(GET FUCKED ADOBE) Source 1: [https://futurism.com/future-society/adobe-creative-suite-software-open-source-artcraft](https://futurism.com/future-society/adobe-creative-suite-software-open-source-artcraft)

You guys have a lot of money and a lot of idle time that you're duplicating the same IDM clone that already exists multiple times? Why don't you contribute to an existing project instead?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share Serein, an open-source Discord client built from scratch in Rust using egui and wgpu.

The goal with Serein is to prove you don't have to sacrifice functionality to get native performance. It's shaping up to be one of the most feature-complete native clients out there, all while using roughly 9x less RAM than the stock Electron app:

• Rich Media & Chat: Replies, editing, inline video playback, image previews, threads, forums, attachments, and reaction picker.

• Native Voice & Screen Share: Custom audio pipeline with echo cancellation and noise suppression, plus screen sharing. (Now on every platform, hardware accelerated & with audio streaming)

• Rich Presence: WebSocket RPC transport with game detection, so it can pick up what you're playing automatically.

• User Settings & Server Management: Profile customization, channels, roles, permissions, server settings, and moderation.

• Extensions & Customization: Built-in extension support for both custom plugins and community themes, allowing you to tailor functionality and look to your liking.

• 100% Native Desktop UI: No Electron, no Node runtime, no background web processes. A temporary webview is spawned solely for the initial OAuth login and closes immediately once authenticated.

Since this is a fully community-driven project, contributions and pull requests are welcome.

It’s still in active development, so expect rough edges, and as with any custom client, please be aware of Discord's third-party client policies.

• GitHub: https://github.com/ViceVerse-cz/Serein

Would love to hear your thoughts, test reports, or feature wishlists. What would it take for you to use a native client full-time?

NOT saying all AI-assisted software is slop, but whenever I see one of these I IMMEDIATELY know the creator "built" this piece of abandonware with absolutely zero effort put into it.

EDIT: My image editor didn't have a text function so that's why it's badly handwritten

I built an infographic for some friends who have expressed interest in moving away from mainstream apps for various reasons. I'm looking for constructive feedback on everything from my choices to the layout. I really want to make it as privacy-focused as possible as well. Thanks in advance for any feedback!

When the guys at ArtCraft rebuilt Adobe's apps in Rust with Claude, I wanted the same for the download manager everyone knows, heh, IDM. I honestly never liked the licence nags. So I rebuilt its layout purely in Rust with the idea of a well-researched download engine: free, GPL, with Linux and Mac support.

Source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/anefzaoui/misterdownloadmanager

Site: https://misterdownloadmanager.com

I ran some numbers against IDM 6.42, my same machine, same server (the test server is in the repo if you want to rerun it): a 1 GB file in 1.01 s vs 5.46 s, a 256 KB file in 0.03 s vs 3.14 s.

It also does torrents and magnet links because why not, one place for all of them. And of course I couldn't skip video downloads from YouTube and other sites (through yt-dlp). Plus a scheduler, crash-safe resume and 86 languages. No ads, no account, no trial.

Windows is the stable one. The Mac and Linux builds work but are still experimental, so bug reports from those are really welcome.

The browser extension is in review at the Firefox and Chrome stores right now. Until then you can load it from the app's folder.

About AI, since it'll come up: yes, Claude wrote a lot of the code. I decided what it does and how it looks, and I tested every release myself. The tests are in the repo if you want to judge the code.

Hope it proves useful, I personally am my first user and have switched fully to it!

Let me know what you think!

Edit: thank you for all the support, I didn't expect this reception! If it's not too much of a hassle please star the Github repo so it can get in front of more people and it gets a chance to be useful! :)

Erdogan’s son in law, Selcuk Bayraktar, is claiming to have created a local and national social media platform called NeXT. It turned out that they used Mastodon’s open source code, modified it and made it closed source, which is against AGPLv3. There are also some dubious statements in their terms of service that suggest it they heavily track users.

I think we've all noticed the recent influx of posts about (mostly) vibecoded projects. I think it would be cool if the people who don't want to read those posts could filter them out. Thanks!

To be clear: I'm not hating on AI projects, I'm just trying to suggest an improvement to the subreddit

EDIT (should have done this from the start): To clarify what I mean by each tag:

• No AI used: no AI usage in any way or form

• light AI usage (autocomplete): Almost completely human written, but can include small snippets of AI from inline AI suggestions (AI autocomplete) This is NOT the same as standard autocomplete every modern IDE has had for many years.

• Mostly AI Generated: Anything that falls between light AI usage and Fully Vibecoded: some parts are human written, some parts not.

