A View on the Open-Source Video Editing Landscape

https://youtu.be/qEYGGqolEvs

https://media.ccc.de/v/lgm25-upstream-2025-83652-a-view-on-the-open-source-video-editing-landscape

Whether it is stitching together some travel footage or producing high-quality film content, there are many ways people want to work with the medium "video". Their needs for #video #editing solutions are diverse, and so is their budget.

Open-source video editing software seems great for beginners to get started at zero cost. What do you get and what do you have to give up on compared to the closed-source options? What does it even take to build software like this from scratch, technologically as well as mentally?

This talk takes a brief look at the free-to-use options for video editing on a desktop computer before switching the perspective to that of the developers and maintainers of such software. It offers insights into the struggles with technology, fundraising, self-motivation, and community dynamics, while also highlighting the rewarding moments and intriguing current and future developments.

Simran Spiller

https://pretalx.c3voc.de/lgm25-upstream-2025/talk/504479317/

#editor #lgm2025

Snap Safe

The camera that doesn’t rat you out.   
Snap Safe is an #Android #camera app that keeps every pixel—and every byte of data—exactly where it belongs: on YOUR device.

Key Features:
• Zero‑Leak Design – The manifest skips android.permission.INTERNET; nothing leaves your device.
• Fully Encrypted – Shots are written to encrypted, app‑private storage.
• Metadata Scrub‑A‑Dub – EXIF and other identifiers are wiped the instant you hit Share.
• PIN‑Locked Gallery – A separate PIN stands between curious thumbs and your photos.
• Secure Sharing – When you do share, we hand the file off via Android's native share sheet—no detours.
• Granular Location – Add coarse, fine, or zero location data—your call.
• 100% Open Source – Auditable code in plain sight.
• Poison Pill – Set a special PIN, that when entered, appears to work normally but actually deletes your existing
photos.
• Decoy Photos – Select innocuous decoy photos, these will be preserved when your Poison Pill is activated. That way
your Gallery is not suspiciously empty.

Why Snap Safe?
We capture photos locally, encrypt everything in private storage, let YOU decide if GPS tags are added (precision optional), and strip out tell‑tale metadata automatically.

We NEVER phone home or talk to servers, slurp analytics or usage stats, sprinkle ads or trackers in the code, or read files outside our sandbox.

Privacy Policy: We collect nothing.

Newest version on github
https://github.com/SecureCamera/SecureCameraAndroid/releases/latest

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.darkrockstudios.app.securecamera/
Photos posted on F-droid page.

How to Install GIMP 3.0 Via PPA

The long awaited release of GIMP 3.0 is finally here!

Why install via PPA? Because the update ftom 2.o to 3.0 was 28 MBytes, whereas the flatpack is 1.2GB download, with 3.9 GB of disk space.

This release fixes bugs that could not be fixed in pre-release 2.99 because of GTK2's incompatibility with the newer GTK3 that GIMP 3.0 is built on.

Follow the steps below to install the latest just released GIMP 3.0 version via PPA in Mint and other Ubutu based distros.

TO INSTALL GIMP

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mati75/gimp30

sudo apt update

sudo apt install gimp gegl mypaint-brushes


TO SWITCH BETWEEN OLDER AND NEWER VERSIONS

1. Get list of available gimp & gimp-data packages

sudo apt policy gimp gimp-data


2. Install matching version numbers at same time by using = sign & desired version after package name

For example:

sudo apt install gimp=2.10.30-1build1 gimp-data=2.10.30-1build1


#gimp #gimp30 #photoshop #photoshopreplacement #linux #photography

@NoGoolag #browser #alternatives with mitigations, patches etc.
Alpha version release March 6, 2025

FireFox browser options
- Tor Browser (all)
- Mullvad Browser (Desktop)
- IronFox (Android) Read the Known Issues section on the gitlab.
- LibreWolf (mentally ill devs)

