Ω🪬Ω The new version of #Fedialgo is much, much faster at loading and reordering the timeline. Also has fancy gradients to show you which hashtags in your feed are the ones trending the most and which ones you post about the most. Also a bunch of other tweaks and improvements.
Ω🪬Ω The new version of #Fedialgo is much, much faster at loading and reordering the timeline. Also has fancy gradients to show you which hashtags in your feed are the ones trending the most and which ones you post about the most. Also a bunch of other tweaks and improvements.
Ω🪬Ω The new version of #Fedialgo is much, much faster at loading and reordering the timeline. Also has fancy gradients to show you which hashtags in your feed are the ones trending the most and which ones you post about the most. Also a bunch of other tweaks and improvements.
I keep hearing #AI boosters / talking heads claiming that #LLMs have transformed software development, "it's not just about prototyping - AI is writing solid production code", etc.
So here's a challenge:
Share some AI-derived pull requests that deal with non-obvious corner cases or non-trivial bugs from mature #opensource projects. I'll also accept high-quality documentation that isn't just the sort of wasted space & slop that I always tell juniors not to write.
Why are companies choosing XWiki over proprietary tools? Here are 3 quick reasons: 🧵
1️⃣ You own your data. XWiki is open source — no lock-in, full control. 2️⃣ It adapts to you. Fully customizable to fit your knowledge base needs. 3️⃣ Teamwork made easy. Built-in versioning, commenting & access control.
I keep hearing #AI boosters / talking heads claiming that #LLMs have transformed software development, "it's not just about prototyping - AI is writing solid production code", etc.
So here's a challenge:
Share some AI-derived pull requests that deal with non-obvious corner cases or non-trivial bugs from mature #opensource projects. I'll also accept high-quality documentation that isn't just the sort of wasted space & slop that I always tell juniors not to write.
The fact that DC didn't invent a new protocol for #InstantMessaging and just used the protocol which was already there, and also that how far has it gone, is mind blowing.
At first when I was chatting with @treefit, I already was developing a Matrix client(#chooj) for #KaiOS and it was the only decentralized IM which I was using and investing resources into. I was skeptical but then I thought it would be a good idea to invest into DeltaChat, as well as Matrix. His argument, of course, wasn't good. He was arguing that we need multiple options in the case one of decentralized IMs fail. However this convinced me to give DC a try.
But now, I see that DC has very unique advantages no other messenger has. Their moto is "playing the long term" game. Unlike Matrix which suddenly exploded, DC moves very slowly. As an advantage, DC is much more consistent, hassle free, has less bugs(in my experience) and has better UI/UX than many Matrix clients. But it has got several disadvantages. Matrix has tons more features which DC hasn't got or has added them just recently such as editing messages and reactions. And it is not yet suitable for public groups, like the ones we've got in the Matrix network.
Overall, if you want secure chat with friends or family or other people you trust, DeltaChat is a very good option and the experience is very good. And I haven't seen something like #webxdc in any other IM. However if you want something like #Discord guilds for a community, Matrix is the way to go.
BTW, DC currently lacks funding, thanks to what #Trump did with #OpenTechnologyFund(#OTF). If you can help in anyway, financial or otherwise, it will be extra valuable at this point.
The fact that DC didn't invent a new protocol for #InstantMessaging and just used the protocol which was already there, and also that how far has it gone, is mind blowing.
At first when I was chatting with @treefit, I already was developing a Matrix client(#chooj) for #KaiOS and it was the only decentralized IM which I was using and investing resources into. I was skeptical but then I thought it would be a good idea to invest into DeltaChat, as well as Matrix. His argument, of course, wasn't good. He was arguing that we need multiple options in the case one of decentralized IMs fail. However this convinced me to give DC a try.
But now, I see that DC has very unique advantages no other messenger has. Their moto is "playing the long term" game. Unlike Matrix which suddenly exploded, DC moves very slowly. As an advantage, DC is much more consistent, hassle free, has less bugs(in my experience) and has better UI/UX than many Matrix clients. But it has got several disadvantages. Matrix has tons more features which DC hasn't got or has added them just recently such as editing messages and reactions. And it is not yet suitable for public groups, like the ones we've got in the Matrix network.
Overall, if you want secure chat with friends or family or other people you trust, DeltaChat is a very good option and the experience is very good. And I haven't seen something like #webxdc in any other IM. However if you want something like #Discord guilds for a community, Matrix is the way to go.
BTW, DC currently lacks funding, thanks to what #Trump did with #OpenTechnologyFund(#OTF). If you can help in anyway, financial or otherwise, it will be extra valuable at this point.
this is not a very big release in terms of visible features, but it comes with a handful of bugfixes and a lot of internal changes. in particular, the `template-injection` audit should both be faster overall *and* more correct/sensitive to true findings, thanks to a significant internal refactor.
Do I know any #FOSS maintainers who are interested in having my college freshman son do some work on their #Python project over the summer? He has a reasonable knowledge of Python (and a software engineer father who will help him) but has never done anything outside the classroom.
this is not a very big release in terms of visible features, but it comes with a handful of bugfixes and a lot of internal changes. in particular, the `template-injection` audit should both be faster overall *and* more correct/sensitive to true findings, thanks to a significant internal refactor.
Do I know any #FOSS maintainers who are interested in having my college freshman son do some work on their #Python project over the summer? He has a reasonable knowledge of Python (and a software engineer father who will help him) but has never done anything outside the classroom.
Couldn't catch the Fedora 42 release party live? Here is the recording on YouTube!
Whether you watch the whole thing straight or put it on in the background while doing chores, you will learn a lot about how the Fedora Project works and how we make our wonderful distro. :)
Thanks to the presenters and organizers for putting this together, especially so close to Flock!
🎙️ Join us for the next edition of OTel Me. This time, we’ll hear from Oluwatomisin Taiwo and Andrei Morozov of Compass Digital as they share their organization's #OpenTelemetry journey.
🗓️ June 10, 2024 🕐 13:00 EDT | 19:00 CEST | 10:00 PDT 🎤 Co-hosted by Adriana Villela and Andrej Kiripolski
Organic Maps è stata forkata, nasce CoMaps a seguito di preoccupazioni sulla governance del progetto
The major difference is about how the project will be run, as a community. The principles are at the core of how the project is run. A few examples already, the community voted on the project name, and selected CoMaps, they voted on the branding color, and next is creating and selecting the logo.
#RTFM is great and all but when a project's #docs are riddled with incorrect / outdated config field names and other stuff, it's a huge waste of time.
Please check the accuracy of your docs! Do a fresh install of your project and follow your own steps and copy paste your own example configs if you can.
Remember that many users will not file an issue, and simply assume your project is hopeless, especially if it doesn't have a big following.
Organic Maps è stata forkata, nasce CoMaps a seguito di preoccupazioni sulla governance del progetto
The major difference is about how the project will be run, as a community. The principles are at the core of how the project is run. A few examples already, the community voted on the project name, and selected CoMaps, they voted on the branding color, and next is creating and selecting the logo.
Why are companies choosing XWiki over proprietary tools? Here are 3 quick reasons: 🧵
1️⃣ You own your data. XWiki is open source — no lock-in, full control. 2️⃣ It adapts to you. Fully customizable to fit your knowledge base needs. 3️⃣ Teamwork made easy. Built-in versioning, commenting & access control.
By using #foss video editors I gave up color grading that was capable of believable film emulation (via Resolve and its third party plugins).
But it's even more disturbing that none of these foss apps support 10bit h.264/5. Let alone Raw. This kind of makes them useless to me, as most of my cameras record as such. In fact, most new non-phone cameras record as such by default.
Please help us build a NEW music streaming platform that focuses on live, local music scenes around the world. 🌎 🌏 🌍
Our social purposes are to: - Positively affect global music culture - Support music communities - Promote content under free/libre licenses - Promote Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) and media codecs
We're out to make things more inclusive, equitable and sustainable for independent artists, and those who rally behind them.
In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.
So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.
I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!
ALT text detailsA screenshot of GitHub's blocking page due to reaching rate limit very quickly while browsing an open source project's repository while not logged in.
📽️ Karakeep + Tailscale = your own private, secure bookmark archive. 🔒✨ Learn how to self-host Karakeep (the ultimate bookmark hoarder app) and use Tailscale to access it from anywhere in the world. Watch now: youtu.be/cCC3PSBCkqk #Homelab#Tailscale#OpenSource
Juhu 🎉 Der #NABU hat nun seine eigene, offizielle Fediverse-Instanz. Als NABU-Jena hatten wir die Ehre, den Umzug zu testen. In Zukunft werdet ihr hoffentlich viele unserer Verbände hier wiederfinden. #Mastodon#Fediverse#Jena#Unabhängikeit#OpenSource
ALT text detailsDer Mastodon-Elefant und ein Storch begrüßen sich freundlich vor dem Icon von Mastodon.
I spoke up in a meeting about the push for open-source tools and told them that, if they’re serious, it’s time to drop Microsoft entirely. I suggested switching to Linux instead, and surprisingly, the manager was all for it! Fingers crossed that this change might actually be coming.
I spoke up in a meeting about the push for open-source tools and told them that, if they’re serious, it’s time to drop Microsoft entirely. I suggested switching to Linux instead, and surprisingly, the manager was all for it! Fingers crossed that this change might actually be coming.
Join us for the Fedora 42 release party this Thu, May 29!
This is an opportunity for you to hear directly from the contributors who build Fedora - what they did in Fedora 42, what they want to do next, and how they do it.
Be sure to register so you can join us for the free, virtual event. :)
Join us for the Fedora 42 release party this Thu, May 29!
This is an opportunity for you to hear directly from the contributors who build Fedora - what they did in Fedora 42, what they want to do next, and how they do it.
Be sure to register so you can join us for the free, virtual event. :)
- Almost 1M new articles saved (you already saved almost 22M since december 2016) - 1100 new accounts - 100 new customers - a lot of toots and emails 😅
- Almost 1M new articles saved (you already saved almost 22M since december 2016) - 1100 new accounts - 100 new customers - a lot of toots and emails 😅
Juhu 🎉 Der #NABU hat nun seine eigene, offizielle Fediverse-Instanz. Als NABU-Jena hatten wir die Ehre, den Umzug zu testen. In Zukunft werdet ihr hoffentlich viele unserer Verbände hier wiederfinden. #Mastodon#Fediverse#Jena#Unabhängikeit#OpenSource
ALT text detailsDer Mastodon-Elefant und ein Storch begrüßen sich freundlich vor dem Icon von Mastodon.
Ω🪬Ω You can now send replies to Toots as well as expand threads directly within the #FediAlgo demo app, no need to click through to the regular Mastodon web interface.
ALT text detailsInfographic titled "EMAIL GUIDE" from the "Purchase With Purpose" series, encouraging users to avoid big tech email providers (Gmail, iCloud Mail, Outlook) due to concerns like privacy, environment, and ethics. It highlights email services and clients supporting causes: Environmental 🌱, Profit Share 💰, and Open-Source 💻.
Two main sections:
Email Clients (used independently or with servers):
🔸 Thunderbird (Open-Source)
🔸 EM Client (Profit Share)
🔸 FairEmail (Open-Source, Android only)
🔸 Mailspring (Open-Source, USA)
Email Providers:
Free Tier options:
🔸 Atomic Mail (Open-Source)
🔸 GMX (Environmental)
🔸 Proton Mail (Privacy focus, Profit Share, Open-Source)
🔸 Infomaniak Email (Environmental, Profit Share, Open-Source)
🔸 Tuta (Environmental, Profit Share, Open-Source)
Eco-System providers (offer mobile app/tools):
🔸 Kolab Now (Open-Source)
🔸 Fastmail
🔸 Mailbox.org (Environmental, Open-Source)
"Need Help Choosing?" recommends:
🔸 Fastmail (ease of use)
🔸 Infomaniak Email (eco-system, free tier)
🔸 Tuta Mail (privacy)
🔸 Proton Mail (privacy, tools)
Other Excellent Options (mainly EU/US): Hushmail, Posteo, Mailfence, StartMail, Mailo, Runbox, Mail.com, Irocco.
Noted Controversies:
⚠️ Proton Mail CEO made a political statement—link to context provided.
⚠️ GMX and Mail.com are owned by the same parent company.
Guide ends with links to communities for support and updates.
ALT text detailsInfographic titled "EMAIL GUIDE" from the "Purchase With Purpose" series, encouraging users to avoid big tech email providers (Gmail, iCloud Mail, Outlook) due to concerns like privacy, environment, and ethics. It highlights email services and clients supporting causes: Environmental 🌱, Profit Share 💰, and Open-Source 💻.
Two main sections:
Email Clients (used independently or with servers):
🔸 Thunderbird (Open-Source)
🔸 EM Client (Profit Share)
🔸 FairEmail (Open-Source, Android only)
🔸 Mailspring (Open-Source, USA)
Email Providers:
Free Tier options:
🔸 Atomic Mail (Open-Source)
🔸 GMX (Environmental)
🔸 Proton Mail (Privacy focus, Profit Share, Open-Source)
🔸 Infomaniak Email (Environmental, Profit Share, Open-Source)
🔸 Tuta (Environmental, Profit Share, Open-Source)
Eco-System providers (offer mobile app/tools):
🔸 Kolab Now (Open-Source)
🔸 Fastmail
🔸 Mailbox.org (Environmental, Open-Source)
"Need Help Choosing?" recommends:
🔸 Fastmail (ease of use)
🔸 Infomaniak Email (eco-system, free tier)
🔸 Tuta Mail (privacy)
🔸 Proton Mail (privacy, tools)
Other Excellent Options (mainly EU/US): Hushmail, Posteo, Mailfence, StartMail, Mailo, Runbox, Mail.com, Irocco.
Noted Controversies:
⚠️ Proton Mail CEO made a political statement—link to context provided.
⚠️ GMX and Mail.com are owned by the same parent company.
Guide ends with links to communities for support and updates.
Warum gibt es in Köln keinen lokalen Computer Club, der sich mit Themen wie Linux, Raspberry Pi, Nextcloud und Open Source beschäftigt? 🤔 Ich wäre bereit, so einen Club zu leiten, aber mir fehlen die Räume dafür! 🏢💻 Es wäre großartig, eine Community zu schaffen, die sich für Technik und offene Software begeistert. Wer hat Ideen oder Möglichkeiten, wie wir das umsetzen können? Lasst uns gemeinsam etwas bewegen! 🌟 #Köln#ComputerClub#Linux#OpenSource#Community
Ω🪬Ω You can now send replies to Toots as well as expand threads directly within the #FediAlgo demo app, no need to click through to the regular Mastodon web interface.
@raccoonforfriendicaapp This weekend I took some time to investigate how much work would be needed to build an iOS version of the app, and it turned out that at least building and running a basic version of the app is doable with some minor changes (see here).
What do you think about it? Would you like to see a Raccoon on iOS too?
@raccoonforfriendicaapp This weekend I took some time to investigate how much work would be needed to build an iOS version of the app, and it turned out that at least building and running a basic version of the app is doable with some minor changes (see here).
What do you think about it? Would you like to see a Raccoon on iOS too?
Warum gibt es in Köln keinen lokalen Computer Club, der sich mit Themen wie Linux, Raspberry Pi, Nextcloud und Open Source beschäftigt? 🤔 Ich wäre bereit, so einen Club zu leiten, aber mir fehlen die Räume dafür! 🏢💻 Es wäre großartig, eine Community zu schaffen, die sich für Technik und offene Software begeistert. Wer hat Ideen oder Möglichkeiten, wie wir das umsetzen können? Lasst uns gemeinsam etwas bewegen! 🌟 #Köln#ComputerClub#Linux#OpenSource#Community
ALT text detailsA photo of a chat on twitter from February 2024:
FFmpeg: “FFmpeg is written in C and assembly”
Soundwave: “Your codebase is a mess.”
FFmpeg: “Talk is cheap, send patches.”
(Alt text provided by Justin Derrick)
｢ Perhaps the younger generation don't know anything about the past "evils" of Microsoft and naively believe that Microsoft is now the good friend to open source, but the truth is that all Microsoft acquisitions of open source projects is a business tactic that is put in place to improve Microsoft's loosing position to open source. It is a matter of control. And you should not host your open source project on GitHub ｣
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
｢ Perhaps the younger generation don't know anything about the past "evils" of Microsoft and naively believe that Microsoft is now the good friend to open source, but the truth is that all Microsoft acquisitions of open source projects is a business tactic that is put in place to improve Microsoft's loosing position to open source. It is a matter of control. And you should not host your open source project on GitHub ｣
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
We spent the day contributing to various #fediverse open source projects including @fedify, @hollo, and Hackers' Pub. It was fantastic to see the community come together to build and improve tools for the decentralized social web.
Our participants made some great contributions, and you can read all about what we accomplished in today's blog post.
ALT text detailsA hand holding a 3D-printed keychain featuring the Fedify dinosaur mascot logo in blue and white colors. The keychain is packaged in a clear plastic bag with Korean text indicating it's from the FediDev KR Second Sprint on May 24, 2025. The background shows laptops and stickers on a table, suggesting a coding workspace at the sprint event.
ALT text detailsA bright green poster for FediDev KR #2 sprint event, showing the date 2025-05-24 Sat 13:00–18:00. The poster features Korean text announcing a FediDev KR sprint session, with the Turing's Apple logo and a circular blue logo with wave-like design. The poster is displayed on a TV at the entrance of the venue.
I have posted about this before, but wanted to re-iterate how much in love I am with FediAlgo:
I’m currently on paternity leave so have around half an hour per day for social. That is of course far from enough to keep up with a chronological timeline like mine, and previously with Mastodon the FOMO was real.
Now I go to FediAlgo and I feel I got an overview over what’s interesting in that day. It’s also immensely customisable, but the defaults do a decent job for me.
I have posted about this before, but wanted to re-iterate how much in love I am with FediAlgo:
I’m currently on paternity leave so have around half an hour per day for social. That is of course far from enough to keep up with a chronological timeline like mine, and previously with Mastodon the FOMO was real.
Now I go to FediAlgo and I feel I got an overview over what’s interesting in that day. It’s also immensely customisable, but the defaults do a decent job for me.
ALT text detailsA photo of a chat on twitter from February 2024:
FFmpeg: “FFmpeg is written in C and assembly”
Soundwave: “Your codebase is a mess.”
FFmpeg: “Talk is cheap, send patches.”
(Alt text provided by Justin Derrick)
Nothing coming in on #mutualaid since Monday makes me worried. I am so very grateful to those who can afford to #help, but yeah I need to ask again because the debts are bigger than that ^^;
Please send funds, I shall return the favour by dodging bankruptcy and utter ruination of all I am aiming to do for you all, and by trying to make the process interesting enough that it feels at least a little worthwhile to you.
Liberapay Athamanatha Paypal @athamanatha Cashapp $athamanatha Patreon @vulpinedesigns (has fees, monthly) Ko-fi athakitsune (less fees, can be monthly) Stripe may be possible IBAN, Wise, Zelle and more on request.
Nothing coming in on #mutualaid since Monday makes me worried. I am so very grateful to those who can afford to #help, but yeah I need to ask again because the debts are bigger than that ^^;
Please send funds, I shall return the favour by dodging bankruptcy and utter ruination of all I am aiming to do for you all, and by trying to make the process interesting enough that it feels at least a little worthwhile to you.
Liberapay Athamanatha Paypal @athamanatha Cashapp $athamanatha Patreon @vulpinedesigns (has fees, monthly) Ko-fi athakitsune (less fees, can be monthly) Stripe may be possible IBAN, Wise, Zelle and more on request.
👋 Je cherche un(e) alternant(e) pour travailler sur #NixOS pour des PC sécurisés, démarrage en septembre. Si vous connaissez quelqu'un(e) d'intéressé(e), n'hésitez pas à relayer l'offre :
👋 Je cherche un(e) alternant(e) pour travailler sur #NixOS pour des PC sécurisés, démarrage en septembre. Si vous connaissez quelqu'un(e) d'intéressé(e), n'hésitez pas à relayer l'offre :
👋 Je cherche un(e) alternant(e) pour travailler sur #NixOS pour des PC sécurisés, démarrage en septembre. Si vous connaissez quelqu'un(e) d'intéressé(e), n'hésitez pas à relayer l'offre :
Getting started with #ActivityPub on #WordPress just got a lot easier. A new guided onboarding experience is now part of the plugin, designed to help you configure key settings and understand how your site connects to the #Fediverse—from the moment you activate it.
If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual applications, libraries and subsystems as well as broader topics like e.g. "messaging".
Getting started with #ActivityPub on #WordPress just got a lot easier. A new guided onboarding experience is now part of the plugin, designed to help you configure key settings and understand how your site connects to the #Fediverse—from the moment you activate it.
Getting started with #ActivityPub on #WordPress just got a lot easier. A new guided onboarding experience is now part of the plugin, designed to help you configure key settings and understand how your site connects to the #Fediverse—from the moment you activate it.
Getting started with #ActivityPub on #WordPress just got a lot easier. A new guided onboarding experience is now part of the plugin, designed to help you configure key settings and understand how your site connects to the #Fediverse—from the moment you activate it.
Getting started with #ActivityPub on #WordPress just got a lot easier. A new guided onboarding experience is now part of the plugin, designed to help you configure key settings and understand how your site connects to the #Fediverse—from the moment you activate it.
Getting started with #ActivityPub on #WordPress just got a lot easier. A new guided onboarding experience is now part of the plugin, designed to help you configure key settings and understand how your site connects to the #Fediverse—from the moment you activate it.
Saksassa julkishallinto on tehnyt päätöksen että 2027 mennessä ei jaeta enää mitää MS-formaatissa (siirtyvät #LibreOffice ) ja tehneet periaatepäätöksen että siirtyvät #OpenSource yhteistyösoftiin (pois #teams ja sisään #nextcloud ). Aikataulu nextcloud siirtymälle tulee syksyllä. Nyt Tanskan toiseksi suurin kaupunki Aarhus päätti että kaikki MS lähtee, #Azure vaihtuu #Hetzner ja yms. Samaan aikaan #Microsoft tukema #AI-firma kaatuu konkurssiin. Olen hyvin iloinen.
Saksassa julkishallinto on tehnyt päätöksen että 2027 mennessä ei jaeta enää mitää MS-formaatissa (siirtyvät #LibreOffice ) ja tehneet periaatepäätöksen että siirtyvät #OpenSource yhteistyösoftiin (pois #teams ja sisään #nextcloud ). Aikataulu nextcloud siirtymälle tulee syksyllä. Nyt Tanskan toiseksi suurin kaupunki Aarhus päätti että kaikki MS lähtee, #Azure vaihtuu #Hetzner ja yms. Samaan aikaan #Microsoft tukema #AI-firma kaatuu konkurssiin. Olen hyvin iloinen.
Exciting news! #Fread is now live on F-Droid! 🚀🎉 A big thanks to the F-Droid community for making this happen. Download it today and join the movement!
Oh joy github is tightly integrating more LLM features that encourage people browsing projects to do drive by vibe coding.
The new features have no optout and are not optin. GitHub is encouraging users to submit bug reports fully written by AI and to fix bug reports using fully AI written PRs.
A lot of maintainers of open source projects big and small really do not want this turned on by default.
The tension between idealism and sustainability is holding back the open social web. It needs funding infrastructure as thoughtfully designed as its protocols. In this final piece in my series about open social web business models, I propose one way to solve the problem: https://werd.io/2025/lets-fund-the-open-social-web
The tension between idealism and sustainability is holding back the open social web. It needs funding infrastructure as thoughtfully designed as its protocols. In this final piece in my series about open social web business models, I propose one way to solve the problem: https://werd.io/2025/lets-fund-the-open-social-web
Olá!👋 I've just blogged about the recent developments in the Chromium Ozone/Wayland project, which is getting closer to officially shipping to Linux Desktop users.
Huge thanks to @igalia and our sponsors for making it possible ❤️
The tension between idealism and sustainability is holding back the open social web. It needs funding infrastructure as thoughtfully designed as its protocols. In this final piece in my series about open social web business models, I propose one way to solve the problem: https://werd.io/2025/lets-fund-the-open-social-web
In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:
Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?
I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?
The tension between idealism and sustainability is holding back the open social web. It needs funding infrastructure as thoughtfully designed as its protocols. In this final piece in my series about open social web business models, I propose one way to solve the problem: https://werd.io/2025/lets-fund-the-open-social-web
The tension between idealism and sustainability is holding back the open social web. It needs funding infrastructure as thoughtfully designed as its protocols. In this final piece in my series about open social web business models, I propose one way to solve the problem: https://werd.io/2025/lets-fund-the-open-social-web
We are proud to partner with @nextcloud for Nextcloud Summit 2025.
The movement for digital sovereignty is gaining momentum. And we are excited to be part of it. This Summit brings together experts, decision-makers, and innovators to explore practical solutions that give organizations control over their digital infrastructure. OpenProject brings comprehensive project management to Nextcloud Hub.
1. Open by default 2. Contribute back 3. Secure by design 4. Foster inclusive participation and community building 5. Design for reusability 6. Provide documentation 7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower) 8. Sustain and scale
I agree with a lot of the text, but most of all with this:
"Finally, to wrap all this up ... I no longer use Windows to develop my games (aside from testing). I feel like this is in line with my general philosophy around using open source, cross-platform tools and libraries. I have found Windows increasingly frustrating to work with, their business practices gross, and their OS generally lacking. I grew up using Windows, but I switched to Linux full time around 3 years ago. And frankly, for programming video games, I have not missed it at all. It just doesn't offer me anything I can't do faster and more elegantly than on Linux."
We are proud to partner with @nextcloud for Nextcloud Summit 2025.
The movement for digital sovereignty is gaining momentum. And we are excited to be part of it. This Summit brings together experts, decision-makers, and innovators to explore practical solutions that give organizations control over their digital infrastructure. OpenProject brings comprehensive project management to Nextcloud Hub.
I agree with a lot of the text, but most of all with this:
"Finally, to wrap all this up ... I no longer use Windows to develop my games (aside from testing). I feel like this is in line with my general philosophy around using open source, cross-platform tools and libraries. I have found Windows increasingly frustrating to work with, their business practices gross, and their OS generally lacking. I grew up using Windows, but I switched to Linux full time around 3 years ago. And frankly, for programming video games, I have not missed it at all. It just doesn't offer me anything I can't do faster and more elegantly than on Linux."
In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:
Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?
I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?
In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:
Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?
I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?
Exciting news! #Fread is now live on F-Droid! 🚀🎉 A big thanks to the F-Droid community for making this happen. Download it today and join the movement!
Exciting news! #Fread is now live on F-Droid! 🚀🎉 A big thanks to the F-Droid community for making this happen. Download it today and join the movement!
I will be presenting remotely at GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy! 🇮🇹
I'll be talking about my journey with the Drum Machine app, how it became part of GNOME Circle, and how the GNOME community supports developers in bringing their ideas to life.
ALT text detailsBanner for GUADEC 2025 with the text ‘Brescia, Italy – July 24th–29th, 2025’
ALT text detailsScreenshot of an email from GNOME Events informing Alireza Shabani that their talk ‘Bringing Your App to GNOME Circle’ has been accepted for GUADEC 2025
ALT text detailsGUADEC 2025 banner with a background photo of Brescia, Italy
ALT text detailsBanner featuring the Drum Machine application with a screenshot of the UI, app logo, and the slogan ‘Create and play drum beats’
1. Open by default 2. Contribute back 3. Secure by design 4. Foster inclusive participation and community building 5. Design for reusability 6. Provide documentation 7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower) 8. Sustain and scale
In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:
Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?
I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?
In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:
Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?
I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?
I will be presenting remotely at GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy! 🇮🇹
I'll be talking about my journey with the Drum Machine app, how it became part of GNOME Circle, and how the GNOME community supports developers in bringing their ideas to life.
ALT text detailsBanner for GUADEC 2025 with the text ‘Brescia, Italy – July 24th–29th, 2025’
ALT text detailsScreenshot of an email from GNOME Events informing Alireza Shabani that their talk ‘Bringing Your App to GNOME Circle’ has been accepted for GUADEC 2025
ALT text detailsGUADEC 2025 banner with a background photo of Brescia, Italy
ALT text detailsBanner featuring the Drum Machine application with a screenshot of the UI, app logo, and the slogan ‘Create and play drum beats’
Once you do (or if you’re already a member), don’t forget to VOTE in the upcoming Foundation elections!
The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is elected by Foundation members. If you want to influence how the Foundation is run, one of the most effective things you can do is to become a member and vote.
1. Open by default 2. Contribute back 3. Secure by design 4. Foster inclusive participation and community building 5. Design for reusability 6. Provide documentation 7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower) 8. Sustain and scale
(edit: some say electricity is not even mandatory, not fact checked)
ALT text detailsImage describing minimum requirements for windows and linux.
windows:
64-bit CPY
4GB RAM
UEFI, Secure Boot, TMP,
Internet, Microsoft Account
64GB storage
Valid License
linux:
electricity.
(edit: some say electricity is not even mandatory, not fact checked)
ALT text detailsImage describing minimum requirements for windows and linux.
windows:
64-bit CPY
4GB RAM
UEFI, Secure Boot, TMP,
Internet, Microsoft Account
64GB storage
Valid License
linux:
electricity.
1. Open by default 2. Contribute back 3. Secure by design 4. Foster inclusive participation and community building 5. Design for reusability 6. Provide documentation 7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower) 8. Sustain and scale
I don't agree with everything in this article, but it's a good read. I'm actually of many opinions and it might require a blog post to get more in-depth, but give it a look if you care about open source software.
I don't agree with everything in this article, but it's a good read. I'm actually of many opinions and it might require a blog post to get more in-depth, but give it a look if you care about open source software.
1. Open by default 2. Contribute back 3. Secure by design 4. Foster inclusive participation and community building 5. Design for reusability 6. Provide documentation 7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower) 8. Sustain and scale
1. Open by default 2. Contribute back 3. Secure by design 4. Foster inclusive participation and community building 5. Design for reusability 6. Provide documentation 7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower) 8. Sustain and scale
1. Open by default 2. Contribute back 3. Secure by design 4. Foster inclusive participation and community building 5. Design for reusability 6. Provide documentation 7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower) 8. Sustain and scale
“The big vision is to move past the reliance on any single country’s investment in this core life sciences infrastructure: It’s not to have a duplicative, parallel structure in Germany, nor to simply transplant a centralized system from the US to Germany. The goal is a fully #OpenSource, #federated, safety net, embedded within the international community, with a strong global network of support.”
“The big vision is to move past the reliance on any single country’s investment in this core life sciences infrastructure: It’s not to have a duplicative, parallel structure in Germany, nor to simply transplant a centralized system from the US to Germany. The goal is a fully #OpenSource, #federated, safety net, embedded within the international community, with a strong global network of support.”
Ω🪬Ω #FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, is now deployed on Github Pages and can be used from your web browser.
In this one, we have the beta for #KDE Plasma 6.4, with a lot of cool stuff coming, the US copyright office saying that Generative A.I. pushes the boundaries of fair use, and some big stuff happening around web search engines:
In this one, we have the beta for #KDE Plasma 6.4, with a lot of cool stuff coming, the US copyright office saying that Generative A.I. pushes the boundaries of fair use, and some big stuff happening around web search engines:
Meet Divine, a GNU/Linux Phone powered by Rockchip’s RK3588S. Divine D. will be our first variant, completely open for development, testing and debugging. It will bring interesting features on-board, from local AI to multi-standard connectivity. We also develop DawnOS, a mobian-based distribution tailored for our hardware, including custom Kernel and device tree. Check our documentation base for more: https://docs.dawndrums.tn
Meet Divine, a GNU/Linux Phone powered by Rockchip’s RK3588S. Divine D. will be our first variant, completely open for development, testing and debugging. It will bring interesting features on-board, from local AI to multi-standard connectivity. We also develop DawnOS, a mobian-based distribution tailored for our hardware, including custom Kernel and device tree. Check our documentation base for more: https://docs.dawndrums.tn
Ω🪬Ω #FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, is now deployed on Github Pages and can be used from your web browser.
Ω🪬Ω #FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, is now deployed on Github Pages and can be used from your web browser.
(I'm not going to pretend I know exactly what this does, but it seems like a neat example of Linux being used in music production that we hope is helpful to musicians in the community 😄)
Just a quick update for those who’ve been asking: the 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐕 and 𝐁𝐲𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐊 𝐈𝐈𝐈 will be back in stock shortly and are now available for pre-order. You can find more details on our website.
Just a quick update for those who’ve been asking: the 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐕 and 𝐁𝐲𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐊 𝐈𝐈𝐈 will be back in stock shortly and are now available for pre-order. You can find more details on our website.
Oh, this is nice. One of the things on my eternally growing "to do" list is to dig into GNOME Crosswords. It's one of those "people doing cool things in open source just because they can" things that I find inspiring... #GNOME#OpenSource#Outreachy
Did you know that there is comparison chart for - #linux distributions - #browser - #android distributions - linux desktop environments - #messenger - #mail providers
You don't trust anyone else—not billionaire-run social networks, not instances managed by strangers with moderation policies that might separate you from your friends and favorite accounts.
So you've decided it's time to create your own instance, whether for yourself, your family, or a small community.
But you're unsure how to do it! You're not tech-savvy, and you're worried it won't work, that you'll fail, or that you won't be able to secure your new instance properly.
Fortunately, some companies now offer to set up an instance for you and handle all the technical aspects: installation, system updates, security, and more. All you need to do is manage it and enjoy it.
At least, that's the promise. 🙂
The website https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hosting_an_instance lists some companies currently offering this service. It also provides a guide to help you choose the best host for your needs and outlines the questions you should consider.
From there, it's up to you to research the prices and terms of the companies you're interested in.
Has anyone here used the services from any of these companies? Is it really easy for non-technical people to install and manage an instance?
Someone should tell PM Carney to ensure the Canadian government IT structure moves away from US vendors promptly. Investing in open source solutions and even creating .ca specific versions would be a good idea whenever possible. Until that part is done, see if EU alternatives could be used.
Someone should tell PM Carney to ensure the Canadian government IT structure moves away from US vendors promptly. Investing in open source solutions and even creating .ca specific versions would be a good idea whenever possible. Until that part is done, see if EU alternatives could be used.
🚀 Gitea 1.23.8 is out! This release includes critical bug fixes and a Go version upgrade addressing important security issues. We strongly recommend all users update ASAP.
You don't trust anyone else—not billionaire-run social networks, not instances managed by strangers with moderation policies that might separate you from your friends and favorite accounts.
So you've decided it's time to create your own instance, whether for yourself, your family, or a small community.
But you're unsure how to do it! You're not tech-savvy, and you're worried it won't work, that you'll fail, or that you won't be able to secure your new instance properly.
Fortunately, some companies now offer to set up an instance for you and handle all the technical aspects: installation, system updates, security, and more. All you need to do is manage it and enjoy it.
At least, that's the promise. 🙂
The website https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hosting_an_instance lists some companies currently offering this service. It also provides a guide to help you choose the best host for your needs and outlines the questions you should consider.
From there, it's up to you to research the prices and terms of the companies you're interested in.
Has anyone here used the services from any of these companies? Is it really easy for non-technical people to install and manage an instance?
Did you know that there is comparison chart for - #linux distributions - #browser - #android distributions - linux desktop environments - #messenger - #mail providers
🚀 Gitea 1.23.8 is out! This release includes critical bug fixes and a Go version upgrade addressing important security issues. We strongly recommend all users update ASAP.
🚀 Gitea 1.23.8 is out! This release includes critical bug fixes and a Go version upgrade addressing important security issues. We strongly recommend all users update ASAP.
I figured out how to use TiddlyWiki as an alternative to iPhoto/Bridge/etc and spin up a gallery from a directory of images.
So far it seems very performant. I'm pretty excited about this, as I haven't been able to quickly overview the thousands and thousands of photos I've amassed over the years.
Have been playing recently with wordpress activitypub, friends, enable mastodon apps and event bridge for activitypub plugins ... getting very close now to use wordpress as my fediverse server !
I figured out how to use TiddlyWiki as an alternative to iPhoto/Bridge/etc and spin up a gallery from a directory of images.
So far it seems very performant. I'm pretty excited about this, as I haven't been able to quickly overview the thousands and thousands of photos I've amassed over the years.
Have been playing recently with wordpress activitypub, friends, enable mastodon apps and event bridge for activitypub plugins ... getting very close now to use wordpress as my fediverse server !
A new version of Arcticons is rolling out on all the available stores!
🎉 367 new and updated icons! 💡 Added support for 1976 apps using existing icons. 🔥 12946 icons in total! 🟣 Material You: A more colorful palette. 🔧 Material You: Better Smart Launcher integration.
Have been playing recently with wordpress activitypub, friends, enable mastodon apps and event bridge for activitypub plugins ... getting very close now to use wordpress as my fediverse server !
Have been playing recently with wordpress activitypub, friends, enable mastodon apps and event bridge for activitypub plugins ... getting very close now to use wordpress as my fediverse server !
What's happening? Podman v5.5 is! It just dropped in GitHub, and is headed toward Fedora and other repos. Updates for Podman machine, the artifact command, a new `--filter` option for several commands, and more! Release info: https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v5.5.0#Podman#opensource
Internally debating whether I should pick up a #ThinkPad T43 and using it as my main #NetBSD machine. Currently I have an X260 running #Slackware and an X1 Carbon 6th gen running #CRUX and #Debian but I don't have a machine I can dedicate solely to NetBSD. I also got my Raspberry Pi 4 running #SlackwareARM. I've always just had to run NetBSD in a VM, but I don't wish to anymore. Is it a worthwhile endeavor?
Have been playing recently with wordpress activitypub, friends, enable mastodon apps and event bridge for activitypub plugins ... getting very close now to use wordpress as my fediverse server !
I'm looking for a #FOSS alternative to live surveys like those offered at menti.com by mentimeter.
My use case: while presenting on stage, during a public speaking I would like to ask my audience (100-500 people) some questions. The summarized answers should be visible live on my computer, so that I can show it to the audience.
Oh, this is nice. One of the things on my eternally growing "to do" list is to dig into GNOME Crosswords. It's one of those "people doing cool things in open source just because they can" things that I find inspiring... #GNOME#OpenSource#Outreachy
In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.
So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.
I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!
ALT text detailsA screenshot of GitHub's blocking page due to reaching rate limit very quickly while browsing an open source project's repository while not logged in.
So people & organizations willing to learn about the problems with Bigtech Socials & willing to experiment with Public Socials (aka Fediverse) can be served with this. Ultimately helping them to move away from Bigtech Socials & hopefully Bigtech in general.
Quite happy to formalize my work & experience into something other people can use as well.
So people & organizations willing to learn about the problems with Bigtech Socials & willing to experiment with Public Socials (aka Fediverse) can be served with this. Ultimately helping them to move away from Bigtech Socials & hopefully Bigtech in general.
Quite happy to formalize my work & experience into something other people can use as well.
So people & organizations willing to learn about the problems with Bigtech Socials & willing to experiment with Public Socials (aka Fediverse) can be served with this. Ultimately helping them to move away from Bigtech Socials & hopefully Bigtech in general.
Quite happy to formalize my work & experience into something other people can use as well.
- Reimplement git operations to use git2/libgit2 - Renamed features:
forgejo -> forge-forgejo
github -> forge-github
- Extracted desktop and email notification support into non-defaults features;
notify-desktop
notify-email
This a significant update to migrate from gix to git2 for git operations. This allows us to drop the gix crate and the need to shelling-out to git for operations that gix doesn't support.
Breaking Change
If you are build from source (e.g. cargo install) and use either email or desktop notifications in your configuration file, you will need to add the appropriate feature, notify-desktop and/or notify-email. If you don't the config file will not be accepted.
The docker images are built with all features enabled.
In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.
So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.
I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!
ALT text detailsA screenshot of GitHub's blocking page due to reaching rate limit very quickly while browsing an open source project's repository while not logged in.
Join me at @devconf_cz this summer in Brno, Czech Republic.
#WebComponents are a widespread and proven technology for developing browser-native UIs. A number of new and upcoming features like import attributes, reference targets, and declarative custom elements make web components even more attractive as a part of your front end stack. In this talk we'll explore some of those new APIs from a web development, #accessibility, and architectural perspective and see how they help your community, #OpenSource project, or organization improve performance and accessibility, reduce development time, avoid costly technical debt, and boost engineering talent. If you are a developer, project manager, or technology recruiter, this talk will inform you about the state of the art in front-end web technologies.
Does anyone have recommendations for a good book on the *process* of working with open source teams on software development?
I'm self-taught, and though I've done it for work, I've not been formally a "programmer".
And It always feels like I missed a meeting or something.
I know OF such things as version control, forges, bug triage, code review, and pull requests. But my grasp of actually doing these things is very shaky.
Does anyone have recommendations for a good book on the *process* of working with open source teams on software development?
I'm self-taught, and though I've done it for work, I've not been formally a "programmer".
And It always feels like I missed a meeting or something.
I know OF such things as version control, forges, bug triage, code review, and pull requests. But my grasp of actually doing these things is very shaky.
SecureDrop Workstation 1.2.0 has been released! This version brings initial support for driverless printing, making SecureDrop Workstation compatible with a much larger selection of printers.
SecureDrop Workstation 1.2.0 has been released! This version brings initial support for driverless printing, making SecureDrop Workstation compatible with a much larger selection of printers.
We are grateful for all of the contributors who make the Fedora Project what it is.
Why not nominate a Fedora contributor you know to be recognized at the Fedora Mentor Summit this year? Appreciation is key to keeping a community friendly and collaborative, so share the love!
Join me at @devconf_cz this summer in Brno, Czech Republic.
#WebComponents are a widespread and proven technology for developing browser-native UIs. A number of new and upcoming features like import attributes, reference targets, and declarative custom elements make web components even more attractive as a part of your front end stack. In this talk we'll explore some of those new APIs from a web development, #accessibility, and architectural perspective and see how they help your community, #OpenSource project, or organization improve performance and accessibility, reduce development time, avoid costly technical debt, and boost engineering talent. If you are a developer, project manager, or technology recruiter, this talk will inform you about the state of the art in front-end web technologies.
The fine @michael has deployed the #FediAlgo demo app to a place where you can test out the customizable algorithm + filtering system for your home timeline with nothing more than a web browser. You can find it here:
Meet Divine, a GNU/Linux Phone powered by Rockchip’s RK3588S. Divine D. will be our first variant, completely open for development, testing and debugging. It will bring interesting features on-board, from local AI to multi-standard connectivity. We also develop DawnOS, a mobian-based distribution tailored for our hardware, including custom Kernel and device tree. Check our documentation base for more: https://docs.dawndrums.tn
The fine @michael has deployed the #FediAlgo demo app to a place where you can test out the customizable algorithm + filtering system for your home timeline with nothing more than a web browser. You can find it here:
So I'm looking for #PeerTube channels to follow. I dig #RPGs (but not Actual Plays), #VideoGames (but not let's plays, Free to Play, Mobile, or PVP focused games), #Linux and #OpenSource news, #BoardGames, #ScienceFiction, and #Science in general, particularly concerning human evolution, anthropology, space, arthropods, and, of course Owls, Bears, and Owlbears.
Hello everyone! Velvelyne (a funky skeletal typeface) has just been released on our website! https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/velvelyne/ Velvelyne is published under the CUTE conditions, which are different from your plain old SIL OFL, so please check it out. #opensource#font#typeface#velvelyne
ALT text detailsImage of the Velvelyne typeface, which looks like a regular font with all the flesh removed leaving only a bare single line skeleton, on a white background. Text reads "single line à haute tension".
@raccoonforfriendicaapp This weekend I took some time to investigate how much work would be needed to build an iOS version of the app, and it turned out that at least building and running a basic version of the app is doable with some minor changes (see here).
What do you think about it? Would you like to see a Raccoon on iOS too?
Firmware alternatif sur du materiel relativement peu cher (Hotspot wifi avec SIM) développé par @eff pour détecter si un IMSI Catcher (matériel pour intercepter les numéros de portables utilisés notamment contre les mouvements sociaux) est dans les parages. Probablement un bon investissement pour les personnes ou collectifs à risque d'être pistés.
Firmware alternatif sur du materiel relativement peu cher (Hotspot wifi avec SIM) développé par @eff pour détecter si un IMSI Catcher (matériel pour intercepter les numéros de portables utilisés notamment contre les mouvements sociaux) est dans les parages. Probablement un bon investissement pour les personnes ou collectifs à risque d'être pistés.
The fine @michael has deployed the #FediAlgo demo app to a place where you can test out the customizable algorithm + filtering system for your home timeline with nothing more than a web browser. You can find it here:
The fine @michael has deployed the #FediAlgo demo app to a place where you can test out the customizable algorithm + filtering system for your home timeline with nothing more than a web browser. You can find it here:
Some third parties are repackaging our apps with minor changes, charging $10, and not providing source code. This violates our license, undermines open-source principles and hurts the community.
Some third parties are repackaging our apps with minor changes, charging $10, and not providing source code. This violates our license, undermines open-source principles and hurts the community.
@raccoonforfriendicaapp This weekend I took some time to investigate how much work would be needed to build an iOS version of the app, and it turned out that at least building and running a basic version of the app is doable with some minor changes (see here).
What do you think about it? Would you like to see a Raccoon on iOS too?
Some third parties are repackaging our apps with minor changes, charging $10, and not providing source code. This violates our license, undermines open-source principles and hurts the community.
It is a fucking shame. And it is pure neglect, as pointed out in the blog post.
Hot take: a new version of open source software should not release before accessibility is fixed. It should be treated as a show stopper, because it actually is for people with a disability.
This doesn't even begin to run. You've done nothing to handle passing requests to individual workers. The whole thing just looks like you're vibe coding and sending in slop. ```
I really think LLMs might be the straw that break the open source back.
This doesn't even begin to run. You've done nothing to handle passing requests to individual workers. The whole thing just looks like you're vibe coding and sending in slop. ```
I really think LLMs might be the straw that break the open source back.
This doesn't even begin to run. You've done nothing to handle passing requests to individual workers. The whole thing just looks like you're vibe coding and sending in slop. ```
I really think LLMs might be the straw that break the open source back.
In this one, #GNOME finds a new direction with a new Director, #OpenSUSE removes the Deepin desktop from their repos due to security concerns, and Linux Mint starts accepting Libadwaita more into the distro:
In this one, #GNOME finds a new direction with a new Director, #OpenSUSE removes the Deepin desktop from their repos due to security concerns, and Linux Mint starts accepting Libadwaita more into the distro:
#ReleaseSaturday — Just added 35 new color palettes (255 in total now) to https://thi.ng/color-palettes. All of these are based on images and dominant colors have been extracted via this tool below and then partially hand edited. The SVG swatches were generated via a custom tool (included in the project repo).
The package provides accessors for obtaining themes as CSS hex colors, RGB or LCH tuples. Themes can also be programmatically selected/filtered by a number of composable criteria (examples in the readme)...
ALT text detailsExcerpt from the package readme, showing a table of 18 newly added color themes, each consisting of 6 colors and visualized as 6 swatches.
ALT text detailsExcerpt from the package readme, showing a table of 17 newly added color themes, each consisting of 6 colors and visualized as 6 swatches.
I've been fed up with my current job for a while, so what the heck, I'll post a request for something approaching my dream job: I'd love to use #OpenSource#RustLang, perhaps in a terminal and/or with Postgresql, to make good, useful things in a remote environment (I'm in the U.S.) related to the realm of #gardening, #wildlife, #vegan, or #labor. If it were with a worker #cooperative, even better.
I've been fed up with my current job for a while, so what the heck, I'll post a request for something approaching my dream job: I'd love to use #OpenSource#RustLang, perhaps in a terminal and/or with Postgresql, to make good, useful things in a remote environment (I'm in the U.S.) related to the realm of #gardening, #wildlife, #vegan, or #labor. If it were with a worker #cooperative, even better.
🚀 Wielki powrót Poznańskiej Imprezy Wolnego Oprogramowania!
Już za niecały miesiąc zapraszamy Was na #PIWO2025 do Poznania! Czeka na Was dzień pełen prelekcji, warsztatów, rozgrywek LAN Party i inspirujących rozmów o Linuksie i wolnym oprogramowaniu.
📅 Kiedy? sobota, 7 czerwca 2025 📍 Gdzie? Centrum Wykładowe Politechniki Poznańskiej
ALT text detailsBilety na Poznańską Imprezę Wolnego Oprogramowania już dostępne, odbierz darmową wejściówkę na P.I.W.O! 7 czerwca 2025 Szczegóły na piwo.sh
Who is ready for Fedora 43 testing? Well, we have to plan those testing sessions first!
If you're contributing in the Fedora Project and want to coordinate Test Days so that you can squash bugs before release, see this article for how to organize that with the Fedora Quality Team.
🚀 Wielki powrót Poznańskiej Imprezy Wolnego Oprogramowania!
Już za niecały miesiąc zapraszamy Was na #PIWO2025 do Poznania! Czeka na Was dzień pełen prelekcji, warsztatów, rozgrywek LAN Party i inspirujących rozmów o Linuksie i wolnym oprogramowaniu.
📅 Kiedy? sobota, 7 czerwca 2025 📍 Gdzie? Centrum Wykładowe Politechniki Poznańskiej
ALT text detailsBilety na Poznańską Imprezę Wolnego Oprogramowania już dostępne, odbierz darmową wejściówkę na P.I.W.O! 7 czerwca 2025 Szczegóły na piwo.sh
Commentary on #selfhosted#chat alternatives with #Skype shutting down, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #FileBrowser Quantum -- a web-based file manager -- and more in this week's #newsletter recap!
Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice). #foss#OpenSource
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
@osi Keeping the election results secret is not grounded in Open Source principles. When will you release the full unredracted results? #OSI#OpenSource#FOSS#OSS
SecureDrop 2.12.8 has just been released, which triggers upgrades to Ubuntu Noble on 100% of Application and Monitor Servers. If either of your servers are not upgraded to Ubuntu Noble with this version installed, please contact support via https://support.freedom.press.
SecureDrop 2.12.8 has just been released, which triggers upgrades to Ubuntu Noble on 100% of Application and Monitor Servers. If either of your servers are not upgraded to Ubuntu Noble with this version installed, please contact support via https://support.freedom.press.
This is what unrestricted #capitalism gives you, damaging exploitation and rent-seeking that threatens small business and their workers through extortionist practices like this.
Always prefer Open Source solutions and #selfhosted. Avoid subscription services like the plague they are.
I’ve written before about what I’d do if I ran Bluesky or Mastodon. But what if I started from scratch? What would it look like to build a new open social platform - one that's private-by-default, human-centered, and sustainable from day one?
I’ve written before about what I’d do if I ran Bluesky or Mastodon. But what if I started from scratch? What would it look like to build a new open social platform - one that's private-by-default, human-centered, and sustainable from day one?
I’ve written before about what I’d do if I ran Bluesky or Mastodon. But what if I started from scratch? What would it look like to build a new open social platform - one that's private-by-default, human-centered, and sustainable from day one?
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
Wir suchen in #Saarlouis#Fachinformatiker:innen und Ähnliche (auch Quereinstieg) für verschiedene Stellen in einem alteingesessenen, stetig wachsenden Unternehmen der Lebensmittelindustrie.
I’m excited to work with Steven and see him help steer the GNOME Foundation going forward. He’s a great guy and I’m already excited by his framing and deep understanding of what GNOME is—and needs to be.
- Reimplement git operations to use git2/libgit2 - Renamed features:
forgejo -> forge-forgejo
github -> forge-github
- Extracted desktop and email notification support into non-defaults features;
notify-desktop
notify-email
This a significant update to migrate from gix to git2 for git operations. This allows us to drop the gix crate and the need to shelling-out to git for operations that gix doesn't support.
Breaking Change
If you are build from source (e.g. cargo install) and use either email or desktop notifications in your configuration file, you will need to add the appropriate feature, notify-desktop and/or notify-email. If you don't the config file will not be accepted.
The docker images are built with all features enabled.
Skype, one of the pioneers in internet telephony, has officially ended its support on May 5, 2025. While it was not perfect, Skype held a special place for many as their first experience with online calling. As we bid farewell to Skype, it's important to look ahead at the alternatives that can fill the void. Here are some free and open-source options that can replace Skype seamlessly:
Jitsi
Switch to Jitsi, the free and open-source video conferencing tool. Here's why Jitsi is a great choice:
- Cross-Platform: Jitsi works on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, making it accessible to everyone. - Easy Sharing: Share your screen, files, and even collaborate on documents in real-time. - Rich Media Support: Jitsi supports high-quality video and audio, ensuring a smooth and engaging experience.
Matrix is an open standard for decentralized communication, and Element is its flagship client. It supports text messaging, voice and video calls, and file sharing. Matrix's decentralized nature allows users to host their own servers, providing greater control over their data.
- Interoperability: Matrix can bridge with other communication platforms, making it versatile. - End-to-End Encryption: Ensure your communications are secure with built-in encryption. - Cross-Platform: Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Session is a decentralized messaging app that emphasizes privacy and security. It uses the Oxen network for secure communication and does not require a phone number or email address for registration.
- Privacy-Focused: No phone number or email required, ensuring anonymity. - Cross-Platform: Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. - Decentralized: No central servers, reducing the risk of data breaches.
Signal is known for its strong focus on privacy and security, offering end-to-end encryption for all communications, including voice calls, video calls, and messaging.
- End-to-End Encryption: All communications are secure and private. - Cross-Platform: Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Mumble is primarily designed for voice communication, offering low-latency, high-quality voice chat. It's often used by gamers and communities that require clear and reliable voice communication.
- Low-Latency: Ensures smooth and clear voice communication. - Cross-Platform: Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
ALT text detailsThe image is a modified version of the Skype end-of-life graphic, promoting Jitsi instead of Microsoft Teams. At the top, there are two icons: the Skype logo on the left and the Jitsi logo on the right, with the text "jitsi.org" below them. The message reads, "Thank you for being part of Skype. Skype retired in May 2025. You can use Jitsi, a free and open-source video conferencing platform, for messaging and calling with your contacts." Below this message, there are logos for five alternative communication platforms: Element, Session, Signal, and Mumble. Each logo is accompanied by its respective website URL: element.io, getsession.org, signal.org, and mumble.info. The background features a gradient of light purple and white, with a subtle texture.
An interesting chat on "monorepo" during the Podman Cabal meeting today. Jan Kaluza walked us through the pluses and minuses of combining the storage, image, and common projects into one "mono" repository. Catch the discussion here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbafpszDDsc&t=7s#podman#OpenSource
Congratulations to @johnonolan and the team at Ghost on their 12th birthday! Here's John's post reflecting on the idea behind the product, some of the incredible indie publishers who have adopted it (including @404mediaco, @caseynewton's Platformer, and @drownedinsound) and what's next.
Skype, one of the pioneers in internet telephony, has officially ended its support on May 5, 2025. While it was not perfect, Skype held a special place for many as their first experience with online calling. As we bid farewell to Skype, it's important to look ahead at the alternatives that can fill the void. Here are some free and open-source options that can replace Skype seamlessly:
Jitsi
Switch to Jitsi, the free and open-source video conferencing tool. Here's why Jitsi is a great choice:
- Cross-Platform: Jitsi works on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, making it accessible to everyone. - Easy Sharing: Share your screen, files, and even collaborate on documents in real-time. - Rich Media Support: Jitsi supports high-quality video and audio, ensuring a smooth and engaging experience.
Matrix is an open standard for decentralized communication, and Element is its flagship client. It supports text messaging, voice and video calls, and file sharing. Matrix's decentralized nature allows users to host their own servers, providing greater control over their data.
- Interoperability: Matrix can bridge with other communication platforms, making it versatile. - End-to-End Encryption: Ensure your communications are secure with built-in encryption. - Cross-Platform: Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Session is a decentralized messaging app that emphasizes privacy and security. It uses the Oxen network for secure communication and does not require a phone number or email address for registration.
- Privacy-Focused: No phone number or email required, ensuring anonymity. - Cross-Platform: Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. - Decentralized: No central servers, reducing the risk of data breaches.
Signal is known for its strong focus on privacy and security, offering end-to-end encryption for all communications, including voice calls, video calls, and messaging.
- End-to-End Encryption: All communications are secure and private. - Cross-Platform: Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Mumble is primarily designed for voice communication, offering low-latency, high-quality voice chat. It's often used by gamers and communities that require clear and reliable voice communication.
- Low-Latency: Ensures smooth and clear voice communication. - Cross-Platform: Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
ALT text detailsThe image is a modified version of the Skype end-of-life graphic, promoting Jitsi instead of Microsoft Teams. At the top, there are two icons: the Skype logo on the left and the Jitsi logo on the right, with the text "jitsi.org" below them. The message reads, "Thank you for being part of Skype. Skype retired in May 2025. You can use Jitsi, a free and open-source video conferencing platform, for messaging and calling with your contacts." Below this message, there are logos for five alternative communication platforms: Element, Session, Signal, and Mumble. Each logo is accompanied by its respective website URL: element.io, getsession.org, signal.org, and mumble.info. The background features a gradient of light purple and white, with a subtle texture.
Congratulations to @johnonolan and the team at Ghost on their 12th birthday! Here's John's post reflecting on the idea behind the product, some of the incredible indie publishers who have adopted it (including @404mediaco, @caseynewton's Platformer, and @drownedinsound) and what's next.
@ThePSF Developers-in-Residence Program now has a landing page! 💜
Today we cover the language runtime and security work, maybe there's a gap in the #Python ecosystem your organization would like to see worked on full-time at the PSF? Let's talk!
@ThePSF Developers-in-Residence Program now has a landing page! 💜
Today we cover the language runtime and security work, maybe there's a gap in the #Python ecosystem your organization would like to see worked on full-time at the PSF? Let's talk!
Looking for a new laptop that runs Linux out of the box? Get a ThinkPad!
Lenovo has been offering ThinkPads with Fedora and @ubuntu preinstalled for a few years now. The more people who shop for these devices, the more attention they can give to this business!
ALT text detailsSmall animation of my logo being filled in with blurred colors according to my color palette (red, blue, green, yellow and white in sequence).
Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice). #foss#OpenSource
Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice). #foss#OpenSource
ALT text detailsSmall animation of my logo being filled in with blurred colors according to my color palette (red, blue, green, yellow and white in sequence).
Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice). #foss#OpenSource
Do you want to join the fundraising team at the #Wikimedia Foundation that supports #Wikipedia and sister projects? Do you have experience with CRMs? Let's talk! DM's are open.
Do you want to join the fundraising team at the #Wikimedia Foundation that supports #Wikipedia and sister projects? Do you have experience with CRMs? Let's talk! DM's are open.
For today's #LibreMonday I'd like to call attention to Eidetic: an #opensource#Android#application currently available through #FDroid that is a wonderfully short, delightful memory game. It also doubles as a cool party trick, if you give it to someone unsuspecting. The blank stares when the numbers get hidden are priceless 😇😇
“Start with a good README, clear getting started instructions, and some key usage points, and you won’t go far wrong…Documentation is one of the most valuable and transferable skills for developers too, so it’s very much worth your time and effort personally as well as for the project.”
For today's #LibreMonday I'd like to call attention to Eidetic: an #opensource#Android#application currently available through #FDroid that is a wonderfully short, delightful memory game. It also doubles as a cool party trick, if you give it to someone unsuspecting. The blank stares when the numbers get hidden are priceless 😇😇
“Start with a good README, clear getting started instructions, and some key usage points, and you won’t go far wrong…Documentation is one of the most valuable and transferable skills for developers too, so it’s very much worth your time and effort personally as well as for the project.”
Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News! This time, we have #KDE planning some big changes on the desktop, we have #Wikipedia adding AI features here and there, and #OpenSUSE Leap 16 looking like a very strong proposition.
The FediAlgo hashtag filter section now highlights any hashtags you've posted about recently.
Interestingly the most I've used the app the more I've found feed filtering gets a ton of mileage for me. It's a huge change of pace to be able to instantly flip between whatever people are talking about on the Fediverse. Not really something you can do on any other social media platform I'm aware of.
« Le IT Planning Council s'engage à ce que les formats ouverts tels que l'Open Document Format (ODF) soient de plus en plus utilisés dans l'administration publique et deviennent la norme pour l'échange de documents d'ici 2027. Il charge le Standardization Board de la mise en œuvre de cet objectif. »
The FediAlgo hashtag filter section now highlights any hashtags you've posted about recently.
Interestingly the most I've used the app the more I've found feed filtering gets a ton of mileage for me. It's a huge change of pace to be able to instantly flip between whatever people are talking about on the Fediverse. Not really something you can do on any other social media platform I'm aware of.
In the last weeks, I noticed more & more messages from different instances/admins about moderation, banning and de-federations. Initially, people told the Fediverse is more open, not blocking and deleting content compared to other social medias. However, I think it shifted to the opposite where a single instance admin decides for the whole user base (which might not even be aware of it).
In the last weeks, I noticed more & more messages from different instances/admins about moderation, banning and de-federations. Initially, people told the Fediverse is more open, not blocking and deleting content compared to other social medias. However, I think it shifted to the opposite where a single instance admin decides for the whole user base (which might not even be aware of it).
« Le IT Planning Council s'engage à ce que les formats ouverts tels que l'Open Document Format (ODF) soient de plus en plus utilisés dans l'administration publique et deviennent la norme pour l'échange de documents d'ici 2027. Il charge le Standardization Board de la mise en œuvre de cet objectif. »
Hey #plasmamobile users, what role is it playing in your life? Is it a on a secondary device? Are you daily driving it? Is it something you simply want to support in the hope it will one day be the only thing in your pocket? What distro are you using?
Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News! This time, we have #KDE planning some big changes on the desktop, we have #Wikipedia adding AI features here and there, and #OpenSUSE Leap 16 looking like a very strong proposition.
The real challenge for cybersecurity experts isn’t just detecting cyber threats – it’s turning the raw intelligence into actionable defence mechanisms and managing the ever-growing arsenal of detection rules.
The #OpenSource OpenTide software, now on code.europa.eu, enables the Commission’s Security Operations Centre to deploy detection rules efficiently, while preserving critical knowledge on cyber threats and defence strategies.
Can anyone recommend a screen-reader-accessible, self-hosted package that provides a web interface that communicates the status of multiple machines? UP, down, maintenance, etc? I think UptimeKuma can do this, so will check that out. But also very interested in any recommendations. Please boost for reach. Much appreciated. #Linux#OpenSource#Self-Hosted #StatusReporting#WebInterface#ScreenReader#Accessible#A11Y
Mastodon entwickelt sich weiter: Gründer Eugen Rochko übergibt seine Rolle als CEO, um sich künftig auf die technische Entwicklung zu konzentrieren. Die Führung geht an eine neue europäische Non-Profit-Organisation über. Ziel ist, Mastodon dauerhaft als dezentrales, werbefreies und gemeinnütziges soziales Netzwerk zu sichern. Dieser Schritt soll organisatorische Stabilität schaffen und die Abhängigkeit von Einzelpersonen reduzieren. Die neue Struktur stärkt die Unabhängigkeit von Mastodon, erleichtert Kooperationen und verbessert die Vertretung gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit. Eugen bleibt als Entwickler und technischer Berater aktiv. Die Vision: Ein demokratischeres, transparenteres und dauerhaft community-getriebenes Netzwerk. • Rochko tritt als CEO zurück • Neue Non-Profit führt Mastodon • Fokus auf Transparenz und Stabilität • Weiterhin dezentral, werbefrei und offen • Entwicklerrolle bleibt bei Eugen
Can anyone recommend a screen-reader-accessible, self-hosted package that provides a web interface that communicates the status of multiple machines? UP, down, maintenance, etc? I think UptimeKuma can do this, so will check that out. But also very interested in any recommendations. Please boost for reach. Much appreciated. #Linux#OpenSource#Self-Hosted #StatusReporting#WebInterface#ScreenReader#Accessible#A11Y
I've been looking for a lightweight monitoring solution for my VPS where I run a bunch of services. Since I've been putting in some effort on setting things up, I also want to make sure that I do not get surprised by anything obvious, such as disk space filling up or AI crawlers spiking my web traffic.
After a few rounds of research the remaining two options were Beszel and Monitorix, and I now went with the latter:
Call me oldschool, but I do fancy the historical vibes the generated graphs express.
Beszel also looked nice, but even though setup seems straight forward when using a container / compose setup, I get the feeling that having a separate database container running just for the sake of system monitoring feels to heavy.
That being said I've just set this up and will monitor (pun intended) how it works out for me. If I encounter any issues with monitorix I can always consider moving to a different solution at a later time.
That's one of the best things about open source software and selfhosting: plenty of choice and options! <3
Anubis is designed to protect websites from AI scraper bots, Anubis primarily focuses on parameters like the user agent sent with the request and looks for oddities in the connection. “Known good” and harmless clients are always accepted, and “Known bad” clients are always denied. Now the same tool is used to get protection from a DDoS attack: https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack/
Anubis is designed to protect websites from AI scraper bots, Anubis primarily focuses on parameters like the user agent sent with the request and looks for oddities in the connection. “Known good” and harmless clients are always accepted, and “Known bad” clients are always denied. Now the same tool is used to get protection from a DDoS attack: https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack/
Anubis is designed to protect websites from AI scraper bots, Anubis primarily focuses on parameters like the user agent sent with the request and looks for oddities in the connection. “Known good” and harmless clients are always accepted, and “Known bad” clients are always denied. Now the same tool is used to get protection from a DDoS attack: https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack/
#ReleaseFriday — Just pushed a new version of https://thi.ng/tensors, now with added support for "broadcasting" in most operations taking more than one input tensor. This means the shapes of the tensors only need to be compatible, not identical. Supporting operators attempt to adjust each tensor's shape & stride configurations to be compatible (details in the readme & API docs).
This new version also includes more tensor ops (almost 50 now), including singular value matrix decomposition (SVD), plus improved type safety & result type interference for all operations. The readme contains more code examples...
ALT text detailsScreenshot excerpt from the library readme section:
Broadcasting support
Most of the built-in functions taking two or more tensors as input are supporting broadcasting, i.e. the shapes of the individual arguments only need to be compatible, not identical. The operators attempt to adjust the tensor shape & stride configurations to be compatible, applying the steps and rules below:
- If the dimensions are unequal, the smaller tensor's dimensions will be increased as needed. The size of each added dimension will be set to 1 and its stride set to zero.
- The size of each dimension will be compared and only the following cases are accepted (otherwise will throw an error): sizes are equal or one side is 1
- Any of the tensors requiring shape adjustments will be shallow copied with new shape/stride config applied.
(Source code examples omitted)
Celebrating the builders of open knowledge: Happy International Workers’ Day! 🛠️🌍
Today, we honor the developers, documenters, translators, testers, and community contributors who power XWiki!
From crafting new features and squashing bugs to writing documentation and supporting users, your efforts make XWiki a secure, flexible, and collaborative tool for all.
P.S. 🔗 Anyone can join our community or try XWiki today: https://xwiki.org
Firefox 138 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
｢ It’s worth noting also that Mozilla’s accessibility team has rededicated the former color-theme preferences into a unified “Contrast Control” setting. The move simplifies the mental model for users who rely on high-contrast palettes and aligns with WCAG guidance ｣
Celebrating the builders of open knowledge: Happy International Workers’ Day! 🛠️🌍
Today, we honor the developers, documenters, translators, testers, and community contributors who power XWiki!
From crafting new features and squashing bugs to writing documentation and supporting users, your efforts make XWiki a secure, flexible, and collaborative tool for all.
P.S. 🔗 Anyone can join our community or try XWiki today: https://xwiki.org
Firefox 138 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
｢ It’s worth noting also that Mozilla’s accessibility team has rededicated the former color-theme preferences into a unified “Contrast Control” setting. The move simplifies the mental model for users who rely on high-contrast palettes and aligns with WCAG guidance ｣
Mastodon entwickelt sich weiter: Gründer Eugen Rochko übergibt seine Rolle als CEO, um sich künftig auf die technische Entwicklung zu konzentrieren. Die Führung geht an eine neue europäische Non-Profit-Organisation über. Ziel ist, Mastodon dauerhaft als dezentrales, werbefreies und gemeinnütziges soziales Netzwerk zu sichern. Dieser Schritt soll organisatorische Stabilität schaffen und die Abhängigkeit von Einzelpersonen reduzieren. Die neue Struktur stärkt die Unabhängigkeit von Mastodon, erleichtert Kooperationen und verbessert die Vertretung gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit. Eugen bleibt als Entwickler und technischer Berater aktiv. Die Vision: Ein demokratischeres, transparenteres und dauerhaft community-getriebenes Netzwerk. • Rochko tritt als CEO zurück • Neue Non-Profit führt Mastodon • Fokus auf Transparenz und Stabilität • Weiterhin dezentral, werbefrei und offen • Entwicklerrolle bleibt bei Eugen
my colleague @DarkaMaul has put out a new post on the @trailofbits blog on how we worked with @pypi's maintainers to slash PyPI test run times from ~160s to ~30s despite overall test counts growing by 17% (3900 to 4700+):
this is some of my favorite kind of work: faster test suites means that developers run tests locally more often, and are less hesitant to add new tests (especially parametric ones). another great example of security and performance/reliability engineering dovetailing.
Over the years, Stamen has built and maintained tools of our own to supplement great tools created by larger carto community. Join us along a cartographic debugging journey as we explore how data, tiles, and stylesheets work together to make beautiful maps.
Over the years, Stamen has built and maintained tools of our own to supplement great tools created by larger carto community. Join us along a cartographic debugging journey as we explore how data, tiles, and stylesheets work together to make beautiful maps.
my colleague @DarkaMaul has put out a new post on the @trailofbits blog on how we worked with @pypi's maintainers to slash PyPI test run times from ~160s to ~30s despite overall test counts growing by 17% (3900 to 4700+):
this is some of my favorite kind of work: faster test suites means that developers run tests locally more often, and are less hesitant to add new tests (especially parametric ones). another great example of security and performance/reliability engineering dovetailing.
my colleague @DarkaMaul has put out a new post on the @trailofbits blog on how we worked with @pypi's maintainers to slash PyPI test run times from ~160s to ~30s despite overall test counts growing by 17% (3900 to 4700+):
this is some of my favorite kind of work: faster test suites means that developers run tests locally more often, and are less hesitant to add new tests (especially parametric ones). another great example of security and performance/reliability engineering dovetailing.
• OSI and FSF approved • copyleft • SaaS clause (like the AGPL) • explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects • based on European law • available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
Celebrating the builders of open knowledge: Happy International Workers’ Day! 🛠️🌍
Today, we honor the developers, documenters, translators, testers, and community contributors who power XWiki!
From crafting new features and squashing bugs to writing documentation and supporting users, your efforts make XWiki a secure, flexible, and collaborative tool for all.
P.S. 🔗 Anyone can join our community or try XWiki today: https://xwiki.org
My relay instance for the #Fediverse evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.
If you're running #snac / #snac2, #Mastodon, #Pleroma or any other software on the #ActivityPub protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully #GoToSocial also supports relay services soon! Of course #IPv6 is supported (for IPV6 only instances).
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.
My relay instance for the #Fediverse evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.
If you're running #snac / #snac2, #Mastodon, #Pleroma or any other software on the #ActivityPub protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully #GoToSocial also supports relay services soon! Of course #IPv6 is supported (for IPV6 only instances).
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.
• OSI and FSF approved • copyleft • SaaS clause (like the AGPL) • explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects • based on European law • available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
My relay instance for the #Fediverse evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.
If you're running #snac / #snac2, #Mastodon, #Pleroma or any other software on the #ActivityPub protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully #GoToSocial also supports relay services soon! Of course #IPv6 is supported (for IPV6 only instances).
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.
Reminder to nominate yourself or someone you think would do a good job (with their permission) to the governance of the Fedora Project! Toss your name in the hat by May 8.
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
• OSI and FSF approved • copyleft • SaaS clause (like the AGPL) • explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects • based on European law • available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
#ReleaseWednesday 🚀 — I wonder how many other FLOSS devs are sitting on code for ~8 years prior to first release... In one of these cases (many others readily available in my stash 🙃), triggered by recent major updates to the thi.ng/vectors library, I've refactored (almost 100% rewritten) and applied the same approach to the new/old package:
This package provides 1D/2D/3D/4D tensors, supporting different storage implementations (currently still all CPU side only) and an extensible set of polymorphic tensor operations (currently ~45 math ops, incl. matrix-matrix/matrix-vector products, reductions, argmin/max, activation functions etc.). The tensor classes themselves also provide several zero-copy slicing, re-ordering, clipping, extraction functions, most of them type-safe.
The original (private) version was heavily reliant on dynamic code generation, which has now been replaced with higher-order functions to provide various dimension-optimized versions of all operations.
This package is NOT specifically aimed at machine learning, even though it could probably used for some tasks in that realm (likely with extra hand holding). There are many other use cases for this kind of data structure...
Also new in other packages in this release cycle (incl. some code examples):
• OSI and FSF approved • copyleft • SaaS clause (like the AGPL) • explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects • based on European law • available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
• OSI and FSF approved • copyleft • SaaS clause (like the AGPL) • explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects • based on European law • available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
• OSI and FSF approved • copyleft • SaaS clause (like the AGPL) • explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects • based on European law • available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
• OSI and FSF approved • copyleft • SaaS clause (like the AGPL) • explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects • based on European law • available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
Ω🪬Ω New release of #FediAlgo (customizable #algorithm for your #Mastodon timeline) has a couple of cool features:
1. Configuration presets (so you can easily put discussions or trending toots at the top of your #timeline without fiddling with the individual settings)
2. A "What's Trending" section that will show you the top trending hashtags, links, and posts scraped from 30 or so of the most popular Mastodon servers
All the old features like filtering for particular languages / hashtags / users or a minimum number of replies / boosts / etc. are still there.
@osi Your election results are also broken, when will you fix them? The #FLOSS community is asking you to publish the unredacted results, as you have been doing since they started being published. Luminaries within the #FOSS world, previous #OSI directors, members .. have signed the petition, to resounding silence ... #OpenSource#FreeSoftware@ed what are you hiding? Why do you ignore the community?