• Fully Vibecoded: You told the LLM what to do and don't know how the code works/how to code. If you were "checking/verifying" the code or testing to see if all features work, that also falls under Fully Vibecoded

Four days ago I posted MDM here and I honestly didn't expect what happened: over 700 upvotes, 240+ comments, 438 stars on GitHub, and 28 people who opened pull requests, reported bugs and joined the conversations. Two volunteers even reviewed the whole Italian and Arabic translations. Thank you, really!

So I spent those days on what you asked for, and 0.5 is out today, the biggest update so far.

Quick recap if you missed it: when the guys at ArtCraft rebuilt Adobe's apps in Rust with Claude, I wanted the same for the download manager everyone knows, heh, IDM. I honestly never liked the licence nags. So I rebuilt its layout purely in Rust with the idea of a well-researched download engine: free, GPL, with Linux and Mac support.

Source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/anefzaoui/misterdownloadmanager

Site: https://misterdownloadmanager.com

The numbers against IDM 6.42, same machine, same server (the test server is in the repo if you want to rerun it): a 1 GB file in 1.01 s vs 5.46 s, a 256 KB file in 0.03 s vs 3.14 s.

What's new in 0.5:

- Themes: 9 built-in looks (Metro, Luna, Aero, Aqua, Adwaita, Breeze and more), and you can write your own or use your Base16 and pywal colours. Yes, ricers, this one's for you :)

- Linux is no longer experimental: checked on GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon, with AppImage, .deb, .rpm and tar.gz

- Control it from your phone on your own network, or run it headless on a server, NAS, Docker or Unraid

- The browser extension is finally in the Chrome Web Store and on Firefox Add-ons, one click and it updates itself

- It lists the videos and streams a page has loaded, with their qualities, and works through your browser's VPN or proxy extension

- Video: whole playlists and channels, subtitles, sound only as MP3, Opus or FLAC, and videos that need you signed in

- Torrents: watch while it downloads, RSS feeds with rules, seeding limits

- Real-Debrid, AllDebrid and Premiumize support

- Link grabber that groups your links, checks which are online and extracts archives when they arrive

- Google Drive links download the real file

- Tie your downloads to one network adapter, like your VPN's, with a kill switch. If it drops, nothing leaks

- Choose your own DNS, and see which country each server is in

- Every window up to 200 %, and passwords in your system's keychain

- And the downloads got smaller on top of all that

It also still does what it did: torrents and magnet links, video from YouTube and other sites (through yt-dlp), a scheduler that can now even wake your computer, crash-safe resume and 86 languages. No ads, no account, no trial.

Windows and Linux are the solid ones now. The Mac builds work but are still experimental, so bug reports from those are really welcome.

About AI, since it'll come up again: yes, Claude wrote a lot of the code. I decide what it does and how it looks, and I test every release. The tests are in the repo if you want to judge the code.

Everyone who helped is on the home page now, with their photo, because it wouldn't be this good without them. Open an issue or a PR and you're on it too :)

Let me know what you think! And if you like it, a star on GitHub really helps it get in front of more people and gets it a chance to be useful :)

Live: https://fcksignups.com/

I've opened my eyes lately to how capable the browser is. I mean, there's a WebRTC API, WebGPU API, a WASM runtime, maybe an LocalLLM API soon if the Chrome team insists...?

This means that the barrier of using tools should be little-to-none since it should be as easy as opening a browser tab.

Since I'm the audience for no-signup, in-browser, open-source tools, I figured I make a place that curates all of those tools in one place.

If you guys know of/built a tool that fits the criteria, and believe people can benefit from it, don't be afraid to submit it!

GitHub: https://github.com/BraveOPotato/fckSignups/

When this story about ArtCraft started going around I found it kinda weird that people were raising these vibe coders up as if no one had ever done something like that before. Seems like this is the most up-to-date version of the chart, go support the open source projects before jumping on some vibe coded bandwagon. Put newer software in the replies too

Also makes me wonder where the AI models got the training to reproduce those kinds of products

This is a screenshot from newpipe.

Hi everyone,

Little rant here:

I did start a new job 4 years ago as one of two IT-guys in an engineering office, about 80 people working there.

When I started working there, they used a lot of cracks and also wasted a lot of money on various sofrware licenes. The company also was charged with fines vor using cracked software by the original vendor.

I did introduce software like Handbrake, ShareX, inkscape and other useful software. Even using checkmk for server and network monitoring and FreeCAD found a use case too.

I told the other IT guy (he is the boss of IT department) we could set up a yearly donation budget to donate to various FOSS software every year.

The answer was "no, why should we pay if we do not have to?".

It is so sad that a lot of people are FOSS vampires, and if companies make heavy use of foss and give nothing back I do get angry.

I will stop finding FOSS software at my workplace. Let them pay, they don't deserve FOSS.

Edit: thank you for all your kind answers! You are awesome!

I can create bug reports, manuals and so during my working hours. That's my way to contribute to FOSS in our company!

