Recovery Tool for Deleted APFS-snapshot and also for deleted files in general for macOS

Hi,

so unfortunately my APFS-snapshot got deleted (due to a restart initiated by a system software auto update) after half my home folder got deleted. Does anyone know of any open-source or at least free tooly/projecty to recover the deleted snapshot and also the deleted files of course. I generated an image, ran photorec, tried go-afps and afro (which both it seems are not functional at all). I am especially looking for pdfs, docx, txt, .py, (a lot of my academic work and also my academic library got deleted, also a lot of my programming projects) and also images (especially photos taken with an iPhone, so I guess they were .png?!). I would deeply appreciate it!

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Pomodoro App with Widgets?

Ive searched far and wide for a pomodoro app with widgets that is open source and could not find any! Widgets that starts the timer directly from homescreen (android).

Also realised most open source dont have widgets at all.

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Top 10 Open-Source AI Tools for Chat and Agents

Rasa: A leading open-source machine learning framework for building conversational AI. Rasa gives you complete control over your data and models, making it ideal for creating highly customized, context-aware bots for privacy-sensitive applications.
Botpress: This platform is an open-source conversational AI software that provides a visual builder and a powerful NLU engine. It's designed to be a balance of user-friendliness for non-technical users and flexibility for developers.
LangChain: A flexible framework for developing applications powered by language models. While not a chatbot platform itself, it's essential for orchestrating different components, allowing you to connect an LLM to external data sources and computation to build complex agents.
Weam.ai: This is a platform specifically designed to simplify the process of building and managing AI agents for teams. Now open source, Weam provides a structured framework to handle state management, tool integration, and conversational flows, allowing developers to focus on the agent's core logic. It's an excellent choice for teams looking for a collaborative, self-hosted solution.
Hugging Face Transformers: A foundational library that provides thousands of pre-trained models for a wide range of NLP tasks. It's a go-to for researchers and developers who want to fine-tune models or build custom, state-of-the-art AI agent architectures.
DeepPavlov: An open-source library for building conversational AI systems. It offers a comprehensive and flexible set of tools for creating production-ready conversational skills and multi-skill assistants, with pre-trained models and a user-friendly framework.
Microsoft Bot Framework: Microsoft's open-source offering for building, connecting, and deploying intelligent bots. It provides a code-driven platform with a wide range of tools and connectors for developers, offering fine-grained control over the chatbot experience.
Rasa X: While an extension of the core Rasa framework, Rasa X provides a web-based, low-code interface for reviewing and improving your AI assistants at scale. It's a key tool for teams to collaborate and manage the full lifecycle of their conversational AI.
CrewAI: An open-source framework designed for building collaborative, multi-agent workflows. It allows different AI agents with specialized roles to work together to tackle complex problems, making it a great choice for automation and problem-solving tasks.
ChatterBot: A simple, Python-based chatbot library that uses machine learning algorithms. It's designed to be a starting point for developers and is a great option for building basic conversational agents.

If you find any other tools please do let me know or we can discuss it here.

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What is the go-to FOSS wiki hosting for videogames?

I want to start a wiki for a videogame that does not have it yet. After a previously common hosting, Fandom(.)com went through commercialization and enshittification, many videogame projects, like Minecraft, went the route of self-hosting. For it is a small game and I am not rich enough to rent a server and a domain for it, I cannot go this way.

When downsides of commercial aspects of GitHub were realized, Codeberg was created. Same with Mastodon/Bluesky to replace Twitter. Is there such a project to replace Fandom?

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I can get my importan messages out of Telegram's mess thanks to this
https://github.com/Azizham66/WATele-Bridge

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free, open-source file scanner
https://github.com/pompelmi/pompelmi

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Alternatives to Loom (Windows)

Hi, I've used Loom but I'm not going to pay for it, but are there alternatives?

I'm also looking for software which records the zooming in and out of a webpage.

Thanks

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I am working on a Open Source Desk Assistant
https://youtu.be/TJ5LkHuC5oM

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Curious who the most active open source contributors are (globally & by country)? I built Gitista to find out - would love your thoughts!
https://www.gitista.com/

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Postgres dominates the Metabase Community Data Stack Report 🐘

Just released our 2025 Data Stack Report with some interesting results from the database landscape.


PostgreSQL is absolutely crushing it, not only maintaining its lead as the top transactional database, but also emerging as the #1 choice for analytics storage.


Some standout findings:

PostgreSQL: 160 responses (nearly 3x more than MySQL at 56)
Traditional heavyweights like Oracle and SQL Server showing their age
27 people still say "I don't know" (we need to help them!)
MongoDB holding steady at 16 for NoSQL fans

Here is the full report for more insights about databases, data stacks, AI stuff, and what everyone's actually using these days.

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Is there any third party tools enabling me to search among my Reddit saved posts



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KeenWrite 3.6.3
https://keenwrite.com/

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I want to help you with testing

I'm a beginner qa manual/automation and I want to gain experience.

I'm familiar with Python and Selenium. I can also do manual work like writing test cases or bug reports.
I have no experience with unit tests and integration tests, but I really love to learn.

Let me know if I can help!

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WatchdogFS: Rust CLI to watch files and alert on changes
https://github.com/gmaxferr/watchdogfs

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Crafting a Distraction-Free E-Ink Dashboard to Outlive Google's Nest Hub

I hacked together an open-source e-ink display with TRMNL, pulling in custom APIs for weather, bus info, and personal health tracking.

The end result is energy-efficient and fully mine. https://youtu.be/MPm60wxAQKY?si=zLNTxU0rR0egOckZ

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dryrun - linux utility tool to perform dry run on your commands
https://github.com/tellsiddh/dryrun

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I created a NinjaRipper 2 to OBJ converter noscript!

