FYI: WinDirStat is VERY fast now!

For decades, I've been using WinDirStat to narrow down what my disk storage is spent on, and I've always loved its minimalist yet highly visually informative interface. But the one and only complaint about it over the last several years is that it was slow compared to other proprietary software, and it was very slow...


Well, that's definitely not the case anymore. I was able to scan a mid range Samsung 870 EVO 4TB SSD with 1.2% empty space (98.8% full!) in less than two seconds. Then, in under 10 seconds, it scanned 16.1TB of data from a SMB network share on a ZFS array over a 2.5Gb connection.


This is a tremendous improvement over a few years ago when I last updated the app, and the performance over a network share is simply amazing....


I'm not affiliated with the project at all, and I can't say when exactly this performance improvement happened. I haven't heard of, and cant really find any news of this update, so please don't flame me for being old news. Just trying to inform folks! :D


Also, this is a Windows application only. On my linux machines specifically use NCDU.


https://windirstat.net/

https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

https://redd.it/1q2r1kr
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NIS2 checker open source

Automated NIS2 Directive compliance scanning and reporting tool with comprehensive security checks, multiple report formats, and Docker deployment.

# Features

(https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/nis2-public#features)

🔍 Comprehensive Scanning: Ports, TLS/SSL, HTTP headers, DNS security
📊 Multiple Report Formats: HTML, JSON, Markdown with evidence collection
🐳 Docker Ready: Easy deployment with optional Grafana dashboards
🔐 Security Focused: Secrets detection, WAF/CDN identification, domain monitoring
🇮🇹 Italian Compliance: P.IVA, privacy policy, cookie consent checks
📈 Prometheus Integration: Metrics export for monitoring

100% free and open source, open to contributions:

https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/nis2-public

https://redd.it/1q2rd0v
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ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Starts-2026

https://redd.it/1q2uxbj
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The top 20 OSI-Approved licenses most frequently sought out by our community in 2025 based on number of pageviews.
https://opensource.org/blog/top-open-source-licenses-in-2025

https://redd.it/1pp3l4n
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FYI: WinDirStat is VERY fast now!

For decades, I've been using WinDirStat to narrow down what my disk storage is spent on, and I've always loved its minimalist yet highly visually informative interface. But the one and only complaint about it over the last several years is that it was slow compared to other proprietary software, and it was very slow...


Well, that's definitely not the case anymore. I was able to scan a mid range Samsung 870 EVO 4TB SSD with 1.2% empty space (98.8% full!) in less than two seconds. Then, in under 10 seconds, it scanned 16.1TB of data from a SMB network share on a ZFS array over a 2.5Gb connection.


This is a tremendous improvement over a few years ago when I last updated the app, and the performance over a network share is simply amazing....


I'm not affiliated with the project at all, and I can't say when exactly this performance improvement happened. I haven't heard of, and cant really find any news of this update, so please don't flame me for being old news. Just trying to inform folks! :D


Also, this is a Windows application only. On my linux machines specifically use NCDU.


https://windirstat.net/

https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

https://redd.it/1q2r1kr
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ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Starts-2026

https://redd.it/1q2uxbj
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Open Source Rights following Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino
https://open.substack.com/pub/eeshaanr/p/open-source-rights-following-qualcomms?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

https://redd.it/1q30as9
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One of my projects has a github star!!

That's basically the end of the post. I like making stuff for other people :)


It's github.com/Avni2000/OllaMark if you're interested

https://redd.it/1q2hlkn
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Pipetron | An Electron audio stream manager for PipeWire

Hello! I just wanted to share my first "officially released" opensource project.

My motivation for building this project in the first place was to fix the annoying problem with Electron apps' audio streams within pavucontrol or other audio control apps. All electron apps would always show up as "Chromium" with the chromium icon despite all being different apps. Another issue was that WirePlumber also couldn't differentiate the different electron apps, and always resets all electron apps to the same volume setting. If you ever found these issues also annoying, this project might be for you!

If it isn't already obvious enough, this app is for Linux only (and really, only Linux has any use for this app). It's currently only tested for Arch Linux (and is also on the AUR), so if you are interested, I would really appreciate if you could test out on your machines and distros as well!

Please check out the repos for more info.

Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/ponleou/pipetron
GitHub (mirror): https://github.com/ponleou/pipetron

https://redd.it/1q2oxlb
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Just open sourced my 6 month bastion host project

Hello r/opensource !

I’ve been working on **Orion-Belt** privately for about 6 months now. It’s a self-hosted Privileged Access Management (PAM) system I built to solve some specific infrastructure headaches in my own environment.

I decided to build this because I hit a wall with the current options:

* **The Teleport Struggle:** I tried Teleport Community Edition, but it felt too stripped down for my needs. More importantly, it was a nightmare to get running on my **Alpine-based home lab**—I couldn't get it to compile or run reliably on such a lightweight setup.
* **The "Enterprise Tax":** Most other PAM solutions are either locked behind massive price tags or are missing the basic features that make a PAM actually useful for a private setup.

Orion-Belt is my attempt to fill that gap with something that actually respects your hardware and is fully open-sourced.

After extensive development and testing, I decided to open source it by porting everything to a fresh repo.

**What it does:**

* Reverse SSH tunnel architecture - agents connect outbound to central gateway (no inbound firewall rules needed on your servers)
* Full SSH/SCP proxying with session recording
* Every keystroke and file transfer logged for audit trails
* Custom CLI tools (osh for ssh, ocp for scp)
* REST API for automation
* Relationship based access control with temporary access workflows
* Agnostic database backend ( PSQL is implemented for now with the possibility to implement more databases using the interface )

Built entirely in Go. Been running this on my own infrastrucure and the session replay feature alone has saved me countless hours when troubleshooting.

**Current state:**

This is **v0.2.0** \- core functionality is solid. SSH sessions work, file transfers work, recording and playback works.

Still have some features on the roadmap like MFA/TOTP and SSH certificate authority but wanted to get this out there ( check the ROADMAP in docs ).

**Looking for:**

**Contributors** who are into systems programming, security tooling, or just want to help build something useful.

Also open to feedback on architecture decisions and feature requests that would make this more valuable for your use cases.

Github: [https://github.com/zrougamed/orion-belt.git](https://github.com/zrougamed/orion-belt.git)

Happy to answer questions about implementation details, deployment, or how things work under the hood. I've been testing on Alpine Linux and Debian based VMs mostly but it should work on any linux distro.




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New to open source, need guidance selecting issues

So, I am going to start my open source contribution journey for GSoC 2026. When I look at the issues in repositories, I get confused which kind of issues I need to select and which kind of issues I need to avoid.

I see in almost all of the issues which are open, somebody has done pull requests or done some minor changes. Should I still contribute there?

Even if few issues exists which are new or untouched, it won't take much time someone to work on it.

What should I do man??


https://redd.it/1q30hmi
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NIS2 checker open source

Automated NIS2 Directive compliance scanning and reporting tool with comprehensive security checks, multiple report formats, and Docker deployment.

# Features

(https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/nis2-public#features)

🔍 Comprehensive Scanning: Ports, TLS/SSL, HTTP headers, DNS security
📊 Multiple Report Formats: HTML, JSON, Markdown with evidence collection
🐳 Docker Ready: Easy deployment with optional Grafana dashboards
🔐 Security Focused: Secrets detection, WAF/CDN identification, domain monitoring
🇮🇹 Italian Compliance: P.IVA, privacy policy, cookie consent checks
📈 Prometheus Integration: Metrics export for monitoring

100% free and open source, open to contributions:

https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/nis2-public

https://redd.it/1q2rd0v
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NOThub — GitHub‑style profile, but the “green squares” are your daily dev checklist (fully open source)

Hey everyone,
Building NOThub: a GitHub‑inspired profile/dashboard for solo students and beginner devs—but instead of showing commit contributions, the profile heatmap shows daily checklist tracking (learning, coding, notes, tests, planning, etc.).
The goal is to help people stay consistent and prove progress even when the work isn’t always public code (reading docs, debugging, planning, studying). Each day has a “Daily Entry” where you tick a checklist, set 1–3 goals, add short notes/blockers, and write the next step for tomorrow. Over time, your profile becomes a portfolio of consistency.
There will also be a small local CLI called not to log faster:
• not check (today’s checklist)
• not note "..." (quick notes)
• not start/stop (focus session timer)
• not sync (sync entries when online)
Important: this will be a fully open source project (code, issues, roadmap, docs), and contributions are welcome from day 1.


