Open Source

ZEReader is an open-source hardware and software E-Reader platform. Originally developed as my bachelor’s thesis in electrical engineering, it has since evolved into a dedicated hobby project. The goal is to create a hackable and customizable, microcontroller-based E-Reader platform.

Release: 9.7 [10 Apr, 2026] New features

Annotations browser: Allow grouping results by any field E-book viewer: Handle native pinch to zoom gesture on touchpads the same as the pinch to zoom on touchscreens. Default action is to change font size. Content server: Implement full offline mode when using HTTPS connections to the content server

Bug fixes

E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused annotations/last read information to not be saved in e-book files

Closes tickets: 2146912 AI: Make the GitHub backend a bit more robust

Closes tickets: 2147495 AI: OpenRouter backend: Fix reasoning level "auto" disabling all reasoning

Closes tickets: 2147008 Content server: Read book: Fix regression causing error during searching

Closes tickets: 2147261 Content server: Fix opening results from full text search not working

Closes tickets: 2146829 Fix a couple of minor regress in the new Full text search view introduced in the previous release MTP driver: Linux: Fix a rare crash when connecting devices with large collections Fix cover not being set when adding files to existing book records with no cover

New news sources

Cenital by Rodrigo Pazos

Improved news sources

The Week The Age Financial Times Mint

Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.

see also https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/

Is this open source just in the context of Europe? Title and sidebar leave this up in the air.

Warm up your Z-machines, folks.

A fully Java-compatible superset language offering modern safety and expressiveness. With JPlus, you can enhance your Java code’s safety and expressiveness without rewriting it, while fully leveraging existing Java libraries and tools.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38271574

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.

German newspaper Handelsblatt first reported on the plans. The switch comes amid rising concerns about public bodies being reliant on US tech companies to run their services, which have stepped up sharply since the start of US President Donald Trump’s second administration.

For the ICC, such concerns are not abstract: Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the court and slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/47925046

90 Prozent aller Windows-Spiele laufen mittlerweile auch unter Linux

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54183496

National Science Foundation (NSF) had offered $1.5 million to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and the Python Package Index (PyPI), but the Foundation quickly became dispirited with the terms of the grant it would have to follow.

"These terms included affirming the statement that we 'do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws,'" Crary noted. "This restriction would apply not only to the security work directly funded by the grant, but to any and all activity of the PSF as a whole."

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/39888199

Hey everyone!

I'm excited to introduce Reitti, a location tracking and analysis application designed to help you gain insights about your movement patterns and significant places—all while keeping your data private on your own server.

Core Capabilities:

• Visit Tracking: Automatically recognizes and categorizes the places where you spend time, using customizable detection algorithms
• Trip Analysis: Analyzes your movements between locations to understand how you travel whether by walking, cycling, or driving
• Interactive Timeline: Visualizes all your past activities on an interactive timeline with map and list views that show visit duration, transport method, and distance traveled

Photo Integration:

• Connect your self-hosted Immich photo server to seamlessly display photos taken at specific locations right within Reitti's timeline. The interactive photo viewer lets you browse galleries for each place.

Data Import Options:

• Multiple Formats Supported: Reitti can import existing location data from GPX, GeoJSON, and Google Takeout (JSON) backups
• Real-time Updates: Automatically receive location info via mobile apps like OwnTracks, GPSLogger or our REST API

Customization:

• Multi-geocoding Services: Configurable options to convert coordinates to human-readable addresses using providers like Nominatim
• User Profiles: Customize individual display names, password management, and API token security under your own control

Self-hosting:

• Reitti is designed to be deployed on your own infrastructure using Docker containers. We provide configuration templates to set up linked services like PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and Redis that keep all your location data private.

Reitti is still early in development but has already developed extensive capabilities. I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions to tailor Reitti to meet the community's needs.

Hope this sparks some interest!

Daniel

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/32904417