open source – Quick Fixes

A screenshot showing Kdenlive's Whisper model manager. The progress bar shows 0% and will likely stay like that for the remainder of the life of the Universe unless you take action.

First, credit where credit is due: the following solution was cobbled together combining both advice from Kdenlive developers and a

A street kitchen maybe in China, where a man and a womadn are making delicious looking bread and pizza-like pies.

Free Culture Linux Inside Opinion Writing

10/04/2024 Paul

The Sour Taste of Entitlement

So this person, let’s call them Jo, was hungry and had no money. Walking the streets, they come across a square where a group of people are working in a communal open kitchen, serving delicious hot meals free of charge.

It's night time in Hong Kong. The run-down street looks cool in a urban-decayish kind of way. A blue double-decker tram sticks out in the foreground with a its splash of bright colour. On the front of it, it says "Explore New Possibilities" in white capital letters. Ain't that true.

Open Data Software

16/03/2024 Paul

This weekend I am contributing to Transitous. You should too.

Transitous is a new community-driven routing service. Add your own city and help make it great.

Software

08/09/2023 Paul

“Bring Back [obscure feature]!”

Did a feature you love disappear from your Free Software project of choice? Before kicking up a fuss on Reddit, read this.

Abstract photo of a network of cables and hooks.

Free Culture Opinion Social Media Software

05/11/2022 Paul

Why Mastodon is Better

With the Muskquake leading to a tsunami of users flooding Mastodon, and even mainstream praising the platform as “interesting”, should you too migrate away from Twitter? (TL;DR: Yes. You can carry on with your day now).

Opinion rant Software

02/01/2022 Paul

Who’s Important

I am not about to start a flamewar, but how pointless is it we fret about what a couple of YouTubers and their sidekicks have to say about Linux desktops?