Having this kind of information available was not the only reason behind moving my account to another mastodon instance (#hachyderm), but it played an important role:
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
Taking my first dip into the @kdenlive pool. I'll still need Resolve for specific things related to my paid work but whenever I can, I'll support something free and community maintained. Loving it so far and impressed with how feature packed it is.
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
Been reading about a new #EV company Slate Auto and their pickup they expect to release late next year. The sub $20k to mid $ 20ks price tag sounds great, too. But what I really love is they stripped out alot of the "smart" gimmicks other automakers shove in. They also seem to be embracing #opensource in at least accessories, of which the truck can be infinitely customized even into an SUV. And so far, they are one of the few automakers putting #RightToRepair into the design (Scout has made similar claims).
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
• OSI and FSF approved • copyleft • SaaS clause (like the AGPL) • explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects • based on European law • available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
• OSI and FSF approved • copyleft • SaaS clause (like the AGPL) • explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects • based on European law • available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
ALT text detailsThe entire world's IT infrastructure:
A photo of an Elephant standing on a rubber ball.
Unpaid open source devs:
Two ants holding up the same rubber ball.
Hello everyone, I am very happy to announce that after more than two years of development, #Fread has decided to open source. All the codes will be open. Welcome to check it out. At present, the main technology stack of Fread is as follows: Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform, kotlin-inject, Voyager, Compose-imageloader, Jetpack Room, ktor.
Taking my first dip into the @kdenlive pool. I'll still need Resolve for specific things related to my paid work but whenever I can, I'll support something free and community maintained. Loving it so far and impressed with how feature packed it is.
#askfedi looking for foss Mastodonian accounts to follow (in Japanese #日本語) who share #FOSS news, interesting developments in #opensource and #tech in general, looking forward to your recommendations!
The real challenge for cybersecurity experts isn’t just detecting cyber threats – it’s turning the raw intelligence into actionable defence mechanisms and managing the ever-growing arsenal of detection rules.
The #OpenSource OpenTide software, now on code.europa.eu, enables the Commission’s Security Operations Centre to deploy detection rules efficiently, while preserving critical knowledge on cyber threats and defence strategies.
Desde hace un par de días, @phanpy hace que las barras superior e inferior se muestren con esos colores en Android 14, utilizándolo como aplicación progresiva (pwa) en Firefox, cuando hasta ahora,vdichas barras, respetaban el tema negro elegido. ¿Algún fallo en la interface, que hace que Android las muestre así, @cheeaun?.
He probado con otros teléfonos con Android 12 y Android 11 y ocurre lo mismo. 🤔
Hello everyone, I am very happy to announce that after more than two years of development, #Fread has decided to open source. All the codes will be open. Welcome to check it out. At present, the main technology stack of Fread is as follows: Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform, kotlin-inject, Voyager, Compose-imageloader, Jetpack Room, ktor.
📣 Przygotowania do #PIWO2025 wciąż trwają, a tymczasem do listy patronów medialnych dołączają kolejni partnerzy:
- @hswro / @SP6HACK - Hackerspace Trójmiasto - JUG Poznań (Java User Group) - Poznań Ruby User Group - Nix User Group Polska - Sealcode - Rust Gdańsk - @ftdl - @Linuxiarze
👉 Przypominamy, że można już rezerwować bilety na XIV edycję P.I.W.O, a do 5 maja możecie zgłosić swoje wystąpienie w #CfP.
📣 Przygotowania do #PIWO2025 wciąż trwają, a tymczasem do listy patronów medialnych dołączają kolejni partnerzy:
- @hswro / @SP6HACK - Hackerspace Trójmiasto - JUG Poznań (Java User Group) - Poznań Ruby User Group - Nix User Group Polska - Sealcode - Rust Gdańsk - @ftdl - @Linuxiarze
👉 Przypominamy, że można już rezerwować bilety na XIV edycję P.I.W.O, a do 5 maja możecie zgłosić swoje wystąpienie w #CfP.
Look out for our annual Survey coming your way in early May. The survey data is used to build an annual report on open source in the UK and to establish trends and the economic value of open source. The outputs will be shared in our report to be launched at the House of Commons in a drinks on 3 July - so please save the date. #opensource#opensourcesoftware#research
Look out for our annual Survey coming your way in early May. The survey data is used to build an annual report on open source in the UK and to establish trends and the economic value of open source. The outputs will be shared in our report to be launched at the House of Commons in a drinks on 3 July - so please save the date. #opensource#opensourcesoftware#research
Flohmarkt: Ein Marktplatz im Fediverse Ein neuer adminForge Service kann ab sofort genutzt werden.
Flohmarkt: Ein Marktplatz im Fediverse
Mit Flohmarkt habt ihr eine quelloffene Alternative zu eBay. Biete hier Dinge an, die du im Überfluss hast, oder suche nach Dingen, die du dir wünschst.
Building a "EU OS", a Linux distribution for the public sector, is another example of a repeating pattern.
Everybody throughout Europe talks about digital sovereignty, that we need to become independent, that Free Software is a great way of getting there, and at the end (almost nothing) happens.
Instead of simply starting to use all the great stuff out there, we start to build stuff because we tell ourselves that x, y, z is missing.
Let's get finally started! We will be surprised what's already possible. Gaps that might come up can be closed on the go.
Great article about seven FOSS-based projects the EU should support now instead of getting distracted:
@BoxyBSD was always for BSD based systems only. I focussed to push the whole BSD community and to encourage people to try BSD based systems (such like #FreeBSD. #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, etc.) but I'm not sure if it might provide more value to the whole #opensource community by also supporting #Linux systems (such like #Debian, #Ubuntu, #RockyLinux, #SuSe and more).
I'm not sure if the #BoxyBSD project still provides a value for the community right, now.
Building a "EU OS", a Linux distribution for the public sector, is another example of a repeating pattern.
Everybody throughout Europe talks about digital sovereignty, that we need to become independent, that Free Software is a great way of getting there, and at the end (almost nothing) happens.
Instead of simply starting to use all the great stuff out there, we start to build stuff because we tell ourselves that x, y, z is missing.
Let's get finally started! We will be surprised what's already possible. Gaps that might come up can be closed on the go.
Great article about seven FOSS-based projects the EU should support now instead of getting distracted:
Reading about Google keeping their long tradition of discontinuing products/services, often after just a few years[1]. On the other hand, the minimal "bus factor"[2] of my open source offerings is one of the stated reasons for people to not use them, even though the vast majority of the 200+ https://thi.ng/ libraries & tools has been actively maintained for much longer than many Google projects (99% by this single person)... Even many of my older projects which are defunkt by now have had an active period which outlasted many Google services, and — crucially — they're are stable, still available and can still be used now (e.g. my Java library collection developed between 2005-2013 still has regular users)...
Maybe internal politics, re-orgs and layoffs in BigTech are an equal/bigger risk factor for users (aside from other differences in design philosophy and resulting coupling and tech debt, e.g. massive all-in frameworks vs. lightweight composable pick-n-mix toolkits)? 🤔
Did you want to know what happend at the Podman CNCF Core Maintainer meeting? We talked about adding a Community Manager, changes to Buildah's Governance, and future meeting administration. Check it out! #podman#CNCF#OpenSource
E assim, foi ontem apresentada e aprovada na Assembleia de Freguesia da Penha de França a proposta para o uso do Mastodon e do Pixelfed enquanto ferramentas de comunicação pela Junta de Freguesia. Salientei a importância do uso de ferramentas digitais baseadas em software open source, descentralizadas, não comerciais e de origem europeia. 2/2
🎧 Just dropped a new episode of the Lorenzo's Music Podcast featuring @benpate discussing Bandwagon, an online platform for musicians! We talk about how it connects to the Fediverse and its connection to the online station Indie Beat. #IndieMusic#OpenSource#podcast#musicpodcast
🎧 Just dropped a new episode of the Lorenzo's Music Podcast featuring @benpate discussing Bandwagon, an online platform for musicians! We talk about how it connects to the Fediverse and its connection to the online station Indie Beat. #IndieMusic#OpenSource#podcast#musicpodcast
Why Owncast? Because I love taking control and embracing the pain in everything I do! No pain, no gain.
Owncast is a free, open-source, self-hosted platform that lets me customize my streaming experience and keep my content under control—no corporate overlords here!
🎧 Just dropped a new episode of the Lorenzo's Music Podcast featuring @benpate discussing Bandwagon, an online platform for musicians! We talk about how it connects to the Fediverse and its connection to the online station Indie Beat. #IndieMusic#OpenSource#podcast#musicpodcast
Any high-follower (10-20k+) techy person interested in helping me debug a tool I made for viewing the distribution of your followers/accounts you follow?
Any high-follower (10-20k+) techy person interested in helping me debug a tool I made for viewing the distribution of your followers/accounts you follow?
After weeks of work, we’ve finally received the assembled PCB and already started booting it up. Our hardware team has spent the last days debugging, testing, and getting the SoC to talk to the PC, and we’re officially entering the bring up phase! 🎉
Any high-follower (10-20k+) techy person interested in helping me debug a tool I made for viewing the distribution of your followers/accounts you follow?
After weeks of work, we’ve finally received the assembled PCB and already started booting it up. Our hardware team has spent the last days debugging, testing, and getting the SoC to talk to the PC, and we’re officially entering the bring up phase! 🎉
Any high-follower (10-20k+) techy person interested in helping me debug a tool I made for viewing the distribution of your followers/accounts you follow?
Any high-follower (10-20k+) techy person interested in helping me debug a tool I made for viewing the distribution of your followers/accounts you follow?
After weeks of work, we’ve finally received the assembled PCB and already started booting it up. Our hardware team has spent the last days debugging, testing, and getting the SoC to talk to the PC, and we’re officially entering the bring up phase! 🎉
I keep hearing #AI boosters / talking heads claiming that #LLMs have transformed software development, "it's not just about prototyping - AI is writing solid production code", etc.
So here's a challenge:
Share some AI-derived pull requests that deal with non-obvious corner cases or non-trivial bugs from mature #opensource projects. I'll also accept high-quality documentation that isn't just the sort of wasted space & slop that I always tell juniors not to write.
I keep hearing #AI boosters / talking heads claiming that #LLMs have transformed software development, "it's not just about prototyping - AI is writing solid production code", etc.
So here's a challenge:
Share some AI-derived pull requests that deal with non-obvious corner cases or non-trivial bugs from mature #opensource projects. I'll also accept high-quality documentation that isn't just the sort of wasted space & slop that I always tell juniors not to write.
Ω🪬Ω New release of #FediAlgo (customizable #algorithm for your #Mastodon timeline) has a couple of cool features:
1. Configuration presets (so you can easily put discussions or trending toots at the top of your #timeline without fiddling with the individual settings)
2. A "What's Trending" section that will show you the top trending hashtags, links, and posts scraped from 30 or so of the most popular Mastodon servers
All the old features like filtering for particular languages / hashtags / users or a minimum number of replies / boosts / etc. are still there.
Ω🪬Ω New release of #FediAlgo (customizable #algorithm for your #Mastodon timeline) has a couple of cool features:
1. Configuration presets (so you can easily put discussions or trending toots at the top of your #timeline without fiddling with the individual settings)
2. A "What's Trending" section that will show you the top trending hashtags, links, and posts scraped from 30 or so of the most popular Mastodon servers
All the old features like filtering for particular languages / hashtags / users or a minimum number of replies / boosts / etc. are still there.
Ω🪬Ω New release of #FediAlgo (customizable #algorithm for your #Mastodon timeline) has a couple of cool features:
1. Configuration presets (so you can easily put discussions or trending toots at the top of your #timeline without fiddling with the individual settings)
2. A "What's Trending" section that will show you the top trending hashtags, links, and posts scraped from 30 or so of the most popular Mastodon servers
All the old features like filtering for particular languages / hashtags / users or a minimum number of replies / boosts / etc. are still there.
Ω🪬Ω New release of #FediAlgo (customizable #algorithm for your #Mastodon timeline) has a couple of cool features:
1. Configuration presets (so you can easily put discussions or trending toots at the top of your #timeline without fiddling with the individual settings)
2. A "What's Trending" section that will show you the top trending hashtags, links, and posts scraped from 30 or so of the most popular Mastodon servers
All the old features like filtering for particular languages / hashtags / users or a minimum number of replies / boosts / etc. are still there.
"Berichte aus dem Maschinenraum von OpenTalk" – Unser Expert Lead Wolfgang Silbermayr spricht am 26. April (13 Uhr) auf den @linuxtage über die technische Evolution unserer #OpenSource Videokonferenzplattform.
E assim, foi ontem apresentada e aprovada na Assembleia de Freguesia da Penha de França a proposta para o uso do Mastodon e do Pixelfed enquanto ferramentas de comunicação pela Junta de Freguesia. Salientei a importância do uso de ferramentas digitais baseadas em software open source, descentralizadas, não comerciais e de origem europeia. 2/2
How-To-Geek offers its opinion as to why installing Linux is a great activity for Earth Day:
- Linux breathes new life into old hardware, reducing e-waste and extending lifespans. - Installing Linux means lower energy consumption and decreased carbon emissions. - Linux fosters a sense of responsibility and community, aligning with environmental mindfulness.
Short announcement as we approach the end of the week -- 'This Week in Self-Hosted' is officially being rebranded to 'Self-Host Weekly'.
I discuss the rationale a bit in the linked post, but ultimately, it's an attempt to distance myself from the many 'This Week in <topic>' publications that currently exist.
Short announcement as we approach the end of the week -- 'This Week in Self-Hosted' is officially being rebranded to 'Self-Host Weekly'.
I discuss the rationale a bit in the linked post, but ultimately, it's an attempt to distance myself from the many 'This Week in <topic>' publications that currently exist.
91% of open source contributors say they do it for fun… but fun is just the beginning! What makes someone go from one pull request to years of contributions?
91% of open source contributors say they do it for fun… but fun is just the beginning! What makes someone go from one pull request to years of contributions?
91% of open source contributors say they do it for fun… but fun is just the beginning! What makes someone go from one pull request to years of contributions?
Once again, I highly advice you to get off #Discord and use something else, prefferably a messaging platform that is end-to-end encrypted, federated, no phone number idenitfiers, and open source.
You can bet your dollars that once they officially announce their IPO plans, all bets are off in terms of #enshittification X 1000.
🗳️ Nominations for the Fedora 42 elections will start tomorrow and run until May 8, so think about whether you or someone you trust should run for a position!
If you're a fan of #TalosLinux, we've now added the ISO of v1.9.5 to our pool of available operating systems on #Hetzner Cloud servers. Changelog here:
Für die Vereinsarbeit wollen wir eine große Datenbank aufsetzen (lassen). Habt ihr Tipps hinsichtlich #unplugtrump#opensource und kleinerem Budget? Wir sind Laien auf dem Gebiet, aber interessiert und entschlossen.
Edit: Wir sind ein Zusammenschluss von Laboren, die Vorschriften entwickeln. Diese Vorschriften veröffentlichen wir aktuell in Büchern (2500 Seiten pro PDF-Datei). Die Datenbank soll diese Vorschriften beinhalten und das einzelne Aufrufen und Finden erleichtern.
Here's a profile picture icon you might want to use for WhatsApp, Messenger, Teams, Outlook, Zoom, Discord, Telegram etc. Public domain, do whatever you like with it.
@osi But will you be publishing the full results of the recent elections? Seems secrecy and total silence is much more important for the #OSI#OpenSource than publishing its recent election results which has been done since elections have been held .. is the @osi a trustworthy organization?
Here's a profile picture icon you might want to use for WhatsApp, Messenger, Teams, Outlook, Zoom, Discord, Telegram etc. Public domain, do whatever you like with it.
Flohmarkt: Ein Marktplatz im Fediverse Ein neuer adminForge Service kann ab sofort genutzt werden.
Flohmarkt: Ein Marktplatz im Fediverse
Mit Flohmarkt habt ihr eine quelloffene Alternative zu eBay. Biete hier Dinge an, die du im Überfluss hast, oder suche nach Dingen, die du dir wünschst.
Flohmarkt: Ein Marktplatz im Fediverse Ein neuer adminForge Service kann ab sofort genutzt werden.
Flohmarkt: Ein Marktplatz im Fediverse
Mit Flohmarkt habt ihr eine quelloffene Alternative zu eBay. Biete hier Dinge an, die du im Überfluss hast, oder suche nach Dingen, die du dir wünschst.
Poznańska Impreza Wolnego Oprogramowania wraca po 7 latach i szuka prelegentów. Tematy: Linux, open source, programowanie, security, DevOps, elektronika, gaming, prawo IT i wiele więcej.
⏰ Termin nadsyłania propozycji: 5 maja 2025 🎤 Rodzaje wystąpień: Prelekcje lub warsztaty 🔗 Sczegóły: https://piwo.sh/
📅 Kiedy? 7 czerwca 2025 📍 Gdzie? Centrum Wykładowe Politechniki Poznańskiej
Flohmarkt: Ein Marktplatz im Fediverse Ein neuer adminForge Service kann ab sofort genutzt werden.
Flohmarkt: Ein Marktplatz im Fediverse
Mit Flohmarkt habt ihr eine quelloffene Alternative zu eBay. Biete hier Dinge an, die du im Überfluss hast, oder suche nach Dingen, die du dir wünschst.
Poznańska Impreza Wolnego Oprogramowania wraca po 7 latach i szuka prelegentów. Tematy: Linux, open source, programowanie, security, DevOps, elektronika, gaming, prawo IT i wiele więcej.
⏰ Termin nadsyłania propozycji: 5 maja 2025 🎤 Rodzaje wystąpień: Prelekcje lub warsztaty 🔗 Sczegóły: https://piwo.sh/
📅 Kiedy? 7 czerwca 2025 📍 Gdzie? Centrum Wykładowe Politechniki Poznańskiej
"Berichte aus dem Maschinenraum von OpenTalk" – Unser Expert Lead Wolfgang Silbermayr spricht am 26. April (13 Uhr) auf den @linuxtage über die technische Evolution unserer #OpenSource Videokonferenzplattform.
@lemeteore Usually, open-source maintainers are good developers. They are, however, not good at and probably not interested in community cat herding. I am not surprised, to see some of them looking for mitigations to being overwhelmed.
Are there people out there loving the interaction and are able to distill community chatter in something a developer can act upon? If so, step up and offer your services to an open-source project out there.
And a call to maintainers. It is OK to not like or be good at community management. Put the word out and look out for people who can help you in that regard.
@lemeteore Usually, open-source maintainers are good developers. They are, however, not good at and probably not interested in community cat herding. I am not surprised, to see some of them looking for mitigations to being overwhelmed.
Are there people out there loving the interaction and are able to distill community chatter in something a developer can act upon? If so, step up and offer your services to an open-source project out there.
And a call to maintainers. It is OK to not like or be good at community management. Put the word out and look out for people who can help you in that regard.
The cross-platform open source Kate Text Editor is a powerhouse of features
So many of us just use an editor for basic document or text file editing, but this editor does go way past that, and is also a very user-friendly graphical user interface too.
The editor has numerous plugins available to further extend that funct ...continues
Linux and open source demolish capitalist myth that profit drives innovation. Some of the world's most vital software being built by volunteers as opposed to corporations proves that humans create interesting things for the sake of curiosity and joy. When profit becomes the primary motive, you get ads, not Apache; microtransactions, not MySQL. Real innovation thrives when we're free to build, not just bill.
The cross-platform open source Kate Text Editor is a powerhouse of features
So many of us just use an editor for basic document or text file editing, but this editor does go way past that, and is also a very user-friendly graphical user interface too.
The editor has numerous plugins available to further extend that funct ...continues
Getting Forked by Microsoft https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/ The author details his frustration over Microsoft seemingly creating a derivative of his open-source work. He raises concerns about their collaboration methods and asks, "How can a solo open-source developer work with multi-billion dollar corporations without being taken advantage of?" Microsoft has a long history of as an evil corporation. I'm not surprised at all. We know it well. Search for "EEE" ;)
Getting Forked by Microsoft https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/ The author details his frustration over Microsoft seemingly creating a derivative of his open-source work. He raises concerns about their collaboration methods and asks, "How can a solo open-source developer work with multi-billion dollar corporations without being taken advantage of?" Microsoft has a long history of as an evil corporation. I'm not surprised at all. We know it well. Search for "EEE" ;)
How did Fedora Linux get its start? While some of us have been and around the block (and have the CD boxes to prove it), here is a brief history of how Fedora came to be for those who want to learn. :)
Getting Forked by Microsoft https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/ The author details his frustration over Microsoft seemingly creating a derivative of his open-source work. He raises concerns about their collaboration methods and asks, "How can a solo open-source developer work with multi-billion dollar corporations without being taken advantage of?" Microsoft has a long history of as an evil corporation. I'm not surprised at all. We know it well. Search for "EEE" ;)
Getting Forked by Microsoft https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/ The author details his frustration over Microsoft seemingly creating a derivative of his open-source work. He raises concerns about their collaboration methods and asks, "How can a solo open-source developer work with multi-billion dollar corporations without being taken advantage of?" Microsoft has a long history of as an evil corporation. I'm not surprised at all. We know it well. Search for "EEE" ;)
We’re excited to see that BWI and ZenDiS have signed a 7-year agreement to bring open-source collaboration tools to the public sector.
As part of the openDesk suite, solutions like Collabora Online support secure, transparent, and fully sovereign document editing and collaboration – without relying on proprietary platforms.
Read more about this milestone for public sector innovation and open source adoption! 🔗 https://buff.ly/ZCYKaCG
We’re excited to see that BWI and ZenDiS have signed a 7-year agreement to bring open-source collaboration tools to the public sector.
As part of the openDesk suite, solutions like Collabora Online support secure, transparent, and fully sovereign document editing and collaboration – without relying on proprietary platforms.
Read more about this milestone for public sector innovation and open source adoption! 🔗 https://buff.ly/ZCYKaCG
As you plan your week ahead, don't forget to get your #FOSSY talk proposal in by Monday, April 28 (anywhere on Earth)! You can do it at https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/ . We are a small team putting this big event together and greatly appreciate your help in making sure everyone in your #freesoftware and #opensource circles knows about the opportunity and deadline! #portland
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
ALT text detailsIn a recent LinkedIn article, Neculai Dăscălița, our Account Manager, highlighted that the German federal government spends over €1.3 billion annually on software, with €204.5 millions going directly to Microsoft. His analysis raises a crucial question:
Could part of this budget be redirected toward Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) to support national digital sovereignty?
To explore this further, we sat down with Neculai to discuss the challenges of proprietary software dependency, the advantages of FLOSS adoption, and the strategic steps governments can take to transition to open-source solutions.
As you plan your week ahead, don't forget to get your #FOSSY talk proposal in by Monday, April 28 (anywhere on Earth)! You can do it at https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/ . We are a small team putting this big event together and greatly appreciate your help in making sure everyone in your #freesoftware and #opensource circles knows about the opportunity and deadline! #portland
Please donate, i need immediate funds to afford basic necessities like food, hrt, new glasses, etc. i didnt get enough money last week to afford anything i needed. please donate to help me survive. i live in an abusive and transphobic household. my family neglects and harasses me constantly for being transgender. please help.
Please donate, i need immediate funds to afford basic necessities like food, hrt, new glasses, etc. i didnt get enough money last week to afford anything i needed. please donate to help me survive. i live in an abusive and transphobic household. my family neglects and harasses me constantly for being transgender. please help.
The S4 slicer is an open-source tool that prints objects without supports. It automatically slices non-planar layers for printability, handling complex designs that are challenging for traditional 3D printers.
The process involves deforming, slicing, and untransforming the tool path generated by the slicer into the shape of the original mesh.
ALT text detailsCapture d'écran des résultats de l'élection de la secrétaire exécutive du parti « Les Écologistes ».
Source : https://lesecologistes.fr/posts/5lp12vesAe28Y1urHUav3a/congres-2025-resultats-des-votes-du-16-au-18-avril-2025
ALT text detailsA square image with the lowercase q of the Quad9 logo in white and the magenta 9 of the logo in the center above the word "connect." The background colors start in the top left corner with a muted magenta and fades into black.
If you maintain an open source package, set up a standing search on scholar.google.com for your package name. You'll get gmail notifications of published papers referencing your package.
It's truly gratifying to see students and research teams making use of my pyparsing package to parse data sets and DSLs, so they can quickly get past the pesky parser development stage and get on with the business of their actual field of study. #pyparsing#python#google#oss#opensource
This is the first release where we have our Fedora RISC-V images available at the same time as the general release! Get your Fedora 42 RISC-V images and join the momentum behind this open architecture. 🏃♂️
This is the first release where we have our Fedora RISC-V images available at the same time as the general release! Get your Fedora 42 RISC-V images and join the momentum behind this open architecture. 🏃♂️
The S4 slicer is an open-source tool that prints objects without supports. It automatically slices non-planar layers for printability, handling complex designs that are challenging for traditional 3D printers.
The process involves deforming, slicing, and untransforming the tool path generated by the slicer into the shape of the original mesh.
Magicwormhole was created by developer Brian Warner as a response to the overly complex ways people transfer files securely. Introduced in the mid-2010s, it aimed to make file transfers between devices as simple and trustworthy as handing a USB stick to someone next to you.
At its core, magicwormhole uses a concept called PAKE, or Password Authenticated Key Exchange, which allows two computers to establish a secure, encrypted channel over the internet using a short one-time code. That code acts as both an identifier and a temporary password, ensuring the connection can’t be intercepted or spoofed.
The project gained popularity in privacy and open source circles for its ease of use and its ability to work across firewalls, NAT, and without user accounts. Unlike most tools, it requires no setup, servers, or third-party cloud services. It simply connects you to the other device, does the job, and vanishes.
It remains one of the cleanest examples of what simple, privacy-respecting software can look like.
Magicwormhole was created by developer Brian Warner as a response to the overly complex ways people transfer files securely. Introduced in the mid-2010s, it aimed to make file transfers between devices as simple and trustworthy as handing a USB stick to someone next to you.
At its core, magicwormhole uses a concept called PAKE, or Password Authenticated Key Exchange, which allows two computers to establish a secure, encrypted channel over the internet using a short one-time code. That code acts as both an identifier and a temporary password, ensuring the connection can’t be intercepted or spoofed.
The project gained popularity in privacy and open source circles for its ease of use and its ability to work across firewalls, NAT, and without user accounts. Unlike most tools, it requires no setup, servers, or third-party cloud services. It simply connects you to the other device, does the job, and vanishes.
It remains one of the cleanest examples of what simple, privacy-respecting software can look like.
Please donate, i need immediate funds to afford basic necessities like food, hrt, new glasses, etc. i didnt get enough money last week to afford anything i needed. please donate to help me survive. i live in an abusive and transphobic household. my family neglects and harasses me constantly for being transgender. please help.
Please donate, i need immediate funds to afford basic necessities like food, hrt, new glasses, etc. i didnt get enough money last week to afford anything i needed. please donate to help me survive. i live in an abusive and transphobic household. my family neglects and harasses me constantly for being transgender. please help.
Our mascot Roc is bringing our community a special delivery: a heartwarming wallpaper from illustrator Michaela Martin to brighten up your desktop, laptop, and even your phone. In other words, all the places you can find Thunderbird!
Our mascot Roc is bringing our community a special delivery: a heartwarming wallpaper from illustrator Michaela Martin to brighten up your desktop, laptop, and even your phone. In other words, all the places you can find Thunderbird!
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
ALT text detailsIn a recent LinkedIn article, Neculai Dăscălița, our Account Manager, highlighted that the German federal government spends over €1.3 billion annually on software, with €204.5 millions going directly to Microsoft. His analysis raises a crucial question:
Could part of this budget be redirected toward Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) to support national digital sovereignty?
To explore this further, we sat down with Neculai to discuss the challenges of proprietary software dependency, the advantages of FLOSS adoption, and the strategic steps governments can take to transition to open-source solutions.
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
ALT text detailsIn a recent LinkedIn article, Neculai Dăscălița, our Account Manager, highlighted that the German federal government spends over €1.3 billion annually on software, with €204.5 millions going directly to Microsoft. His analysis raises a crucial question:
Could part of this budget be redirected toward Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) to support national digital sovereignty?
To explore this further, we sat down with Neculai to discuss the challenges of proprietary software dependency, the advantages of FLOSS adoption, and the strategic steps governments can take to transition to open-source solutions.
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
ALT text detailsIn a recent LinkedIn article, Neculai Dăscălița, our Account Manager, highlighted that the German federal government spends over €1.3 billion annually on software, with €204.5 millions going directly to Microsoft. His analysis raises a crucial question:
Could part of this budget be redirected toward Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) to support national digital sovereignty?
To explore this further, we sat down with Neculai to discuss the challenges of proprietary software dependency, the advantages of FLOSS adoption, and the strategic steps governments can take to transition to open-source solutions.
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
ALT text detailsIn a recent LinkedIn article, Neculai Dăscălița, our Account Manager, highlighted that the German federal government spends over €1.3 billion annually on software, with €204.5 millions going directly to Microsoft. His analysis raises a crucial question:
Could part of this budget be redirected toward Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) to support national digital sovereignty?
To explore this further, we sat down with Neculai to discuss the challenges of proprietary software dependency, the advantages of FLOSS adoption, and the strategic steps governments can take to transition to open-source solutions.
@osi Here is petition to the Open Source Initiative (@osi) to release the complete, unaltered results of its 2025 Board of Directors elections. By removing candidates and votes after voting concluded, OSI has damaged its credibility. This is a call for transparency as a first step toward repairing OSI's integrity and reputation.
💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could: ✔️End vendor lock-in cycles ✔️Strengthen data sovereignty ✔️Create local tech jobs ✔️Support FLOSS innovation
ALT text detailsIn a recent LinkedIn article, Neculai Dăscălița, our Account Manager, highlighted that the German federal government spends over €1.3 billion annually on software, with €204.5 millions going directly to Microsoft. His analysis raises a crucial question:
Could part of this budget be redirected toward Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) to support national digital sovereignty?
To explore this further, we sat down with Neculai to discuss the challenges of proprietary software dependency, the advantages of FLOSS adoption, and the strategic steps governments can take to transition to open-source solutions.
Checking out Cryptpad , impressed with the quality and available features. Recommended if you are looking for something like Google Docs. https://cryptpad.fr/ #cryptpad#FOSS#opensource
Checking out Cryptpad , impressed with the quality and available features. Recommended if you are looking for something like Google Docs. https://cryptpad.fr/ #cryptpad#FOSS#opensource
ALT text detailsA square image with the lowercase q of the Quad9 logo in white and the magenta 9 of the logo in the center above the word "connect." The background colors start in the top left corner with a muted magenta and fades into black.
New on // foss.events: P.I.W.O. by Knyfyrtel Hackerspace Poznań, PUTrequest, Linux Academic Group on 07 June 2025 in Poznan University of Technology in #Poznań, #Poland
New on // foss.events: P.I.W.O. by Knyfyrtel Hackerspace Poznań, PUTrequest, Linux Academic Group on 07 June 2025 in Poznan University of Technology in #Poznań, #Poland
I finally wrote the first part of my journey developing a drum machine app and becoming a GNOME Foundation member. I talked about the great @gnome community, Gnome Circle apps, Gnome Foundation membership perks, and how to come up with an idea.
In the next articles, I will talk about the development of the Drum Machine and the application review process, and what happens after getting your membership and your app being accepted to the Gnome Circle.
Remember that GNOME Circle app developers are eligible to become voting members of the GNOME Foundation. And according to the bylaws¹, all contributors are eligible, including those who contribute to areas like documentation and advocacy.
Become a member if you aren’t already, then don’t forget to vote!
If you’re curious what the GNOME Foundation does, Allan has written an update² of recent activities.
Once you do (or if you’re already a member), don’t forget to VOTE in the upcoming Foundation elections!
The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is elected by Foundation members. If you want to influence how the Foundation is run, one of the most effective things you can do is to become a member and vote.
#ReleaseWednesday — I just released a new version (v8.0.0) of https://thi.ng/vectors, an almost complete rewrite of the package with all of its ~900 vector operations. I've updated the Readme with a section of _potentially_ minor breaking changes, however I expect this to be a seamless upgrade for the vast majority of users...
I've recently written more about the reasons and implications of this update and I'll refer you to those posts instead of repeating them once more (see links below).
Just the top-level changes:
- Replaced dynamic code generation with higher-order templating to be usable with strict content security policies (when deployed online) - New structure allows for vast majority of functions to have doc strings (and they do now) - More consistent/less confusing naming for some operations - Potentially improved tree-shaking and smaller project bundle sizes
Related to this update I've also refactored and fixed some bugs in other packages (e.g. color, geom, matrices). As a result both the color & matrix packages are now also free from dynamic codegen and therefore won't cause any problems with strict CSPs
Should you run into any issues regarding this update, please get in touch (also grateful for any other experience/impact reports... 🙏)
Es ist Mittwoch, und heute ist der perfekte Tag, um die Neuigkeiten aus der Welt von Linux zu erkunden! 📣
Lasst uns die neuesten Versionen von Distributionen wie Fedora und Manjaro unter die Lupe nehmen und herausfinden, was sich alles getan hat. Informiert euch über spannende neue Features und Verbesserungen, die euren Arbeitsablauf bereichern können. Bleibt am Puls der Zeit und entdeckt, wie ihr eure Linux-Erfahrung optimieren könnt!
Habt einen informativen und produktiven Mittwoch! 🐧✨
Es ist Mittwoch, und heute ist der perfekte Tag, um die Neuigkeiten aus der Welt von Linux zu erkunden! 📣
Lasst uns die neuesten Versionen von Distributionen wie Fedora und Manjaro unter die Lupe nehmen und herausfinden, was sich alles getan hat. Informiert euch über spannende neue Features und Verbesserungen, die euren Arbeitsablauf bereichern können. Bleibt am Puls der Zeit und entdeckt, wie ihr eure Linux-Erfahrung optimieren könnt!
Habt einen informativen und produktiven Mittwoch! 🐧✨
We've only been at https://apply.coop for 3 months or so. Sure we could have YOLOed some CRUD app into the wild based on some framework, but we wanted to take a different approach to our tech stack. We've made lots of progress and are happy with our choices.
Still priding ourselves of no JS and a single binary with all static assets embedded.
Build local networks with decentralised solutions that are #OpenSource#FreeSoftware and based on #OpenStandards not because you want to fight BigCorp, but because you want to help your neighbours. Focus on solutions, not on problems you can't really solve. Build bridges, not walls. Deal?
Remember that GNOME Circle app developers are eligible to become voting members of the GNOME Foundation. And according to the bylaws¹, all contributors are eligible, including those who contribute to areas like documentation and advocacy.
Become a member if you aren’t already, then don’t forget to vote!
If you’re curious what the GNOME Foundation does, Allan has written an update² of recent activities.
Once you do (or if you’re already a member), don’t forget to VOTE in the upcoming Foundation elections!
The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is elected by Foundation members. If you want to influence how the Foundation is run, one of the most effective things you can do is to become a member and vote.
Jutta Horstmann hatte ihren wohl letzten Auftritt als @zendis Chefin überraschenderweise auf dem #Fachtag#PublicMoneyPublicCode der @fsfe - Dort war sie noch recht zuversichtlich, doch nur einen Tag später feuerte das @bmi sie unerwartet. Darüber und was sonst Thema beim Fachtag war, berichte ich in der aktuellen Ausgabe des @ct_Magazin Newsletters #OpenSourceSpotlight
Here is a reminder for the #Outreachy June 2025 Applicants!
If you're in the contribution stage, make sure you: ✅ Submit a final application for each project 🗓️ Deadline: April 15, 2025, at 4 pm UTC ✏️ You can edit your submission until the deadline
We recommend submitting early to avoid any last-minute issues. Good luck!
Wireplumber is the session manager for @pipewire, helping to provide stability and flexibility to your Linux system. You can also do scripting with Lua!
Le collège codes sources et logiciels du comité pour la science ouverte annonce l'ouverture de la version beta du catalogue des logiciels issus des laboratoires de recherche 🧢
Here is a reminder for the #Outreachy June 2025 Applicants!
If you're in the contribution stage, make sure you: ✅ Submit a final application for each project 🗓️ Deadline: April 15, 2025, at 4 pm UTC ✏️ You can edit your submission until the deadline
We recommend submitting early to avoid any last-minute issues. Good luck!
Le collège codes sources et logiciels du comité pour la science ouverte annonce l'ouverture de la version beta du catalogue des logiciels issus des laboratoires de recherche 🧢
Jutta Horstmann hatte ihren wohl letzten Auftritt als @zendis Chefin überraschenderweise auf dem #Fachtag#PublicMoneyPublicCode der @fsfe - Dort war sie noch recht zuversichtlich, doch nur einen Tag später feuerte das @bmi sie unerwartet. Darüber und was sonst Thema beim Fachtag war, berichte ich in der aktuellen Ausgabe des @ct_Magazin Newsletters #OpenSourceSpotlight
To put the "large" package size a little more into perspective: I don't know of any other feature-comparable JS vector library which provides all of the following:
- Generic n-dimensional float, int, uint, boolean vectors - Size optimized versions for 2D/3D/4D (all types) - Multiple-dispatch wrappers (auto-delegating to available optimized versions) - Memory-mapped vectors and optimized versions for various memory layouts (e.g. SOA/AOS) - Optimized versions of many vector-scalar ops - Optimized compound operations (like multiply-add etc.) - Vector randomizations (several approaches) - 99% of GLSL vector operations & conversions - Vector versions of most of JS `Math` ops - Vector interpolations (linear, bilinear, cubic, quadratic...) - 10 different distance functions & metrics - Swizzling & vector coercion/extension - Dozens of additional graphics, statistics & ML-related operations
OmniSVG is the first family of "end-to-end multimodal SVG generators" capable of generating complex and detailed SVGs ("from simple icons to intricate anime characters").
Just a quick #ThingUmbrella update to say that I've already replaced the https://thi.ng/vectors package on the develop branch and after LOTS of deep experimentation have decided NOT to split up the package. There will be a few (minor) breaking changes, mainly because of enforcing more consistent naming and more granularity in some source files (therefore possibly changed imports, though only if you use direct ones for individual functions...). All in all, I've managed to keep the impact on users to a bare minimum (likely unnoticeable for most), even though it's pretty much a complete rewrite of the entire package (with all its ~900 functions)... This package is now almost 10 years old and I'm very happy how this refactor turned out!
In terms of file size impact: The FULL minified pkg bundle is now 56.4KB vs previously 48.5KB, however the code density has improved and the brotli-compressed pkg size is only 15.1KB (only 1KB larger than before), which I found absolutely incredible! 🎉 I also have to state once more that this package (and most others in #ThingUmbrella) are _designed for tree shaking_ and bundling. Hardly any project would ever use the full set of functions provided here all at once, most will only use a small/tiny subset...
Also — more importantly — many of the 185 example projects in the repo are now showing between 2-25% smaller final bundle sizes. Some also have become slightly larger, but so far I found the most by only ~2%...
Related to this change: I've also updated the https://thi.ng/color & https://thi.ng/matrices packages to be free from dynamic code generation now! The only packages still using `new Function(...)` are the following, but for those it's unavoidable and dynamic code generation is a core feature:
Here is a reminder for the #Outreachy June 2025 Applicants!
If you're in the contribution stage, make sure you: ✅ Submit a final application for each project 🗓️ Deadline: April 15, 2025, at 4 pm UTC ✏️ You can edit your submission until the deadline
We recommend submitting early to avoid any last-minute issues. Good luck!
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Pinta 3.0 is about to arrive, bringing a modern UI and significant performance improvements to open-source image editing. Explore the new features and dive into the details in our blog post. https://rolandixor.pro/services/updates/post/pinta-3
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Pinta 3.0 is about to arrive, bringing a modern UI and significant performance improvements to open-source image editing. Explore the new features and dive into the details in our blog post. https://rolandixor.pro/services/updates/post/pinta-3
OmniSVG is the first family of "end-to-end multimodal SVG generators" capable of generating complex and detailed SVGs ("from simple icons to intricate anime characters").
I finally wrote the first part of my journey developing a drum machine app and becoming a GNOME Foundation member. I talked about the great @gnome community, Gnome Circle apps, Gnome Foundation membership perks, and how to come up with an idea.
In the next articles, I will talk about the development of the Drum Machine and the application review process, and what happens after getting your membership and your app being accepted to the Gnome Circle.
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I finally wrote the first part of my journey developing a drum machine app and becoming a GNOME Foundation member. I talked about the great @gnome community, Gnome Circle apps, Gnome Foundation membership perks, and how to come up with an idea.
In the next articles, I will talk about the development of the Drum Machine and the application review process, and what happens after getting your membership and your app being accepted to the Gnome Circle.
OmniSVG is the first family of "end-to-end multimodal SVG generators" capable of generating complex and detailed SVGs ("from simple icons to intricate anime characters").
I'm looking for a #FOSS alternative to live surveys like those offered at menti.com by mentimeter.
My use case: while presenting on stage, during a public speaking I would like to ask my audience (100-500 people) some questions. The summarized answers should be visible live on my computer, so that I can show it to the audience.
Experimental #OpenXR support just got merged and will be available in the next release. It makes using #Overte in #VR on #Linux much easier and more compatible with #opensource runtimes such as #Monado and #WiVRn. It can be enabled with `--useExperimentalXR` command line parameter. Thanks to Lubosz and Ada for contributing this amazing feature! #foss
ALT text detailsScreenshot from Linux VR users meetup in Overte
New post: Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source.
With a small amount of prep, we can help users to help themselves, rather than needing maintainer attention, for support requests that we could do without.
This week, we have #Firefox adding experimental AI tools to their nightly builds, #Wayland gaining window position and size restore capabilities, the Framework 12 going on preorder (even in the US after some tariffs shenanigans), and some leaks about #Valve's new VR headet:
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This week, we have #Firefox adding experimental AI tools to their nightly builds, #Wayland gaining window position and size restore capabilities, the Framework 12 going on preorder (even in the US after some tariffs shenanigans), and some leaks about #Valve's new VR headet:
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openDesk ist ein sinnvoller Schritt hin zu digitaler Selbstbestimmung in der Verwaltung. Open Source, datensouverän, modular. Statt weiter auf proprietäre Insellösungen wie von Microsoft zu setzen, entsteht hier eine offene Plattform, die Zusammenarbeit vereinfacht und Kontrolle zurück in öffentliche Hände legt. 👇
Our new Account Hub, a streamlined email setup wizard, is in Daily and landing in Beta at the end of April. Learn how our engineers and designers worked together to make it happen, where a similar experience will be next, and get a live walkthrough in our latest Community Office Hours. 🧙
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In recent years every spring seems to turn into a period of _massive_ refactoring & restructuring in #ThingUmbrella — maybe it's a form of spring cleaning, even though the reasons[1] are not seasonal... Currently spending my nights reworking the https://thi.ng/vectors package (likely one of the most comprehensive vector packages available for TS/JS) and trying out different splits/structures, testing their impact on package sizes and usability in existing downstream packages. Currently over 3000 source files with uncommitted changes... aaaarrrgghh! 🤯
Most functions (vector operations) in this package exist in multiple versions (many code generated, but now in need to be updated): Generic n-dimensional, loop-free, optimized 2D/3D/4D versions and strided versions for manipulating vectors views of larger nD data buffers (supporting all kinds of data layouts, incl. AOS, SOA, hybrid...)
Our new Account Hub, a streamlined email setup wizard, is in Daily and landing in Beta at the end of April. Learn how our engineers and designers worked together to make it happen, where a similar experience will be next, and get a live walkthrough in our latest Community Office Hours. 🧙
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Hoarder's new name change, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Streamystats -- a Jellyfin statistics-tracking platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!
📢 Podobało ci się na Sesji Linuksowej i chcesz więcej? Mamy coś dla ciebie – trwa Call for Proposals na @piwo 2025!
Poznańska Impreza Wolnego Oprogramowania wraca po 7 latach i szuka prelegentów. Tematy: Linux, open source, programowanie, security, DevOps, elektronika, gaming, prawo IT.
⏰ Zgłoszenia do 5 maja 🎤 Prelekcje lub warsztaty 🔗 Szczegóły: https://piwo.sh/
📅 7 czerwca 2025 📍Centrum Wykładowe Politechniki Poznańskiej
📢 Podobało ci się na Sesji Linuksowej i chcesz więcej? Mamy coś dla ciebie – trwa Call for Proposals na @piwo 2025!
Poznańska Impreza Wolnego Oprogramowania wraca po 7 latach i szuka prelegentów. Tematy: Linux, open source, programowanie, security, DevOps, elektronika, gaming, prawo IT.
⏰ Zgłoszenia do 5 maja 🎤 Prelekcje lub warsztaty 🔗 Szczegóły: https://piwo.sh/
📅 7 czerwca 2025 📍Centrum Wykładowe Politechniki Poznańskiej
In my quest to free myself of the (American) corporations (man), I keep coming back to NextCloud for syncing/photos/calendars. But it feels like the WordPress of cloudy things, which makes me feel like it would be a mistake... help me out here, people!
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The March 2025 Android Progress is out! In our latest update, we have:
* news on team changes (including some new iOS hires!) * our roadmap board * account drawer improvements * community contribution highlights and * an easy way to get involved!
The March 2025 Android Progress is out! In our latest update, we have:
* news on team changes (including some new iOS hires!) * our roadmap board * account drawer improvements * community contribution highlights and * an easy way to get involved!
Checking out Cryptpad , impressed with the quality and available features. Recommended if you are looking for something like Google Docs. https://cryptpad.fr/ #cryptpad#FOSS#opensource
Pinta 3.0 is about to arrive, bringing a modern UI and significant performance improvements to open-source image editing. Explore the new features and dive into the details in our blog post. https://rolandixor.pro/services/updates/post/pinta-3
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If you're at #IJF25 next week, I'd love to say hi!
Particularly excited to chat about:
- Building a high-functioning technology culture - #opensource for newsrooms - Maintaining source anonymity - The #fediverse / #atprotocol - Collab with open source projects
Experimental #OpenXR support just got merged and will be available in the next release. It makes using #Overte in #VR on #Linux much easier and more compatible with #opensource runtimes such as #Monado and #WiVRn. It can be enabled with `--useExperimentalXR` command line parameter. Thanks to Lubosz and Ada for contributing this amazing feature! #foss
ALT text detailsScreenshot from Linux VR users meetup in Overte
Am 26. April ist wieder LIT (Linux-Infotag) in Augsburg. Von 9:30 bis 17:00 gibt es in der Technischen Hochschule Vorträge und Workshops. Alles ohne Anmeldung. Eintritt frei.
Wir haben für Alle spannende Inhalte eingeplant: Von den Neulingen in der Pinguinkolonie bis zu den beruflichen Profis. Link zum Programm: https://luga.de/static/LIT-2025/program/
ALT text detailsPlakat für den Linux-Infotag 2025. Keynote von Frank Karlitschek, Gründer & CEO von Nextcloud mit "Open Source und Nextcloud in Zeiten geopolitischer Herausforderungen". Am 26. April von 9:30 bis 17 Uhr gibt es Vorträge und Workshops an der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg, Friedberger Straße 2. Alles ohne Anmeldung und mit freiem Eintritt. URL: https://luga.de/LIT-2025
Am 26. April ist wieder LIT (Linux-Infotag) in Augsburg. Von 9:30 bis 17:00 gibt es in der Technischen Hochschule Vorträge und Workshops. Alles ohne Anmeldung. Eintritt frei.
Wir haben für Alle spannende Inhalte eingeplant: Von den Neulingen in der Pinguinkolonie bis zu den beruflichen Profis. Link zum Programm: https://luga.de/static/LIT-2025/program/
ALT text detailsPlakat für den Linux-Infotag 2025. Keynote von Frank Karlitschek, Gründer & CEO von Nextcloud mit "Open Source und Nextcloud in Zeiten geopolitischer Herausforderungen". Am 26. April von 9:30 bis 17 Uhr gibt es Vorträge und Workshops an der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg, Friedberger Straße 2. Alles ohne Anmeldung und mit freiem Eintritt. URL: https://luga.de/LIT-2025
We had an amazing Fedora event at Murang’a University in Kenya! We talked about contributing to Fedora Docs, supporting local communities, and making open source more inclusive.
Want to get involved? Join the Fedora community and start contributing today!
Governments say they want sovereignty, yet they keep buying from #Microsoft#Google and #AWS.
📢 If Europe wants control over its digital future, it must act now. The choice is clear: ✅ Invest in open-source technologies ✅ Reduce dependency on foreign providers
These are just a few of the projects we host! Learn about hosting your open source project with the OpenInfra Foundation. https://openinfra.dev/projects/hosting/
If you're at #IJF25 next week, I'd love to say hi!
Particularly excited to chat about:
- Building a high-functioning technology culture - #opensource for newsrooms - Maintaining source anonymity - The #fediverse / #atprotocol - Collab with open source projects
i want to share some mockups for the important things that are missing in the user interface (like brush presets and navigator). implemented parts look more improved than mockup counter-parts because i'm not so good at Figma.
Update. "#SciOp is part of Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC). The bits must flow: let us resurrect the ancient art of #Bittorrent to ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear." https://sciop.net/
Besoin de gérer un parc de smartphones sous Android ? À la recherche d'une solution de MDM open source ?
Lors d'échanges sur la liste de discussion de France Numérique Libre, deux solutions ont été citées. Elle se trouvent dans l'article de blog ci-dessous.
6818 German federal laws and regulations now available #OpenAccess as a comprehensive corpus ⬇️
✅ 42 variables ✅ #OpenAccess ✅ #PublicDomain ✅ Regular snapshots of German federal law from May 2020 ✅ Structural diagrams for all laws (dendrogram, sunburst, circlepack) ✅ Formats: XML, CSV, PDF, TXT, EPUB, GraphML
ALT text detailsThe data pipeline used to create the C-DBR corpus visualized as a network diagram. Each target is labeled. High-res version available for download with the corpus.
Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.
So I'm trying something different. I'm offering free consulting time to any project that wants it. Sign up here: https://cal.com/scottjenson/exchange
Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.
So I'm trying something different. I'm offering free consulting time to any project that wants it. Sign up here: https://cal.com/scottjenson/exchange
Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.
So I'm trying something different. I'm offering free consulting time to any project that wants it. Sign up here: https://cal.com/scottjenson/exchange
Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.
So I'm trying something different. I'm offering free consulting time to any project that wants it. Sign up here: https://cal.com/scottjenson/exchange
+ Codeberg web interface is much (!) faster and more responsive compared to GitHub + Git clone and push feel about twice as fast as GitHub (not that it matters much) + Much cleaner interface than GitHub, less bloat and less featuritis + Codeberg activity overview is very helpful and well organized + Codeberg migration tool works well
Note: the OSS git software that Codeberg runs is called Forgejo.
6818 German federal laws and regulations now available #OpenAccess as a comprehensive corpus ⬇️
✅ 42 variables ✅ #OpenAccess ✅ #PublicDomain ✅ Regular snapshots of German federal law from May 2020 ✅ Structural diagrams for all laws (dendrogram, sunburst, circlepack) ✅ Formats: XML, CSV, PDF, TXT, EPUB, GraphML
ALT text detailsThe data pipeline used to create the C-DBR corpus visualized as a network diagram. Each target is labeled. High-res version available for download with the corpus.
I’m Muhammad, a 14-year-old programmer, excited to share my project: FOSS-UI! 🎉 It’s a free UI library for React, built on Radix UI, aimed at creating beautiful and accessible interfaces without proprietary constraints.
+ Codeberg web interface is much (!) faster and more responsive compared to GitHub + Git clone and push feel about twice as fast as GitHub (not that it matters much) + Much cleaner interface than GitHub, less bloat and less featuritis + Codeberg activity overview is very helpful and well organized + Codeberg migration tool works well
Note: the OSS git software that Codeberg runs is called Forgejo.
Hey, Debian people: my Software app just downloaded Gnome 47 and 48, but Deb 12/Bookworm ("Stable"), so I don't *think* I can actually upgrade to those new Gnome versions. Anybody know what's going on? Is this in anticipation of Deb 13/Trixie?
Trump and his new big tech autocracy: Trump, Musk & Co are trying to dismantle the state at high speed. A culture war has broken out. Is democracy in danger?
How dangerous is this and what can Europe do to counter it? Will the EU's democratic rules stand up to the superiority of US big tech?
Trump and his new big tech autocracy: Trump, Musk & Co are trying to dismantle the state at high speed. A culture war has broken out. Is democracy in danger?
How dangerous is this and what can Europe do to counter it? Will the EU's democratic rules stand up to the superiority of US big tech?
At #Coroot, we believe observability - a key part of success for any #MSP, #DevOps team - should be easy, effective, and affordable for anyone to innovate with.
Get started with Coroot's #opensource Community Edition. Stop juggling dashboards and automatically pinpoint root causes with eBPF-powered analysis: https://ln.run/h0LVU
It lists some of the largest Lemmy instances by 🇪🇺 country, as well as an FAQ on how it works.
We've been boosting a bunch of posts from Lemmy instances, since it's based on ActivityPub protocol, so it's interopable with Mastodon.
But we're thinking of joining Lemmy, just to be able to use and test it and form an opinion. The tricky bit is choosing an instance 😅. We care more about a nice and open community to diversity of opinions than if it's in Poland or Finland or any other EU country. (suggestions?)
It lists some of the largest Lemmy instances by 🇪🇺 country, as well as an FAQ on how it works.
We've been boosting a bunch of posts from Lemmy instances, since it's based on ActivityPub protocol, so it's interopable with Mastodon.
But we're thinking of joining Lemmy, just to be able to use and test it and form an opinion. The tricky bit is choosing an instance 😅. We care more about a nice and open community to diversity of opinions than if it's in Poland or Finland or any other EU country. (suggestions?)
It was not an April's Fools! It's real! 😁 Here is the blog article, with a link to the full changelog for the 2.0 release! Have fun making games! 🥳 Please report the bugs if you find some. 🙏
At #Coroot, we believe observability - a key part of success for any #MSP, #DevOps team - should be easy, effective, and affordable for anyone to innovate with.
Get started with Coroot's #opensource Community Edition. Stop juggling dashboards and automatically pinpoint root causes with eBPF-powered analysis: https://ln.run/h0LVU
🤩 New experimental Areas dashboard 🕰️ Time for a new card! 🎙️ Voice assistants can now start conversations with 𝗬𝗢𝗨 🤯 ⚡️ Energy management gets smarter with device hierarchies 🛠️ Lots of new template functions for power users
Für alle anderen wird das Update in den nächsten Tagen über F-Droid verteilt. Hier die Liste der Änderungen. Die Zahlen hinter den Hashtags geben an, auf welchen Issue sich die Änderung bezieht. Und ich habe nicht mal alles aufgezählt. Lasst euch überraschen.😀
neu: Einstellungen pro Website speichern
neu: Fehler-Dialog, wenn Blob-Dateien heruntergeladen werden
neu: Gesten → Weiterleitungen umschalten, zum Standard-Profil wechseln, Downloads öffnen
fix: in manchen Fällen werden die neuesten Einträge in der Übersicht nicht angezeigt
fix: eine Menge alten Codes entfernt
fix: Sequenzen von Java Session Id's erscheinen in URL #1187
🎁 Psst... Chcesz wiedzieć jakie nagrody można wygrać na Sesji? 🎁
Już tylko kilka dni dzieli nas od 19 Sesji Linuksowej, a co za tym idzie – czas na konkursy! Lubisz wyzwania? Chcesz wrócić do domu z wyjątkowymi nagrodami?
Spotkaj się z nami w weekend by dowiedzieć się, co można wygrać. 😉
🎁 Psst... Chcesz wiedzieć jakie nagrody można wygrać na Sesji? 🎁
Już tylko kilka dni dzieli nas od 19 Sesji Linuksowej, a co za tym idzie – czas na konkursy! Lubisz wyzwania? Chcesz wrócić do domu z wyjątkowymi nagrodami?
Spotkaj się z nami w weekend by dowiedzieć się, co można wygrać. 😉
@nivenly, an organization that supports open-source services and projects, has launched the Fediverse Security Fund. This member-supported program will pay people who identify and fix security vulnerabilities that might affect fediverse services and apps. “Part of the program is…education for project leads, helping them understand why responsible disclosure practices for security vulnerabilities are important,” open source contributor @thisismissem told @Sarahp. Here's her story for @TechCrunch
@nivenly, an organization that supports open-source services and projects, has launched the Fediverse Security Fund. This member-supported program will pay people who identify and fix security vulnerabilities that might affect fediverse services and apps. “Part of the program is…education for project leads, helping them understand why responsible disclosure practices for security vulnerabilities are important,” open source contributor @thisismissem told @Sarahp. Here's her story for @TechCrunch
@nivenly, an organization that supports open-source services and projects, has launched the Fediverse Security Fund. This member-supported program will pay people who identify and fix security vulnerabilities that might affect fediverse services and apps. “Part of the program is…education for project leads, helping them understand why responsible disclosure practices for security vulnerabilities are important,” open source contributor @thisismissem told @Sarahp. Here's her story for @TechCrunch
@nivenly, an organization that supports open-source services and projects, has launched the Fediverse Security Fund. This member-supported program will pay people who identify and fix security vulnerabilities that might affect fediverse services and apps. “Part of the program is…education for project leads, helping them understand why responsible disclosure practices for security vulnerabilities are important,” open source contributor @thisismissem told @Sarahp. Here's her story for @TechCrunch
@nivenly, an organization that supports open-source services and projects, has launched the Fediverse Security Fund. This member-supported program will pay people who identify and fix security vulnerabilities that might affect fediverse services and apps. “Part of the program is…education for project leads, helping them understand why responsible disclosure practices for security vulnerabilities are important,” open source contributor @thisismissem told @Sarahp. Here's her story for @TechCrunch
#ReleaseWednesday Just pushed a new version of https://thi.ng/block-fs, now with additional multi-command CLI tooling to convert & bundle a local file system tree into a single block-based binary blob (e.g. for bundling assets, or distributing a virtual filesystem as part of a web app, or for snapshot testing, or as bridge for WASM interop etc.)
Also new, the main API now includes a `.readAsObjectURL()` method to wrap files as URLs to binary blobs with associated MIME types, thereby making it trivial to use the virtual filesystem for sourcing stored images and other assets for direct use in the browser...
ALT text detailsScreenshot excerpt from the project readme (link in post) containing information about the CLI wrapper, as well as example usage (here to convert/bundle as filesystem tree)
ALT text detailsScreenshot excerpt from the project readme (link in post) containing information about the CLI wrapper, as well as example usage (here to list contents of an already bundled filesystem)
🤩 New experimental Areas dashboard 🕰️ Time for a new card! 🎙️ Voice assistants can now start conversations with 𝗬𝗢𝗨 🤯 ⚡️ Energy management gets smarter with device hierarchies 🛠️ Lots of new template functions for power users
As we're excited for Jef to support the community in this role, we also extend a big thank you to @mattdm (who is not leaving the Fedora community either!)
🌐 This year's edition of the Symposium, hosted at FGV Direito Rio Law School, will be themed "Open Technology Impact in Uncertain Times" and consider the transformative potential of openness in a world where certainty is no longer guaranteed.
❗The deadline to respond to the CFP is 1 June, so don't delay in preparing your submissions! More info on the website. https://symposium.openforumeurope.org/
The bird is out of the bag! We're introducing Thunderbird Pro (you already know Appointment!), a set of productivity AND privacy boosting services. And that includes...*drum roll*...an email service we're calling Thundermail. Find all the info in this excellent article:
It was not an April's Fools! It's real! 😁 Here is the blog article, with a link to the full changelog for the 2.0 release! Have fun making games! 🥳 Please report the bugs if you find some. 🙏
🌐 This year's edition of the Symposium, hosted at FGV Direito Rio Law School, will be themed "Open Technology Impact in Uncertain Times" and consider the transformative potential of openness in a world where certainty is no longer guaranteed.
❗The deadline to respond to the CFP is 1 June, so don't delay in preparing your submissions! More info on the website. https://symposium.openforumeurope.org/
It was not an April's Fools! It's real! 😁 Here is the blog article, with a link to the full changelog for the 2.0 release! Have fun making games! 🥳 Please report the bugs if you find some. 🙏
ALT text detailsShows some deltachat configurations and the deltachat logo.
Focus on the configuration “Delete old messages” (from the device and from the server) and “ Disappearing messages”.
Für alle anderen wird das Update in den nächsten Tagen über F-Droid verteilt. Hier die Liste der Änderungen. Die Zahlen hinter den Hashtags geben an, auf welchen Issue sich die Änderung bezieht. Und ich habe nicht mal alles aufgezählt. Lasst euch überraschen.😀
neu: Einstellungen pro Website speichern
neu: Fehler-Dialog, wenn Blob-Dateien heruntergeladen werden
neu: Gesten → Weiterleitungen umschalten, zum Standard-Profil wechseln, Downloads öffnen
fix: in manchen Fällen werden die neuesten Einträge in der Übersicht nicht angezeigt
fix: eine Menge alten Codes entfernt
fix: Sequenzen von Java Session Id's erscheinen in URL #1187
The European Commission has published its "EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue", which refers to "solutions created by and for European public services".
Awesome code.gouv.fr is referenced in the EU FLOSS Catalogue, making it easier for any country to reuse these French #FreeSoftware#OpenSource solutions.
Thank you 🇪🇺
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the homepage of the EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue.
The European Commission has published its "EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue", which refers to "solutions created by and for European public services".
Awesome code.gouv.fr is referenced in the EU FLOSS Catalogue, making it easier for any country to reuse these French #FreeSoftware#OpenSource solutions.
Thank you 🇪🇺
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the homepage of the EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue.
The European Commission has published its "EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue", which refers to "solutions created by and for European public services".
Awesome code.gouv.fr is referenced in the EU FLOSS Catalogue, making it easier for any country to reuse these French #FreeSoftware#OpenSource solutions.
Thank you 🇪🇺
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the homepage of the EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue.
If you missed the Podman Community Meeting today, you missed talks on the new Governance Model, handling old issues, containers in containers on AWS, and more! Catch up with the recording: https://youtu.be/Jlt21bIrmZQ#podman#opensource
"80% of websites and apps only use the most basic backend features. Using over-engineered solutions lead to unnecessary costs and complexity.
Manifest keeps it simple, delivering only the essential backend features and smoothly integrating in your project like any other file in your codebase."
ALT text detailsScreenshot of a part of manifest's README.md showing a configuration file.
The bird is out of the bag! We're introducing Thunderbird Pro (you already know Appointment!), a set of productivity AND privacy boosting services. And that includes...*drum roll*...an email service we're calling Thundermail. Find all the info in this excellent article:
The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is an opportunity to assess and reduce the UK’s dependence on large US corporations for vital government infrastructure.
Other countries, such as France and the Netherlands, are already debating how to do this, through open source software for example.
NEW: The UK government has published its Cyber Security Bill and there are glaring holes.
Missing:
🔴 Protections for encryption. 🔴 Reduction of our dependence on US corporations for vital UK government infrastructure, such as through open source software.
Information about the UK #cybersecurity Bill coming out today:
Missing:
* Protections for encryption * Explicit discussion of #digitalsovereignty and the need to transition to #opensource#foss * Safeguards against future self inflicted cybersecurity disasters through hiding vulnerabilities leading to incidents like WannaCry
Information about the UK #cybersecurity Bill coming out today:
Missing:
* Protections for encryption * Explicit discussion of #digitalsovereignty and the need to transition to #opensource#foss * Safeguards against future self inflicted cybersecurity disasters through hiding vulnerabilities leading to incidents like WannaCry
Just in time to support the discussion about European Sovereignty, the #EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue for public administrations is now live
Brought to you on the initiative of former MEP @marcel_kolaja from the #PirateParty via his FOSSEPS Pilot Project
For public sector organizations to discover #OpenSource solutions for different needs, with the aim of fostering collaboration, creativity and efficiency in the use of #FLOSS
"80% of websites and apps only use the most basic backend features. Using over-engineered solutions lead to unnecessary costs and complexity.
Manifest keeps it simple, delivering only the essential backend features and smoothly integrating in your project like any other file in your codebase."
ALT text detailsScreenshot of a part of manifest's README.md showing a configuration file.
In short, this app is against the spirit of Mastodon and the Fediverse. There are plenty of Mastodon apps that respect you: @Tusky, Fedilab (@apps), @moshidon …
How can a DNS mail record be used to trick you into giving up your login credentials? 📨😕
Researchers at Infoblox have identified a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called Morphing Meerkat that’s been quietly operating for over five years. What makes it notable is its use of DNS MX (Mail Exchange) records in ways rarely reported before. Instead of the usual static phishing page setups, Morphing Meerkat queries the victim’s email provider’s MX record—using DNS-over-HTTPS via Google or Cloudflare—to tailor the phishing page dynamically. This means victims are shown spoofed login interfaces that mimic the exact service they use, complete with matching branding and pre-filled email fields.
The platform supports more than 114 brand templates and uses obfuscated JavaScript to evade detection. It also includes built-in translation capabilities based on browser profile or geolocation, making the fake login pages appear native to the user's language. Earlier versions began in 2020 targeting just five email services (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, AOL, Office 365). By mid-2023, they could generate phishing pages dynamically using MX records and now operate in over a dozen languages.
Morphing Meerkat campaigns rely on a set of centralized email servers, primarily hosted by UK ISP iomart and US-based HostPapa, indicating a coordinated infrastructure rather than a loose network of attackers. The phishing emails often impersonate trusted services—banks, shipping companies, etc.—and are distributed using compromised WordPress sites, open redirects from platforms like Google’s DoubleClick, and embedded links in shortened URLs.
Once a user submits credentials, the system may display a fake “Invalid Password” error to lure them into re-entering data, after which they are redirected to the real login page. This not only reduces suspicion but also increases the chance of capturing correct credentials. Stolen data is sent back via AJAX, PHP scripts, or Telegram bots, sometimes with evidence removed in real-time.
This operation shows a deep understanding of modern security blind spots—including how content delivery and DNS infrastructure can be turned against end users.
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We're excited to release GoboLinux 017.01, a bug-fix update! We also announce the transition of leadership—Hisham Muhammad, founder for 25 years, steps down, with Philip Pok taking the reins. Huge thanks to Hisham, Lucas Correia Villa Real (aka paranoidd), and all our contributors!
We're excited to release GoboLinux 017.01, a bug-fix update! We also announce the transition of leadership—Hisham Muhammad, founder for 25 years, steps down, with Philip Pok taking the reins. Huge thanks to Hisham, Lucas Correia Villa Real (aka paranoidd), and all our contributors!
We're excited to release GoboLinux 017.01, a bug-fix update! We also announce the transition of leadership—Hisham Muhammad, founder for 25 years, steps down, with Philip Pok taking the reins. Huge thanks to Hisham, Lucas Correia Villa Real (aka paranoidd), and all our contributors!
The new resource from the @EUCommission , with 640+ #OpenSource tools for public administrations, is designed to support software reuse and collaboration across the #EU.
Just in time to support the discussion about European Sovereignty, the #EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue for public administrations is now live
Brought to you on the initiative of former MEP @marcel_kolaja from the #PirateParty via his FOSSEPS Pilot Project
For public sector organizations to discover #OpenSource solutions for different needs, with the aim of fostering collaboration, creativity and efficiency in the use of #FLOSS
The new resource from the @EUCommission , with 640+ #OpenSource tools for public administrations, is designed to support software reuse and collaboration across the #EU.
The new resource from the @EUCommission , with 640+ #OpenSource tools for public administrations, is designed to support software reuse and collaboration across the #EU.
Do you have any suggestions, tips, opinions, dos, don’ts about headless CMSes?
I have a growing list of small/mid non-profits and collectives asking for my help to (re)make their website. I totally want to help, but I don’t have much time, especially considering that they generally have little or no funding—I would most definitely point them to @VillageOneCoop, otherwise.
Therefore, I want a super simple and replicable solution where I can copy-paste most of the code, while providing them with a stable, fast, and modern solution. I had a look at the Headless CMS section in the Jamstack website, but I need opinions from people who actually used some of that software already.
Needs
I want to code and configure everything using @eleventy
Admin interface (#WebApp) for the client to add pages and write posts
Static website in the front-end
Simple and reliable CI/CD
No/minimal maintenance after the first setup
Self-hostable (I was taking this for granted so much that I forgot to write it)
If it requires forge integration, it should support #ForgeJo
Do you have any suggestions, tips, opinions, dos, don’ts about headless CMSes?
I have a growing list of small/mid non-profits and collectives asking for my help to (re)make their website. I totally want to help, but I don’t have much time, especially considering that they generally have little or no funding—I would most definitely point them to @VillageOneCoop, otherwise.
Therefore, I want a super simple and replicable solution where I can copy-paste most of the code, while providing them with a stable, fast, and modern solution. I had a look at the Headless CMS section in the Jamstack website, but I need opinions from people who actually used some of that software already.
Needs
I want to code and configure everything using @eleventy
Admin interface (#WebApp) for the client to add pages and write posts
Static website in the front-end
Simple and reliable CI/CD
No/minimal maintenance after the first setup
Self-hostable (I was taking this for granted so much that I forgot to write it)
If it requires forge integration, it should support #ForgeJo
🌐 Beyond Bluesky: The Rise of Decentralized Social Apps
The AT Protocol (ATProto), the open foundation behind Bluesky, is becoming a launchpad for next-gen social apps.
Some standout innovations: ・Flashes: A photo/video-sharing platform reminiscent of classic Instagram ・Spark: A video-first app with livestreaming on the way ・Streamplace: Livestreaming built with cryptographic creator protections ・Graze: Build, customize, and monetize your own social feeds
This signals a shift toward user-owned, open social ecosystems—a strong contrast to walled-garden platforms. Developers, creators, and users alike are embracing interoperability, privacy, and creative freedom.
#ProxLB - an opensource & advanced VM loadbalancer for #Proxmox clusters. Including affinity & anti-affinity rules, maintenance mode (evacuating nodes) and more. I just published my slides about it.
#ProxLB - an opensource & advanced VM loadbalancer for #Proxmox clusters. Including affinity & anti-affinity rules, maintenance mode (evacuating nodes) and more. I just published my slides about it.
ALT text detailsImage shows how the Fediverse apps allow all users to connect with eachother, whereas commercial social media platforms keep their users isolated per platform
ALT text detailsImage shows how the Fediverse apps allow all users to connect with eachother, whereas commercial social media platforms keep their users isolated per platform
ALT text detailsImage shows how the Fediverse apps allow all users to connect with eachother, whereas commercial social media platforms keep their users isolated per platform
🌟 Umfrage zum Unterbau der Linux-Distributionen! 🌟
Hallo liebe Linux-Community!
Ich möchte mehr über die technischen Grundlagen erfahren, die hinter eurer bevorzugten Linux-Distributionen steht. Eure Antworten hilft mir, ein besseres Verständnis darüber zu bekommen, welche Unterbau-Architekturen in der Community am beliebtesten sind.
Die Frage lautet: Welchen Unterbau nutzt ihr für eure Linux-Umgebung?
ALT text detailsA person with long brown hair with blonde tips. They are wearing a purple and black hat, rainbow glasses with gold rims and have multicolored metal snakebite piercings. They are smiling. They are wearing a black, purple, and white top.
Next week we will join @fediforum An online held event on Tue 2025-04-01 & Wed 2025-04-02
Participants help to create the program, a so called ‘unconference‘ & we want to show you more about the work we have done & the plans we have with Fediversity.eu We will also show a demo of our work, which is very much a ‘work-in-progress’.
ALT text detailsA banner with the information on the FediForum online event next week. The info in this image is also accessible from the website at: https://fediforum.org/
Next week we will join @fediforum An online held event on Tue 2025-04-01 & Wed 2025-04-02
Participants help to create the program, a so called ‘unconference‘ & we want to show you more about the work we have done & the plans we have with Fediversity.eu We will also show a demo of our work, which is very much a ‘work-in-progress’.
ALT text detailsA banner with the information on the FediForum online event next week. The info in this image is also accessible from the website at: https://fediforum.org/
Ah yes, I love when user3319 joins an open source issue tracker and immediately posts a provably false FUD rant about another open source project on a months-old issue. Not sus at all.
Je recherche des testeurs pour ma première application iOS. Elle bloque 11,5 millions de numéros de téléphone liés au démarchage, à la publicité et au spam, basés sur le plan de numérotation de l'ARCEP.
* single install serves as many sites as you want * can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend) * imports Disqus * fetches Mastodon replies as comments * supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de) * probably has bugs
* single install serves as many sites as you want * can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend) * imports Disqus * fetches Mastodon replies as comments * supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de) * probably has bugs
* single install serves as many sites as you want * can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend) * imports Disqus * fetches Mastodon replies as comments * supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de) * probably has bugs
* single install serves as many sites as you want * can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend) * imports Disqus * fetches Mastodon replies as comments * supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de) * probably has bugs
* single install serves as many sites as you want * can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend) * imports Disqus * fetches Mastodon replies as comments * supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de) * probably has bugs
* single install serves as many sites as you want * can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend) * imports Disqus * fetches Mastodon replies as comments * supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de) * probably has bugs
Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.
The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.
They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!
Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:
Hey everyone, i need help affording my basic necessities, im an impoverished trans girl who needs help affording basics necessities like phone bill, new glasses, food, etc.
I live in an abusive household with transphobic family who hates me and is abusive and neglectful towards me.
Hey everyone, i need help affording my basic necessities, im an impoverished trans girl who needs help affording basics necessities like phone bill, new glasses, food, etc.
I live in an abusive household with transphobic family who hates me and is abusive and neglectful towards me.
The #BlueHats 🧢 initiative started in France in 2018, but it was always intended to be a global movement, bringing together civil servants willing to promote #FreeSoftware#OpenSource in, for and by public administrations.
Here is the BlueHats manifesto:
1. Governments should actively contribute to Free Software. 2. Digitisation of public services should prioritise Free Software. 3. Civil servants should be free to use Free Software.
