Source release soon, I made this as my final project for a course I am currently doing(pretty overkill for a 1 credit course but i digress), I am planning on hosting the project on codeberg, but I am deferring for now as final grading is still left.

for those who are interested: Its written completely in C, with SDL_GPU as the graphics api.(I didn't want to make it in openGl as its pretty clear its dying)

Its deeply integrated with a companion C extension I wrote for python, this allows me to write game scripts in python, and crucially allows the game developer to leverage existing popular python libraries. Because of Python's recent proposal to drop the GiL, I feel that choosing python as the scripting layer is the right call for wider adoption

I was pretty prudent with my design philosophy regarding what python is allowed to do and what the engine handles(limiting my use of creating PyTypeObjects for everything for instance, even game objects are just integer handles in python).

Whats not here yet is multithreading, a collision system and a physics engine, but because of python support I was able to demonstrate physics using the pyBullet library, its quite performant and was able to handle about 300 physics object on screen with collisions without dropping frames.

I am planning on opensourcing it under a suitable license that is not MIT, something like GPLv2 but I might change my mind.

I am looking for contributors, this was the culmination of over two months of research, scrapped code and sleepless nights, it took me a solid month of experimenting and headbanging with various existing rendering libraries like bgfx before I finally bit the bullet and wrote a renderer based on SDL instead, but i am still new to graphics programming, hence the default shaders are a bit wack.

I hope this generates enough interests to garner some momentum, and if you have any questions regarding this project, how an object script looks in python etc feel free to ask.

I wasn't familiar with the author before this article. You can see his wikipedia page here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_M._K%C3%BChn

He is best known for his efforts in GPL enforcement,[7] as the creator of FSF's license list, and as original author of the Affero General Public License. He has long been a proponent for non-profit structures for FLOSS development, and leads efforts in this direction through the Software Freedom Conservancy. He is a recipient of the 2012 O'Reilly Open Source Award.

Excerpt from the first part of the piece:

In this philosophical essay, I explore the question: “When (if at all) is it ethically and morally acceptable to use proprietary software in the production and/or improvement of urgently needed copylefted FOSS?”

The question presents a complex conundrum. I attempt herein to rigoriously examine it through both a priori ethical analysis and a posteriori (and folksy) consideration of my personal experience and the shared experiences of the early software freedom movement.

I surprised myself at the outcome of my analysis. I conclude that under some circumstances (of which we have already witnessed in key historical examples), use of proprietary software by FOSS contributors to create/improve FOSS becomes a moral imperative. And, that imperitive often supersedes the moral imperative to avoid using that proprietary software.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48326251

The Commission is proposing the European Technological Sovereignty Package, marking a change in Europe's approach to its tech ecosystems.

The Commission is putting forward a multi-pronged, comprehensive strategy to achieve technological sovereignty, with initiatives that are interconnected and mutually reinforcing across each stage of the value chain, from chips, to infrastructure, to software, cloud and AI, and in synergy with past and ongoing initiatives such as AI Factories and AI Gigafactories.

This is reflected in four initiatives:

• The Chips Act 2.0 to strengthen the semiconductor ecosystem and supply chain resilience, and boost domestic demand
• The Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) to unlock the potential AI and cloud, to transform our industrial ecosystems and improve societal outcomes
• The EU Open Source Strategy to reduce dependencies across the entire technology stack
• A Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in Energy

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/61272410

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/foss/p/1548253/we-are-trying-to-grow-a-new-foss-collaboration-community

A few of us have put together a forum and wiki in the hopes to build a community focused on collaboration for various open source and creative commons projects. We build the platform a few months ago, but haven't done the greatest job of actually spreading the word and building up the active members, so I'm posting in another attempt to try and spread the word to establish some activity for our community.

In short, the idea behind our website is to:

1. Build a community that is based on genuine connections and collaboration. Our community is a forum and wiki, and hopes to steer towards a slower (and possibly more old school) type of internet - and away from some communities that are mostly article reposts and memes.
2. Libre/foss/creative commons/etc - we want to help generate community that can come together to work on projects that benefit everyone, and in a way, push back against some of the urges of capitalism.
3. Involvement - we want to welcome everyone, but the idea is to eventually create a culture where people are not afraid to contribute small things to many projects. We want to motivate individuals to grow the foss ecosystem without feeling like they need to commit heavily to any one project. Projects can get rekindled and improved on even if others have abandoned it.

Overall, we have a big vision for the community - but at this point we are just trying to get it off the ground and are looking for members to sign up and start some discussions to help us grow.

The goal is to create a community that is able to stand on its own, and outlast myself or any of the other admins. And essentially become a commons space, with the current admins simply acting as a steward that can be replaced if they need/want to step down. In that respect, we hope to get some members and allow the community to grow and evolve the platform to fit the needs of the community.

While modern social media has its place, we felt that the current standing of online collaborative spaces were limiting and often highly niche. We hope that maybe we can grow a space for people of various skills, backgrounds, and ideas can come together to create a creative and productive space - and make some lasting connections as well.

