, yeah, should also have some kind of labeling system for individual editions, along the lines of "I own a copy of this and I've stored this in the closet" vs "Borrowed this off the library" vs "I had this one, before the drama queen of an author removed it from Kindle".
How do you feel about the interface (design, readability, navigation)?
It was a little bit confusing at first, but once I got over the initial weirdness I realised it wasn't that much harder to use than, say, Goodreads. I don't really have much complaints at this point. It's good at what it does.
Do you mainly use BookWyrm on a mobile device or on a computer? And why?
Book nerdery is a big girl thing so I use computer for this. The mobile UI is adequate but could use a dedicated app.
Do you also use other platforms (e.g., Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing)? If yes, what makes you prefer one over the other?
I used LibraryThing long ago, and Goodreads more recently, both with librarian privileges (i.e. ability to edit data, which BookWyrm gives you from the get-go). I think Goodreads is pretty good at what it does, but it did have some mild jank, and of course, I always got the impression that I was doing unpaid labour for Bezos. So I think I'll go with BookWyrm in the long run, thanks.
‘Dehumanisation by design’: US-Israeli Gaza aid operation descends into chaos
By MEE staff
Published date: 27 May 2025 20:22 BST
"The Israeli military denied firing on the crowds, but the Associated Press reported tank and gunfire at the distribution site, possibly due to warning shots fired by American mercenaries securing the facility. "
‘Dehumanisation by design’: US-Israeli Gaza aid operation descends into chaos
A controversial US-Israeli aid distribution scheme descended into chaos, as gunfire rang out while hungry and exhausted residents of Gaza rushed to get food after being forced to stand outside an aid facility.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
‘Dehumanisation by design’: US-Israeli Gaza aid operation descends into chaos
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/30777162
By MEE staff
Published date: 27 May 2025 20:22 BST"The Israeli military denied firing on the crowds, but the Associated Press reported tank and gunfire at the distribution site, possibly due to warning shots fired by American mercenaries securing the facility. "
‘Dehumanisation by design’: US-Israeli Gaza aid operation descends into chaos
By MEE staff
Published date: 27 May 2025 20:22 BST"The Israeli military denied firing on the crowds, but the Associated Press reported tank and gunfire at the distribution site, possibly due to warning shots fired by American mercenaries securing the facility. "
‘Dehumanisation by design’: US-Israeli Gaza aid operation descends into chaos
A controversial US-Israeli aid distribution scheme descended into chaos, as gunfire rang out while hungry and exhausted residents of Gaza rushed to get food after being forced to stand outside an aid facility.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
May 26, 2025
"Thousands of nationalist Israelis descended to Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances. Right-wing activists held banners that read "67 - Jerusalem in our hands; 2025 - Gaza in our hands".
Arab traders in the Muslim Quarter who had yet to close their shops were harassed by young Israeli men, witnesses said.
Chants of "May your village burn" and "Your home will be ours" were heard throughout the march. "
Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
Israeli opposition leaders condemned attacks on Palestinians as "racist" and a disgrace to Judaism.Wyre Davies (BBC News)
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Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
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May 26, 2025
"Thousands of nationalist Israelis descended to Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances. Right-wing activists held banners that read "67 - Jerusalem in our hands; 2025 - Gaza in our hands".
Arab traders in the Muslim Quarter who had yet to close their shops were harassed by young Israeli men, witnesses said.
Chants of "May your village burn" and "Your home will be ours" were heard throughout the march. "
Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
May 26, 2025"Thousands of nationalist Israelis descended to Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances. Right-wing activists held banners that read "67 - Jerusalem in our hands; 2025 - Gaza in our hands".
Arab traders in the Muslim Quarter who had yet to close their shops were harassed by young Israeli men, witnesses said.
Chants of "May your village burn" and "Your home will be ours" were heard throughout the march. "
Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
Israeli opposition leaders condemned attacks on Palestinians as "racist" and a disgrace to Judaism.Wyre Davies (BBC News)
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Instance PeerTube généraliste, une bonne alternative à YouTube et autres plateformes de streaming contrôlées par des géants du WEB. General PeerTube instance, a good alternative to YouTube and other streaming platforms controlled by WEB giants.Mes Numériques
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North Korea lambasts Trump's Golden Dome plan
North Korea lambasts Trump's 'Golden Dome' plan
North Korea said Trump's "Golden Dome" plan is "a very dangerous initiative that will turn space into a potential nuclear war field." Trump has said the program is necessary for US security.Midhat Fatimah (Deutsche Welle)
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Of course the situation might've been different. You wouldn't have dumb needless animosity on sectarian lines as they do today. Understand that by saying dumb shit like "The fighting would've happened anyway!" serves two purposes: a) to minimize the depravity of the British, the British Raj and colonialism in general and b) assumes that clashes on the basis of sectarianism is an inevitable pathway. Btw, partitioning is a tried-and-tested, colonial "divide and conquer" tactic.