The #BlueHats 🧢 initiative started in France in 2018, but it was always intended to be a global movement, bringing together civil servants willing to promote #FreeSoftware#OpenSource in, for and by public administrations.
Here is the BlueHats manifesto:
1. Governments should actively contribute to Free Software. 2. Digitisation of public services should prioritise Free Software. 3. Civil servants should be free to use Free Software.
* single install serves as many sites as you want * can be used in static websites (it's lightweight web components in the frontend) * imports Disqus * fetches Mastodon replies as comments * supports different languages (so far en, fr, es, de) * probably has bugs
🧵Weil ich es heute auch wieder im smalltalk gehört habe: Wer bei #OpenSource in der #Verwaltung instinktiv auf Linux und LibreOffice anspringt, geht das Problem von der absolut falschen Seite an.
Was #Verwaltungsdigitalisierung wirklich weiter bringen würde, sind offene Austauschformate aus Fachanwendungen. Hier ist der Markt völlig kaputt, Schnittstellen werden von Herstellern zu Fantasiepreisen angeboten, gerade Kommunen mit eh schon wenig Mitteln saugt das aus. >>
How can you get started in the Fedora community? You can introduce yourself on our forum at Fedora Discussion! We love to meet new people and help them find a place within the project.
Interestingly it appears that the #gnome circle website is still using #cantarell fonts instead of the new #adwaita fonts. I wonder if they will update this
Quick tip! You can actually see the changelog details for Debian/Ubuntu packages, which includes security info, CVEs, package urgency, and a short description. Super helpful for figuring out if you need to patch right away or schedule downtime, especially if you're working with clusters. For example, here is how to see info about the nginx:
Quick tip! You can actually see the changelog details for Debian/Ubuntu packages, which includes security info, CVEs, package urgency, and a short description. Super helpful for figuring out if you need to patch right away or schedule downtime, especially if you're working with clusters. For example, here is how to see info about the nginx:
@mozillaofficial just shared their response to the White House’s RFI on AI.
"Mozilla supports organizations engaged in artificial intelligence research, including the @osi's work on defining #OpenSource#AI, and through the efforts of the Columbia Convening which brought together a broad set of stakeholders to talk about Openness and AI."
@mozillaofficial just shared their response to the White House’s RFI on AI.
"Mozilla supports organizations engaged in artificial intelligence research, including the @osi's work on defining #OpenSource#AI, and through the efforts of the Columbia Convening which brought together a broad set of stakeholders to talk about Openness and AI."
A quick look at a project I'm working on: an #OpenSource framework for creating fixed-camera games with pre-rendered backgrounds (built with #Godot and #Blender).
ALT text detailsVideo of a scene rendered with OpenRE. It's a luxurious living room in dim lighting, with 3D models in T-pose moving repetitively. In the center, a light spins, casting threatening shadows on the walls.
Petit aperçu d'un projet sur lequel je travaille : un framework #OpenSource pour créer des jeux en caméra fixe avec décors précalculés (basé sur #Godot et #Blender)
ALT text detailsVidéo d'une scène rendue avec OpenRE. Il s'agit d'un salon luxueux plongé dans la pénombre, avec des modèles 3D en T-pose qui se déplacent de manière répétitive. Au centre, une lumière tourne sur elle-même, projetant des ombres menaçantes sur les murs.
I have long thought that an open-source Genealogical social-network (including a Genetic Genealogy components) would benefit the Genealogy and Genetic Genealogy communities.
It would be straightforward to create it as Fediverse / OpenSocial software — using the same ActivityPub, ActivityStreams, NodeInfo, WebFinger, etc technology that the rest of the Fediverse uses.
Am I right, that none of them is fully #freeSoftware (#openSource), none of them is federated, and none has first class clients on other OSes than Google Android and Apple iOS?
There is an IETF standard for federated instant messenging, implemented by various servers and client applications since 1999. Why don't you promote that?
Petit aperçu d'un projet sur lequel je travaille : un framework #OpenSource pour créer des jeux en caméra fixe avec décors précalculés (basé sur #Godot et #Blender)
ALT text detailsVidéo d'une scène rendue avec OpenRE. Il s'agit d'un salon luxueux plongé dans la pénombre, avec des modèles 3D en T-pose qui se déplacent de manière répétitive. Au centre, une lumière tourne sur elle-même, projetant des ombres menaçantes sur les murs.
A quick look at a project I'm working on: an #OpenSource framework for creating fixed-camera games with pre-rendered backgrounds (built with #Godot and #Blender).
ALT text detailsVideo of a scene rendered with OpenRE. It's a luxurious living room in dim lighting, with 3D models in T-pose moving repetitively. In the center, a light spins, casting threatening shadows on the walls.
I just had such a lovely conversation with #bsd "barista" @stefano about building community here. What a nice way to start the week -- by being reminded that there are thoughtful humans who care about genuine connection.
Thank you to @_elena and others who recommended him.
"The Open Technology Fund sued the U.S. Agency for Global Media over the Trump administration attempting to terminate congressionally appropriated federal grants for OTF."
We must stand behind OTF. This could also be an opportunity for Europe to step in and support its funding.
ALT text details"The Open Technology Fund sued the U.S. Agency for Global Media over the Trump administration attempting to terminate congressionally appropriated federal grants for OTF."
That's it for now — trying to take it easy on the self-promo for the moment because I think I'm getting close to actually launching one of these apps for real, and then I'll get REAL obnoxious. Maybe I'll even remember one of those hashtags like #python or #opensource next time
The #Fediverse is growing and we're welcoming more and more new single user instances but #federation can become challenging.
With #Relay instances, single user and smaller instances can quickly become federated and grow which is supported by many Fediverse applications like #snac#snac2#Mastodon#Pleroma etc.
The #Fediverse is growing and we're welcoming more and more new single user instances but #federation can become challenging.
With #Relay instances, single user and smaller instances can quickly become federated and grow which is supported by many Fediverse applications like #snac#snac2#Mastodon#Pleroma etc.
// foss.events is not just about software-related events. Open Science, Open Data, Open Access, Open Hardware, Open Educational Resources and many other related movements are just as important as FOSS is.
Let's add these events to // foss.events and start connecting!
ALT text details "Banner" by David Revoy, framasoft.org − CC-BY 4.0 https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/framasoft__2023-11-13_banner_by-David-Revoy.html
Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.
The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.
They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!
Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:
Contrary to popular belief, "grep" doesn't actually stand for "global regular expression print." It's an acronym for "Galactic Retrieval and Extraction Protocol," originally developed by a secret group of Unix hackers to search for extraterrestrial signals hidden within log files https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-grep-command-in-linux-unix/
Yesterday’s event was engaging and sparked a lot of reflections. Here are my immediate, unordered thoughts:
• The organizers poured their passion into this conference - they created something genuinely interesting and enjoyable. Thank you for that.
• Every talk offered valuable insights. A recurring theme was developers’ anxiety about large language models: they rely on them heavily and fear losing competitiveness without these tools. I personally resonated more with some speakers than others, especially appreciating the friendly, down‑to‑earth atmosphere that some of them tried to create - we should feel like peers, not influencers on a pedestal.
• I was the oldest (and most traditionally dressed) speaker - some even addressed me formally, which made me feel ancient! Yet I was arguably the most “alternative”, challenging the crowd not just on BSDs but on open source philosophy itself. Instead of blindly rewriting projects in Rust, I urged people to do so only when it truly adds value. I felt like a real hipster 😆
• Many equate open source with large, corporate‑backed projects you can consume or contribute to. This narrow view risks creating mainstream currents dominated by a few profit‑driven companies, ultimately limiting choice and freedom.
• Despite time constraints (the ticking timer was painfully visible, I was a bit nervous while presenting!), I achieved my goal: to broaden minds and open eyes to the BSDs and the deeper spirit of open source. Several attendees - including fellow speaker Sal, whom I already admired - came to chat afterward, sparking wonderful discussions.
• Sometimes I observed a dismissive attitude toward anything outside the mainstream (“Ok, Boomer…”), reflecting a worrying trend. For many, open source is merely a paycheck, which saddens me.
• A few were genuinely curious about the BSDs but unsure how to apply it professionally. Almost everyone I spoke with uses Docker/Kubernetes but dislikes its complexity. I encouraged them to drive change from the ground up by learning different workflows and bringing that value into their work - not just replicating existing OS practices.
• One of the sponsors, Aruba Cloud, gifted me some swag - including a pair of blue socks emblazoned with a cloud logo. I can now literally say I’m walking on clouds (or that the cloud is at my feet)! 😄
Contrary to popular belief, "grep" doesn't actually stand for "global regular expression print." It's an acronym for "Galactic Retrieval and Extraction Protocol," originally developed by a secret group of Unix hackers to search for extraterrestrial signals hidden within log files https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-grep-command-in-linux-unix/
Collectivités, un nouveau projet de la DINUM mérite votre attention : Visio.
Une sorte de Jitsi/Teams/Zoom reposant sur Livekit, avec un niveau de qualité et de stabilité inégalés. Il est accessible aux collectivités via ProConnect.
The #OSI 's one job is to protect and promote #OpenSource and the Open Source Definition (OSD). Undermining that definition with the weakened #OSAID has alienated much of the Open Source community, myself included.
I had hoped that might be turned around, but this year's reform candidates were likely the last chance to see that happen.
Watching the OSI promoting corporate sponsors was concerning, but this year's blatant election manipulation is the final straw.
// foss.events is not just about software-related events. Open Science, Open Data, Open Access, Open Hardware, Open Educational Resources and many other related movements are just as important as FOSS is.
Let's add these events to // foss.events and start connecting!
ALT text details "Banner" by David Revoy, framasoft.org − CC-BY 4.0 https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/framasoft__2023-11-13_banner_by-David-Revoy.html
Yesterday’s event was engaging and sparked a lot of reflections. Here are my immediate, unordered thoughts:
• The organizers poured their passion into this conference - they created something genuinely interesting and enjoyable. Thank you for that.
• Every talk offered valuable insights. A recurring theme was developers’ anxiety about large language models: they rely on them heavily and fear losing competitiveness without these tools. I personally resonated more with some speakers than others, especially appreciating the friendly, down‑to‑earth atmosphere that some of them tried to create - we should feel like peers, not influencers on a pedestal.
• I was the oldest (and most traditionally dressed) speaker - some even addressed me formally, which made me feel ancient! Yet I was arguably the most “alternative”, challenging the crowd not just on BSDs but on open source philosophy itself. Instead of blindly rewriting projects in Rust, I urged people to do so only when it truly adds value. I felt like a real hipster 😆
• Many equate open source with large, corporate‑backed projects you can consume or contribute to. This narrow view risks creating mainstream currents dominated by a few profit‑driven companies, ultimately limiting choice and freedom.
• Despite time constraints (the ticking timer was painfully visible, I was a bit nervous while presenting!), I achieved my goal: to broaden minds and open eyes to the BSDs and the deeper spirit of open source. Several attendees - including fellow speaker Sal, whom I already admired - came to chat afterward, sparking wonderful discussions.
• Sometimes I observed a dismissive attitude toward anything outside the mainstream (“Ok, Boomer…”), reflecting a worrying trend. For many, open source is merely a paycheck, which saddens me.
• A few were genuinely curious about the BSDs but unsure how to apply it professionally. Almost everyone I spoke with uses Docker/Kubernetes but dislikes its complexity. I encouraged them to drive change from the ground up by learning different workflows and bringing that value into their work - not just replicating existing OS practices.
• One of the sponsors, Aruba Cloud, gifted me some swag - including a pair of blue socks emblazoned with a cloud logo. I can now literally say I’m walking on clouds (or that the cloud is at my feet)! 😄
The older I get, the more I appreciate that there are different distributions of #Linux and that there are multiple ways of doing things throughout the stack. #opensource is not a zero sum game and we're all better for it. Whether its commercial/enterprise, community, and/or hobbyist, it's good for users to have options and we all benefit from the various contributions along the way.
Folks don't understand how open source contributions work. If you want a feature, you don't come and say "make me this feature". Instead, you open a PR and ask for it to get merged.
Folks don't understand how community conferences work. If you want something to happen in the conference, you don't come and say "make this happen for me". Instead, you say "I want to volunteer and do this for your conference".
The #OSI 's one job is to protect and promote #OpenSource and the Open Source Definition (OSD). Undermining that definition with the weakened #OSAID has alienated much of the Open Source community, myself included.
I had hoped that might be turned around, but this year's reform candidates were likely the last chance to see that happen.
Watching the OSI promoting corporate sponsors was concerning, but this year's blatant election manipulation is the final straw.
Hope you can join us for the first Podman Desktop Community Meeting on Thu, Mar 27, 2025, @ 9:00 am EDT (UTC-4). Topics will include what's new in Desktop, Demos, Roadmap, and more! Details and Zoom link in the agenda! https://github.com/podman-desktop/community/issues/3#podman#OpenSource
Wir stellen #OpenSource-Alternativen nicht nur bereit, sondern nutzen sie auch selbst. Das gilt seit dieser Woche auch für Social Media: Hallo Fediverse! 📣
Wir sehen in einem unabhängigen, föderierten sozialen Netzwerk eine wichtige Alternative zu kommerziellen US-amerikanischen Plattformen – die sich zudem immer stärker autokratischer Politik unterwerfen. Das Fediverse passt perfekt zum ZenDiS und wir wurden direkt nett begrüßt: „Willkommen zu Hause!“, schrieb @Sascha 🫶
Folks don't understand how open source contributions work. If you want a feature, you don't come and say "make me this feature". Instead, you open a PR and ask for it to get merged.
Folks don't understand how community conferences work. If you want something to happen in the conference, you don't come and say "make this happen for me". Instead, you say "I want to volunteer and do this for your conference".
The app will be free for #OpenSource projects! Cannot wait to share it with y'all! Its early prototype was super helpful but now I'm taking it to the next level 🎊
Miło jest nam poinformować, że nawiązaliśmy partnerstwo z organizatorami 19. Sesji Linuksowej 🐧
Jeśli jesteście z okolic Wrocławia albo nie macie co robić 5-6 kwietnia, wpadajcie na Politechnikę Wrocławską! Czeka Was mnóstwo ciekawych prelekcji jak również okazja, by spotkać się z wieloma entuzjastami Linuksa oraz otwartego oprogramowania.
Co do nas: na pewno część z nas się tam pojawi osobiście w roli uczestników. Chociaż nie przewidujemy tworzenia wielkiej strefy (jeszcze! 😉) to na pewno będziemy zdawać relację, gdzie będzie można nas znaleźć. Tak, przywieziemy laptopy z kilkoma FOSS gierkami do przetestowania 😇
Po więcej informacji odsyłamy na stronę wydarzenia. Wstęp wolny.
📣 NEWS FOR #HAIKU: #NVIDIA GPU support coming soon! 🚀
Developer @X512 has successfully ported Nvidia kernel drivers to Haiku. The driver will support Turing+ GPUs and already includes Vulkan integration via Mesa's NVK.
Initial tests are working and show potential for future uses, including AI acceleration with llama.cpp.
A major step forward for the Haiku ecosystem and hardware compatibility!
Miło jest nam poinformować, że nawiązaliśmy partnerstwo z organizatorami 19. Sesji Linuksowej 🐧
Jeśli jesteście z okolic Wrocławia albo nie macie co robić 5-6 kwietnia, wpadajcie na Politechnikę Wrocławską! Czeka Was mnóstwo ciekawych prelekcji jak również okazja, by spotkać się z wieloma entuzjastami Linuksa oraz otwartego oprogramowania.
Co do nas: na pewno część z nas się tam pojawi osobiście w roli uczestników. Chociaż nie przewidujemy tworzenia wielkiej strefy (jeszcze! 😉) to na pewno będziemy zdawać relację, gdzie będzie można nas znaleźć. Tak, przywieziemy laptopy z kilkoma FOSS gierkami do przetestowania 😇
Po więcej informacji odsyłamy na stronę wydarzenia. Wstęp wolny.
The #BlueHats 🧢 initiative started in France in 2018, but it was always intended to be a global movement, bringing together civil servants willing to promote #FreeSoftware#OpenSource in, for and by public administrations.
Here is the BlueHats manifesto:
1. Governments should actively contribute to Free Software. 2. Digitisation of public services should prioritise Free Software. 3. Civil servants should be free to use Free Software.
Wir stellen #OpenSource-Alternativen nicht nur bereit, sondern nutzen sie auch selbst. Das gilt seit dieser Woche auch für Social Media: Hallo Fediverse! 📣
Wir sehen in einem unabhängigen, föderierten sozialen Netzwerk eine wichtige Alternative zu kommerziellen US-amerikanischen Plattformen – die sich zudem immer stärker autokratischer Politik unterwerfen. Das Fediverse passt perfekt zum ZenDiS und wir wurden direkt nett begrüßt: „Willkommen zu Hause!“, schrieb @Sascha 🫶
In short, this app is against the spirit of Mastodon and the Fediverse. There are plenty of Mastodon apps that respect you: @Tusky, Fedilab (@apps), @moshidon …
The #BlueHats 🧢 initiative started in France in 2018, but it was always intended to be a global movement, bringing together civil servants willing to promote #FreeSoftware#OpenSource in, for and by public administrations.
Here is the BlueHats manifesto:
1. Governments should actively contribute to Free Software. 2. Digitisation of public services should prioritise Free Software. 3. Civil servants should be free to use Free Software.
📣 NEWS FOR #HAIKU: #NVIDIA GPU support coming soon! 🚀
Developer @X512 has successfully ported Nvidia kernel drivers to Haiku. The driver will support Turing+ GPUs and already includes Vulkan integration via Mesa's NVK.
Initial tests are working and show potential for future uses, including AI acceleration with llama.cpp.
A major step forward for the Haiku ecosystem and hardware compatibility!
How is it possible that there is no #Mastodon button? Mastodon the only truly decentralized, public value driven, #opensource and independent social media platform.
Our inaugural State of the Thunder is live on TILvids! Director of desktop and mobile apps @alecaddd leads a discussion on our upcoming desktop roadmap, our values, and how we can work more in the open.
(We'd like to further open these discussions, so stay tuned for how you can join future SotTs!)
Our inaugural State of the Thunder is live on TILvids! Director of desktop and mobile apps @alecaddd leads a discussion on our upcoming desktop roadmap, our values, and how we can work more in the open.
(We'd like to further open these discussions, so stay tuned for how you can join future SotTs!)
Governments say they want sovereignty, yet they keep buying from #Microsoft#Google and #AWS.
📢 If Europe wants control over its digital future, it must act now. The choice is clear: ✅ Invest in open-source technologies ✅ Reduce dependency on foreign providers
Along with the first minimal_worlds, this is a world of Game Boy music ready to be explored. As always, all tracks are Public Domain + project files are available from the individual track pages on my website.
Cette fois, notre site semble bel et bien disponible… et on dirait qu'il tient la charge. Il sera un outil permettant de rendre compte de nos activités, et un point d'entrée pour les collectivités qui souhaiteraient nous rejoindre.
I'm looking for an #OpenSource static site generator for non-technical users. Ideally what I want is something with a control panel which can be driven with a mouse, which has controls for add new page, edit page, delete page, serve site locally, push site to server.
Needs to work on Windows and Mac. #Linux would be nice, but Linux folk can mostly cope with command lines.
If I can't find one I'll write a WIMP control panel to wrap around #Cryogen.
Gnome 48 also brings so many improvements to Gnome Mobile. Scrolling is just as smooth as it's on Android. OSK and Touch text selection are better now. And the cameras have started working on #Oneplus6 Overall, it's getting to where it is starting to feel like a real alternative 🤩️.
My dream of crawling away from the clutches of Big-Tech gets closer.
Gnome 48 also brings so many improvements to Gnome Mobile. Scrolling is just as smooth as it's on Android. OSK and Touch text selection are better now. And the cameras have started working on #Oneplus6 Overall, it's getting to where it is starting to feel like a real alternative 🤩️.
My dream of crawling away from the clutches of Big-Tech gets closer.
ALT text detailsA person with long brown hair with blonde tips. They are wearing a purple and black hat, rainbow glasses with gold rims and have multicolored metal snakebite piercings. They are smiling. They are wearing a black, purple, and white top.
Along with the first minimal_worlds, this is a world of Game Boy music ready to be explored. As always, all tracks are Public Domain + project files are available from the individual track pages on my website.
Gnome 48 also brings so many improvements to Gnome Mobile. Scrolling is just as smooth as it's on Android. OSK and Touch text selection are better now. And the cameras have started working on #Oneplus6 Overall, it's getting to where it is starting to feel like a real alternative 🤩️.
My dream of crawling away from the clutches of Big-Tech gets closer.
Julkaisin äsken Ilmatieteenlaitoksen avoimesta datasta säätietoja ja ennusteita hakevasta Python-kirjastosta uuden version. Ennusteita voi hakea nyt neljän päivän sijaan aina 10 päivää tulevaisuuteen.
Muutos ei ole omaa käsialaani, vaan kunnia siitä kuuluu CedericN-nimimerkkiä kantavalle käyttäjälle
Ainakin Home Assistant -käyttäjät saattavat hyötyä tästä, mikäli HA-komponentti vaan päivitetään tukemaan näitä pidemmän jakson ennusteita ☺️
Julkaisin äsken Ilmatieteenlaitoksen avoimesta datasta säätietoja ja ennusteita hakevasta Python-kirjastosta uuden version. Ennusteita voi hakea nyt neljän päivän sijaan aina 10 päivää tulevaisuuteen.
Muutos ei ole omaa käsialaani, vaan kunnia siitä kuuluu CedericN-nimimerkkiä kantavalle käyttäjälle
Ainakin Home Assistant -käyttäjät saattavat hyötyä tästä, mikäli HA-komponentti vaan päivitetään tukemaan näitä pidemmän jakson ennusteita ☺️
We are looking to raise funds to provide bursaries to people promoting #Prav / #xmpp in different conferences / events. Unlike Operating System or Office Suite, messaging apps is not only personal choice.
We have some funds from #PravConf sponsorship, but more would help us support people going to many more events like #BiharFOSS or #LucknowFOSS where we don't have many local community members.
We are looking to raise funds to provide bursaries to people promoting #Prav / #xmpp in different conferences / events. Unlike Operating System or Office Suite, messaging apps is not only personal choice.
We have some funds from #PravConf sponsorship, but more would help us support people going to many more events like #BiharFOSS or #LucknowFOSS where we don't have many local community members.
Ja Open-Source is aktiv und sind schon lange nicht "nur ein Gebastel" 🤓
Gerade eben in den letzten Tagen bekamen @GIMP, @Blender so auch @peertube im Fediverse ihre Updates in aktuelle maßgebliche Versionen 👍
P.S. Ich freue mich und Toote davon, auch wenn ich es selber selten nutze. P.P.S. Manche Menschen müssen auch hier im Fediverse mötzeln, dass es nicht perfekt sei aber je nach Anwendung ist es anders 🙄
Softwaremonopole sind teuer und stehen dem #Datenschutz im Weg. Deshalb setzt die Verwaltung in Schleswig-Holstein zukünftig auf #OpenSourceSoftware. Seit kurzem können wir im Gericht #LibreOffice nutzen, Ende des Jahres wird es Pflicht. Der Umstieg fiel uns leicht, da wir es auch zu Hause nutzen. Und von unseren Kolleg:innen hat auch noch keine:r gemurrt.
Dites les mastonautes Vous auriez une recommandation d'un outil qui permet de surveiller les changements qui interviennent sur une page web ? Idéalement #OpenSource ? Ou qui s'installe sur #Debian ? merci :)
Dites les mastonautes Vous auriez une recommandation d'un outil qui permet de surveiller les changements qui interviennent sur une page web ? Idéalement #OpenSource ? Ou qui s'installe sur #Debian ? merci :)
The FreeBSD team conquered a massive 7,000 bug backlog 💪 Once overwhelmed by thousands of open issues, the team, with the help of data visualization tools, turned chaos into clarity.
Their approach involved setting up custom dashboards using GrimoireLab, which provided valuable insights into their Bugzilla system. They introduced new metrics like "unattended" and "abandoned" tickets to prioritize their efforts.
The FreeBSD team conquered a massive 7,000 bug backlog 💪 Once overwhelmed by thousands of open issues, the team, with the help of data visualization tools, turned chaos into clarity.
Their approach involved setting up custom dashboards using GrimoireLab, which provided valuable insights into their Bugzilla system. They introduced new metrics like "unattended" and "abandoned" tickets to prioritize their efforts.
Fedora Linux 42 Beta is available now! Help us test the next version of Fedora across all of our editions and spins, including Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop and the upcoming Fedora COSMIC!
I had to solve a problem where a PowerShell script would be distributed to clients that had to send mails. Putting email credentials in the script was not an option, so I put together a web-accessible API that allows me to send mail from a script without putting credentials at risk or relying on third-party mail libraries. Sharing is caring, so here it is for you to self-host. #php#api#sendmail#scripting#selfhosted#opensource#oss https://github.com/soulflyman/CuckooPost
"80% of websites and apps only use the most basic backend features. Using over-engineered solutions lead to unnecessary costs and complexity.
Manifest keeps it simple, delivering only the essential backend features and smoothly integrating in your project like any other file in your codebase."
ALT text detailsScreenshot of a part of manifest's README.md showing a configuration file.
"80% of websites and apps only use the most basic backend features. Using over-engineered solutions lead to unnecessary costs and complexity.
Manifest keeps it simple, delivering only the essential backend features and smoothly integrating in your project like any other file in your codebase."
ALT text detailsScreenshot of a part of manifest's README.md showing a configuration file.
»GIMP 3.0 – Großes Update nach sieben Jahren fertig: GIMP 3.0 bringt nicht-destruktive Filter, bessere HiDPI-Unterstützung und erweiterte Farbräume. Künftig soll es schneller neue Funktionen geben.«
Ich habe es erst jetzt gesehen aber ich nutze @GIMP auch rel. selten. Die lange Entwicklungszeit ist nichts per-se was negatives. Für Fotos & Grafiken auf Webseiten lässt es sich mMn gut nutzen.
This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single blog post or news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host documentation securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing. https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/#opensource
I've just tested out the brand new version 3 and the most wanted feature, non-destructive-editig, just blew my mind!
I haven't realized that now, everything that is based on GEGL is editable, it is just amazing, this goes beyond what I expected as non-destructive-editing.
There are still plenty of room for improvements though , I hope in the future they will add a layer mask for each effect and the opacity channel to determine the amount of the intensity.
Nevertheless this result by itself it is just amazing and superior to other commercials solution even in its infantry!
This will boost my workflow cause now I can modify colors on my images without degrading the original ones and exporting the working file as jpeg-xl, this is already a pro level!
This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single blog post or news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host documentation securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing. https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/#opensource
I've just tested out the brand new version 3 and the most wanted feature, non-destructive-editig, just blew my mind!
I haven't realized that now, everything that is based on GEGL is editable, it is just amazing, this goes beyond what I expected as non-destructive-editing.
There are still plenty of room for improvements though , I hope in the future they will add a layer mask for each effect and the opacity channel to determine the amount of the intensity.
Nevertheless this result by itself it is just amazing and superior to other commercials solution even in its infantry!
This will boost my workflow cause now I can modify colors on my images without degrading the original ones and exporting the working file as jpeg-xl, this is already a pro level!
How do open source projects get things done? How do they retain contributors, attract users, and make technical decisions? All this (and more!) falls under the auspice of "governance". Shauna Gordon-McKeon explores the power and potential in being thoughtful your project's governance, and how expanding your view of what governance entails can create a virtuous cycle.
GIMP 3.0 is finally out with GTK 3 user interface, better UI scaling on HiDPI, Wayland support, non-destructive layer effects, color space management, improved file format support, and usability improvements
GIMP 3.0 is finally out with GTK 3 user interface, better UI scaling on HiDPI, Wayland support, non-destructive layer effects, color space management, improved file format support, and usability improvements
GIMP 3.0 is finally out with GTK 3 user interface, better UI scaling on HiDPI, Wayland support, non-destructive layer effects, color space management, improved file format support, and usability improvements
Hello everyone! Velvelyne (a funky skeletal typeface) has just been released on our website! https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/velvelyne/ Velvelyne is published under the CUTE conditions, which are different from your plain old SIL OFL, so please check it out. #opensource#font#typeface#velvelyne
ALT text detailsImage of the Velvelyne typeface, which looks like a regular font with all the flesh removed leaving only a bare single line skeleton, on a white background. Text reads "single line à haute tension".
I have a Mastodon feature request. Could there please be a specialized emoji for the #XMPP logo? To put it beside one's name? It can draw attention to an XMPP "Chat ID" that one has put in one's Mastodon profile. Similarly, it would make sense to also have emojis for the #Deltachat logo, #Matrix logo, etc. Basically, every other #OpenSource federated network (#Pixelfed? #Peertube?) would likewise deserve an emoji.
This is so that Mastodonians can draw attention to the accounts they have on other #Fediverse servers. It's a visual cue, right by their names, inviting others to tap/click their avatars/names, and have a look at their profile, where further contact info could be presented. It would encourage people to use Federated services more, then display their involvement to others.
This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single blog post or news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host documentation securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing. https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/#opensource
Interesting: Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS). We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands 🇳🇱🧀). Feel free to reach out if you are interested in using or contributing to docs.
For 4 months now (since November 2024), I have been using, Windows. 🤯
Fedora v41 was released in October 2024, and normally, Ultramarine Linux (UM, for short) is quick to release their spin of Fedora.
I like UM because I don't have to configure anything. Usually, I have the time to do so, but around the holidays and other things that kept coming up, I just didn't want to do it. I also had plans to convert some family members to Linux too, so the idea of configuring a bunch of computers, independent of their own, just didn't appeal to me.
But Ultramarine Linux would never end up releasing v41. Turns out, the development took on too much too soon, and the development likely burned out. An unfortunate common theme for many user-friendly Linux distros.
They'll argue there is an "upgrade path", but there is no official release, and they'll try to argue that not having an image you can freshly install, still counts as a release (no, it does not). I kept waiting because I and others kept being told, "soon". Well, "soon" turned out to be, never, and I wish they had just been honest about that.
Meanwhile, Fedora v42 is soon to be a beta. We're less than a month away from April, and if you've taken a look at the development build, it's running stable (at least for me). But the problem about Fedora is, like Debian, you need to build it up. I can do that, but I'd rather just install something with an "out of box" experience for the other 12 computers. Mostly, because with those other people, they were expecting a Windows-like experience, which is what Ultramarine Linux offered.
And that is where I am today. Not knowing of a use-friendly distro, for everyone else. I know to avoid, DEB base system. If that statement confuses or upsets you, stop using a DEB base system. Trust me, I didn't notice how much DEB sucks as a desktop, until I stop using it as a desktop. I don't expect you to see that difference either until you stop using DEB as a desktop.
I feel defeated, because ultimately, I think Windows is going to win this. And right now, I am angry at the Linux ecosystem. Every time, there is finally a Linux distro that knows what they're doing, they seem to geek out, and drop the ball.
1) Fairly current 2) Stable 3) Must include 1 and 2. 4) Must work with older hardware. 5) Must work with new-ish hardware. 6) Must include non-free drivers 7) Must include non-free firmware 8) Must include non-free media codecs. 9) Fairly solid road map for the future 10) Point and click updates (similar to Microsoft Update) 11) KDE (helps with point and click, configuration) 12) Double-click installs (rpm packages, for example) 13) Graphical interface for Flatpak 14) Not immutable.
For 4 months now (since November 2024), I have been using, Windows. 🤯
Fedora v41 was released in October 2024, and normally, Ultramarine Linux (UM, for short) is quick to release their spin of Fedora.
I like UM because I don't have to configure anything. Usually, I have the time to do so, but around the holidays and other things that kept coming up, I just didn't want to do it. I also had plans to convert some family members to Linux too, so the idea of configuring a bunch of computers, independent of their own, just didn't appeal to me.
But Ultramarine Linux would never end up releasing v41. Turns out, the development took on too much too soon, and the development likely burned out. An unfortunate common theme for many user-friendly Linux distros.
They'll argue there is an "upgrade path", but there is no official release, and they'll try to argue that not having an image you can freshly install, still counts as a release (no, it does not). I kept waiting because I and others kept being told, "soon". Well, "soon" turned out to be, never, and I wish they had just been honest about that.
Meanwhile, Fedora v42 is soon to be a beta. We're less than a month away from April, and if you've taken a look at the development build, it's running stable (at least for me). But the problem about Fedora is, like Debian, you need to build it up. I can do that, but I'd rather just install something with an "out of box" experience for the other 12 computers. Mostly, because with those other people, they were expecting a Windows-like experience, which is what Ultramarine Linux offered.
And that is where I am today. Not knowing of a use-friendly distro, for everyone else. I know to avoid, DEB base system. If that statement confuses or upsets you, stop using a DEB base system. Trust me, I didn't notice how much DEB sucks as a desktop, until I stop using it as a desktop. I don't expect you to see that difference either until you stop using DEB as a desktop.
I feel defeated, because ultimately, I think Windows is going to win this. And right now, I am angry at the Linux ecosystem. Every time, there is finally a Linux distro that knows what they're doing, they seem to geek out, and drop the ball.
1) Fairly current 2) Stable 3) Must include 1 and 2. 4) Must work with older hardware. 5) Must work with new-ish hardware. 6) Must include non-free drivers 7) Must include non-free firmware 8) Must include non-free media codecs. 9) Fairly solid road map for the future 10) Point and click updates (similar to Microsoft Update) 11) KDE (helps with point and click, configuration) 12) Double-click installs (rpm packages, for example) 13) Graphical interface for Flatpak 14) Not immutable.
Interesting: Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS). We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands 🇳🇱🧀). Feel free to reach out if you are interested in using or contributing to docs.
I updated my mutual aid goals to more accurately reflect my current mutual aid needs, i ended up overspending on basic necessities (toilet paper and other things i didnt account for) and so i dropped my glasses fund down a bit, and i now need more money for food.
Please, any donations would help me greatly! Please help me. I am an extremely poor trans girl living in an abusive and transphobic home and i need money to afford my basic necessities. Please donate whatever you can!
I updated my mutual aid goals to more accurately reflect my current mutual aid needs, i ended up overspending on basic necessities (toilet paper and other things i didnt account for) and so i dropped my glasses fund down a bit, and i now need more money for food.
Please, any donations would help me greatly! Please help me. I am an extremely poor trans girl living in an abusive and transphobic home and i need money to afford my basic necessities. Please donate whatever you can!
I updated my mutual aid goals to more accurately reflect my current mutual aid needs, i ended up overspending on basic necessities (toilet paper and other things i didnt account for) and so i dropped my glasses fund down a bit, and i now need more money for food.
Please, any donations would help me greatly! Please help me. I am an extremely poor trans girl living in an abusive and transphobic home and i need money to afford my basic necessities. Please donate whatever you can!
📣 Announcing Altbot 2.0: The Privacy & Green Update 🔒💚
Exciting news! After months of development, Altbot 2.0 is officially launching with major improvements to privacy, efficiency, and description quality.
What's new in Altbot 2.0:
100% local AI processing for true privacy - unlike Google Gemini which saves data for training, Altbot 2.0 retains ZERO information about you or your images using the powerful Ovis2:8B model running on my custom AltTron server equipped with an A5500 GPU and expansion capacity for two additional GPUs
Full GDPR compliance with clear informed consent - I've implemented comprehensive privacy measures including transparent data handling policies, user rights protection, and minimal data collection practices that exceed GDPR requirements
Better quality descriptions across all 11 supported languages thanks to a newly developed translation layer specifically optimized for local LLM models
Significantly more energy efficient with a new feature that shows you exactly how much energy was used for each request! This efficiency comes from using a server-grade GPU optimized for lower power consumption, and 36% of the energy consumed is from clean sources mainly nuclear power (thanks to being based in Georgia)
The only data Altbot 2.0 records:
That a request happened
How long it took to complete
What type of media it was (image, video, or audio)
What language was used
No images, no content, no personal data saved - ever.
For those who don't know, Altbot has been helping make the Fediverse more accessible by automatically generating alt-text descriptions for images. The project has grown beyond anything I imagined, now serving thousands of users across the network.
Support Altbot's Future 💝
To bring these privacy and efficiency improvements to life, I had to invest in a more powerful server than initially planned. The server costs exceeded my budget by around $900, which I've covered out of pocket. Who woulda thought that competing with a $1.98 trillion dystopian mega corporation would be expensive? Shocking, I know.
I've set up a Ko-fi fundraising goal to help recover these costs and support ongoing development: Ko-fi.com/micr0byte
Your contributions will help ensure Altbot remains:
Free for everyone
Continuously improved
Sustainably maintained
Even small donations make a huge difference and motivate me to keep enhancing accessibility across the Fediverse!
This milestone represents a commitment to ensuring accessibility doesn't come at the cost of privacy or environmental impact. I'm incredibly proud of what we've built together.
As Altbot continues to grow, I'm open to sharing more about this journey with anyone interested in accessibility, ethical AI, or Fediverse projects.
📣 Announcing Altbot 2.0: The Privacy & Green Update 🔒💚
Exciting news! After months of development, Altbot 2.0 is officially launching with major improvements to privacy, efficiency, and description quality.
What's new in Altbot 2.0:
100% local AI processing for true privacy - unlike Google Gemini which saves data for training, Altbot 2.0 retains ZERO information about you or your images using the powerful Ovis2:8B model running on my custom AltTron server equipped with an A5500 GPU and expansion capacity for two additional GPUs
Full GDPR compliance with clear informed consent - I've implemented comprehensive privacy measures including transparent data handling policies, user rights protection, and minimal data collection practices that exceed GDPR requirements
Better quality descriptions across all 11 supported languages thanks to a newly developed translation layer specifically optimized for local LLM models
Significantly more energy efficient with a new feature that shows you exactly how much energy was used for each request! This efficiency comes from using a server-grade GPU optimized for lower power consumption, and 36% of the energy consumed is from clean sources mainly nuclear power (thanks to being based in Georgia)
The only data Altbot 2.0 records:
That a request happened
How long it took to complete
What type of media it was (image, video, or audio)
What language was used
No images, no content, no personal data saved - ever.
For those who don't know, Altbot has been helping make the Fediverse more accessible by automatically generating alt-text descriptions for images. The project has grown beyond anything I imagined, now serving thousands of users across the network.
Support Altbot's Future 💝
To bring these privacy and efficiency improvements to life, I had to invest in a more powerful server than initially planned. The server costs exceeded my budget by around $900, which I've covered out of pocket. Who woulda thought that competing with a $1.98 trillion dystopian mega corporation would be expensive? Shocking, I know.
I've set up a Ko-fi fundraising goal to help recover these costs and support ongoing development: Ko-fi.com/micr0byte
Your contributions will help ensure Altbot remains:
Free for everyone
Continuously improved
Sustainably maintained
Even small donations make a huge difference and motivate me to keep enhancing accessibility across the Fediverse!
This milestone represents a commitment to ensuring accessibility doesn't come at the cost of privacy or environmental impact. I'm incredibly proud of what we've built together.
As Altbot continues to grow, I'm open to sharing more about this journey with anyone interested in accessibility, ethical AI, or Fediverse projects.
Manchmal ist man sooo eingefahren, an Gewohnheiten gebunden, daß man nicht merkt, wie sehr sich die (Konsum)Welt verbessert.
Durch Wechsel auf #Linux & #grapheneOS für privat habe ich feststellen dürfen, wie gut sich #FLOSS für Privatpersonen entwickelt. Jahrelang ignoriert.
Durch Verzicht auf #amazon habe ich festgestellt, daß sich #Onlineshopping und #Kundenservice bei vielen kleinen Shops maßgeblich verbessert hat, während amazon nachlässt.
Mein Einstieg in die Welt von Linux verlief ähnlich wie bei vielen anderen. Mein erster #Computer war ein #Schneider/#Amstrad CPC 464, gefolgt vom Commodore 64 und später dem #Amiga 500+. Diese Geräte markierten den Beginn meiner Leidenschaft für Videospiele. Anschließend kam ein PC mit einem #Intel 386 Prozessor und einem Internetanbieter von #Compuserve. Dies war mein erster Schritt in die Windows-Welt, und ich begann mit der Version 3.11. und dann W95. Der PC, den ich damals hatte, wurde hauptsächlich zum Spielen und gelegentlich zum Schreiben verwendet. Zu jener Zeit war der Zugang zu #Software natürlich nicht so umfangreich wie heute. Es gab nur eine begrenzte Auswahl an Programmen und Spielen, was die Nutzung des Computers stark beeinflusste. Dann kam Windows #XP, das damals als das ultimative #Betriebssystem galt und bis heute als eines der besten Windows-Versionen, das aus Redmond veröffentlicht wurde. Es revolutionierte die Nutzung von PCs und setzte neue Maßstäbe in der Benutzerfreundlichkeit und Stabilität. Als Nächstes kam Windows #Vista, das das komplette Gegenteil von XP darstellte. Es wurde weitgehend verhasst und war, um es milde auszudrücken, einfach nur enttäuschend. In dieser Zeit begann ich, nach einer Alternative zu suchen, da ich mit den Problemen von Vista unzufrieden war. Die erste Linux-CD, eine runde silberne Scheibe, war #knoppix Ich glaube, ich habe sie damals in einer Computerzeitschrift entdeckt. Ich versuchte, sie zum Laufen zu bringen, aber das war damals alles andere als einfach, im Vergleich zu den heutigen Möglichkeiten. Mein Glück war, dass es sich bereits um eine Live-CD handelte. Ich war überrascht, dass ich es schaffte, sie zum Laufen zu bringen, ohne Windows vorher zu starten. Ich war zunächst überrascht, wie einfach das mit der Live-CD funktionierte, und experimentierte eine Weile damit herum. Dennoch konnte ich mich nicht wirklich damit anfreunden. Also blieb ich weiterhin bei Windows, auch wenn es mich oft frustrierte. Eines Tages hatte ich Kontakt mit einer Firma, der ich ein PDF-Dokument per E-Mail zusenden sollte. Ich verschickte das gewünschte PDF und wartete auf eine Rückmeldung. Als ich nach einer Woche nichts gehört hatte, rief ich die Firma an, um nachzufragen, ob sie das Dokument erhalten hätten. Dabei wurde mir mitgeteilt, dass sie grundsätzlich keine PDFs öffnen, die per E-Mail verschickt werden, da sie mit Windows arbeiten und befürchten, dass sich Schadsoftware im PDF befinden könnte. Das war für mich der Wendepunkt: Ich entschied, Windows endgültig den Rücken zu kehren und auf Linux umzusteigen, egal mit welchen Aufwand auch immer.
📣 Announcing Altbot 2.0: The Privacy & Green Update 🔒💚
Exciting news! After months of development, Altbot 2.0 is officially launching with major improvements to privacy, efficiency, and description quality.
What's new in Altbot 2.0:
100% local AI processing for true privacy - unlike Google Gemini which saves data for training, Altbot 2.0 retains ZERO information about you or your images using the powerful Ovis2:8B model running on my custom AltTron server equipped with an A5500 GPU and expansion capacity for two additional GPUs
Full GDPR compliance with clear informed consent - I've implemented comprehensive privacy measures including transparent data handling policies, user rights protection, and minimal data collection practices that exceed GDPR requirements
Better quality descriptions across all 11 supported languages thanks to a newly developed translation layer specifically optimized for local LLM models
Significantly more energy efficient with a new feature that shows you exactly how much energy was used for each request! This efficiency comes from using a server-grade GPU optimized for lower power consumption, and 36% of the energy consumed is from clean sources mainly nuclear power (thanks to being based in Georgia)
The only data Altbot 2.0 records:
That a request happened
How long it took to complete
What type of media it was (image, video, or audio)
What language was used
No images, no content, no personal data saved - ever.
For those who don't know, Altbot has been helping make the Fediverse more accessible by automatically generating alt-text descriptions for images. The project has grown beyond anything I imagined, now serving thousands of users across the network.
Support Altbot's Future 💝
To bring these privacy and efficiency improvements to life, I had to invest in a more powerful server than initially planned. The server costs exceeded my budget by around $900, which I've covered out of pocket. Who woulda thought that competing with a $1.98 trillion dystopian mega corporation would be expensive? Shocking, I know.
I've set up a Ko-fi fundraising goal to help recover these costs and support ongoing development: Ko-fi.com/micr0byte
Your contributions will help ensure Altbot remains:
Free for everyone
Continuously improved
Sustainably maintained
Even small donations make a huge difference and motivate me to keep enhancing accessibility across the Fediverse!
This milestone represents a commitment to ensuring accessibility doesn't come at the cost of privacy or environmental impact. I'm incredibly proud of what we've built together.
As Altbot continues to grow, I'm open to sharing more about this journey with anyone interested in accessibility, ethical AI, or Fediverse projects.
The text field on the springboard anticipates what you want to do. To do this, you must enter a future time, e.g: Friday morning or tomorrow morning, optionally with a time.
The system will suggest “Add to calendar” and you can complete the entry in the calendar by tapping on it.
This year marked #Luanti’s second consecutive appearance at #FOSDEM! Held in Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM is the largest free and open source software conference in Europe. Fresh off our recent rebranding and new release cycle, FOSDEM was a fantastic opportunity to collect feedback and update people on what’s happening in the Luanti world
Do you know JOPLIN? It's a nice European alternative to apps like Evernote, Google Keep, Notion, Microsoft OneNote.
Joplin is a free, open source note-taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. You can search your notes, copy them, tag them and modify them either from the app itself or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format, which is great.
It was created by Laurent Cozic 🇫🇷 back in 2016 as an alternative to Evernote. It's cloud service is hosted in Paris, France. They focus on privacy, security and transparency.
It's open source and offline-first, so you can always access your data on the device, even when you're not connected to the internet.
It's got all the basics you'd expect, and you can also attach images, videos, audio files and PDFs to your notebooks.
There's a huge community of people who have made extra features possible with their plugins.
It's also super easy to export and import your files, which is great if you're worried about vendor lock-in.
The handy web clipper extension lets you save web pages or take screenshots in the browser and save them to your notes.
ALT text detailsA digital screenshot of Joplin, a note-taking app, displayed on both a laptop and a smartphone. The laptop screen shows a note titled "Vintage Piano Store idea" with a checklist, a table for "Meetings this week," and an image section labeled "Poster ideas" containing pictures of a colorful piano and a vinyl record player. The left sidebar contains sections for notebooks ("Personal" and "Work") and tags. The smartphone screen displays the same note in a mobile-friendly layout, showing the meeting schedule table and images. The interface has a dark theme sidebar and a light theme editor with rich text formatting and task management features.
Do you know JOPLIN? It's a nice European alternative to apps like Evernote, Google Keep, Notion, Microsoft OneNote.
Joplin is a free, open source note-taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. You can search your notes, copy them, tag them and modify them either from the app itself or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format, which is great.
It was created by Laurent Cozic 🇫🇷 back in 2016 as an alternative to Evernote. It's cloud service is hosted in Paris, France. They focus on privacy, security and transparency.
It's open source and offline-first, so you can always access your data on the device, even when you're not connected to the internet.
It's got all the basics you'd expect, and you can also attach images, videos, audio files and PDFs to your notebooks.
There's a huge community of people who have made extra features possible with their plugins.
It's also super easy to export and import your files, which is great if you're worried about vendor lock-in.
The handy web clipper extension lets you save web pages or take screenshots in the browser and save them to your notes.
ALT text detailsA digital screenshot of Joplin, a note-taking app, displayed on both a laptop and a smartphone. The laptop screen shows a note titled "Vintage Piano Store idea" with a checklist, a table for "Meetings this week," and an image section labeled "Poster ideas" containing pictures of a colorful piano and a vinyl record player. The left sidebar contains sections for notebooks ("Personal" and "Work") and tags. The smartphone screen displays the same note in a mobile-friendly layout, showing the meeting schedule table and images. The interface has a dark theme sidebar and a light theme editor with rich text formatting and task management features.
Do you know JOPLIN? It's a nice European alternative to apps like Evernote, Google Keep, Notion, Microsoft OneNote.
Joplin is a free, open source note-taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. You can search your notes, copy them, tag them and modify them either from the app itself or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format, which is great.
It was created by Laurent Cozic 🇫🇷 back in 2016 as an alternative to Evernote. It's cloud service is hosted in Paris, France. They focus on privacy, security and transparency.
It's open source and offline-first, so you can always access your data on the device, even when you're not connected to the internet.
It's got all the basics you'd expect, and you can also attach images, videos, audio files and PDFs to your notebooks.
There's a huge community of people who have made extra features possible with their plugins.
It's also super easy to export and import your files, which is great if you're worried about vendor lock-in.
The handy web clipper extension lets you save web pages or take screenshots in the browser and save them to your notes.
ALT text detailsA digital screenshot of Joplin, a note-taking app, displayed on both a laptop and a smartphone. The laptop screen shows a note titled "Vintage Piano Store idea" with a checklist, a table for "Meetings this week," and an image section labeled "Poster ideas" containing pictures of a colorful piano and a vinyl record player. The left sidebar contains sections for notebooks ("Personal" and "Work") and tags. The smartphone screen displays the same note in a mobile-friendly layout, showing the meeting schedule table and images. The interface has a dark theme sidebar and a light theme editor with rich text formatting and task management features.
Softwaremonopole sind teuer und stehen dem #Datenschutz im Weg. Deshalb setzt die Verwaltung in Schleswig-Holstein zukünftig auf #OpenSourceSoftware. Seit kurzem können wir im Gericht #LibreOffice nutzen, Ende des Jahres wird es Pflicht. Der Umstieg fiel uns leicht, da wir es auch zu Hause nutzen. Und von unseren Kolleg:innen hat auch noch keine:r gemurrt.
ALT text detailsCall for Projects!
Outreachy has extended the project submission deadline for the June 2025 cohort.
Mentoring communities who have applied to participate in the coming cohort are encouraged to submit their project.
I am not a code contributor on open source projects. I will be at some point, but that's beside the point here, I just lack perspective.
Is there a clear answer on this: when an open source project is backed by a company with dedicated developers: whose responsibility is it to make continuous or major changes beyond bug fixes and feature requests?
I'm thinking like architectural changes, fundamental stuff. Is there any kind of common practice in this realm? #foss#opensource
Sharing some cursors. I modified the Hackneyed cursors to be high contrast and disable the animation, available as monochrome or multicolour. They use the Windows 10 and 11 default cursor colours. You can also pick any colours you want if you build from source (Codeberg).
You can download directly from my website or OpenDesktop.org.
Chez Worteks, nous soutenons les projets #OpenSource qui façonnent le web libre, c'est pourquoi nous sommes fiers de présenter le développement d'un plugin pour la plateforme de vidéos décentralisée #PeerTube.
Chez Worteks, nous soutenons les projets #OpenSource qui façonnent le web libre, c'est pourquoi nous sommes fiers de présenter le développement d'un plugin pour la plateforme de vidéos décentralisée #PeerTube.
Cette fois, notre site semble bel et bien disponible… et on dirait qu'il tient la charge. Il sera un outil permettant de rendre compte de nos activités, et un point d'entrée pour les collectivités qui souhaiteraient nous rejoindre.
ALT text detailsCall for Projects!
Outreachy has extended the project submission deadline for the June 2025 cohort.
Mentoring communities who have applied to participate in the coming cohort are encouraged to submit their project.
I have to say I’m very pleased to see that the Mono project found a new home with the Wine project and has a release out! #opensource#freesoftware#mono
I have to say I’m very pleased to see that the Mono project found a new home with the Wine project and has a release out! #opensource#freesoftware#mono
I have to say I’m very pleased to see that the Mono project found a new home with the Wine project and has a release out! #opensource#freesoftware#mono
Cette fois, notre site semble bel et bien disponible… et on dirait qu'il tient la charge. Il sera un outil permettant de rendre compte de nos activités, et un point d'entrée pour les collectivités qui souhaiteraient nous rejoindre.
Leaky buckets are commonly used in communication networks for rate limiting, traffic shaping and bandwidth control, but are equally useful in other domains requiring similar constraints.
A Leaky Bucket is a managed counter with an enforced maximum value (i.e. bucket capacity). The counter is incremented for each a new event to check if it can/should be processed. If the bucket capacity has already been reached, the bucket will report an overflow, which we can then handle accordingly (e.g. by dropping or queuing events). The bucket also has a configurable time interval at which the counter is decreasing (aka the "leaking" behavior) until it reaches zero again (i.e. until the bucket is empty). Altogether, this setup can be utilized to ensure both an average rate, whilst also supporting temporary bursting in a controlled fashion...
Related, I've also updated/simplified the rate limiter interceptor in https://thi.ng/server to utilize this new package...
just under TWO WEEKS until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine: march 15, 2025!
☂️ Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.
🔎 we're looking for 1,500 to 4,000 word articles about anything for that audience!
* internet history * personal websites & blogs * #accessibility on the #indieweb * finding inspiration for a #blog * #webdesign trends (current or old) * running from the #enshittification of the web * lessons or post-mortems from web projects * news or overviews of #opensource projects * #privacy on the indieweb
🔍 also looking for any #art submissions centered around the web, coding, internet culture, and digital art!
if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," we probably want to run it!
✨ you can have your article submitted as text and images only OR you can code a whole webpage that helps tell your story!
🌊 if you're interested in learning more, sign up for our email list or check out the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!
🙏 (please boost if you can! <3 getting the word out helps so much!)
Thank you so much to the volunteers who made #SCaLE22x@socallinuxexpo possible, to the wonderful speakers, and of course to the fantastic audience who kept us on our toes with their questions. As my little token of gratitude ♥️ I am giving away 5 eBooks of "PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them"! Please reply to this post, and I will use a random picker.
Thank you so much to the volunteers who made #SCaLE22x@socallinuxexpo possible, to the wonderful speakers, and of course to the fantastic audience who kept us on our toes with their questions. As my little token of gratitude ♥️ I am giving away 5 eBooks of "PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them"! Please reply to this post, and I will use a random picker.
The #opensource project #Stellarium was a big part of my MAEd final project in 2008, where I focused on #science education with #FOSS. So glad to see the app thriving and with a web browser version! See when you might get a glimpse at the alignment of 7 planets this week 👇 https://stellarium-web.org
I had to vectorize an illustration I have made for a client, and first tried Illustrator, with really poor results (as you can see below), and this despite trying every possible combination of settings. I just never looked even halfway decent. Then I tried #inkscape and to my surprise it produced an excellent result, even with the default settings! Ok… I shouldn't be surprised actually 😀
ALT text detailsAn image showing the black&white tracing result through both Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape.
The left image is all jagged, and lacks both precision and clarity. The right image, produced with Inkscape looks almost like the original.
This year marked #Luanti’s second consecutive appearance at #FOSDEM! Held in Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM is the largest free and open source software conference in Europe. Fresh off our recent rebranding and new release cycle, FOSDEM was a fantastic opportunity to collect feedback and update people on what’s happening in the Luanti world
ALT text detailsMeme referencing Linux: A man in a suit asks a stylized penguin (representing Linux) "What is life?". The penguin replies, "Everything is file," a core concept in Linux operating systems.
ALT text detailsMeme referencing Linux: A man in a suit asks a stylized penguin (representing Linux) "What is life?". The penguin replies, "Everything is file," a core concept in Linux operating systems.
ALT text detailsA grey and black striped tabby cat, sitting very straight on the top of a square scratching post pillar. He's looking straight ahead, with an inscrutable look on his face.
Let me take you #linux people on a little journey. Right now, there is a war. A war between those who fear the future of #nix and #NixOS and those who are apparently not getting the point.
To call something #opensource can mean so much nowadays. When it comes to the idea of an enterprise nixpkgs vs the open source or "community" #nixpkgs, I think it's time to make it clear:
#DeterminateSystems wants to have it's own #RHEL. Functions are decoupled from nix for a reason.
Here is this week's #Linux & #OpenSource News video, in which AMD wins at open source, again, but their latest GPUs prove to leave some performance on the table on Linux, GNOME adds a lot of Wayland support to GNOME 48, and EA releases the source code for Command & Conquer games:
Here is this week's #Linux & #OpenSource News video, in which AMD wins at open source, again, but their latest GPUs prove to leave some performance on the table on Linux, GNOME adds a lot of Wayland support to GNOME 48, and EA releases the source code for Command & Conquer games:
I currently feel very 🥰 - very much so from getting back into #OpenSource, and able to begin coding for real this time.
One big change that made this happen, was that I last year - after 12+ years fight finally got diagnosed.
I'm 57 next month and since I got access to help, that requires diagnoses, from mid August -> my life has changed to the better so much, so fast (keeps accelerating) and in ways that is quite a journey that just keeps going.
Open source does not always mean it is community friendly and open to community contributions. Some software is open sourced and in the public domain but does not accept (or rarely accepts) contributions back from the community. I see many naturally think open source means open and that they can always contribute their work back. #opensource#foss
Bonjour Fediverse ! 👋 Moi c'est Ben 36y, développeur et passionné d'open source basé en France.
👨💻 Mon quotidien technique : Golang, Node.js, Vue.js, Python, Docker et Linux. 📚 J'écris sur https://devbyben.fr/blog et je m'intéresse aussi à l'impression 3D et l'électronique.
Ravi de rejoindre cette communauté pour échanger sur le développement et les technologies libres !
Die digitale Souveränität öffentlicher Verwaltungen steht auf dem Spiel, wenn OSS-Beschaffung ausschließlich nach Preis erfolgt.
Qualitätsorientierte B-Kriterien wie Upstream-Entwicklung, Community-Engagement und langfristige Sicherheitskonzepte schaffen nachhaltige IT-Landschaften und verhindern Abhängigkeiten.
Die digitale Souveränität öffentlicher Verwaltungen steht auf dem Spiel, wenn OSS-Beschaffung ausschließlich nach Preis erfolgt.
Qualitätsorientierte B-Kriterien wie Upstream-Entwicklung, Community-Engagement und langfristige Sicherheitskonzepte schaffen nachhaltige IT-Landschaften und verhindern Abhängigkeiten.
I had to vectorize an illustration I have made for a client, and first tried Illustrator, with really poor results (as you can see below), and this despite trying every possible combination of settings. I just never looked even halfway decent. Then I tried #inkscape and to my surprise it produced an excellent result, even with the default settings! Ok… I shouldn't be surprised actually 😀
ALT text detailsAn image showing the black&white tracing result through both Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape.
The left image is all jagged, and lacks both precision and clarity. The right image, produced with Inkscape looks almost like the original.
I'm pretty certain I saw a post some time last year about a new #OpenSource alternative to MAXQDA. I thought I had bookmarked it, but evidently not. Can someone help me out? Thanks! #QualitativeAnalysis#Research
Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.
The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.
They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!
Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:
GNU Emacs: new critical remote shell injection vulnerability.
Red Hat discovered a command injection flaw in the text editor Emacs. It allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute any command on your computer. The vulnerability is activated when you visit a malicious website or link.
Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.
The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.
They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!
Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:
Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.
The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.
They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!
Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:
Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.
The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.
They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!
Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:
Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.
The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.
They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!
Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:
Mamy przyjemność ogłosić, że Piotr "ViruS" Sikora wystąpi jako Prelegent na 19. Sesji Linuksowej z prelekcją zatytułowaną „Fediwersum: kulisy administracji największych polskich instancji Mastodona, PeerTube, Pixelfed i Mobilizon”.
❗ Kamila Drzewiecka prelegentką 19. Sesji Linuksowej ❗
❓ Kim jest prelegentka? @markasspandi to nerdka z zamiłowaniem do komputerów. Podczas prelekcji "Sztuka tworzenia koła od nowa" postara się odpowiedzieć na pytanie "Po co to robisz, skoro już istnieje?".
Bilety oraz dodatkowe informacje dostępne są w linkach poniżej. ⬇️
❗ Kamila Drzewiecka prelegentką 19. Sesji Linuksowej ❗
❓ Kim jest prelegentka? @markasspandi to nerdka z zamiłowaniem do komputerów. Podczas prelekcji "Sztuka tworzenia koła od nowa" postara się odpowiedzieć na pytanie "Po co to robisz, skoro już istnieje?".
Bilety oraz dodatkowe informacje dostępne są w linkach poniżej. ⬇️
I keep thinking about setting up a media server on our network but dread all the work it entails. Regardless, here's an open-source media player if you're going that route.
I keep thinking about setting up a media server on our network but dread all the work it entails. Regardless, here's an open-source media player if you're going that route.
We will post and boost content to encourage people to replace their non-EU products and services with European, #selfhosted or open source alternatives.
Tag us if you want to recommend something!
If you're a EU company, follow us and we'll follow you back and share your product with the community.
Start buying European products to boycott bully countries and foreign monopolies.
Or maybe you just want to boost the local economy?
Buying European products has many benefits, including supporting local entrepreneurs, creating jobs, and increasing money circulation within your country or neighbour country.
It's also more environmentally friendly!
When the local economy is strong, everyone benefits.
We will post and boost content to encourage people to replace their non-EU products and services with European, #selfhosted or open source alternatives.
Tag us if you want to recommend something!
If you're a EU company, follow us and we'll follow you back and share your product with the community.
Start buying European products to boycott bully countries and foreign monopolies.
Or maybe you just want to boost the local economy?
Buying European products has many benefits, including supporting local entrepreneurs, creating jobs, and increasing money circulation within your country or neighbour country.
It's also more environmentally friendly!
When the local economy is strong, everyone benefits.
This free and #opensource collection of #solarpunk#rpg adventures includes the three adventures released already, along with our final bonus fourth adventure. Our initial content collection is now complete!
Ich suche einen Raum im Raum Köln, um Interessierten **Linux** zu installieren und zu zeigen, wie man es nutzt. 💻 Der Raum sollte Platz für einige Personen bieten und idealerweise WLAN und Stromanschlüsse haben.
Hast du einen Raum oder eine Idee? 💡 Melde dich! 📩
Ich suche einen Raum im Raum Köln, um Interessierten **Linux** zu installieren und zu zeigen, wie man es nutzt. 💻 Der Raum sollte Platz für einige Personen bieten und idealerweise WLAN und Stromanschlüsse haben.
Hast du einen Raum oder eine Idee? 💡 Melde dich! 📩
ALT text detailsA GitHub Support discussion. The discussion is too long to put in alt-text, but to summarize, "something" happened to an account of someone who reported issues to my project and GitHub has silently hidden all those issues. Support basically told me they would not help restore the data, that this is by design, and that I should open a feature request.
"The destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage has happened, and therefore it can happen again. We are in the middle of that happening, whether it is caused by human action or natural causes…Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC) is creating an alternative #infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge…Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear. Our archive is built according to the principles of #FAIR and #CARE, based on open technologies and standards, and resilient against loss via meaningfully distributed storage…Everyone, from individuals to institutions, can participate by accessing, contributing, and supporting these archival infrastructures."
"In response to the #Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of federal websites, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (#EDGI) has relaunched its Federal Environmental Web Tracker…The… Tracker makes records of significant changes to federal environmental websites publicly available in a searchable database…Since the first Trump administration, EDGI has monitored thousands of federal environmental webpages. Partners at the #InternetArchive download these webpages every day, and EDGI’s #OpenSource software compares versions of these webpages to identify differences."
Bonjour Fediverse ! 👋 Moi c'est Ben 36y, développeur et passionné d'open source basé en France.
👨💻 Mon quotidien technique : Golang, Node.js, Vue.js, Python, Docker et Linux. 📚 J'écris sur https://devbyben.fr/blog et je m'intéresse aussi à l'impression 3D et l'électronique.
Ravi de rejoindre cette communauté pour échanger sur le développement et les technologies libres !
China plans to issue a policy to encourage the use of RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time. The policy is being drafted by eight government bodies, including the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. China has been embracing RISC-V in recent years due to its lower costs and geopolitical neutrality.
just under TWO WEEKS until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine: march 15, 2025!
☂️ Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.
🔎 we're looking for 1,500 to 4,000 word articles about anything for that audience!
* internet history * personal websites & blogs * #accessibility on the #indieweb * finding inspiration for a #blog * #webdesign trends (current or old) * running from the #enshittification of the web * lessons or post-mortems from web projects * news or overviews of #opensource projects * #privacy on the indieweb
🔍 also looking for any #art submissions centered around the web, coding, internet culture, and digital art!
if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," we probably want to run it!
✨ you can have your article submitted as text and images only OR you can code a whole webpage that helps tell your story!
🌊 if you're interested in learning more, sign up for our email list or check out the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!
🙏 (please boost if you can! <3 getting the word out helps so much!)
We are very excited that the FreeBSD Project has once again been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. This is the Project's 21st year participating in the program, and we're thrilled to continue in 2025.
China plans to issue a policy to encourage the use of RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time. The policy is being drafted by eight government bodies, including the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. China has been embracing RISC-V in recent years due to its lower costs and geopolitical neutrality.
China plans to issue a policy to encourage the use of RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time. The policy is being drafted by eight government bodies, including the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. China has been embracing RISC-V in recent years due to its lower costs and geopolitical neutrality.
This was one of my first thoughts when playing through Museum of All Things: turn it into a speed run! 🤣
I’ll definitely be following along, this sounds chaotic in the best way. If you’re on Linux, grab the game off of Flathub; otherwise, head to may.as/moat for other platforms.
ALT text detailsWiki-Racing Tournament: Monday 17th March
the museum of all things is a virtual museum created by maya claire
it turns wikipedia into a traversible 3d space: a place... for racing
MOAT The Museum of All Things
Run Through Wikipedia Desperately For Two Hours
On Monday 17th March at 8pm GMT at least one dozen streamers will compete to use this revolutionary software for a wiki-racing tournament, attempting to use the museum to navigate to semi-random articles before the time is over. This race is open to everyone. You too are welcome to compete provided you livestream your attempt on twitch dot tv.
Grasp Glory Amidst A Labyrinth Of Links
full info & rules: seanmorl.com/wikirace
We are very excited that the FreeBSD Project has once again been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. This is the Project's 21st year participating in the program, and we're thrilled to continue in 2025.
today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!
Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.
🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!
if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!
you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.
if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!
In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.
The latest update brings a more user-friendly Account Manager, smoother App Lounge, and key security fixes. Plus, bug fixes for devices like Fairphone 3, Pixel 5, & OnePlus Nord. 🔧✨
Check out the full release notes and explore all the improvements!
In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.
In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.
Bunch of new followers today, welcome! I guess an #introduction is due, however I prefer to keep some stuff to myself. I'm someone who works with computers and has an affinity towards keeping teams cyber secure in their environments. I toot what I find interesting, I agree with, and once in a while they will be in different languages I speak or have a level of understanding. #FOSS, #OSINT, #Opensource, #fediverse, #cybersecurity#commonsense is something you frequently find here.
In den letzten Monaten haben viele Menschen gefordert, die EU sollte doch mal bitte offene Alternativen zu amerikanischen Social-Media-Diensten fördern. Die Sache ist nur: Das tut sie schon lange. ActivityPub, Mastodon und PeerTube haben alle von einem EU-Förderprogramm profitiert. Für @netzpolitik_feed haben wir Michiel Leenaars interviewt, der das EU-Geld aus diesem Programm verteilt.
just under TWO WEEKS until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine: march 15, 2025!
☂️ Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.
🔎 we're looking for 1,500 to 4,000 word articles about anything for that audience!
* internet history * personal websites & blogs * #accessibility on the #indieweb * finding inspiration for a #blog * #webdesign trends (current or old) * running from the #enshittification of the web * lessons or post-mortems from web projects * news or overviews of #opensource projects * #privacy on the indieweb
🔍 also looking for any #art submissions centered around the web, coding, internet culture, and digital art!
if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," we probably want to run it!
✨ you can have your article submitted as text and images only OR you can code a whole webpage that helps tell your story!
🌊 if you're interested in learning more, sign up for our email list or check out the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!
🙏 (please boost if you can! <3 getting the word out helps so much!)
I don't think its an illusion. #Opensource is increasingly breaking into the mainstream, in various ways. You don't mention #bluesky :-) but it *has* been a massive success.
I am convinced that even the much joked about #linux desktop will see its infamous year: its just the perfect platform for user-centered, local / private ML/AI etc.
The thing is, while winning *is* inevitable it doesn't mean we have a concrete timescale. So much depends on the state of a crazy world.
It may be recency bias, but Blender winning and getting a shoutout at the Oscars. Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Signal getting referenced on Last Week Tonight. Dare I say it's the year of Open Source?
In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.
In den letzten Monaten haben viele Menschen gefordert, die EU sollte doch mal bitte offene Alternativen zu amerikanischen Social-Media-Diensten fördern. Die Sache ist nur: Das tut sie schon lange. ActivityPub, Mastodon und PeerTube haben alle von einem EU-Förderprogramm profitiert. Für @netzpolitik_feed haben wir Michiel Leenaars interviewt, der das EU-Geld aus diesem Programm verteilt.
🦫 Go 1.24 boosts WebAssembly with go:wasmexport! Export Go functions to Wasm & build WASI reactors with ease. Can’t wait to see what the community builds! ⚡🔧
🦫 Go 1.24 boosts WebAssembly with go:wasmexport! Export Go functions to Wasm & build WASI reactors with ease. Can’t wait to see what the community builds! ⚡🔧
Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?
Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?
Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?
Smokeping has its own web interface. It should be feasible to create fping with influxdb/Prometheus and create graphs in Grafana as well. But for now I just setuped https://smokeping.melroy.org/
Mein Einstieg in die Welt von Linux verlief ähnlich wie bei vielen anderen. Mein erster #Computer war ein #Schneider/#Amstrad CPC 464, gefolgt vom Commodore 64 und später dem #Amiga 500+. Diese Geräte markierten den Beginn meiner Leidenschaft für Videospiele. Anschließend kam ein PC mit einem #Intel 386 Prozessor und einem Internetanbieter von #Compuserve. Dies war mein erster Schritt in die Windows-Welt, und ich begann mit der Version 3.11. und dann W95. Der PC, den ich damals hatte, wurde hauptsächlich zum Spielen und gelegentlich zum Schreiben verwendet. Zu jener Zeit war der Zugang zu #Software natürlich nicht so umfangreich wie heute. Es gab nur eine begrenzte Auswahl an Programmen und Spielen, was die Nutzung des Computers stark beeinflusste. Dann kam Windows #XP, das damals als das ultimative #Betriebssystem galt und bis heute als eines der besten Windows-Versionen, das aus Redmond veröffentlicht wurde. Es revolutionierte die Nutzung von PCs und setzte neue Maßstäbe in der Benutzerfreundlichkeit und Stabilität. Als Nächstes kam Windows #Vista, das das komplette Gegenteil von XP darstellte. Es wurde weitgehend verhasst und war, um es milde auszudrücken, einfach nur enttäuschend. In dieser Zeit begann ich, nach einer Alternative zu suchen, da ich mit den Problemen von Vista unzufrieden war. Die erste Linux-CD, eine runde silberne Scheibe, war #knoppix Ich glaube, ich habe sie damals in einer Computerzeitschrift entdeckt. Ich versuchte, sie zum Laufen zu bringen, aber das war damals alles andere als einfach, im Vergleich zu den heutigen Möglichkeiten. Mein Glück war, dass es sich bereits um eine Live-CD handelte. Ich war überrascht, dass ich es schaffte, sie zum Laufen zu bringen, ohne Windows vorher zu starten. Ich war zunächst überrascht, wie einfach das mit der Live-CD funktionierte, und experimentierte eine Weile damit herum. Dennoch konnte ich mich nicht wirklich damit anfreunden. Also blieb ich weiterhin bei Windows, auch wenn es mich oft frustrierte. Eines Tages hatte ich Kontakt mit einer Firma, der ich ein PDF-Dokument per E-Mail zusenden sollte. Ich verschickte das gewünschte PDF und wartete auf eine Rückmeldung. Als ich nach einer Woche nichts gehört hatte, rief ich die Firma an, um nachzufragen, ob sie das Dokument erhalten hätten. Dabei wurde mir mitgeteilt, dass sie grundsätzlich keine PDFs öffnen, die per E-Mail verschickt werden, da sie mit Windows arbeiten und befürchten, dass sich Schadsoftware im PDF befinden könnte. Das war für mich der Wendepunkt: Ich entschied, Windows endgültig den Rücken zu kehren und auf Linux umzusteigen, egal mit welchen Aufwand auch immer.
Krita is a professional FREE and gratis software painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
What not everybody knows, is that Krita originates from Calligra, a KDE project.
Calligra Suite is an office and graphic art suite by KDE. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, vector graphics, and editing databases.
We’re building Socialfolio, a platform where you can showcase your social profiles in a customizable, widget-like manner—with a strong focus on the Fediverse and open-source
We’re building Socialfolio, a platform where you can showcase your social profiles in a customizable, widget-like manner—with a strong focus on the Fediverse and open-source
GNU Emacs: new critical remote shell injection vulnerability.
Red Hat discovered a command injection flaw in the text editor Emacs. It allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute any command on your computer. The vulnerability is activated when you visit a malicious website or link.
The latest update brings a more user-friendly Account Manager, smoother App Lounge, and key security fixes. Plus, bug fixes for devices like Fairphone 3, Pixel 5, & OnePlus Nord. 🔧✨
Check out the full release notes and explore all the improvements!
The latest update brings a more user-friendly Account Manager, smoother App Lounge, and key security fixes. Plus, bug fixes for devices like Fairphone 3, Pixel 5, & OnePlus Nord. 🔧✨
Check out the full release notes and explore all the improvements!
Mozilla's new direction of Firefox is scary. They seem to forget that the core audience is using Firefox for privacy and security and not for AI features. It is so stupid that they are following big tech. It is time to fork out FF and sponsor the development using donations. No AI or anything else was added to the FF.
Mozilla's new direction of Firefox is scary. They seem to forget that the core audience is using Firefox for privacy and security and not for AI features. It is so stupid that they are following big tech. It is time to fork out FF and sponsor the development using donations. No AI or anything else was added to the FF.
Museum of All Things is now available for Linux via Flathub! This unique open source game was recently featured on @godotengine blog, and I just couldn’t resist helping make it available to more folks via the best Linux app store. :)
Wow. It's not often that you see corporate flunkies declare publicly and proudly how little they understand #opensource. It makes me wonder how much #puppet has ever contributed back to the projects that they build their product on top of, like @JRuby for example.