(09/08/2025)

Works for version 1.7.1 and below: https://github.com/Nazar-Okruzhko/NinjaRipper-NR-to-OBJ

If you don't know NinjaRipper is an awesome way to rip (a.k.a. extract) various 3D models from DirectX games.. hovewer it dumpes them into mysteriously-unkown .nr format... but I created a noscript for you so you can finally flex now!

All the magic will happen after F12 + this noscript!

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Why isn't it more common to create cross-platform and portable applications / software using web technologies like JS, HTML and CSS ?

I try to get rid of my reliance on proprietary ~~(Microsoft)~~ software with open source projects as much as I can. And regardless of the type of open-source software I'm looking for, I realized I have the following criteria that often come up :

OS compatibility : with Windows, Linux and MacOS
Device compatibility : with PC, smartphone and tablet
Out-of-the-box : No installation required, must be ready for use as is
Portability : can be used from a USB
No telemetry and no requirement to be connected to the internet
Self-contained dependencies to avoid complicated set-ups
Noob-friendly to download, execute and use by a tech-illiterate grandma

Optional criteria :

Syncing available across devices
Easy to change its source code to customize the software / web-app

I realize that pretty much all of these requirements are fulfilled with what would essentially be portable web-apps.

TiddlyWiki is one such example, it's a portable notebook that fits in one single HTML file (but I don't intend to do an implementation that extreme) and it works as intended.

Keep in mind that the alternatives for the type of software I'm looking for are not resource-intensive apps and are often light-weight :

Notes-taking markdown app (like Obsidian) / or text editor
E-book and manga reader that supports different file formats (PDF, EPUB, CBZ, etc.) and annotation
Very simple raster graphics editor like Paint
File converters
Meme maker

All of this being said, it circles back to my initial question :

Why isn't it more commonplace to use basic web technologies to create open-source projects for light-weight applications ? They seem to offer so much apparent advantages in addition to the fact that every OS and every device has a browser where these "apps" can run seamlessly.

So what gives?

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EzAntiAntiCheat (Repost)

EzAntiAntiCheat

Hi everyone,

I’m working on EzAntiAntiCheat, an open-source project designed for research and experimentation with kernel-level anti-cheat systems. Its purpose is to provide a safe framework for studying and managing situations where aggressive anti-cheat software interferes with each other, such as conflicts between Riot Vanguard and other anti-cheat platforms.

The project is fully open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/PalorderSoftWorksOfficial/EzAntiAntiCheat

I’m looking for contributors interested in: • Kernel driver development • System-level security research • Safe experimentation with software conflicts and aggressive protection mechanisms • Documentation, testing, and tooling improvements

Notes: • This project is intended purely for research and educational purposes. • It is not designed to bypass or disable anti-cheat systems for gameplay. • Improper use may render software unusable; please use responsibly.

Contributions, feedback, and collaboration are very welcome! If this post violates community rules please contact me instead of instantly banning me from the subreddit so i can fix the post from the issue! Extra Note: EzAntiAntiCheat completely wipes the anti cheat driver and if its gone the game might reinstall or crash as an fail safe.
Please private message me on reddit to contribute.

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I built an ultra-fast, open-source Go web service for generating PDFs from HTML/JSON templates.

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on: GoPdfSuit, a high-performance Go web service designed for creating PDF documents from HTML and JSON templates. It's built on Go 1.23+ and the Gin framework, and it's completely open source under the MIT license.

I created this because I was tired of slow, clunky, and expensive commercial PDF solutions. GoPdfSuit is designed to be a fast, simple, and flexible microservice that you can drop into any project.

Key Features:

Ultra-Fast Performance: It can generate PDFs with sub-millisecond to low-millisecond response times, making it incredibly efficient for high-load applications.
Template-Driven: It uses a JSON-driven template system, which means you can generate complex, data-rich PDFs without writing any code. It also has a built-in web interface for real-time preview and editing.
HTML to PDF/Image Conversion: Easily convert entire web pages or HTML snippets into PDFs or images.
Interactive Forms: Supports AcroForm and XFDF data for filling out interactive forms.
Easy Deployment: It's deployed as a single binary, making it simple to get up and running.
Language Agnostic: Since it uses a REST API, you can use it with any programming language.

GoPdfSuit is a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to many existing solutions. If you work with PDFs, I'd love for you to check it out and let me know what you think!

GitHub Repository: [https://github.com/chinmay-sawant/gopdfsuit](https://github.com/chinmay-sawant/gopdfsuit)
Project Page: https://chinmay-sawant.github.io/gopdfsuit/

Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments!

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/dev/push - Open source alternative to Vercel / Render

I wanted to deploy Python apps but still wanted to have a polished UX experience, like Vercel has.

So I built /dev/push for myself, and then decided to open source it.

You can host it on a Hetzner server (or any Debian/Ubuntu box) by running a single command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hunvreus/devpush/main/noscripts/prod/install.sh | sudo bash

It's pretty similar to Vercel or Laravel Cloud:

Git-based deployments,
Environment management,
Real-time monitoring,
Team collaboration,
Custom domains,
...

For now it's mostly Python and Node.js (in beta), but I'm working on adding other languages (PHP, Go, Ruby).

Many other things in the works: persistent storage, SQLite databases, scaling/resources settings, custom containers, remote nodes, etc.

It's a beta, but it's fully functional. Feedback and contributions are very welcome.

Website: [https://devpu.sh](https://devpu.sh)
GitHub: https://github.com/hunvreus/devpush

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