• omxxi@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    firefox

    considering the big monopoly of chrome based is not really free, it’s paid by google or microsoft mining user data

    • omxxi@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yes, google pay for being the default search engine, but that doesn’t mean they collect your information. And even better, there are also Firefox forks security oriented.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The Dialer.

    • Comes with every phone
    • 10+ digit number instantly connects you with millions of people, services, and institutions
    • 3 digits connects you with life-saving emergency support
    • Very low-latency voice support
    • High quality audio (most of the time)
    • No ads
    • No obnoxious UI

    All kidding aside, I’m routinely astounded at how we have yet to top the ease and utility of old-fashioned phone service.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    For work, entire ecosystems of dependencies. For every language, there’s so much you can do by just including a free module.

    My company has some decent policies about giving back, but only on a case by case basis. I’ve been encountering resistance from both sides trying to formalize it.

    • WTF is that developer saying he doesn’t want to scan his opensource projects or take advantage of automated builds and testing, as well as regular dependency updates?
    • WTF is management so concerned about security and confidentiality but want to just ignore an entire category of components?

    We have the tools, we have the process: everyone would be happier of opensource were a first class citizen with well understood rules and practices

  • spidermonkey23@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    A bit more niche, is Weasis - Dicom Browser for medical images. Alternative is also ImageJ which is used a lot in for scans too.

  • dishpanman@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Adding the following that i have not seen mentioned yet:

    Docker - I literally run most of my server programs with docker now. Home Assistant, Jellyfin, and many others.

    Tiny Media Manager that I use to scraper and organize my media library

    Tiny Tiny RSS to combine my news sites into one aggregator. I actually saw this post on it since Lemmy has RSS feeds!

    Openwrt I run as my home router.

    I2P but it’s still pretty clunky.

    Nomachine I use as a remote desktop client.

    RocketDock I still use on my windows desktop after windows removed the programs toolbar.

    ImageJ/Fiji I use for image processing, it’s from the NIH, with a bunch of Java plugins.

    Gluetun I use to run my vpn client

    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I haven’t used windows in about 15 years on my personal machines but see 7zip referenced everywhere…why is it so popular? Can windows 10/11 or whatever we’re on now not compress/extract most things itself or do people prefer it for some reason (nice interface etc)?

      I’m always amazed when I’m following a tutorial written for windows and it says “download and install 7zip, then extract the file using 7zip”. I just right click the file and extract it…

      • viking@infosec.pub
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        3 months ago

        Windows can do that, but opens archives as folders and will run executables by extracting them to a temp folder without dependencies. And the unpack dialogue is cumbersome, with 7zip you get a simple right click -> extract here / to folder dialogue, that somehow still is too much to ask of the main OS.

        • Someone64@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          It’s likely for 'user friendliness’. Most people don’t even know what an archive is and that it should be extracted so a folder is much more intuitive and familiar to them.

      • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Windows only recently got support for 7z and RAR. For the several decades before that, it supported neither.