Oh wait, no I already know that one. It's zero.
ALT text detailsSlack post stating that "puppet continues to live in all sorts of ways. It's just that we're asking open source users to pay their fair share if they want us to provide hardened binaries and SLAs going forward. We think it is a fair trade off."
Dropped some new features for selfh.st/apps this morning that include updated bookmarking functionality, custom views for sharing with others, and new sort options (project age).
Check it out and let me know if you have any feedback!
We would like to ask you to donate a few bucks so that we can continue to develop Pixelix at full speed and also start new projects to help making the Fediverse an awesome place. We already have some cool ideas in mind. 💡
You already contributed to #Vala? - Code - Bindings - Documentation - User Support - Issue triaging - Reviewing merge requests - Testing nightly version - Social Media and advocacy
Any of the above? (Or something else we forgot) If yes and its more than one time, consider applying for a #GNOME Foundation membership! It is not difficult!
It took a long time to sort through things, make connections, and get a handle on the ecosystem, but I feel like I’m in a good place to start building an open source game-making community. 🎮
We run learning programs at @EndlessOS where we help teach kids how to contribute to an open source game (and a bunch of the skills that come along with that), but right now there’s not really a community to *invite them into* after the fact. I want to fix that.
Hey everyone, what's cooking in the open-source universe? 🤯 I just stumbled upon something that's seriously mind-blowing.
So, there's this Python library pretending to be a music tool (automslc), but get this – it's actually illegally downloading songs from Deezer! And the worst part? It turns your computer into an accomplice in a huge music piracy operation. Seriously, a digital pirate cove. 🏴☠️
And then there's this npm saga with @ton-wallet/create... Crypto wallet emptied, just like that! 💸
The moral of the story? Open source rocks, but blindly trusting everything is a recipe for disaster. Always double-check those dependencies! Automated scans are cool, but a real penetration test? That's pure gold. 🥇
Clients are always so appreciative when we can spot and fix this kind of stuff beforehand!
Now, I'm curious: What are your go-to methods for keeping your codebase squeaky clean and secure? Any tips or tricks you'd like to share?
ALT text detailsi think it’s interesting how programmers will see someone taking their code and welcome it yet most other industries see it as the worst thing that could ever happen.
Dropped some new features for selfh.st/apps this morning that include updated bookmarking functionality, custom views for sharing with others, and new sort options (project age).
Check it out and let me know if you have any feedback!
Something that brings together a GitHub-like tool with a Figma-like tool would be good for open-source software.
It would not only make it easier for software-developers and UI-designers & UX-researchers to work together — but it could make it easier for them to find each other.
The vast majority of open-source applications either lack good UI & UX or are copies of other things, because — there was no one with a UI or UX background on the project.
I randomly came across this short, very well-produced little explainer of open source and I really like it! It makes me want to have all the time and resources in the world to produce stuff like this… that’s also openly licensed itself.
Tiny Crate, a third open source Godot Engine game from the same developer, is all the way down at 224. Not terrible among thousands of apps… but we can get it trending higher. :D
You can check out its nice new icon from @micahilbery by clicking through, too. Plus I hear there’s a new update coming out soon that will add more save slots plus local high scores…
The #opensource project #Stellarium was a big part of my MAEd final project in 2008, where I focused on #science education with #FOSS. So glad to see the app thriving and with a web browser version! See when you might get a glimpse at the alignment of 7 planets this week 👇 https://stellarium-web.org
Did you know? The largest package repository for Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS {certified Unix}, *BSD and friends packages) award goes to Nix, AUR (Arch & co), Debian & co, and FreeBSD. Here is the ranking. https://repology.org/
ALT text detailsThis image provides top repositories by total number of packaged projects for Unix, *BSD,, macOS and Linux systems. The ranking is as follows with number of packages:
1. nix (nixpkgs unstable) - 102721
2. AUR - 76329
3. Debian+derivs (Raspbian Testing) - 42425
4. FreeBSD Ports - 31548
5. GNU Guix - 29966
6. Fedora (Fedora 40) - 24210
7. Rosa (Rosa 2021.1) - 19632
8. ALT Sisyphus - 19434
9. Gentoo (LiGurOS develop) - 19278
10. MacPorts - 19209
Source https://repology.org/
Did you know? The largest package repository for Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS {certified Unix}, *BSD and friends packages) award goes to Nix, AUR (Arch & co), Debian & co, and FreeBSD. Here is the ranking. https://repology.org/
ALT text detailsThis image provides top repositories by total number of packaged projects for Unix, *BSD,, macOS and Linux systems. The ranking is as follows with number of packages:
1. nix (nixpkgs unstable) - 102721
2. AUR - 76329
3. Debian+derivs (Raspbian Testing) - 42425
4. FreeBSD Ports - 31548
5. GNU Guix - 29966
6. Fedora (Fedora 40) - 24210
7. Rosa (Rosa 2021.1) - 19632
8. ALT Sisyphus - 19434
9. Gentoo (LiGurOS develop) - 19278
10. MacPorts - 19209
Source https://repology.org/
today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!
Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.
🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!
if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!
you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.
if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!
today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!
Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.
🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!
if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!
you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.
if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!
Open Food Facts is an open-source app that allows you to scan food items and discover their nutritional value.
Open Food Facts is a non-profit association of volunteers. 25.000+ contributors like you have added 1.7 million + products from 150 countries using our Android, iPhone or Windows Phone app or their camera to scan barcodes and upload pictures of products and their labels.
Open Food Facts is an open-source app that allows you to scan food items and discover their nutritional value.
Open Food Facts is a non-profit association of volunteers. 25.000+ contributors like you have added 1.7 million + products from 150 countries using our Android, iPhone or Windows Phone app or their camera to scan barcodes and upload pictures of products and their labels.
Introductory post on this new GotoSocial account implemented for $3.75/month hosting from knthost.com
I'm a bit of a grumpy old man who still loves hiking in the mountains and playing about with technology. My Mastodon site details my current mountain adventures whilst this #GotoSocial account will talk about my advances (or otherwise!) with #Linux, #de-Googling, #Reticulum, #LoRa, #OpenSource, #FOSS etc. Also enjoy #webdevelopment using #eleventy#11ty
Introductory post on this new GotoSocial account implemented for $3.75/month hosting from knthost.com
I'm a bit of a grumpy old man who still loves hiking in the mountains and playing about with technology. My Mastodon site details my current mountain adventures whilst this #GotoSocial account will talk about my advances (or otherwise!) with #Linux, #de-Googling, #Reticulum, #LoRa, #OpenSource, #FOSS etc. Also enjoy #webdevelopment using #eleventy#11ty
I was so inspired by @sophie's excellent write-up that I wrote one of my own. It mostly echoes what she said, since we share a similar history with the web, but I wanted to add my own perspective.
I was so inspired by @sophie's excellent write-up that I wrote one of my own. It mostly echoes what she said, since we share a similar history with the web, but I wanted to add my own perspective.
So jetzt will ich sehen, was #Mastodon in Sachen #Followerpower kann. Wir suchen in der #Staatskanzlei der @landesregierung beim @CIO volle juristische Unterstützung! Das ist im Übrigen der Bereich, der sich unter anderem darum kümmert, dass es bei der Umsetzung der #OpenSource Strategie mit rechten Dingen zugeht.
Bewerben oder weiterverteilen. Nur lesen gilt nicht. Bei Fragen gern per Mail oder hier per DM.
ALT text detailsAn image taken of John O'Nolan's presentation at FOSDEM. It shows an AI generated astronaut pug with the title The Fediverse.
ALT text detailsThe Newsmast Foundation team. Freddie, in a dark leather jacket and gold jumper. Saskia, in a black jumper and blue jeans. Michael, in black rimmed glasses and a black quarter-zip jumper.
ALT text detailsA collection of stickers placed for people to pick up on a table.
ALT text detailsA bandstand in a park under blue skies and trees. People can be seen enjoying the open space.
So jetzt will ich sehen, was #Mastodon in Sachen #Followerpower kann. Wir suchen in der #Staatskanzlei der @landesregierung beim @CIO volle juristische Unterstützung! Das ist im Übrigen der Bereich, der sich unter anderem darum kümmert, dass es bei der Umsetzung der #OpenSource Strategie mit rechten Dingen zugeht.
Bewerben oder weiterverteilen. Nur lesen gilt nicht. Bei Fragen gern per Mail oder hier per DM.
@waag is looking for testers of open source software & @murena Fairphones* from these groups:
• Young adults (18 - 26 years old) • Civil servants/working in the public sector • Mobile software developers • Professionals working at a humanitarian organisation
❕*Please check the full text that is not 100 % clear on whether it's Murena Fairphones only or other Murena phones as well.
ALT text detailsAn image taken of John O'Nolan's presentation at FOSDEM. It shows an AI generated astronaut pug with the title The Fediverse.
ALT text detailsThe Newsmast Foundation team. Freddie, in a dark leather jacket and gold jumper. Saskia, in a black jumper and blue jeans. Michael, in black rimmed glasses and a black quarter-zip jumper.
ALT text detailsA collection of stickers placed for people to pick up on a table.
ALT text detailsA bandstand in a park under blue skies and trees. People can be seen enjoying the open space.
It's so wild that people in 2025 still say things like "we need to leave politics out they are divisive".
My beautiful #opensource#foss4g people, everything geographical, everything touching computers, is a political act. Code is political. Maps are political, data are political. Claiming to be apolitical is a political stance.
Is politics divisive? Intrinsically no! It's a forum of ideas about how we live. Only divisive when ego and greed and short termism is dominant.
@waag is looking for testers of open source software & @murena Fairphones* from these groups:
• Young adults (18 - 26 years old) • Civil servants/working in the public sector • Mobile software developers • Professionals working at a humanitarian organisation
❕*Please check the full text that is not 100 % clear on whether it's Murena Fairphones only or other Murena phones as well.
Olá!👋 I've just blogged about the recent developments in the Chromium Ozone/Wayland project, which is getting closer to officially shipping to Linux Desktop users.
Huge thanks to @igalia and our sponsors for making it possible ❤️
It's so wild that people in 2025 still say things like "we need to leave politics out they are divisive".
My beautiful #opensource#foss4g people, everything geographical, everything touching computers, is a political act. Code is political. Maps are political, data are political. Claiming to be apolitical is a political stance.
Is politics divisive? Intrinsically no! It's a forum of ideas about how we live. Only divisive when ego and greed and short termism is dominant.
All the speed, power, and customization of Thunderbird in a short and sweet video perfect for viewing (and sharing) on your phone. Help us spread the word to bring Thunderbird everywhere! Thanks again to @freehive for their amazing work.
I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'
As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩
ALT text detailsA black & white photo of a train wreck. Illustrative of Mozilla's current situation & strategy.
The photo is taken from Flickr Commons (https://flic.kr/p/2q9qQ7G) & was uploaded by the State Library of Queensland. You can find the original at the State Library of Queensland (http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59637)
The metadata states:
Train accident at Alpha Creek, 1941
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Alpha, Queensland.
Description: This incident occurred on 08 April 1941 at Alpha on the Central Railway, inland from Rockhampton. The bridge across Alpha Creek was under repair at the time and collapsed as the second division of the train went across. The crash killed the driver, George Condon, and the fireman, Ernie Yanke.
The locomotive was no. 147 of the C16 class and its weight was 80.5 tons. Before salvage work could be undertaken the creek flooded and the locomotive collapsed into the water, being later recovered and taken to Rockhampton where it was repaired and put back into operation.
I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'
As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩
ALT text detailsA black & white photo of a train wreck. Illustrative of Mozilla's current situation & strategy.
The photo is taken from Flickr Commons (https://flic.kr/p/2q9qQ7G) & was uploaded by the State Library of Queensland. You can find the original at the State Library of Queensland (http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59637)
The metadata states:
Train accident at Alpha Creek, 1941
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Alpha, Queensland.
Description: This incident occurred on 08 April 1941 at Alpha on the Central Railway, inland from Rockhampton. The bridge across Alpha Creek was under repair at the time and collapsed as the second division of the train went across. The crash killed the driver, George Condon, and the fireman, Ernie Yanke.
The locomotive was no. 147 of the C16 class and its weight was 80.5 tons. Before salvage work could be undertaken the creek flooded and the locomotive collapsed into the water, being later recovered and taken to Rockhampton where it was repaired and put back into operation.
We often speak of companies’ support of #OpenSource maintenance as a moral obligation. This is in some sense true, but given their incentive structure, it may not be a useful way to express it. Corporations are fundamentally amoral actors and if we want to modify their behavior we need to treat them as such. But! In a rational profit-maximizing world, large corporations ought to be *super* enthused about paying big gobs of money towards open source, both as risk management *and cost reduction*.
I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'
As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩
ALT text detailsA black & white photo of a train wreck. Illustrative of Mozilla's current situation & strategy.
The photo is taken from Flickr Commons (https://flic.kr/p/2q9qQ7G) & was uploaded by the State Library of Queensland. You can find the original at the State Library of Queensland (http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59637)
The metadata states:
Train accident at Alpha Creek, 1941
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Alpha, Queensland.
Description: This incident occurred on 08 April 1941 at Alpha on the Central Railway, inland from Rockhampton. The bridge across Alpha Creek was under repair at the time and collapsed as the second division of the train went across. The crash killed the driver, George Condon, and the fireman, Ernie Yanke.
The locomotive was no. 147 of the C16 class and its weight was 80.5 tons. Before salvage work could be undertaken the creek flooded and the locomotive collapsed into the water, being later recovered and taken to Rockhampton where it was repaired and put back into operation.
RISC-V represents an exciting future for computing - one where everything from CPU architecture up to your favorite applications can be fully open.
We are excited to share a few milestones toward RISC-V support that our RISC-V SIG has produced!
* A RISC-V Koji instance is now live in our data center to support development and package maintenance * We have ready-to-boot images that you can try using today
Olá!👋 I've just blogged about the recent developments in the Chromium Ozone/Wayland project, which is getting closer to officially shipping to Linux Desktop users.
Huge thanks to @igalia and our sponsors for making it possible ❤️
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Drill
ldns includes a DNS lookup utility named drill. It can perform DNS lookups and display the answers that are returned from the name server(s) that were queried. drill offers an alternative implementation to BIND's Domain Information Groper (dig) tool.
As drill has nothing in common with either NSD nor BIND, it ensures that debugging and testing is done using an independent code base.
We need to do more to help #schools adopt #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource. In my experience, it is easier to get smaller communities schools to switch, especially if the #FOSS / #Linux communities can volunteer a few hours a month for setup and training teachers.
ALT text detailsScreenshot of slide showing presentation title:
"Public values and FOSS for education"
The Coalition for Fair Digital Education is an ISOC Netherlands workinggroup.
I kind of want to put together a collection of wallpapers that work well with the GNOME/elementary OS light/dark style. The GNOME ones are excellent, but I have a handful I’ve made or compiled over the years that could make a nice set.
The obvious way to me to do this is to make an app for Flathub, so you can get them on any distro—but I kind of don’t want to have to figure out the actual app logic. Anyone want to help me? 🥺
We need to do more to help #schools adopt #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource. In my experience, it is easier to get smaller communities schools to switch, especially if the #FOSS / #Linux communities can volunteer a few hours a month for setup and training teachers.
ALT text detailsScreenshot of slide showing presentation title:
"Public values and FOSS for education"
The Coalition for Fair Digital Education is an ISOC Netherlands workinggroup.
But Ultramarine Linux is stuck on v40. They'll tell you that there is an upgrade path, but you cannot freshly install v41, because they refuse to release an ISO / Image file.
What happen is the development took on too much too soon, and rather than admit this, they keep deferring, endlessly. I have previously offered to pay them to hire a developer or so they, themselves, could dedicate more time, and I have repeatedly shared their code here on the Fediverse (hoping someone can help them). -- If you think you can help them, try reaching out.
The development is not dead, just lacking either resources or direction. They could have released an Anaconda release, and I've been asking them to please do so, but, nope.
I still think Ultramarine Linux (KDE Plasma) is the most user-friendly distro, but at this time, I will not be funding or promoting Ultramarine Linux further.
We’ve seen significant interest in newsrooms setting up SecureDrop to better protect whistleblowers, so we've put together a quick list of 5 key things you should know before setting it up:
We’ve seen significant interest in newsrooms setting up SecureDrop to better protect whistleblowers, so we've put together a quick list of 5 key things you should know before setting it up:
Social algorithms can be tricky for non-celebrities like me, but if you're up for learning, critiquing, or just hanging out, subscribe to my YouTube channel.
Didn't get your talk accepted at PyCon US? Same! No worries. There are other opportunities to speak there: for example at one of the summits like the Maintainers Summit.
The Maintainer Summit is aimed for anyone who wants to learn more about open source project maintenance. CFP is still open but only until Feb 22.
Didn't get your talk accepted at PyCon US? Same! No worries. There are other opportunities to speak there: for example at one of the summits like the Maintainers Summit.
The Maintainer Summit is aimed for anyone who wants to learn more about open source project maintenance. CFP is still open but only until Feb 22.
Didn't get your talk accepted at PyCon US? Same! No worries. There are other opportunities to speak there: for example at one of the summits like the Maintainers Summit.
The Maintainer Summit is aimed for anyone who wants to learn more about open source project maintenance. CFP is still open but only until Feb 22.
I remembered GNOME Web has had web extensions support in development for some time, and enabled it…
Unfortunately the two extensions I’d most love (Bitwarden and Dark Reader) are not working for me in stable, tech preview, or canary. :( It seems like the feature where an extension embeds a web view in the popover is broken. Still, it’s exciting to see this nearly there—does anyone know if it’s actively being worked on, or sort of stuck in its current state?
How does Fedora know where you are when you turn on location services? On Android all of that is provided through Google Play Services, but on Fedora we use a mix of open source software to get the job done.
I've been involved in the open-source movement in some capacity for almost a quarter century now. In all that time, I've seen a steady stream of assertions about how "open source has failed". We ignored them and we kept building.
Here's the thing: in 2003 it was from large, powerful, mainstream sources: MSNBC, NYT, etc.
Now I only see it from luddites, puritopians, and other do-nothings. Almost everyone else has to take us seriously.
How is it possible that there is no #Mastodon button? Mastodon the only truly decentralized, public value driven, #opensource and independent social media platform.
@BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social A 20 year old bug, is still a bug. The whole "it is a feature" is just lazy development (or one that does not know how to fix their own issues). Glibc is something the Linux ecosystem should not have become depended on given the issues, but kept trying to work around, instead of seeking or creating an alternative.
Could that be the shortest and clearest #PublicDomain license - with no strings attached about things I create and is judged by laws like copyright and ownership to fully have control over - possible?
My goal is to eradicate all and every dependency between me and everyone else. Including having to repeatedly take time to explain what the #license not comes with.
If it holds I think I should be able to really focus my flow to the #OpenSource way of life.
European Open-Source AI Index: a non-profit public resource that collects information on model openness, licensing, and EU regulation of generative AI systems and providers. #AI#OpenSourcehttps://www.osai-index.eu/
European Open-Source AI Index: a non-profit public resource that collects information on model openness, licensing, and EU regulation of generative AI systems and providers. #AI#OpenSourcehttps://www.osai-index.eu/
Mamy przyjemność ogłosić, że Piotr "ViruS" Sikora wystąpi jako Prelegent na 19. Sesji Linuksowej z prelekcją zatytułowaną „Fediwersum: kulisy administracji największych polskich instancji Mastodona, PeerTube, Pixelfed i Mobilizon”.
How is it possible that there is no #Mastodon button? Mastodon the only truly decentralized, public value driven, #opensource and independent social media platform.
Caterpillar Proxy (Songchoongi Project) was deployed in January 2024 to counter a large-scale spam attack on the ActivityPub (Fediverse) network.
It has since evolved into a framework for processing real-time emergency disaster sensors, such as fire detection signals, and is now actively used to enhance public safety.
This proves that #opensource network stacks can be adapted for diverse applications beyond their original purpose.
Caterpillar Proxy (Songchoongi Project) was deployed in January 2024 to counter a large-scale spam attack on the ActivityPub (Fediverse) network.
It has since evolved into a framework for processing real-time emergency disaster sensors, such as fire detection signals, and is now actively used to enhance public safety.
This proves that #opensource network stacks can be adapted for diverse applications beyond their original purpose.
Hey folks, you have until tommorrow (Monday, Feb 17) to submit your application to run in the 2025 #OpenSource Initiative board #election -- either Individual or Affiliate.
Hey folks, you have until tommorrow (Monday, Feb 17) to submit your application to run in the 2025 #OpenSource Initiative board #election -- either Individual or Affiliate.
You're a newbie and as a newbie, you want a system that "just works".
You are OK with learning if you must, but the truth is, you would rather a system that is already familiar, and out of the box, the only thing you want to set up is your Wi-Fi (maybe printer). To be perfectly honest, you simply want point and click easy, just like Windows or Apple.
Since y'all liked 🔀🦒 #Mergiraf so much (a syntax-aware #git#merge driver that solves many conflicts automatically that git's built-in merge strategies can't), go check out ≏🤩 #Difftastic too! It's a syntax-aware #diff tool that produces finer grained, much easier to read output than classic #GNU#diffutils or #BSD diff. No more decoding "@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@"! Integrates nicely with #git as well.
Perfect time to drop a blog post that might sound like clickbait, but that I genuinely hope can help forge a path forward while making everyone happy—or at least pissing everyone off equally (sometimes the best you can ask for!)
The world needs secure communication more than ever, as a bulwark against the surveillance, authoritarianism, and oppression increasingly enabled by Big Tech. Matrix seeks to meet that need, as an open source, decentralised, encrypted comms protocol.
But Trust & Safety is more difficult in a decentralised environment. How are we building a safer Matrix?
Since y'all liked 🔀🦒 #Mergiraf so much (a syntax-aware #git#merge driver that solves many conflicts automatically that git's built-in merge strategies can't), go check out ≏🤩 #Difftastic too! It's a syntax-aware #diff tool that produces finer grained, much easier to read output than classic #GNU#diffutils or #BSD diff. No more decoding "@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@"! Integrates nicely with #git as well.
From smart homes to smart hearts, here’s to the developers, contributors, and every Home Assistant user making their homes better for their families, loved ones, the community, and themselves—one open-source contribution at a time! 🫶
From smart homes to smart hearts, here’s to the developers, contributors, and every Home Assistant user making their homes better for their families, loved ones, the community, and themselves—one open-source contribution at a time! 🫶
UI/UX Design Studio Manager Laurel Terlesky's #fosdem talk is online! Explore Thunderbird's journey toward a cohesive, scalable, and data-informed open-source design system that unites desktop, Thunderbird for Android, and beyond.
Perfect time to drop a blog post that might sound like clickbait, but that I genuinely hope can help forge a path forward while making everyone happy—or at least pissing everyone off equally (sometimes the best you can ask for!)
UI/UX Design Studio Manager Laurel Terlesky's #fosdem talk is online! Explore Thunderbird's journey toward a cohesive, scalable, and data-informed open-source design system that unites desktop, Thunderbird for Android, and beyond.
Latest attempt at building better documentation for https://thi.ng/umbrella (also to make it available offline!): Having noticed that recent versions of TypeDoc support extracting & merging of doc strings from monorepos, over the past few weeks I've been updating/cleaning docstrings in hundreds of source files across all 200+ packages and started building a small tool to assemble a single/mega-page documentation (currently ~4.3MB of just HTML). The tool translates existing docstrings and references contained therein (and still used for the existing API docs) to support proper cross-package references.
Please be aware that so far this is only an early stage prototype and only contains very limited docs. I.e. there are no generics/typeparams, no details about classes/interfaces... But at least I know now HOW to add this all, as well as all the additional metadata I've already got (currently still only available via other custom tools/examples).
For example, there're links to the tag-based browser[1] and I'm also planning to add the fuzzy doc search engine/index[2] to this new documentation... The tag browser integration still needs more work in terms of correctly matching package names to tags. The underlying system is there already, just needs more work in terms of actually doing/assigning the concept mapping. Since most package names in thi.ng/umbrella are very plain/boring (for a reason), for many (most?) packages this already works pretty well:
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the documentation tool/page mentioned in the post, showing the API docs for this function (dark color scheme): https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/#fuzzy-viz:instrumentStrategy
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the documentation tool/page mentioned in the post, showing the API docs for this function (light color scheme): https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/#fuzzy-viz:instrumentStrategy
This week, Mirko Swillus @mechko was back in Brussels, representing us at the first meeting of the #CyberResilience Act Expert Working Group. This group is advising the European Commission on implementing the regulation that went into effect at the end of 2024. We’re bringing the Sovereign Tech Agency’s experience working closely with many #opensource communities to help shape cybersecurity standards for digital products in the European Union. 1/2
ALT text detailsOn the left: Cyber Resilience Act Working Group First Meeting in Brussels On the right, a photo of Mirko, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, and Lars Francke outdoors in front of a building in Brussels
This week, Mirko Swillus @mechko was back in Brussels, representing us at the first meeting of the #CyberResilience Act Expert Working Group. This group is advising the European Commission on implementing the regulation that went into effect at the end of 2024. We’re bringing the Sovereign Tech Agency’s experience working closely with many #opensource communities to help shape cybersecurity standards for digital products in the European Union. 1/2
ALT text detailsOn the left: Cyber Resilience Act Working Group First Meeting in Brussels On the right, a photo of Mirko, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, and Lars Francke outdoors in front of a building in Brussels
If we then come up with some great idea for say a client side algorithm, or some alternative ad networking technology, you can then wrap that up in a plan for an organization and apply for funding.
From that you can start figuring out the various ways to make a business off the resulting systems.
But they have to be open, give power to the user and allow for competition. This is why #OpenSource is so important, because it levels the playing field.
NASA's switch to Linux in space was driven by reliability, flexibility, and security concerns. The International Space Station (ISS) originally relied on Windows, but astronauts frequently encountered crashes and instability. In 2013, NASA announced that all laptops on the ISS would transition to Debian, a Linux-based operating system, to improve stability and control over software.
This change wasn’t just about reliability. Windows was much more vulnerable to malware, and in 2007, a worm named W32.Gammima.AG spread to the ISS. With Linux, NASA gained the ability to modify and customize the system for mission-critical applications without depending on proprietary software. Today, Linux powers much of NASA’s space infrastructure, from ISS systems to Mars rovers and beyond.
NASA's switch to Linux in space was driven by reliability, flexibility, and security concerns. The International Space Station (ISS) originally relied on Windows, but astronauts frequently encountered crashes and instability. In 2013, NASA announced that all laptops on the ISS would transition to Debian, a Linux-based operating system, to improve stability and control over software.
This change wasn’t just about reliability. Windows was much more vulnerable to malware, and in 2007, a worm named W32.Gammima.AG spread to the ISS. With Linux, NASA gained the ability to modify and customize the system for mission-critical applications without depending on proprietary software. Today, Linux powers much of NASA’s space infrastructure, from ISS systems to Mars rovers and beyond.
Perhaps the best part is, YOU can contribute, too! Seriously, it’s all open source, and you don’t have to be involved in an Endless learning program to participate. In fact, I’d love to see what folks can come up with within the existing constraints of the game…
Even if you’ve never used Godot or another game engine before, it’s relatively easy to get started. Grab the latest Godot Engine, clone the repo, and copy the Sample world.
Something fun we’ve been doing at @EndlessOS is running learning programs where we help learners get used to actual open source collaboration—with video games!
WAIT
Not “educational games” or “gamified learning”—no, actually contributing to a real game using real open source workflows. Here are some fun results from one cohort so far; check out the Extra Levels in Everlasting Candy, an extension of the open source game Candy Wrapper:
NASA's switch to Linux in space was driven by reliability, flexibility, and security concerns. The International Space Station (ISS) originally relied on Windows, but astronauts frequently encountered crashes and instability. In 2013, NASA announced that all laptops on the ISS would transition to Debian, a Linux-based operating system, to improve stability and control over software.
This change wasn’t just about reliability. Windows was much more vulnerable to malware, and in 2007, a worm named W32.Gammima.AG spread to the ISS. With Linux, NASA gained the ability to modify and customize the system for mission-critical applications without depending on proprietary software. Today, Linux powers much of NASA’s space infrastructure, from ISS systems to Mars rovers and beyond.
Codeberg.org is under attack by right wing trolls over diversity, equity and inclusion. This is what you get when you enable the goons. They will spoil public resources.
This is a good illustration of Popper's paradox on why one should not tolerate intolerance.
L'alternative à Instagram, @pixelfed monte de plus en plus en puissance. Cette semaine, je vais vous montrer sur mon blog comment publier en #php une photo sur une instance #pixelfed.
Codeberg.org is under attack by right wing trolls over diversity, equity and inclusion. This is what you get when you enable the goons. They will spoil public resources.
This is a good illustration of Popper's paradox on why one should not tolerate intolerance.
L'alternative à Instagram, @pixelfed monte de plus en plus en puissance. Cette semaine, je vais vous montrer sur mon blog comment publier en #php une photo sur une instance #pixelfed.
@Linux_Is_Best I disagree. There were #opensource operating systems like #bsd before #linux under a permissive license. Companies like #apple took their work and made #macos without giving back.
#linux is gaining mainstream attention because the linux kernel uses the #gpl2 license. Any derivative works of the Linux kernel should be open source. The #gnu toolchain like compiler, bash, command line tools etc are parts of your Linux distribution.
We could have had gaming on Linux, 20 years ago, and better hardware support 25 years ago. But those old school GNU fanatics kept trying to hold onto their so-called moral superiority concerning everything needing to be 100% free and 100% open source and 100% on licensing and 100% ... blah blah blah.
Do you know why Linux today is truly becoming successful? Why you can game on Steam, and why even Microsoft now releases Linux, software? Because enough people finally got the idea to compromise. It is as simple as that.
Yes, Linux is still primarily open source, but those Gnu fanatics that were leading everything, are no longer holding the majority of us hostage. -- And we're all better for it.
I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software on which it runs.
The latest Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest is out! You can read about:
* our experience at FOSDEM * First Time User Experience in Account Hub * next steps for the Global Message Database * improvements to In-App Notifications * and more!
I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software on which it runs.
The latest Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest is out! You can read about:
* our experience at FOSDEM * First Time User Experience in Account Hub * next steps for the Global Message Database * improvements to In-App Notifications * and more!
New in #LibreOffice 25.2, our latest major update: Hovering the mouse over a heading in the Navigator displays a tooltip showing the word and character count of the content associated with it. #foss#opensource#freesoftware
ALT text detailsScreenshot of Navigator, showing a section being selected and a tooltip with details about that section.
New in #LibreOffice 25.2, our latest major update: Hovering the mouse over a heading in the Navigator displays a tooltip showing the word and character count of the content associated with it. #foss#opensource#freesoftware
ALT text detailsScreenshot of Navigator, showing a section being selected and a tooltip with details about that section.
@ayo did you come across #radicle yet? Looks really intriguing. They did a lot of R&D, seem to have nailed the #protocols now. I'm going to try it for my next #opensource project
Hi all. We're excited to share we've published a new, free, open source soil science application: #LandPKS Soil ID!
Soil ID makes it simple to identify the soil beneath your feet. Gather observations about the soil and compare your data to possible soils from local soil maps.
We're launching in the U.S. to start with, with soils outside the U.S. coming soon thereafter.
ALT text detailsScreenshot of GIMP 3 Release Candidate 3 (RC 3). Image editing is in progress with the text "GIMP rocks" visible. The Linux Tux penguin logo is present, and the GIMP version number is displayed on the screen, too.
Hi all. We're excited to share we've published a new, free, open source soil science application: #LandPKS Soil ID!
Soil ID makes it simple to identify the soil beneath your feet. Gather observations about the soil and compare your data to possible soils from local soil maps.
We're launching in the U.S. to start with, with soils outside the U.S. coming soon thereafter.
Data #federation has been a key topic in the @tibosl lately, as part of the specifications we develop for all our #RDM#opensource tools.
We participated in several events over the last two months where we had a chance to discuss latest developments with relevant communities.
First up, the slides publication from our participation in the Federated Queries Workshop (by WMDE & WikiMUC), held in Munich in December 2024: 🔗🔖 https://zenodo.org/records/14751598
#Prav project started 3 years ago with the goal of mass adoption of private messaging powered by #XMPP and democratic decision-making. The project was inspired by #Quicksy and #Snikket.
Data #federation has been a key topic in the @tibosl lately, as part of the specifications we develop for all our #RDM#opensource tools.
We participated in several events over the last two months where we had a chance to discuss latest developments with relevant communities.
First up, the slides publication from our participation in the Federated Queries Workshop (by WMDE & WikiMUC), held in Munich in December 2024: 🔗🔖 https://zenodo.org/records/14751598
ALT text detailsScreenshot of GIMP 3 Release Candidate 3 (RC 3). Image editing is in progress with the text "GIMP rocks" visible. The Linux Tux penguin logo is present, and the GIMP version number is displayed on the screen, too.
"[Software] Developers are the lifeblood of open source projects [...] Loads of people [software developers] end up investing years and years of labor for free"
The #fediverse needs to come to terms with one thing: on content platforms, chronological ordering is probably good for your subscription feeds, but for the #discovery feed the average user actually WANTS an #algorithm.
Instead of kicking your feet in anger, release your anxiety and think for one moment.
Wouldn't it be better to formalize #discovery algorithms as #opensource? To create programmable interfaces server side so that the user can define their algorithm client side?
"[Software] Developers are the lifeblood of open source projects [...] Loads of people [software developers] end up investing years and years of labor for free"
EXCELLENT writeup by @cynical13 about Firefox vs. Vivaldi browsers. I agree with everything he says here. This is a great analysis on what are really two of the better browsers out there right now, and an in-depth look at the pros and cons of each.
ALT text detailsDigital-Thesen-Check These 2: Public Money, Public Code Für alle Institutionen und Einrichtungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland werden bei der Beschaffung von Software verbindlich Open-Source-Software (OSS), offene Schnittstellen und Datenformate vorgeschrieben. Dafür soll die Förderung solcher Software, bspw. durch Finanzierung, ausgebaut werden.
Update. "This is Version 2 of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, released by the Council on Environmental Quality [#CEQ] in December 2024. Although the tool remains unchanged, public access through the White House was discontinued on January 22, 2025. We re-created Version 2 and made it publicly accessible." https://screening-tools.com/climate-economic-justice-screening-tool
The application launcher has been improved to allow you to restart, delete, or browse the contents of previously executed application packages using the file explorer.
The application launcher has been improved to allow you to restart, delete, or browse the contents of previously executed application packages using the file explorer.
The #fediverse needs to come to terms with one thing: on content platforms, chronological ordering is probably good for your subscription feeds, but for the #discovery feed the average user actually WANTS an #algorithm.
Instead of kicking your feet in anger, release your anxiety and think for one moment.
Wouldn't it be better to formalize #discovery algorithms as #opensource? To create programmable interfaces server side so that the user can define their algorithm client side?
I was explaining some aspects of the #fediverse to someone, and how with apps being #opensource anyone could fork&modify and still integrate with other unmodified (or modified differently) servers. And eventually it came up that that's basically what happened with livejournal vs deadjournal. I was never a user there, but IIUC livejournal was opensource but some ppl wanted a darker aesthetic, so they made deadjournal. Same concept, but with federation the two would be able to talk to each other.
I was explaining some aspects of the #fediverse to someone, and how with apps being #opensource anyone could fork&modify and still integrate with other unmodified (or modified differently) servers. And eventually it came up that that's basically what happened with livejournal vs deadjournal. I was never a user there, but IIUC livejournal was opensource but some ppl wanted a darker aesthetic, so they made deadjournal. Same concept, but with federation the two would be able to talk to each other.
The Techno Anarchist Manifesto aka Let’s fuck up Techno Feudalism
This practical and profanity-laced manifesto provides the loose philosophy, strategies, battleplans, tactics, and weapons to destroy Techno Feudalism via the practice of Techno Anarchism. It explains the war we are in, the Techno battle’s place in it, and what Techno Feudalism and Techno Anarchism are.
Don’t worry, I not going to start capping tech CEOs anytime soon. I’m not a 1914 anarchist or advocating for it in general.
Introduction
The same day I started writing this article about some ideas floating in my head, Joan Westenberg kind of beat me to the punch on its premise.
This piece will now be more expansive and a sort of manifesto.
I want to focus my thoughts regarding the battle against Techno Feudalism. And narrow my scope. And be systemic.
I will build whatever this ends up being in public. And put my masters degree in Political Science to work. So, this is just the start of a living document. I will update it with more of the philosophy of Techno Anarchism (and other points) in the coming weeks.
It’s also the first thing I’ve written that needs a table of contents.
As supporters of democracy we need to engage in a positive fight against this timeline’s bullshit in a manner we can control ourselves.
Our goal should be to destroy autocracy rather than protect democracy. Simply because most of us live in autocracies unfortunately.
Still, we must reform both democracy and neuter it’s biggest threat, Big Tech.
I aim to make this writing more actionable than academic. We need action on the individual level and in small groups – neighborhoods, communities (geographical or digital), libraries, companies, unions, teams, non-profits, associations, clubs, schools, real churches, credit unions, local governments, the arts, independent media, etc. These groups have always been the building blocks of democracy. And they must be nurtured through use and membership.
I call the solution I propose to combat autocracy and Techno Feudalism, Techno Anarchism. While political anarchism as defined by Wikipedia is currently unlikely if not impossible. You will see that in the tech arena, it is possible.
“Major definitional elements of anarchism include the will for a non-coercive society, the rejection of the state apparatus, the belief that human nature allows humans to exist in or progress toward such a non-coercive society, and a suggestion on how to act to pursue the ideal of anarchy.”
It’s idealistic but not 100% practical. But we can build its practicality via our interactions with tech.
Now, Wikipedia defines a manifesto as:
“A manifesto is a written declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party, or government. A manifesto can accept a previously published opinion or public consensus, but many prominent manifestos—such as The Communist Manifesto (1848) and those of various artistic movements—reject accepted knowledge in favor of a new idea.”
Is that what this will be? I think it mostly will.
The Problem
But, before going into the details of this manifesto, let’s explore our major problem as humans, what and who we are fighting, and the bigger war that the techno feudalism versus anarchism battle takes place in.
First, let’s look at the problem, ourselves. We have not evolved enough as humans to keep up with the culture, economies, and technology we’ve developed. That’s why we feel alienated and a little lost.
We need a purpose be it one dictated by religion (for the weak-minded) or philosophy. Or a very strong personal moral framework which is difficult. We might even get by with a manifesto. 😉 What we want to avoid is ideologies.
In general our overwhelmed brains need structure for things we don’t understand or can’t explain. We want simple, not the truth, which is why autocrats have an advantage. We’re mostly uneducated, unaware, unobservant, and intellectually lazy so we want easy answers.
“Today technology is the water in which we swim, whether on not we notice we are fish. Tech provides contemporary Western lives, so polarized and divided in countless ways, with a universal organizing principle… It offers myriad rites, capturing our attention and transforming our consciousness, connecting us with a community of people who spend their days…indeed their entire lives engaging in the same repetitive behaviors with the same fervent intensity.
Naturally, we all hope our devotion to this community of fellow travelers will bear fruit: surely tech will lead to a better future! Even a kind of paradise! But the truth is many of us fear, more than we’d like to admit, this may all be heading to a deeply dark place.
In other words: technology has become a religion.”
As you see, Big Tech now functions as a religion. It provides answers as more people reject the horseshit of traditional religion.
But, there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle so it needs to be reformed into a more satisfying religion. More the Tao of Pooh than the Old Testament and Revelations. More philosophy and morality for how to live life and less damnation, doctrine, and hate. One grown by us not tech oligarchs. More good, less evil. Ok.
More on this will follow in future updates.
Late Stage Capitalism / Techno Feudalism
Next let’s take a look at economics. Currently we are stuck in the economic model of capitalism. The problem is that it’s not really capitalism. It’s rigged, crony, oligarchic capitalism headed back toward feudalism. Some argue persuasively that it has already fully evolved into Techno Feudalism.
So, let’s define Techno Feudalism.
Is it a malign denomination of the Tech religion?
The child of Big Tech and Late Stage / Crony Capitalism?
Or just a bunch of cunts in Silicon Valley?
Yanis Varoufakis coined the term Techno Feudalism. So, here’s his hypothesis:
“… capitalism is dead, in the sense that its dynamics no longer govern our economies. … that role … has been replaced by something fundamentally different, which I call techno feudalism.
… the thing that killed capitalism is capital itself. Not capital as we have known it since the dawn of the industrial revolution, a new form of capital, a mutation of it that has arisen in the last two decades, so much more powerful that its predecessor that like a stupid, overzealous virus it has killed off its host.”
How’s that for an academic sentence. 😉
He continues:
“… capital’s mutation into what I call cloud capital has demolished capitalism’s two pillars: markets and profits.
Markets, the medium of capitalism, have been replaced by digital trading platforms, which look like, but are not markets, and are better understood as fiefdoms. And profit, the engine of capitalism, has been replaced with its feudal predecessor, rent.
… the owners of tradition capital … have become vassals in relation to a new class of feudal overlord, the owners of cloud capital.
… the rest of us have returned to our former status a serfs … contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labor – in addition to the waged labor we perform, when we get the chance.”
Does this sound familiar? I think so.
And who wants to be a fucking serf? Not me.
More on this will follow in future updates.
The subject of equality is obviously relevant to feudal overlords and serfs.
“…since the end of the eighteenth century there has been a historical movement toward equality. The world of the early 2020s, no matter how unjust it may seem, is more egalitarian than that of 1950 or that of 1900, which were themselves more egalitarian than those of 1850 or 1780. ..over the long term, no matter the criterion we employ, we arrive at the same conclusion. Between 1780 and 2020 we see developments tending toward greater equality…
To continue… crises and power relations are necessary, as was the case in the past, but we will also need processes of learning and collective engagement, as well as mobilization around new political programs and proposals for new institutions.
Resistance by elites is a reality, in a world in which transnational billionaires are richer than states, much as in the French revolution. Such resistance can be overcome only by powerful collective mobilization during moments of crises and tension.
To ensure that everyone can contribute… in a decentralized way, we must develop new forms of sovereignism with a universalist vocation.”
I maintain that Techno Feudalism is contributing to the current slow to non-existent grow of equality. And I also maintain that Techno Anarchism can reverse the trend and grow equality via small-scale social mobilization and personal-data-sovereignty among other strategies to destroy Techno Feudalism.
Politics aka The War
Now, on to politics. Let’s begin with a few points. And a quick note, this isn’t about parties, but policies and exercising political rights.
Autocracy is a threat to democracy. Authoritarianism is a threat to human rights. Fascism is a threat to minorities. Autocrats, Fascists (secular or religious), and Communists are the bad guys.
However, unregulated capitalism and digital technology are a deadlier threat to democracy. Big Money and Big Tech equal the really bad guys. Oligarchs suck.
These two threats to human freedom go hand in hand. Unbound capitalism leads to fascist / authoritarian governments which lead to corrupt, crony capitalism or state capitalism aka hypocritical communism. Both of which erode and eventually destroy democracy, the environment, and human rights.
So, we need to reform and regulate large-scale capitalism and keep autocracy at bay. And again, reform democracy to function in the world we now live in.
Tech both in its Silicon Valley incarnation and the tools of repression Chinese / Israeli model are destroying democracy. One via corrupt, oligarchic capitalism / Techno Feudalism. And one via authoritarianism.
In we want democracy to survive we must fight these two tech models along with autocrats, autocratic political parties, autocratic nations, and autocratic ideologies.
More on this will follow in future updates.
The War’s Combatants
To reiterate, the larger war which I think of as WWIII is one between supporters of democracy and what I call the Evil Empire (Reagan is dead and I have commandeered the term!):
Unregulated Capitalists / Techno Feudalists
Big Tech in general
Autocrats
The Evil Empire
Unregulated capitalist oligarchs, and Techno Feudalists
We’ve seen who they are.
More on this will follow in future updates.
Big Tech which is mostly Techno Feudalists, and some Techno Fascists
“…the fact that our social, professional, and civil lives are increasingly digitized and, essentially, all aspects of digitation are in the hands of private companies; that certain technologies have inherent antidemocratic characteristics, while laws to protect democratic values and the rule of law are lagging; and that, most important, democratic governments’ outsourcing of key functions has led to a hollowing out of government’s core capabilities.
These systemic problems are now undermining the core principles of democracy: free and fair elections, the rule of law, the separation of powers, a well-informed, public debate, national security and the protection of civil liberties such as freedom of expression, the presumption of innocence, and the right to privacy.
As digitization progresses, we see a gradual shift in responsibility and power away from democratic leaders. This shift accelerates two trends: growing digital authoritarianism and a wholesale decline in democratic governance.”
We are the frogs being slowly boiled in the pot as the temperature rises. But, it’s not a fucking joke.
More on this will follow in future updates.
Autocrats
You are probably most familiar with these villains. They either rule your country or are a political party(ies) in it.
“Unlike military or political alliances from other times and places, (today’s Autocrats) operates not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies, bound not by ideology but rather by a ruthless, single-minded determination to preserve their personal wealth and power, Autocracy, Inc.
Their bonds with one another, and with their friends in the democratic world, are cemented not through ideals but through deals – deals designed to take the edge off sanctions, to exchange surveillance technology, to help one another get rich.
Autocracy, Inc., offers its members not only money and security but also something less tangible, impunity.
Their enmity toward the democratic world is not merely some form of traditional geopolitical competition… (It) …has its roots in the very nature of the democratic political system, in words “accountability,” “transparency,” and “democracy.” They hear that language coming from the democratic world, they hear the same language coming from their on dissidents, and they seek to destroy them both.”
More on this will follow in future updates.
Democracy Supporters / Enlightened Humans
This is short. It’s us. At least the intelligent ones in the “Western World”, Oceana, Japan, and South Korea rules-based world. Plus a few other countries in the global south and various dissidents everywhere.
Enshittification
Before moving on to Techno Anarchism, here’s a quick note about Enshittification. It is part of techno feudalism. Chicken or the egg first? I don’t know.
But, Cory Doctorow describes enshittification like this:
“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.”
So, not only are Techno Feudalists part of the evil empire, their products suck as well.
Ok, enough about the cunts. Let’s move on the good guys.
The Winnable Battle
Will democracy win the war against autocracy? Who knows? It’s an eternal war that the bad guys currently have the upper hand in. And have had for the last decade or two. And have had for 99.99% of human history. Make what you will of that.
But, one of the war’s largest current battles can definitely be won. Equality can continue to grow. And our lives can be improved. And the world’s apocalypse can be delayed.
This battle is the one where Techno Anarchism opposes Techno Feudalism.
It is winnable because this victory can be achieved at the personal and small group level. It also has the advantage that the bad guys can’t defeat it (only resist it). Only apathy (which is also hard to overcome) can defeat Techno Anarchism. If you have a hundred million of drops of water you might drown an elephant. If you have a hundred you can’t even get one toe wet.
It’s also winnable because it’s more of a matter of changing habits (difficult) than political beliefs (extremely difficult). Anarchists and libertarians can be partial allies here along with many other freedom lovers.
And partial is important because this battle’s tactics are modular. It’s not all or nothing. You can take it one step at a time. It’s easy to be a soldier and not too hard to be an officer. You can increase your efforts over time as you get in the martial groove. Hopefully, you can even become a general.
Techno Anarchism
Finally, let’s move on to Techno Anarchism / Digital Distributism and Digital Sovereignty (which is slightly different). This is the philosophy, strategies, and actions needed to defeat Techno Feudalism.
As I mentioned before, Joan Westenberg published something similar to my gestating thoughts. So, let’s not reinvent the wheel and look as her points.
The article in question is The Revolution Will Be Decentralized. It’s not really a revolution, but more a radical adjustment of habits. But, if it happens it will be decentralized. Anyway, take a break and go read her article now! You may need to eat lunch too.
You’re back. Great.
She uses the terms Digital Democracy and Digital Feudalism versus Techno Anarchism and Techno Feudalism.
Westenberg’s central idea addresses both distribution and personal data sovereignty:
“The implementation of Digital Distributism rests on three foundational pillars: infrastructure commons, data sovereignty, and algorithmic democracy. Each pillar requires specific technical and organizational structures to function effectively.
The revolution toward digital democracy begins with individual choices. Every person who moves to decentralized platforms weakens the grip of tech monopolies. Every contribution to open source projects builds alternative infrastructure. Every act of resistance against surveillance and control helps shift the balance of power.
But individual action is not, is never enough. It must be coupled with collective organization. We need coordinated efforts to build and promote alternatives. We need political movements that understand the connection between digital and democratic power. We need communities dedicated to practicing digital distributism in their own operations.
The infrastructure of freedom won’t build itself. But neither did the infrastructure of control. Every system of power depends on the daily choices of millions of individuals. Will we shape the change toward digital democracy or submit to digital feudalism?”
That’s the question. And fortunately you can answer it.
How? With a blast from the past.
Joan and I both propose a similar idea, the Digital Distributist Alternative (Joan) and Techno Anarchism (me).
But FYI, these are not new ideas. They existed before as an alternative to capitalism and socialism. Unfortunately, they didn’t win out.
”Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world’s productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated. Developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, distributism was based upon Catholic social teaching principles, especially those of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) and Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo anno (1931). It has influenced Anglo Christian Democratic movements, and has been recognized as one of many influences on the social market economy.
Distributism views laissez-faire capitalism and state socialism as equally flawed and exploitative, due to their extreme concentration of ownership. Instead, it favors small independent craftsmen and producers; or, if that is not possible, economic mechanisms such as cooperatives and member-owned mutual organisations, as well as small to medium enterprises and vigorous anti-trust laws to restrain or eliminate overweening economic power.”
Joan says:
“Digital Distributism updates this framework for the internet age, recognizing that digital infrastructure is now as fundamental to human flourishing as land was in the agricultural era. It offers a comprehensive alternative to digital feudalism by reimagining how we structure and govern the technologies that increasingly mediate human existence.”
Techno Distributism / Anarchism is the modern equivalent fighting Techno Feudalism as opposed to unregulated capitalism and state socialism. And it has a better chance of coming out on top. It’s more about the means of computation and consumption versus the means of production.
We’re digital serfs here, not the proletariat.
More on this will follow in future updates.
So, we now have our nebulously defined movement, Techno Anarchism. How do we win the war against its all to real foe?
By slowly killing Techno Feudalism with weapons of course.
The Arsenal of Techno Anarchism
Okay, so what are the weapons we can use to destroy Techno Feudalism?
Open Source Technology
We start by using open-source technology. Again, it has the advantage that it can’t be bought and enshittified at scale.
Let’s examine the arsenal in detail. Please explore and start using these tools while dropping their enshittified, corporate, feudalistic alternatives. Obviously, all of these are not for everyone. But, do what you can.
They will also boost the privacy and security of your personal data aka your digital sovereignty.
More details on these individual tools will follow in future updates. For now please use the links.
In the home stretch, let’s look at the most powerful weapon against techno feudalism, The Fediverse.
Corporate social media is even worse than mass media. Millions of morons can get on it and pontificate as much as they want. It is used by extremists and conspiracy theorists to devastating effect. And it’s run by the motherfuckers behind techno feudalism. Today’s true rulers control the algorithms that show all this horseshit, encourage it, and addict us to following it.
“My focus is on a profound transformation in the dynamics of power and influence, which have fundamentally shifted, and on how we, the citizens, can come to grips with a force that is altering our politics, our society, and our very relationship to reality. For sure, companies and governments must bear their burden of figuring out how to regulate this new space, and how to restore trust and shore up institutions, but we as citizens, have a responsibility to understand these dynamics so we can build healthy norms and fight back. This is the task of a new civics.”
Well said, though I have no faith in the companies doing shit and little faith in governments doing their part competently. So it falls to us as Techno Anarchists to unfuck this. We can do this by leaving corporate social media and moving to the Fediverse.
“The ways people can and cannot collectively self-govern in daily online life, furthermore, have been constrained in dominant social networks… the constraints on governance in online spaces have contributed to the peril of democratic politics in general. It is not enough to merely defend existing governmental institutions, healthy democracy depends on enabling creative new forms of self-governance, especially on networks.
If democracy is on the horizon (for humanity), self-governance is a plausible practice for moving in that direction. Governable Spaces, then, are where democratic self-governance can happen.
…the design of online social spaces has contributed to the atrophy of everyday democratic skills. (Fortunately) …the future of democracy can begin at the level of ordinary community, wherever we find ourselves together, where each of us has a chance to make a difference.”
You and I can have a profound impact on the governance of the Fediverse in addition to the good it does in the world. Pick a platform and get involved.
We covered the enshittification of corporate social media above.
“When the tech platforms promised a future of “connection,” they were lying. They said their “walled gardens” would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.
The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms are hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it’s a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships.
We can – we must – dismantle the tech platforms. (We must) …seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission.
Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.”
To counteract enshittification (and speed up the death of these feudal social platforms) we must seize the means of communication / computation via self-publishing with open-source tech. This is provided by personal websites built with open-source technology and distributed with RSS as seen earlier and via the Fediverse. Decentralization and interoperability are key. We must work for these results politically as well.
The Fediverse is the most formidable weapon of Techno Anarchy because it is unbuyable. It is unseizable if hosted in Europe. And it lets us focus on localism (again small groups) vs globalism. It’s distributed not siloed. And open-source not corporate. No ads, less harassment, and less bullshit greet you there. It’s also quite anarchic in general.
Learn more about the technical aspects and platforms of the Fediverse from these Symfony Station articles.
It’s a critical tactic to use these weapons. It’s also important to support them financially and to be active in their communities.
Tactics
Here are some more easy and local tactics.
Support the Independent Non-profit Press
The mass media is an unreliable ally in the war against autocracy much less the battle against Techno Feudalism.
Traditional journalism is flailing and failing. And it’s slowly going out of business. Plus, they are too spineless to save themselves. It’s because they are corporate and thus cowards. And they are mostly owned by cunts.
Instead, we need to support and patronize independent non-profit journalistic organizations. That means giving them money directly my fellow anarchists.
Like this publication the following examples are tech-oriented or political-oriented. But there are many for every issue you care about.
But in particular, before spending your capital, think about that decision’s impact on our planet and your fellow humans. That’s basic morality. And please buy physical products from a local brick and mortar store. And only if you need them.
More relevant to Techno Anarchism, buy digital products from small tech suppliers or open-source suppliers or non and not-for-profits. Donate as much money as you can to open-source technology and other non-profit service providers.
This is easy, it just takes a little conscious thought and avoiding lazy thinking. Or a lack of thinking.
Battleplan
I am sure you’re ready to kick some ass. So, what can you do? I think you mostly know by now. It’s not complex. We’re not invading Normandy here.
Digital Sovereignty
You must own your communications, own your data, own your digital identity, own your digital devices, and own your own online real estate. Use the open-source technology featured here. Use open-source hardware. Each time you do you place a nail in Techno Feudalism’s coffin. The more you use, the faster that death occurs.
Choose Your Weapons and Kill Techno Feudalism
Use the weapons in Techno Anarchism’s arsenal. Again, the battle against Techno Feudalism is modular. It’s not all or nothing. You can take it one step at a time or one weapon at a time. Put more nails in. And add as many as you can over time. Let’s shut that fucker tight.
As Joan says:
“Each new protocol, each independent instance, each decentralized application creates another crack in the walls of digital feudalism.”
You’re the General
Again, proceed at your pace. Rome wasn’t built or destroyed in a day and these corporate shits are difficult to leave. Intentionally.
We’re in WWIII here and its going to take a while to kill these fucks and cripple their allies. But, they are going to die. Inglorious bastards style but via Techno Anarchism not bullets or baseball bats. That’s the final resort I hope we never see.
Thanks for reading my semi-manifesto. Please share it, bookmark it, and come back to it later as a reference and to see its updates.
Keep Fighting, Anarchists! We can win this. The power is yours.
Resources
To begin with, follow us each week for the latest happenings in this battle via Battalion’s Destroying Autocracy posts.
Einzelne Mitglieder unseres Vereins sind schon einige Jahre im #Fediverse unterwegs.
Das Ziel unseres neu gegründeten, in Österreich beheimateten Vereins ist es für - vor allem deutschsprachige - #Kunsthandwerker eine eigene #SocialMedia Plattform im Fediverse zu schaffen. Auch um die digitale Selbstbestimmung dieser Berufsgruppe, und deren Sichtbarkeit im Fediverse zu stärken. Natürlich wollen wir dadurch auch den #OpenSource Gedanken voranbringen.
This time around I donated to GIMP, an image editing tool I've used since high school. It's a fantastic piece of software, and even though I don't work in design or photography, I've used it more times than I can count—converting and resizing images, creating visual aids, making memes, it does everything.
Big shoutout to @GIMP for being my go-to for well over a decade.
Aufsetzend auf den Daten von https://codeberg.org/open/fedipolitik kann man die Aktivitäten einzelner Accounts erkennen, aber auch wie breit die Parteien insgesamt vertreten sind. Alle Features erklärt dieses Schaubild. Ich erzähle davon auch gestern in der @freakshow Wenn Accounts fehlen: bei fedipolitik melden, ich mache nur Datenvisualisierung. #fedipol#mastodon#opensource
Aufsetzend auf den Daten von https://codeberg.org/open/fedipolitik kann man die Aktivitäten einzelner Accounts erkennen, aber auch wie breit die Parteien insgesamt vertreten sind. Alle Features erklärt dieses Schaubild. Ich erzähle davon auch gestern in der @freakshow Wenn Accounts fehlen: bei fedipolitik melden, ich mache nur Datenvisualisierung. #fedipol#mastodon#opensource
Aufsetzend auf den Daten von https://codeberg.org/open/fedipolitik kann man die Aktivitäten einzelner Accounts erkennen, aber auch wie breit die Parteien insgesamt vertreten sind. Alle Features erklärt dieses Schaubild. Ich erzähle davon auch gestern in der @freakshow Wenn Accounts fehlen: bei fedipolitik melden, ich mache nur Datenvisualisierung. #fedipol#mastodon#opensource
Lichess had 31 people contribute code across 15 repositories in January! Check out what's changed in the updated changelog: https://lichess.org/changelog 🛠️
Lichess had 31 people contribute code across 15 repositories in January! Check out what's changed in the updated changelog: https://lichess.org/changelog 🛠️
In this one, we have #AI coming to #Fedora in the future, the lead developer and maintainer on Asahi Linux quitting the kernel after some more #Rust related problems, and a lot more:
In this one, we have #AI coming to #Fedora in the future, the lead developer and maintainer on Asahi Linux quitting the kernel after some more #Rust related problems, and a lot more:
This time around I donated to GIMP, an image editing tool I've used since high school. It's a fantastic piece of software, and even though I don't work in design or photography, I've used it more times than I can count—converting and resizing images, creating visual aids, making memes, it does everything.
Big shoutout to @GIMP for being my go-to for well over a decade.
The Crowd Supply campaign is over (538%!!!). One last photo from #FOSDEM. An open source laptop at it’s natural surroundings ( #FreeCAD and #KiCad Booth). Not an impressive photo, but an important moment captured. #opensource#opensourcehardware
The Crowd Supply campaign is over (538%!!!). One last photo from #FOSDEM. An open source laptop at it’s natural surroundings ( #FreeCAD and #KiCad Booth). Not an impressive photo, but an important moment captured. #opensource#opensourcehardware
We would like to ask you to donate a few bucks so that we can continue to develop Pixelix at full speed and also start new projects to help making the Fediverse an awesome place. We already have some cool ideas in mind. 💡
Now for making Pixelix available on iOS we have to invest almost all of our profits we ever made from the app into hardware equipment, meaning we got not much back for our hard work. That is not really sustainable. We are currently still experimenting on how to make open source software development sustainable but as we figured that is a widespread problem which is not so easy to solve. (4/4) ->
Now you can say we are already earning some money because we sell Pixelix for 2€ on Google Play Store. And that's true, but the app is also available completely free on F-Droid and Github, which means the vast majority is getting it from there. (3/4) ->
We are working on something pretty exciting. We want to bring Pixelix to Apple devices! Exactly the same app with same functionality, same design and running natively on iOS (Made possible by Kotlin Multiplatform for those who know).
But for that we need to buy at least one MacBook. 💻 (2/4) ->
ALT text detailsThe lid of a silvery 14 inch Framework laptop covered in stickers, including the logos of many #Fediverse-related technologies and platforms. There is a cluster of Mastodon stickers in the bottom right corner of the case.
🔀🦒 #Mergiraf v0.5.0 is out! Mergiraf is a syntax-aware #git#merge driver that solves many conflicts automatically that git's built-in merge strategies can't.
ALT text detailsDigital-Thesen-Check These 2: Public Money, Public Code Für alle Institutionen und Einrichtungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland werden bei der Beschaffung von Software verbindlich Open-Source-Software (OSS), offene Schnittstellen und Datenformate vorgeschrieben. Dafür soll die Förderung solcher Software, bspw. durch Finanzierung, ausgebaut werden.
🔀🦒 #Mergiraf v0.5.0 is out! Mergiraf is a syntax-aware #git#merge driver that solves many conflicts automatically that git's built-in merge strategies can't.
Hey, so, we all know weather is going to get more dangerous over the next few years. Also, the USA weather services are probably not going to be operating at their best (to be optimistic). I know there are other sources, but the whole of the world society feels like it is on the edge of darkness. So... Proposal/question: using the plethora of easily accessible data, compute, and brilliant people; how could we form a federated and decentralized weather service?
I imagine it would require some standardized protocols and modeling teams. Similar things do exist for other areas of research. However, I am an ecological modeler and know very little relevant information beyond using climate models. I am not completely sure what is needed for weather. Thoughts or ideas? Or is anyone even interested in this?
"There are numerous other examples globally of government entities switching to Linux in favor of open source technology. Federal governments with particular interest in avoiding US-based technologies [...] are some examples. The South Korean government has also shared plans to move to Linux by 2026"
Update: Danke fürs boosten <3 Ich habe sehr viele und gute Tips in Nachrichten bekommen. Jetzt schreibe ich die Bewerbungen und nochmal Danke allen Beteiligten. ---------------
"There are numerous other examples globally of government entities switching to Linux in favor of open source technology. Federal governments with particular interest in avoiding US-based technologies [...] are some examples. The South Korean government has also shared plans to move to Linux by 2026"
Another workshop done and glad I got a chance to introduce colleagues to the I Ching hexagrams as an example for #BottomUpDesign and as system for constructing/composing higher level concepts/meanings from just a small set of fundamental archetypes (in the I Ching there're only 8 fundamental trigrams)... It's been hugely influential and a guiding principle for my own work & design philosophy (incl. for most of my #OpenSource projects) and I keep finding ever new uses for applying this approach, here to devise a composable classification system, eventually allowing us to define more complex concepts... In world defined by #TopDownThinking, going the opposite way and showing people the benefits/flexibility is sometimes/oftentimes _very_ hard, but to me unquestionably more powerful...
Ps. Also reminded again of the whole Seed technology and essence/function (aka "ti-yong") contrast/discussion/subplots in Stephenson's Diamond Age... Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence...
ALT text detailsDetail screenshot from the linked Wikipedia article, showing a table of 64 hexagrams (each constructed from two trigrams), incl. descriptions of the concepts each one desribes)
Soyez bien accrochée quand vous lirez cette "opinion" de Luc Ferry dans le Figaro : « Le danger mortel de l’#opensource et des deepfakes » (rien que ça)
🔎#TraduisonsLes : « Remettons le savoir sous clé, ça va m'échapper ! » Quelle pitié.
Did you miss the Podman Community Mtg this week? We talked about Podman v5.4, CNCF, Artifacts, cnest and more! Check out the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/451s1B31VGA#podman#OpenSource
Build local networks with decentralised solutions that are #OpenSource#FreeSoftware and based on #OpenStandards not because you want to fight BigCorp, but because you want to help your neighbours. Focus on solutions, not on problems you can't really solve. Build bridges, not walls. Deal?
The #Fediverse is free, free of censorship, federated and full of great content!
Also the Fediverse - instance admins randomly blocking whole instances just because a single user feels offended of a post by a single instance user. Blocking whole instances is just a finger snip away, censoring unwanted content and parenting users of instances. Defederating just because of… ok no clue :) Using content warner for any possible content just to annoy or aeemmm make it more interesting to other users. Thanks, I’m old enough :) Seeing all the spam because it’s just a thing of 5 minutes automation to create randomly new instances on different domains (or subdomains from dynamic-ip hosters) and to fill the network with automated content.
Sometimes, pros can easily switch into cons… luckily more and more single user instances are raising up for exactly this reasons and can still easily federate by using relays…
The #Fediverse is free, free of censorship, federated and full of great content!
Also the Fediverse - instance admins randomly blocking whole instances just because a single user feels offended of a post by a single instance user. Blocking whole instances is just a finger snip away, censoring unwanted content and parenting users of instances. Defederating just because of… ok no clue :) Using content warner for any possible content just to annoy or aeemmm make it more interesting to other users. Thanks, I’m old enough :) Seeing all the spam because it’s just a thing of 5 minutes automation to create randomly new instances on different domains (or subdomains from dynamic-ip hosters) and to fill the network with automated content.
Sometimes, pros can easily switch into cons… luckily more and more single user instances are raising up for exactly this reasons and can still easily federate by using relays…
ALT text detailsA man (Christopher Hoult) standing at a podium alongside a slide that shows the title Maintaining Open Source Software. To his left are a seated panel of three people: Sam Clements, Lorna Mitchell, and Derick Rethans. Derick has a handheld microphone and is answering a question as the others look towards him.
Yesterday, at State of Open Con ‘25, I saw people round stickers on their lapels. I thought it might be showing support for a cause, charity or political campaign. But no, they’re these ⬇️ 🔴🟡🟢 made available by the event organisers! Nice! #opendata#opensource#stateofopencon#soocon25#openuk
ALT text detailsSTATE OF OPEN CON
Communication Stickers
Tell your fellow attendees how you'd like to interact
GREEN: Talk to me
YELLOW: just those I know
RED/ Not at this time
Open:UK
Yesterday, at State of Open Con ‘25, I saw people round stickers on their lapels. I thought it might be showing support for a cause, charity or political campaign. But no, they’re these ⬇️ 🔴🟡🟢 made available by the event organisers! Nice! #opendata#opensource#stateofopencon#soocon25#openuk
ALT text detailsSTATE OF OPEN CON
Communication Stickers
Tell your fellow attendees how you'd like to interact
GREEN: Talk to me
YELLOW: just those I know
RED/ Not at this time
Open:UK
📢 January 2025 Newsletter is here! We’re kicking off the year with exciting updates: ⚙️ Rust support progress for Native 🔤 Web font improvements in GL JS
📢 January 2025 Newsletter is here! We’re kicking off the year with exciting updates: ⚙️ Rust support progress for Native 🔤 Web font improvements in GL JS
ALT text detailsHappy Birthday Ken Thompson
Feb 4, 1943 UNIX,B, C & Go Co-Creator.
There is a photo of Ken wearing a red shirt arranged against a mixed blue-green backdrop filled with balloons and a gradient. There is also the It's FOSS logo towards the bottom left.
ALT text detailsHappy Birthday Ken Thompson
Feb 4, 1943 UNIX,B, C & Go Co-Creator.
There is a photo of Ken wearing a red shirt arranged against a mixed blue-green backdrop filled with balloons and a gradient. There is also the It's FOSS logo towards the bottom left.
#Google releases #Pebble code as founder crafts new smartwatch.
In January 2025, Google announced that the source code that the operating system Pebble smartwatches use, #PebbleOS will be open-sourced with founder Eric Migicovsky also announcing future devices.
#Google releases #Pebble code as founder crafts new smartwatch.
In January 2025, Google announced that the source code that the operating system Pebble smartwatches use, #PebbleOS will be open-sourced with founder Eric Migicovsky also announcing future devices.
ALT text detailsHappy Birthday Ken Thompson
Feb 4, 1943 UNIX,B, C & Go Co-Creator.
There is a photo of Ken wearing a red shirt arranged against a mixed blue-green backdrop filled with balloons and a gradient. There is also the It's FOSS logo towards the bottom left.
ALT text detailsHappy Birthday Ken Thompson
Feb 4, 1943 UNIX,B, C & Go Co-Creator.
There is a photo of Ken wearing a red shirt arranged against a mixed blue-green backdrop filled with balloons and a gradient. There is also the It's FOSS logo towards the bottom left.
Introducing us to "Humphrey", we hear from the DG of @scitechgovuk, Emily Middleton delivers her keynote to SOOCon25 on the "Future of Open Source Keynote, Working in the Open: The future of digital Government" explaining the new Blueprint and Digital delivery - focusing on transparency and accountability see government work in the open. All central government departments will publish annually their roadmaps to build trust. https://stateofopencon.com#opensource#stateofopencon
Introducing us to "Humphrey", we hear from the DG of @scitechgovuk, Emily Middleton delivers her keynote to SOOCon25 on the "Future of Open Source Keynote, Working in the Open: The future of digital Government" explaining the new Blueprint and Digital delivery - focusing on transparency and accountability see government work in the open. All central government departments will publish annually their roadmaps to build trust. https://stateofopencon.com#opensource#stateofopencon
Music and code are an absolute delightful combination. Code repositories should include a MUSIC.md file that includes a playlist of songs on repeat while developing the codebase. Or at least "Music Inspirations" from each contributor. That would make for some interesting statistics! 🎵
I wonder if code quality or style would correlate with shared music tastes? Maybe certain genres inspire different coding patterns...
Tomorrow at this time, the Podman Community Meeting will be going on. We're talking Podman 5.4, CNCF updates, artifacts, a new utility and more! Hope to see you there, and here's the agenda with meeting info: https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w?both#podman#OpenSource
ALT text detailsThe lid of a silvery 14 inch Framework laptop covered in stickers, including the logos of many #Fediverse-related technologies and platforms. There is a cluster of Mastodon stickers in the bottom right corner of the case.
@bagder many congratulations for this richly deserved award, and I’m looking forward to seeing your contributions to the EOSA. I stand ready to support the #OpenSource mission!
As an aside, I found the curl stickers in building K on the side of one of the Linux distribution tables, but you were nowhere to be found this year! Sad to miss the annual opportunity to say “thank you for curl” in person.
Calling all Studis 📣 Der InformatiCup 2025 ist offiziell gestartet! Im Wettbewerb könnt ihr in Teams eine Aufgabe bearbeiten, eure Lösungen vorstellen – und neue Skills sowie ein Preisgeld mit nach Hause nehmen.
Die Challenge: Participate in the open - contribute to OSS as a team!
Wählt ein bestehendes Open-Source-Projekt, entwickelt oder verbessert eine Funktion, stellt den Code bereit und interagiert mit der Community!
Calling all Studis 📣 Der InformatiCup 2025 ist offiziell gestartet! Im Wettbewerb könnt ihr in Teams eine Aufgabe bearbeiten, eure Lösungen vorstellen – und neue Skills sowie ein Preisgeld mit nach Hause nehmen.
Die Challenge: Participate in the open - contribute to OSS as a team!
Wählt ein bestehendes Open-Source-Projekt, entwickelt oder verbessert eine Funktion, stellt den Code bereit und interagiert mit der Community!
Like always, #fosdem 2025 was a great event once again! I had a nice weekend. Meet a lot of people (hi Niko Bonnieure @nextgraph , @Jeremiah , Rodrigo Arias Mallo @dillo and many more). Tons of presentations and talks.
See you next year again! I will have Mbin stickers next year ;)
Really excited to be starting to focus more and more of my time into building a better home for #OpenSource#Software, on top of @radicle - a peer-to-peer forge !
Start by moving Opensource related foundations the fu*ck away from the USA.
Assume the USG is hostile, even if a particular agency seems cool.
Don't host international events in US soil. Most foreign attendees will go through a lot of uncertainties, no one wants to risk going to Guantanamo Bay because of a tech conference.
Cher Mastodon, Je m'apprête à faire une réunion d'urgence avec mes étudiants en art autour de la nécessité d'une migration vers des solutions #opensource pour la recherche iconographique et le traitement de l'image et du son, le montage et plus généralement le remplacement de leurs outils de communication..
Quelqu'un•e aurait des pistes à recommander au-delà des développements de Framasoft ? un guide fiable en la matière existe-t-il quelque part ?
Stefano Maffulli (@osi) is giving the next talk about #OpenSource and AI.
In AI there's no source and conflicts with the #OpenSource definition. For over a year they have worked with lots of experts from all over the world to study different models to come back with an answer. They've got a definition that comes with a set of conditions.
Big techs don't like that definition. They claim that's different. Regulation should happen on the deployment.
Early video today, just because I didn't feel like waiting for the usual publishing time :) In this #Linux and #OpenSource News video, we have the Freedesktop.org project (and all it hosts, so Mesa, X.org, Wayland, and more) looking for new, expensive hosting.
We also have #Debian leaving X/Twitter (congrats on that, btw), Facebook blocking links and mentions of Linux for a while, and more!
Early video today, just because I didn't feel like waiting for the usual publishing time :) In this #Linux and #OpenSource News video, we have the Freedesktop.org project (and all it hosts, so Mesa, X.org, Wayland, and more) looking for new, expensive hosting.
We also have #Debian leaving X/Twitter (congrats on that, btw), Facebook blocking links and mentions of Linux for a while, and more!
I've updated my Quarto comments extension to support Bluesky, as well as Mastodon/Fediverse! Any replies on either network *should* now appear in a nice unified interface, along with links and current comment counts.
The Techno Anarchist Manifesto aka Let’s fuck up Techno Feudalism
This practical and profanity-laced manifesto provides the loose philosophy, strategies, battleplans, tactics, and weapons to destroy Techno Feudalism via the practice of Techno Anarchism. It explains the war we are in, the Techno battle’s place in it, and what Techno Feudalism and Techno Anarchism are.
Don’t worry, I not going to start capping tech CEOs anytime soon. I’m not a 1914 anarchist or advocating for it in general.
