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Do you use Pocket or other Read Later App? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

A good one IMHO is Omnivore.

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who love to read.

Alternatives to gboard with gesture/swype style typing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As a Heliboard enthusiast and pretty happy with it, I would like to ask you what you find wrong with it, what you miss from the original ?

What was a book so good that you have ReRead it? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The stand, by Stephen King

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Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ? (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Ok let's give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I'm a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write "good" code, readable and so.

However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don't sleep at night because of this.

I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

For now, I'm not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I'm sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive...

Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

Maintained Openboard FOSS Keyboard Fork (Android) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Very nice project, at least I can try to switch from gboard and degoogle me a little more ... For code, CLI, ... I, however, prefer Unexpected Keyboard.

Does anybody else continue to frequent Reddit, albeit without an account? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Only when a search on the web bring me there and anyway I deleted my account so only without an account (wouldn't say anonymously, even if my browser block trackers this is not ever possible)

What search engines do you use? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less "sponsored" results, ...

LocalSend cross-platform application for transferring files on local network in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nice tool, didn't knew about it, seems far more convenient for dumb end users than what I use right now.

Either setup http/ftp servers but that's painful to explain, or use services over Internet which is a shame on local network...

Thank You devs. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think that one of the structural change that helped a lot to have less stalled or unmaintained open source projects is the improvement in the DevOps tools.

I mean that, until recently, I always had been an open source user and supporter but, despite being a professional software engineer, I never coded in open source projects. The reason to this is that I did not wanted to commit myself into a project that I cannot afford to work regularly on because of professional and/or personal time constraints.

Now with the broad use of git and related platforms for open source projects (GitHub, gitlab, ...), it's possible to work only a little on open source projects. You can fix a bug impacting you as an user, translate some strings in your native language, improve the doc, ... without commiting to work regularly on the project. You just change the stuff, have no requirements to inform anyone, make a pull request and it's merged or not by the maintener ...

I think this is really what contributed to improvement in the way open source projects evolved.

Clients for F Droid in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use droid-ify. I tried NeoStore, I like the UI more buy I find it a bit too unstable. I also use obtainium for some fast evolving projects or stuff not on f-droid repositories. Never heard of f droid classic, will give a try.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

So I'll contribute with my list too.

Most used utilities apps:

  • Droid-ify: F-droid repositories client in modern design for Android. (NeoStore is nice too but I find this one more stable)
  • Obtainium: For stuff either not available on f-droid mirrors or for "young" projects, in order to have latest updates sooner.
  • MJ PDF
  • Barcode Scanner
  • Simple Gallery
  • Unexpected Keyboard: for programming/CLI stuff
  • yetCalc: Calculator and units converter
  • Acode editor: Android code/text editor
  • Termux
  • OsmAnd: Maps and navigation software (Using it from play store because I pay a subscription to support the devs while doing hiking)
  • Copy to clipboard: Add an action in Android "share to" to copy shared text to clipboard
  • Coffee: Utility to force keep screen on for a configured delay
  • LinkSheet: Allow to configure App chooser properly for URL opening even with Android 12+
  • Breezy Weather: Provide weather from many providers in a beautiful UI
  • Fedilab: Mastodon client
  • Voyager: Lemmy client
  • Feeder: RSS client
  • LibreTube: Android interface to piped to watch YouTube videos with privacy in mind
  • Authenticator Pro: Two-factor authenticator TOTP/HOTP manager
  • BitWarden: Password manager

Games (because it can help fighting boredom when in a waiting room or so):