Mwmbl is a community-built, non-profit search engine that puts privacy and user control first. It offers a truly different search experience—one where the results are shaped not by corporate interests but by real people.

Key Features:

• Ad-Free & Privacy-Respecting: No ads, no tracking, and no commercial interests—just a search engine built with the users in mind.

• User-Curated Results: Instead of relying on algorithms, search results are refined and tuned by the community.

• Community-Driven Crawling: The engine relies on volunteer-run crawlers. Although the index currently holds around 500 million unique URLs, there's massive potential.

• Ambitious Growth Goals: mwmbl plans to reach 10 billion unique URLs by the end of 2025 and 100 billion by 2026, at which point it should be a true alternative to commercial search engines.

• Open-Source: The project is fully open-source, meaning you can contribute to the code and help resolve issues to push the project forward.

How to Get Involved:

Right now, the search quality is pretty rough, but that’s where you can make an impact:

• Contribute to the Index:

  • Install the Firefox Extension: Once installed, it crawls the web on your behalf.

  • Run the CLI Script: An even better option would be to use your spare computing power by running the command line crawler.

• Join the Community: The main community is on Matrix for non-development related discussions.

• Code Contributions: Check out the project on Codeberg. You can contribute code, report issues, or suggest new features to help make the search results better.

• Financial Contributions: Donate some money towards hosting costs and supporting volunteers.

As explained by the developer, Nvidia recently published the source code of its kernel driver under the MIT license (called NVRM). This driver is remarkably portable, and its platform-independent part can be compiled for Haiku with relatively minimal effort, although it requires the implementation of OS-specific binding code to be actually usable.

For those, who don't know: There is an app called StreetComplete.

StreetComplete is a mobile app that enhances OpenStreetMap (OSM) by allowing users to contribute to mapping efforts in their local areas. It gamifies the process of collecting and verifying geographic data through simple tasks.

Such simple tasks in StreetComplete could be providing information regarding:

1. Classifying streets (one-way or not)?

2. Is an object (e.g. a bench or a trash bin) still there, or was it removed by the city/state?

3. When does shop XY open and close?

4. Who is allowed to use the parking lot?

5. Does a bus station have lights?

6. Can people with disabilities use the crosswalk?

7. Is a way for bicycles?

It's getting warmer outside. Why not going out and playing it bit? It might feel a little bit like Pokemon GO (but compared to it, your location data won't be sold to Saudi Arabia).

If you usually don't go outside often or walk around outside often, maybe this could be a motivation/reason...

Official website of StreetComplete with download links: https://streetcomplete.app/

FAQ: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete/FAQ

If you have already use/played it, what's your rank?

Just had a look at the GIMP 3.0 milestones page and saw this.

Am I missing anything or is GIMP 3.0 actually going to be released soon?!

Hi!

If anyone know good Ai or Program to translate (and\or make subs) for video?

Tryed this but get errors all the times :( Looking alternatives

Thanks

The GitHub repos at https://github.com/organicmaps are all public archives now, but there's no information on them about why.

Hey, does anyone know and/or use an OSS grocery list?

That's something I wasn't able to digitalize, but I want to....

I'm looking for a grocery list server (hostable via Docker) that I can access from my smartphone or Desktop, but haven't found a good solution yet.

I know, there are Markdown note taking apps like Joplin and I'm using them as a private "knowledge base", but I wasn't convinced of them as grocery lists. I imagine, there could be some optimizations like templates for stuff you buy every time or auto-completions (e.g. if you type "papr" and there was "paprica" in your list history, it could auto-complete or at least suggest the word...).

How are you doing it? Already digitalized or still on paper? If digitalized, via some subscription service behind it or self-hosted?

There is a GitHub project called "Awesome-Linux-Software" (22.8k stars). It's a curated list of FOSS Desktop software on Linux.

It was what convinced me to switch from MacOS to Linux (first Debian, now Manjaro) 2 years ago, because it showed me for the first time, that there is a nice Desktop app on Linux for pretty much EVERYTHING.

If you'd print the list, it'd be ~ 50 pages.

Link: https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software

Floss things get a lot of rep for working well, but looking bad, sure we appreciate function, but here's some floss games that feel AND look good. These games are optimized for mobile, often polished to a tee, AND have the looks.

All links are for F-Droid

Tell me any more open source Android games you think look Amazing (on F-Droid or not).

Key: EXGL - extremely good looking

My favorite's:

• Super Retro Mega Wars - play retro games like Tetris, Snake, Atari breakout and space invaders, in style! EXGL

• TriPeaks - beautiful pixel art tri-peaks solitaire. EXGL

• Lato - more of a demo than a polished game, but still very fun to ski from peak to peak, and its gobsmackingly beautiful (heavily inspired by Alto's Adventure). EXGL

• Xeonjia - slide around on ice in this polished pixel art RPG

• Fruity Game - perhaps not conventional beauty, but as you merge fruit you will realise it is art of the finest order

• Libre Memory - a gorgeous app to play memory, with a creative "very hard" mode, bringing a whole new level to classic memory

• gauguin -a unique sudoku like game that's a lot of fun

• Flowit! - a puzzle game with fantastic level design

• Ricochlime - ricochet through your enemies defences

• Antimine

• fancy customizable minesweeper.