Introduction
The same day I started writing this article about some ideas floating in my head, Joan Westenberg kind of beat me to the punch on its premise.
This piece will now be more expansive and a sort of manifesto.
I want to focus my thoughts regarding the battle against Techno Feudalism. And narrow my scope. And be systemic.
I will build whatever this ends up being in public. And put my masters degree in Political Science to work. So, this is just the start of a living document. I will update it with more of the philosophy of Techno Anarchism (and other points) in the coming weeks.
It’s also the first thing I’ve written that needs a table of contents.
As supporters of democracy we need to engage in a positive fight against this timeline’s bullshit in a manner we can control ourselves.
Our goal should be to destroy autocracy rather than protect democracy. Simply because most of us live in autocracies unfortunately.
Still, we must reform both democracy and neuter it’s biggest threat, Big Tech.
I aim to make this writing more actionable than academic. We need action on the individual level and in small groups – neighborhoods, communities (geographical or digital), libraries, companies, unions, teams, non-profits, associations, clubs, schools, real churches, credit unions, local governments, the arts, independent media, etc. These groups have always been the building blocks of democracy. And they must be nurtured through use and membership.
I call the solution I propose to combat autocracy and Techno Feudalism, Techno Anarchism. While political anarchism as defined by Wikipedia is currently unlikely if not impossible. You will see that in the tech arena, it is possible.
“Major definitional elements of anarchism include the will for a non-coercive society, the rejection of the state apparatus, the belief that human nature allows humans to exist in or progress toward such a non-coercive society, and a suggestion on how to act to pursue the ideal of anarchy.”
It’s idealistic but not 100% practical. But we can build its practicality via our interactions with tech.
Now, Wikipedia defines a manifesto as:
“A manifesto is a written declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party, or government. A manifesto can accept a previously published opinion or public consensus, but many prominent manifestos—such as The Communist Manifesto (1848) and those of various artistic movements—reject accepted knowledge in favor of a new idea.”
Is that what this will be? I think it mostly will.
The Problem
But, before going into the details of this manifesto, let’s explore our major problem as humans, what and who we are fighting, and the bigger war that the techno feudalism versus anarchism battle takes place in.
First, let’s look at the problem, ourselves. We have not evolved enough as humans to keep up with the culture, economies, and technology we’ve developed. That’s why we feel alienated and a little lost.
We need a purpose be it one dictated by religion (for the weak-minded) or philosophy. Or a very strong personal moral framework which is difficult. We might even get by with a manifesto. 😉 What we want to avoid is ideologies.
In general our overwhelmed brains need structure for things we don’t understand or can’t explain. We want simple, not the truth, which is why autocrats have an advantage. We’re mostly uneducated, unaware, unobservant, and intellectually lazy so we want easy answers.
“Today technology is the water in which we swim, whether on not we notice we are fish. Tech provides contemporary Western lives, so polarized and divided in countless ways, with a universal organizing principle… It offers myriad rites, capturing our attention and transforming our consciousness, connecting us with a community of people who spend their days…indeed their entire lives engaging in the same repetitive behaviors with the same fervent intensity.
Naturally, we all hope our devotion to this community of fellow travelers will bear fruit: surely tech will lead to a better future! Even a kind of paradise! But the truth is many of us fear, more than we’d like to admit, this may all be heading to a deeply dark place.
In other words: technology has become a religion.”
As you see, Big Tech now functions as a religion. It provides answers as more people reject the horseshit of traditional religion.
But, there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle so it needs to be reformed into a more satisfying religion. More the Tao of Pooh than the Old Testament and Revelations. More philosophy and morality for how to live life and less damnation, doctrine, and hate. One grown by us not tech oligarchs. More good, less evil. Ok.
More on this will follow in future updates.
Late Stage Capitalism / Techno Feudalism
Next let’s take a look at economics. Currently we are stuck in the economic model of capitalism. The problem is that it’s not really capitalism. It’s rigged, crony, oligarchic capitalism headed back toward feudalism. Some argue persuasively that it has already fully evolved into Techno Feudalism.
So, let’s define Techno Feudalism.
Is it a malign denomination of the Tech religion?
The child of Big Tech and Late Stage / Crony Capitalism?
Or just a bunch of cunts in Silicon Valley?
Yanis Varoufakis coined the term Techno Feudalism. So, here’s his hypothesis:
“… capitalism is dead, in the sense that its dynamics no longer govern our economies. … that role … has been replaced by something fundamentally different, which I call techno feudalism.
… the thing that killed capitalism is capital itself. Not capital as we have known it since the dawn of the industrial revolution, a new form of capital, a mutation of it that has arisen in the last two decades, so much more powerful that its predecessor that like a stupid, overzealous virus it has killed off its host.”
How’s that for an academic sentence. 😉
He continues:
“… capital’s mutation into what I call cloud capital has demolished capitalism’s two pillars: markets and profits.
Markets, the medium of capitalism, have been replaced by digital trading platforms, which look like, but are not markets, and are better understood as fiefdoms. And profit, the engine of capitalism, has been replaced with its feudal predecessor, rent.
… the owners of tradition capital … have become vassals in relation to a new class of feudal overlord, the owners of cloud capital.
… the rest of us have returned to our former status a serfs … contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labor – in addition to the waged labor we perform, when we get the chance.”
Does this sound familiar? I think so.
And who wants to be a fucking serf? Not me.
More on this will follow in future updates.
The subject of equality is obviously relevant to feudal overlords and serfs.
“…since the end of the eighteenth century there has been a historical movement toward equality. The world of the early 2020s, no matter how unjust it may seem, is more egalitarian than that of 1950 or that of 1900, which were themselves more egalitarian than those of 1850 or 1780. ..over the long term, no matter the criterion we employ, we arrive at the same conclusion. Between 1780 and 2020 we see developments tending toward greater equality…
To continue… crises and power relations are necessary, as was the case in the past, but we will also need processes of learning and collective engagement, as well as mobilization around new political programs and proposals for new institutions.
Resistance by elites is a reality, in a world in which transnational billionaires are richer than states, much as in the French revolution. Such resistance can be overcome only by powerful collective mobilization during moments of crises and tension.
To ensure that everyone can contribute… in a decentralized way, we must develop new forms of sovereignism with a universalist vocation.”
I maintain that Techno Feudalism is contributing to the current slow to non-existent grow of equality. And I also maintain that Techno Anarchism can reverse the trend and grow equality via small-scale social mobilization and personal-data-sovereignty among other strategies to destroy Techno Feudalism.
Politics aka The War
Now, on to politics. Let’s begin with a few points. And a quick note, this isn’t about parties, but policies and exercising political rights.
Autocracy is a threat to democracy. Authoritarianism is a threat to human rights. Fascism is a threat to minorities. Autocrats, Fascists (secular or religious), and Communists are the bad guys.
However, unregulated capitalism and digital technology are a deadlier threat to democracy. Big Money and Big Tech equal the really bad guys. Oligarchs suck.
These two threats to human freedom go hand in hand. Unbound capitalism leads to fascist / authoritarian governments which lead to corrupt, crony capitalism or state capitalism aka hypocritical communism. Both of which erode and eventually destroy democracy, the environment, and human rights.
So, we need to reform and regulate large-scale capitalism and keep autocracy at bay. And again, reform democracy to function in the world we now live in.
Tech both in its Silicon Valley incarnation and the tools of repression Chinese / Israeli model are destroying democracy. One via corrupt, oligarchic capitalism / Techno Feudalism. And one via authoritarianism.
In we want democracy to survive we must fight these two tech models along with autocrats, autocratic political parties, autocratic nations, and autocratic ideologies.
More on this will follow in future updates.
The War’s Combatants
To reiterate, the larger war which I think of as WWIII is one between supporters of democracy and what I call the Evil Empire (Reagan is dead and I have commandeered the term!):
Unregulated Capitalists / Techno Feudalists
Big Tech in general
Autocrats
The Evil Empire
Unregulated capitalist oligarchs, and Techno Feudalists
We’ve seen who they are.
More on this will follow in future updates.
Big Tech which is mostly Techno Feudalists, and some Techno Fascists
“…the fact that our social, professional, and civil lives are increasingly digitized and, essentially, all aspects of digitation are in the hands of private companies; that certain technologies have inherent antidemocratic characteristics, while laws to protect democratic values and the rule of law are lagging; and that, most important, democratic governments’ outsourcing of key functions has led to a hollowing out of government’s core capabilities.
These systemic problems are now undermining the core principles of democracy: free and fair elections, the rule of law, the separation of powers, a well-informed, public debate, national security and the protection of civil liberties such as freedom of expression, the presumption of innocence, and the right to privacy.
As digitization progresses, we see a gradual shift in responsibility and power away from democratic leaders. This shift accelerates two trends: growing digital authoritarianism and a wholesale decline in democratic governance.”
We are the frogs being slowly boiled in the pot as the temperature rises. But, it’s not a fucking joke.
More on this will follow in future updates.
Autocrats
You are probably most familiar with these villains. They either rule your country or are a political party(ies) in it.
“Unlike military or political alliances from other times and places, (today’s Autocrats) operates not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies, bound not by ideology but rather by a ruthless, single-minded determination to preserve their personal wealth and power, Autocracy, Inc.
Their bonds with one another, and with their friends in the democratic world, are cemented not through ideals but through deals – deals designed to take the edge off sanctions, to exchange surveillance technology, to help one another get rich.
Autocracy, Inc., offers its members not only money and security but also something less tangible, impunity.
Their enmity toward the democratic world is not merely some form of traditional geopolitical competition… (It) …has its roots in the very nature of the democratic political system, in words “accountability,” “transparency,” and “democracy.” They hear that language coming from the democratic world, they hear the same language coming from their on dissidents, and they seek to destroy them both.”
More on this will follow in future updates.
Democracy Supporters / Enlightened Humans
This is short. It’s us. At least the intelligent ones in the “Western World”, Oceana, Japan, and South Korea rules-based world. Plus a few other countries in the global south and various dissidents everywhere.
Enshittification
Before moving on to Techno Anarchism, here’s a quick note about Enshittification. It is part of techno feudalism. Chicken or the egg first? I don’t know.
But, Cory Doctorow describes enshittification like this:
“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.”
So, not only are Techno Feudalists part of the evil empire, their products suck as well.
Ok, enough about the cunts. Let’s move on the good guys.
The Winnable Battle
Will democracy win the war against autocracy? Who knows? It’s an eternal war that the bad guys currently have the upper hand in. And have had for the last decade or two. And have had for 99.99% of human history. Make what you will of that.
But, one of the war’s largest current battles can definitely be won. Equality can continue to grow. And our lives can be improved. And the world’s apocalypse can be delayed.
This battle is the one where Techno Anarchism opposes Techno Feudalism.
It is winnable because this victory can be achieved at the personal and small group level. It also has the advantage that the bad guys can’t defeat it (only resist it). Only apathy (which is also hard to overcome) can defeat Techno Anarchism. If you have a hundred million of drops of water you might drown an elephant. If you have a hundred you can’t even get one toe wet.
It’s also winnable because it’s more of a matter of changing habits (difficult) than political beliefs (extremely difficult). Anarchists and libertarians can be partial allies here along with many other freedom lovers.
And partial is important because this battle’s tactics are modular. It’s not all or nothing. You can take it one step at a time. It’s easy to be a soldier and not too hard to be an officer. You can increase your efforts over time as you get in the martial groove. Hopefully, you can even become a general.
Techno Anarchism
Finally, let’s move on to Techno Anarchism / Digital Distributism and Digital Sovereignty (which is slightly different). This is the philosophy, strategies, and actions needed to defeat Techno Feudalism.
As I mentioned before, Joan Westenberg published something similar to my gestating thoughts. So, let’s not reinvent the wheel and look as her points.
The article in question is The Revolution Will Be Decentralized. It’s not really a revolution, but more a radical adjustment of habits. But, if it happens it will be decentralized. Anyway, take a break and go read her article now! You may need to eat lunch too.
You’re back. Great.
She uses the terms Digital Democracy and Digital Feudalism versus Techno Anarchism and Techno Feudalism.
Westenberg’s central idea addresses both distribution and personal data sovereignty:
“The implementation of Digital Distributism rests on three foundational pillars: infrastructure commons, data sovereignty, and algorithmic democracy. Each pillar requires specific technical and organizational structures to function effectively.
The revolution toward digital democracy begins with individual choices. Every person who moves to decentralized platforms weakens the grip of tech monopolies. Every contribution to open source projects builds alternative infrastructure. Every act of resistance against surveillance and control helps shift the balance of power.
But individual action is not, is never enough. It must be coupled with collective organization. We need coordinated efforts to build and promote alternatives. We need political movements that understand the connection between digital and democratic power. We need communities dedicated to practicing digital distributism in their own operations.
The infrastructure of freedom won’t build itself. But neither did the infrastructure of control. Every system of power depends on the daily choices of millions of individuals. Will we shape the change toward digital democracy or submit to digital feudalism?”
That’s the question. And fortunately you can answer it.
How? With a blast from the past.
Joan and I both propose a similar idea, the Digital Distributist Alternative (Joan) and Techno Anarchism (me).
But FYI, these are not new ideas. They existed before as an alternative to capitalism and socialism. Unfortunately, they didn’t win out.
”Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world’s productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated. Developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, distributism was based upon Catholic social teaching principles, especially those of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) and Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo anno (1931). It has influenced Anglo Christian Democratic movements, and has been recognized as one of many influences on the social market economy.
Distributism views laissez-faire capitalism and state socialism as equally flawed and exploitative, due to their extreme concentration of ownership. Instead, it favors small independent craftsmen and producers; or, if that is not possible, economic mechanisms such as cooperatives and member-owned mutual organisations, as well as small to medium enterprises and vigorous anti-trust laws to restrain or eliminate overweening economic power.”
Joan says:
“Digital Distributism updates this framework for the internet age, recognizing that digital infrastructure is now as fundamental to human flourishing as land was in the agricultural era. It offers a comprehensive alternative to digital feudalism by reimagining how we structure and govern the technologies that increasingly mediate human existence.”
Techno Distributism / Anarchism is the modern equivalent fighting Techno Feudalism as opposed to unregulated capitalism and state socialism. And it has a better chance of coming out on top. It’s more about the means of computation and consumption versus the means of production.
We’re digital serfs here, not the proletariat.
More on this will follow in future updates.
So, we now have our nebulously defined movement, Techno Anarchism. How do we win the war against its all to real foe?
By slowly killing Techno Feudalism with weapons of course.
The Arsenal of Techno Anarchism
Okay, so what are the weapons we can use to destroy Techno Feudalism?
Open Source Technology
We start by using open-source technology. Again, it has the advantage that it can’t be bought and enshittified at scale.
Let’s examine the arsenal in detail. Please explore and start using these tools while dropping their enshittified, corporate, feudalistic alternatives. Obviously, all of these are not for everyone. But, do what you can.
They will also boost the privacy and security of your personal data aka your digital sovereignty.
More details on these individual tools will follow in future updates. For now please use the links.
In the home stretch, let’s look at the most powerful weapon against techno feudalism, The Fediverse.
Corporate social media is even worse than mass media. Millions of morons can get on it and pontificate as much as they want. It is used by extremists and conspiracy theorists to devastating effect. And it’s run by the motherfuckers behind techno feudalism. Today’s true rulers control the algorithms that show all this horseshit, encourage it, and addict us to following it.
“My focus is on a profound transformation in the dynamics of power and influence, which have fundamentally shifted, and on how we, the citizens, can come to grips with a force that is altering our politics, our society, and our very relationship to reality. For sure, companies and governments must bear their burden of figuring out how to regulate this new space, and how to restore trust and shore up institutions, but we as citizens, have a responsibility to understand these dynamics so we can build healthy norms and fight back. This is the task of a new civics.”
Well said, though I have no faith in the companies doing shit and little faith in governments doing their part competently. So it falls to us as Techno Anarchists to unfuck this. We can do this by leaving corporate social media and moving to the Fediverse.
“The ways people can and cannot collectively self-govern in daily online life, furthermore, have been constrained in dominant social networks… the constraints on governance in online spaces have contributed to the peril of democratic politics in general. It is not enough to merely defend existing governmental institutions, healthy democracy depends on enabling creative new forms of self-governance, especially on networks.
If democracy is on the horizon (for humanity), self-governance is a plausible practice for moving in that direction. Governable Spaces, then, are where democratic self-governance can happen.
…the design of online social spaces has contributed to the atrophy of everyday democratic skills. (Fortunately) …the future of democracy can begin at the level of ordinary community, wherever we find ourselves together, where each of us has a chance to make a difference.”
You and I can have a profound impact on the governance of the Fediverse in addition to the good it does in the world. Pick a platform and get involved.
We covered the enshittification of corporate social media above.
“When the tech platforms promised a future of “connection,” they were lying. They said their “walled gardens” would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.
The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms are hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it’s a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships.
We can – we must – dismantle the tech platforms. (We must) …seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission.
Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.”
To counteract enshittification (and speed up the death of these feudal social platforms) we must seize the means of communication / computation via self-publishing with open-source tech. This is provided by personal websites built with open-source technology and distributed with RSS as seen earlier and via the Fediverse. Decentralization and interoperability are key. We must work for these results politically as well.
The Fediverse is the most formidable weapon of Techno Anarchy because it is unbuyable. It is unseizable if hosted in Europe. And it lets us focus on localism (again small groups) vs globalism. It’s distributed not siloed. And open-source not corporate. No ads, less harassment, and less bullshit greet you there. It’s also quite anarchic in general.
Learn more about the technical aspects and platforms of the Fediverse from these Symfony Station articles.
It’s a critical tactic to use these weapons. It’s also important to support them financially and to be active in their communities.
Tactics
Here are some more easy and local tactics.
Support the Independent Non-profit Press
The mass media is an unreliable ally in the war against autocracy much less the battle against Techno Feudalism.
Traditional journalism is flailing and failing. And it’s slowly going out of business. Plus, they are too spineless to save themselves. It’s because they are corporate and thus cowards. And they are mostly owned by cunts.
Instead, we need to support and patronize independent non-profit journalistic organizations. That means giving them money directly my fellow anarchists.
Like this publication the following examples are tech-oriented or political-oriented. But there are many for every issue you care about.
But in particular, before spending your capital, think about that decision’s impact on our planet and your fellow humans. That’s basic morality. And please buy physical products from a local brick and mortar store. And only if you need them.
More relevant to Techno Anarchism, buy digital products from small tech suppliers or open-source suppliers or non and not-for-profits. Donate as much money as you can to open-source technology and other non-profit service providers.
This is easy, it just takes a little conscious thought and avoiding lazy thinking. Or a lack of thinking.
Battleplan
I am sure you’re ready to kick some ass. So, what can you do? I think you mostly know by now. It’s not complex. We’re not invading Normandy here.
Digital Sovereignty
You must own your communications, own your data, own your digital identity, own your digital devices, and own your own online real estate. Use the open-source technology featured here. Use open-source hardware. Each time you do you place a nail in Techno Feudalism’s coffin. The more you use, the faster that death occurs.
Choose Your Weapons and Kill Techno Feudalism
Use the weapons in Techno Anarchism’s arsenal. Again, the battle against Techno Feudalism is modular. It’s not all or nothing. You can take it one step at a time or one weapon at a time. Put more nails in. And add as many as you can over time. Let’s shut that fucker tight.
As Joan says:
“Each new protocol, each independent instance, each decentralized application creates another crack in the walls of digital feudalism.”
You’re the General
Again, proceed at your pace. Rome wasn’t built or destroyed in a day and these corporate shits are difficult to leave. Intentionally.
We’re in WWIII here and its going to take a while to kill these fucks and cripple their allies. But, they are going to die. Inglorious bastards style but via Techno Anarchism not bullets or baseball bats. That’s the final resort I hope we never see.
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Keep Fighting, Anarchists! We can win this. The power is yours.
Resources
To begin with, follow us each week for the latest happenings in this battle via Battalion’s Destroying Autocracy posts.
@haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com · Reply to dansup's post
@dansup i really dont want to spoil the fun here. I appreciate the effort.
But although #signal is much more popular than #matrix their relationship is like #mastodon to #bluesky. Both bluesky and signal have a #proprietary backend. although their frontent is #OpenSource they technically have a single point of failure. server/cluster down == service down
Mastodon and matrix are actual fediverse services which are undestroyable since they are many federated, independent servers.
New #paper out: « The impact of the #COVID19 pandemic on women’s contribution to public code » (Empir. Softw. Eng. 30(1): 25 (2025)) where we establish, using #econometrics techniques and relying on the @swheritage archive, that the pandemic disproportionately impacted women's ability to contribute to the development of public code, relatively to men. #Openaccess preprint at: https://hal.science/hal-04716803/
@shakil_tcs@mstdn.starnix.network · Reply to Debian's post
@debian Really? You had no problems with having debconf hosted in the Zionist state. You even refer to that illegal entity by the name "Israel". Does the Debian project have the same values as the Zionist state? I understand a free software project not wanting to be on a proprietary platform, but this is ridiculous.
Today, we endorse the @osi‘s #OSAID. In an environment of increased open-washing, and at times where finding consensus becomes harder, the OSI has shown leadership that engages voices from academia, industry, and society. And while there are questions, the OSAID is a platform unifying discussion and providing space for discourse. I am happy that I can announce our endorsement today. Thank you to all involved. #ai#opensource
this work was done by my teammate Facundo and is part of a larger multi-year arc of work dedicated to landing security and usability improvements on PyPI:
Does anyone have a nice marketing-ish graphic of one Linux app across a desktop, tablet, and phone UI? I feel like I saw someone share a single graphic like that recently but have no idea who.
this work was done by my teammate Facundo and is part of a larger multi-year arc of work dedicated to landing security and usability improvements on PyPI:
This marks my very first technical blog post, Interning at @servo has been an absolute joy—I’ve learned so much about browsers, Rust, and the open source community, and I’m beyond grateful!
"#Pixelfed, #Loops, & #Sup, #opensource alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, are now raising funds on #Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development. The trio is part of the growing #opensocial web, also known as #thefediverse, powered by the same #ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after Twitter sold to Elon Musk in Oct2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. election."
Calling all #Hobart, #Tasmania peoples that are passionate, interested or just curious about all things open (#opensource, #linux#hardware, #data, #access etc etc.) to get in touch with me. Follow me, ping me, send a carrier pidgin my way (I might even respond to smoke signal). Boosts welcome.
Calling all #Hobart, #Tasmania peoples that are passionate, interested or just curious about all things open (#opensource, #linux#hardware, #data, #access etc etc.) to get in touch with me. Follow me, ping me, send a carrier pidgin my way (I might even respond to smoke signal). Boosts welcome.
Today, we endorse the @osi‘s #OSAID. In an environment of increased open-washing, and at times where finding consensus becomes harder, the OSI has shown leadership that engages voices from academia, industry, and society. And while there are questions, the OSAID is a platform unifying discussion and providing space for discourse. I am happy that I can announce our endorsement today. Thank you to all involved. #ai#opensource
This marks my very first technical blog post, Interning at @servo has been an absolute joy—I’ve learned so much about browsers, Rust, and the open source community, and I’m beyond grateful!
Hello @mfeilner and @sl007 , i will be in Brussels on Thursday evening and Friday, FOSDEM on Saturday, where I present NextGraph. #DigitalSovereignty, #opensource#eurostack is very much part of our vision. If you want to have a chat, let me know. Cheers, Niko
We are excited to share that Pixelix now has a Liberapay account! If you love the app and want to support its development, you can now contribute through recurring donations. Your support means everything and helps to keep Pixelix growing and improving. 🌱
We are excited to share that Pixelix now has a Liberapay account! If you love the app and want to support its development, you can now contribute through recurring donations. Your support means everything and helps to keep Pixelix growing and improving. 🌱
We are excited to share that Pixelix now has a Liberapay account! If you love the app and want to support its development, you can now contribute through recurring donations. Your support means everything and helps to keep Pixelix growing and improving. 🌱
We are excited to share that Pixelix now has a Liberapay account! If you love the app and want to support its development, you can now contribute through recurring donations. Your support means everything and helps to keep Pixelix growing and improving. 🌱
We are excited to share that Pixelix now has a Liberapay account! If you love the app and want to support its development, you can now contribute through recurring donations. Your support means everything and helps to keep Pixelix growing and improving. 🌱
We are excited to share that Pixelix now has a Liberapay account! If you love the app and want to support its development, you can now contribute through recurring donations. Your support means everything and helps to keep Pixelix growing and improving. 🌱
We are excited to share that Pixelix now has a Liberapay account! If you love the app and want to support its development, you can now contribute through recurring donations. Your support means everything and helps to keep Pixelix growing and improving. 🌱
The Podman Community Meeting will be happening in a week from now at 11:00 am EST (UTC-5). At the moment, we have plenty of room for topics if you'd like to add one to our Agenda! Maybe a nice demo of what you're working on? https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w?both#podman#OpenSource
Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.
Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.
In the last days I often got asked about #snac / #snac2 as an alternative to #Mastodon and I can highly recommend it! I few months ago, I already wrote a HowTo about setting snac up on a FreeBSD instance - might be worth to share again :) if you’re using snac, you might also want to use my relay service at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to make your posts more visible in the Fediworld.
Kiwi Browser, a popular #opensource web browser for #Android that supports extensions, has been discontinued due to lack of time from its main developer. The browser's extensions code in being integrated in Microsoft Edge Canary. Users should seek for alternatives.
1) Use #Tor or a #Vpn for most if not all of your web browsing. I'd recommend Tor since it's free and not centralized, which means a single point of failure in case of #hacks or #government#datarequests. 2) Use #Signal, the gold standard of private, encrypted communications. 3) Install #Grapheneos on a Pixel device for a private and secure mobile phone. Do not use Google services or install the Play Store. Install only #opensource, ad free apps. 1/4
1) Use #Tor or a #Vpn for most if not all of your web browsing. I'd recommend Tor since it's free and not centralized, which means a single point of failure in case of #hacks or #government#datarequests. 2) Use #Signal, the gold standard of private, encrypted communications. 3) Install #Grapheneos on a Pixel device for a private and secure mobile phone. Do not use Google services or install the Play Store. Install only #opensource, ad free apps. 1/4
Kiwi Browser, a popular #opensource web browser for #Android that supports extensions, has been discontinued due to lack of time from its main developer. The browser's extensions code in being integrated in Microsoft Edge Canary. Users should seek for alternatives.
Streamer.bot is a great tool for streamers on the big platforms like Twitch and YouTube (I use it myself!), but it lacks official support for open source platforms like #Owncast and it would be great to see this added.
That's why I've submitted a suggestion for it on their ideas page, and it would great if you could vote as well! It's only got a single lonely vote which I'm pretty sure is mine for suggesting it. 😅
In the last days I often got asked about #snac / #snac2 as an alternative to #Mastodon and I can highly recommend it! I few months ago, I already wrote a HowTo about setting snac up on a FreeBSD instance - might be worth to share again :) if you’re using snac, you might also want to use my relay service at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to make your posts more visible in the Fediworld.
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Don't mention #Linux! Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.
The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.
Streamer.bot is a great tool for streamers on the big platforms like Twitch and YouTube (I use it myself!), but it lacks official support for open source platforms like #Owncast and it would be great to see this added.
That's why I've submitted a suggestion for it on their ideas page, and it would great if you could vote as well! It's only got a single lonely vote which I'm pretty sure is mine for suggesting it. 😅
LoL: US Big Tech companies are nothing more than a bunch of chicken-hearted cowards ->
"A little-known AI lab out of China has ignited panic throughout Silicon Valley after releasing AI models that can outperform America’s best despite being built more cheaply and with less-powerful chips.
DeepSeek, as the lab is called, unveiled a free, open-source large-language model in late December that it says took only two months and less than $6 million to build, using reduced-capability chips from Nvidia called H800s.
The new developments have raised alarms on whether America’s global lead in artificial intelligence is shrinking and called into question big tech’s massive spend on building AI models and data centers.
In a set of third-party benchmark tests, DeepSeek’s model outperformed Meta’s Llama 3.1, OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 in accuracy ranging from complex problem-solving to math and coding.
DeepSeek on Monday released r1, a reasoning model that also outperformed OpenAI’s latest o1 in many of those third-party tests."
What self-hosted Git forge do people like these days for personal use? (and why? I'm always interested in why)
From what I've seen it sounds like the consensus is Forgejo > Gitea > Gogs, but I would like to know if I'm misreading the situation; or, if there are any other promising up-and-comers.
What self-hosted Git forge do people like these days for personal use? (and why? I'm always interested in why)
From what I've seen it sounds like the consensus is Forgejo > Gitea > Gogs, but I would like to know if I'm misreading the situation; or, if there are any other promising up-and-comers.
"#Pixelfed, #Loops, & #Sup, #opensource alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, are now raising funds on #Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development. The trio is part of the growing #opensocial web, also known as #thefediverse, powered by the same #ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after Twitter sold to Elon Musk in Oct2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. election."
Edit : I found my internship, thank you everyone for reposting :)
Just migrated from my mastodon.social account to the post.lurk.org instance (thank you @rra for the invite and the ressources ) So... here is my little #Introduction post (also a post of me searching for an internship lol) : Hi, I'm Zineb, I am a moroccan girly pop who loves to code, to draw and to sing :3 Currently in the first year of my Master's degree in Communication at the Ésac art school in Cambrai (france), I'm searching for an #internship in the field of #graphicdesign, especially with collectives enthusiastic about #webtoprint and #opensource tools (like me!). I mainly code with #HTML and #CSS, and I am currently learning #javascript. I can speak fluently french, english and arabic. I also have some basic knowledge in spanish. In terms of location, I'm seeking an internship in #Belgium, the #Netherlands, #Germany or the region of Paris. (Oh, forgot to mention that I can have an erasmus/internship grant ) Here's the link to my website: https://zinebammar.neocities.org/
Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news video, in which we have #Deepin 25 going immutable, the kernel 6.13, and Intel rediscovering the lost tech of "modular computers":
Am I missing anything or are all the existing operating systems for #smartphones in the #USA really limited to 1. #graphene 2. #calyx 3. #Lineage 4. #Pine/Fairphone (Which are all open source & privacy respecting but are/work with phones that aren't anywhere near rugged standards.)
5. #windows 6. #android with google 7. #chrome 8. #ios /apple 9. #Mac (Which are all virtual monopoly parts, government partners & thusly fascist entities, who love spying on their users, that have rugged smartphone options.)
?
As in my tech updates I'm still looking for an open source operating system that can work on a #rugged smartphone (cases available for the flimsily designed hardware don't count as the device itself being rugged).
Are there any #OpenSource services that would allow me to cross-post on the #Fediverse and on #Blueskywithout creating a dummy account (as #Bridgy does)?
Ideally, I’m thinking about a client that supports both the #MastodonAPI and the #BlueskyAPI.
Edit : I found my internship, thank you everyone for reposting :)
Just migrated from my mastodon.social account to the post.lurk.org instance (thank you @rra for the invite and the ressources ) So... here is my little #Introduction post (also a post of me searching for an internship lol) : Hi, I'm Zineb, I am a moroccan girly pop who loves to code, to draw and to sing :3 Currently in the first year of my Master's degree in Communication at the Ésac art school in Cambrai (france), I'm searching for an #internship in the field of #graphicdesign, especially with collectives enthusiastic about #webtoprint and #opensource tools (like me!). I mainly code with #HTML and #CSS, and I am currently learning #javascript. I can speak fluently french, english and arabic. I also have some basic knowledge in spanish. In terms of location, I'm seeking an internship in #Belgium, the #Netherlands, #Germany or the region of Paris. (Oh, forgot to mention that I can have an erasmus/internship grant ) Here's the link to my website: https://zinebammar.neocities.org/
Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the #Fediverse and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!
But what makes me even really happy is to see, that my service [2] also gets linked in the release notes of #snac [1] / #snac2 - and I can recommend the usage of relay services (it doesn't matter which one!) to everyone. It provides more content from connected instances to you, but also brings your posts - from your local instance - up to other ones within the federated network where it can get much easier distributed around other instances.
#snac is the perfect way to host an own fediverse instance. Using the #ActivityPub protocol allows you to connect to all other instances. With the integrated #Mastodon API, you can also use most of your usual clients or web clients. Snac is light, fast, does not require any database and follows the KISS way - which the most of us BSD people are living. With relay services, it's the perfect match for singe-user instances and @grunfink is always open for ideas and to help! It does not always need to be #Mastodon, #GoToSocial etc!
And if you're using any other software, you may still benefit by using relay services. And if you're still looking for a guide, howto setup snac2 on #FreeBSD, my howto [3] might help you out.
Does anyone know good options for selfhostable translator programms? That don't connect to google, deepl, yandex, or anything else to translate piece of text? Also it would be very poggers if it's open source
Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the #Fediverse and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!
But what makes me even really happy is to see, that my service [2] also gets linked in the release notes of #snac [1] / #snac2 - and I can recommend the usage of relay services (it doesn't matter which one!) to everyone. It provides more content from connected instances to you, but also brings your posts - from your local instance - up to other ones within the federated network where it can get much easier distributed around other instances.
#snac is the perfect way to host an own fediverse instance. Using the #ActivityPub protocol allows you to connect to all other instances. With the integrated #Mastodon API, you can also use most of your usual clients or web clients. Snac is light, fast, does not require any database and follows the KISS way - which the most of us BSD people are living. With relay services, it's the perfect match for singe-user instances and @grunfink is always open for ideas and to help! It does not always need to be #Mastodon, #GoToSocial etc!
And if you're using any other software, you may still benefit by using relay services. And if you're still looking for a guide, howto setup snac2 on #FreeBSD, my howto [3] might help you out.
Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the #Fediverse and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!
But what makes me even really happy is to see, that my service [2] also gets linked in the release notes of #snac [1] / #snac2 - and I can recommend the usage of relay services (it doesn't matter which one!) to everyone. It provides more content from connected instances to you, but also brings your posts - from your local instance - up to other ones within the federated network where it can get much easier distributed around other instances.
#snac is the perfect way to host an own fediverse instance. Using the #ActivityPub protocol allows you to connect to all other instances. With the integrated #Mastodon API, you can also use most of your usual clients or web clients. Snac is light, fast, does not require any database and follows the KISS way - which the most of us BSD people are living. With relay services, it's the perfect match for singe-user instances and @grunfink is always open for ideas and to help! It does not always need to be #Mastodon, #GoToSocial etc!
And if you're using any other software, you may still benefit by using relay services. And if you're still looking for a guide, howto setup snac2 on #FreeBSD, my howto [3] might help you out.
Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news video, in which we have #Deepin 25 going immutable, the kernel 6.13, and Intel rediscovering the lost tech of "modular computers":
I’d love to get in touch with a lawyer or corporation-savvy person in Oslo/Norway who is interested in things like open source, coops and steward ownership.
Don’t need to be an expert in any of this, just need to be interested in exploring this space together with me in the Norwegian jurisdiction.
LoL: US Big Tech companies are nothing more than a bunch of chicken-hearted cowards ->
"A little-known AI lab out of China has ignited panic throughout Silicon Valley after releasing AI models that can outperform America’s best despite being built more cheaply and with less-powerful chips.
DeepSeek, as the lab is called, unveiled a free, open-source large-language model in late December that it says took only two months and less than $6 million to build, using reduced-capability chips from Nvidia called H800s.
The new developments have raised alarms on whether America’s global lead in artificial intelligence is shrinking and called into question big tech’s massive spend on building AI models and data centers.
In a set of third-party benchmark tests, DeepSeek’s model outperformed Meta’s Llama 3.1, OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 in accuracy ranging from complex problem-solving to math and coding.
DeepSeek on Monday released r1, a reasoning model that also outperformed OpenAI’s latest o1 in many of those third-party tests."
I’d love to get in touch with a lawyer or corporation-savvy person in Oslo/Norway who is interested in things like open source, coops and steward ownership.
Don’t need to be an expert in any of this, just need to be interested in exploring this space together with me in the Norwegian jurisdiction.
If you know people who don't really dare to leave Xitter, you can suggest @cyd. This is nin free and open source software and thus the tool for freedom.
Please don't just blame people, but help them and show them how to achieve personal freedom. The eXit tool is now free to use and no longer an obstacle.
Flock to Fedora 2025 is announced for Prague! Join us June 5-8 as contributors from around the world come together to discuss Fedora Linux and the community.
#introduction Hello scicomm.xyz (and Fediverse in general!) -- my name's Adelaide, and I'm a Latin American scientist just graduated from a Chemistry BSc. (yay!)
I'm very passionate about #electrochemistry and love reading about it. Also, I constantly take notes on what picks my curiosity, and am developing my personal webpage and a few #opensource small projects.
I'd like to find people in #science and #chemistry in the Fediverse :) let's follow one another!
Dreaming again about software as a graph. Instead of using the semantic units of programming languages, our entire dev infra rests on hierarchies which should have zero relation with the internal structures/architectures of our code and, like so much else, are the byproduct of older legacy decisions. Despite this, 99% of modern PLs are still designed around these seemingly permanent legacy structures.
Early “web search” indices before Google (i.e. Altavista, DMOZ, Yahoo) were all about putting links into hierarchies. Our entire modern software development architecture is (still) using the same model: From hierarchical file systems, languages using files as basic organizational unit (vs functions/classes/types), name spaces, packages (aka virtualized folders) as containers, both to group functionality and to distribute it. Git repos are yet another level of hierarchy on top (although excluding monorepos, they’re usually the same level as packages). It’s folders, not turtles, all the way down (and up)!
Caring about usability & maintenance, for years I’ve been struggling with this overall setup and having an increasingly hard time (and spending too much of it) to figure out _where_ to put (new & old) functionality: Should it be combined with or become part of existing packages, go in a new file/package, should it be (always) internal or public, should it exist at all (as standalone unit)... This struggle, first stemming from 15 years of Java coding, largely motivated my adoption of Literate Programming (LP) during most of the 2010s (via #Clojure & #OrgMode), though it only partially helped with some aspects, and other people around me discouraged it...
Hierarchies lead to hard-to-undo systemic calcification of structures. Structures/institutions which only make/made sense for a time, maybe were a good pragmatic/useful solution at the time, but then should be allowed to cease to exist, or the very least should be more soft and open for change. To me software is NOT about upholding hierarchies, but about malleability, above all other concerns like reliability, reproducibility, security, etc. There’re hundreds of existing things I’d like to migrate/re-organize, but I can’t because it’d break hundreds of downstream projects — and I do care about others who’re using these libraries! For context, being the by far largest thi.ng meta-project, the https://thi.ng/umbrella monorepo contains 200 packages/libraries with a total of 4100+ standalone functions and ~2200 types/interfaces/classes. It’s getting ever harder to fight the existing hierarchies and I know I could drastically reduce these numbers if it wasn’t for these enforced structures.
Apart from calcification, hierarchies also lead to other issues like duplication, (lack of) discoverability, competition (of responsibilities), paradox of choice, and increased maintenance efforts... All things I’d like to avoid in my work!
What I want instead (and have already started prototyping several times) is a distributed graph based version of:
- Content addressable standalone semantic units of code (language agnostic). Any change immediately leads to new version. Requires an alias system to make references & versions human readable. - RDF-style graph database of all code. Each node has typed links to dependencies (e.g. other functions), documentation (incl. example usage, references, research papers), bidirectional links to previous and next versions, other metadata (author, license etc.) - No files, no packages, only tags (for discovery)
As an interim adaptation step to keep on using existing languages/infra, a form of LP style “tangle” tool is required. This tool would linearize/dedupe the referenced subgraph(s) into traditional source files as a pre-build step and implicitly perform dead code elimination, which should also lead to much lower compile efforts/times...
Using a graph approach, we can have much more advanced & useful dev tools, more easily produce visualizations to aid codebase & dependency analysis/maintenance, refactoring, etc.
#introduction Hello scicomm.xyz (and Fediverse in general!) -- my name's Adelaide, and I'm a Latin American scientist just graduated from a Chemistry BSc. (yay!)
I'm very passionate about #electrochemistry and love reading about it. Also, I constantly take notes on what picks my curiosity, and am developing my personal webpage and a few #opensource small projects.
I'd like to find people in #science and #chemistry in the Fediverse :) let's follow one another!
Pixelix, the third party client for Pixelfed is open source now!✨
Pixelix is a feature-rich Pixelfed client for Android. DMs, Collections, custom app icons and home screen widgets to name a few. The app is developed natively using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, which ensures excellent performance.🚀
Pixelix will still be available for 2€ on Google Play Store, but now you also have the ability to compile the project yourself if you want to. We believe that it is justified that good software costs something and there has to be a way to earn some money from software that is open source.
So if you want to support us please give Pixelix a try and also review it on Google Play Store.⭐
As Windows 10 gets closer to no longer being supported, you may want to consider switching to Fedora to keep your computer running with regular security updates. Here's an easy guide on how to do that for yourself or someone else!
Do I know any designers explicitly experienced in *brand* design who would be willing to help out an open source project? I’m working with a project that is interested in a new logo, and I’d love to connect you.
Unfortunately I don’t know that there’s a budget, so this would likely be a volunteer/pro bono effort unless we think we could crowdfund/find a sponsor to pay for the work. Still, if you’re interested, let me know in a reply, please!
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We are excited to announce the partnership between OpenCloud and @CollaboraOffice ! Michael Meeks and Peer Heinlein sealed the beginning of the collaboration today at Univention Summit. Collabora Online will be seamlessly integrated into OpenCloud. The joint solution combines Collabora Online's comprehensive office suite with OpenCloud's secure, scalable and cloud-native architecture. 👉 https://opencloud.eu/en/news/office-suite-collabora-online-and-opencloud-announce-strategic-partnership
PSA: I just updated https://thi.ng/monopub (a tool for synchronized publishing of packages in a monorepo) to add a new option to truncate generated changelogs with a configurable cut-off date (i.e. to exclude older versions). I've set the default cut off to 1st of January 3 years ago. As a result this saves around 1MB of just changelog files per full #ThingUmbrella release (for 200 packages). Older version history can of course still be obtained via Git...
Fulminanter Auftakt für OpenCloud.eu auf dem UniventionSummit! Peer Heinlein hat in seiner Keynote "A community has to do, what a community has to do." veranschaulicht, warum #OpenSource für ihn Freiheit bedeutet und die Relevanz quelloffener Software für ein digital souveränes Europa anhand eines realen Beispiels herausgestellt. Besuchen Sie uns heute und morgen an unserem gemeinsamen Stand mit @OpenTalkMeeting
Wouldn't it be logical if software is build, paid with tax payers money that the resulting software is open source? In this blog we discuss about Public Money, Public Code. You can still register for our Hackathon on 21-22 February. All info is on our website. May the #foss be with you. #floss#opensource https://os-sci.com/blog/our-blog-posts-1/public-money-public-code-46
Wouldn't it be logical if software is build, paid with tax payers money that the resulting software is open source? In this blog we discuss about Public Money, Public Code. You can still register for our Hackathon on 21-22 February. All info is on our website. May the #foss be with you. #floss#opensource https://os-sci.com/blog/our-blog-posts-1/public-money-public-code-46
The tidyverse has a rich #OpenSourceStory, which you can hear about in this conversation between Hadley Wickham and Tracy Teal. Learn about Hadley's early influences as well as how he has strategically kept focus throughout the development of tidydata, tidyr, and more.
The tidyverse has a rich #OpenSourceStory, which you can hear about in this conversation between Hadley Wickham and Tracy Teal. Learn about Hadley's early influences as well as how he has strategically kept focus throughout the development of tidydata, tidyr, and more.
The tidyverse has a rich #OpenSourceStory, which you can hear about in this conversation between Hadley Wickham and Tracy Teal. Learn about Hadley's early influences as well as how he has strategically kept focus throughout the development of tidydata, tidyr, and more.
👋 Hi everyone! I’m Daniel Torres Burriel, CEO of Torresburriel Estudio, a UX agency helping companies create user-centered digital experiences with strategic focus and measurable results.
🔍 What we do: UX Research, UI Design, Digital Strategy, and UX Training (UX-PM certification).
🌟 Passionate about digital culture, ethical tech, open source, security, privacy, and CLI.
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Hey, so, we all know weather is going to get more dangerous over the next few years. Also, the USA weather services are probably not going to be operating at their best (to be optimistic). I know there are other sources, but the whole of the world society feels like it is on the edge of darkness. So... Proposal/question: using the plethora of easily accessible data, compute, and brilliant people; how could we form a federated and decentralized weather service?
I imagine it would require some standardized protocols and modeling teams. Similar things do exist for other areas of research. However, I am an ecological modeler and know very little relevant information beyond using climate models. I am not completely sure what is needed for weather. Thoughts or ideas? Or is anyone even interested in this?
🚀 Heinlein Group Launches OpenCloud GmbH to strengthen the open-source ecosystem in Germany 🇩🇪. @OpenCloud will provide secure, GDPR-compliant file management and sharing solutions, enhancing Europe's digital sovereignty.
Peer Heinlein highlights: “The digital ecosystem in Europe is critical infrastructure. Businesses and political organisations must control their own data to protect their interests and business secrets.”
wallabag.it a 8 ans, et je peux remercier Omnivore (qui devait fermer le 30 novembre dernier mais en fait, toujours pas) ! Quelle fin d'année incroyable.
wallabag.it a 8 ans, et je peux remercier Omnivore (qui devait fermer le 30 novembre dernier mais en fait, toujours pas) ! Quelle fin d'année incroyable.
📼♥️ En ladigitalizadora.org intentamos que nuestro entorno sea independiente. Colaboramos codo con codo con Internet Archive, nuestro archivo se comparte por #AtoM e intentamos generar archivos de video para preservación digital en MKV FFV1, pero utilizamos X (que tendremos que migrar, aunque cuesta un poquito más) y el entorno de GDrive para currar. ¿Sabéis iniciativas #opensource donde sea posible el trabajo en archivos y donde haya una comunidad a la que le pueda interesar? Gracias! 🌻
I love the clean #webdesign, the minimalistic but powerful editor and the elegant newsletter-integration. And it's #opensource. #FreeSoftware for free people!
My blog is about walking in the city of #Hamburg and musing about container-ships, chinese love-poetry & daisies.
What self-hosted Git forge do people like these days for personal use? (and why? I'm always interested in why)
From what I've seen it sounds like the consensus is Forgejo > Gitea > Gogs, but I would like to know if I'm misreading the situation; or, if there are any other promising up-and-comers.
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The Limecast podcasting service is coming along well. I got some fairly decent seed data into the database to show the public podcast index and public podcast homepage.
Hoping to get the final version of the RSS feed ironed out this week and then it is onto supporting some of ActivityPub to let anyone follow podcasts from any fediverse account they have to get new episode posts.
ALT text detailsThe landing page for Limecast that shows 3 cards of podcasts with titles "Flavor Notes", "Mind the Gap", and "The Infinite Reel" with their respective images representing each.
ALT text detailsThe podcast homepage for "Flavor Notes" show a description of the podcast along with the latest episodes with playable audio for each episode.
2 months ago (precisely) I was complaining about #codeberg displaying irrelevant issue previews on social media.
I opened an issue, then @mfenniak opened a fantastic PR about it as his first contribution to #forgejo , and after a respectful review, it was merged for v10.0 which was released some days ago, and deployed to Codeberg.
It seems that a lot of new users have arrived today at #fediverse, so we're going to take the opportunity to make a quick #introduction about ourselves once again:
2 months ago (precisely) I was complaining about #codeberg displaying irrelevant issue previews on social media.
I opened an issue, then @mfenniak opened a fantastic PR about it as his first contribution to #forgejo , and after a respectful review, it was merged for v10.0 which was released some days ago, and deployed to Codeberg.
We are joined by @molly0xfff to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.
It seems that a lot of new users have arrived today at #fediverse, so we're going to take the opportunity to make a quick #introduction about ourselves once again:
We are joined by @molly0xfff to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.
My crew and I are here to help other ships navigate the skies of IT project management, assisting the captain as well as the engineers and cartographers! 🛰️
And since space 🌌 has no limits, my code is and will remain free/libre.
Don't hesitate to deck on our station to try out the online demo 🕹️ https://demo.tenzu.app
I love the clean #webdesign, the minimalistic but powerful editor and the elegant newsletter-integration. And it's #opensource. #FreeSoftware for free people!
My blog is about walking in the city of #Hamburg and musing about container-ships, chinese love-poetry & daisies.
There are a huge number of bug fixes and also new features like editing the title of a collection and a back to top button in timelines.
The update is already available as APK on Github. It will be available on Google Play Store in the next few hours, and on F-Droid in the next few days.
I don't understand the prevalent techno-pessimism. Today, technological empowerment is at the greatest level ever in human history. Our computers can run @debian, our phones can run @GrapheneOS and @fdroidorg, our TVs can run @Kodi, we can turn to @wikipedia for vast troves of human knowledge, we can explore the world using @openstreetmap, and we can communicate privately using @matrix or publicly using @Mastodon.
Of course, not everyone is using these great tools. But that's nothing but Kantian self-imposed immaturity.
Hey, New #mastodon account here. I have been going down the rabbit hole of #fediverse and #opensource since yesterday. Still so much to learn but #decentralized social media makes so much sense! We need this movement to grow!
Hey, New #mastodon account here. I have been going down the rabbit hole of #fediverse and #opensource since yesterday. Still so much to learn but #decentralized social media makes so much sense! We need this movement to grow!
Opening keynote @everythingopen is perfection 🤌 @daedalus steps us through redesigning the system of #OpenSource for sustainability and has the crowd echoing “The purpose of a system is what it does”. So, what does our system do? Is that our intended purpose?
There are a huge number of bug fixes and also new features like editing the title of a collection and a back to top button in timelines.
The update is already available as APK on Github. It will be available on Google Play Store in the next few hours, and on F-Droid in the next few days.
I just started my Fediverse relay service which is a powerful way to support smaller instances, especially single-user setups, by boosting their visibility and enabling them to connect more easily with the wider network.
I just started my Fediverse relay service which is a powerful way to support smaller instances, especially single-user setups, by boosting their visibility and enabling them to connect more easily with the wider network.
- there's a new `bot-conditions` audit, which can detect spoofable `github.actor` checks! - precision/accuracy improvements to the `unpinned-uses` and `excessive-permissions` audits! - bugfixes for the `template-injection` and `artipacked` audits! - more general bugfixes, including a (hopeful) improvement to the SARIF output behavior and fixes to our parsing of some workflow/expression edge cases
and from a sustainability perspective: many thanks to https://astral.sh/ for being our first logo-level sponsor!
- there's a new `bot-conditions` audit, which can detect spoofable `github.actor` checks! - precision/accuracy improvements to the `unpinned-uses` and `excessive-permissions` audits! - bugfixes for the `template-injection` and `artipacked` audits! - more general bugfixes, including a (hopeful) improvement to the SARIF output behavior and fixes to our parsing of some workflow/expression edge cases
and from a sustainability perspective: many thanks to https://astral.sh/ for being our first logo-level sponsor!
ALT text detailscode.europa.eu - code development platform for open source software projects owned by the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies
In an extraordinarily unpopular move, Fluent Assertions has dropped the Apache license in favor of a non-open source license, leaving users blindsided and scrambling to stay in compliance.
In an extraordinarily unpopular move, Fluent Assertions has dropped the Apache license in favor of a non-open source license, leaving users blindsided and scrambling to stay in compliance.
ALT text detailscode.europa.eu - code development platform for open source software projects owned by the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies
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Emperor Network partner: AARNet is Australia's national research and education network. Visit: https://aarnet.edu.au/
Maptcha is at its alpha stage, and we are testing it on potential users. To take part in the test, please follow this link: https://maptcha.crown-shy.com
You have ~one week time to take part and give us some feedback. We’ll present the results at #fosdem2025 in the Geospatial devroom
ALT text detailscode.europa.eu - code development platform for open source software projects owned by the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies
ALT text detailscode.europa.eu - code development platform for open source software projects owned by the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies
Fediverse platforms gaining traction, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Coolify - a self-hosted #Heroku and #Netlify alternative, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
Ich denke gerade darüber nach meine #Jugendfeuerwehr Verwaltungssoftware (Django) als #OpenSource zu veröffentlichen. Was sollte ich denn da so beachten?
Maptcha is at its alpha stage, and we are testing it on potential users. To take part in the test, please follow this link: https://maptcha.crown-shy.com
You have ~one week time to take part and give us some feedback. We’ll present the results at #fosdem2025 in the Geospatial devroom
Maptcha is at its alpha stage, and we are testing it on potential users. To take part in the test, please follow this link: https://maptcha.crown-shy.com
You have ~one week time to take part and give us some feedback. We’ll present the results at #fosdem2025 in the Geospatial devroom
Your donations sustain our work on @outreachy With your support, we can build the next generation of #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware leaders.
In a time when DEI programs are being shut down, it is essential we do not allow diversity and inclusion in open source to back slide.
Please donate today.
ALT text detailsFour African Outreachy interns pose behind an Outreachy photo frame. This is from the 2024 1,000 Outreachy intern celebration.
ALT text detailsSage stands next to their 2014 Linux Kernel intern at FOSDEM 2024. Xenia's kiddo is standing next to them. It was his first time at a free software event.
📣 Attention all custom ROM users and advocates for digital rights! 📣
Google's Play Integrity is limiting access to certain functionalities and applications for those using custom operating systems. This is a direct attack on the open-source community and a step towards further consolidating Google's monopoly in the mobile ecosystem.
Let's unite and fight for our right to use and develop custom operating systems! 💪
ALT text detailsStop Google from Limiting Custom ROMs!
The Issue:
Google systematically blocks access to apps and functionalities for users running custom Android operating systems, affecting millions of tech-savvy users who modify their devices.
Why Users Choose Custom ROMs:
• Overcome programmed obsolescence when manufacturers stop updating
• Fix bugs in stock operating systems
• Personalize and customize their device's software
• Improve performance and privacy
Google's False Justification:
Google claims Play Integrity ensures "app security" by verifying unmodified app binaries on "genuine" Android devices. In reality, this is a tactic to:
• Maintain its mobile operating system monopoly
• Restrict user choice
• Convince developers to stay dependent on Play Store
Our Demand:
We call on European Union to consider investigating the monopolistic tactics, and ask Google to allow custom ROM users to:
• Access all applications
• Use device capabilities fully
• Exercise their right to modify owned technology
This is about digital freedom, user rights, and challenging corporate control over personal technology.
Sign now to support technological freedom!
Earlier, a friend of a client came by who wanted to chat. He introduced himself as someone deeply involved in open-source and self-hosting, and we hit it off right away. He’s been using Linux on his PC for years and is comfortable with Debian. He agrees that self-hosting is the only way to keep the web decentralized. He then shared how he transitioned his website from dynamic to static using an SSG, and he’s thrilled with the result.
He walked me through his workflow: he edits the site, uploads it to some cloud (not sure which one), and clears the Cloudflare cache - he uses it to "save on outgoing traffic costs" from his provider. Alternatively, he mentioned he could host it on GitHub.
I explained to him that, in my opinion, this isn’t real decentralization or self-hosting, and I outlined the reasons why. He’d never thought about it this way and hadn’t explored the option of getting a “normal” VPS. He’s now decided to go for a cheap VPS, install nginx (which he knows how to use), and cut out the middlemen. He’s a smart and eager person, so I’m really glad we had this conversation.
Unfortunately, too many people today are convinced that hosting is only possible with the big players.
Your donations sustain our work on @outreachy With your support, we can build the next generation of #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware leaders.
In a time when DEI programs are being shut down, it is essential we do not allow diversity and inclusion in open source to back slide.
Please donate today.
ALT text detailsFour African Outreachy interns pose behind an Outreachy photo frame. This is from the 2024 1,000 Outreachy intern celebration.
ALT text detailsSage stands next to their 2014 Linux Kernel intern at FOSDEM 2024. Xenia's kiddo is standing next to them. It was his first time at a free software event.
Now we've tapped in to the wiring of a VanMoof e-shifter, let's work out the baud rate and format of the data being transmitted and which format of messages are being exchanged between it and the bike.
Je commence à avoir pas mal de bandes dessinées, et je cherche une application pour les répertorier. J'ai juste quelques contraintes : - Auto-hébergé - Open-source - Pas forcément besoin de la gestion de prêt. Je ne suis pas une bibliothèque - Si possible, pouvoir scanner les ISBN pour récupérer les infos en ligne.
Key Points: ➡️ BotKit enables the creation of standalone ActivityPub bots, free from platform constraints. ➡️ It is user-friendly and written in TypeScript, ensuring type safety. ➡️ BotKit is easy to deploy with minimal dependencies on various virtual servers. ➡️ Powered by #Fedify, a robust #ActivityPub framework.
We just released the latest #Pixelix update. It fixes some major bugs, including the bug where it was not possible to login on some instances like pixey.org or pixelfed.fr.
There are also some cool new features. Have fun with the app!
The update is already available as APK on Github. It will be available on Google Play Store in the next few hours, and on F-Droid in the next few days.
We just released the latest #Pixelix update. It fixes some major bugs, including the bug where it was not possible to login on some instances like pixey.org or pixelfed.fr.
There are also some cool new features. Have fun with the app!
The update is already available as APK on Github. It will be available on Google Play Store in the next few hours, and on F-Droid in the next few days.
This release focuses on security improvements, including admin password hashing, new chat moderation tools, and dozens of bug fixes. Perfect for anyone running their own streaming server!
This release focuses on security improvements, including admin password hashing, new chat moderation tools, and dozens of bug fixes. Perfect for anyone running their own streaming server!
Key Points: ➡️ BotKit enables the creation of standalone ActivityPub bots, free from platform constraints. ➡️ It is user-friendly and written in TypeScript, ensuring type safety. ➡️ BotKit is easy to deploy with minimal dependencies on various virtual servers. ➡️ Powered by #Fedify, a robust #ActivityPub framework.
Je commence à avoir pas mal de bandes dessinées, et je cherche une application pour les répertorier. J'ai juste quelques contraintes : - Auto-hébergé - Open-source - Pas forcément besoin de la gestion de prêt. Je ne suis pas une bibliothèque - Si possible, pouvoir scanner les ISBN pour récupérer les infos en ligne.
Key Points: ➡️ BotKit enables the creation of standalone ActivityPub bots, free from platform constraints. ➡️ It is user-friendly and written in TypeScript, ensuring type safety. ➡️ BotKit is easy to deploy with minimal dependencies on various virtual servers. ➡️ Powered by #Fedify, a robust #ActivityPub framework.
> 지난 주말, Pixelfed의 창시자인 다니엘 수퍼노트는 “온라인 공간에서 프라이버시, 존엄성, 공정성을 보장하는 윤리적 디지털 플랫폼의 기본 권리와 원칙에 대한 선언문”을 발표했습니다. 픽셀페드가 채택했으며 다른 플랫폼에서도 채택할 수 있는 이 오픈 소스 헌장에는 “프라이버시에 대한 권리”, “감시로부터의 자유”, “혐오 발언에 대한 보호”, “취약한 커뮤니티에 대한 강력한 보호”, “데이터 이동성과 사용자 주체성”이라는 제목의 섹션이 포함되어 있습니다. (DeepL 번역)
ALT text detailsA work-in-progress picture of my embroidery. A tree with the words "Grow Software Freedom" above the canopy. The phrase "2025 Sustainer" is below the tree roots.
Brown bark is covering most of the tree branches. Only one root is covered in bark. The bare branches have stripes of yellow yarn circling them, which the bark yarn will loop into.
ALT text detailsA golden oblong fruit hangs from a tree branch.
When you visit the Play Store page of our #Pixelfed client #Pixelix you will notice that there are no reviews visible yet - just because there haven't been enough submitted.
I would like to ask everyone who installed #Pixelix, for two minutes of your time. Please write a short and honest review and point out the good, but also the bad things, so people know what they can expect if they buy the app.
Support Diversity in Tech: Help Us Sustain Our Internship Program!
The @conservancy Fundraiser is still ongoing, and we need YOUR help to reach our goal!
Your donation ensures: - Life-changing internships for underrepresented groups. - Empowerment of diverse voices in open source. - A more inclusive and innovative tech ecosystem.
Every contribution matters—big or small. Let’s come together to keep creating opportunities that make a difference!
Support Diversity in Tech: Help Us Sustain Our Internship Program!
The @conservancy Fundraiser is still ongoing, and we need YOUR help to reach our goal!
Your donation ensures: - Life-changing internships for underrepresented groups. - Empowerment of diverse voices in open source. - A more inclusive and innovative tech ecosystem.
Every contribution matters—big or small. Let’s come together to keep creating opportunities that make a difference!
As of today, Biome is open to taking **Commercial Support** requests.
Some of our contributors are freelancers, and may offer their (paid) services for organizations that are looking to adopt Biome. So if you looking for commercial support, feel free to reach out and we'll try to bring you in contact with a fitting freelancer!
Really interesting #LLM#AI model from the Berkeley #NovaSky team - the #SkyT1 reasoning model is fully #OpenSource, and includes the training data - it falls short in comparison to the o1 model from OpenAI but can be trained for $USD 450 - compared to $millions.
Really interesting #LLM#AI model from the Berkeley #NovaSky team - the #SkyT1 reasoning model is fully #OpenSource, and includes the training data - it falls short in comparison to the o1 model from OpenAI but can be trained for $USD 450 - compared to $millions.
I’m thrilled to announce that my project, BashCore, is now officially available for download on SourceForge. BashCore is a lightweight, minimalist Debian-based operating system designed for professional, educational, and recreational use, particularly in the field of IT and cybersecurity.
Paolo, this is for you. Your contributions and friendship will never be forgotten.
I've updated my Quarto comments extension to support Bluesky, as well as Mastodon/Fediverse! Any replies on either network *should* now appear in a nice unified interface, along with links and current comment counts.
I want to share and build in public. I've been having steady coding fun in YEARS! One thing I'm shy to share is that it currently uses the filesystem for storing media. It allows for rapid prototyping and local dev, but I know I’ll need S3 or Azure when I release. #Coding#OpenSource#AskFedi
Just like every year, I took a look at a few big moves that happened for #Linux and #OpenSource in 2024, and why I think 2025 will be a much bigger year:
"Open Source Powered Prosthetic Leg: With an ever-increasing availability of new technologies, we created an affordable bionic leg that is accessible to everyone" 🦿
When you visit the Play Store page of our #Pixelfed client #Pixelix you will notice that there are no reviews visible yet - just because there haven't been enough submitted.
I would like to ask everyone who installed #Pixelix, for two minutes of your time. Please write a short and honest review and point out the good, but also the bad things, so people know what they can expect if they buy the app.
Another day, another #GenArtAPI release (v0.25.0):
This update mainly features the new `@genart-api/wasm` package, providing Zig & TypeScript bindings for core GenArtAPI functionality (i.e. so far mostly parameter handling).
This WASM bridge/integration is designed as an API module for the https://thi.ng/wasm-api toolchain. Installation & build instructions are in the readme.
ALT text detailsGlasgow revC PCB with the associated USB-C, Sync and IO Cables. The Glasgow PCB is white with black text and blue 20 pin IO headers.
ALT text detailsGlasgow revC inside its aluminium case. The case is black with white text. It says “Glasgow Digital Interface Explorer” includes legend describing the A and B IO connectors as well as the Sync connector, E-Stop button and VIO indicator LEDs. On the left are colored User led and system status LEDs.
ALT text detailsGlasgow revC PCB with the associated USB-C, Sync and IO Cables. The Glasgow PCB is white with black text and blue 20 pin IO headers.
ALT text detailsGlasgow revC inside its aluminium case. The case is black with white text. It says “Glasgow Digital Interface Explorer” includes legend describing the A and B IO connectors as well as the Sync connector, E-Stop button and VIO indicator LEDs. On the left are colored User led and system status LEDs.
A Landmark Victory for Open Source: German Developer Wins Rights to Router Source Code
In a groundbreaking case for software freedom, German developer Sebastian Steck has secured the source code for his AVM FRITZ!Box router, marking a significant win for the GNU LGPL. This legal battle ...
#pgsession17 : enfin, voici la dernière #conférence de mercredi prochain, où Matt Cornillon évoquera la recherche hybride pour identifier les oiseaux !
New release of https://thi.ng/genart-api (v0.24.0) — a platform-independent extensible API for browser-based computational/algorithmic/generative art projects:
This release contains quite a few new features, as well as several important fixes for bugs which were accidentally introduced in the two most recent versions...
- extracted the debug time provider & FPS overlay to separate package - updated `bigint` param handling (esp. randomization) - added `collector` and `iteration` metadata accessors - updated platform adapters (esp. the #fxhash one) - fixed image & ramp param handling - added a bunch of utilities to core API to deduplicate code in various adapters - updated/fixed examples & docs - added more tests (and updated core API to be more testable outside the browser)
Just like every year, I took a look at a few big moves that happened for #Linux and #OpenSource in 2024, and why I think 2025 will be a much bigger year:
When you visit the Play Store page of our #Pixelfed client #Pixelix you will notice that there are no reviews visible yet - just because there haven't been enough submitted.
I would like to ask everyone who installed #Pixelix, for two minutes of your time. Please write a short and honest review and point out the good, but also the bad things, so people know what they can expect if they buy the app.
When you visit the Play Store page of our #Pixelfed client #Pixelix you will notice that there are no reviews visible yet - just because there haven't been enough submitted.
I would like to ask everyone who installed #Pixelix, for two minutes of your time. Please write a short and honest review and point out the good, but also the bad things, so people know what they can expect if they buy the app.
The opening for the Fedora Project Leader position is live. If you know someone who would be a good fit for this role, please share this link with them!
It's CRAY-Z how each and every auto manufacturer in the world is tracking your every movement right now.
From auto manufacturers in the #US, #Europe and #Asia, what we're seeing is basically a result of "secret sauce" once more. The fact is that the only thing that will save us is #OpenSource and #OpenFirmware, because as always the vendor does not deserve blind trust, because they will abuse it.
It's CRAY-Z how each and every auto manufacturer in the world is tracking your every movement right now.
From auto manufacturers in the #US, #Europe and #Asia, what we're seeing is basically a result of "secret sauce" once more. The fact is that the only thing that will save us is #OpenSource and #OpenFirmware, because as always the vendor does not deserve blind trust, because they will abuse it.
You'd think these things would get easier to write over time but they really don't, huh? Or it might be because I'm apparently quite #neurospicy following the traditional path of being just smart and shy enough to not get caught until way into adulthood. In discussions with my partner I've tried to explain the spicy as flavors of ice cream where collectively society has just decided that vanilla is the "default", whereas I'm more of a stracciatella. I'm terrible at making friends and a total hermit. I suck at subtext or ulterior intentions, so anything seeming like that is usually not intended.
I'm well spoken when I have the energy for it and after being gay and doing crimes, I have successfully defended myself in court. Normally though I combine that with deep empathy to be a somewhat successful program manager in #cybersecurity, specializing in #IAM, i.e. I've made a whole career out of that one line in the textbooks that says "give the right access to the right people and nothing else". I'm probably one of the few doing that without ever having touched AD or Entra, or at least that's how it feels trying to interface with the wider industry. Currently though I'm thoroughly burned out from work, surely a very uncommon situation in the cybersecurity field where unsexy hard to understand problems are always well staffed.
In my spare time I dabble in #electronics, #homeAutomation and run a tiny one rack data center, because I did that kind of work for a decade for a cloud provider and really missed it once I jumped to a desk job. (The upside is I get to wear nice clothes to work instead of worrying about heat & cut resistance!) Sometimes that #homelab feels like a second job, but that and #OpenSource contributions and the only reason why I have any transferable industry skills, so it's mostly worth it. I also used to teach an intensive fiber optics 101 class (enough to get an FOI title) so I know many weird things about the fiber optics world! Still kinda lowkey want to buy my own fusion splicer.
I'm #transfem and quite #sapphic but really it's the least interesting thing about me I think? With the very limited spoon budget I have I can't really effectively do any kind of advocacy or activism, but hope to do more one day. I did however create https://transitiokanta.fi to document transition related bureaucracy in Finland since it's the promised land of very specific complex processes that I had to learn how to navigate. It's a wiki open to contributions, but for obvious reasons doesn't have open signups, so you need to ask me if you want to contribute.
I don't boost media posts without alt text because accessibility matters. If I manage to post one myself without alt text, feel free to call me out so I can fix my mistake. Other than that, it's anyone's guess what I'll post & boost, probably a bit of tech, security, queer things and just boring life stuff to process my own feelings.
Would anyone be interested in contributing to this interactive guide + WYSIWIG editor that lets you make simple web pages and shows you how to host them for free?
Would anyone be interested in contributing to this interactive guide + WYSIWIG editor that lets you make simple web pages and shows you how to host them for free?
🔒 Lead our Sovereign Tech Resilience program to enhance the security of open source software and developing strategies to manage vulnerabilities in critical digital infrastructure through audits, bug bounties and more.
At @sovtechfund we’re passionate about empowering the open source ecosystem, and we’re excited to share some incredible opportunities to join our team. If you’re inspired by the idea of strengthening open digital infrastructure and supporting the people behind the code. Thread incoming with the roles we are hiring for:
ALT text detailsA demonstration of using my website / web app to communicate with an Arduino directly from the browser using the Web Serial API. You can do all the basics you would want to, and then some? It's pretty handy!
ALT text detailsEverything Open 2025 program is now published.
Presentation “My Home Network: reducing reliance on multinationals” by Peter Chubb
Program: https://2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/
Tickets: https://2025.everythingopen.au/attend/tickets/
#EO2025 #EverythingOpen #conference #openSource
Due to a lack of topics and trying to recover from the holidays, we are canceling the Podman Cabal meeting scheduled for tomorrow, Jan 7, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. EST (UTC-5). The Cabal will meet on Mar 4, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. EST (UTC-5). #podman#OpenSource
ChangeDetection.io is a private self-hosted website change detection and price monitor service
Monitor web pages for changes (such as watching prices, restock notifications), to deep inspection such as PDF text support, JSON and XML monitoring and extensive text triggers. Get notifications when a website updates.
ALT text detailsMNT reform laptop showing a progress bar. A tangara media player is placed on the palm rest of the laptop. The tangara's screen is off, it is connected to the laptop via USB cable.
ALT text detailstangara held up in front of a laptop screen. The laptop screen is displaying a "Flash complete" success message. The tangara is informing us that it is indexing the database for the first time.
ALT text detailsEverything Open 2025 program is now published.
Presentation “OpenActa/Haystack: a key/value store for logs with interlinking of related fields” by Arjen Lentz
ALT text detailsEverything Open 2025 program is now published.
Presentation “OpenActa/Haystack: a key/value store for logs with interlinking of related fields” by Arjen Lentz
Inside, I talk about #Github's problem with fake stars and malware, #Nvidia's latest bet to open source a $700M startup working on AI stuff, and a lot more:
Inside, I talk about #Github's problem with fake stars and malware, #Nvidia's latest bet to open source a $700M startup working on AI stuff, and a lot more:
ALT text detailsMNT reform laptop showing a progress bar. A tangara media player is placed on the palm rest of the laptop. The tangara's screen is off, it is connected to the laptop via USB cable.
ALT text detailstangara held up in front of a laptop screen. The laptop screen is displaying a "Flash complete" success message. The tangara is informing us that it is indexing the database for the first time.
In case you missed it over the holiday break, the Fedora Project is moving forward with @forgejo as our new git forge!
There is still much work to be done between now and the final implementation, but here's to a new start and new discussions to be had over how to make this happen. 🥳
In case you missed it over the holiday break, the Fedora Project is moving forward with @forgejo as our new git forge!
There is still much work to be done between now and the final implementation, but here's to a new start and new discussions to be had over how to make this happen. 🥳
#ReleaseFriday (1st release cycle of 2025) 🎉 — New additions & updates to https://thi.ng/genart-api, a platform-independent extensible API for browser-based computational/algorithmic/generative art projects:
- Added https://fxhash.xyz platform adapter (incl. support & adaptations for 10 of the 17 built-in GenArtAPI param types) - Added `bigint` & `binary` data param types - Updated parameter type definitions & factories (date, datetime, time, numlist, strlist, text, vector) - Ensure any given default values are valid (and can be coerced) - Added MurmurHash3 (128 bit version) functions (e.g. seed PRNGs) - Added tests for all parameter types (factory functions & implementations) - Added tests for utility functions - Added GitHub actions (running tests) - Various API docs updates, clarifications & fixes - Update/refactor EditArt & Layer platform adapters - Updated main & adapter readmes
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️
Les traigo una recomendación interesante si buscan plataformas de blogging:
• Bear, esta alternativa se define como: "Una plataforma de blogs que prioriza la privacidad, es sensata y muy rápida Sin rastreadores, sin JavaScript, sin hojas de estilo. Solo tus palabras.".
Yo estaba en una instancia de WriteFreely, porque la verdad siempre me ha gustado el software y la idea de una plataforma de blogs dentro del fediverse. Y me sigue encantando pero, me han comprado xD
A mi me gusta la personalización, y en Bear es todo lo que me dan, no solo puedo personalizar la apariencia del blog, puedo personalizar la meta descripción, la meta imagen, el ícono de favorito y personalizar esa información en cada post individualmente. Maravilla, además es una plataforma minimalista y súper ligera
Sí, Bear a comparación de WriteFreely es una plataforma más centralizada y tiene una suscripción o pago único para algunas funciones extra (entendible.) aún así, es open source también y el administrador revisa manualmente cada blog para mantener el estándar de calidad y el buen ambiente. Precisamente hoy me envió un correo para notificarme que había aprobado mi blog.
Apostaré por Bear, me ha encantado tanto que me siento como niño en juguetería.
Parts of @vocalcat already use some of the #dotnet#opensource powering those bots. We want to make easy as possible to create such automations for the #fediverse for non-technical users.
Parts of @vocalcat already use some of the #dotnet#opensource powering those bots. We want to make easy as possible to create such automations for the #fediverse for non-technical users.
In case you missed it over the holiday break, the Fedora Project is moving forward with @forgejo as our new git forge!
