Category: open source

DeGoogle my life

According to Wikipedia to DeGoogle is the act of removing Google from your life. As the growing market share of the internet giant creates monopolistic power for the company in digital spaces, increasing numbers of journalists have noted the difficulty to find alternatives to the company’s products. This is my experience to purge my life of Google and I can assure you it’s difficult but if we don’t act soon it will become impossible.

My videos remastered on PeerTube

I uploaded my sixth remastered Solvespace video to PeerTube.

ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

Full logo of ActivityPub, a decentralized social networking protocol developed as part of the W3C Social Web Working Group, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, author: mray

If you’re new to the Fediverse you should know about ActivityPub and why it gives the Fediverse an edge over other social networks.

YouTube or PeerTube, which will it be.

PeerTube instead of YouTube

YouTube has a monopoly on video and this is bad news. Read what’s so bad about it and why PeerTube is a good alternative.

Giving OpenShot another try

Screenshot of Openshot with an altered user interface

After iMovie completely let me down I gave OpenShot another try and it didn’t disappoint.

Maintaining the Raspberry Pi Squeezebox server (aka Logitech Media Server)

This article describes how to maintain a Squeezebox server (or Logitech Media Server). All software used for this project is free and open source.

Creating a Raspberry Pi Squeezebox Server

Create your own Squeezebox server (aka Logitech Media Server, aka Slimserver) with a Raspberry Pi and a HDD in six steps.

Create animated GIFs from MP4 with FFmpeg

Learn how to create an animated GIF that’s small enough to upload but with a decent quality.

FLOSS tools to create a forum or community

With G+ closing in a couple of months community owners are searching for alternatives. I provide a number of FLOSS options.

How to rip a DVD

How do you rip a DVD even the one with DRM. What do you need to decrypt DVD’s, create mpeg4, add metadata and play it on Kodi, OpenELEC or LibreElec. This post describes the free/libre software that does the job.