To start off with, I want to say thank you to everyone in this community who helped me update this to reflect true foss alternatives.  It is something I’m still new to, and I appreciate all of the advice and suggestions in my previous post.

Some of the choices that were presented led to some confusion, which I didn’t realise until after the fact.  I’d like to provide some background to clear that up.  This idea originally started as a deGoogle, deMicrosoft, deMeta idea.  As I went down the rabbit hole, I decided to go all in on foss.  Unfortunately, I rushed it, and there were many, imho, some good choices, but they weren’t foss. So, my apologies for not having gone back to double-check. 

My thoughts are to add more options, but before it gets too unwieldy, I wanted to nail down the core template first.  I also wanted to address the AI slop comments.  I built this in a spreadsheet and pulled the icons from the web.  You can tell that the arrows aren’t perfect.  Wish they would snap, but I did the best I could.

I’m asking for more feedback, preferably constructive, as I want this to be useful for everyone, regardless of the reasons.  I would also like to know more options, as I realise not everyone will agree with my personal choices.  The thought of doing only one was to keep this infographic reasonable in size.

Thank you all again for your support on this!

I am making the lightest desktop environment ever made. Just one reason: Save old hardware for being thrown away.

I work from 9 to 24 on boring office projects as a software developer, I have 12 years of experience. I now can use AI + my engineering skills to build with me dream projects that wouldn't be possible without a lot of free time.

The objective is to save old hardware like my N2808 notebook, and my step father samsung laptop he still uses. I see a lot of people struggling with desktop environments because all of them are (light + looks like crap) (looks decent + not light enough) so I want to take both worlds and make the most beautiful fastest desktop environment.

This is not meant to be just a random project, this has a real purpose to recycle old hardware instead of throwing it away.

Microsoft, Adobe, and all these companies are still increasing system requirements, to the point that nowadays running a windows 11 desktop is like running a videogame in the background (4gb ram usage, hell...)

I always was the spectator, looking how everything got more expensive in memory, while established projects like icewm, xfce and xlqt did not change much from their "old school" ui, which I like of course, but still did not provide enough savings to justify.

Support the project. Support recycling hardware. Support the future of computers to be clean, lean and modular and not bloated.

https://github.com/ArkFlame/flamewm

Just found it while doom scrolling on insta

I got tired of "my" music living on subscriptions I don't control: playlists quietly losing tracks, recommendations I didn't ask for, and ads barging in the second I stop forking money over. Every tool I found solved one slice of the problem, nothing owned the whole loop.

So I built soundcli: one small cross-platform CLI that pulls your YouTube, SoundCloud, and Spotify libraries down as real audio files on your own drive, then plays them back from a clean terminal dashboard. Grab, store, and play, all in one place, never logging in.

The entire thing is one command:

npx sndcli

That's it. You just need Node installed; it fetches everything else it needs on its own.

What it does

• Downloads in original quality with album art and artist metadata embedded, sorted into folders automatically.

• Takes any link: a username, a playlist, an album, an artist profile, your likes, or a single track. Point it at your Liked Songs and walk away; come back to a fully organized local library.

• Plays everything offline, fully keyboard-driven.

• No account, no login, no subscription. Nothing leaves your computer except the request to grab the music itself.

Honestly my favorite way to use it: I keep it running in a terminal pane while I work on other projects, music going the whole time, no browser tab, no heavy app hogging memory, just a quiet little player next to my code.

About Spotify: Spotify keeps its own files locked down, so for those it finds each song's match on YouTube and downloads that instead. You still get your real playlists, just as files you actually own.

It's free and open source (MIT), and it's built to power through big libraries without falling over.

If it saves you the headache it saved me, a star genuinely makes my day, and I'd love any feedback or suggestions:

• Source Code: https://github.com/baairon/soundcli

Yes, foobar2000 already exists. Yes, MusicBee already exists. No, neither of them will highlight lyrics word by word while I mumble along to a 24-bit file nobody asked me to buy.

So: Noctis. MIT License, no account, no telemetry, no paid tier. Windows, macOS and Linux.

FLAC, ALAC, WAV, DSD, gapless, ReplayGain, EQ, Last.fm scrobbling, Discord Rich Presence, Cover Flow.

The lyrics were the hard part. Most players do line-level LRC, which is fine until the timing drifts. Noctis reads word-level ELRC so it actually tracks with the vocal instead of dumping a whole line on you at once.

Site: https://noctisapp.cc
GitHub: https://github.com/heartached/Noctis

Tell me what's broken. I'm solo on this so feedback goes straight into the next build.

EDIT: if you guys want to join the community, you are free to do so - https://discord.com/invite/BNCDZQUVx7

SmartTube is how I watch YouTube on the TV, and I wanted the same thing on my phone. So I built NewTube: an unofficial, open-source (MIT) YouTube client for Android phones and tablets. It keeps SmartTube's engine by yuliskov, with a new interface and network changes for phones on top.