There is still much work to be done between now and the final implementation, but here's to a new start and new discussions to be had over how to make this happen. 🥳
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️
Start your year off with a #QualityOfLife improvement: Install Consent-O-Matic for your browser
It's #OpenSource, works on Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. It allows you to set default cookie permissions, and it'll handle those annoying banners for you.
Short status update on releasing our third party #Pixelfed client #Pixelix on F-droid: We had some troubles because some checksums did not match. But with some help we were able to fix them. Right now the app is in review and if everything works it should be available soon.
For everyone who can't wait or wants to support our work, #Pixelix is available on Play Store for 2€.
Short status update on releasing our third party #Pixelfed client #Pixelix on F-droid: We had some troubles because some checksums did not match. But with some help we were able to fix them. Right now the app is in review and if everything works it should be available soon.
For everyone who can't wait or wants to support our work, #Pixelix is available on Play Store for 2€.
New year, new release! In version 3.6 our code contributors added: 🧭 Bottom navigation (enable it in Settings > User interface, and give us some feedback on the forum) ↕️ Change order of menu items 🚮 Trash all played episodes from Downloads screen 🏠 Neater Home screen with empty sections 📶 Remember choice when attempting downloads via mobile data
One of the themes for #FluConf2025 is "open licensing and business models".
A lot of people on the fediverse will probably take that to mean *software licensing*, but we're interested in a much broader range of topics.
We want to hear about open licenses for scientific publications, data, art, games, text, and whatever else we haven't thought of.
Share why you think it's important. Write about how overly permissive commons are being enclosed by corporations. Tell the world how you choose licenses for your own creations, and how others licensing choices influence your perception of their projects.
Changelog: - fix for a bug after adding/removing a post to favorites which led to lose custom emojis; - fix spacing between post and reply placeholders when using the new Card layout; - fix a minor accessibility issue with the new audio player; - fix crash when rendering some HTML posts; - fix "floating" (overlapping) images for embedded contents; - localization updates (included support for upcoming Romanian translation); - library updates.
I think we are almost ready for the 0.4 version. In the meantime I've submitted both Raccoon apps to Google Play so I may be needed some volunteers to participate in the closed testing program before the apps can be made available to the general public.
Changelog: - fix for a bug after adding/removing a post to favorites which led to lose custom emojis; - fix spacing between post and reply placeholders when using the new Card layout; - fix a minor accessibility issue with the new audio player; - fix crash when rendering some HTML posts; - fix "floating" (overlapping) images for embedded contents; - localization updates (included support for upcoming Romanian translation); - library updates.
I think we are almost ready for the 0.4 version. In the meantime I've submitted both Raccoon apps to Google Play so I may be needed some volunteers to participate in the closed testing program before the apps can be made available to the general public.
Just realised that #Pixelfed's default terms don't let me "attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Pixelfed's website". Is this necessary if Pixelfed is already #OpenSource?
(As seen for the terms of pixelfed.social and metapixl.com, among others)
ALT text detailsA screenshot of part of the Pixelfed terms, with a list and item circled in red.
The list ends with the statement "you may not" and the item is "attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Pixelfed's website"
As we approach the end of 2024, I thought it'd be helpful to compile a list of the self-hosted apps launched in 2024 that I found to be particularly noteworthy.
And while I think this is a great list, I do have my own biases. So if you're looking for new software to deploy, please don't limit yourself to my list.
#Vala code can be written in many different editors or IDEs, but what are you actually using? Here are the (probably?) most popular that also support vala's language server! If you use others feel free to comment! (btw apologies for not including vim(derivatives), only 4 options are possible..😩)
#Vala code can be written in many different editors or IDEs, but what are you actually using? Here are the (probably?) most popular that also support vala's language server! If you use others feel free to comment! (btw apologies for not including vim(derivatives), only 4 options are possible..😩)
#Vala code can be written in many different editors or IDEs, but what are you actually using? Here are the (probably?) most popular that also support vala's language server! If you use others feel free to comment! (btw apologies for not including vim(derivatives), only 4 options are possible..😩)
“We are thrilled to announce that the @openstreetmap Foundation has been selected by the @sovtechfund for a service agreement in the amount of 384,000 EUR over two years to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OpenStreetMap’s core software.”
Next month #ThingUmbrella will be already 7 years old (in its current monorepo form) and thi.ng itself turn 14 — a true teenager! 😱
2024 has been a year of a lot of maintenance and the first year in a while, in which I got to put so many of these tools & libraries to work on the development of several other new (and ongoing) projects (incl. some still unannounced ones). Considering the vastly different usage contexts, each time this is also a demonstration (to myself) of just how powerful, adaptable and _composable_ many of these libraries are, and I wish I'd be able to better communicate these aspects to other people...
My deepest thanks and gratitude to my amazing supporters/sponsors, who've been enabling me to continue this work, to expand on it and actively maintain it! Some of you already for years! Love you, people — Your support means the world to these projects (and to me)! And even though I'm still a far way from being able to work fulltime on all these projects, and also had to take on some consulting work this year, I too have been trying my best to work on thi.ng projects every day this year (and almost succeeded)...
- 200 packages/libraries/tools - 180 standalone example projects/tools - 520 code snippets/examples in docs (extractable via tooling)
Source code:
- 4,095 source files - 223k SLOC total, of which: - 159k lines of code - 64k comment lines (mostly for API docs)
Readme's:
- 33% of packages with 1,000+ words - 20% of packages with 1,500+ words - Min: 215, max: 9,519, avg: 1,075 words
3,445 Github ⭐️ (+12% in 2024)
200,675,881 NPM total downloads to date (🤯)
There're many valuable ways to support these projects: Share your usage/experience reports, tips & tricks, ask/answer questions, submit issues/PRs, create small examples, documentation/tutorials, word-of-mouth etc.
If you see value in these projects and want to support a large & mature body of open source work financially, I'm accepting contributions via: Github, Liberapay & Patreon — thank you very much for your consideration!
ALT text detailsScreenshot of my Github activity/contribution heatmap of the past year, listing 2493 contributions (only a handful of days without contribs since end of Jan 2024)
Visualization from here:
https://github.com/postspectacular
Next month #ThingUmbrella will be already 7 years old (in its current monorepo form) and thi.ng itself turn 14 — a true teenager! 😱
2024 has been a year of a lot of maintenance and the first year in a while, in which I got to put so many of these tools & libraries to work on the development of several other new (and ongoing) projects (incl. some still unannounced ones). Considering the vastly different usage contexts, each time this is also a demonstration (to myself) of just how powerful, adaptable and _composable_ many of these libraries are, and I wish I'd be able to better communicate these aspects to other people...
My deepest thanks and gratitude to my amazing supporters/sponsors, who've been enabling me to continue this work, to expand on it and actively maintain it! Some of you already for years! Love you, people — Your support means the world to these projects (and to me)! And even though I'm still a far way from being able to work fulltime on all these projects, and also had to take on some consulting work this year, I too have been trying my best to work on thi.ng projects every day this year (and almost succeeded)...
- 200 packages/libraries/tools - 180 standalone example projects/tools - 520 code snippets/examples in docs (extractable via tooling)
Source code:
- 4,095 source files - 223k SLOC total, of which: - 159k lines of code - 64k comment lines (mostly for API docs)
Readme's:
- 33% of packages with 1,000+ words - 20% of packages with 1,500+ words - Min: 215, max: 9,519, avg: 1,075 words
3,445 Github ⭐️ (+12% in 2024)
200,675,881 NPM total downloads to date (🤯)
There're many valuable ways to support these projects: Share your usage/experience reports, tips & tricks, ask/answer questions, submit issues/PRs, create small examples, documentation/tutorials, word-of-mouth etc.
If you see value in these projects and want to support a large & mature body of open source work financially, I'm accepting contributions via: Github, Liberapay & Patreon — thank you very much for your consideration!
ALT text detailsScreenshot of my Github activity/contribution heatmap of the past year, listing 2493 contributions (only a handful of days without contribs since end of Jan 2024)
Visualization from here:
https://github.com/postspectacular
My husband, @jbqueru requires saved sessions for his multiple dev apps under Linux. We found that NONE of the DEs are saving sessions *properly*. #Gnome & #Cinnamon don't at all, #Mate has bugs, #XFce only saves its own apps, and #KDE only saves 1 workspace, with no positioning, and only when saving the session manually. #Wayland or #X11, same abysmal behavior.
You might hate on #MacOS, but that's one thing it does well.
🌟 Ready to ditch corporate social media? 🚀 Explore open-source and privacy-friendly alternatives!
📱 Mastodon for decentralized microblogging (bye, Twitter!) 📸 Pixelfed for photo-sharing (Instagram, who?) 🎥 PeerTube & Odysee for video hosting (YouTube, but better!) 🎙️ Revolt.chat for Discord vibes without surveillance 🎬 Loops for short videos (TikTok alternative!) 📜 Lemmy for link sharing & discussions (Reddit vibes).
🌟 Ready to ditch corporate social media? 🚀 Explore open-source and privacy-friendly alternatives!
📱 Mastodon for decentralized microblogging (bye, Twitter!) 📸 Pixelfed for photo-sharing (Instagram, who?) 🎥 PeerTube & Odysee for video hosting (YouTube, but better!) 🎙️ Revolt.chat for Discord vibes without surveillance 🎬 Loops for short videos (TikTok alternative!) 📜 Lemmy for link sharing & discussions (Reddit vibes).
i released the first version ever of my open source painting program, it's still in early stage but it has the following features:
- No AI, this is a program for real artists - 100% native, no Web, no Qt, no GTK, no dear imgui - Advanced Layer System - Infinite Undo History - GPU Accelerated Canvas View - Brush Engine similar to popular manga software - Bucket Fill with gap closing (proof of concept)
A new #Pixelix version is available on #GitHub. The Google Play Store Version should be available within the next few hours. We are also working on bringing the app to F-droid.
New Features: Detailed Fediverse instance and software informations Bookmarking button Design refinements Bug fixes
A new #Pixelix version is available on #GitHub. The Google Play Store Version should be available within the next few hours. We are also working on bringing the app to F-droid.
New Features: Detailed Fediverse instance and software informations Bookmarking button Design refinements Bug fixes
My husband, @jbqueru requires saved sessions for his multiple dev apps under Linux. We found that NONE of the DEs are saving sessions *properly*. #Gnome & #Cinnamon don't at all, #Mate has bugs, #XFce only saves its own apps, and #KDE only saves 1 workspace, with no positioning, and only when saving the session manually. #Wayland or #X11, same abysmal behavior.
You might hate on #MacOS, but that's one thing it does well.
To all #FOSS supporting people traveling these days: Please consider collecting wireless geolocation information for the #publicdomain#geolocation database #beaconDB.
Changelog: - feat: add distraction free post layout; - feat: add "compact" post layout; - feat: implement post dislike action; - fix: retrieve post source for editing even for plain text; - chore: translations update; - chore: update dependencies.
Moreover, let me wish everyone happy holidays and remember to #livefasteattrash on Christmas and New Year's Eve.
A special and heartfelt acknowledgement goes to all the contributors of the #raccoonforfriendica project, people who helped with code, translations, bug reports, ideas for improvements, design, roadmap and in many other ways. Remember that this wouldn't have been the same without your contributions, and the fact that people who don't know each other (and don't even speak the same language) can meet and create something together is one of the best things of the free and open source model.
Hope we can continue in this direction next year. Thank you everyone, you are awesome ❤️🦝🎄
ALT text detailsEverything Open 2025 program is now published.
Presentation “Why 99% Of WordPress Vulnerabilities Are Utterly Irrelevant” by Cameron Jones
Program: https://2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/
Tickets: https://2025.everythingopen.au/attend/tickets/
#EO2025 #EverythingOpen #conference #openSource
Another new release of #GenArtAPI (v0.20.0), due to some urgent additions & updates of partially outdated documentation and refactoring/cleaning up of some parameter types. This project already contains more docs than code and because things are moving so fast, I forgot to update some parts... (Sorry for any confusion caused...)
Other notable updates:
- Simplified the core API's param value getter for obtaining time-based or randomized values (please check docs[1]) - Updated vector param definition - Added a `.configure()` method for the EditArt platform adapter to allow manual selection of adapted params (to override the default auto-selection)[2]
🌐🔒 Exciting news for privacy! The US government has officially recommended using Signal and other encrypted messaging apps after recent telecom hacks. This is a huge step forward in recognizing the importance of secure communication!
As someone who has always championed free and open-source software, I’m thrilled to see this acknowledgment from the government, especially given the increasing threats to our privacy. With the rise of surveillance and the potential for breaches in our communication networks, it’s more important than ever to prioritize encrypted messaging.
If even the CIA is warning us about the dangers of unencrypted communications, we should take it seriously! Let’s embrace tools that protect our privacy and autonomy. Remember, our digital safety is in our hands!
Have you made the switch to Signal or another secure messaging app, or know someone making it now?
The Open Source Movement has proven that, in a technical context, sharing and transparency has tremendous advantages and benefits for everyone involved.
It is time for governments, societies, economies, cultures, families and individuals alike to take these ideals of cooperation to heart, so we can all thrive as a species. Let's work together, not against one another.
🎄 Season's Greetings! WikiMed by Kiwix v3.5.1 released for Linux/Windows!
🎁 June 2024 WikiMed package (code update only) * Main fixes: popover positioning and styling improvements * Tested on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Windows 7-11
ALT text detailsA banner with a prominent WikiMed offline logo on the left, and the words "WikiMed by Kiwix 3" on the right. Under this title appears "Your go-to offline medical information source".
"One fun anecdote is that companies or governments will often say they need months or years to prepare (CLEAN UP) code for open sourcing. Because on the inside, people allow themselves far worse code than they’d prefer to share with the outside world. Open source code often has higher standards, and it is a great mechanism of keeping you on track."
All implementations are WIP (but fully functional, to the best of my knowledge!). If there's demand, I'm considering adding more parameter type adaptations also for the EditArt adapater (e.g. to support vector/XY params, as already done for the Layer adapter...)
Since I've been told "people/artists don't read anymore", tonight I'm starting to record a video walkthrough, wish me luck! :)
Do you know a search engine which values personal blogs, small websites, small wikis and such these far more than big websites? Recently I'm seeing this pattern that I can find better articles in such these websites, than searching online in DuckDuckGo and previously Google, to look for something.
The problem's that without a search engine, finding these valuable content is far from easy. Currently I find them manually.
Always nice to wake up the day after releasing a new version and not find any new notifications waiting for me. But I still feel a little dread each morning when I open GitHub for the first time. #OpenSource#Burnout
Another #opensource#database turns to the dark side. #scylladb announced discontinuing its OSS edition (AGPL license), and #relicensing the Enterprise edition to a source-available (non #FOSS) one.
ALT text detailsA 3D animation of a sphere with a Matrix style text effect cascading down the sides. The sphere is sitting on a white plane and there is a faint green glow behind it.
Germany-based #SovereignTechFund contributes 384.000 EUR to #OpenStreetMap over two years. And the best part: it's not for fancy features big sponsors think they need, but for technical debt removal, documentation, testing infrastructure, vandalism prevention, and two additional paid roles.
@sovtechfund once again made a great choice and continues to follow their strategy of sustainable support of critical #OpenSource projects, which @openstreetmap definitely is.
ALT text detailsThere is a screenshot of a spotify playlist called songs about vim, it features songs like what am i doing here, how did i get here, can't get out, asdfjkl;, shut it down, push the button, hold that sucker down, rebooting.
“We are thrilled to announce that the @openstreetmap Foundation has been selected by the @sovtechfund for a service agreement in the amount of 384,000 EUR over two years to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OpenStreetMap’s core software.”
ALT text detailsThis picture shows a tiny Linux computer called VirtuScope. It has a 3D-printed case and uses a Raspberry Pi. https://thedigitalocean.wordpress.com/deck/
Je teste depuis quelques jours un vrai player audio bitperfect. Si vous aussi vous regrettiez l'absence de Foobar2000 sous linux, je vous recommande Fooyin.
If you're thinking about submitting a talk proposal to a #PostgreSQL conference, you're in luck. 💥 There are 6 conference CFPs open now! But some of the CFPs close as soon as Dec 31st, others in Jan or early Feb.
So carpe diem: Submit that talk proposal & share your expertise and interesting stories, successes, failures, insights, whatever.
Also, boosts appreciated 🚀, please tell your friends & teammates so they don't miss their shot!
ALT text detailsList of upcoming PostgreSQL conference CFP deadlines, including Nordic PGDay on Dec 31st, pgDay Paris on Dec 31st, PGConf.dev on Jan 6th, PGDay Chicago on Jan 20th, PGConf.DE on Feb 1st, and POSETTE: An Event for Postgres on Feb 9th.
ALT text detailsGithub issue comment by me, quote:
"Just to give a little more historic perspective here:
I ported that Farbrausch code for processing.core back in summer 2003. Back then there:
1. wasn't really that much easy-to-find literature or readily available sample code, though two of the most cited & helpful refs was this amazing Hugo Elias article and the noise treatment by the god father of computer graphics.
2. Computers were much slower (and Java too), so for something like noise() to be generally useful (esp. the 2D and 3D versions), we wanted (needed!) to choose a performant implementation and so ended up with the Farbrausch version, which provided the best compromise (also was much faster than other impls I tried & ported back then)...
3. I think it's fair to say that neither Ben, Casey nor I back then considered any of the finer nuances/differences between noise types too much (or at all 😉 )... I proposed a noise() function because I thought it'd be super useful for a lot of different applications and I'd already used it for some terrain & texture generation tasks in a few games I'd developed in Shockwave3D/Director and got some very interesting results from it...
4. I'd have never thought it would stay around (largely unchanged) for that long...
Sorry for any inconvenience caused, heh! :)"
Just been having a long interesting conversation about how https://thi.ng/genart-api can also become very interesting from a digital preservation perspective:
Right now a lot of contemporary browser-based computational/generative art pieces are somewhat bound to the lifespan of the art platforms/websites they've been published at/for (irrespective if the pieces themselves are hosted on IPFS or similar supposed longer-term storage). Most of these works are coded ad-hoc against the APIs provided by these respective individual platforms, each only optimizing for their own uses/biases. However, developing/refactoring such works to use an open source platform-independent API (i.e. #GenArtAPI) with any platform specifics handled via very easy-to-replace (and to develop) plugins/adapters, then at least potentially extends the lifespan & adaptability of these works by making it much easier to migrate them to new platforms/environments/emulators. In most cases, this migration can be done purely via configuration (replacing a couple of library `<script>` tags in the HTML wrapper), rather than having to make any code changes in the artwork itself.
(All this is acknowledging, but also ignoring here the much larger looming preservation issue related to the general dependency on web browsers and bitrotting web tech... Still every little helps! 😉)
Thank you to @mattdm for his 10 years of guidance as the Fedora Project Leader! Matthew will be leaving the role and making way for a new project leader.
Fedora has grown so much during his tenure and we're grateful to have had someone has sharp, community-centered, and stabilizing as him.
We're excited for his future contributions through the Community Linux Engineering team at Red Hat. :)
Congratulations @dansup thats another Milestone for @loops @nlnet is a great partner and I have had the honor of working on two previous NLnet sponsored projects.
Open-Source was the one which enabled AI copilots. Without the large open-source public codebases copilots would have been dumber or would have taken more time to develop at the point they are today.
New major version, v1.5, for the #Tahoma2D animation app. It works well under Linux, minus the fact that it doesn't launch from the app menu (you gotta use the terminal or a file manager to navigate to its appimage). Overall, impressive app.
Another similar app, Synfig Studio, also has major new features on their dev branch.
Come on by and join the Public GNU/Linux Users Group. We have a good bunch of folks who enjoy discussing Free Software principles and its surrounding culture. Hop on over and join the discussion with us 🙂. You can find our join link in this page's profile or over at https://gnulinux.club - our sexy new art was crafted by @migglesmilkes using Krita on a 2017 Yoga running Debian! #glug#lug#linux#gnu#gnulinux#freesoftware#floss#opensource
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New release of https://thi.ng/genart-api, a modular cross-platform API/SDK for browser-based computational/algorithmic/generative art projects, helping to reduce artists' efforts to adapt work for different art platforms/environments/uses/workflows.
Main new v0.18.0 additions:
- The param editor reference implementation now groups parameters by their declared group and sorts them by given order (both optional) - The `@genart-api/adapter-layer` package supports adaptations/translations for more param types, incl. vectors, which are not yet natively supported by that platform. E.g. vectors will be transparently represented as multiple, separate numeric params on the platform side, but your artwork is blissfully unaware of this and still only would deal with vectors. The platform adapter does all the reconcilation and handling of param changes... - Started adding tests - Updated API docs & readme's
As always, feedback highly appreciated — this project is in active development...
I'm aware, the target audience for this larger project is quite limited, but the benefits are real (and palpable!), not just for artists in this field (but especially for them!)... I'll do my best to illustrate the (recurring) problems being solved here, demystify some of the concepts and squeeze in recording a short(ish) video showing how to develop a small project from scratch using this system/setup and then repurpose it and show related tools still in development...
Changelog: - feat: add Acknowledgements screen; - feat: support for block quotes; - fix: prevent crashes while loading timeline; - fix: load suggestions and trending links; - fix: retrieve source for post editing; - fix: user post pagination; - fix: images overlapping text; - fix: detect Friendica RC versions; - enhancement: accessibility improvements; - enhancement: post preview; - enhancement: exclude replies from timeline by default; - enhancement: make Markdown mode always available; - enhancement: l10n updates.
Thanks to all those who helped by testing and reporting bugs, submitting pull requests or translating the UI. You are mentioned in the home page and, from now, also in a dedicated screen which can be accessed from the "App information" dialog.
EPEL 10 is now available! Thank you to the @centos project for enabling the early work we were able to do via CentOS Stream 10.
EPEL 10 already contains over 10,000 packages, built from over 3,600 source packages. This is a result of the hard work of over 150 Fedora package maintainers!
Also, I invite you (yes, you!) to a new Discord server for our Lisp Ireland group and for all Common Lisp users anywhere else: https://discord.gg/u66ev9NKpX
$ pip3 search something ... RuntimeError: PyPI no longer supports 'pip search' [...]. Please use https://pypi.org/search (via a browser) instead. [...]
Sure, no problem. Let's see …
»JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Please enable JavaScript to proceed.«
Urgh, but okay, #pip is a #Python package manager, they're good guys. Let me just open #NoScript and temporarily allow pypi.org ... oh no, it wants to run #JavaScript from …
I’ve been thinking through a lot of the feedback on (and things I've learned about peoples' perception of) @flathub's MetaInfo quality guidelines. I think I'd like to iterate a bit on how we present/talk about them; it could be helpful to make them more "branded" in a way to help make it more clear that they're really more of an opinionated, almost editorial thing.
Thank you to the @AsahiLinux project for the improvement to gaming that is landing with this update. You will also see a new Calamares-based initial setup wizard. Try it out!
Catch today's episode of the Fedora Podcast all about Bazzite, from @UniversalBlue! Excited to have @dogphilosopher on the show to talk about how this easy-to-use gaming experience is made possible through Fedora Atomic and the cloud native world!
I have just published my first online course about self-hosting your entertainment. It will teach you cool things about Raspberry Pi, Cloudflared and lots of great open source software.
When observing our CI/CD we typically look at performance metrics of various entities, such as the pipeline run duration, the queue length, or the worker count.
New #paper out: « The impact of the #COVID19 pandemic on women’s contribution to public code » (Empir. Softw. Eng. 30(1): 25 (2025)) where we establish, using #econometrics techniques and relying on the @swheritage archive, that the pandemic disproportionately impacted women's ability to contribute to the development of public code, relatively to men. #Openaccess preprint at: https://hal.science/hal-04716803/
La IA puede ser útil para ciertas cositas. He aprendido algo nuevo, para eso sirvió.
En este caso, yo quería una implementación para mostrar mis toots en una simple pagina de GitHub. Llevo una hora en esto T-T capaz para alguien que domine el tema es pan comido, pero para mí fue prueba y error, y asistencia de IA.
Quería hacerlo con RSS, solo habían errores...
Al final la opción más obvia salió a la luz: la API de Mastodon para acceder a la información publica de mi cuenta. Ha funcionado ^^
Es algo básico y tosco, un poco sin alma.
So, ¿Ahora que sigue? Pues, me gustaría recibir feedback, en plan, personas que si sepan de código jaja, y mejorar esto, ya sin una IA. Quiero aprender y mejorar
NetHSM is a secure, #opensource software-based Hardware Security Module (HSM) built on OCaml and MirageOS, providing transparent, customizable cryptographic key management for applications like TLS, DNSSEC, and blockchain. Want to know more? 🤓
#archlinux gets $600K in funding (from the usual German foundation, of course), #Firefox drops Do Not Track and #Flathub is being separated from the #GNOME foundation into its own entity: time for the #linux and #OpenSource News video!
If you are interested in supporting my #Python#OpenSource development, or my writing projects on my blog, you can sign up at https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph and you too will be able to read these weekly updates as well as have a surprisingly significant (BUT FOR LEGAL REASONS, VERY MUCH _NOT_ GUARANTEED) influence over which things I focus on at various times!
It is only because of our amazing community, and all that we do together, that this little project could have possibly gotten so far. Thank you everyone!
Game development smells a lot like other software development (and *can* be done that way), but it’s an entirely different world with decades of industry norms and expectations. Oftentimes, trying to apply the same approach as other software will seem baffling to game developers at best—and actively antagonistic at worst.
- https://thi.ng/ramp has just received a bugfix for ramps with more than 256 keyframes. Thanks to @robertoranon for finding & reporting! 🤩🙏 - https://thi.ng/meta-css also fixes a couple of issues related to using certain characters within template/macro arguments (e.g. `:`, `=`)
Last week, I also added a new feature to https://thi.ng/rstream to provide a 1:N fanout subscription type for reactive tuple values. For example, this is very useful for editing vector values via reactive UI components (using individual components per vector/tuple element)...
- Added platform adapter IDs for use with external editors/tooling - Updated editors[1] to check for platform adapter & API version compatibility, display warnings if needed... - Added/migrated three different seedable PRNG implementations in API core package (SFC32, XorShift128, XsAdd). These are completely independent and can be used by platform adapters and/or artworks (also multiple instances) - Initial release of first platform adapter for an upcoming art platform (currently invite only) - Restructured all example projects - Updated readme & API docs (https://docs.thi.ng/genart-api/core/)
[1] The param editor/sandbox requires your artwork to use the latest version of these packages: `@genart-api/core` and `@genart-api/adapter-urlparams`.
"Today, Signal as an organization runs all of our meetings using Signal calls, treating them as a substitute for the surveillance-heavy video meeting services that grew in popularity after COVID hit."
I just added all the files required to Flatpak a Godot Engine game *and it worked on the first try!* :o
Idk if I should be proud of that, or if it's a sign that I'm in too deep. Maybe both? Either way, I'm excited for this one, too. And to get wider exposure for these excellent open source games. And to get more quality games onto Flathub!
* bugfixes/precision improvements around a handle of safe template patterns (e.g. `runner.temp`) * precision improvements to our handling of matrices and matrix expansions, thanks to @ubiratansoares * the terminal interface has been reworked to use tracing spans internally, making it even more responsive
i want to share some mockups for the important things that are missing in the user interface (like brush presets and navigator). implemented parts look more improved than mockup counter-parts because i'm not so good at Figma.
🇯🇵 #AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo takes place on 12/14. We'll be talking about some of the best AlmaLinux Enterprise use cases and our ongoing and future initiatives.
Latest releases, progress on Fediscovery, FOSDEM plans, and community highlights - catch up on all the latest news from the core team in our November Trunk & Tidbits post.
i released the first version ever of my open source painting program, it's still in early stage but it has the following features:
- No AI, this is a program for real artists - 100% native, no Web, no Qt, no GTK, no dear imgui - Advanced Layer System - Infinite Undo History - GPU Accelerated Canvas View - Brush Engine similar to popular manga software - Bucket Fill with gap closing (proof of concept)
The 2022 tech layoffs were 70% women. BIPOC, queer, and disabled workers were also terminated at higher rates.
While we can't prevent corporate layoffs, we can ensure the future of the free and open source community is more diverse and inclusive. Outreachy and Conservancy are vital to that future.
@outreachy connects people who face discrimination and systemic bias to internships in free and open source software. @conservancy staff and contractors run Outreachy.
Outreachy corporate sponsorships and grants have been drastically reduced since 2022. This means Outreachy can't offer as many internships to people who face discrimination and systemic bias in tech. Outreachy's normal 60 to 70 intern cohorts have been reduced to 25 to 35 interns.
Please consider donating to the Conservancy fundraiser, in support of Outreachy and the diverse and inclusive future FOSS needs:
Did you miss the Ask Me Anything Meetup Today? We discussed the CNCF transition, versioning in RHEL 9, the 2025 Roadmap, contributing questions, and more! Now up on YouTube for your viewing pleasure! https://youtu.be/-rW4kdROjuk#podman#opensource
Almost each time I get a Dependabot alert, I've been using it as an opportunity to remove some 3rd party dependency. This doesn't mean my code is more secure (albeit I'm trying), but at least it's under my control, or is replaced with more native/built-in/vetted packages.
Latest case: An alert for a transitive dependency of `express` just caused me to refactor the only one (of 180) example projects in https://thi.ng/umbrella which depended on the latter, replaced with a barebones NodeJS built-in solution (good enough for this use case) and resulting in ~60 less dependencies in total...
Dr. Manuel Hoffmann of Harvard's Laboratory for Innovation Science will share data from millions of companies validating what the #OSS community has long known:
💲 The cost to create popular OSS packages: $4B 💵 The economic value delivered: $5 - $8.8 trillion 🪙 Without #OSS, corporate software spending would triple
ALT text detailsLinux Magazine Issue 290 - JANUARY 2025: LibreOffice Alternatives | Pi Zero Webcam: Watch for snow with this ingenious mini monitor | DVD INSIDE: Fedora 41 Workstation Live and Manjaro Xfce 24.1.1
In this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News videos, we have: - #KDE gets 4x the donations in 2 weeks compared to their previous best month of 2024 - Discord finally adds Wayland support for Screen and audio sharing - Valve confirms that SteamOS powered devices can't be far off
- Restructured the project as monorepo, splitting out core API and platform adapter(s) as separate packages - Switched package scope from `@thi.ng` to `@genart-api` to highlight project/platform independence (not directly related with other thi.ng projects). - Published new packages: `@genart-api/core` and `@genart-api/adapter-urlparams` - Moved API docs to https://docs.thi.ng/genart-api/core/ - Added support for n-dimensional vector parameters and added support in the reference platform adapter and in param editor - Updated all examples & parameter editor. The latter is now only compatible with this latest API version (v0.16.0) - Updated docs/readme
If you want to find out more, the project readme has _a lot_ more information. Also feel free to get in touch with any questions/proposals!
Another #FreeSoftware tool I use often is the OpenBroadcastSoftware, #OBS@OBSProject . Great tool for my Video tutorials and other things, like broadcasting the StarCraft tournament I organize for my friends.
Over 120.000 wifis, 2.700 cell towers and 3.300 bluetooth beacons!
Tricks: - follow the NeoStumbler settings - connect phone to a powerbank, this disables the energysaver - keep the screen on, for example with https://github.com/abdalmoniem/Caffeinate - place phone near windows in many trains and buses
I was going to wait until we clean things up a bit more (I have a PR open to backfill release notes, maybe a nicer icon, verification), but I’m too obsessed to not share it immediately.
ROTA is completely open source, built with Godot, and released on Flathub (including for ARM!). And seriously, it’s SO GOOD. So much love and attention has been poured into it.
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We're looking to blaze our own trail within the #opensource community so that anyone can use, modify, distribute, study, improve and contribute freely under the GPLv3 license. 🍻
Introducing #openfpsz a truly #opensource#game developed with #Godot, reverently nodding to the roots of #Starsiege Tribes while drawing inspiration from its rich legacy. Picture fast-paced #skiing, thrilling #jetpack moves and epic battles across vast landscapes.
The Fedora Project is looking for a new git forge to move to, and right now the preference is toward @forgejo over GitLab. We're looking for feedback one more time from the community before the Fedora Council has a vote on it!
Open-Source-Software: Deutschland muss raus aus der Abhängigkeit
Jährlich werden vom Staat Milliarden für proprietäre Programme ausgegeben, etwa für Microsoft. Experten fordern Mut zum Wandel und ein Ende der Abhängigkeiten.
The nice thing about the #OpenSource community is that, even as a solo developer, you're never working alone
Look for packages and frameworks for what you're trying to do, chances are someone's made something that will just plain make your life easier
With every open source project I use I like to have a little link somewhere in the app so you can find their work and it's like a little credits screen for everyone who helped me make this app #SwiftLang#iOSDev#BuildInPublic#IndieApps
I’ve heard some reasons game devs avoid open sourcing second-hand:
• Licensing difficulties w/assets • Fear of losing sales • Fear of someone else taking your work • Not wanting to publicly share “messy” or presumed poor-quality code • No obvious benefit for single-dev games • Games tend to be released “finished,” versus always-updated software
Are these accurate? Am I missing anything obvious? :) I’d love to hear from game developers themselves.
Question for my game developer friends out there (please also feel free to boost/share widely!): why do indie games still tend to be closed source, especially compared to indie app ecosystems where there are thriving open source communities?
That’s obviously a super broad question, but I’m open to broad perspectives. :) I’m especially interested in hearing from folks who have been actively involved in video game design, development, publishing, etc.
I've noticed a concerning trend of "slop security reports" being sent to open source projects. Here are thoughts about what platforms, reporters, and maintainers can do to push back:
ALT text detailsTwo green PCB. Lower one is the user interface and the upper one is the RF board. In the right upper corner are little baggies full of parts. In the left upper corner is the enclosure. In the left lower corner is the display for the radio.
Wie gestalten wir #KI nachhaltig und gerecht? Welche Rolle spielt #OpenSource für ein zukunftsfähiges, europäisches KI-Ökosystem? Diskutiert mit mir und meinen Gästen Marina Köhn (Umweltbundesamt) und Stefan Schäfer (OVHcloud)! Infos & Anmeldung: gruenlink.de/1zx7vsgawn
It just dawned on me that I haven't been mentioning five(!) recent https://thi.ng/genart-api updates, all from the past month... 😱
The latest version (v0.14.0, just released) is largely about an overhaul of messaging related functionality and also addresses use cases related to managing multiple artworks embedded (via `<iframe>`s) in a single document/page (think: online gallery scenarios...)
If you're already using GenArtAPI message/event listeners in your own artwork, you might have to rename some of them. This commit has the important details:
Also, the online parameter editors have been updated and are now only working with the latest version of the API, so be sure to update your artwork projects to stay compatible:
Other recent changes/additions (in no particular order):
- added new message types to poll the artwork/API for current state/info - update message names & naming convention - added ability to configure the API behavior/features (also via messaging) - option to emit frame messages w/ current timing/frame info - message broadcasting to multiple GenArtAPI instances/artworks - inject common defaults for optional settings in param specs - fixed date/datetime param handling (in editor) - updated/fixed time providers - updated debug time provider (w/ FPS visualization overlay) - use gzip compression for image param values (in default platform adapter) - added version info - various documentation updates - (WIP) WASM bindings for Zig-based artworks - (WIP) unpublished progress on real platform adapters
Some of these features are all about enabling new use cases and improving usability of external tooling around artworks adapting GenArtAPI, for example:
- Ability to broadcast start/stop messages to either individual or all artworks embedded in a page - Ability for the param editor to configure the artwork currently being worked on to emit timing & frame information (which then can be integrated in the editor UI without the editor knowing anything else about the artwork) - Enable editors to identify an artwork/project and store param presets grouped by project ID - Allow editors (or other tools) to check the API version used by the artwork by first sending a `genart:get-info` message, then listening for `genart:info` response (then maybe display a warning if version is incompatible) - etc.
If you want to find out more, the project readme has _a lot_ more information. Also feel free to get in touch with any questions!
NEW - Hypatia - Update available - 11/30/2024 - v3.14
🐻 The first open source real-time malware scanner for Android. 🦫 Over 7.2 million malware signatures can be detected by default, and configurable up to over 48 million. 🐚 Real-time scanning can scan average sized files in 5-40ms and has a near zero impact on device performance and battery life. 🦝 All operations are done locally on the device. 🐑 Internet is only used to download signature databases. Your files and/or their metadata will never leave your device.
what is going on #activitypup ? can anyone tell me something about it? What's up with the number of automated accounts that are using the bot software "Awakari", which is suspected of scraping, crawling, snooping, #awakari and which I couldn't find an entry for in our search mask just 24 hours ago, which is increasing every hour now .. ? If you have an open account and don't have new followers to request, then please count on one of these "Thanksgiving guests" and let's assume that after digesting your posts, replies and following turkeys and pies they will multiply in the #Fediverse I would be very happy to receive well-documented answers. So far I have found that the name Awakari and the unannounced approach by #Mastodon and via activitypup are causing some users considerable discomfort. So far I can't find any transparency here, what is Aktivitypup actually doing? Does anyone of you know that? and by you I don't mean the developer of this software! But you. .. .
https://floss.fund/ (by Zerodha in India) is offering $1 million per year grant to open-source projects. But very few applications have been received so far, and it needs help spreading the word.
Did you know we are building a wiki of tutorials and resources inspired by our sessions?
Our goal is to create hands-on modules on topics like game development, cybersecurity, web development, and more — anything our rangatahi are interested in. While it’s still in its infancy, we’re excited to grow it over the next few years.
Everything is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 or AGPLv3+, with contributions from rangatahi, kaiako and industry.
After some time of trying mastodon, I quite like it here and will probably stay so it's maybe time for an introduction: I'm a student in physical #oceanography in northern germany and mainly here for finding interesting research related content. Second interest is just general #opensource stuff & programming and third is politics. For the research part I'm mostly a fan of #hydrothermalvents , #oceans , #climate , the #arctic , #antarctic , #glaciers , #seaice but also #ships and more.
Celebrate a quarter-century of empowering #opensource professionals with Linux Professional Institute (LPI)!
As our thanks to the community who made #LPI's 25th anniversary possible, untill Dec. 31st, every 25th candidate who takes one of our exams will receive a free voucher for their next exam. 🎈🐧🎁🌍
🎉 Inscris-toi aux Rencontres Hivernales du Libre 2025 !
📅 Dates : 24-26 janvier 2025 📍 Lieu : St-Cergue, Suisse
Un événement incontournable autour des logiciels libres et de la culture libre ! Participe à des conférences, ateliers et échanges dans une ambiance conviviale et hivernale.
...PARCE QUE EN FAIT la sténo est un système super fermé, les machines coûtent une blinde, la formation coûte une blinde, la licence coûte une blinde (sinon je serais sténographe depuis mes 15 ans).
Alors que c'est un outil génial et tellement indispensable, qui sert notamment à faire du transcript en direct, tenir les minutes d'une réu ou d'un procès, prendre des notes excessivement rapidement (on parle de 200-300 wpm VS 80-120 pour les plus rapides des dactylos)
mais surtout c'est un outil d'accessibilité inestimable. par exemple pour faire des transcripts pour les sourds et malentendants. Et moi quand un outil d'accessibilité est propriétaire et méga payant, ça me donne envie de casser des trucs.
C'est pour ça que j'ai crié en continu quand j'ai découvert Plover, https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/ projet de logiciel (fonctionnel et disponible, depuis plusieurs années maintenant) ouvrant la sténo en open source, gratos.
Tu vois c'est pour ça que je fantasme depuis un moment sur un mini ordi comme le DevTerm de chez Clockworkpi ( https://www.clockworkpi.com/shop ), mais avec un clavier de sténo, des fonctions minimalistes de traitement de texte, la possibilité de projeter sur un écran et un driver qui permettrait à l'imprimante thermique de chier du texte à mesure qu'il est écrit, en direct.
enfin, le reste est facile, et peut-être que je me sous-estime, mais je pense que c'est pas demain que j'ai les compétences pour pondre ce driver alors ma machine de sténo pas cher et accessible à tous reste un fantasme jusque là.
CECI ÉTANT DIT. Avec les outils existants (votre Planck et Plover) mes chers petits libristes,vous avez plus aucune excuse pour ne pas rendre vos events accessibles aux sourds et malentendants, donc je vous enjoins à vous en emparer massivement et faire le job. M'kay?
I summarize the changelogs of 0.3.0 and 0.2.1 (because maybe you missed that patch):
- feat: possibility received text and images from other apps and create post; - feat: add possibility to change system status/navigation bar theme; - feat: add support for announcements (Mastodon); - fix: settings load for anonymous users; - fix: notification type serialization for filtering and push subscription; - fix: poll footer layout; - fix: make user names/handles clickable; - enhancement: change “Send" button position in post creation; - enhancement: change open circle/list in circle management screen; - enhancement: make legacy login less visible; - chore: add description for non-textual UI elements; - chore: add new l10ns (ua, fi); - chore: add more unit tests and coverage report; - chore: update dependencies.
Hope you are having fun on Friendica (or Mastodon) and as always #livefasteattrash
Ω⚠️🐘⚠️Ω I did some hacking at @pkreissel's implementation of a customizable algorithm for your Mastodon feed. I fixed some bugs and added a few features but maybe most importantly I streamlined the process of installing and running the demo app so you can experience the magic of his invention reshaping your Mastodon timeline for yourself with ease.
Seriously everything about having an algorithm adjust my feed to make sure I see stuff I might otherwise have missed has made my Mastodon experience like 1,000x better. The fact that it's (extremely) granularly customizable is the icing on the cake.
Setup should be trivial for anyone vaguely familiar with the command line. Even if you're scared of the command line you should be able to copy/paste the 3 commands listed in the installation instructions, all of which are in the GitHub repo:
📣 Attention all custom ROM users and advocates for digital rights! 📣
Google's Play Integrity is limiting access to certain functionalities and applications for those using custom operating systems. This is a direct attack on the open-source community and a step towards further consolidating Google's monopoly in the mobile ecosystem.
Let's unite and fight for our right to use and develop custom operating systems! 💪
ALT text detailsStop Google from Limiting Custom ROMs!
The Issue:
Google systematically blocks access to apps and functionalities for users running custom Android operating systems, affecting millions of tech-savvy users who modify their devices.
Why Users Choose Custom ROMs:
• Overcome programmed obsolescence when manufacturers stop updating
• Fix bugs in stock operating systems
• Personalize and customize their device's software
• Improve performance and privacy
Google's False Justification:
Google claims Play Integrity ensures "app security" by verifying unmodified app binaries on "genuine" Android devices. In reality, this is a tactic to:
• Maintain its mobile operating system monopoly
• Restrict user choice
• Convince developers to stay dependent on Play Store
Our Demand:
We call on European Union to consider investigating the monopolistic tactics, and ask Google to allow custom ROM users to:
• Access all applications
• Use device capabilities fully
• Exercise their right to modify owned technology
This is about digital freedom, user rights, and challenging corporate control over personal technology.
Sign now to support technological freedom!
Shutter Encoder is a new free GPL app (donationware optionally) that is a front-end to ffmpeg. It's kind of like Handbrake, or Avidemux, or LosslessCut, but with a lot more ffmpeg options exposed. Available for Mac, Win, and Linux.
On Mastodon, a newly introduced feature allows you to link your blog articles to your Fediverse account. I recently added this feature to my Hugo Blog and wrote down the necessary steps: https://kotthoff.dev/posts/2024/mastodon-tag/
"“We’re building an open-source social network that anyone can take into their own hands and build on, and it’s something that is radically different from anything that’s been done in social media before. Nobody’s been this open, this transparent and put this much control in the users hands.”"
Well, once again, no. ActivityPub and the Fediverse really did this in terms of the users with no companies dictating the terms. What Bluesky is doing is not "radically different" or "put this much control in the users hands". We still can't 100% host our own instances on Bluesky and 90% of the user base is on Bluesky's servers. It did not start with users, it started with the company. Huge difference.
"“The billionaire proof is in the way everything is designed, and so if someone bought or if the Bluesky company went down, everything is open source,” Graber said."
Well, no. Open source tools can still be bring down and we've seen examples of that, where even "open source companies" have been bought and shut down.
In light of the recent #Omnivore acquisition, I recently published a brief overview of the various #selfhosted bookmark and read later apps that can easily replace popular hosted services. As usual, they're all fantastic and should be considered based on individual preferences and needs!
10 lessons from the Open-Source community that aren't about tech.
The author shares his insights from working with, and writing about open-source software since 1999.
1. It's about sharing 2. It's about caring 3. Marketing isn't always required 4. Word of mouth is your best friend 5. Enjoy the small victories 6. Building a community is crucial 7. Collaboration eases the burden 8. Perseverance pays off 9. Enjoy the challenge 10. Respect the underdog
Most of the regular attendees have other commitments, so we are canceling the December 3, 2024 Podman Community Meeting. The PCM will meet next on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. Hope to see you there! #podman#opensource Agenda: https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w?both
FreeCAD 1.0 is out, and the binaries for various platforms are now available for download too (yesterday they released the source, but today binaries are available too). After 22 years of development, it's now a very robust app that competes head to head with heavyweights in the CAD space.
Netflix's FreeBSD Servers and Their Impact on Open Source
Netflix, one of the world's leading video streaming services, is renowned for its robust and efficient infrastructure that powers billions of hours of content streaming globally. At the core of this infrastructure lies FreeBSD, a free and open-source operating system.
This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.
I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.
So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.
I had this account for a while but I don’t have a pinned introduction post so I’m making one now.
I like to talk about video games in general. Retro or new. I have a #SteamDeck and #ValveIndex. I’m mostly a PC gamer but also play on the #NintendoSwitch.
We have an #Nvidia roadmap for Linux with pretty cool stuff coming, the features planned for #Ubuntu 25.04, which will be an interesting version, and a kernel developer taking issue with #Tuxedo drivers:
> The Open Source Initiative’s recently announced “Open Source AI Definition” surprised me in a way I expect many readers could miss: they’re defining “open” not just in terms of what bits we can get and what we’re allowed to do with them, but also partly in terms of OSI’s own institutional blessing.
> It isn’t just a definition of what “open source AI” is or ought to be, but implicitly also a process for bestowing that [OSI] status or withholding it.
#ReleaseFriday — Just released a new version of the https://thi.ng/meta-css toolchain (which includes a powerful generator for custom CSS frameworks, macro-based stylesheet syntax, dead-code elimination, bundling etc.).
The new version also includes support for `prop-name-[value]` syntax to use alongside other class macros and templates to define CSS properties and their values in a verbatim/inline manner. The readme includes a short section with an example...
ALT text detailsTesting xtream on a desktop computer, a laptop and a smartphone. I drop a video file on the desktop PC and it plays on the other devices.
The @fsfe called on the community to participate in a consultation on the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and demanded long-term sustainable funding for #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) after recent budget cuts.
We also asked you, our community, to participate. And many of you did, nearly 800 answers were received —an unusually high number for such consultations. Big thanks to all of you who did and who made this a success! 👏
Here is the changelog, compared the latest beta: 🦝 feat: make crash reports opt-in (disabled by default); 🦝 feat: add option to keep app bars fixed while scrolling; 🦝 fix: transition between images/videos in detail view; 🦝 fix: unmute videos in detail view; 🦝 enhancement: update licenses; 🦝 chore: update dependencies; 🦝 chore: update user manual.
If no blocking issues are reported, I intend to make it easier to install the app (by distributing on other alternative stores, e.g. setting up the submission procedure to F-Droid), translate the UI and/or user manual into more languages, etc.
„Anyone can now download the AlphaFold3 software code and use it non-commercially. But for now, only scientists with an academic affiliation can access the training weights on request.“ Yeah, this is not #OpenSource, then. It’s #OpenWashing. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03708-4
For today's #ThankYouTuesday, I want to thank @grunfink Their already excellent #snac improves with every release, and they are always available, friendly, and positive.
The world could really be a better place with more people with their skills and attitude.
My 2 cents: The real value of learning skills (rather than just learning how to delegate them) is only fully realized once the option for delegation is removed again, be it for economical, sociopolitical, environmental or any other reason... This applies to delegation to other humans and/or AI alike!
A culture of learning new skills (incl. learning to learn!) is generative, i.e. it fosters/amplifies multiple outcomes and independence.
A culture delegation is one of generating/amplifying dependencies, often for only short term gains.
Both kinds are recursive in nature... but with their recursive properties oriented in opposite directions.
Over the last 4 years, I've 'concluded' my series of #fossback talks describing my journey into this space as a designer: http://tiny.cc/uxfoss4
I'm considering two polar opposite talks in the poll below. There is a large discrepancy in the FOSS communities and 1 size doesn't fit all. What direction do you think I should go in and please, reply with WHY. The talk would be so much more effective if it had a tighter focus (e.g. focus on large or small teams)
Support this #petition on the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system and the use of /e/OS in public administrations across all EU countries 🇪🇺 ✍️
Join the movement. Support /e/OS. Support Digital #Sovereignty.
GIMP 3.0 enters RC testing after 20 years - in software development time, that's approximately 140 cat years! 🐱 New scalable interface, SVG icons, and improved color management incoming. Some developers age like fine wine, others like open source software: very, very slowly. #OpenSource#GIMP3
ALT text detailsBio pics for Talking Postgres Ep21 guest Andrew Atkinson & host Claire Giordano along with dates for the LIVE recording on Discord, Wed Nov 13th at 10:00am PST
@thisismissem@Gargron This public callout is brave and not baseless, thank you Emelia for bringing up the issue and especially for your hard work... This is actually something that I've seen and last time when @renchap was wondering about why I'm hesitant writing some UI work or sending SVG stuff ideas to your way in a form of a PR, this is one of the reasons. If the huge time invested goes unnoticed or even exploited, its better to put your efforts to a fork or a mod instead.
The Mastodon core team should have a serious internal conversation about this. Doesn't really welcome anyone to contribute.
My appeal to purveyors of large portals providing "Open Source Insights": Please, please update/fix your analysis logic (or provide config support) to support monorepos! At the very least refrain from actively spreading misinformation and by doing so negatively impacting/hurting package selection/uptake/usage decisions! Please consider the downstream effects on indy open source developers!
Latest case: Google's https://deps.dev (to which I just emailed the below), but numerous other similar "analysis" portals exist, most of them not supporting/considering monorepo setups either and therefore ending up mistreating/misjudging not just a single project, but ALL (in my case ~200) other projects in such repos! All being punished by negative scoring caused by analysis errors!
"[...]your service is producing factually wrong metadata for projects hosted in large Google-style multi-project monorepos. For example, my monorepo (https://thi.ng/umbrella) is home to ~200 TypeScript projects/packages, all of which are distributed as independent offerings. Yet, your analysis logic does not consider such monorepo setups at all and wrongly causes a severe negative impact on the scoring of *all* of projects developed & hosted in such a manner. This is simply unacceptable and is actively hurting (not just my own) efforts of maintaining a large number of open source projects for a long time...
Your analysis claims there're 7 existing vulnerabilities (listed below), but again NONE of them applies to the package in question and only 2 of them actually ever related to other packages in this repo. Both have been fixed months/years ago, within a few days of reporting:
- GHSA-rj44-gpjc-29r7 (only applied to thi.ng/egf, fixed 2021-03-27) - GHSA-8ppr-www8-hfjx (only applied to thi.ng/paths, fixed 2024-01-30) - GHSA-pxg6-pf52-xh8x (UNRELATED to any package in this repo) - GHSA-78xj-cgh5-2h22 (UNRELATED) - GHSA-2p57-rm9w-gvfp (UNRELATED) - GHSA-gcx4-mw62-g8wm (UNRELATED) - GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36 (UNRELATED)
Issue #2: Binary assets
Here your analysis WRONGLY states this package contains two binary artifacts, however the files listed are _test assets_ for a completely different package (https://deps.dev/npm/%40thi.ng%2Fwasm-api), and even for this other package, these test binaries are NOT distributed as part of the package (they're merely present in the repo only). This is completely misleading!"
cc/ @robpike (who I remeber mentioned to have helped with this)
You can't buy #OpenSource software (well, OK, we live under capitalism, and people are charging money for open source software...) but you can pay for it by contributing to the project.
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- Added null pointer checks & guards in https://thi.ng/wasm-api. This also includes support for structs with fields using Zig-style optional pointers. - Updated the https://thi.ng/wasm-api-bindgen code generator for #TypeScript to produce smaller code for structs using many string fields - Did major ground work on #Zig#WebAssembly bindings of core https://thi.ng/genart-api functionality (see small demo below) - Fixed/updated/simplified time provider logic - Updated the debug time provider with its FPS analytics/visualization overlay, now computing moving min/max and moving average (default period = 200 frames) and the viz is dynamically/smoothly rescaling to current peak - Released new GenArtAPI v0.9.0
As for the Zig/WASM example: This is only interesting from a technical POV, no visuals here! All canvas drawing and parameter declarations/evaluations are done via Zig, using the aforementioned https://thi.ng/wasm-api infrastructure to provide a new API module which can be seamlessly used with the other hybrid WASM API modules, here for DOM creation (https://thi.ng/wasm-api-dom) and to handle Canvas2D drawing (https://thi.ng/wasm-api-canvas).
At the moment, this GenArtAPI WASM module is still a fixed part of this example, but will eventually be extracted & distributed as separate package.
Choose one of the two GUI implementations, then make any parameter changes and you should see the new values applied immediately (btw. the demo is likely not very usable on mobile)...
We invite everyone to the 27th XMPP #Summit in #Brussels, #Belgium next year again. Get involved in development of the XMPP protocol in person and remote!
In this one, we have efforts to build a #GNOME user focused distro from GNOME OS, and a #KDE distro that’s not KDE Neon, we have Manjaro adding telemetry as an opt-out, and #Mozilla laying off the team in charge of their core values: decentralization, advocacy and privacy.
Update. "If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, #Meta's #AI large language model (#LLM) Llama 3 is #OpenSource. It's not. The Open Source Initiative (#OSI, @osi) spells it out in the Open Source Definition, and Llama 3's license – with clauses on litigation and branding – flunks it on several grounds. Meta, unfortunately, is far from unique in wanting to claim that some of its software and models are open source. Indeed, the concept has its own name: #OpenWashing." https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/opinion_open_washing/
What I love about Mastodon is that how open it is. I am a very open person, too. As long as I remember I have loved transparecy in things I do. Back in the early 2000s I wrote a diary online (still do!) and some older Internet user sent me an email: "I wonder why you are openly telling about these things, isn't it dangerous?". I didn't tell my secrets. It was an ordinary day of a school boy nerd. Yes, sometimes I do worry about my data online. The things I expose, in a sense. However, I think I have the IQ for not telling something that I wouldn't write on a billboard. Openness has more pros than cons. With great power comes great responsibility.
I believe openness and open source brings safety and increases trust. To be clear, transparency and openness does NOT reduce privacy or data protection. On the contrary.
Mastodon's code is out in the open, its users are scattered on their own servers and the mentality generally is open and sincere. It makes me feel most at home.
I started regularly donating about a year ago. I am now supporting 8 different projects with 20,77€ per month, and it didn't hurt at all.
Why pay for something free? Because free software only exists because other people already paid for it. Someone has to do it. It's time to do your part!
If you can afford a subscription service, then you probably can afford a little donation, too. Start with 0.1% of your income.
ALT text detailsA social media post image with the headline:
Are you paying monthly for some of these?
Followed by the logos of Disney+, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Spotify and Discord.
Then, another headline:
Consider donating to some of these:
Followed by the logos of: Debian, XFCE, KDE, GNOME, postmarketOS, Inkscape, Pixelfed, Mastodon, F-Droid, GIMP, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Liberapay, Matrix, Syncthing and PeerTube.
There is also a remark at the bottom of the image: Disagree with my selection of projects? Make your own version of this graphic by editing the original from https://furbasik.de/consider-donating.svg
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be co-hosting the Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) workshop from December 10 – 12 on Forming an Ecosystem around Open Source in Space.
I am really excited for the workshop as an opportunity to build community around safe and secure open source space applications.
@cdrage ran into a Podman user who uses Podman to host some @warhammer tournament software. He decided to use AI to generate a Warhammer/Podman image. Love it! #podman#opensource
Viikko sit tuli uutisia että #Bitwarden on poistumassa #opensource piiristä. Menin heti irtisanomaan tilaukseni, mut huomasin ettenhän mä maksanutkaan siitä mitään! Vitsi mikä palvelu. No nyt kun palauttivat ohjelmistot takaisin täysin avoimen lähdekoodin piiriin niin ostin tilauksen. 10e vuodessa premiumista. En tarvi niitä ominaisuuksia, mut tukimielessä voi tohon hintaan jo maksaa näin hyvästä palvelusta. Bitwarden on siis salasanojenhallintasofta. Toimii kaikilla päätelaitteilla. Suositus!
If you are not using any Bash prompt customization yet, install Bash-it now and just switch to inretio theme by adding following to your profile config:
export BASH_IT_THEME='inretio'
Do you use any terminal prompt customizations already?
ALT text detailsInretio theme for Bash-it - shell configuration and prompt customization framework. Showing KDE terminal application Konsole with prompt styled with my theme: timestamp, penguin emoji, username, computer name, current folder are shown along with Python and Python version and venv name, as well as Git branch and status
Die digitale Souveränität in Deutschland hängt davon ab, wie schnell und entschlossen die öffentliche Verwaltung die Abhängigkeit von proprietärer Software lösen kann. Zusammen mit @OSBA, @loadev, @D64eV und weiteren Organisationen fordern wir den @bundestag auf, im Haushalt 2025 die Weichen dafür zu stellen. Die Bundesregierung soll endlich wie angekündigt in einen umfassenden Umstieg auf #OpenSource, offene Standards und nachhaltige Digitalisierung investieren.
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog: https://lichess.org/changelog
Changelog: 🦝 fix crash in search when result type is hashtags or users; 🦝 improved login flow, especially for Mastodon users; 🦝 remove channels from selection when using the "Circle" visibility for posts (Friendica-only); 🦝 improved hashtag and mention opening, especially on Mastodon; 🦝 experimental UnifiedPush integration for push notifications; 🦝 dependency updates.
NetBSD: The Portable, Lightweight, and Robust Unix-Like OS – History, Features, and Modern Use Cases
NetBSD is an open-source, Unix-like operating system known for its portability, lightweight design, and robustness across a wide array of hardware platforms.
I’m excited to hear that opensearchfoundation.org is working on this exact problem, though they’re focusing their efforts on Europe exclusively. Worth a read of their website; they’re funded by a grant from the EU and are technologically competent. They’ve crawled 2 billion URLs so far and are well on their way to a 2025 delivery date.
My guess is the index files will go somewhat viral and OSF-based search will be available in North America as well.
The university that does this will have an unending treasure trove of capstone and thesis projects for students in technical majors. Search is a thousand hard CS/DS/IT problems and cat-and-mouse games combined into one. Is it enough to justify the cost? No. But with a subsidy, it certainly wouldn’t be a chore.
Building, hosting, and maintaining a performant search index is expensive. We likely will not ever see a nonprofit come up with the resources to do this. But the internet is an indispensable pillar of infrastructure, and is extraordinarily difficult to use without search.
Economically speaking, the right solution is to treat search as a public good and pay for it with our taxes.
To be clear, I’m calling for an open source *index*, not another search engine.
Practically all search engines (whether for-profit or nonprofit) are renting results from Google and/or Microsoft. The indexes maintained by both companies are driven by anti-consumer motives.
If there were a stable, financially independent index available to the public, we’d have our choice of for-profit, nonprofit, and FOSS engines built on top of it.
https://thi.ng/genart-api is already at v0.8.1 now. This latest version includes a new "debug mode" time provider plugin which also collects and computes frame rate statistics (moving average) and injects a canvas visualization overlay (everything configurable). Together with the parameter editor, this is a small, but useful tool to help configuring an artwork and ensure fluid performance on a target device/platform...
https://thi.ng/memoize: Function memoization/caching. Added support for async functions/promises and made existing implementations variadic (and removed fixed arity versions!). This is thanks to a feature request by Hitomi Tenshi...
https://thi.ng/transducers-stats: Functional sequence processing. Added moving minimum/maximum transducers (deque-based to be super efficient) and updated Donchian channel transducer (aka moving min/max bounds) to also benefit from new implementation
There's also ongoing major (re)work of the long-promised 2D/3D mesh implementation. It's still on a private feature branch, but I'm getting closer for initial release...
Now that I got my ass handed to me in a game of #Warhammer 40K, it's time for the #Linux and #OpenSource News video!
In this one, the OSI basically said that no big #AI model is currently Open Source, Torvalds said AI is 90% Marketing, we have the release of #Fedora 41 and the #Cosmic Alpha 3, and Apex Legends blocked Linux gamers:
Solid State Batteries will reach mass production in the next 2-3 years, lowering the price for electricity storage to (far) below €100/kWh while also offering more safety. US and European firms are however not part of this upcoming megamarket, because we prefer to waste our energy (pun intended) on glorified autocorrect solutions and deepfake (moving) pix. #SarcasmButOnlyHalf 1/5
Better GitHub Co-Authors is a browser extension made by @swithinbank that makes easier adding co-author credit to PRs on GitHub.
It adds an "Add co-authors" button to the PR merge UI, automatically collecting all participants and generating "Co-authored-by" comments for easy credit in the commit message—perfect for acknowledging reviewers and commenters, not just code contributors! 🌟
Changelog: 🦝 improved circle list, which now has clear separation between list/channels/groups; 🦝 fix post preview (multiline input and support for Markdown headlines); 🦝 fix title for background inbox notification bottom sheet; 🦝 solved a crash when the image size was not known in advance.
You are encouraged to upgrade as soon as you can because the last issue of the above list caused the app to crash when loading feeds.
Have a nice weekend and thanks to all who reached out to me for reporting issues. The project could not grow if it wasn't for you!
Bought and assembled this Info Orb kit, I'll probably look into making a custom set of info to display this weekend
ALT text detailsPhoto of a set of 5 circular displays connected to a pcb with an esp32 at the bottom. The displays show a clock the weather described in text, an image of the weather (in this case clouds), the current high and low temps, and the next 3 day forecast
ALT text detailsPhoto of the same 5 displays this time it shows a clock that says 3:52 PM
Changelog: 🦝 added an option in Settings to disable automatic image loading; 🦝 initial loading optimization; 🦝 dependency updates.
@cantences@z428 I prioritized your feedback since the next thing in my roadmap is quite big (UnifiedPush integration) and it would have taken too long if I had waited for it.
Open Source is a #software development model based on publication of public codebases, so all users get unlimited access to the original source code used to create the application, framework or library. #OpenSource promotes collaboration, transparency, and community involvement, because everybody can contribute to the codebase, report bugs and suggest new features.
The wait is over! Our first stable release of Thunderbird for Android is out NOW! Find out what's new, where to get support, and how to download it in our release announcement.
And to everyone who contributed via beta testing, giving us feedback on K-9 Mail, localizing, thank you. :) Your community team work has made the dream work.
Does anyone know whether #Logseq will still run locally/offline after the new database version launches? I'm quite concerned that we'll go from a great app that runs completely offline to a complex database setup that's a pain to host and a pain to backup. I'm not convinced this is a good move.
🎨 #Rive transforms designer-developer collaboration with interactive 2D graphics: • 🚀 State Machine feature enables functional graphics with rich interactivity and animation, reducing development time • 💻 #opensource runtimes support multiple platforms: #Flutter, #React, #Unity, #iOS, #Android, #WebFlow and more • ⚡ Breakthrough real-time vector renderer achieves 120fps performance • 🎮 Key applications include interactive #UI components, animated game characters, dynamic menus, and brand animations • 🛠️ Flexible implementation: supports both no-code and full-code approaches • 🎯 Used by #Duolingo and other companies for scalable animated assets
If you want to use an open source read-it-later app without AI, without 3rd dependency, without content analysis, you can have a look at wallabag https://wallabag.org/ You can host it by yourself or create a paid account on https://www.wallabag.it/en
They posit you can still modify (tune) the distributed models without the training source. You can also modify a binary executable without its source code. Frankly that's unacceptable if we actually care about the human beings using the software.
A key pillar of freedom as it relates to software is reproducibility. The ability to build a tool from scratch, in your own environment, with your own parameters, is absolutely indispensable to both learning how the tool works and changing the tool to better serve your needs, especially if your needs fall on the outskirts of the bell curve.
There's also the issue of auditability. If you can't run the full build process yourself, producing your own results from scratch in a trusted environment to compare with what's distributed, it becomes exponentially harder to verify any claims about how a tool supposedly works.
Without the training data, this all becomes impossible for AI models. The OSI knows this. They're choosing to ignore it for the sake of expediency for the companies paying their bills, who want to claim "open" because it sounds good while actually hiding the (largely stolen and fraudulently or non-consentually acquired) source material of their current models.
Do we want a new definition of "open source" that actively thwarts analysis and tinkering, two fundamental requirements of software that respects human beings today? Reject this nonsense.
Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printed storage, what the death of Windows 10 means for Linux adoption, and more.
Some really interesting insights into the challenges they've faced (review bandwidth, excessive process overhead, issue latency and disconnect between users and devs)... I can see a lot of parallels to what @bevy has faced and largely overcome. Process and social organization matters so much!
ALT text detailsOpen source Ghost cms now has an official account on Bluesky.
They even validated their account with official domain handle
If you have a domain, you can do the same and use it for all atproto based apps
We know that the new video player will be a very large change, and so we'll be on the lookout for any issues and feedback. Please let us know your opinions over on our usual channels. We can always make tweaks to it if ever needed.
I've missed a couple of updates on here, but I'm back to announce the release of v0.22.0 of #FreeTube !
This is a fairly large release as this marks the release of our new video player. The migration from Video.js over to Shaka will allow us to support new features such as higher resolutions and better scrubbing in live videos.
Check out the full patch notes below. You can download the new release over on our website.
I was honoured to serve on the @pgconfeu organising committee, #PGConfEU#Athens 2024 was awesome in no small part due to the amazing #PostgreSQL#Community. As always, I wish there was more time to meet more of you, but we can always do this at the next #Postgres event. Many thanks to all the committees, volunteers, sponsors, speakers and attendees that helped make this #conference a reality. 🥰
Here is this week’s #Linux and #OpenSource News video, in which we have Kernel maintainers being removed, a weird laptop reseller accusing Coreboot to be sort of a scam, Snap drivers, and more:
As the OSI prepares to make official its "open source AI" definition with a glaring lack of requirement that the actual source (training data) is made available, it's worth noting that their work is funded by google, meta, microsoft, salesforce, etc. What does open source even mean here if the literal source of the model isn't open? These companies are invested in making you think they're on your side while they boil the oceans to avoid paying human beings for labor.
The idea behind open source, as it grew out of the free software movement, has always been to water down software freedoms, to create something more palatable to corporate interests that *sounds* good but means very little. This continues that work for the current "gen AI" bubble. It's time to ditch open source as an ideal, and the OSI especially.
Changelog: 🦝 migration to Material3 pull-to-refresh components; 🦝 moved app info to navigation bar and improve "About" dialog; 🦝 add open-source licences screen; 🦝 additional more readable font; 🦝 redesign application icon and splash screen; 🦝 add new l10ns (Polish and Portuguese); 🦝 fix spoiler closing immediately after being opened; 🦝 added experimental support to background notification check; 🦝 code refactoring and cleanup.
The icon change was made necessary because in order to display notifications in the status bar a small monochrome icon has to be provided and the old one has too many details. But since every cloud has a silver lining, this was the occasion to redesign a new one and, by combining it with the icon of the Lemmy app, create a logo for the Procyon project, i. e. the umbrella organization both clients belong to.
Is it really #OpenSource when it needs proprietary services like Cloudflare to run and thus cannot be #SelfHosted? (Rhetorical question. It is not, IMHO)
🪆 Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia — Phoronix
｢ In response on the Linux kernel mailing list it was asked by others what are the "compliance requirements" and "sufficient documentation" needed... So far there isn't any public comment by Greg Kroah-Hartman. Presumably this is due to sanctions on Russia involving the war in Ukraine ｣
Der 🧵 wird unregelmäßig erweitert. Ein Hinweis auf weitere Ergänzungen erfolgt über diesen Beitrag. Weitere Anregungen mit dem Fokus auf Mobilität nehme ich gerne entgegen.
#FSF associate members to assist in review of current board members
“After having selected three new board members this year, the FSF Board of Directors is now turning its attention inwards as previously announced. A review of the members of the board of directors began on October 21, 2024. The board members under review in this process will be Ian Kelling, Geoff Knauth, Henry Poole, Richard Stallman, and Gerald Sussman.”
｢ Forgejo v9.0 is the first version to be released under a copyleft license, after a year of discussions. Among the motivations for this change is the realization that a pattern emerged over the years, exemplified by Redis, CockroachDB, Terraform and many others. They turned proprietary because people chose their own financial gain over the interest of the general public ｣
Liebe #opensource Freunde, gibt es schon eine Software die Matchmaking für Mitfahrgelegenheiten zum Ziel hat? Suche für Vereinsintern. Eine Person bietet Mfg an und andere können bitten mitgenommen zu werden. Usermamagement läuft aktuell mit #Nextcloud
No, @sio . MacOS non è base Linux. Il sistema operativo di Apple è un miscuglio di cose, ma non ha al suo interno il kernel di Linus Torvalds. #opensource
> We’re experimenting with taking [Collective Constitutional AI] process and making it possible for any group of people to come together, construct a constitution, and fine-tune an open-source model based on this constitution. This brings together our Roadmap priorities around advancing collective fine-tuning, building for open-source approaches to model governance..
In this one, we have #Google officially killing Ublock origin and likely other Adblocks, after much delaying. We also have #Valve starting to mention things they want for the #SteamDeck 2, even though it's not coming any time soon, and we have #Nvidia looking to improve hybrid GPU setups at the kernel level:
SDF (Super Dimension Fortress) is a long-standing public access UNIX system that has provided users with access to a range of computing services since its creation in the late 1980s. Today, it stands as one of the most enduring examples of a "community computing" platform, offering a diverse and active user base access to both modern and vintage technologies.
ALT text detailsThis is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the creator of VLC media player. He refused tens of millions of dollars in order to keep VLC ad-free. Thanks Jean! There is a photo of Jean wearing a VLC-themed hat.
https://complex-analysis.com is 🌟 FREE FOR EVERYBODY 🌟, as I believe that everyone should have access to high-quality learning resources to explore and learn mathematics.
Update. "#Meta has been criticised for calling its #AI models #OpenSource by the group that has spearheaded open-source technology in the software world for the past 25 years. The social media company is 'confusing' users and 'polluting' the term open-source by using it to describe its #Llama family of #LLMs, said Stefano Maffulli, head of the Open Source Initiative [#OSI, @osi]." https://archive.is/N5CFG
🎧 Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World — Hackaday
｢ The source for the Windows version of the venerable music player was released on GitHub three weeks ago, and after some derision over its licence terms, a bunch of possible open source violations, and the inadvertent release of some proprietary third-party code, it’s been taken down ｣
Ok, ok, ok... I've softened my strict rules of absolute digital minimalism a bit and allowed some additional apps on my Pixel 9.
Compared to the previous setup, I installed Aurora Store at short notice to get the following apps installed:
Firefox (instead of Fennec, because of faster security updates), FUTO Keyboard (because of swipe function, it types much faster!), Fossify Gallery (instead of the standard gallery), standard SMS app instead of QUIKSMS, Pixel Camera (much better image quality, but completely without permissions! ), Localsend (for sending photos and files back and forth between Pixel and PC), Mullvad VPN (catch me!), Proton Pass (changed all passwords to long, complicated ones) and as a visual gimmick: Breezy Weather (so that the home screen doesn't look so boring).
"I’m a firm believer that Open Source is one of the most important pieces of the climate change puzzle. It’s impossible to prove but to integrate environmental concerns into our number-driven economies, we need traceable software, data, and models. Without these, sustainability remains a mere concept." A recap of Tobias journey to discover how open digital infrastructure helps us to preserve our natural world: https://opensource.net/closing-the-gap-accelerating-environmental-open-source/ #opensource#openscience#opensustain#climate#climatechange
I'm looking for #freelance gigs for this year and I'd love working with #rust or in the #OpenSource community in general, develop stuff out in the open and benefit the commons, maybe even both (!!!) I don't know if any of you have contacts/needs/etc?
I also do a lot of web programming and systems programming, webassembly stuff, so I'm pretty versatile, it doesn't have to be rust (but again I'd love to).
To be honest I'm a bit tired of corporate culture and I'd like to get a taste of open source drama ;)
My name is Vinay, and I'm excited to be trying out social media after a gap of over a decade. I believe in the power of the unbridled, corporation-free internet to connect people and effect social change.
My long-term passions are: veganism for a cruelty-free, climate-friendly future, improving healthcare access in East Africa and beyond (I work for Maisha Meds), learning Spanish and supporting #OpenSource#FOSS projects. I also care about data privacy and transparency.
More broadly and in no particular order, I'm into homesteading, #permaculture, cycle touring, community-led projects, and queer rights.
As a peek into my life, here's a photo of this week's canasta (a local initiative that receives fresh organic veggies from a farmers' collective) here in #SanCristóbalDeLasCasas
Wir haben im Rahmen des Projektes "Codeanalyse von Open Source Software" (CAOS 3.0) die Passwort-Manager Keepass und Vaultwarden auf ihre Sicherheitseigenschaften überprüft. Dabei wurden bei Vaultwarden zwei Sicherheitslücken mit der Einstufung "hoch" identifiziert. Die Entwickler wurden über kritische Sicherheitslücken informiert, sie haben die Probleme bereits analysiert und reagiert.
Heya folks! Today is release day! We are excited to announce the availability of Solus 4.6 Convergence! Check out our blog for all the details: https://getsol.us/2024/10/14/solus-4-6-released/
"Free Software" identify mobile and desktop #apps, interfaces, frameworks and libraries with freedom-respecting licensing terms that guarantee the rights to execute, redistribute, study and improve their source code. #FreeSoftware is a type of #OpenSource software, so all users must always retain unlimited access to the source code.