Make your own #Firefox with mitigations etc...
- Phoenix / wiki
- Arkenfox user.js / wiki / gui / user-tool / mobile
- Narsil / Narsil Mobile
- Betterfox / Betterfox Mobile
- pyllyukko
- Compare some of the user.js files

Chromium based browser Options
- Ungoogled Chromium (all)
- Cromite (Android, Linux, Windows)

Browser extensions
- uBlacklist
- uBlock Origin or uMatrix (never both)
- LibRedirect (setup your instances for each service in the settings)

Links to block lists...
- Yokoffing
- Celenity/Phoenix
- FilterLists

Set your default search engine to a search proxy
- 4get instances
- Searx instances

Why your favorite browser is not recommended
- Celenity Firefox browser comparisons
- How to choose a browser for everyday use?
- is your browser spyware?
- Choose your browser carefully
- Browsers and the connections they make compared
- Fake Privacy and security

Additional reading...
- Wiki about extensions
- Multiple Extension Conflicts
- uMatrix for beginners
- Firefox user.js install guide
- Arch Linux Firefox Privacy wiki
- Bromite (for knowledge purposes)

Testing your browser
- Fingerprint.com
- How to test browsers for spyware
- Privacytests browser comparison
- Mullvad check
- Bromite fingerprint testing
- IP Leak
- List of test sites A
- List of test sites B


* Thunderbird users should consider taking a look at Dove - Phoenix's sister project.

DisableGoogleAnalytics

https://gitlab.com/adrian.m.miller/disablegoogleanalytics

Attempts To Disable Common Google Analytics And Ads Receivers In All Affected Packages

What it does/How it works:
On 1st run after rebooting after install the module is assuming you want it to disable the listed analytics and ad receivers, so it will:
Wait till boot is completed
Then sleep for 2 minutes
Then test that cpu usage is under 30% before running
It will then disable the analytics and ad receivers as listed below, and log its progress to /sdcard/fixgoogleanalytics.log

Common Analytics And Ad Recievers:
com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsJobService com.google.android.gms.analytics.CampaignTrackingService com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementService com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementJobService com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsReceiver com.google.android.gms.analytics.CampaignTrackingReceiver com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementInstallReferrerReceiver com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementReceiver com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementContentProvider com.crashlytics.android.CrashlyticsInitProvider com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceIdService

Once complete the service.sh noscript will delete itself
Once that happens any further interaction is purely via the included dga noscript as a binary in /system/(x)bin

dga takes 2 arguments, disable or enable, though i doubt too many will be looking to enable analytics and ad receivers, unless the disabling has unwanted effects on their system, which is high time to include the usual disclaimer that you run this at your own risk and not even dga enable is garaunteed to undo the changes

Module Installation:
Download from Releases
Install the module via #Magisk app/Fox Magisk Module Manager/MRepo
Reboot

Usage:

After first run optmization has completed, any further interaction is purely via the included dga noscript as a binary
in /system/(x)bin:

dga takes 2 arguments, disable or enable, though i doubt too many will be looking to enable
analytics and ad receivers, unless the disabling has unwanted effects on their system, which
is high time to include the usual disclaimer that you run this at your own risk and not even
dga enable is garaunteed to undo the changes
Uninstall Note: Uninstalling the module will not reverse the changes, if your intention is to uninstall the module and re-enable the
analytics and ad receivers, please run dga enable first

Surveillance Report: Are Your Passwords Safe From This New Exploit?

Episode webpage: https://surveillancereport.tech/

Media file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65e15188b8456c00169f4864/e/68aa5cba982c36846ef63e20/media.mp3

The Free Thought Project Podcast: Guests: LFM & AKA: Kratom in the Crosshairs: A Battle for Freedom & Health

Episode webpage: https://thefreethoughtproject.podbean.com/e/unveiling-the-herbal-controversy-kratom-in-the-crosshairs/

Media file: https://pdcn.co/e/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/9yt85mr92gcu9yx4/KRATOM_2_FINAL82o7h-mhmney-Optimized.mp3

