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Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelgangerDeep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger

2024-08-142024-08-14 Danie
A webcam view of a man wearing a blue t-shirt, sitting in a room with an open door behind him and a bookcase with books. To the right stands a green cactus type plant. The man's face looks like JD Vance.

Over the past few days, a software package called Deep-Live-Cam has been going viral on social media because it can take the face of a person extracted from a single photo and apply it to […]

Blogdeepfakes, technology, webcam

Cal.com is an open-source alternative to Calendy for scheduling meetings

2024-08-132024-08-13 Danie
Meeting invites showing one image of an e-mail format invite to someone giving various optional times to choose from. On the right side is an app open on a phone, prompting the user to just pick a time that works best from them from a month calendar view.

Cal.com works by everyone sharing their calendars to it, and it then suggests times when everyone should be available. It is great for doctors, dentists, teachers, companies meeting candidates, etc who need to set up […]

Blogmeetings, opensource, selfhosted, technology

Proton VPN adds ‘Discreet Icons’ to hide app on Android devices and adds more servers for countries with lack of freedoms

2024-08-062024-08-14 Danie
Purple and green background with title Proton VPN. To the right are seen two smartphone screens, one with title countries and showing many country flags over a depiction of Europe, and the other has the title Countries but lists countries by name with their flags.

One of the stand-out features is ‘Discreet Icon,’ a new setting allowing users to disguise the Proton VPN app icon and make it appear as a weather, notes, or calculator app. In countries governed by […]

Blogsecurity, technology

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

2024-08-062024-08-06 Danie
Old DOS based word processor showing some sample text, and the shortcut key type menus in use back in the day.

Before WordPerfect, the most popular work processor was WordStar. Now, the last ever DOS version has been bundled and set free by one of its biggest fans. One forgets today how massive WordPerfect and WordStar […]

Blogretro, technology, WordStar

Vanilla OS Orchid improves on an already brilliant Linux distribution — Immutable and Supports all Package Manager Sources

2024-08-062024-08-06 Danie
Desktop OS screen showing some windows open, with an Apple Mac style dock at the bottom.

I’ve never used Vanilla OS, but I see mentions of it popping up more and more. Interesting that it has already embraced the immutable approach to the root desktop OS so that the root file […]

Bloglinux, opensource, technology, vanillaos

The status in 2024 of Linux distros with an undo function for updates

2024-08-042024-08-04 Danie
Close view of a keyboard with the right shift key being a bright red key with the word undo on it.

The big names mostly can’t yet, but some lesser-known Linux distributions offer the ability to undo updates and recover from damage, even automatically. With a new version of Linux Mint available, a lot of people […]

Bloglinux, technology

3 reasons magnetic switches are shaking up the keyboard scene

2024-08-022024-08-02 Danie
Close view of a keyboard with three of the key caps removed.

Mechanical keyboards have been responsible for a huge shift in user behaviour, owing to the superior typing experience they offer over traditional or membrane keyboards. Mechanical switches are at the core of that experience, offering […]

Blogkeyboards, technology

Paperless-ngx is a privacy respecting open-source self-hosted document management solution

2024-08-012024-08-01 Danie
Caption words as per post title

This is a great solution for scanning or uploading any documents, images, e-mails, etc into your own self-hosted solution for home or business use. Nothing is shared out to other services, and being self-hosted, it’s […]

Blogdocumentmanagement, opensource, paperlessngx, privacy, technology

Why Snap and Flatpak make Linux a better OS and how they’re different

2024-07-312024-07-31 Danie
Tow penguins. The background shows blue sky with a few clouds.

One of the reasons why Snap and Flatpak were developed was to remove the dependency issues found with traditional package managers. Snap and Flatpak packages contain all the software necessary to install the package in […]

Blogflatpak, linux, opensource, snap, technology

Reading an electric meter with a SDR for use in Home Assistant

2024-07-302024-07-30 Danie
An energy dashboard showing two bar graphs - one with energy usage and the other showing solar production.

My solar system also only reads its full power usage without seeing what power is going direct to the geysers. In my case, I’m using a Hall sensor with an Efergy cloud based system to […]

Bloghomeassistant, smarthome, technology

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