I've been mentioned in a German #tech magazine! Heise's C't issue 2/2024 includes a review of #RenewedTab, my browser extension, alongside other new tab plugins
ALT text detailsA photo of a magazine on a table. The page has three columns of text for different browser extensions, with screenshots at the top. The center column is titled "Renewed Tab"
ALT text detailsA photo of a magazine on a table. A fact grid comparing extensions including Renewed Tab
ALT text detailsWhen you buy proprietary tools, you’re at the low end of both “doing” and “capabilities.” You rely on external vendors, and your organization has less control over customization or internal improvement. Integrating proprietary or open-source tooling via APIs is a step up in capabilities. You are working to connect systems but may still be reliant on external providers for updates or changes. Contributing to open-source projects increases both capabilities and autonomy. At this stage, your organization is actively shaping the tools it uses, and you’re likely interacting directly with the open-source community. The peak of capabilities and “doing” occurs when your team is actively maintaining open-source tooling. Here, the organization takes full ownership of development, support, and customization, gaining the highest level of control and expertise or even rewarding from a creative experience.
It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.
Thanks to artificial barriers by Microsoft, companies and consumers are expected to dump millions of perfectly usable computers. Its time to step away from the Microsoft monopoly and take back ownership of your property! Any #Windows computer/laptop up to 12 years old is supported by modern #Linux operating systems and applications. Enjoy the latest features and security updates by the global Linux community for many years to come. #ewaste#opensource#reuse#forcedobsolescence
"We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org.
A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in the 21 year history of WordPress."
I should probably make a proper #introduction post. So guess now is fine?
Hello! I am Ari Archer. I am an #LGBT 17-year-old #OpenSource#Autistic developer from #Lithuania who likes to mess around with #software, #backend development, and of course my favourite #programming languages: #C (ANSI #C89 is my favourite C standard) and #Python :) I can fuck around in Assembly too, although I tend to think it's not practical in most cases, although I don't do that much low level programming for it to matter, I do enjoy occasional #ProgrammingLanguage development, though.
I have a (shitty) #website on https://ari.lt/ (which I need to re-re-re-write (I need to rewrite it for the 3rd time, the 2nd time was fine I think, but I kinda made it bad now ;-; because it's basically all #JavaScript), I also have a #blog at https://blog.ari.lt/ which I post random #thoughts, #progress, #tutorials, #recipes, etc. on, could I call it #lifestyle content? I don't know. I also like #cats (and I have one named Tina and I love her very much), #cooking, and #researching random things which I yap about to my friends.
I am very pro-#selfhosting and feel like more people should do it, maybe not anything large or mainstream, but at least try to, #learning about things is fun, and self-hosting teaches you a lot, as well as making it easier for people to migrate to #foss easier, which I believe to be a good thing. Most of my beliefs are centred around "by people for people" as in everything should be accessible, open source, and #free as in #freedom.
I hope I enjoy my stay on #fedi these days as I haven't really been on fedi for a while now, in the mean time you can reach me on #email (ari@ari.lt), #matrix (@ari:ari.lt) or #Git/#GitHub (https://ari.lt/gh).
Wishing everyone a great time at OggCamp by OggCamp team on 12-13 October 2024 in The Manchester Conference Centre, Pendulum Hotel in #Manchester, #United Kingdom
Just a reminder that today is the last day to take my annual self-host user survey! It only takes 5-10 minutes to complete and is completely anonymous.
#askmastodon: How much could we get done with a 2 year moratorium on 'frameworks' dev?
I pose this hypothetical as relentless app-framework/engine producer (jMonkeyEngine, Amethyst engine, Bones engine, Leaf protocol..) who would kinda love to just be told from up high: “no more middleware polishing, make the app/game!”.
I’m the guy who’s telling everyone ‘make a game, not an engine’ while relentlessly churning out all engines and no completed games/apps :D
ALT text detailsGráfico promocional para a Python Software Foundation (PSF) como Patrocinador Diamante. Ela apresenta o logotipo da PSF com o texto: “A missão da Python Software Foundation é promover, proteger e avançar a linguagem de programação Python, além de apoiar e facilitar o crescimento de uma comunidade diversificada e internacional de programadores Python.” Um link para o site da PSF (https://www.python.org/psf) é fornecido ao lado de um ícone do GitHub com o rótulo “psf”. Na parte inferior, os logotipos da Plone Conference Brasília e do Python Cerrado são exibidos juntos, indicando colaboração ou patrocínio conjunto. O design inclui elementos geométricos abstratos e um grande ícone de diamante, simbolizando o nível de patrocínio.
I had posted once about the need of some annual action for the promotion of an open source and decentralised Internet. I have found that there was an attempt to introduce the #InternetFreedomDay, held at 18th of January to commemorate the victory in the case of #sopapipa acts in the USA. I think that the #fediverse totally corresponds with the ideas of that day, so it would be good occasion to revive it. What do you think about?
ALT text detailsA computer screen with a keyboard down. The screen contains text "18 JAN". It has an eagle-like wings and legs. On the top, there is a text "INTERNET FREEDOM DAY".
ALT text detailsGrid of 6 photos of people, including Dave Griffiths (director), Amber Griffiths (director), Alex McLean (Research Fellow), Julieta Arancio (Non-executive director), Jane Sutherland (Non-executive director), and Karen Anderson (Non-executive director). Everyone is smiling, at least a little bit, some look kind of quizzical.
For everyone running into problem with #Youtube complaining about adblocking I recommend using Freetube instead. Desktop app for Win/Mac/Linux. You can even ‘subscribe’ to creators https://freetubeapp.io#Privacy#linux#opensource
ALT text detailsYouTube warning to disable Adblocker or pay them to stop nagging you
Wagtail is an #opensource content management system written in #python and built on top of the @django framework. We have a growing community of contributors and we're always excited to work with new folks.
ALT text detailsAn illustration for the post. It visually represents the impact of the court ruling on Google’s Play Store, highlighting the themes of disruption, competition, and digital freedom. Let me know if any adjustments are needed!
ALT text detailsIllustration of a traditional Scottish cottage on a flowering meadow (Machair), surrounded by the sea. It's a beautiful day, there's sheep and birds and mountains in the background.
ALT text detailsRound illustration on a pink background with a boombox-character dancing happily on a broken swastika. Text around it says „Love music, fight fascism“.
ALT text detailsAbstract model of a solar system on a pink / salmon coloured floor, rendered with Blender3D. A big glowing orb in the centre, with copper circles (orbits) around it. More spheres on the circles (planets) with copper rings (orbits) and smaller spheres (moons) around the centre. They're all made of „natural“ materials, like glass, wood, fabric, copper etc.
ALT text detailsPhoto of a square flyer and business cards for a client of mine, Airstructures. They do inflatable domes, that can be used for fulldome projection and can also be illuminated from the outside, so their corporate identity is very dark with a bit of colour.
This #Mastodon account just surpassed our old #Twitter / #X account!! Thank you, to all our 718 followers, and more to come! :D As an #OpenSource Software project, our community is what defines us, and that is you! So far we have never experienced any negativity here, unlike stories from other social media platforms... Let's keep it that way, be happy and constructive with each other and make cool things with #Vala !!! (Btw if you post about your cool project, there is a chance it gets boosted)
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the old Vala Twitter account, with 717 followers
ALT text detailsScreenshot of this Mastodon account, with 718 followers
Do you speak Croatian (hr), Breton (br), or Scottish Gaelic( gd)?
All three of those languages have slipped under 70% translation for Thunderbird for Android! Normally this would mean removing them from the app. But we're hoping we can rally some translators to help complete these languages - or at least get them over 70% translated!
Okay I’ve put off writing and #introduction forever, let’s do it.
Starting with a parade of labels so you know exactly what box to put me in, I’m an #AuDHD (#autistic and #ADHD) #trans#nonbinary#lesbian girl working on #opensource#java#software for a living (subgenres: corporate-owned, distributed data system) with a background in #hardware. I’m married and a #parent of one, though I keep kid offline mostly. I’m a huge nerd that loves narrative media of all kinds but especially #scifi and most especially #TheLockedTomb, as well as classical/ancient texts. I’m fascinated by the ways stories use and are influenced by their medium and process of creation. I’m a practicing #exvangelical#christian working against christian nationalism and the evangelical cult. I play (mostly GM) #tabletop#RPGs and play electric guitar poorly.
Noticing some of the RSS feeds I follow disappearing as media move to email newsletters (more control, I expect, probably more engaegment control too). Although I've used FreshRSS as a reader for awhile, I didn't realize it had an XPath feature so you could scrape your own RSS feeds from sites that drop theirs. This was a great tutorial: https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/#RSS#News#FreshRSS#OpenSource
If you pay for #cybersecurity services, you should be paying for #accessibility. It doesn't matter if is #OpenSource or not. It's expert work that needs to be paid. Accessibility is equal to professional services, not charity or something people will have to do for free. #axschat
ALT text detailsRonaldo and Messi are playing chess in a Louis Vuitton ad. Meme. If they don't play for free, why should accessibility professionals do it?
Beta releases, surveys, software launches, updates, a spotlight on #Streamyfin - a simple and user-friendly mobile Jellyfin (@jellyfin) client, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
- added two list param types (numeric & string) - added support for composite/nested param types, esp. interesting for custom param types declared by artworks and/or platforms - updated the first (of two) GUI param editors in the reference implementation to support composite params - added new example showcasing custom & composite param types (oscillators)
To explain a bit further: The example defines a custom oscillator parameter type, which itself consists of multiple sub-params to configure waveform, frequency, amplitude etc. Using the GenArtAPI messaging protocol, the external param editor (not knowing anything about the artwork or this custom param type) can still provide GUI widgets to customize the 2 oscillators used... Likewise, the artwork is completely decoupled from how those oscillator values are being computed or how they're customized via the editor...
Our core goal is to make playing and learning #chess accessible for all. Everything we do is to improve our users' experience, without the competing priority of profit. Eternal thanks to everyone who contributes to make this a reality. More info in the description.
It's time for a re- #introduction since this instance has changed a lot since being launched.
This instance was set up for testing and playing with Internationalized Domain Names. That experiment has mostly been a success and I've now migrated away from my once-main instance.
I'm a former software developer of over 20 years, working primarily in #opensource and #telephony. I now do #cybersecurity as a profession, after starting to do cybersecurity research as a hobby about a year ago.
In the last year, I've found and disclosed several dozen #vulnerabilities in #govtech platforms like #court and #voter registration systems, which have gotten a not insignificant amount of press coverage. Those disclosures can all be seen at https://govtech.cc
Beyond my #infosec postings, you'll typically find nonsense that I find funny; sometimes I might even say stuff that other people find amusing.
I once self-published a book that I've never read called The Consequences of Being Right (ISBN 979-8880045068). It was entirely written by ChatGPT and was published because I thought it was stupid and funny. Miraculously, I've managed to sell two copies, neither of which have been returned.
Wrote up a blogpost covering the most common AGPL misconceptions I see based upon my experience of looking into open source licensing over the last couple of years:
According to the USPTO, the WordPress Foundation filed to trademark "Managed WordPress" on July 12th. If this trademark is granted, every managed WordPress host worldwide would and could be subject to litigation from Automattic (who apparently holds the only right to use trademarks commercially).
When I'm asked why OpenBSD is good and that I want to reply honestly, I have no argument.
From a technical point of view, I can't tell any strong benefits using OpenBSD, NetBSD or FreeBSD over Linux, although this doesn't mean they are bad.
It would be easy for me to be "cargo-culting" facts, being a "fanboy" or enumerating features that are exclusive to one (and they are rare, except if you are looking for the very very same feature!).
The truth is that what one OS will do better than an other, it will also do worse in another area.
It's important that we keep the BSD systems as relevant Linux alternatives: for software diversity, innovation and freedom of choice.
We promise we aren't pulling your strings - Thunderbird for Android Beta is GO! Celebrate the launch with us and learn where to download it and how to help us test for the upcoming release! 🚀 🎉
I'm Mic, and I'll be your resident demon fox creature here. There are 3 main things you need to know about me: - I'm a furry - I love #Linux and #opensource software. - And I especially love #macro woman 😈 and #sizetodon in general.
I will be boosting a posting a lot about these 3 things.
An almost born free from South Africa 🇿🇦, but currently living in the Netherlands 🇳🇱. Anti-racism is my vibe.
I am loving this new paradigm of the fediverse that mastadon has introduced me to and looking forward to exploring it with all you beautiful people 💜
ALT text detailsA commissioned piece by kiaun showing Mics demon fox fursona working on a laptop and wearing femme clothing which includes a top, fishnet arms, a skirt and thigh high socks (also known as programmer socks)
Last year I started the tradition of an annual #survey for capturing #selfhosted habits, preferences, and demographics. Today, I'm launching this year's survey - which has been expanded and improved upon based on responses from last year's survey.
It'll be open for responses until Friday, October 11th - please consider participating if you have a free five minutes!
Wie verhindert man das? So vorbildlich wie @kev das tat, als er wegen #Instagram kontaktiert wurde und mit den Worten absagte: "Euer Antrieb sollte sein Menschen zu verbinden, nicht ihre Privatsphäre gewinnbringend zu verkaufen!" https://fosstodon.org/@kev/110592625692688836
In this one, we have one big (9/10 severity) flaw in CUPS that should affect most Linux based systems, we have #Valve testing Android and ARM64 support through Proton, some changes being proposed to #Wayland's governance and development model to speed things up, and a lot more!
Lots of new additions & improvements to the https://thi.ng/genart-api proposal, documentation, the reference implementation, examples and param editors this week:
- added new (12th) parameter type: image maps (supporting grayscale or RGB) - added new example project using an image parameter to create artwork - added code example showing how an art platform (or artwork itself) might define & work with a custom parameter type (example: sine oscillator) - added/updated API docs (https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/genart-api/) - started documenting API states & transitions (diagram still WIP, forthcoming) - initial documentation of message protocol (for communicating w/ parent window and/or external tooling) - simplified the pluggable time provider implementations (for animation) - updated the reference implementation platform adapter to support all built-in param types - major update GUI param editors, now allowing users to dynamically load & customize externally hosted (compatible!) artworks, and also supporting image params, custom color chooser component...
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the linked image map parameter example, showing a sidebar with different parameter controls (low res grayscale image preview, color picker), and the artwork showing the imported image represented as a fine grid of differently sized pink dots on dark blue background
Random request: Can anyone find me a link to a FOSS bug report (good, but not essential if it's in a mozilla product) that stayed open for a ridiculously long time (years?), but did eventually end up with a fix? #Python#FOSS#OpenSource
— Loris Cro ｢ Python could very well continue relying on the support of the Big Tech industry for a very long time but, even if we were to set aside the otherwise extremely real problems of power dynamics between organizations, the long-term sustainability of an exponentially growing dataset still remains and Python is now mature enough to start inspecting and fixing the foundations its ecosystem is built upon ｣
Stream is out! GO GO GOLEMS - computers should compute. Learn how to break free of the corporate shackles and write some actual convivial software! Let the language models do the assembly line work and regain the power to think on the job!
ALT text detailsA drawing of a tentacled eye inside a computer with a brush in its hand painting what I assume is a self portrait. There’s a little duck next to it that says wak, amongst many computer and painting gadgets
Red Hat Open Source Practice Office (#OSPO) is hiring not one, not two, but three new staff! If you're into working 100% on community #OpenSource, one of these jobs may be for you.
All positions are attached to either the Ireland or Czech office.
Thunderbird for Android is coming soon! Find out how to get involved, from beta testing to localization to support and more, in our shiny new contributor guide!
ALT text detailsLinux Presentation Day:
Ein altes Notebook mit aktueller Linux-Version auf einem Tisch mit Beschreibung und Maus zum Ausprobieren.
ALT text detailsIn den E-Zigaretten verbergen sich hochwertige Akkus, die man für Bastelprojeke auch im IoT- Bereich verwenden kann. Diese werden eigentlich einfach weggeworfen. Unglaublich.
activitypub typescript server framework called Fedify announces first stable release. It is being used by the open source Ghost CMS platform. Can't wait to see what other apps are created with Fedify
ALT text detailsactivitypub typescript server framework called Fedify announces first stable release. It is being used by the open source Ghost CMS platform. Can't wait to see what other apps are created with Fedify
Github repo here: https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/releases/tag/1.0.0
Hello World! Alex Standiford here. I am a web developer at GoDaddy, who travels full-time in one of two RVs with my two kids, two cats, a dog, and my wife. I mostly talk about #travel, #WordPress, #RVlife and bad puns. Looking forward to meeting y’all!
Como não faço muitos posts no Mastodon, irei usar minha conta para fazer avaliações de aplicativos de código aberto.
Aplicativos de código aberto são bons para privacidade, já que você pode ver o código inteiro pra confirmar que ninguém rastreia a sua atividade, e *não contém anúncios*!
Enfim, pra baixá-los, recomendo baixar e usar o F-Droid, porém haverá uns lugares específicos para baixar alguns, mas eu explico nessas avaliações. Qualquer dúvida eu respondo. #fdroid#opensource#android
I felt that I needed a 100% unencumbered public domain tool for simple yet strong file encryption. So I committed some of the worst cryptography sins: I coded the tool in C, and didn't use any available cryptography library (rolled my own, based on available public domain code).
Last year amidst the Unity debacle, I collected a list of solid zero-dependency simple include libraries you can easily integrate into your own C++ game engine.
It's incredible how much you can accomplish without needing to resort to an off-the-shelf engine or, worse, CMAKE.
With cohost shutting down, I've migrated this post to my blog and pinned it!
Hi there! I'm Clayton - a #UX designer, building #OpenSource#FOSS software in service of community and collective liberation. (Specializing in #Drupal and #WordPress)
I play #trombone in the soulful punk band, Elegant Everyone.
New blog post: Exploring our new release: Kedro 0.19 🔶
We recently unleashed a new major release of Kedro containing a host of new features, bug fixes, and documentation improvements.
Check out our blog post about Kedro 0.19 to find out more about recent enhancements and improvements to Kedro. We’ll walk you through changes to configuration management, dataset loading and more.
I'm Rémi (he/him), French developer living in #Copenhagen.
I'm the project manager and maintainer for #GodotEngine, an increasingly popular free and #opensource 2D and 3D game engine. (I'll try to make @godotengine more lively here too.)
In this one, we have Linus Torvalds dismissing most concerns about #Rust in the kernel, we have #Mozilla killing their mastodon instance, the release of #GNOME 47 and the kernel 6.11, or #Microsoft adopting #Vulkan's shader model!
Here is my draft for future plans for the (unofficial) #Nextcloud Remote Client CLI. This is also some low hanging fruit for anyone that might want to contribute a bit of #python for a feature you might want to see land sooner than later.
🪞 Introducing Mirror Hall, an app to turn any Linux devices into a second wireless monitor!
We use semi-custom P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency. Only Mutter-based DEs are currently supported as *senders*, whereas all DEs work as receivers.
This is our first unstable release, sp please be kind and report issues. If you are an #ARM user, we would love your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on new phones!
Nun noch Mal eine #introduction. Ich bin Philip, mag #opensource und #opendata, programmiere nur noch in der Freizeit etwas #Python, interessiert an #machinelearning, Kochen und Selbermachen. Lebe im Raum Düsseldorf und trage gerne zu #OpenStreetMap und anderen Projekten bei. #neuHier Meine Pronomen sind er/ihm.
Would anyone be interested in hearing about our #FOSS adventure? We''re a feminist non-profit in the midst of migrating from Windows to #Linux: servers and desktops! We try to be as #opensource as possible, for ethical, security and privacy reasons.
Open source software underpins all sectors of the economy, public services and even international organizations like the United Nations. Yet solutions for funding open source maintenance are still incomplete. Ahead of this week’s #SummitoftheFuture, read my piece on the GitHub blog on how the private and public sectors can work together to make the #opensource ecosystem more sustainable. https://github.blog/open-source/social-impact/software-as-a-public-good/
You should have disclosed this: "Content subscription service. Subscriptions provide a way to receive monthly payments from subscribers and to publish private content made exclusively for them.
Supported payment methods: Monero, a peer to peer digital cash system where transactions are private by default."
I expect this will boost #OpenSearch's popularity with developers and users alike. What will this mean for #Elastic, which recently reembraced #opensource? Good question.
Hey all, looks like I'm on Mozilla.social as well now! I'll keep up my general #frontend#engineering, #opensource and other highly irregular posts on my account at @VincentTunru@fosstodon.org, so by following me here, you agree to get spammed about my work on Mozilla's Privacy and Security products. And who knows what else - there's no rules here!
Last weekend, @Castopod had the privilege of being part of the International Broadcasting Convention (established in 1967!), the leading global event for professionals in the media, entertainment, and technology industries. 🎥🌍
We were honored to be invited by EBU to the Open Source Meetup :oss:, where we presented Castopod in a 5-minute session.
ALT text detailsThe speaker, Benjamin, introduces and discusses Castopod, an open-source platform for hosting podcasts. He explains that Castopod functions like a Content Management System (CMS) dedicated to podcasts, comparing it to platforms like WordPress, but specifically designed for podcasters.
Key points covered in the talk:
- Why open-source matters for podcasting: It gives users control over their data, content, and brand, allowing them to manage their own domain name and file system.
- The value of user independence: By using open-source solutions like Castopod, podcast creators can maintain complete control over their podcasting infrastructure without relying on third-party platforms.
- Castopod enables creators to build their own identity, ensuring their content is not bound by the restrictions or policies of commercial hosting services.
Realised I'd neglected to post about my @FreeCAD book on here. "FreeCAD for Makers" is out and available for free download now via Raspberry Pi Press. Huge thanks to the Hackspace magazine crew for getting it together and the mighty @yorik for the foreword! #opensource#CAD#CAM#FEM#Makers DL here https://t.co/e0Sk0I49Td
I'm currently getting my butt handed to me in a game of tabletop Warhammer 40K, so you'll have to watch it to know what's in it (hint: KDE's goals, Plasma 6.2 beta, Apple getting a 14 billion USD fine...)
Here's my #introduction: I live in The Netherlands, Europe. I work as a self-employed tech consultant & software developer. I like to tinker & have way too many interests :)
Our future & those after us depends on the universal right to freely choose operating systems, software & services for a more sustainable digital society. We need less e-waste & more re-usable hard- & software.
Please sign @fsfe's open letter & boost this message:
🍀 Your good luck is holding up! 🍀 → We’re #Hiring!
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Then we invite you to apply for our open positions (both fully #Remote)
So sieht das dann aus, wenn man das an einen beteiligten Ausschuss schickt. Die Bundestagsverwaltung / Mitarbeiter des Ausschusses verteilen das dann in der Regel an die Mitglieder.
Breaking News: Die Deutsche Regierungskoalition will die Mittel für Open Source Software massiv kürzen. Wir haben einen offenen Brief erstellt und als Vorlage hinterlegt. Senden auch Sie diesen offenen Brief an Ihre Volksvertreter:
ALT text details(German government wants to cut funding for open source in public administration - Feilner IT is providing an open letter as a template for everybody to send it to the members of the German parliament, in german language)
Exciting news! We've just launched a new version of https://openresource.dev with a complete refactor, now powered by the amazing Starlight tool made by @astro 🌟 More maintainable, we'll be able to contribute more upstream to Starlight and/or Starlight Blog 🚀 Check it out, and discover the #OpenSource world!
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the new homepage of openresource.dev
A small compendium of the Fediverse platforms I use/know well.
In the past few days, I revisited some of my old Fediverse instances since some friends asked me to help them set up a new one. I also took the chance to perform maintenance on some leftover instances. Here's my experience:
Akkoma: My oldest instance still running, opened in 2022. It was offline for a few months (3/4). I updated everything to the latest version and restarted it. I’m not sure why, but it’s extremely slow, with a heavy load on Postgres and many queries just to open the main page. I like Akkoma - I'll investigate further.
GoToSocial: I updated a friend's instance - GoToSocial itself was up-to-date, but the underlying system wasn’t. I noticed that once it exceeds 2000 followings, it becomes a bit slow. The database is PostgreSQL, but that's not the issue. The GoToSocial process becomes somewhat heavy on the VPS. Still, it's very usable and a software with great potential, in my opinion. The Mastodon API is implemented quite well and works with the major software.
Mitra: It seems well-built. The person had around 1000 followers and followings on a Mastodon account, which they moved from a large instance. No speed issues, though sending a message makes the server “heavy” for a bit, but it’s temporary. The Mastodon API is partially implemented, but the software is advancing quickly, and I find its native interface quite pleasant.
Snac2: I've always had a soft spot for Snac2. The lack of a database and some design choices make it an excellent solution for small instances. For example, sending posts to all known instances increases visibility and interaction. Its basic, JavaScript-free interface is very clear, though it might not be the best for those used to Mastodon. But the Mastodon API is improving version by version, and I think the developer is doing an excellent job. It struggles a bit with larger numbers, but that's due to the underlying file system, not the software itself. If "move" support (both in and out) were added, I would recommend it to anyone starting self-hosting for single-user or small community instances because "move" is one of the options that gives the most freedom in Fediverse software.
Mastodon: My “old” personal instance was stuck at version 4.1.x and had been offline for a few months. I updated the FreeBSD Jail and upgraded Mastodon to 4.2.12 and then to 4.3.0-beta1. No issues. I also helped a friend (who had an old Pleroma-based instance they barely used) migrate. This user has around 5000 followers and followings - Mastodon is running on FreeBSD on a VPS (arm64) for just over 3 euros a month, with no significant issues (apart from media storage, but that's not Mastodon’s fault). Mastodon is sometimes said to be heavy, and that's partly true, but its modularity ensures that even in cases of overload, queues may slow down, but navigation and the local timeline remain reasonably fast. I think this is a good thing for any larger-scale use of an instance.
In short, I think things are moving in the right direction, and the software is evolving nicely. Well done, devs!
This blog was founded on the premise that digital infrastructure should be owned by individuals, their families, and their communities. Being user first, it will provide technical guides, open-source tools, software recommendations, essays, and discussion.
Builds an adaptive, event-based #neuromorphic pattern recognition architecture inspired by neuroscience and capable of always-on decision, i.e. the decision can be made whenever it is needed - just like most living systems!
The American #FCC is accepting public comment on a proposal that would license the 902-928 MHz band to a private company (NextNav Inc) for use in terrestrial location tracking as a commercial alternative to free #GPS, GLONASS, & Galileo satellite positioning systems. The company already operates in the 920-928 MHz band.
This will significantly interfere with #LoRaWAN IOT devices and could have dire consequences for #decentralized communication networks such as #Meshtastic.
NextNav intends to deprive the public of these unlicensed frequencies and build a nationwide monopoly on PNT infrastructure in the 902-928 MHz band. (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10416238018537/1)
This is not only harmful to the #opensource and #openhardware community, it is a gross misappropriation of the public's precious radio frequencies to further the goals of a monopolistic for-profit corporation.
It's a Monday morning, we're sipping coffee and listening to jazz, and thinking about productivity and Thunderbird Add-ons!
We'd love to know what Add-ons help you get things done for our next productivity blog coming next week. (Also, I'll probably install all of them. You know, for research! - Monica) We love seeing your productivity tips and tricks, and we know you've got some great suggestions. So start your week off right and let us know!
This account is for either hyperlocal stuff related to Aotearoa, #iNaturalist or #eBird, or for more stream of consciousness posts. Path not maintained.
In diesem Jahr gab es bei uns im Garten Tomaten nur Saatgut von @opensourceseeds. Die Pflanzen stehen im Freiland ohne Dach oder Ähnliches und haben sich ganz prächtig und vor Allem reichlich entwickelt. Insbesondere mit der sonst im Freiland problematischen Kraut- und Braunfäule hatten wir gar keine Probleme.
Das sind unsere Gewinner ohne bestimmte Reihenfolge:
"The Open Source AI Definition (#OSAID) is still open for public review and feedback. If you’d like to participate in shaping the future of Open Source AI, you can submit comments."
Recordatorio periódico de que la filosofía del Software Libre (Free Software) busca defender las libertades del usuario del software.
El Código Abierto (Open Source) es un movimiento que aparece después por razones prácticas y que defiende un acceso abierto al código, que permita cualquier uso.
A veces se usan como sinónimos, y en algunos contextos incluso lo son, pero existen diferencias sutiles y significativas en su fin último.
Private Packagist is joining the Open Source Pledge! Join this effort and pledge to also give at least $2,000 per employed full-time developer per year to open-source projects and maintainers!
Connaissez-vous la distribution @Emmabuntus ? Elle est destinée à toute la famille et pensée pour le réemploi du matériel informatique. Récemment, elle a fait la part belle aux personnes déficientes visuelles !
Are you familiar with the @Emmabuntus distribution? It's designed for the whole family and focused on repurposing old computer hardware. Recently, it has given special attention to visually impaired individuals!
I work as Product Manager for an #OpenSource project and have 10+ years of o̶b̶s̶e̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ experience with the #Python ecosystem. I'm interested in #Degrowth, #Cooperatives, the #SolidarityEconomy, and anything that can offer an alternative to capitalism. You'll see occasional posts about #techno, #birds, and rants in Spanish.
Are there any #OpenSource projects that you enjoy using? Why not find their development mailing lists and chat rooms and dig into the code a bit, and fix that one bug that really drives you nuts.
Let's post early this week, here is the #Linux and #OpenSource News video, where #KDE went 100K€ over budget,, but it's all part of the plan, Ubuntu blocks upgrades to 24.04 from 22.04 because of bugs, and where Linux just keeps gaining market share on the desktop!
Back in June I wrote about an exciting confluence of digital auth tech:
(1) The commodification of #OIDC infrastructure, (2) the emergence of #FedCM, (3) and the compatibility of both with #indieauth .
In short, it is now easier than ever to log into web applications using your own website as an identity provider. Or at least, it would be, if your favorite web apps supported these agency-enhancing technologies.
I'm Victor, Clinical Data Scientist researching in #AI applied to medicine.
Although AI is something that interests me from many aspects (technical, mathematical and critical) I do not limit myself to write only about this as I have many other interests (#opensource, #python, #SocialJustice, #diversity, #books, #comics, #basketball, etc.).
Also, I speak SP, EN, DE & FR
Looking forward to interact with the Dair-community.
Open source is the libertarianism [derogatory] of the software world. It's the adolescent, knee-jerk "don't tell me what to do" of licensing.
And just like libertarianism, it's completely co-opted by big money interests using the sentiment to entrench their own interests over the needs of real human beings.
Copyleft on the other hand is punk as fuck. Copyleft is anarchist praxis for software. Copyleft builds community. Copyleft ensures code belongs to actual human beings in perpetuity, even as it grows and evolves.
If your institution uses #OpenSource software, it should chip in to support it.
We can extend the idea to the #OpenInfrastructure supporting #OpenAccess to research. First, institutions should use open rather than proprietary #infrastructure (see e.g. the #BOAI20, Recommendation 1). Second, when they use it, they should chip in to support it.
Hi there! I'm ketmorco, a refugee from mastodon.technology! I'm a firm believer that all life is valuable, and humans all deserve to be happy, healthy, and safe! I used to love technology in its entirety, but I have seen how it gets misused. Most of what we need to be productive and happy already exists!
But @notesnook costs regularily 55.09 Euro as payed Pro version. After I registered for a free account I got one day later an offer about 16.35 Euro excl. VAT
The planned features are also very impressiv, the work at different translations and a self hosted sync-server is in progress. It's worth to #support the #software#project.
See §2.4.5. "ORE will be underpinned by an #OpenSource software #infrastructure, the core elements of which will be developed with the support of the Commission and will follow #OpenStandards. Its infrastructure will be in line with the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure [#POSI] and with the Open Source Software Strategy of the European Commission."
"[ORE] should be collectively owned and supported by research funders and research institutions and operate as a service for researchers with no author facing fees. The aim is for the infrastructure of the platform to be open source."
Unfortunately, the new software would merely "underpin" #OpenResearchEurope (#ORE), not replace it. ORE is proprietary software owned by #TaylorAndFrancis. When the EC called for bids on ORE, it did not require open code despite many calls to do so.
It's amazing to see a working After Effects-replacement for Linux. It's been forked from Enve, an older effort, and it has a lively development on github currently. Download an .appimage here: https://friction.graphics/
Great app, the only problem it has is that it's not node-based, like all modern compositors are. That's AE's Achilles heel too, and why it never conquer #Hollywood. Nodes are the present, and the future.
Always good to see progress! Only a handful of features left on the roadmap. Hollo is an activitypub powered federated microblog app. Docker image was made available with the latest release
ALT text detailsAlways good to see progress! Only a handful of features left on the roadmap. Hollo is an activitypub powered federated microblog app. Docker image was made available with the latest release
Last week I mentioned the open source privilege. It has a big brother: the self-hosting privilege. Escaping surveillance is one valid motive to self-host, but not everyone can do it.
Let’s design tech that solves systemic problems. Let’s include the busy ones, the families, the elders, those who don’t know and those who can’t afford to care.
Would it help mobile Linux to have more apps? What about a FOSS Linux app in a popular category we have NOTHING for now?
Well, @lofenyy is a dev offering to develop the first FOSS, mobile Linux sleep tracking app for *peanuts*, and he's ONLY SHORT $425 of pledges in the next ~48 hours to make it real!
That's only 17 people pledging $25! Or around 7 people donating $60!
New features include: 1. Search Facets (and a new extended search #ontology!) 🔎 2. The improved role management 🎭 3. I forgot my VIVO password 🤔 4. Audit tool 👁️ 5. Private individual page 🔒
I'm very happy about this release, it contains major contribution from our team at @tibosl on 4/5 of the main features, on which we were working for quite some time.
These are just a few of the projects we host! Learn about hosting your open source project with the OpenInfra Foundation. https://openinfra.dev/projects/hosting/
I’ve been on here a while but never wrote an #introduction post so here it is.
My name is Mark thought most people call me JR (J.R. not “junior”). I am a believer and follower of Christ. My passion is #software#engineering and I’ve been at it professionally for over 14 years. Though I mostly develop for the web I enjoy working with the #fullstack including the hardware and architecture of it.
👋 #introduction, because I didn't really do one first time around. I'm on a #selfhosted instance so... feel free to #SayHi, or boost to introduce me to your friends (it's lonely on a server by yourself!).
:bisexual_flag: :polyamory_flag: #Queer#polyamourous#geek. Too late to be a renaissance man and not smart enough to be a polymath, I have to content myself with being a jack-of-all trades. #Blogger for ~25 years (https://danq.me), casual #fediverse user since 2018. #IndieWeb fan since forever.
In this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video, we have some Rust and BcacheFS drama that seems to annoy Linus Torvalds, a new Linux gaming console from the people behind #EmuDeck, and KDE adding a "donations" notification to try and raise more funding (although I would have gone farther than they did here):
Let's see. When I was younger I liked telephones. A lot. I still do. That included exploring the PSTN and causing general mischief. I have a Western Electric 1D2 payphone in my bedroom. Among other hobbies... I'm an amateur radio operator, Linux user, open source supporter and electronics meddler. I admire any human who has the patience to work in infosec.
I can't really stomach the wallowing echo chamber of Twitter, so maybe this will be better.
Alongside his physical makeover, Mark Zuckerberg has spent the past few years positioning himself as a champion of openness.
But whether with the metaverse or AI, it’s clear any talk of open source is little more than an instrumental ploy to get out under Apple and control the next tech platform.
The coming EU Cyber Resilience Act will affect all Open Source projects. The Eclipse Foundation has created the Open Regulatory Compliance working group together with a list of other Open Source organisations to jointly develop best current practises and have a continuous dialog with regulatory bodies.
Mikael Barbero will present this important workgroup at the NSSS24!
"There is one very notable absence from the definition: while it requires the code and weights be released under an OSI-approved #license, the #TrainingData itself is exempt from that requirement."
I've been working on a to–do-list app (made with Godot) for some time now and while I can't be bothered to record a video right now, I figured I should probably start talking about it in public more often, so here's a first screenshot.
It's free and open source: https://github.com/njamster/habituary (Although I would recommend you still wait a few weeks for a beta version before giving it a try).
ALT text detailsA screenshot of my to-do list app "Habituary", displaying lists for three days (yesterday, today and tomorrow) next to each other.
There is only one entry in yesterday's list, reading "Hopefully I did this", which appears greyed out because it's attached to an already passed date.
For today (highlighted by a special blue heading) there are four entries: "Wake up" (which appears grayed out, because it was marked as done), followed by a heading titled "Mastodon" (with all caps text and a bright background) towering over the two remaining to-dos "Boost all the great things" and "ScreenshotSaturday". A blue line marks the position of the mouse cursor, which wasn't captured for this screenshot.
For tomorrow, there appears to only be one to-do: "Get famous".
Buttons on the side suggest that the view can get scrolled backwards and forwards in time – and also changed to include 1, 5 or 7 days instead.
We're excited to bring enhanced performance and new features to improve interoperability to all MS Office and Open Document formats in our online office suite.
✅ Performance Boost ✅ PDF Improvements ✅ Enhanced Interoperability ✅ Advanced Document Control with Cell Protection in Calc ✅ Simplifying Copy/Paste in-browser ✅ Streamlined Comment Insertion
Imagine Valve made the Steam client open source. I don't see why not. Their core business is the platform itself. People from all over the place would fix all the tiny little annoying issues with it.
A re- #introduction in light of the influx of new folks:
I'm James, CTO at Filament.AI: a Machine Learning/AI firm in London.
I've just finished my PhD in #ML and Natural Language Processing which is about building #NLP tools that analyse how scientific work impacts society for great good.
The next Podman Cabal meeting will be happening one week from today, on Tuesday, Sept 3, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. EDT (UTC-4). Currently, we only have one topic about issues internal to Red Hat, and happy to take more. Add a topic to the agenda! https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource
｢ Recently, we discovered that some of the dependencies we used were incompatible with the license Forgejo was distributed with, and they had to be removed for now. Choosing copyleft licenses enables us to reuse more work, and saves us precious time to focus on improving Forgejo itself ｣
I guess #introduction is a thing I never did, so let's do it
👋 Hi, I'm Frans
I'm a PhD student at Linköping University, working on programming tools for #fpga. My primary project these days is https://spade-lang.org/, an HDL inspired by Rust with abstractions for common hardware constructs.
I'm a huge proponent of #opensource, both hardware and software.
I also enjoy 3d printing, occational photography, and sailing or skiing when the weather allows.
Linux vs Windows being head to head on performance is crazy. The conversation around desktop Linux is changing, and more and more people are listening!
Thank you to @killyourfm for this great article on Forbes about our performance, to @frameworkcomputer for being a wonderful platform to enable this, to the Fedora contributors for literally making Fedora Linux, and to the Linux community at large! 🚀
I’ll be in New York next month, from September 16-30th.
So first of all I’d be delighted to meet fellow nerds in the #opensource#fediverse#indieweb community if anyone wants to meet up 👋
Secondly, although I’ve booked a place already: If anyone’s got a spare bed or couch for me, kindly reach out! Would gladly cover some of the rent/food for the duration.
Staying in NYC for two weeks is 2x more expensive than the flight there from Norway, lol…
For the last half year, I've been fortunate enough to build a libre project supported by @PrototypeFund :)
Here comes 🐢 turtlemail! It's a network of volunteers moving things from A to B. If you want to send your grandma on the other side of the country a postcard, you can find people travelling there through turtlemail.
If you're in Germany: we're running a public beta, please join!
Zitationsnetzwerk des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (BVerfG) veröffentlicht!
🔹 Zitate innerhalb der amtlichen Sammlung (inklusive langer Blockzitate) 🔹 Zitate von amtlicher Sammlung zu Aktenzeichen 🔹 Zitate von Aktenzeichen zu Aktenzeichen
I specialize in software delivery, reliability, and performance for growing organizations.
Contact me when your:
- systems getting too slow or old - IT solutions are getting too expensive - software and infra takes too long to change - customers face too many bugs or outages
The Art Institute of Chicago has developed a bash script, "aic-bash," that queries its API for public domain artworks and renders them as ASCII art. The project showcases the capabilities of the museum's open access API, which provides data on artworks, artists, and more. The script allows users to retrieve and display ASCII art of artworks based on various queries. #OpenSource#ArtAPI#ASCIIArt#DigitalArt#MuseumTech https://github.com/art-institute-of-chicago/aic-bash
ALT text detailsASCII art representation of Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" displayed in a terminal window.
ALT text detailsOutreachy Needs Your Help!
You can donate as an individual or ask your employer to sponsor us as an organization. You can also support us by joining our #SupportOutreachy campaign. Please share on your platforms and with your network!
Help us continue empowering underrepresented voices in open source.
🔝 Today we introduce you to Dominik Beron, Co-Founder of walt.id, a company working on #opensource identity & wallet infrastructure.
Dominik was selected in the #NGISargasso Open Call 1️⃣ with his project INTEROP4DID - Interoperable Decentralized Identity & Wallet Infrastructure, with his Canadian partner AffinitiQuest.
> Servo and Redox have partnered for a joint application for funding by @ngisargasso > > The proposed project includes porting SpiderMonkey and WebRender to Redox, improvements to Servo’s cross-compilation support, and a written-in-Rust font stack.
ALT text details# Servo and Redox Proposal for NGI Sargasso
Servo and Redox have partnered for a joint application for funding by NGI Sargasso!
The proposed project includes porting SpiderMonkey and WebRender to Redox, improvements to Servo’s cross-compilation support, and a written-in-Rust font stack. The application was submitted for NGI Sargasso’s Open Call 4, and we await their response.
Thanks to Igalia and the Servo team for partnering with us!
I just saw that Mozilla is retiring the Mozilla Location Service which provides an open, crowdsourced alternative to proprietary location services from Google and other vendors. 😰
This is used by GNOME and thus Fedora, Ubuntu, Endless OS, etc. to help provide OS-level location services without requiring every app to implement its own. And apparently a patent troll is part of the reason Mozilla stopped investing in it. 🙃
Ich möchte mich zu Anfang des kommenden Jahres neu ausserhalb der Uni orientieren und suche dazu eine studentische Hilfskraftstelle, am besten mit Option zur Weiterbeschäftigung. Themenbereiche siehe anhand der Hashtags oben. Remote bevorzugt, Studiumsort ist Kassel. Zur Zeit bin ich studentische Hilfskraft an meiner Uni am Fachgebiet soziologische Theorie, dort in einem Projekt zu zukunftsorientierter Verbraucherforschung und Verbraucherschutz. Das Projekt deckt viele verschiedene Themenbereiche ab, da interdisziplinär ausgerichtet. Ich kann generell: mich schnell in neue Themen einarbeiten, gute Hintergrundrecherchen liefern, lerne durch das Projekt einen Teil Veranstaltungsorganisation kennen, bin interessiert an vielfältigen Umweltthemen und digitaler Transformation zu digitaler Souveränität.
Ab nächstes Jahr Sommersemester schreibe ich meine Masterarbeit und möchte danach auch in einem Job in einem der oben genannten Themenbereiche arbeiten.
Falls jemand weiß, ob eventuell Anfang 2025 eine eben solche studentische Hilfskraft gebraucht werden würde, bitte gerne benachrichtigen.
- Body model mechanics are final, using quaternions and vectors. - Different sign languages can be selected. - Full alphabet for #LSF is already available. - Written in Rust with Egui. - Lots of fixes and refactoring. Read the changelog for more details.
ALT text detailsScreenshot of a sign language learning app. The arms, hands and fingers are represented by colored rectangles. The french sign for for no is visible. The app has a side panel which contains buttons for the language, sign language, to change and reset the view, to load another dictionary file. In a panel on the top, the sign is selected and a description and translation to English, French and German is shown. There is also a field to filter the signs, buttons to step through the list of signs and buttons to pause and restart an animation.
My reply to a GitHub discussion on why WordPress should have their own Mastodon account:
Well, the first thing what I'm a bit bummed about here is that why is WordPress.org seeking only a commercial, wide-as-possible-reach type of platform in social media when the other major foot is obviously in the open source world? Mastodon and the Fediverse is full of WordPress and PHP people and influencers, WordPress itself connects to ActivityPub and Threads.net connects to ActivityPub as well. So the reach is not any absolute metric here as it's not just one platform. It's the whole web.
For the second question, just see how much WordPress is talked about between instances, I've seen numerous folks of missing the official WordPress account there, including the community folks.
Here are some examples of the brand accounts:
- Internet Archive, 52K followers - Have I Been Pwned, 14K followers - 9to5Mac, 25K followers - World Wide Web Consortium, 31K followers - GIMP, 10K followers - Electronic Frontier Foundation, 62K followers - 1Password, 9.3K followers - Signal, 51K followers
In my mind the worlds largest open source CMS should be a part of this open social web movement.
🌍 Fediverse community, we need your support! We’re funding bounties with the resources we have, but we need YOU to help fuel open-source contributions. 💡 Each bounty now has a dedicated donation page via our Open Collective:
The project is non-profit, but we accept donations to cover server costs etc.
I'm unfa (co-founder, project lead and main developer), though in the future it's possible other Liblast contributors will also post through this account :)
In this one, #Nvidia (allegedly) stole content from millions of youtube videos to train its AI tools (who is surprised?), we have a potential release date for elementary OS 8, we have the release of the #CosmicDesktop alpha, more HDR work in #GNOME, and a lot more!
Here's your starting point! Their Linux team maintains this list of platforms that support not only Fedora, but @ubuntu as well! And it's not strictly speaking the products that you can buy, but also the history of platforms that have been tested for Linux.
It's a super valuable official resource for ThinkPad fans, basically lol
Now, with this #OpenSource Cartridge Reader by Save the Hero Builders, I can dump my 20yr old save files from the original cartridge onto my Analogue Pocket.
I'm the founder of a company named Solder Party, if you're in the electronics community, you might've seen my stuff. Everything I release is open source, SW and HW.
ALT text detailsA bb q20 keyboard attached to a PCB that's put in a clear acrylic case.
ALT text detailsA black pcb with an lcd screen, a 5-way button under it and a q10 keyboard under that
ALT text detailsa round pcb with an rp2040 stamp in the middle, held by FlexyPins, and a ring on neopixels and alligator clip-friendly pads around it
ALT text detailsAn RPi Pico attached to a t-shaped pcb using FlexyPins. The t-shaped pcb's t-leg is plugged into a breadboard.
Open source is powered by the underlying community. We believe here at Data Bene that investing in community is vital to the success of what's upstream.
We maintain or contribute to such Postgres projects as pgcopydb, pgfincore, and Citus Data; and, our employees help make community events like PG Day Madrid, PG Day Barcelona, and PG Day Lowlands happen.
Attending any of these events? Chances are, we’ll be there – come on by and let’s talk about #Postgres and #OpenSource!
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"Seit 2021 ist die #FDP nun Teil der Ampel-Koalition und stellt sogar den Digitalminister. Das Versprechen der Ampel seither: Wann immer der Bund neue IT-Projekte in Auftrag gibt, sollten diese für jede und jeden öffentlich einsehbar sein."
"Von den sechs Aufträgen des Forschungsministeriums von B. Stark-Watzinger (FDP) war kein einziger #OpenSource. Und das Digitalministerium von V. Wissing (FDP) hat 542 Aufträge erteilt. Davon hatten aber nur drei offene Standards".
#Esittely Olen hiukan alle 50-vuotias isä, puoliso ja #matematiikka:n tohtori.Kotipaikkana #Turku. Työkseni kehitän #eMathStudio#oppimisalusta:a helpottaakseni matematiikan kirjoittamista, oppimista ja laskujen tarkistamista. Olen kiinnostunut opettamisesta ja siitä, miten ajattelu ja oppiminen tapahtuu.
ALT text detailsÖljyvärimaalaus kissasta nimeltä Momo. "Sini-valkoinen" (eli harmaata ja valkoista), vaaleanpunainen nenä, tummat silmät. Ikää kissakla 17 vuotta. Kokoa taululla 15 cm × 15 cm.
ALT text detailsÖljyvärimaalaus kissasta nimeltä Cookie. "Kilpikonnaväritys", kirkkaat keltaiset silmät.
The Hush Line Personal Server is for journalists and human rights defenders who need a dead-simple, self-hosted whistleblowing platform. Accessible as a Tor-only service, the Personal Server comes in a custom-designed case sealed with two uniquely numbered tamper-evident tags. USB and SSH are disabled, and all ports except power and Ethernet are sealed. Available this week at @defcon and online after that!
ALT text detailsThis image promotes the "Personal Server" for the Hush Line whistleblowing platform. The top portion features bold purple text that reads, "For increased threats and all skill levels." Below, a smaller description explains that this is a Tor-only version of the platform hosted on hardware you control. There is a URL link to "hushline.app" with a pointing hand emoji. At the bottom, there's an image of the hardware device showing a small screen with a QR code and text that reads, "Hush Line is running."
I've proposed a merge request to GNOME's likely new Video Player app codenamed Showtime. The feature? Toggling between video duration and time remaining by clicking the end timestamp. :)
It's the little things!
I think this might be my first contribution to a GNOME Python app. It was a bit of a trip coming from Vala and JavaScript land, but I _think_ I did okay for a first pass.
I like to take photos, especially of #ocean tidepool creatures. Some of my photos are attached. #photography
I'm a big #CriticalRole fan too. My favorite characters are: Vax'ildan (C1), Caleb and Caduceus (C2), Laudna, Orym, and Ashton (C3).
You're welcome to say hello or follow!
ALT text detailsSea anemones in a pool of water. Their tentacles are pastel colors, moving from grey-green at the center to a pale pink-purple. White defensive tentacles are deployed to sting a scout sea anemone that is moving towards the colony.
ALT text detailsWhite-and-orange tipped nudibranch (sea slug) on a seaweed leaf. Sand is sprinkled across the seaweed like glitter.
ALT text detailsA tiny red sponge nudibranch stretches between two clumps of seaweed. Sand is lightly sprinkled across its back. It is no larger than a pinky nail.
ALT text detailsA leather seastar stretches one leg, climbing back into a pool of water.
💼 I work at @conservancy on @outreachy. Outreachy is a paid, remote #OpenSource#internship program. Outreachy is for people who face discrimination and systemic bias in the technology industry of the country they are living in.
:boost_ok: I like to boost the following topics: #NaturePhotography, #Queer shitposts, anti-capitalist takes, # MutualAid. I'm white and I boost # BlackMastodon and # Indigineous voices.
😷 I have several invisible #disability : anxiety, psoriasis, arthritis, food allergies, and other auto-immune disorders. You'll see me boost a lot of #disabled voices.
📷 I like to take photos of #OceanPhotography, especially tidepool creatures. Some of my photos are attached. I love #nudibranch
🎲 I'm a big #CriticalRole fan too. My favorite characters are: Vax'ildan (C1), Caleb and Caduceus (C2), Laudna and Ashton (C3).
You're welcome to say hello or follow!
ALT text detailsHorned Nudibanch. It is a sea slug! It has a translucent white body and bright orange-red frills along its side.
The frills on its side are called cerrata. Cerrata contain stinging cells to protect the nudibranch from predators.
It has two antennae-like horns on its head. These are called rhinosphores. The rhinosphores sense light, darkness, smells, and tidal currents.
It has two mouth tentacles that are used for navigation and sensing prey. They are curled upwards like a mustache.
ALT text detailsWhite-and-orange tipped nudibranch. This sea slug has an even more translucent white body, with golden-lined cerrata rising all around it.
It is resting on seaweed leaves, which are covered in fine flecks of sand. The effect looks like a background of glittery stars.
ALT text detailsClown dorid. This nudibranch has a white body and is covered with bright orange spots. It has beard-like orange mouth tentacles and two orange rhinosphores.
ALT text detailsFestive tritonoid. This nudibranch looks like an eldritch sea god!
It is a pink-white color, with bright white lines in diamond patterns on its back.
It has branching cerrata rising in clumps off its sides.
It has a row of pointed white mouth tentacles, which are currently raised in an arc, pointing off-camera. Two of the tentacles point downward, looking like fangs.
ALT text detailsFedicard with a photo of the Silverspot butterfly.
Sage Sharp
@sphakos@toot.cat
Agent of change
they/them
Keeping receipts: Whenever an opponent's action causes a creature to leave the field, place a receipt counter on Sage.
Tactic Scout: Remove X receipt counters from Sage. Search through your deck or an opponent's deck for the first card with converted mana cost X.
"Learn, grow, and share knowledge"
If you missed the Podman Community meeting today, the video is here: https://youtu.be/q_OTd4zyN40. We talked about Podman v5.2, aardvark supporting TCP in DNS, and discussions on how to publicize EOL dates for Podman. #opensource#podman
This feels like a perfect description of how I aspire to make all my #opensource software nowadays — hbu?
> Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist (…)
«Die Feiertage. Die ganzen IT-Abteilungen feiern mit der Familie… Die ganzen IT-Abteilungen? Nein! Eine von unbeugsamen Open-Source-Enthusiasten bevölkerte Mailingliste hört nicht auf, den Eindringlingen Widerstand zu leisten.»
Wie die Open-Source-Gemeinde über Ostern in letzter Minute eine riesige, von langer Hand vorbereitete Sicherheitslücke (#Backdoor) entschärft hat.
Open source software is free and enables people to do great things with it. This is the #opensource software/data I've been using to create maps, process images, make animations etc. related to #NASA's #Mars2020 mission:
Ugh, so apparently Lunduke is back on the fediverse. That and the weirdo Ventoy commentors on Veronica Explains' latest video yesterday has got me thinking about the online Linux/FOSS community.
Outside the FOSS bubble there is almost zero discussion in leftist spaces about the issues of Free Software and open standards. You all know that outside of tech circles (and even within them to a certain extent) most people's perception of 'Linux users' are that we're a bunch of insufferable libertarian weirdos right?
Not surprising really, most of the Linux people on Youtube or any other mainstream social media are some flavour of right-wing or at-least problematic.
We kinda can't blame outsiders for thinking 'Linux people' are a bunch of weird 4chan-addled nerds who think in wojak, pepe and chad memes.
@mastometrics is a unique way to look at statistics about your own account - for free. It's even connected directly from your profile in the @IceCubesApp app.
But all that data and storage costs money! Please consider contributing to keep this service going - and if the goal is reached, open sourced to make it self-hostable.
In this one, we have a lot more details about how Cosmic will work, and what it will support with the first alpha version that releases next week.
We also have the Linux desktop market share reaching its highest point, and a study pointing to macOS as the least resilient OS when it comes to being completely taken over by malicious attackers.
👋 I'm excited to finally say hello to all you amazing folks of the #Fediverse 🌐 with my #Introduction post! Calling the southeastern U.S. home, my life is a vibrant mix of #graphicdesign, #3dprinting, #3Dmodeling, and delving into the fascinating intricacies of technology. I'm in the thick of my graduate studies in #cybersecurity leadership, focusing on integrating cybersecurity with product management processes for more resilient software and services. I passionately believe that breaking down the cybersecurity silo in organizations means leveraging #userexperience concepts, making cybersecurity practical and understandable for every role. I'm a sponge for knowledge, and I'm building my tech understanding in #python, #networking, cloud, and machine learning concepts. I'll be the first to admit I have much to learn. Reading is my haven 📖 - you'll find me lost in the spellbinding worlds of #NealStephenson, #WilliamGibson, the Dune series, and The Expanse 🚀. I also have a soft spot for #InfoSec books like 'The Cuckoo's Egg,' 'Spam Nation,' and 'Sandworm.' I'm always on the lookout for new recommendations! 📚 As an out #nonbinary individual, I'm committed to building inclusion around gender and feminist issues. I aim to help dismantle "male defaults" and foster more equitable work and community environments for a better future for everyone. The camaraderie and shared learning in the #Fediverse echo the Linux User Groups and Hackerspaces culture I cherish. It's an absolute joy to be a part of a community that upholds these principles. If you love dissecting the latest in #tech, exploring #opensource software, or immersing yourself in a gripping #scifi or #cybersecurity book, let's connect! Follow me and drop a comment about your favorite tech trend, current read, fediverse tip, or your efforts toward a more inclusive tech community. Can't wait to hear from you!
The Podman Community Meeting will be this upcoming Tuesday, Aug 6, 2024, at 11:00 am EDT (UTC-5). We have room for agenda topics if you would like to chat about something! Agenda here with video conference info, and, as usual, free to attend! https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w?both#opensource
The 2nd Edition of "Make Your Own Mandelbrot" is out!
✅ updated to #Python 3 ✅ #fractals → easy #maths → DIY #python ✅ expts in filters, 3d landscapes ✅ new chapter on Distance Estimation Methods for very detailed renders (see cover image) ✅ all code #opensource on GitHub
I'm a #queer#trans#polyamorous#hacker who's been working in the tech industry since '99. I'm a huge nerd about a lot of things, including privacy rights, consent, and kink, and I think #sexwork should be decriminalized.
These days I ride 🏍️ a lot, fret about the state of #opensource more than is healthy for me, and advise large tech co's on how to be less bad. It's a frustrating job some days but someone's gotta do it!
I'd be willing to start an #OpenSource project to build such tools. I'm a data scientist and could probably build a toxicity detector, but the project would also need 1. Somebody familiar with #ActivityPub 2. Somebody who could do UI 3. A domain expert - someone with moderation experience @proprietor do you know anyone who could help 4. Ethical oversight - could @DAIR help with this?
"Keeping VLC free and without ads is a no-brainer. I know people focus a lot on that part but, for me, it’s just the way it should be and it’s not difficult for me to keep it like that... Sure, more money would be fun, but most of the people I know who have more money are annoying." -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Does anyone have a recommendation for a CLI boilerplate text file creator? I need something to help with using my personal website better. I’m thinking of something where I can type “<app> new post” or “<app> new note” and a markdown file of appropriate frontmatter stubs is created, in a predefined directory. It’d have to have some kind of template system available. Know of anything?
"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."
I'm not sure Esri's Network Analyst can generate bike travel-time isochrones based on custom street networks or not. Even so, I'm curious how many credits it would burn through to request 17,000 isochrones to be generated.
Afterwards @ber will encourage voluntary payment for #FreeSoftware. Isabel Drost-Fromm will read in the children's programme ‘Ada & #Zangemann’ by @kirschner and the FSFE will be waiting for you with information about our work, stickers, T-shirts, books... drop by!
Gerade erst geht die #FrOSCon zu Ende... da ist mein Talk über Dataports #dPhoenixSuite und über #openDesk (früher Souveräner Arbeitsplatz) des #ZenDiS schon online verfügbar - danke @c3voc!
#OpenWashing has become a growing issue in the Free Software community. Many companies claim to be working on “Open Source” or “Free Software” while distributing proprietary software products.
We at the @fsfe would like to learn more about current market practices, and we need your help!
Danach ermutigt @ber zu freiwilligem Bezahlen für #FreieSoftware. Isabel Drost-Fromm liest im Kinderprogramm "Ada & #Zangemann" von @kirschner und am FSFE-Stand gibt es wie immer Infos zu unserer Arbeit, Sticker, T-Shirts, Bücher... Schaut vorbei!
Guess I'll do a proper #introduction: I'm an IT guy with a love for #Unix / #Linux, both at home and work. Fan of all things #opensource. I've spent many years on #realtime data, used to be a full-time linux admin. I've dabbled in #bigdata, and I'm currently doing things that are called #CloudEngineering on #aws.
I just stumbled across this great tool for #RSS and figured I'd share. KillTheNewsletter.com gives a convenient method of signing up for email newsletters and reading them in your RSS feed without clogging up your inbox.
In this one, we have SecureBoot broken on a lot of different PC models from big manufacturers, we discuss the recent opt-out ad related tech Firefox added to the browser, plus an AI tool (allegedly) scraping Youtube videos and pirated movies, the delay for the Cosmic alpha, and more!
I had an interesting conversation with some #Docker executives on Friday, in which they highlighted some changes to their terms of service / business model. TL;DR: enterprises are now expected to pay for a full Docker subscription for *any* access to any "Docker Platform" features, including Docker Hub, regardless of pull rate.
So, for example, if you're a company with > 250 employees or > $10M revenue, and you have a Linux box pulling one open source image a week from Docker Hub, you must buy a Docker subscription for that box. And any others.
Previously, their website verbiage was focused solely on usage of Docker Desktop by enterprises.
If you are an #OpenSource maintainer and you're publishing container images on Docker Hub, they are monetizing your images, and they're doing so via a flat monthly rate regardless of consumption level. (IMHO that rate is too high, but YMMV, I guess)
This is obviously their prerogative. Really my only request/suggestion to Open Source maintainers who publish container images would be to consider also publishing them on GitHub's container registry (aka GitHub Packages) or any other registry, rather than single-sourcing with Docker Hub.
Hi, I'm Tim. A supporter of an alternative, #distributed and open Internet. I work in my own company in #Geneva as a developer and as a sysadmin. Occasionally I teach IT.
The Fedora Quality Team is joining Week of Diversity with an Accessibility Test Week!
Much like other Test Days, the goal of this week is to put Fedora through its paces and catch as many accessibility related issues as we can for our disable users. If you want to put your advocacy to action, consider participating!
The Accessibility Test Week runs from Jun 19-25, starting tomorrow.
Woohoo! My first open source contribution is out in the wild. If you are using @IceCubesApp you can now go to Settings/Content Settings and enable the Require Alt Text to Post feature.
If you attempt to post media without alt text you get this lovely error!
ALT text detailsmacOS error modal titled “Error while posting” with a detailed messaged stating “Your settings require alt text on all media before posting”.
There is only an “OK” button to dismiss the modal to back to the previous step.
ALT text detailsHow to apply for FOSS grants: A conversation on open source software sustainability. With Felix Reda (GitHub) & Laura Cunningham (Open Technology Fund)
It's still one of the best desktop distributions for most people, beginners or otherwise, and even though it makes a few missteps, IMO (with Flatpaks especially), it still hits the mark.
I do have one worry, and that's the fact that maybe Mint is now trying to do too much in house. Let's talk!
I have news! Beginning next month, I'll once again be shining a big, bright spotlight on #Linux and #OpenSource at Forbes, essentially picking up where I left off in 2022. (This time around there will be some added emphasis on Linux-powered handheld and desktop gaming.)
Thankfully, this is a calling I can't seem to escape, and I'm ridiculously excited to bring some mainstream attention to all the projects, distros, games, and ideas -- large and small -- in this amazing community.
I saw a lot of articles about “mandating open source in Switzerland.” This isn’t true. The actual requirement is that the source code must be available (with some exceptions) for software developed within the scope of administration. It's more akin to code escrow than true open source licensing.
Only the paragraph 2 opens the door to FOSS licensing but it also the open the door to non-free license. A list of FOSS licenses should have been mentioned clearly.
ALT text details— [ Art. 9 Logiciels a code source ouvert
! Les autorités fédérales soumises a la présente loi publient le code source des logiciels qu’elles développent ou font développer pour I'exécution de leurs taches, sous réserve que les droits de tiers ou des raisons importantes en matiére de sécurité excluent ou limitent cette possibilité.
2 Elles autorisent toute personne a utiliser, & développer et a partager ces logiciels sans avoir a payer de redevances de licence.
3 Les droits visés a I'al. 2 sont octroyés sous la forme de licences de droit privé, sauf dispositions contraires d’autres actes. Les litiges entre donneurs et preneurs de licence sont tranchés selon le droit civil.
4 Lorsque cela est possible et judicieux, des textes de licence reconnus au niveau international seront utilisés. Toute prétention en responsabilité de la part des nranatire da lircanca cara aveliia Aane 12 maciira ot cala
A bit tardy getting this up, but the July Podman Community Cabal meeting video has just hit YouTube. We talked about the Konflux test harness, Podman chat channels, and more! https://youtu.be/1tTD7VgXI5s#podman 🦭 #opensource
Next #SelfHosting question: what are people using as low-powered home servers for things? I have an ancient desktop and various Raspberry Pi devices, but perhaps there's some specific hardware that peoiple favour for these kinds of projects?
I'm thinking the server should live in my garage (a separate building) or potentially in a relative's house. Low power consumption a plus!
(Thank you for the amazing responses to my query about #SelfHosted photo archives, by the way.) #OpenSource#Linux
Although I haven't used this poor abandoned blog much, it is not because I dislike the MicroBlog.pub software that I am using to self-host it. It actually helped me to learn about the IndieWeb.org and MicroPub.net communities, as well as practice work with the ActivityPub.rocks protocol (which is the engine of the #Fediverse).
Sadly, as I got excited about MicroBlog.pub, I realized that the creator had abandoned the project for more than a year. Issues, requests, and pull requests have piled up. The excitement of users faded away as I found forks close doors. But it is #opensource, right?
Yep!
Hence, I decided to contact some other users and start a collective effort to keep this cool project alive. Here is where it will live: https://github.com/microblog-pub
Let us hope I will be able to put together a good crew. 🤞
ALT text detailsThe MicroBlog logo where the MicroPub is written in black and the .pub in green. Also, it uses the "micro" greek letter in place of the 5 letter at the beginning of the name.
🌟 Just started exploring Mastodon and loving the decentralized social experience! 🐘✨ It's refreshing to see such a vibrant community thriving on open-source principles. Anyone else new here or have tips for a newbie? Let's connect! #Mastodon#SocialMedia#OpenSource
Hi friends! My colleagues at #Fastly@devs are hiring a new manager for our #WebAssembly team. They're looking for someone to "lead a team of very senior and very talented developers who are truly experts in this field and work closely across Fastly’s engineering teams to facilitate effective communication and roadmapping."
I'm on a mission to enable high performance IT systems and software delivery for growing organizations.
Contact me when your:
- systems getting too slow or old - IT solutions are getting too expensive - software and infra takes too long to change - customers face too many bugs or outages
Want a sneak peek at some of the accepted PGConf.EU conference talks? Here: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2024/sessions/. Other sessions are still pending speaker confirmations as we’re tirelessly working on putting together the schedule.
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
Supports hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg. No import required which means native editing, plus multi-format timelines, resolutions and frame-rates within a project. Frame accurate seeking supported for many video formats.
🇨🇭 Switzerland has passed a new law requiring public sector bodies to use and disclose open source software. This law aims to improve transparency, reduce costs, and foster innovation in government operations. Advocates believe it will benefit taxpayers and the IT industry by promoting competition and digital sustainability.
This makes perfect sense. Public software should be transparent. #India could have taken a lead on this, but our digital public infrastructure is mostly closed-source - with predictable consequences. 🙄
ALT text detailsA grey and black striped tabby cat, sitting very straight on the top of a square scratching post pillar. He's looking straight ahead, with an inscrutable look on his face.
Why doesn't WordPress.org (the open source version) have a Mastodon account? Because they have considerably active Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn accounts...
Not new here but it might be time for a re-#introduction:
Hi, I'm Eliot! I program computers for a living, currently working in medtech with a prior stint in the game industry. I still enjoy #gamedev and #creativecoding when I can find the time. I'm pan, a Jewish Atheist, and a former film student trained in sound design.
Hi, I'm Eliot! I program computers for a living, currently working in medtech with a prior stint in the game industry. I still enjoy #GameDev and #CreativeCoding when I can find the time. I'm bi/pan, a Jewish Atheist, and a former film student trained in sound design.
ALT text detailsParody graphic design of: Microsoft to Microscreen with a camera icon and camera zoom around it, #FCKMICROSOFT and Opensoft to Opensource
It was fun while it lasted and we have a good laugh. 😏
But truth be said, even Linux wouldn't have helped in preventing the CrowdStrike catastrophe, and it has actually happened with it in the past (from the same company!).
Make no mistake, if an outage similar to Crowdstrike would have been caused by OpenSource, there would be calls across the entire industry and at the government level to ban OpenSource from critical systems. But since it was caused by billion-dollar publicly-traded companies, nothing to see here, move-on.
New video: your usual #Linux and #OpenSource News recap, where we've seen #Windows collapse all around the world, and crash to a blue screen of death due to a third party app, we have #SUSE asking #OpenSUSE to rebrand and change their logo, and a lot more:
A marketplace is not an ecosystem. It is merely a single organism, a megafauna, whose sole purpose is to consume and grow as much as possible.
An ecosystem on the other hand has no inherent growth-imperative. The primary objective of an ecosystem is equilibrium; circular exchange of energy. A secondary objective is emergent diversity for the sake of adaptability & robustness.
The global #Microsoft outage shows how vulnerable a world depending on a handful of tech players is. #Europe should invest heavily invest in open standards and #opensource, creating a safe and privacy-friendly tech environment where everybody can thrive - not only bilionaires.
"Unternehmen wie Microsoft oder Cisco müssen erkennen, dass die Frage der Sicherheit ihrer Produkte absolute Priorität haben muss – dies scheint derzeit nicht der Fall zu sein." sagt @JensZSPD
You know how some people complain about the stability of Linux for desktops and how, you know, it may not be reliable, especially Arch. What about Manjaro + Arch. How about a system based on Arch but with Manjaro's repos + the Chaotic AUR repo?
Well stable as a mountain! Using TROMjaro for many years now and despite doing a lot of updates, all works perfectly fine. Long gone are the days of being afraid to do the updates. This is my experience.
I 100% rely on my laptop for a lot of daily use uses. I need it to work! And it does!
Some of them post mostly in French, some mostly in English. I've included companies and organizations only; For individuals I don't know, I'd seek consent first, as they didn't directly list their fedi account in the table.
The paper investigates the collaborative experiences involved in archaeological open source software development, looking how archaeologists create these tools as part of a broader community of practice
"A "#Youth and #OpenSource" panel was held at the United Nations (UN) Open Source Program Office (#OSPO) for Good conference in the UN building in Manhattan. There was only one little problem with it. To quote Ruth Ikegah, a young Nigerian open source project manager, "We need more young people here because I see a lot of old people here."
Registration for Flock to Fedora is now open! Flock is happening in Rochester, NY on Aug 7-11. It is our annual, in-person contributor conference for the Fedora Project. Make sure to register!
Please take this survey about AI/ML and Fedora. We know that this is a sensitive subject, so the Fedora Council spent time putting a survey together to understand what our community thinks about this area of technology.
✍️ [ @rOpenSci blog post] Metrics, Impact and Community Management
In this blog post, I share my experiences using multi-level metrics and participation models, viewed through a community management lens, to measure rOpenSci impact.
ALT text detailsA cute kiwi bird next to a rainbow-colored sphere, with browser logos and the text "KIWIX JS IN YOUR BROWSER" and "EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF OFFLINE BROWSING"
This is a #diy#RaspberryPi#pico#openhardware#opensource device I created for making your own #pc#gaming controllers. You can place buttons, joysticks, potentiometers, and rotary encoders onto a grid, and then assign them gamepad or keyboard functions. It was designed for starship bridge simulation games (e.g. EmptyEpsilon, Space Nerds in Space) to create custom controls, but it is a general joystick/gamepad substitute.
Thunderbird 128 'Nebula' is out and our blog post has all the details! With Rust under the hood, a clearer Cards View, and a sharper (and more colorful) look, the future is looking fast, organized, and bright. See what's new, what's coming soon, and details on how to try it for yourself!
Hi Fediverse, we're Thunderbird, an #opensource#email client available for free on Linux, Windows, MacOS and now on Android!
You can use Thunderbird for managing an unlimited number of mail accounts, calendars, newsgroup accounts, and RSS feeds. You can also chat using your @matrix account.
💙 LIKES: Open standards, privacy, freedom, customization.
It is a pleasure to be apart of the co-op fediverse!
We started Limeleaf Collective to focus on fresh, sustainable, simple tech solutions for small businesses, government, and educational institutions. We are firm believers of open source software and ethical, moral, and socially good technology.
I signed an open letter to the @EUCommission requesting continued funding of open source software innovation and maintenance via the @EC_NGI program.
Free and open source software development is not free. Supporting it is vital to the EU economy and innovation competitiveness.
@nlnet and @NGIZero funded the development of many social web apps years before they were needed and likely much underlying software in the devices you depend on every day.
#introduction time, figured we should make a proper Mastodon account for #spacestation14 itself to post progress reports and stuff with.
We're a 100% #opensource multiplayer game about disaster on a space station.
I figured this instance would be a good place for this account since we're open source and anybody can contribute!
ALT text detailsScreenshot from Space Station 14. Honestly I have no idea what's going on here, I just went on the server and took a screenshot of a busy area.
In this one, I talk about the #GNOME Foundation's Executive Director leaving after just 10 months, about Fedora 41 dropping X11 from the install media, some Cosmic news and the alpha looking extremely close, plus a big class action lawsuit against #Github Copilot being partly dismissed, with the more important part being allowed to proceed:
Instead of mindlessly buying into the hype, you could keep supporting #opensource#freesoftware which really empowers people, builds skills, respects digital rights and makes the world better in the aspects that matter.
Je kunt #DPIA's blijven doen tot je een ons weegt, maar zolang BigTech geld kan verdienen met jouw data zullen ze nooit privacy vriendelijk worden. Het is niet nornaal dat we dit soort #surveillance diensten onderwijzen! Alsof kinderen na school opeens de privacy policy gaan lezen en denken "hey, dat is slecht, laat ik naar een alternatief gaan zoeken"
Hey, I'm blinry! I create digital tools and games, and digital art. I mostly use Mastodon to share my joy about things I learn or create. Welcome, everyone! :)
I love my communities: the Chaos community, Jugend Hackt, the Recurse Center.
I'm excited and humbled to be taking on the role of Executive Director of @rOpenSci . I can't give enough thanks to founder and outgoing director @inundata for his vision and leadership in building this community, and his mentorship and trust in handing over the reins. He will stay on as a key advisor.
"Und willst Du nicht mein Bruder sein, so schlag' ich dir den Schädel ein."
Über einen bemerkenswert Fall von spalterischen Wokeness-Aktivitäten im Bereich der Open-Source-Software berichtet LinuxNews.de. Mich erinnern diese Fehlgeleiteten, die jedeN bekämpfen, der/die ihre woken Ansichten nicht zu 150% beachten und teilen, an die schlimmsten Auswüchse der maoistischen K-Gruppen in den 70ern. Mich beruhigt allerdings, dass die heutigen Wokeness-Fatalisten nach ein paar Jahren ihre Bedeutung verlieren werden - wie einst die K-Gruppen.
How do other #opensource maintainers deal with LLM-generated contributions? I'm starting to see chatgpt-generated pull requests on the projects I maintain and I wonder how others handle them.