Other games which are also fun but aren't (imo) as polished and/or good looking as the ones above, or just aren't for me:

• Feudal Tactics - a fun strategy game, its pretty great, except it looks really bad (though the MS paint like looks do carry some charm)

• Vector Pinball -very fun pinball with great sound design

• Ball2Box - put the ball In the box

• RuamBaller - fun pixel art galaxian like game (bit to easy though)

• SUD🩷KU

• LibreSudoku

• Mindustry - looks great, though I haven't played it much, so that's why its here (may be moved to my favourites soon)

• BlastOff - guide your rocket to space through debris

• Astroids revenge - I nearly deleted this game because the default android controls suck, until realising better controls are hidden in settings, why.

• 2050 - 2048 but circles, fun and creative take on 2048 but the visuals are a bit lacking

• pixel wheels - looks are great but the controls are pretty bad (imo).

• unciv - civilisation building game, I haven't played this yet but once again it looks fun

Honorable mentions:

• GLXY - simple and quite elegant space gravity simulator (I love it but it's probably not what people reading this list want)

Hope you found a game you like!

Edit: added unciv and feudal tactics

Hi! I'm sometimes handling photos of people who wouldn't like their real faces shown. But pixellation isn't a very PR-friendly practice if you want to publish the images (e.g. photos of a protest).

So I remembered that ages ago, back when I used snapchat that they had this simple faceswap feature that was able to run on a simple smartphone and I was wondering:

Is there a simple, easy to set up program that takes the faces of a picture and faceswaps them with another, available face?

I was thinking of getting a random face from this-person-does-not-exist.com and superimpose it on the faces of the photo. This way, it's protecting the identity of the people on the photos, while keeping the photo easy to look at (plus, no one else's likeness will be used unconsentually).

After a quick google, I found faceswap.dev, but then I read stuff about extracting, training and converting and deemed it overkill. The feature I was thinking of was done for two people swapping their faces on a live video feed on a phone. I don't want to go broke by throwing a GTX 5090 on that problem.

Do you know any problem on Desktop (or maybe on android, or a selfhosted service) that can do that kind of thing? IMHO, it shouldn't be too hard.

BeaconDB has been a thing for a while now and there is a decent amount of data already... but ideally you'd want it to be reliable in as many places as possible.

You can also use it as your location provider with geoclue (default on heaps of Linux distros) and microG on Android which I find incredibly useful on my Laptop!

So please, if you have an Android phone, consider contributing. It literally takes seconds to set up and requires no account or API keys.

This section on the official website lists some awesome apps to use:

NeoStumbler

• user friendly app for easily submitting new coverage
• download on F-Droid or GitHub
• as of version 1.5.1, just click yes when prompted to set the endpoint to beaconDB
  • for older versions: in Settings -> Endpoint -> Suggested services, select beaconDB to automatically apply the correct configuration

Tower Collector

• long established app for collecting cell towers
• download on F-Droid or Google Play
• the latest versions of Tower Collector upload to beaconDB by default!

Network Survey new!

• robust tool for comprehensive local data collection
• download on F-Droid or Google Play
• on the main screen, under Upload to Database, open Upload Settings to enable submitting data to beaconDB

As a bonus, here are my current NeoStumbler stats after a few days of mapping here in the Frankfurt/Rhein-Main region in Germany :)

Thought this was interesting and worth knowing about :)

Servo and Ladybird are both nowhere near close to daily drivable (at least for the general public), however Servos been making a ton of progress after their restart and seems much more like an actual chrome competitor then Ladybird. So why do I never see it talked about while Ladybird seems to be the next big topic here?

Keep in mind I do think these are both amazing projects and I really hope they can co-exist

Edit: Looks like the main reasoning is Servo's focus on being embedded while Ladybird promises a fully functional browser

Update was from 3 days ago, I'm really hopeful ladybird could be a future browser option to help break the stranglehold chrome has over the market, while Mozilla is struggling to find meaningful direction.

It seems like an exciting project with monthly progress updates :) they keep chipping away at compatibility.

Hello! I was looking for alternatives for Spotify to listen to music and create and share playlists with friends, and found a huge amount of players, both local and streaming, but none of them offered a reliable way to share playlists with friends. So here me out: what if there were a federated, self hostable platform where you can create an account, that provides an API that all the million music app can integrate easily in order to synchronize and share them also with people that uses other apps? Do you think it would work? I believe that if something like this would widespread, huge music companies like Spotify and Youtube wouldn't implement such a thing, but that perhaps would be also a way to "disincentivize" people from using those services!

"Hi friends Me on musicapp1 and Fred on musicapp2 created this cool playlist, hear it out!!"

"Sorry I pay 12$/month for Spotify, I cannot see it"

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Even though the polygons don't exactly merit much of a second look, I'm shocked by how smoothly it runs and just generally how well-implemented the engine is. Especially with the incredible diversity of the different factions, it sort of feels like a more relaxed but still tactical WarCraft 3-like RTS. You have gold, wood, stone, and a food quota to manage, but some factions function so differently; one sort of copies StarCraft's Zerg or Protoss in the way that it has existing units irreversibly upgrade and specialize in specific forms, and another summons some units on the fly instead of at a base building.

I also see that it's extremely moddable and some people tried to make sci-fi total conversions, but I unfortunately see none that have had any recent work (sci-fi's really my jam).

Has anyone else tried this cross-platform FOSS game? It's great!

Despite the shortcomings presented in the video, I am still impressed by the OS overall, and the fact that the phone is so affordable really puts it on my list for the next phone tbh 😁

Also, the OS itself looks wonderful

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