Built for touch. Material Design from scratch: bottom navigation, a mini-player you drag down while you keep browsing, a seek bar and gestures with haptics you can feel, snackbars with Undo, light and dark themes.

Tuned for mobile data. On a Pixel 9, Home is fully loaded in about 1.4 s on Wi-Fi (1.6 s on LTE), and a related video shows its first frame in about half a second on both (medians from my own test runs). My carrier stalls some video servers, so the app switches route mid-request and remembers the fix for that network. When the connection drops, it waits and tries once when it comes back instead of spinning.

And the rest:

• Sign in with your Google account in a few taps. Google's own page opens, you allow access, and you're back with your subscriptions, playlists, history and recommendations. No microG, no GmsCore, no patched app. Signing in is optional.

• Background play and picture-in-picture, with lock-screen and headset controls.

• Save for offline in the quality you pick (up to 1080p), or keep just the audio.

• SponsorBlock, DeArrow and Return YouTube Dislike, carried over from SmartTube.

• Chapters and comments, which you can read and write.

• Cast to your TV: pair with SmartTube on the TV using its Remote control code, or play straight to a Chromecast.

Good to know

• MIT licensed, like SmartTube. No analytics, crash reporting or ad SDKs, and no server of mine. The APKs on GitHub Releases are built by GitHub Actions from the tagged source, with a build attestation you can verify. Android 7.0+, with its own package name, so it installs next to SmartTube or the YouTube app.

• Much of NewTube's own code was written with AI coding assistants (Claude and Codex). I direct it, review it and use it every day, and each release lists what was tested on a real phone.

• Known limits: offline saving tops out at 1080p and skips subtitles, YouTube still refuses the odd video, and it isn't on F-Droid yet (working on it).

• Not affiliated with Google, YouTube or SmartTube's developer, so please report bugs on NewTube's GitHub, not SmartTube's.

Website: https://newtube.org

Source and APKs: https://github.com/aleixrodriala/newtube

Happy to answer anything. Bug reports are very welcome.

I have been working on this projects from a couple of weeks now, and the progress is really amazing. The app was first launched as a simple music clients but the update i released yesterday got some cool features like

1. Lossless audio on youtube library

2. Animated album cover canvas

3. Word synced lyrics

4. Discord integration

You can try it here https://github.com/kushagrasinghx/BitChord and let me know your experience, also a GitHub star is appreciated.
Discord support server https://discord.gg/pSafNTyKZx

Hi everyone,

I’m a college student and I’ve been working on a project called Netryx. I’ve decided to fully open source it.

Netryx tries to estimate the coordinates of a street-level image using visual clues like architecture, road layout, and environmental context. It does not rely on metadata or text. The pipeline is built using ML and computer vision.

I’m sharing it so others can study, modify, and build on top of it.

What it does:

•	Takes a single image as input

•	Extracts visual and spatial features

•	Matches against an indexed dataset

•	Outputs predicted coordinates

Repo:

https://github.com/sparkyniner/Netryx-OpenSource-Next-Gen-Street-Level-Geolocation

There’s also a demo video attached. It shows geolocating a random image from Paris with no street signs or metadata. The UI shown is different, but the core pipeline is the same.

If you are interested in geospatial tech, ML, or CV, feel free to explore or contribute.

Thanks.

Hi, we are a group of students building Sonora. While it was initially intended as an extremely lightweight Spotify replacement, it has since grown far beyond that.

Current features include:

• Spotify, YouTube (optional login) support

• Local music library import, virtual playlists, favorites

• Synced/karaoke lyrics, including local music!

• Romanization

• Library management within supported providers

• Gapless playback

• Audio normalization

• Cross-platform support

• Custom themes

Inspired by Zed, which has proven excellent performance using their native cross-platform rendering stack, we have decided to use GPUI. Its awesome text rendering on every platform, ease of use in view composition, and, admittedly, TailwindCSS-like naming conventions all made a significant impact. We have found GPUI to perform extremely well when used and optimized with care. Quite a few patches were introduced to our fork of it to meet our needs in the effects and profiling departments. Thanks to that, I am not hesitant to call our lyrics the most beautiful you can currently get on desktop (Apple Music still beats us HARD on mobile). But despite blur and gradient opacity all looking great, my favorite addition has to be visual render highlighting. But this is too much to cover in a Reddit post, I'll have to write a proper blog post at some point...

What may come as a surprise to folks coming from something like Spotify Desktop is that Sonora actually does not need all of your RAM to function. Tested on linux-x86_64, after 5 minutes of playback it averaged around 173 MiB RSS as opposed to Spotify's ~2GiB. Note that 173MiB is still not a small footprint, but at least with Sonora you know it goes towards caching previews and views instead of feeding the Electron monster merely to keep it alive.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Yes, we did use AI.