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TWIF curated on Thursday, 21 Nov 2024, Week 47

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Ever wanted to find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products? Maybe since 2013 and Snowden? Maybe since 2018 and GDPR? No matter your reason, or timeline, now you can either find or add your favorite to the european-alternatives.eu list. Some of them you see being mentioned weekly around here, in no particular order: Tuta Mail, Infomaniak kMail, OSMAnd, Organic Maps, koofr, Infomaniak kDrive, Nextcloud, Mastodon, Pleroma, Mullvad VPN, Proton VPN, Proton Pass, Threema, Codeberg, Firefox, Infomaniak kMeet, Tuta Calendar, Wire, Element, Mattermost, PeerTube.

“Only on F-Droid”? Facundo Holzmeister on YouTube has a clip with their list of best Open Source Apps NOT on a centralized store. And the first one on the list is Smart Dock recently updated to 1.13.0.

aTox was updated to 0.8.0 after almost 3 years. It’s mostly a bug fix release, but that’s progress too.

Kodi was updated to 21.1, just a point release but with plenty of fixes

OsmAnd~ was updated to 4.9.6 (and 4.9.7 will soon follow) and it brings a lot of nice features. My own favorite: a Vehicle Metrics plugin that lets you monitor your vehicle’s performance via OBD-II. We will mark this update as “suggested” after more testing, but you can always manually install it or toggle Beta updates from app details, to get it right now.

Status was updated to 2.31.1, and if you care about “tokens” and “swaps” you might want to take a look at what’s new.

UniPatcher was updated to 0.17.3 and brought back from Archive after 6 years. Besides the usual translations updates, there were a lot of fixes and improvements.

VLC was updated to 3.6.0 Beta 3, so make sure you give it a good run, specially if you’ve seen any crashes.

We talked about “team chat” solutions like Mattermost back in August, but did you know that Zulip, updated to 27.232, approaches the same goal by a different route? Their “topic based threading model” tries to allow users to better and easily follow conversations and improve communication. And of course, all this using a FLOSS server that you can self-host wherever you choose.

Newly Added Apps

1 app was newly added
  • MRT Buddy: Check your Dhaka MRT / Rapid Pass balances and trips instantly

Updated Apps

111 more apps were updated

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Matt Glaman: Lenient Composer Plugin officially replaces lenient packages endpoint

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Well, it’s official. My Drupal Lenient Composer Plugin has allowed the lenient Composer repository endpoint on Drupal.org to be sunset and removed. I created the mglaman/composer-drupal-lenient repository two years ago at DrupalCon Portland. It is pretty wild how much it has been adopted in just two years. Not only has it allowed the Drupal Association to dismantle some infrastructure, but it is also baked into the Drupal.org GitLab CI. The package is pushing over 3,000,000 downloads from Packagist!

Give Your Input on the State of Open Source Survey

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The OSI has partnered again with OpenLogic by Perforce to produce a comprehensive report on global, industry-wide Open Source software adoption trends. The 2025 State of Open Source Report will be based on responses to a survey of those working with Open Source software in their organizations, from developers to CTOs and everyone in between.

Linux to lose support for Apple and IBM’s failed PowerPC Common Hardware Reference Platform

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Ah, the Common Hardware Reference Platform, IBM’s and Apple’s ill-fated attempt at taking on the PC market with a reference PowerPC platform anybody could build and expand upon while remaining (mostly) compatible with one another. Sadly, like so many other things Apple was trying to do before Steve Jobs returned, it never took off, and even Apple itself never implemented CHRP in any meaningful way. Only a few random IBM and Motorola computers ever fully implemented it, and Apple didn’t get any further than basic CHRP support in Mac OS 8, and some PowerPC Macs were based on CHRP, without actually being compatible with it. We’re roughly three decades down the line now, and pretty much everyone except weird nerds like us have forgotten CHRP was ever even a thing, but Linux has continued to support CHRP all this time. This support, too, though, is coming to an end, as Michael Ellerman has informed the Linux kernel community that they’re thinking of getting rid of it. Only a very small number of machines are supported by CHRP in Linux: the IBM B50, bplan/Genesi’s Pegasos/Pegasos2 boards, the Total Impact briQ, and maybe some Motorola machines, and that’s it. Ellerman notes that these machines seem to have zero active users, and anyone wanting to bring CHRP support back can always go back in the git history. CHRP is one of the many, many footnotes in computing history, and with so few machines out there that supported it, and so few machines Linux’ CHRP support could even be used for, it makes perfect sense to remove this from the kernel, while obviously keeping it in git’s history in case anyone wants to work with it on their hardware in the future. Still, it’s always fun to see references to such old, obscure hardware and platforms in 2024, even if it’s technically sad news.