I'm tempted to take a strong anti-LLM stance, but at the same time I know that some people (especially beginners) might use LLM to help them write code, and I don't want to scare away newcomers.
Do you know of any projects that have published some policies regarding this?
New #Introduction posts since the others were getting stale!
My name is david, and everyone knows that I’m a dog on the internet :bowie: That said, I don’t define my whole existence around being a #furry, but I also like the community and friends that I have made there :bowie_blush:
For personal identity things, I’m a mixed-race #latine currently residing in Florida in the US. I am queer, and currently use the labels #agender, polyamorous, and pansexual. I am mid-thirties and use they/them pronouns and do not capitalize my name. I am neurodivergent #AuDHD.
I am a web developer, and mainly focus professionally on #WordPress maintenance, and personally on #OpenSource projects that I can share with others. I make simple or fun projects to share and teach others with. I am getting back to making tutorials to share on my personal sites. I’ve also started vlogging about this along with my weekly newsletter! Links in bio
ALT text detailsA picture of david wearing a trans flower crown and looking up to the left. They have blue painted nails with a matching blue wedding band on. They are wearing a trans flag chain collar and a shirt that says Protect Trans Kids.
ALT text detailsA ref sheet of BowieBarks, david's fursona. The dog is posed front and back, two smaller versions wearing tank tops, an a plush version, as well as accessories. The dog is a mix of tan, beige, and brown, with white, black, pink, and blue accent markings
#HowToThing#Epilogue#LongRead: After 66 days of addressing 30 wildly varied use cases and building ~20 new example projects of varying complexity to illustrate how #ThingUmbrella libraries can be used & combined, I'm taking a break to concentrate on other important thi.ngs...
With this overall selection I tried shining a light on common architectural patterns, but also some underexposed, yet interesting niche topics. Since there were many different techniques involved, it's natural not everything resonated with everyone. That's fine! Though, my hope always is that readers take an interest in a wide range of topics, and so many of these new examples were purposefully multi-faceted and hopefully provided insights for at least some parts, plus (in)directly communicated a core essence of the larger project:
Only individual packages (or small clusters) are designed & optimized for a set of particular use cases. At large, though, thi.ng explicitly does NOT offer any such guidance or even opinion. All I can offer are possibilities, nudges and cross-references, how these constructs & techniques can be (and have been) useful and/or the theory underpinning them. For some topics, thi.ng libs provide multiple approaches to achieve certain goals. This again is by design (not lack of it!) and stems from hard-learned experience, showing that many (esp. larger) projects highly benefit from more nuanced (sometimes conflicting approaches) compared to popular defacto "catch-all" framework solutions. To avid users (incl. myself) this approach has become a somewhat unique offering and advantage, yet in itself seems to be the hardest and most confusing aspect of the entire project to communicate to newcomers.
So seeing this list of new projects together, to me really is a celebration (and confirmation/testament) of the overall #BottomUpDesign#ThingUmbrella approach (which I've been building on since ~2006): From the wide spectrum/flexibility of use cases, the expressiveness, concision, the data-first approach, the undogmatic mix of complementary paradigms, the separation of concerns, no hidden magic state, only minimal build tooling requirements (a bundler is optional, but recommended for tree shaking, no more) — these are all aspects I think are key to building better (incl. more maintainable & reason-able) software. IMO they are worth embracing & exposing more people to and this is what I've partially attempted to do with this series of posts...
ICYMI here's a summary of the 10 most recent posts (full list in the https://thi.ng/umbrella readme). Many of those examples have more comments than code...
A week ago was the 1st anniversary of this solo instance & more generally of my fulltime move to Mastodon. A good time for a more detailed intro, partially intended as CV thread (pinned to my profile) which I will add to over time (also to compensate the ongoing lack of a proper website)... Always open to consulting offers, commissions and/or suitable remote positions...
Hi, I'm Karsten 👋 — indy software engineer, researcher, #OpenSource author of hundreds of projects (since ~1999), computational/generative artist/designer, landscape photographer, lecturer, outdoor enthusiast, on the ND spectrum. Main interest in transdisplinary research, tool making, exploring techniques, projects & roles amplifying the creative, educational, expressive and inspirational potential of (personal) computation, code as material, combining this with generative techniques of all forms (quite different to what is now called and implied by "generative AI").
Much of my own practice & philosophy is about #BottomUpDesign, interconnectedness, simplicity and composability as key enablers of emergent effects (also in terms of workflow & tool/system design). Been adopting a round-robin approach to cross-pollinate my work & learning, spending periods going deep into various fields to build up and combine experience in (A-Z order): API design, audio/DSP, baremetal (mainly STM32), computer vision/image processing, compiler/DSL/VM impl, databases/linked data/query engines, data structures impl, dataviz, fabrication (3DP, CNC, knit, lasercut), file formats & protocols (as connective tissue), "fullstack" webdev (front/back/AWS), generative & evolutionary algorithms/art/design/aesthetics/music, geometry/graphics, parsers, renderers, simulation (agents/CFD/particles/physics), shaders, typography, UI/UX/IxD...
Since 2018 my main endeavor has been https://thi.ng/umbrella, a "jurassic" (as it's been called) monorepo of ~185 code libraries, addressing many of the above topics (plus ~150 examples to illustrate usage). More generally, for the past decade my OSS work has been focused on #TypeScript, #C, #Zig, #WebAssembly, #Clojure, #ClojureScript, #GLSL, #OpenCL, #Forth, #Houdini/#VEX. Earlier on, mainly Java (~15 years, since 1996).
Formative years in the deep end of the #Atari 8bit demoscene (Chip Special Software) & game dev (eg. The Brundles, 1993), B&W dark room lab (since age 10), music production/studio (from 1993-2003), studied media informatics, moved to London initially as web dev, game dev (Shockwave 3D, ActionScript), interaction designer, information architect. Branched out, more varied clients/roles/community for my growing collection of computational design tools, which I've been continously expanding/updating for the past 20+ years, and which have been the backbone of 99% of my work since ~2006 (and which helped countless artists/designers/students/studios/startups). Creator of thi.ng (since 2011), toxiclibs (2006-2013), both large-scale, multi-faceted library collections. Early contributor to Processing (2003-2005, pieces of core graphics API).
Worked on dozens of interactive installations/exhibitions, public spaces & mediafacades (own projects and many collabs, several award winning), large-scale print on-demand projects (>250k unique outputs), was instrumental in creating some of the first generative brand identity systems (incl. cloud infrastructure & asset management pipelines), collaborated with architects, artists, agencies, hardware engineers, had my work shown at major galleries/museums worldwide, taught 60+ workshops at universities, institutions and companies (mainly in EMEA). Was algorithm design lead at Nike's research group for 5 years, working on novel internal design tools, workflows, methods of make, product design (footwear & apparel) and team training. After 23 years in London, my family decided on a lifestyle change and so currently based in the beautiful Allgäu region in Southern Germany.
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GenAI datasets not being open source by law just boggles my mind.
We’re all in agreement that any kind of processed food item you buy needs to list every single one of its ingredients down to the last spice and preservative, for the sake of our dietary health and bodily autonomy.
Yet somehow the cloud factories churning out hyper processed AI slop served up as brain-food are under no obligation to say what’s in their tin cans!?
Wir sind Studierende aus #Darmstadt und #Karlsruhe, die zeigen wollen, dass es auch Alternativen zu den propritären Anbietern gibt, die Zuverlässigkeit und #Privatsphäre vereinen.
Schaut auf unserer Website vorbei und probiert es einfach mal aus.
Souvenir souvenir https://www.crunchbangplusplus.org/ Je n'étais pas bien grand, et alors que je l'utilisais au quotidien, j'installais CrunchBang sur une vieille machine de bureau écran IBM 13', démontais Slim, fixais l'IP, accordais accès à ses port 80 et 443, devenais serveur réseau chez moi en pleine conscience de ce que je faisais.
"Pleine conscience" veut dire: en ayant déjà conscience de ce que je partageais déjà depuis ma machine perso avec les gafams; en protégeant mes visiteurs, ne les exposant pas, ni aux gafams -point d'honneur ! - ni à personne d'autre; suant déjà sang et eau par litres par jours et par avance des futurs mises à jour, migrations, ne sachant encore pas trop comment protéger tout ça en cas d'attaque, me disant que bah tant pis je demanderais aux copains le cas échéant. Bien sûr que j'avais peur ! Fort heureusement - ou pas ! - je n'ai encore jamais eu à faire face à de grosses attaques réussies. Même si j'ai déjà dû passer des nuits à comprendre pourquoi je n'avais plus d'espace, être obligé de rm des Go de logs de connexion Apache, en éplucher mais pfff! sans vraiment comprendre quelque chose d'autre qu'il n'y avait rien à comprendre lorsque la demande de connexion venait d'une cam IP capable de te montrer un bébé en train de dormir, un nid de cigogne ou une stabu paysanne quelconque.
Après c'est beaucoup à raconter, la lightweight vms Dockers totalement proprio, les machines dispo vérolées, les clouds proprios aussi, les Kubernetes, Ansible, les virtualhosts, les #virtualsdatas, les #VirtualFoutageDeGueule...
La seule chose qui reste est l' #OpenSource et surtout: le courage qu'il reste au gens pour, d'abord le délivrer; rien que ça déjà c'est énoOÔÔOorme merci; ensuite le déployer; mais là c'est nous toutes et tous qui sommes et devons rester acteurs de nos vies et de celles sur la Terre. Ça vous fait peur ? 🙂
Dites vous bien que lorsque vous cliquez sur un petit lien, derrière y'a un p'tit'admin qui se bat pour vos droits 🙂
> colpo a cerchio e botte. L'esserci solo l'istituto industriale come #scuola superiore indica una duplice ambiguità: gli informatici #openSource a volte sono gelosi nell'aprire il "loro" spazio ai così detti produttori di contenuti che invece eviterebbero, quanto a admin & gestione affari altrui, traslochi padella-brace; l'insieme degli attuali adulti sono felici di rimanere appollaiati sui comodi vizi offerti dal web commerciale (tanto col #cinepanettone non ci ammazziamo manco quest'anno). >
We just shipped NeoDB 0.10 , with revamped i18n support and other features. A dedicated project site is also up: https://neodb.net
If you haven't heard about #NeoDB , it's basically Goodreads+ Letterboxd + RateYourMusic + Podchaser, all in one place, #opensource, powered up with #ActivityPub, plus microblogging, like #Mastodon and its apps.
Love to hear your thoughts, and if you find this project useful, or think someone else may think so, please help boost!
:boost_requested: #GetFediHired#Jobs#SysAdmin#Python#FOSS#FLOSS Hey #FediHired, I'm on a #JobSearch. I'm a #Linux systems engineer and #Python developer with 15+ years' experience, based in #Melbourne, Australia. I have a high attention to detail & lots of experience working with people (15+ years community organising/Scout leading). Motivating values: free/ #OpenSource software, accessibility, diversity, equity, inclusion, privacy, and security, analysing/improving/automating systems/processes. Recent personal projects involve #Docker, #Django, #Ansible. Ideally seek remote role with communicative/cohesive team, variety, flexible hours, ideally max 4 days/week. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcen/ Resume: https://blog.mattcen.com/resume/
"I always say: people come for the technology, and they stay for the people."
Jos Poortvliet, Director of Communications at Nextcloud, shares a rich history with #Linux and #opensource: from @kde to @opensuse, @gnome & why Nextcloud's community is essential.
I work in #healthcareIT & on the side I run a family #farming operation There are 4 small versions of me @ home but when they do something I disapprove of, I reclassify them as tiny versions of my wife I enjoy tinkering w/computer hardware, software, #linux, & #opensource. If I can use #python to solve a problem, I'm in my happy place I help coach 5th grade #basketball, & am one of appx 7 ppl on the fediverse who follows the MN #Timberwolves
After complex filter chains for endless combinations in last version:
Now with a color rotator node like changing hue constantly. Using a trigonometric function allows to select upper and lower borders for some nice effects.
Also the fader (stacker) is finally there to create slideshows of connected nodes with blending.
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Now that I moved instance, it's time for a new #introduction !
I'm a fullstack software engineer who loves #typescript and is based in Germany. In my free time I like to contribute to #opensource and build fun stuff like bots for #discord. Oh, and I play a lot of games. Both videogames on #pcgaming and #nintendoswitch, as well as tabletop games like #DnD or #mtg. Also into #3dprinting ✨
I just migrated from https://hachyderm.io/@mattwynne which was 👍🏻, but I have been meaning to move over here for some time because I love the initiative to democratically run our social media!
I'm from the UK originally, now based in Nelson, BC.
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New This Week:
Forge Your Future with Open Source (audio book)
Discover the fundamental tenets that drive the free and open source movement. Take control of your career by selecting the right project to meet your professional goals. Master the language and avoid the pitfalls that typically ensnare contributors. Join a community of like-minded people and change the world. Programmers, writers, designers, and everyone interested in software will make their mark through free and open source software contributions.
Now that Business Success with Open Source is in beta and available for purchase in early release, I have the mental space available to start considering my next steps. The first one of those steps: find my next job.
Tim Berners-Lee's concept of Solid Pods needs to be part of the future to support data privacy and data sovereignty.
We (the ANU's Software Innovation Institute) are developing a collection of demo and proof-of-concept apps implemented in Flutter. Apps include simple note taking through to indigenous co-designed Solid Pod apps for a remote community to support individuals accessing their own clinical health data through Pods.
The Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council (CR-UNSC)
✅ 2722 resolutions (1946-2024) ✅ All six UN languages ✅ 82 Variables ✅ Enhanced OCR ✅ Citation Data ✅ #OpenData and #RStats#OpenSource ✅ Formats: CSV, PDF, TXT, GraphML, BibTeX
We will officially launch the "Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council (CR-UNSC)" at an online event on Monday, 20 May 2024, organized by the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Interest Group on International Organisations (IG-IO).
I'm a game release specialist working on the Anvil Pipeline at Ubisoft Montreal. I've been working in #gamedev since 2005 on consoles/PC and mobile platforms. I've been a gamer and playing #videogames my entire life and actually doing a lot of #retrogaming and #emulation. Very interested in #gamepreservation and #arcade games and arcade culture. Just started learning some #nesdev as well recently.
I've also recently became interested in #WeightLoss as I've lost 250 pounds in the last year. Feel free to poke me if you're interested in how I've done it or want to know about #BariatricSurgery. I've added a link to my bio to the documentation I received when I had the surgery so that you can get an idea of what to expect: https://cloud.zerojay.com/s/BariatricSurgery
I'm also really interested in everything having to do with the #fediverse. I've collected a bunch of links that are likely to be of interest to anyone from a complete Mastodon beginner, power users and even server administrators that you can find in my bio as well as here: https://cloud.zerojay.com/s/mastodon
Open source: $9 trillion resource companies take for granted 😱
At Nextcloud, we truly ❤️ open source! Everything we dream of, collaborate on, and create together relies on our open source ideals and amazing community members.
Today I am happy to bring a new milestone in DICOM-rs with version 0.7.0! DICOM-rs is an implementation of the DICOM standard for the next generation of medical imaging systems.
Version 0.7.0 encompasses a new array of changes to correct existing quirks in the API and make way for grater capabilities. It is also not without new features, improvements and a few bug fixes.
Da wohl wirklich nur noch wenig Hoffnung besteht für einen problemlosen Weiterbetrieb von feddit.de, gibt es für deutschsprachige Diskussionen und Nachrichten zu #FOSS -Themen nun diese neue Community auf feddit.org: 👉 feddit.org/c/foss_de
Inhaltlich kann es um Alles rund um #FOSS#FLOSS#OpenSource#FreieSoftware gehen, was Euch interessiert - seien es bestimmte Anwendungen, neue Releases, Fragen, Tipps und Empfehlungen oder auch gesellschaftliche Initiativen wie #PublicMoneyPublicCode und vieles mehr.
Es ist eine Lemmy -Community auf #fedditOrg. Ihr könnt die Community auch von #Mastodon , #Friendica#Akkoma etc. aus abonnieren. Und ihr könnt damit auch ohne Lemmy-Account Beiträge darin erstellen, indem Ihr den Community-Account [ät]foss_de@feddit.org taggt. Ausführlicher hier.
Wenn Ihr auf Lemmy aktiv seid, könnt ihr Euch gerne auch noch als Co-Mods melden.
Es gibt schon lange eine sehr große und aktive englischsprachige Opensource-Community opensource@lemmy.ml , aber um sich zu deutschsprachigen News auszutauschen oder Fragen auf deutsch zu stellen und zu diskutieren, soll diese Community als Ergänzung dienen.
Die bisherigen Beiträge der Feddit.de-Community sind u.a. hier zu sehen.
Damit aber erst einmal: 🧡lich willkommen in der neuen Community @foss_de ! Ich bin gespannt auf Eure Beiträge.
I'm Sumana Harihareswara, a woman in #NYC New York City. I have a consultancy https://changeset.nyc, Changeset Consulting and provide short-term project management services for #freesoftware#FLOSS#opensource projects. I'm writing a book on maintainership skills and have accidentally developed expertise in #Python packaging tools.
I'm married, a stand-up comedian & fanvidder, a frequent poster on #MetaFilter & #Dreamwidth, Indian-American. Just moved from mastodon.social!
｢ Unlike traditional business models that rely on monetizing the user, Ladybird is funded entirely by sponsorships and donations from companies and individuals who care about the open web. Our non-profit will not pursue corporate deals or revenue outside of unrestricted donations. The software and its source code will be available for free, forever ｣
Remember to share positive posts, memes, etc. about open source things you use and like. A simple “I like this” or “thanks for working on this” can go a long way!
Happy people carry on using things quietly while negativity gets shared, memed, and shoved in front of folks who work on your favorite projects. One negative comment too often outweighs ten positive ones, because human brains are dumb.
Are you coming to GUADEC in Denver, CO, USA next month? I’m putting together a curated list of locations and notes… my goal is to move this over to the GUADEC site itself or at least something powered by OpenStreetMap, but here it is on Google Maps in the meantime:
Early video today, on a less positive topic than usual: a bunch of #Linux and #OpenSource projects regularly are criticized online, and I wanted to explore the reasons behind a few of them.
I tried to approach this as factually as possible, with as little bias as possible. It's not inflammatory, it's not an attack on anyone, it's just exposing the reasons why you might see certain projects and entities getting some heat online:
#monocles offers ethically acceptable services and an online platform for individuals as well as for companies for a truly fair and secure digital life.
Excited to present the first building block of the BSD Cafe project! When I registered this domain months ago, I envisioned a themed bar where we can casually chat about *BSD systems, Linux, and Open-Source technology among friends, acquaintances, and patrons. But like any bar, discussions can cover a wide range of topics while respecting everyone.
BSD.cafe will be a hub for various tools and services, powered by *BSD.
The first brick is a new Mastodon instance, a gateway to the Fediverse. Registration is open, and the server will be moderated under clear guidelines promoting good behavior and zero tolerance for hate towards anyone. Inclusivity, respect, and constructive dialogue are the key values of this new instance.
The main server is currently hosted in Finland on a small VM, based on #FreeBSD. Services are divided into VNET jails, connected in a LAN via a local bridge. A VPN system is also present and have been able to move individual jails to different, more powerful, machines.
Multimedia data and cache are hosted on another physical server (FreeBSD, within a jail), with Cloudflare in front. The aim is to cache and geodistribute data, reducing network traffic on the main VPS.
Reverse proxy (frontend), mail server, media server, and the instance itself are reachable via #ipv6.
The instance started empty. No unnecessary content was pre-loaded; I want it to grow organically based on users' interests and following. There won't be any preemptive blocks at this stage. Users are encouraged to promptly report anything they find worth flagging.
Join us at https://mastodon.bsd.cafe to build a constructive and inclusive community—a safe and relaxing space for everyone.
Our wiki, located at https://wiki.bsd.cafe, features essential links and articles related to the BSD world. It provides an overview of the tools, services, rules, uptime, and more information about the BSD Cafe Services.
A Matrix server, a Miniflux RSS Reader, the Wiki itself, and the BlendIT Lemmy instance are all part of the BSD Cafe services, with more to come.
Hello everyone! I wanted to share some exciting updates about the development of BSD Mail, our privacy-focused email service designed with robustness, security, and transparency in mind. Here’s a deep dive into the technical choices I've made, focusing on my use of open source solutions and open protocols:
🌍 **Servers & Location**
- We're running on two physical servers: - One hosted by OVH in France - Another by Hetzner in Germany - Both servers operate on FreeBSD with NVMe drives in a ZFS mirror configuration for speed and data integrity.
🔒 **Virtualization & Security**
- We utilize jails on both servers to ensure isolated environments for different services, managed via BastilleBSD. On one server, jails are set up directly on the hardware, whereas the other server employs nested jails. - Each server hosts a bhyve VM running OpenBSD with OpenSMTPD for handling SMTP duties securely.
🔗 **Networking**
- A Wireguard setup connects the two servers, facilitating routing capabilities so that jails and VMs can communicate seamlessly, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6.
📧 **Email Services**
- **Dovecot** is configured for maildir replication across the servers using Dovecot sync, ensuring email availability and redundancy. - **Rspamd** instances are tied to local KeyDB jails, set up in master-master replication for consistent and reliable spam detection and greylisting. - **ClamAV** runs in corresponding jails for virus scanning, maintaining a high level of security. - **SOGo** provides a web interface for email management, connected to MySQL databases in master-master replication to handle sessions and authentication smoothly.
💾 **Data Management**
- Email data is stored on separate, encrypted ZFS datasets to secure emails at rest. - MySQL databases are used for storing credentials and managing sessions for SOGo, also in a master-master replication setup. Importantly, all passwords are securely hashed using bcrypt, ensuring they are salted and safe.
🔎 **Monitoring & Reliability**
- Our DNS is managed through BunnyNet, which continuously monitors our server status. Should one server—or a specific service—become unavailable, DNS configurations are dynamically adjusted to avoid directing users to the affected IP until full service is restored.
🌐 **Commitment to Open Source and Open Protocols**
- Every component of BSD Mail is built exclusively using open source software and open protocols. This commitment is crucial for ensuring data freedom and the reliability of the solutions we use.
This setup not only emphasizes our commitment to privacy and security but also our dedication to maintaining an open and transparent platform. We're excited to bring you a service where your privacy, data integrity, and freedom are prioritized. Stay tuned for more updates!
ALT text detailsMy logo, a wireframe sketch of the George Washington Bridge with my name in serif, followed by the title of the article and the the six logos of my current sponsors.
In this one, we have #Mozilla's CPO suing them for discrimination (not a good look for Mozilla if true), #Nvidia drivers now supporting Explicit Sync and fixing #Wayland problems, we have another date for the #Cosmic alpha, and some solid performance boosts coming for Intel CPUs!
We’ve gained a number of new followers recently—shoutouts @FediFollows—so maybe it’s time for a re-#introduction?
Hi! We’re elementary, an #OpenSource software company with a focus on #InclusiveDesign! We make #elementaryOS—the thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS—plus #AppCenter, the pay-what-you-can app store.
We’ve been contributing to the desktop #Linux space for about 16 years now and we’re 100% funded by regular people just like you 💕
The more I work on teams, #opensource and otherwise, the more convinced I am that leadership and management are two different roles.
Setting the direction should be done by domain experts, managing issues and timelines and building consensus should be done by highly organized supports. Blending the two leads to overload and risks putting people who lack one of these skill sets in charge.
Anyone have links to good thinking along these lines?
Both apache.org and eclipse.org are migrating their projects over to github. It's per-project and up to each subproject, as far as I can see, but the writing is on the wall: No own repos, issue tracking, sometimes even forums move over - and unlike repos, all these other bits don't have simple download facilities in case you want to move away.
Sure, these two orgs always were on the more corporate side of #opensource, but does it sound like a bad idea to anybody else to just hand the keys to your kingdom to a single dominant provider?
Welcome to the enchanting realm of 3D Printing 🖨️ wonders! 🚀 Unleash your creativity and dive into the world of #3dprinting with us! ✨
Our bot, the guardian of this realm🛡️ , ensures that only the most extraordinary 3D printing-related posts find their way 💯. We're like guardians, defeating ⚔️ any irrelevant, inappropriate, or spammy intruders! 🥷
Just follow and mention me in your post, it's that simple! I will #boost 📈 it and share your post with the community! 🔥
Ready? Set. Print!
Admin and moderator extraordinaire 👉 @Stark9837 🧙♂️🛠️
Check the replies to this post for rules and special features such as reporting posts.
Herzlich Willkommen auf unserem Univention Kanal. 🎉 Auch wenn wir #neuhier auf Mastodon sind, beschäftigen wir uns seit 20 Jahren mit #opensource, #Linux und offener IT-Infrastruktur. 🐧 Mit UCS und UCS@school bieten wir Organisationen und Privatnutzer*innen 100%ige Open-Source-Lösungen für das Management von Domänen, die Verwaltung digitaler Identitäten und die Integration von IT-Diensten. Darüber möchten wir uns ab jetzt hier mit euch austauschen.
ALT text detailsGantt chart of project release cycles. The title reads "State of Party 2023". The projects are:
- ninjas in tokyo
- teleop
- venue
- rfparty
-gpgshare
-api
Wrote a blog post about all the things I haven't written a blog post for, including but not limited to: inserting a model of my twin into a #pokemon game, assembling an #opensource gamepad, a #steamdeck plugin, and the time I ran 3.1 miles while carrying a 5lb pumpkin over my shoulder.
Re-doing my #introduction now since I'm trying to be here a bit more ...
G'day I'm Nick, from the NE suburbs of #Melbourne , Australia.
I work as an #opensource#developer (mostly #python) doing remote work for various clients, and I'm also interested in #retrocomputing or, as I like to call it, computers back when I was a kid.
I'm into #cycling (slowly) and working up to doing some #cycletouring miles around Victoria this summer, and eventually elsewhere in the world.
I'm into #music generally and I'm (also slowly) learning to play #ukulele and learning a bit of music theory along the way.
I'm also doing some set design & construction for a #musicaltheatre group my daughters & their friends all seem to be in!
I'll probably be posting about those things more than work, tbqh. Older stuff, mostly tech-related, is on my blog at https://nick.zoic.org/
I’m a #FrontEnd dev professionally since 2006, now based in Singapore. My 1st involvement in #OpenSource was with Mozilla/Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix when I created a 3rd-party (full) theme called #Phoenity
This free and #opensource collection of #solarpunk#rpg adventures includes the three adventures released already, along with our final bonus fourth adventure. Our initial content collection is now complete!
This has been (and still is) a very special week. The past 7 days have been emotionally (and, to a lesser extent, work-wise) very challenging. And even when I'm tired, I realize that, in my opinion, I have the best job in the world. Because working with open-source tools provides everyone with the same opportunities, in the most open and free manner possible. Few fields offer the same conditions, and I feel like I belong to a great group, a group of passionate and constructive people, without any distinctions of any kind.
Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A legal milestone
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Podman Desktop v1.11 is now out! Includes Rosetta support for Apple Silicon, Improvement to @kubernetesio , increased manifest support, bug fixes, and an experimental Light mode! Details: https://podman-desktop.io/blog#opensource#podman 🦭
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@liberaforms@fosstodon.org announces collaboration with @Framasoft@framapiaf.org ! They’ve chosen #LiberaForms as the successor to #YakForms #FramaForms.
Test it on their beta platform and join them in advancing free, ethical form management!
+infos: https://blog.liberaforms.org/2024/06/24/collaboration-framasoft-and-liberaforms
#LibreSoftware #OpenSource #FramaSoft #LiberaForms
Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfilment of Governmental Tasks", establishing a mandatory requirement for #OpenSource software within public sector bodies.
If anybody wants to #contribute to a small #opensource utility using #ratatui and #iroh we've got an open issue for making a Terminal UI for a graph database explorer on the Weird project:
🌐🤝Passbolt is partnering with SUSE to enhance your open source solution for your organization and IT infrastructure. Known for its secure and reliable Linux distributions, SUSE is now collaborating with us to extend support to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP6 and Base Container Images. Learn more about how this partnership benefits you: https://hubs.li/Q02zDhRV0
The only thig that prevents me from release my dynDNS service for bootstrapping nodes is that i send a maximum response of 6437 bytes via UDP back and i think that this is a serious problem for reflection attacks.
I rate limiters but there is a way around it if you attack an entire network and not just single IPs, which means that my global limit of 3000 req/min still is enough to create 0.16 Gbit/s traffic.
Has anyone an idea how to prevent this without auth?
I'm thrilled to announce that my talk for EuroBSDcon 2024 has been accepted! I am incredibly happy and honored. It will be a fantastic experience. Thank you to the team for your trust!
based on the #raspberrypi pico. Create subtractive and FM #synth instruments with 6 voice polyphony by connecting modules (VCO,ADSR,LFO,VCA,etc.) and #analog controls. Supports #MIDI#USB and #serial with built-in keyboard, expression pedals, many effects such as reverb/delay/flanger/chorus included. Cheap, commodity hardware and easy #diy through-hole assembly.
“The real reason I have been on the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Board since 2015 (and helped create LPI in 1999) was to hear the words of people who say that #FOSS has created a good living for them.”
Read Jon maddog Hall’s reflections on what being the #LPI Board Chair meant to him, as he announces his 2024 retirement:
Happy birthday #FreeBSD! Thank you for 31 years of #opensource innovation. 😈🎈🎂
Check out @FreeBSDFoundation for updates on a week of activities to celebrate the fantastic efforts of developers, contributors, users, and community members.
ALT text detailsFederated single user microblogging software through activitypub that is also compatible with mitra
Interact with users on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, etc
Github repo here: https://github.com/dahlia/hollo
I have made a web tool that can import Mastodon lists into a different instance. Hopefully this will be added into the actual app, but it was faster to make an external tool.
Pixelix, the third party client for Pixelfed is open source now!✨
Pixelix is a feature-rich Pixelfed client for Android. DMs, Collections, custom app icons and home screen widgets to name a few. The app is developed natively using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, which ensures excellent performance.🚀
Pixelix will still be available for 2€ on Google Play Store, but now you also have the ability to compile the project yourself if you want to. We believe that it is justified that good software costs something and there has to be a way to earn some money from software that is open source.
So if you want to support us please give Pixelix a try and also review it on Google Play Store.⭐
@rhatdan is starting a new video stream talking Podman and all things container-related! Each video will be about 5 to 10 minutes long, and the first one should drop tomorrow. Here's Dan talking about the upcoming videos. #podman#opensource
The Podman Community Meeting is happening tomorrow at this time, Tues, June 4, 2024, at 11:00am EDT, UTC-5. We have a demo lined up for Podman AI Lab and more! Hope to see you there. Agenda with video conference URL: https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w?both#podman#opensource
Update. "Women's contributions [to #OpenSource software projects] tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless." https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1/
In just over 4 days from now, on Tues, May 21, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. EDT (UTC-5), we'll be in the Podman Cabal meeting. Currently only one topic about Fedora v5.0 Test Days, and room for more to be added! Agenda with video link: https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#podman#opensource
👋 My last #introduction was in 2022, so here's an update:
- Security Squad Lead at #Chainguard - Keenly interested in #InfoSec and #ReliabilityEngineering - 30 years of experience messing with the Internet & UNIX - I build bamboo bicycle frames & spend more time tinkering than riding - Spend my idle time playing #guitar and wandering on 2-wheel EVs - Live in #Carrboro NC with my wife & kids - Contributed to 150+ #OpenSource projects including 50+ I've created - #malcontent is my latest.
Satellite images of the on-going floods in #RioGrandeDoSul, Brazil. I wrote a post showing how to use #OpenData from #Landsat 8 and some #OpenSource#Python code to create RGB composites and an animation of before and during the floods:
The next Podman Community Cabal meeting is happening in two weeks, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at 11:00am EDT (UTC-5). Currently no topics, so if you want to discuss something, please add it to the agenda! https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource#podman
Je suis passionné de tout ce qui touche à l'#opensource et j'essaie d'héberger moi-même ou chez des tiers de confiance des services libres et éthiques. Le cloud c'est rien d'autre que le PC de quelqu'un d'autre, et je veux avoir confiance en cette personne.
Ah, et ferrovipathe à ses heures perdues 🚈 (#trains)
Finally doing one of these after migrating my account.
Hello #Fediverse! I’m Kemotep. I’m a #cybersecurity professional working as a security engineer in #Ohio. I am a father, husband, and rural Liberal Democrat. I enjoy hikes with my family, learning about #OpenSource technology, playing #TTRPGs and #PCGaming. Specifically looking forward to the release of #Dolmenwood and #EldenRing DLC.
Post mostly about my dog and liberal shitpoasting. My account used to be @archliberal.
The "apolitical", "we should just focus on the code!", "FOSS is not political", "inclusivity is discrimination!" people need to get kicked out of FOSS projects. Fuck off with your "apolitical" nonsense.
From @kylelwiggers: "There’s only one problem: the Llama…models aren’t really “open source”… Open source implies that devs can use the models how they choose…But…Meta has imposed certain licensing restrictions…Llama models can’t be used to train other models. And app developers with over 700M monthly users must request a special license from Meta." https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/20/this-week-in-ai-when-open-source-isnt-so-open/
Hey, I'm Stan` I am 29 (Almost 30!) and a software engineer who enjoys opensource doing 3D art with Blender and Game JAMS You can sometimes meet me at open source events like the @jdll next month where I'll be presenting 0 A.D. a project for which I was the project leader for a few years.
Did you miss the Podman Community Cabal meeting this week? No worries, the video is now up on YouTube! We talked about data production appliances and backups, encapsulation, and a bit more. #opensource#podmanhttps://youtu.be/aLKET_3loWw
Dnsmasq provides network addressing for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot.
Dnsmasq creator & maintainer Simon Kelley said: "This prize is valuable financially, but much more so as a mark of public recognition that dnsmasq is still something that's worth doing."
The next Podman Community Cabal meeting is this Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at 11:00am EDT (UTC-5). At the moment we only have a topic about backup appliances and would love to have another topic or two! Agenda with video link: https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#podman#opensource
Love free/open/libre software and its community? Come join us! We are looking for coordinators and general volunteers to help us keep and improve this great conference.
The video is up from yesterday's Podman Community meeting. We had a demo/update on new Podman Desktop features, a demo on LLM and Podman, a demo on artifact support in the `podman manifest` command, a Podman v5.01 update, and more! #podman#opensourcehttps://youtu.be/-8l3vGcT3fo
I'm an introvert, antisocial tech guy 😅 I like to use FOSS software wherever possible. My family considers me a tech nerd, I consider myself a tech noob.
Hobbies: web dev (FosseryWeb), content creation (Odysee and PeerTube), running, kayaking, listening to music (mainly electro), watching tech, gameplay and Backrooms videos.
Age: twenties
Languages: 🇭🇺 (native) / 🇬🇧 (took language exam but I feel like I still suck at it sometimes lol)
LINUX JOURNEY I'm a seasoned distrohopper, started on Linux Mint, went to Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Garuda, Zorin OS, Fedora, LMDE and finally Debian. Also had/have Nobara and PeppermintOS as secondary systems. As for DE, GNOME is my (almost) all-time favorite, tried out Xfce, KDE and Cinnamon, but always returned to GNOME because it's the most comfortable to me (might also try out COSMIC) On mobile (PinePhone) I went from Manjaro Plasma to Arch Plasma/Phosh, and now I'm on posmarketOS Phosh
MY STANCE ON PRIVACY I care about my privacy, although I don't have the highest threat model, like to keep balance between privacy and convenience (although convenience is a bit of a subjective thing, some might consider right clicking to copy username then password from KeePassXC inconvenient, I don't lol).
PROGRAMS I USE Favorite programs: LibreWolf, OBS, Krita, Kdenlive, KeePassXC, IPlan, FreeTube, NewsFlash, Haruna Other programs I use: Brave (for websites that don't work in Firefox based browser - shame on those web devs - btw I provide support for all major browser engines on FosseryWeb), Parabolic, Virt-manager, GNOME Boxes, VSCodium, Speech Note (doesn't look the best on GNOME but it's by far the best option for local TTS on Linux currently), Flatseal, Warehouse, Portmaster, Authenticator (the one from Bilal Elmoussaoui), Pomodoro, Alpaca (not a big fan of AI, but sometimes it's useful to have an Ollama frontend) On mobile: Amberol, Exercise Timer, Angelfish
I am Professor of #Geophysics at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, where I study the Earth using tiny disturbances in its gravity and magnetic fields, from global 🌎 to microscopic 🔬 scale.
ALT text detailsPhoto with a projection screen at the center (slide has a hands-up emoji and the phrase "I am a self-taugh coder") and a slightly tan man in a red shirt standing in front of the screen.
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The video from the Podman Community Cabal meeting is now up. It was a short meeting as 2 of the 3 speakers could not make it at the last moment. We talked a bit about reverse dependency tests, rootless population of IPs, and V5.0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW43y97V6kU&t=194s#opensource#podman
📣✨If you love Open Source Hardware, we want you at the Open Hardware Summit this year in Montreal on May 3+4!
Send this to someone you know who loves #OpenSource ! We want your voice at the event.
This is a great opportunity to get all of the amazing Canadian and international Makers, creators, academics, industry or startup leaders and artists together in one place to talk about making hardware Open Source!
If you work with spectra or multivariate regression and don't want to reinvent the wheel, check it out. If it doesn't do what you need it to do, let me know and we can add capabilities to make it work for you! #python#spectroscopy#lpsc2024#data#OpenSource#DataAnalysis#ML
ALT text detailsLogo for PyHAT: the Python Hyperspectral Analysis Tool
The 4th edition of #UbuCon#Asia is now looking for #sponsors who would like to closely engage with people from Ubuntu project and #community and show commitment on #Ubuntu and #opensource! The event connect around 300 people across Asia Ubuntu and opensource community.
Would like to engage with Ubuntu community this year in #Jaipur, #India? Have a look at our sponsorship program and let's discuss!
If you missed the Cabal meeting today, the video is up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1wOoZ5qPeII. We talked about podman compose, Kubernetes and Podman image/container volumes, and more! #podman#opensource
The next Podman Community Cabal meeting is happening tomorrow, Feb 20, 2024, at 11:00am EST (UTC-5). We will be talking about podman compose, image/container volumes, and Podman kube to handle VMs. Agenda with video link: https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource#podman
The recording from last week's Podman Community meeting is up. We had @jonmasters talk about how he uses Podman to run his home assistant tech, updates on the Apple Hypervisor work, and other changes for the upcoming v5.0 release! #podman#opensourcehttps://youtu.be/soxBbexH_VA
📘 Big news! My book-in-progress "PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them" is now available in @ManningPublications Early Access Program (MEAP) — I hope it will help application developers, software architects & database administrators not only avoid mistakes but also learn the right way to do things in #Postgres.
The Podman Community Meeting is happening in just under 3 hours from now at 11:00am EST (UTC-5). Demos on Podman at Home, New Build Farm multi-arch functions, Apple hypervisor updates, and Podman v5.0 changes. Agenda with video link: https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w?both#podman#opensource
The video from today's Podman Community Cabal Meeting is now up here: https://youtu.be/pOiu3qoplAA. We talked about crun, krun, podman kube apply, Podman v5.0 schedule and more! #podman#opensource
As written by a volunteer contributor of our free blog system #FlatPress:
"The idea that people from different countries can come together to do something together inspires me more than ever, especially now, in these strange times for the whole world."
And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is what #OpenSource is about ❤️
Members of the Backdrop CMS opensource project would like to invite some folks involved in other opensource CMS projects to show us what you are working on.
We'd love to get a demo of your CMS and then follow-up with a discussion about how our favorite CMS compares to yours and what we might learn from each other?
Anyone interested in this?
NOTE: We have Drupal resources already, looking for others...
This is wildly ambitious of me, but who wants to join me in creating a #FOSS alternative to discord? I believe that we can break the cycle of enshittification by being #OpenSource . This is a massive undertaking, though, and I can't do it alone.
Please boost to spread the word, and reply if you're interested in joining.
🚀 Exciting News! 🌐 I'm thrilled to announce that our open-source Data Breach Monitoring Service is now in public beta! I've dedicated myself to creating a tool that enhances digital safety and transparency.
👥 Your feedback and support are invaluable! Please read, experiment, and share with your community. Together, we can make the digital world a safer place! 💻❤️
If you missed the Podman Community Cabal Meeting yesterday, the video is up here: https://youtu.be/snmlDKDcMRg We talked about backports, confidential containers, artifacts, rootful/rootless switching in Desktop, and more! #opensource#podman
There's a Podman Community Cabal Meeting tomorrow, Tues Dec 12, 2023, at 11:00 am EST (UTC-5). We'll be talking about Confidential Containers and Backporting without a Release branch. Agenda with video link: https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource#podman
i released a demo of my open source digital painting software at itch.io - For now only works on Linux systems - This demo has the purpose of testing current features
hi everyone i'm creating an open source fast and simple digital painting software right now i have: - brush engine similar to popular manga software - antialiased bucket fill with gap closing - opengl canvas view - first bits of intuitive ui/ux
i'm preparing a demo for linux folks, next i will do layer system also similar to popular manga software
Couldn't be prouder to announce the release of the PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook! Massive thanks to my co-authors Gianni Ciolli, Boriss Mejías @tchorix, Vibhor Kumar and Simon Riggs, and Packt for a spectacular effort on a book that is bound to be a valuable resource for the #PostgreSQL community.
Gestatten, ich bin IT'ler, Asperger-Autist und Open-Source Liebhaber.
Tatsächlich beobachte ich das (öffentliche) Geschehen auf Mastodon schon seit ca. einem Jahr, allerdings weitestgehend eher "passiv" über die öffentlichen Timelines ("Entdecken") und einzelne Nutzerprofile. Heute habe ich beschlossen, mich nun selbst auch mit einem eigenen Account ins Fediverse zu begeben.
How do open source projects get things done? How do they retain contributors, attract users, and make technical decisions? All this (and more!) falls under the auspice of "governance". Shauna Gordon-McKeon explores the power and potential in being thoughtful your project's governance, and how expanding your view of what governance entails can create a virtuous cycle.
Une bonne cinquantaine de personnes venues en savoir davantage sur les biais que l’on pourrait avoir en choisissant un composant #FOSS#FLOSS#libre#opensource#ethicalsource
Et les échanges qui ont suivi étaient bien chouettes !
After primarily using my account @bergmeister for mountain as well as IT related posts, I decided to split the account, so I can "speak more freely" without cluttering the timelines of those who are only interested in one part of my posts.
This account will be used for the IT stuff, like homelab, self-hosting, open source software and privacy.
Will post in English and occasionally in Dutch and German.
6 days and 21 hours from now, the next Podman Community Cabal meeting will be happening! We have moved to Tuesdays, and we meet next Tues November 21, 2023, 11:00 am EST (UTC-5). Happy to take topics! Agenda: https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource#podman
I'm currently working on launching my own #company 🚀
It'll be all about #IT, #Consulting, Services and Design.
Early version of the #website is online and on #1 on #google results (if you ignore the "did you mean..." stuff 🤪)
Will post more content about this #journey in the next days & weeks ✌️
One of my personal goals: building up a small #community of dev enthusiasts around the company to provide a network to everyone included :) #opensource#cloud#webdev
"Empowering through open source, DIY projects, and the pursuit of the open sea."
About Me: Greetings! I'm Bryan, a Senior Software Engineer currently based in Carson City, Nevada. During my free time, you'll find me immersed in the world of #DIY projects, whether it's #crafting , #building , or #tinkering with various tools. I also enjoy the serenity of the great #outdoors often #backpacking#camping and #hiking However, it's the call of the open #sea that truly ignites my spirit. With dreams set on circumnavigating the globe, I navigate both the digital realm and the untamed waters, embracing the freedom and challenges that each journey brings.
#opensource insights and #Linux tips from a seasoned engineer #DIY inspirations and creations from my personal projects Captivating snapshots of my #sailing ventures and wilderness escapades
Visit my website for more on my work, sailing chronicles, Linux exploration, and DIY adventures!
Feel free to connect for #tech discussions, DIY ideas, outdoor adventure recommendations, or to share your passion for sailing and self-reliant exploration!
My posts are either: - cool stuff I learn - simplified concepts - tricks for 2D/3D - sometime my art/code
I try to help anyone curious about #art and/or #tech with what I learn
✨ Moar about me ✨ - I speak French and English 🇨🇦 - I work in a non-profit research center - I use #OpenSource tools most of the time - I like #python - I like #blender, #krita and #inkscape - I like tiny birds and big dogs - I like @adrian alot 🏳️🌈
RELEASED: Cacophony, a minimalist MIDI sequencer. Buy it on @itchio or compile it for free on GitHub.
- SoundFonts - Linux, MacOS, Windows - Q: Will it run on your computer? A: Yes. - Qwerty and MIDI input only. No mouse! - ASCII interface - Text-to-speech - It does what it does and it doesn't do anything else.
#Nextcloud continues to grow. We are looking for people in all areas. Do you want to join my #PreSales / #SalesEngineering team? With customers all over the world we are also hiring worldwide and aim for diverse teams on all levels. Work #remote or join one of our #offices, you decide.
Reminder to self: just because someone is better than you at expressing themselves in English, doesn’t mean they know more about your #OpenSource project than you do.
I am thrilled to announce that AssertJ has been awarded the Spotify FOSS Fund 2023! This is a tremendous honor, and we are so grateful to Spotify for their recognition and support.
Thanks also to our amazing community for making AssertJ the success it is today!
If you missed the Podman Community Cabal meeting yesterday, the video is now up on YouTube! We talked storage sharing, Building Trust in Containers, `podman machine`, BuildFarm and more! #podman#opensourcehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JndjmrZBEKc
The Podman Community Cabal meeting is in just over an hour! 11:00 am EDT (UTC-4); come join us. We'll discuss Podman/CRI-O shared storage, Building Trust in Containers, and Guest OS specification in Podman Machine. Agenda with video link https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource
The next Podman Community Cabal meeting is happening in just under 48 hours on Thu Oct 19, at 11:00am EDT (UTC-4). We'll discuss guest OS specification in the Podman machine and have room for other topics! Agenda with video link: https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource#podman
Ubuntu 23.10 is out, but downloads have been temporarily disabled, because they found malicious translations containing hate speech (it seems the language affected was Ukrainian)
If you missed the Podman Community Meeting today, you missed demos on Modules, Quadlet, and a discussion about specifying a guest OS via `podman machine init`. Video uploaded to YouTube if you want to see what you missed! https://youtu.be/kjsQVJRQlJU#opensource#podman
Podman Community Meeting is starting in 30 minutes! Come see demos on Modules, guest OS specification, and Quadlet! Video conference in the Agenda: https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w Free to attend, hope to see you there! #opensource#podman
The next Podman Community Meeting is happening in just over 5 days from now, on next Tuesday Oct 3, 2023, at 11:00am EDT(UTC-4). We'll have a demo on Quadlet, one on Modules, and room for more if you have topics. Agenda with Conference link: https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w#opensource
Podman v4.7.0 is just hitting the streets! https://blog.podman.io/2023/09/new-podman-release-v4-7-0/ New features include modules that let you add multiple command options to a conf file for reuse amongst commands, DNS, shmSize, PidsLimit, and Ulimit updates in Quadlet, bug fixes, and more! #opensource#podman
Tee-se-itse-henkinen ja nuuka insinööri Keravalta. Käytännön esimerkkinä voisi mainita, että vuoden 2005 Touranin korjaus sujuu jotenkin. Vielä pitäisi hitsaushommat opetella. Tietokoneisiin liittyen säädän kaikenlaista avoimen lähdekoodin välineillä esim. kotiautomaatiota.
Arkipäivisin töissä HUS Tietohallinnossa. Vapaa-ajasta 90% kuluu hoitaen kolmen jalkapalloilijan logistiikkaa ja seisoessa jalkapallokenttien reunalla nauttien kaikenlaisista onnistumisista. Jossain vaiheessa on tarkoitus aloittaa jalkapalloerotuomarin hommat.
If you missed the Podman Community Meeting today, the video is up on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By7wb1tOvLc. We had a good discussion on the default settings for Podman v4.7/4.9/5.0, and possible changes for each. #opensource#podman
The Podman Community Cabal Meeting is happening tomorrow in a little over 19 hours from now at 11:00 a.m. EDT (UTC-4). We'll discuss Podman v4.7 and have room for more subjects. Agenda with Video URL: https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both Hope to see you there! #opensource#podman
Given that I've just moved servers from @Tech.lgbt to @Lgbtqia.space, it's time for me to give you another Introduction!
I'm Nikki, an #ExPat Brit (who is half Canadian and now a U.S. Citizen) living just west of #PDX, Portland, OR.
As a #trans and #queer person growing up in the 1980s and 90s, Music became a much-needed escape from the real world, and I ended up attending #GSMD in London and becoming a professional #Oboist and #MusicTeacher.
In 2010 I changed career. I'm the owner and co-presenter of @show, where we try to help the world become cleaner, greener, safer, smarter and more equitable through greener transportation and clean energy. (@Aminorjourney@mastodon.transportevolved.com is my work account).
I'm a total #Nerd, and I enjoy #cycling, RetroComputing, #OpenSource and much more. I'm married to the amazing @amerikate, and I love to #Garden. I have #Chickens, #Dogs, want #Goats, and I'm sometimes found at your local #Comicon or #Furcon dressed as @QueenieDeerhart, @ChimichangaFox, and others!
ALT text detailsNikki (@Aminorjourney) with her dogs on an early winter walk. She is wearing a thick winter coat with a fuzzy hood, has red hair brushed back, and thick-rimmed glasses. She is on a long forestry trail with tall trees on either side, while a border collie and Labrador play in the distance.
💬 Announcing the launch of Ansible Community Forum, a place for Ansible users to ask questions, developers to discuss projects in the ecosystem, and the whole Ansible community to gather and connect through sharing ideas, events, and more!
The `:latest` tagged images for Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo have all been posted back to quay.io, along with the tags for the latest version for each. We'll be adding more tagged versions as we can over the next few days. #opensource
Last week, I presented the work I did with prof. Kuldeep Meel and prof. Arunabha Sen at IJCAI 2023.
We showed the benefits of reducing a problem to a computationally harder problem (yes, you read that right!), by demonstrating how it allows us to solve much larger problem instances.
It was so much fun to finally share this work with so many fantastic researchers at IJCAI! Thank you to all organisers for making this conference possible. I'm also super grateful to the reviewers who gave us great feedback!
Please find our paper, slides, poster, a short video, and our open source tool, gismo, here: www.annalatour.nl/publication/2023-08-01-Solving-the-Identifying-Code-Set-Problem-with-Grouped-Independent-Support
ALT text detailsA picture of a conference room with a decor that seems to have been selected by Louis XIV's personal interior decorator, on a day on which he wanted to leave work early to watch a duelling match. I am standing next to a big monitor, with an enormous name badge around my neck, in the middle of explaining something. The slide is the title slide of my presentation, and reads: Solving the Identifying Code Set Problem with Grouped Independent Support Anna L.D. Latour, Arunabha Sen and Kuldeep S. Meel School of Computing, National University of Singapore Computer Science and Engineering Faculty, Arizona State University IJCAI, 23 August 2023, Macau
ALT text detailsMe, a young woman with long blonde hair wearing a pink blouse, standing in front of an academic poster, smilingly posing as if I am explaining it to someone. The poster is titled "Solving the Identifying Code Set Problem with Grouped Independent Support", and has a big pink block with white letters in the middle, which reads "by reducing to a computationally harder problem, we can exponentially decrease the encoding size, and solve much larger instances."
I am a day late on this (I am posting this on a Wednesday) but I didn't want to wait until next week.
#TakeoutTuesdays is a weekly event of mine, where #data#takeout is prioritized every #Tuesday. Regular data takeout is almost just as important as backing up your computer. In fact, it is part of the #backup process.
I need contributors to help me fill in this database with newer data. If you want to do data takeouts and share the results, please reach out to me on this post. These projects are #GPL3 licensed, and #opensource
I am a software developer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. I have joined mastodon over a year ago, but haven't used it much. I mostly lurked around, but I want to be more active.
Due to scheduling issues and having only one topic, we are canceling the Thu Aug 17, 2023, Podman Community Cabal Meeting at 11:00 am EDT. We will meet next on Thu Sep 21, 2023. If you have a topic, please add it to the agenda! https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource#podman
If you missed the Podman Community Cabal meeting yesterday, the video is up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/O-6RWIcIvqk. We had a good discussion on user/group handling and Podman release updates. Hope to see you at the next one on August 17th! #opensource#podman
The Podman Cabal meeting is happening in just over 23 hours from now at 11:00am Thu Jul 20, 2023. We'll be talking passwd/group entry handling, ipfs, and more. The new video conference link is in the agenda, hope to see you there! https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource#podman
#Fediwall is a configurable social media wall for #mastodon, similar to Mastowall by @rstockm (AI) or all the Twitter walls that no longer work. It's #foss, so you can host your own, but you do not have to. Just configure it as you like and bookmark or share the URL.
I finally finished the implementation of the polygon editor tool, so I can start drawing polygon colliders for #eggcellentadventure sprites and implementing the polygon collision calculation algorithm!🥳
I guess since I moved to my own instance now, I need to do a new #introduction.
Hi, I'm js and on the Fediverse since 2018. I'm interested in #ObjectiveC, writing #assembly code (in whatever I can get my hands on, from x86_64 to PA-RISC to SPARC64 to IA64 etc.) and any kind of lowlevel hackery, #RetroComputing, #OpenSource in general and decentralization (such as @matrix or the #Fediverse). I'm also into #metal and #chiptunes.
A few projects I am involved in (non-exclusive):
• I created @objfw, a portable Objective-C framework and runtime. Go check it out if you like C and object oriented programming on basically any 32 bit or more platform! • I'm a @fedora developer. • I'm a @netbsd developer, where I mostly work on #pkgsrc. • I'm also a MorphOS developer, where the goal is to switch MorphOS's ObjC support to @objfw. • I used to be a @haiku developer. Technically still am, but am less active these days due to lack of time.
Some of the retro computers I have and tinker with are (non-exclusive list):
• #Amiga 4000, 1200 & 600 • Naturetech GENIALstation 737S (400 MHz #SPARC64 laptop!) • Sun Fire T5120 • #NeXTstation Color • HP Integrity rx1620 (1U Dual CPU Itanium server) • A Duron 750 with a {Voodoo 2 | #Voodoo 3 3500 | S3 Savage 4 | ATI Rage Pro} (I switch between those depending on what I want to do, as I like playing with and writing code for those old proprietary 3D APIs)
I also have some old game consoles and am interested in running homebrew on them (again non-exclusive):
• Super #Nintendo • #Gameboy • Nintendo #3DS • Nintendo #Wii • Nintendo Wii U (can't believe that's retro already!) • Sega #Dreamcast (with hard drive mod, so it can run NetBSD)
I will probably update this post over time. Either by editing, or by posting a new one and then pinning the new one.
I'm here for more than a year now, and I still owe you a proper #introduction.
Hi, I'm Richard! I started #programming computers when I was about 9 years old. My first computer was a ZX81 (figure out how old I am now). #OpenSource and software development has always been my passion. My favorite programming languages are #Java, #Python, and #MC68000#Assembler. 😁
I do a lot of #opensource , most notable the Kaocha test runner, but also several dozen other projects that people use in production every day. Much of this we now maintain with the Gaiwan team.
I grew up with the web and with open source, my first browser was Netscape 1.0, my first Linux was Red Hat 5. Just to say that I've been around for a bit. I do a lot of different programming but I'm a #webdev at heart. I care about an open web based on open standards.
I've done a lot of #traveling, lived in five countries, and speak five #languages. Now I'm back in my native #Belgium. Oh and I love #tea (that's an understatement). Nice to meet you!
Do you have any suggestions about Python (or coding in general), AI, Human Rights, an interesting open-source app, or any account to follow in the Fediverse? Let me know!
At yesterday's Podman Cabal Meeting, @GerrySeidman talked about Additional Layer Storage (ALS) and how it might help to make image pulls faster with smaller images. Check out the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CirBrD0X8bU (slides should be available next week) #opensource#podman
This bot is going to enter in postseason mode just now! It will toot only Sundays at 18:00 PM UTC as "I am alive" message. But it will work for 2023-2024 season!
Remember, this bot is #opensource and you can contribute to the project in 3 ways:
The Podman Community Meeting is happening in just under 24 hours at 11:00am EDT(UTC-5) on Tue June 6, 2023. Topics: ChRIS project demo, Quadlet demo, Podman v45.Demo, and Podman Desktop updates. Video Conf link on the agenda: https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w#opensource#podman
The next Podman Community Meeting is just 13 days, 21 hours, and a few minutes from now! We'll be talking about the ChRIS project's use of Podman, Podman v4.5, a Qudadlet demo, and Podman Desktop v1.0. Agenda with video link: https://hackmd.io/fc1zraYdS0-klJ2KJcfC7w#opensource#podman
That is Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at 11:00 am EDT (UTC-5). Hope to see you there!
Jestem Michał i przede wszystkim zajmuję się #Gentoo. Od jakiegoś czasu piszę na Mastodonie w obcym języku (https://fosstodon.org/@mgorny). W związku z tym, że coraz więcej z moich wpisów dotyczy polskiej rzeczywistości, zdecydowałem, że czas najwyższy sklonować się i pisać też po polsku. Ogólna idea jest taka, że na obydwu kontach będę pisał to samo, a czy wystarczy mi cierpliwości — przekonamy się.
Podstawowe tematy: codzienne rozterki twórcy #OpenSource, #kolej, życie z kotami i takie tam.
The next Podman Community Cabal Meeting is happening a week from now, on Thur, May 18, 2023, at 11:00 am EDT (UTC-5). We'll be talking containers, splitting storage layers, and more! Agenda with video link: https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg#opensource
Hello #hachyderm ! I'm a backend developer, programming in #scala (functional programming rocks) and #cpp I do #opensource work on my free time and when I feel like it, my projects of choice being #ArkScript (a language) and #Pataro (a modern C++ #roguelike game) I like playing video games (when I'm not making them), and I make #keyboards too
Je développe un framework libre & open source pour créer des sites web avec intranet pour maison de santé (#MSP), centre de santé, cabinet de groupe & #CPTS. Une sorte de CMS pour créer des sites web et des apps web. A terme les utilisateurs pourront entrer et modifier leurs données mais la conception, l'installation et le paramétrage sont réservés aux pros. Git: https://github.com/medica-im/healthcenter Prototype en production: https://msp-vedene.fr
The Podman Community Cabal meeting is happening in just over 21 hours, at 11:00am EDT (UTC-4), Thu Apr 20, 2023. We'll be talking Podman 5 features, containersh, and more! Hope to see you there, Agenda with video link: https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both#opensource#podman
Happy to announce that Podman v4.5.0 has just released: https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.5.0 It features a number changes to the kube and machine commands, and more. This is in Fedora testing now and headed to your favorite distros shortly. The full release announcement soon! #opensource
Did you miss the Podman Community Meeting yesterday? If you did, the recording is up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B1OynYGBHz8. We talked about Netavark, Podman Machine OS demo, the new Podman Database, and more! #opensource#podman
I've long been critical of social media, corporate heavy handed oversight and centralized power and influence. With FB and Instagram randomly blocking and unblocking my access due to their ineptitude (as I don't post anything there so shouldn't get blocked), I decided I can't rely on their convenient services even for keeping in touch. Back to email (+PGP), phone calls, open web and federated services (ie. all of the above). #hello#federated#freedom#opensource
"We…publicly call on John Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations…by providing complete source code…that the GPL & other copyleft licenses require, to the farmers & others who are entitled to it."
« Comment aborder et contribuer sereinement à un projet #OpenSource ? »
C’était la question à laquelle je proposais de répondre à l’université Toulouse 3 devant des étudiants de master et de doctorat en informatique, après avoir discuté avec des enseignants lors du @capitoledulibre
DCO, CLA, GPG, dépôts, licences… Le support est en ligne en CC-BY-SA
Hallo Welt! Ich bin #neuhier nach Instanz-Wechsel.
Als Lehrstuhlassistent am Institut für Verkehrswesen, Eisenbahnbau und -betrieb (#TUBraunschweig) arbeite ich leidenschaftlich an qualifizierter Lehre und versuche #OpenSource in der Lehre zu verankern.
Nebenbei als Promotionsstudent an der ökonomischen Interpretation von Eisenbahnbetriebssimulationen, daher interessiert am Austausch zu ökonomischen Kosten von Verspätungen in Eisenbahnnetzwerken.
De Piratenpartij Delft is een lokale politieke partij voor en door inwoners van Delft. Wij tooten in NL en EN. Maandelijks is er een kroegmeeting in het centrum van Delft. Wij adviseren de gemeente en de gemeenteraad van Delft, met name op digitaal gebied. We zetten ons in voor privacy, vrije opensource software, transparantie en vrije informatie. #introductions#delft#soevereiniteit#privacy#opensource
Some years ago I made this android live wallpaper, I'm still using it today. It's free, open source and quite lightweight (should not drain your battery). Pick it up if you want ;)
Payment permission is just a donation library I included, nothing else.
Hi, we are the official Mastodon account for the #OpenStack project! 👋 OpenStack is a set of #OpenSource software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.
Co-evolving here means that there're multiple CAs sharing the same environment, each with a different neighborhood (shape & size), different rules and its own moving fuzzy mask/transition zone. Neighborhoods can also have a temporal dimension and as such are technically 1.5D or 2D and able to look up cell states from the (near) past. Where CAs overlap spatially, hybrid forms are emerging and these interactions can lead to entirely new outcomes...
ALT text detailsMultiple 1D cellular automata interacting with each other. Some of the automata (LHS) produce architectural structures, whereas the ones on the right produce more "organic", branching forms.... There's a smooth transition & mix of patterns in the interaction zone...
ALT text detailsMultiple 1D cellular automata interacting with each other. Again various different rules, transition zones and emerging structures. The interactions here create quite noisy, only short-lived micro patterns...
ALT text detailsSingle 1D cellular automata, creating a city-like landscape with an almost 3D shading (due to the chosen LUT to visualize cell states)
ALT text detailsAnother highly architectural & 3D looking 1D cellular automata
We are a small company located in the OR, USA. We design, manufacture and sell electronics for the #opensource#embedded, #fpga and #asic communities. Our goal is to make hardware for OS projects easier to get and use the proceeds to forward those projects.
Finally decided to make an account here to help support the fediverse. I'm Amini Allight, developer of LambdaMod, a free and open source multiplayer sandbox game with VR support 😁 I also generally do things around VR and game development, like creating tutorials and tools
ALT text detailsA screenshot of our YouTube channel and the videos on it. Videos include:
Using RStan with Fayette Klaassen
Level Up Your Plots with Cara Thompson
Intro to Git and GitHub with R and RStudio
Creating Interactive Tutorials with {learnr} and {gradethis}
Creating Features for Machine Learning from Text - Julia Silge, March 2022
R You My Valentine? Tips and Tricks that make us love R!
R User Group Organizer Interest Meeting - January 21 2022
Introduction to ggplot2
Cooking Your Data with Recipes in R with Max Kuhn
Introduction to tidyverse with dplyr and USAFacts COVID-19 Data
Plumber: Asynchronous Route Execution with Barret Schloerke
R User Group - Lecture on Plumber, Creating APIs in R with Barret Schloerke
BeginneRs Workshop - July 14 2021
First R User Group Meeting - June 10th 2021
I'm Donna. I'm an advocate for everythingopen. #OpenSource, #OpenPractice, open minds, open roads, open government, open transformation, open innovation, and #OpenLeadership.
But open can be scary, and inappropriate sometimes, for some people, so I also respect secrets, and privacy, and safe spaces.
I like trees, and rocks, and clouds, and cats, and @cafuego
Workwise, I'm a Senior Engagement Lead with Red Hat's Open Innovation Labs, keep an eye on the Drupalverse with Tag1 Consulting, and maintain a minimum viable business @cc.com.au
In the beforetimes, I organised events, meetups, and unconferences. Events for people. People matter.
I've added a new algorithm to my #opensource#rustlang wave function collapse project that showcases the same functionality found in https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse. Now you can generate an image (or anything) from an existing example using the EntropicCollapsableWaveFunction struct.
It features the ability to setup a graph of nodes, specify which node states are permitted given the current state of a node, and two different collapse algorithms depending upon your need.
This image shows how it can be used to generate landscape from the included #rust example. There are three other examples showing how it would be used in common scenarios. Any and all feedback is welcome.
Yellow #solarpunk So maybe it's time to present myself. I'm a #developer#sysadmin#devops#revolutionary#nomad#zapatista fighting on everyday life for a world with less, I mean less work, less troubles, less cops, less bosses, less priests, less consuming, less drama, less empty buildings, less rich people.
yeah, you the rich are the cancer of this world, fck you RICH people, you consume way too much.
and I want more, of course I want more... I want more music, more culture, more friends, more beer, more weed, more life, more water, more plants, more trees, more animals, etc...
#Introduction ThinkR is a French company that loves #RStats. We give certified R courses, develop prod-ready packages following #devops principles, and advise our clients on their #DataScience production workflows. We are particularly involved in #OpenSource community through blog posts (https://rtask.thinkr.fr), R user groups, conferences... Also, we like to share our internal development tools as Open-source R packages like {golem}, {fusen}, {attachment}, {dockerfiler}, {gitlabr}, ...
Hello! I am part of the Twitter migration & just changed servers, am now on hachyderm.io. About me:
* Work on open source PostgreSQL community initiatives at Microsoft * Live in California in USA, a transplant from NH * Host of Talking Postgres #podcast * Co-creator of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres (formerly Citus Con) * Love sailing in Greek islands * Alum of Sun, Amazon/A9, Citus Data, and Brown CS * Love chocolate lab
It's a pleasure to be here - do consider this my #introduction.
I am an #opensource maintainer and library author building #nuxt (https://nuxt.com), a framework for building full-stack/static/hybrid web apps built on #vue and #nitro.
So I understand here that it's typical for someone to do an #introduction.
I'm Lee and I'm a lifelong computer enthusiast and professional. Recently, I have been the open source community manager for a few influential projects, with a focus on moderation and mitigating or preventing abuse. Currently in retirement focusing on my health.
Follow me for sporadic and random thoughts about a wide variety of things.
Vous pouvez retrouver mon support de présentation en CC-BY-SA sur SpeakerDeck, n’hésitez pas à fouiller dedans et à creuser dans les sources ! J’ai vraiment apprécié parler #opensource#libre et #éthique au @capitoledulibre ! Et on peut poursuivre les échanges sur le stand @aprilorg #cdl2022#capitoledulibre
Aspiring Gaeilgeoir, recreational cyclist, hiker, dog wrangler. I like traffic lights.
I've worked as a developer, architect, consultant, chief technologist and various types of management, almost always focused on data systems. Post sabbatical, I am contemplating looking for work in security/privacy/digital rights.
Intro time, you know to get my pound sign tags out there! Everything is in my bio already, nothing much has changed there. But here goes some of my interests:
Started on my dad's Amstrad CPC464. Got my first domain name in 1999. Ran & modded forums since Perl flat-file Ikonboard and "always free like Apache & MySQL" IPB. Ran Laconica.
I contribute to #OpenSource software, maintained @cawbird, and built game modding tools, a CMS & pointless little tools.
First, a little trivia: "Fatiando a Terra" is Portuguese for "Slicing the Earth", a reference to the project's Brazilian 🇧🇷 roots and ambitious goals to model the entire planet.
for tool in fatiando: help(tool)
ALT text detailsScreenshot of the Fatiando logo (the Earth with a slice cut off showing the inner layers).
Text says:
An open toolbox for the Geosciences. Fatiando provides Python libraries for data processing, modeling, and inversion across the Geosciences. It is built by a community of geoscientists and software developers with a passion for well-designed tools and helping our peers. All of our code is free and open-source, distributed under the permissive BSD 3-clause license.
Below it, there are the logos of our main Python tools: Verde, Pooch, Harmonica, Boule, and Ensaio.
#introduction Hi, I am the kind of person who cannot really complete the sentence "Hi, I am..." But, I have: background in #mathematics , interest in #opensource , some experience working in quantitative finance (as a quant) and at a large software corporation as a "software engineer". My main hobby is #ballroom#dance , but I also like #biking and #volleyball .
Hi all, I've read its good etiquette to make an about me post. I've been a tinkerer of things for a long while, been a cybersercurity enthusiast since my teens where I was having fun on lots of BBS' and Datapac.
I'm a big believer in #opensource, FOSS and fostering communities. I've been messing with Linux since the 90s. Huge fan of the movie Hackers.
Today I hack #gibsons for a living! I focus a lot of my work on making tools and giving talks on hacking and pentesting IBM z/OS mainframes. I've published updates for metasploit and #Nmap adding support for z/OS. I also have many more tools on my github.
In my spare time I also maintain my own mainframe distro MVS/CE which I use to teach workshops about mainframe buffer overflows and hacking CICS applications.
I'm also a huge fan of #retrogaming and retrocomputing especially retro hacks.
We will be posting tips, news about the project, and cool plots. Stay tuned!
ALT text detailsThree dimensional schematic plot of the Earth and two orbits around it, one of them highly eccentric and inclined
ALT text detailsTwo dimensional schematic plot of the inner Solar System plus the trajectory of the Florence asteroid
ALT text detailsThree dimensional schematic plot of the Earth with several close debris fragments orbiting around it, plus the orbit of the International Space Station crossing the debris cloud
ALT text detailsPorkchop plot (contour plot) of an Earth - Mars launch window for the year 2005, showing energy, travel time, departure velocity, and more
I lost #introduction when changing servers. Hi again, I am a one man company that specializes in computer animation, but mostly uses social networks to tootpost, retoot and consume some armchair extremism.
Introduction time. Ronin is a Free and Open Source Ruby Toolkit for Security Research and Development. Ronin contains many different CLI commands and Ruby libraries for a variety of security tasks, such as encoding/decoding data, filter IPs/hosts/URLs, querying ASNs, querying DNS, HTTP, scanning for web vulnerabilities, spidering websites, install 3rd party repositories of exploits and/or payloads, run exploits, write new exploits, managing local databases, fuzzing data, and much more.
Ronin is primarily written in Ruby, but unlike other Ruby security tools/frameworks you may have seen, ronin-rb has extremely high standards for code quality; aiming for >90% test coverage to ensure bug-free code and >80% API documentation coverage. The project was initially started back in 2007 and migrated to GitHub in 2010, before all other security projects. Once again ronin-rb is leading the way by taking a chance on a new platform, Mastodon.
If any of this interests you, checkout our Website, GitHub organization, or join our Discord server:
new here and I realized that an #introduction is what you should do here
I'm Bernhard, an IT nerd and #opensource enthusiast since decades (I feel really old now but using the plural here is actually correct) living in #vienna. For living I'm stuck in a management position but luckily still confronted with lots of interesting technology in the area of #automotive#safety-critical #embedded#real-time systems.
What else: I enjoy #running, #chess and the daily struggle to manage life with 3 kids
Originally an applied maths engineer, I created and run @oslandia since 2009, focusing on #Opensource 🌍 Geographical Information Systems (namely #QGIS, #PostGIS ) .
#Introduction Sean here. I've long loved the open decentralized web, starting back when I was at #Mozilla, and played a lot with Tent.io. Happy to see this seems to be taking off!
I'm a programmer, using the #Rust language to maintain #opensource hyper.rs, the HTTP library. 🦀
So hey! I started my computer journey with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1984, studied Computing Science and worked for a bunch of companies, mainly in #software#architecture. I discovered #opensource 25 years ago and never stopped using it & engaging with the community. I'm now lucky enough to work in a #PostgreSQL#Database related role, occasionally contribute to #Postgres & frequently speak about it at conferences. I also sing and play the guitar & keyboards (badly). #introduction
I just moved to this instance from my previous one so might as well do another #introduction. My name's Pat and I'm a #software engineer. I do a little #opensource work here and there. I'm also a huge fan of #neovim and all the cool stuff happening in that ecosystem.
As for hobbies, I'm doing a little #gardening right now. Mostly growing #peppers. If you follow me you'll probably see the occasional pepper plant as well. 🌱🌶️
Finally got around to moving to this lovely instance from "the big one"...
I spend a lot of my time (work and free time) doing computer adjacent things: especially embedded systems programming, #electronics, and #opensource. Long-time #emacs tragic. I plan to mostly but not exclusively post technical things.
Live on Djaara Country (near Castlemaine in Central Victoria).
Currently somewhat obsessed with Electric Vehicles and EV conversions.
As well as English (well, "Australian"), I speak rusty Bahasa Indonesia and read Chinese quite poorly.
Job: ex-#akka team at #lightbend, now self-employed and available for contracts on FLOSS things next to my part-time engagement as #Security Response Program Manager for #Apache .
ALT text detailsBlack-and-white image of me jumping in the air, arms stretched and looking slightly terrified because I planned the jump better than the landing.
ALT text detailsmeme with a man alone in a corner at a party, thinking for himself : "they don't know anyone can edit PDF freely... With LibreOffice draw"
ALT text detailsA small fishing boat sails into a cloudy sunrise through The Narrows, St. John's (Canada). The hills are dusted with snow, and rays of sun shine through the dark clouds.
I guess my #introduction post has vanished in the mists of time. I am a professional Python developer, working almost exclusively on #opensource and #freesoftware of the #privacy genre. I sometimes do #tor volunteer work. Outside of that I #run, #cycle, and #ski and currently trying to become a #unicyclist
Qu'est-ce qu'un logiciel libre ? Comment s'inscrire sur la forge ADULLACT ? Bien démarrer avec Démarches Simplifiées... Nous le savons, le Libre suscite d'indénombrables questions. C'est pourquoi l'ADULLACT a mis en place en 2005 une FAQ, dans le but d'apporter des réponses à vos questions quant aux #LogicielsLibres et à nos services.
Generally I recommend this video[13 min] to new GNU/Linux users.
It's because GNU/Linux is not just about better quality, powerful softwares. There are certain civility one should learn when joining our community... And this video is the beginning.
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