The Free Thought Project Podcast: Guest: Sterlin Lujan - Stablecoins, Network States & the Battle for Decentralized Money

Episode webpage: https://thefreethoughtproject.podbean.com/e/privacy-or-control-sterling-lujan-on-stablecoins-surveillance-and-the-fight-for-free-crypto/

Media file: https://pdcn.co/e/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/tgbxj68ptdqxftu5/STERLIN_26kcwl-z8gay3-Optimized.mp3

The Free Thought Project Podcast: Guest: 7Sees - Connecting the Dots of Control: Palantir, Flock Cameras & Data Centers

Episode webpage: https://thefreethoughtproject.podbean.com/e/inside-the-technocratic-web-palantir-flock-cameras-the-surveillance-state/

Media file: https://pdcn.co/e/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/skj56ifpc2thbhgp/7SEES_FINAL88gfa-xkbi88-Optimized.mp3

I Am Spartacus - COVID-19 The Biodefense Mafia (02-26-2023)

Looks like I called it. Not passing blame in full yet, but its coming.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/01/trump-drugmakers-covid-vaccines-cdc-kennedy/85927699007/

Jury Nullification for yet another win 🏴‍☠️

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/dc-grand-jury-declines-indict-another-defendant-trumps-crime-crackdown-rcna228527

The pump and dump grift can't be stopped. 🤡🌎

https://www.reuters.com/business/trumps-world-liberty-token-falls-first-day-trading-2025-09-01/

Bt Cotton in India Is a Monumental Catastrophic Failure

Problems
1. The major problem appears to be collusion between the seed companies and the Regulatory and research establishment in India leading to detrimental effects on farmer welfare (e.g., hybrid cotton, GMO Bt hybrid cotton, sub optimal low planting densities, low yields, and suicides due).
2. Hybrid cotton is extremely expensive and unique to India leading to sub optimal planting densities due to high seed costs. Hybrid cotton was implemented with false promises of increased quality and yield, and while fertile, the saved hybrid cotton seed produces highly variable cotton and hence the seed is not replanted. Hybrid cotton in India is an industry value capture mechanism that traps millions of farmers and saves the seed companies from having to pursue intellectual property rights violations in court against millions of small farmers. In contrast, fully fertile open pollinated varieties are grown globally, but farmers replanting save seed makes them liable to expensive litigation that in most cases is not possible in India due to small farm size (value).
3. Before 2002 and the introduction of Bt hybrid cotton, outbreaks of pink bollworm (PBW) and American bollworm (ABW) resulted from industry marketing of insecticides that induced ecological disruption, insecticide resistance, and massive outbreaks of the highly damaging American bollworm. The genetic insertion of Bt genes in hybrid cotton for control of cotton pest was proposed as a solution to ABW and PBW that are native to India. But now hybrid Bt cotton has failed in India for many reasons (below).
4. Pink bollworm is the major pest and resistance to current hybrid Bt constructs is high across India, and insecticide use has increased with associate disruption resulting in still newer induced pests (whitefly, jassids, mites, etc.) and continued low yields. Resistance to Bt toxins in pink bollworm is rampant because the small farm cropping system in India does not allow for refuges for preserving susceptibility to the toxins – refuges are a stop gap mechanism at best designed to delay resistance development.
5. The widespread adoption of hybrid cotton has led to the loss of native cotton varieties adapted to local conditions over hundreds of years.  

https://www.globalresearch.ca/bt-cotton-india-catastrophic-failure/5895200

Silencing Truth: The High Cost of Honesty in a Misinformed World. Prof. Ruel Pepa

Imagine a world where uncomfortable truths like inconvenient shards of reality that demand reflection, humility, and change are no longer met with curiosity or concern, but with ridicule and disdain. In this world, the bearers of truth are not welcomed as catalysts for progress, but targeted as enemies of the status quo.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/silencing-truth-high-cost-honesty/5895818

Center for a Stateless Society » Markets Not Capitalism – Audiobook
https://c4ss.org/content/12802