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Introducing Mozilla’s AI Guide, the developers onboarding ramp to AI

Posted on by Michael G

Today, Mozilla announces the availability of its AI Guide, a community-driven resource, where developers can come together, ready to pioneer and drive generative AI innovations. In the spirit of a truly open web, Mozilla launches a tool that will evolve, just like the world of AI, which is messy, and poses complex questions that have […]

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Contributor Highlights

Posted on by Michael G

TWIF generated on Thursday, 26 Oct 2023 ,Week 43

F-Droid core

F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated from 1.18.0 to 1.19.0-alpha0, now with support for automatic background updates on Android 12+ as announced last week. Note that this is still in beta so brave users need to install this manually (enable Beta updates for the app or from Client expert settings).

Community News

@Licaon_Kter comments:

Aurora Store was updated from 4.3.3 to 4.3.5 fixing an important installation issue so users are advised to update.

Conversations was updated from 2.12.11+free to 2.12.12-beta.2+free adding experimental support for Private DNS (DNS over TLS), themed icon on Android 13+ and many other fixes. Note that this is still in beta so brave users need to install this manually (enable Beta updates for the app or from Client expert settings). The missing website description will be fixed in the next few days.

Linphone – open source SIP client was updated from 5.1.3 to 5.1.4 and now supports the narrow-band vocoder-based audio data compression algorithm G.729.

Prav is live in F-Droid! It’s a fork of Quicksy keeping the same easy onboarding for new XMPP users and phone number based automatic contact discovery. Prav is based in India and is backed by a cooperative society. Being an XMPP client it means it can communicate with XMPP users on servers all around the world.

@linsui comments:

I want to highlight some updates of this week:

Image Toolbox is finally updated again. Since 2.1.3 we can’t build the APK reproducibly. Then some prebuilt libs are added which introduces more problems. Thanks to the effort of @Licaon_Kter and @T8RIN those binaries are cleaned up and the APK is reproducible again after 4 months.

Kubenav is rewriten in Flutter and Go since 4.0.0. This broke the update checker and we only noticed that recently. @linsui added v4.2.3 and patched out some new non-free deps. It should be updated automatically in the future.

Sayboard, a voice IME, is in F-Droid now. We have many open source IME but none of them have voice input support. Now we have an open source voice IME based on Vosk.Yay!!!

Standard Notes is back! The license of Standard Notes was changed from AGPL3 to BY-NC-SA 4.0 which is not an FOSS license. After it was reported, we disabled affected versions and don’t update it anymore. Recently, the change was reverted so Standard Notes is FOSS again! More details can be found here. @proletarius101 re-enabled with an update.

TIDY Text-to-Image Discovery, a local image search tool, is in F-Droid now. It brings the power of AI to your phone, running totally offline!

Removed Apps

5 apps were removed

Carfoin’s API no longer works so the developer asked for it to be removed.

Infinity for Reddit can no longer connect to the website (#3098)

RadioBeacon and Radiocells.org UnifiedNlp Backend used a backend database that is no longer accessible (#3102)

WireGuard’s in-app updater makes it no longer eligible for inclusion in F-Droid. WireGuard users can get updates directly from upstream or switch to one of the alternatives.

Newly Added Apps

17 more apps were newly added

Downgraded Apps

2 apps were downgraded

Podverse was downgraded from 4.14.0 to 4.13.9 as the new version was crashing.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 2.2.0 then downgraded to 2.1.4 as the new version is crashing, please wait for a fixed version 2.2.1.

Updated Apps

~163 more apps were updated

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Inside Google’s plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search

Posted on by Michael G
Google quietly planned to put a lid on Apple’s search ambitions. The company looked for ways to undercut Spotlight by producing its own version for iPhones and to persuade more iPhone users to use Google’s Chrome web browser instead of Apple’s Safari browser, according to internal Google documents reviewed by The New York Times. At the same time, Google studied how to pry open Apple’s control of the iPhone by leveraging a new European law intended to help small companies compete with Big Tech. Google’s anti-Apple plan illustrated the importance that its executives placed on maintaining dominance in the search business. It also provides insight into the company’s complex relationship with Apple, a competitor in consumer gadgets and software that has been an instrumental partner in Google’s mobile ads business for more than a decade. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and this is clear example of that – a rare case where Google’s means line up with consumers’ needs to actually own their devices, including the ability to install whatever browser (engine) one wants and set it as default on your phone. That being said – seeing Google squirm over whatever Apple’s plans for its own possibly search engine are is highly entertaining and mildly satisfying. Apple switching iOS over to something other than Google will have some major fallout for the ad giant, and that alone would be fun to watch, in a let-it-burn kind of way.