If you’re interested in contributing (frontend, backend, CLI, design), comment what you’d like to help with and what stack you


https://redd.it/1q39c4l
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GitHub - raghav4882/TerminallyQuick v4: Fast, user-friendly image processing tool for web developers with batch processing and modern format support
https://github.com/raghav4882/TerminallyQuick

https://redd.it/1q3cslm
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I built an open-source "Memento Mori" wallpaper generator to start the year
https://github.com/Ti-03/remainders

https://redd.it/1q3d3gi
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Open source is being DDoSed by AI slop and GitHub is making it worse

I've been following the AI slop problem closely and it seems like it's getting worse, not better.

**The situation:**

* Daniel Stenberg (curl) said the project is "effectively being DDoSed" by AI-generated bug reports. About 20% of submissions in 2025 were AI slop. At one point, volume spiked to 8x the usual rate. He's now considering whether to shut down their bug bounty program entirely.
* OCaml maintainers rejected a 13,000-line AI-generated PR. Their reasoning: reviewing AI code is *more* taxing than human code, and mass low-effort PRs "create a real risk of bringing the Pull-Request system to a halt."
* Anthony Fu (Vue ecosystem) and others have posted about being flooded with PRs from people who feed "help wanted" issues directly to AI agents, then loop through review comments like drones without understanding the code.
* GitHub is making this worse by integrating Copilot into issue/PR creation — and you can't block it or even tell which submissions came from Copilot.

**The pattern:**

People (often students padding resumes, or bounty hunters) use AI to mass-generate PRs and bug reports. The output looks plausible at first glance but falls apart under review. Maintainers — mostly unpaid volunteers — waste hours triaging garbage.

Some are comparing this to Hacktoberfest 2020 ("Shitoberfest"), except now it's year-round and the barrier is even lower.

**What I'm wondering:**

Is anyone building tools to help with this? Not "AI detection" (that's a losing game), but something like:

* Automated triage that checks if a PR actually runs, addresses the issue, or references nonexistent functions
* Cross-project contributor reputation — so maintainers can see "this person has mass-submitted 47 PRs across 30 repos with a 3% merge rate" vs "12 merged PRs, avg 1.5 review cycles"
* Better signals than just "number of contributions"

The data for reputation is already in the GitHub API (PR outcomes, review cycles, etc). Seems like someone should be building this.

**For maintainers here:** What would actually help you? What signals do you look at when triaging a PR from an unknown contributor?

https://redd.it/1q3f89b
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Best self-hosted bookmark manager?

Looking for **self-hosted bookmark managers** that are:

* Minimal and nice to look at
* Fast & easy to save links
* Good for organizing/tagging

Prefer something close to MyMind’s design/feel. Open-source or free to self-host is ideal.

https://redd.it/1q3gi3h
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OSS for dumping entire camera roll

Hi all.

So I’m an iPhone normie and am sick to bloody DEATH of how annoying it is to manually (not on the cloud) copy media from camera roll to a local hard drive. There are paid shithole grey market software for this (looking at you, iMazing) but holy shit it really cannot be that complicated—

TDLR: is there a GOOD, known oss/noscript(that a total coding normie can figure out) that can dump an iPhone’s entire camera roll with full quality?

I hope this makes sense. I would really appreciate any recommendations.

https://redd.it/1q3htxk
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Debugging open source issues is harder than writing the code

Issue reports come incomplete. reproduction steps are vague.
by the time you understand the problem, someone else has forked.

i’ve been experimenting with feeding issue logs and test failures into debugging tools to speed up triage. kodezi has been useful for mapping failures back to commits when context is thin.

maintainers already donate time. debugging shouldn’t drain more of it.

how are other maintainers handling this load?

https://redd.it/1q3k72w
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fdir: Command-line utility to list, filter, and sort files in a directory
https://github.com/VG-dev1/fdir

https://redd.it/1q3kjpe
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Good text-to-speech software that sounds natural and with download option?

thank you

https://redd.it/1q3ld4k
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