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Notably absent are all of the remote debugging extensions and Copilot. This would be a deal-breaker for many.
[0] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/index....
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widelands
Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.
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best-practices-badge
🏆Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Best Practices Badge (formerly Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices Badge)
Project mention: Netdata is shipping their new dashboard as closed source blobs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-16 -
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Project mention: FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-30
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fortune-mod
Implementation of the Unix fortune command for displaying a random quotation, for Linux and other systems.
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libossia
A modern C++, cross-environment distributed object model for creative coding and interaction scoring
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Project mention: Thorium: Cross-platform patched Chromium fork "fastest browser on Earth" | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-20
Seems they're really into "windows 7-ing" all the things <https://thorium.rocks/win7>, hacking^W Optimizing!!1 Firefox and VSCodium, too
and FWIW I despise the thinking that leads one to commit ever-changing binary artifacts into git because then $(git clone) turns into a DVD sized download https://github.com/Alex313031/codium/commit/5bd47c17194e8019...
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fc-solve
Freecell Solver - a C library for automatically solving Freecell and some other variants of card Solitaire
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Nostr is much better protocol for this despite the bitcoin slant. That being said, i only follow non-bitcoin cultists (except some nostr devs that are also bitcoiners) and the sheer variety and different use cases of the apps being made,that are actually up and running and working, is crazy. And every time someone comes up with a new app idea/client, i just go there and immediately use it with my same identity with one click. Also Nostr is not vc backed and many unrelated devs work based on their own ambitions mostly from donations and funding from https://opensats.org/. Free Our Feeds, with much less money, could create a set of standard redundant general public relays that are not commonly added by all the bitcoiners to grow a userbase with unslanted eclectic content. For onboarding they shoudl create as service that combines creating a new account with assigning a domain-based handle and acting as an "nsecbunker" / event signer. This service has normal password and stuff that can be reset and stores the unchangeable public/private keys (also acts as a signer for events). To the user, the onboarding is just like email services: Pick a nostr name account host: you make an account with a name and password, then on each app you type in your handle and it directs to the nsecbunker software running on that provider that asks for your current password. If that service shuts down it's as easy as finng another oine and putting in your private key and your same identity keeps moving on, albeit your "handle" would be different. For smarter/technical users, they can just use an nsecbunker url or a signer extension. Honestly, a signer extensions (or app like amber) are like the best user experience but getting people to set up the app with a private key isn't a good experience yet.
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Project mention: Awesome Donations: A repository of FLOSS donation options | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-02
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rms-letter-comparison
GitHub petitions regarding removal of rms: contributor comparison data and computational analysis
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Insular
A sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your personal data outside the sandbox (including call logs, contacts, photos and etc) even if related permissions are granted. Device-bound data (SMS, IMEI and etc) is still accessible. (by secure-system)
Project mention: Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-08If anyone is in the situation that they need to put an untrustworthy app on their android device, the "work profile" feature can segment it off further.
Insular is an app that lets you create and manage one of these profiles on the device itself: https://gitlab.com/secure-system/Insular
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Floss projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | vscodium | 26,706 |
| 2 | YalpStore | 2,418 |
| 3 | widelands | 2,068 |
| 4 | best-practices-badge | 1,253 |
| 5 | wgtunnel | 1,251 |
| 6 | FakeTraveler | 794 |
| 7 | fortune-mod | 457 |
| 8 | FLOSS-Games-on-Steam | 264 |
| 9 | libossia | 213 |
| 10 | codium | 166 |
| 11 | PineDocs | 142 |
| 12 | fc-solve | 61 |
| 13 | Lokal | 48 |
| 14 | website | 39 |
| 15 | awesome-donations | 27 |
| 16 | rms-letter-comparison | 5 |
| 17 | awesome-donations | 1 |
| 18 | Insular | - |
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