Android 4 A new way to understand Android Ai voice ki madad se #android

Posted on by Michael G
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tittelloes | SynthV Mai Original

Posted on by Michael G
Full length tittelloes 🙂

Music: noriaki(nure)
Vocal: Mai

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/noriakinure/tittelloes-extended
Inst + SVP: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AgZljPU836NwouBUluRAwZ_0LzPjoQ

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Fp0Zux1eIZbPiRaQ7BVjb?si=lgrnDQJiTnChYi_E4x6aNw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4Fp0Zux1eIZbPiRaQ7BVjb
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/1695504374
Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/album/302834267
YT Music:

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Lyrics:
Take my hand before
We all float away
Going up all the way
Until we’ve reached the top

My boots are made out of chrome
Keeping me from flying to the sky
I don’t wanna go now

One day we’re ready to leave
And find out what we’ve been waiting for
What or who is after
Until then,

I’m riding on right here
Where I am
Gotta admit
I’d rather stay

Maybe I’m left behind
I really don’t care
I’ve got my song
I’m not alone

Flowers surrounding our home
Keeping me from fleeing to the stars
Vil ikke dra ennå

Because
The hug I wanted to give
Never got the chance to say goodbye
My arms remain open

En fugl på min rygg
Som føler seg trygg
Blant oss, det forstår jeg ei

Den gjør seg nok klar
Nå tar vi snart av
Så støvlene kommer av

My feathery friend
Will our friendship end
The moment I start to fly

Your ability
Could you teach it to me please

Haa
Haa

Inntil da,

Vil jeg bli værende
Her jeg er
Du må forstå
Jeg drar aldri

Om jeg må bli forlatt
Det er som det er
Med sang er jeg
Aldri alene

Alene, oh
Alene

Med sang er jeg
Aldri alene

Please join us (in French/ en Français) for the Moodle Academy webinar ‘Créez la “Leçon” dont ils seront les héros !’ on 16 November, 13:00 UTC

Posted on by Michael G
by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to join us for our next Moodle Academy webinar, which is free to attend. Please note: This webinar will be in French.

Webinaire: Créez la “Leçon” dont ils seront les héros !
16 novembre, 13:00-14:00 UTC

Méconnue et peu utilisée, l’activité Leçon, proposée nativement dans Moodle, permet de concevoir des études de cas non linéaires, ce qui en fait l’outil idéal pour créer des aventures et autres escape games pédagogiques. Pendant ce webinaire, les animateurs Thomas et Camille (IMT Nord Europe) vous accompagneront pour concevoir pas-à-pas le jeu “Théoodle Dungeon Escape”.

Ce webinaire fait partie du cours ‘Moodle Academy webinars‘. Il faut vous inscrire au cours pour participer au webinaire.

Inscrivez-vous à Moodle Academy!

Webinaire: Créez la "Leçon" dont ils seront les héros ! 16 novembre, 13:00-14:00 UTC. Inscrivez-vous! Moodle Academy.

Drupal Core News: Coding standards proposals for final discussion on 7 November

Posted on by Michael G

The Coding Standards Committe is announcing two coding standards changes for final discussion. Feedback will be reviewed at the meeting scheduled for 07 November.

Issues for discussion

The Coding Standards project page outlines the process for changing Drupal coding standards.

Recent changes

Allow constructor methods to omit docblocks

Documentation changes:

  1. Minimum requirements for in-code documentation
  2. Drupal API documentation standards for classes and namespaces

Always add trailing commas, for arrays and annotations

Documentation changes:

  1. Arrays coding standard
  2. @Annotation, @Plugin, etc.: Plugin discovery annotations

Join the team working on Coding Standards

Join #coding-standards in Drupal Slack to meet and work with others on improving the Drupal coding standards. We work on improving our standards as well as implementing them in the core software.