Point is, a lot more lives could've been spared had it not been for colonialism that plagued the area, this is indisputable.
I thought Kashmir was run by a Hindu at the time and they chose to go with India rather than Pakistan.
Definitely we can blame imperialism for a lot but some of the disputed territory wasn't Brittain's fault, afaik
My history is lacking on the conflict but IIRC the area was 'run' as a monarchy under British rule. The monarchy was Hindu but the population was largely Muslim.
So you had a local population in conflict with a ruling class inheriting being a mechanism of the colonial apparatus.
Scanned that, and it appears that the Muslim and Hindu peoples were fighting
As independence approached, the violence between Hindus and Muslims in the provinces of Punjab and Bengal continued unabated.
There's a statement earlier that the fighting was instigated by the British, but it lacks citation.
The Congress was secular and strongly opposed to having any religious state.[96] It insisted there was a natural unity to India, and repeatedly blamed the British for "divide and rule" tactics based on prompting Muslims to think of themselves as alien from Hindus.[citation needed]
I didn't downvote you, for the record lol.
The tl;dr is that India and Pakistan used to be a dozen different countries until foreigners showed up with guns and decided to redraw the map. All those international tensions didn't evaporate, and it's more or less the equivalent of trying to put angry cats together in the same bag. The British didn't cause the tensions, but their fuckery absolutely made it worse.
The article also doesn't cover the Sikh separatists, but they've also been around since the East India Trading Co merged their empire with India, and the current Indian government has been assassinating supporters.
You know what would improve Wikipedia? A "search this page" option.
I was looking to see if the formation (imposing) of Pakistan and India was around 1918 along with all those other great Treaty of Versailles decisions like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
I gave up. With long articles, we need a search within the article.
Speaking about the app. I don't know about the website because all Wikipedia opens the app. I can't even go there deliberately in a browser.
Oh, lame, it asks which one I want to use on my phone. Their app is okay, but there's some rough spots still. It also doesn't help that you have to read multiple articles in order to get a full picture, since they split off the history of the British Raj from the overview.
The Treaty of Versailles shook it up a bit and there were various revolutions that softened British rule, but the Brits were there until the 40s and formed Pakistan on their way out.
When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants
When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants
In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed. Michael Luo reports.Michael Luo (The New Yorker)
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in reply to Libra00 • • •sudo dnf in onedrive) and for easier use and setup I recommend OneDriveGUI which has a pretty easy way to setup ones profile. Available either as an appimage, by compiling yourself or via the AUR via distrobox (which I just tested from Nobara and works, although personally I just use the appimage version).::: spoiler Screenshot
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GitHub - abraunegg/onedrive: OneDrive Client for Linux
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in reply to Libra00 • • •Bazzite seems much better supported than Nobara, but both offer a Gnome variant, which has native support for onedrive.
If you stick with plasma, this project looks promising:
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in reply to funkajunk • • •I hate the 'containerize everything' methodology of Bazzite. I tried it, and every problem I ran into the solution was like 'Oh, go add this line to the config file in this folder, easy peasy', only nothing was where it should've been because everything was containerized. I get that it's useful, but it's not my jam. I like nobara a lot better (because it's a regular distro, but also because it's not-ubuntu which hates my bog-standard RTX3060 GPU for, uh, reasons; Pop wouldn't let me update the nvidia driver without hard-locking the system no matter the version I tried, 2 installs of Ubuntu simply turned my monitor off with 'no signal' on boot and refused to do anything even when I let them sit there for 30 minutes, and Mint did the same thing booting the installer on USB.
However, I've since discovered pCloud and begun migrating my onedrive stuff over there. I was only ever using onedrive because it came installed with windows and I needed a place to put little stuff like my keepass passwords database and small projects and such to ensure that they were backed up. I
... show moreI hate the 'containerize everything' methodology of Bazzite. I tried it, and every problem I ran into the solution was like 'Oh, go add this line to the config file in this folder, easy peasy', only nothing was where it should've been because everything was containerized. I get that it's useful, but it's not my jam. I like nobara a lot better (because it's a regular distro, but also because it's not-ubuntu which hates my bog-standard RTX3060 GPU for, uh, reasons; Pop wouldn't let me update the nvidia driver without hard-locking the system no matter the version I tried, 2 installs of Ubuntu simply turned my monitor off with 'no signal' on boot and refused to do anything even when I let them sit there for 30 minutes, and Mint did the same thing booting the installer on USB.
However, I've since discovered pCloud and begun migrating my onedrive stuff over there. I was only ever using onedrive because it came installed with windows and I needed a place to put little stuff like my keepass passwords database and small projects and such to ensure that they were backed up. I would much rather use something with a linux-native client and without all the fucky-wuckiness that tends to be involved in any Microsoft product.
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