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Good foss app to run a simple http server from a directory? by fievel in c/android@lemmy.world

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I use SimpleHttp server but it's not open source and available only on play store. I use this to download epub from my e-reader after having downloaded them on my phone. Now I will look into foss solutions proposed in this Post, through termux or other apps, thanks.

Edit: indeed with termux + caddy + termux widget it's just perfect

Do you use Pocket or other Read Later App? by fievel in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago

A good one IMHO is Omnivore.

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

Do you use Discord or Matrix? by fievel in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Internet Relay Chat.

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How do you follow your favorite authors ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/chat@literature.cafe

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As almost every readers, I have some favorite authors from which I like to read everything they publish. But I wonder how I can efficiently "follow" their publication. Do you know about a service (free, at least as in free beer, at best from the foss world)which can offer such syndication? I'm thinking about a personalized rss feed, or a e-mail, or any way. For the moment, I just look from time to time to their website or social media page but the issues I have are:

I look when I think about it (it would be better to be somehow notified)
It's time consuming and inefficient

What was a book so good that you have ReRead it? by fievel in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

The stand, by Stephen King

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TIL the etymology of british isles names (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 months ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/til@lemmy.world

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Pretty interesting video ...

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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 fievel@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

Preparing a megathread about android FOSS apps - Part Four (Keyboards, Notes, Maps and Music Players) by fievel in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Really happy with this fork, using it for several months now. Also occasionally Unexpected Keyboard for termux / ssh / code ....

Simple Gallery Pro vanished from F-Droid, any similar alternatives? by fievel in c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 37 points 5 months ago

Otherwize there is another (very IMHO) good alternative FOSS gallery: AVES

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Lemmy (active) users # seems to stabilize (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by fievel@lemm.ee to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.

The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Community for finding communities? by fievel in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

Also:

Where can I find recipes without the author's personal anecdotes? by fievel in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

Nowadays it's video for everything... Am I the only old bear that prefer plain old textual tutorials?

What search engines do you use? by fievel in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago

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

Thank You devs. by fievel in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 37 points 10 months ago

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.

Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by fievel in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

Exactly this is the problem, when I talk non-geek (including my wife) about privacy they answer "what the hell have you to hide !" ... It's so difficult to convince people :'(

There is no such thing as an effective "AI detector", nor will there ever be one. by fievel in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] fievel@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Very interesting post, congrats...

The more I read and see about AI / deep learning and the more I feel anxious...

I'm anxious because we seen during the covid crisis how many people were easily convinced of fake news and complotist theories that were by no way realistic, now I imagine that with the power of a forged argumentation from chatgpt and deep fake from midjourney... How to convince people they are wrong then...

I'm also anxious about the changes that will occur in the job I love, software engineering... I don't want to spend the rest of my life fixing bug in code automatically generated by an AI. Or worse to loose my job because some manager think I can be replaced easily by a bot ...

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Backup script for Lemmy (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hello, do you know about a script or app or so that can backup data from a Lemmy instance as an end-user? At least the list of subscribed communities, settings, profile (bio) should be nice. I've been on VLemmy and lost one full evening trying to figure out what my subscription were (well not completely lost my time I also discovered new communities), but I want to avoid that in the future. If this doesn't exist yet I may develop it but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone and someone did it already...