I know this post got a bit lengthy, and many will probably skim over it, but if it's something that sounds interesting to you I would really appreciate it if you came over and checked it out, signed up, and maybe help us get some discussions going to help us grow our community. And of course, if you would be so kind as to helping us spread the word, it would be greatly appreciated - as we spent so much time working on building the site, but none of us are all that great at actually "marketing" the community to actually find new members.

Our forum is: forum.UnfinishedProjects.net

And our wiki, where we hope people will actually build out various projects together is located at:

UnfinishedProjects.net

HelixNotes is completely free, open source, with no bloat. Your notes should be yours.

So we made sure they are. https://helixnotes.com/

Here are a few of my faves:

• Breezy Weather - Nice weather app.
• Diatronome - Tuner, metronome, and synth
• NewPipe / NeuTube - I haven't found my fave tube app.
• Suntimes - Information and widgets about the sun and moon.

I'm just looking for some recommendations. It's difficult browsing through apps with F-Droid. Thanks!

Hi. I've been unable to find any app for monitoring sleep that it's not infested with ads, trackers, or in-app purchases.

Does anybody know of any open source, honest app for tracking sleep?

I'm glad to announce v0.4.5 release!

Syncspirit is continuous peer-to-peer realtime syncrhonization tool. It implements BEP protocol and provides seamless interoperability with existing syncthing nodes and clients.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/basiliscos/syncspirit/refs/heads/master/docs/fltk-overview.gif

You can download ready-to-use binaries for Linux x86_64 (AppImage), Windows 32 bit (WindowsXP is supported), Windows 64 bit and Mac OS X (Apple silicon).

Notable changes:

• [core] monitor local filesystem changes in realtime and propagate updates across the cluster (inotify/ReadDirectoryChangesW/kqueue)
• [core] allow arbitrary subfolder rescan
• [core] do not accept files with non-valid utf8 filenames
• [ci/cd] use https://sourcecraft.dev/ infrastructure for building
• [core] bugfixes

Syncspirt source code uses GPLv3 license.

Any feedback is welcome!

WBR, basiliscos.

Do any of you guys now a company that produces quality mice where their firmware is open source and can be flashed/programmed with opens source software?

I've been downloading legally purchased ebooks (ascm files) and using Calibre to trick it into thinking that it's Adobe Digital Editions and then removing the DRM. lcpi seems like a new format, and I don't know what to do with it. Any suggestions?

EDIT: Sorry, "lcpl" not "lcpi," failing eyesight 🤓.

hey everyone, I wanted to share a project I’ve been developing for the past two weeks. I had tried to find a minimalist open-source bad-habit tracker, but I didn’t like the ones I found or ran into some issues. So I decided to build one using the stack I know best. I added some features like setting a target number of days with a progress bar toward that target, notes, and a feed to save articles, news, or video links that help you stay focused on your goal. there’s also an option to set a password to access the site, and both light and dark themes.

Severin Schols of MakerVan Labs has created the open-source hardware OSHW Coloring Zine, a booklet with pictures and descriptions of various open source hardware projects. It’s perfect to colored in.

Discarr is a self-hosted web UI that bridges disc rips (VIDEO_TS / BDMV / ISO) into Sonarr and Radarr. Scan a disc directory, map the titles to the right episodes or movies in the browser, and it handles the encode queue and arr notification.

Stack: Pure Node.js 18+, no npm packages, only built-in modules. Requires ffmpeg and ffprobe on the host; HandBrake optional. Docker image bundles both.

License: GPL-3.0.

Forgejo (primary): https://git.opensourcesolarpunk.com/Circuit-Forge/discarr GitHub (mirror): https://github.com/pyr0ball/discarr

Still early, issues and PRs welcome.

https://github.com/gary-host-laptop/ushiro https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/%E5%BE%8C%E3%82%8D-ushiro/

Every image a website doesn't want you to have is still there — just gated. Ushiro drops you behind the scenes to find it. Background images, clickable decoys, alternative resolutions, inline SVGs, base64 chunks, shadow DOM. If it rendered on your screen, you can take it.

I forked behind! extension and added a little extra touch, plus some improvements

• How can iodéOS (Lineage fork) be installed on phones with bootloaders locked?
• Why would phones like the Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017) and Note 9 appear on their list of phone that it can be installed on when it has "no" across the board on this list?
• On phones with the bootloader locked, does it just sit on top of the existing android OS?

Sorry for all of the questions, but I am looking at as many options as possible available with a decent phone and camera long term to move away from Android and Google completely. I have done in the past, but looking for semi long term for when Android becomes locked down.

I just don't understand how they can create an installer that works with bootloader locked phones, and then the OS remain completely secure.

TIA

Are anyone up-to-date on the status of the syncthing-fork on Android, following the drama of catfriend1's sudden disappearance and the less-than-trust-building behavior of researchxxl? Did they rebuild that trust? Was it forked again by someone more trustworthy?