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Clipcat – clipboard manager written in Rust

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Feb 25, 2024 4:48 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Clipcat is a clipboard manager which supports X11 and experimental support for Wayland. It uses a client-server architecture.

Emulate the Acorn Electron home computer with Linux

  • https://www.linuxlinks.com/vorta-desktop-client-borg-backup/; By John O'Donnell (Posted by sde on Feb 24, 2024 9:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Launched in August 1983, the 8-bit Acorn Electron microcomputer sported a Synterek SY6502A CPU clocked at 2MHz (only 1MHz when accessing RAM).

ungoogled-chromium - Chromium without Google web services

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Feb 24, 2024 3:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
ungoogled-chromium is a web browser with privacy in mind. It’s a variant of Chromium that aims to retain the experience of Chrome without the Google-specific web services. This is free and open source software.

Machine Learning in Linux: ocrs – modern OCR engine

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Feb 23, 2024 11:20 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
ocrs is a Rust library and CLI tool for extracting text from images, also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

hihat – minimalist offline music player

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Luke Baker (Posted by sde on Feb 21, 2024 10:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
hihat is software that’s billed as a minimalistic offline music player. It uses Electron, a framework designed to create desktop applications using web technologies that are rendered using the Chromium browser engine.

Machine Learning in Linux: EasyOCR – general OCR that can read both natural scene text and dense text in documents

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 20, 2024 9:46 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Python
EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images. It is a general OCR that can read both natural scene text and dense text in documents.

Emborg – Front-End to BorgBackup

  • https://www.linuxlinks.com/vorta-desktop-client-borg-backup/; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 18, 2024 10:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Python
Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is built as a front-end to BorgBackup, a powerful and fast de-duplicating backup program.

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Bluetooth File Exchange

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 17, 2024 3:04 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Bluetooth File Exchange is a utility to view the Public folder on the device, retrieve files from the device, and send files to the device.

Machine Learning in Linux: Surya - multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 16, 2024 10:46 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Python
Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s a CLI-based utility that can be used with a CPU or GPU.

Deep Learning with Open Source Python Software

Deep Learning is a subset of Machine Learning that uses multi-layers artificial neural networks to deliver state-of-the-art accuracy in tasks such as object detection, speech recognition, language translation and others. Think of Machine Learning as cutting-edge, and Deep Learning as the cutting-edge of the cutting-edge.

Emulate the Sinclair ZX80 home computer with Linux

  • LinuxLinks.com; By John O'Donnell (Posted by sde on Feb 15, 2024 3:59 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The ZX80 was groundbreaking in many respects such as being the spark the ignited the home computer market in the UK. It was the first computer to use Sinclair’s legendary touch-sensitive keyboards with BASIC tokens accessible with a single keypress.

Machine Learning in Linux: TTS - deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 14, 2024 8:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Python
Coqui TTS (TTS) is a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. It offers pretrained models in more than 1,100 different languages, together tools for training new models and improving existing models. There are also utilities for dataset analysis.

Delta Chat – messaging software that works with e-mail

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 13, 2024 10:27 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Delta Chat is a chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt. There’s no sign up procedure as you can use your existing e-mail account with Delta Chat.

Machine Learning in Linux: Tortoise TTS - text-to-speech program

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 12, 2024 10:20 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Python
Tortoise TTS is a multi-voice text-to-speech system trained with an emphasis on quality. It seeks to provide strong multi-voice capabilities, and highly realistic prosody and intonation.

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Audio MIDI Setup

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 10, 2024 4:29 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Multimedia
Audio MIDI Setup is a utility to describe the configuration of your MIDI devices. There’s a default configuration already created, but you can set up your own.

Blue Recorder - simple screen recorder written in Rust

Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.

fooyin v0.3.7 – customisable music player

We recently posted a review of fooyin, a music player sporting a layout editing mode which lets you customise the entire user interface.

explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text

The system’s man pages contain a wealth of useful information. But sometimes it’s hard to see the wood for the trees. Even experienced users can be bamboozled by the sheer complexity of some man pages

Dooit – TUI to-do manager

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 6, 2024 10:42 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Python
Dooit is billed as a to-do manager that you didn’t ask for, but needed. It’s built to be used from the keyboard.

Lux – download library and CLI tool

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Feb 5, 2024 9:01 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Lux is an open source downloader. It supports sites such as YouTube, Tumblr, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and other sites.

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