With a lot of open source projects being worked on largely out of passion rather than financial gain I feel like there must have been several times where a release caught people off guard and “came out of nowhere” with its impressive scale.

To give some examples of how this might happen maybe it was an initial release dropped to the public in a complete state that had been worked on for a while privately or a project that was dormant for an extended period of time and picked back up.

Can anyone here think of an example? It doesn’t necessarily need to be something groundbreaking maybe it got people excited in a very specific niche.

If you do have an answer I’d appreciate it if you could elaborate on it.

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came out of nowhere?

I don’t think anyone expected MS-DOS 4.0 (1986) to release under the MIT license in 2024

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

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what the fuck

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Florisboard (Android keyboard) was recently updated for the first time in two years. Literally one day after I had given up on it and uninstalled it.

https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard

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Is the autocorrect any better than Heliboard?

 


Edit: I didn’t mean to imply that it’s bad; it’s just not very good. Then again, that may also not be Heliboard’s fault. It personally feels like keyboards in general have become worse at autocorrect during the last ten or so years.

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No, the autocorrect literally doesn’t exist.

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That is...extremely unfortunate.

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Nextcloud has had some amazing updates recently. Adding Nextcloud Hub comes to mind.

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https://nextcloud.com/hub/

Hub integrates the four key Nextcloud products Files, Talk, Groupware and Office into a single platform, optimizing the flow of collaboration. Eliminate the confusing hodgepodge of different SaaS tools and the compliance, security, cost and productivity issues that come with it and standardize on a single solution with Nextcloud Hub.

Cool!

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Is it an app for android or just the webpage that integrates all the cloud features like notes, files, etc. Sorry for noob question.

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Hub is their core set of groupware apps for Nextcloud. They’re all tightly integrated. It came out with Nextcloud 18.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/the-new-standard-in-on-premises-team-collaboration-nextcloud-hub/

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Thanks. I started using next cloud recently and thought it was always like this. Highly recommend cause I can replace lot of google services like notes, files and also calendar/contact sync. So many things for free, it’s awesome!

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Finamp’s current alpha was a huge surprise to me. I stopped looking at development for a few months and in that time they completely reworked it

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Wow the UI is nice

https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp

Finamp is a Jellyfin music player for Android and iOS. It’s meant to give you a similar listening experience as traditional streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, but for the music that you already own. It’s free, open-source software, just like Jellyfin itself.

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I dunno… Jellyfin does great as a Video media player/streaming platform. I prefer to not have everything in the same basket.

Also, this is better for Dev, so they only have to concentrate to one type of thing. I would rather suggest navidrome as a music server and Tempo as a music client for android !!

Tempo doesn’t get updated so much (every few months) but he/she takes his time to make his player functional and very pleasing to the eyes.

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I agree limiting application scope is useful for multiple reasons, however Jellyfin started as a fork of Emby which already had music support. I have yet to find a standalone application that has enough features to sway me from just utilizing the existing media server functionality.

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Emby which already had music support.

Didn’t knew that ! My bad. Thanks for the precision !

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Ghidra. Boom, here is 90% of ida pro. Enjoy.

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Ghidra the code reverse engineering tool for analyzing code?

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Yes

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As much as I complain about the NSA memeing around with zero days and data collection, their open sourced stuff is really cool and useful.

Same thing for SELinux. Suddenly kernel supports complete MAC security out of box.

Ghidra even gets huge updates with some good features to keep up with Ida.

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There really is 2 NSA’s, with conflicting goals. Keep Americans secure, and collect everyone elses data. Its a difficult line to walk. The first half does produce really good advice and tools, but is undermined by the second halfs image.

I fortunately never learnt Ida due to cost, so I have no idea what is missing, but ghidra was a godsend for CTFs. Suddenly reversing challenges were accessible and easy.

https://code.nsa.gov/# - Lots of useful stuff here.

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