After many years of development, I'm pleased to announce the production ready release of my budget application. It now comes with several QoL features. Check it out at: http://www.BudgetNav.com . I'm already working on the 1.1 release for next year. Please share and let me know your thoughts on it. 
#budget #budgeting #floss #Finance
Got a radical idea for digital payments that puts people over profit?
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Celebrating 15 Years of F‑Droid!
September 29th marks the anniversary of the open‑source app repository we all love.
Why it matters: F‑Droid’s mission aligns well with CoMaps—both champion Free/Libre Open‑Source Software (FLOSS) and community‑driven innovation.
https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/04/twif.html
Post from 2010: https://f-droid.org/en//2010/09/29/f-droid-is-here.html
Let’s keep building a freer tech ecosystem together!
Je cherche à quitter #Spotify pour une alternative plus éthique, économique et de qualité. J’hésite entre Qobuz, Tidal, ou des solutions libres comme Funkwhale. Des retours/avis ?
#Musique #Streaming #Alternative #FLOSS #ethique #Qobuz #Tidal #Funkwhale #Fediverse #logiciellibre #opensource
We took for granted that at least our tech bubble would understand what the Google Decree means for Android, #FLOSS and freedom. Unfortunately we never saw the uproar we were expecting and people just shrugged it off taking for granted that "nothing changes".
@marcprux great #FDroid post brought the issue into the light, waking up developers, users, media and (we hope) concerned authorities to the immense danger the newly proposed gatekeeping controls Google wants to add.
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Imagine the FSF was developing a hypothetical software license under the branding of GPLv4 that dealt with the rise of LLMs. Which of the following copyleft features would appeal? #floss #linux #fsf #FreeSoftware #stochasticParrots #llm #eliza #ai #generativeAI #Programming #copyleft
Oh good god the AI trap on the inkscape website has twelve million hits. That's the hidden url that bots are told not to index, but ai bots LOVE to hit that thing.
But attacks continue to increase.
I'm going to have to decide if I need to block t-mobile and other mobile carriers because of all the malware on android phones being used as ai bot sources.
I just found a 4 minute video by Elena Rossini, @elena It's a really well-done intro video about the #fediverse.
https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
It describes what the fediverse is, where it came from and why you are just now hearing about it.
Just one Week left to apply for a talk at esLibre by Melisa and GALPon on 17-18 April 2026, a #hybrid event happening in Centro Sociocultural Mingos de Pita in #Melide, #Spain and #online on the Internet
Find out more at:
https://foss.events/2026/04-17-eslibre.html
Follow the official account: @eslibre
Connect via official hashtag(s): #esLibre2026 #esLibre
Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.
I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, and @hollo, a fediverse microblog for single users.
I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文/#漢文)!
Hi folks! I could really use some financial support right now. If you want to schedule a 1:1 or group session on creative coding with Python, drop me a DM.
https://abav.lugaralgum.com/links
#help #FLOSS #CreativeCoding #Python #OpenEducationalResources
How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.
Sell me on your non Gnome / non KDE / non XFCE desktop environment or window manager of choice. Im in the mood to try something new. Im not a tiling window guy. Extra credit if it's in #FreeBSD's ports. #linux #floss #DesktopEnvironment #WindowManager #BSD
thinking about foss stuff, and I know I've groused about licensing stuff before, and how I feel like my only way out is to just Parity7 everything and fall into obscurity but...
...I think we need a different movement around open source, with new terminology, that clarifies the intent and opens doors to more pro-social behavior and capabilities (up to and including the potential for "ethical licensing").
I've been spitballing the terms Common Software and Community Software. The core idea is that things that count as Community/Common Software can't enter the realm of the proprietary (so, strong copyleft a-la AGPL and Parity, virality not necessary). What's the difference from "Free Software"? We get rid of "freedom zero", aka "the freedom to run software for any purpose". Common Software licenses may have Non-Commercial clauses, Anti-Particular-Industry clauses (such as anti-MIC stuff), etc.
I think "freedom zero" was a grave mistake. I get where it came from--a desire to remove discrimination--but what it resulted in was a hijacking of Free Software by the corporate "Open Source" wing to exploit an otherwise healthy community of people openly sharing their creations... for an enormous profit that we can't even quantify right now.
We need a strong return to copyleft, and we need to gather together and grow its existing ecosystem, away from the MIT/BSD poison that our world has turned towards.
Your thoughts are welcome on this. I want to have a conversation about this stuff and maybe eventually record all this in a longer-form blog post. If you know folks who have had similar thoughts please link them so we can chat, too.
UPDATE: I've sketched out an initial conclusion based on today's discussion over at https://toot.cat/@zkat/115852520380684438
#inkscape and #blender at 5:14AM
Two more days till the deadline.
All work no play...
Third edition of our film festival done exclusively using free software.
"Construímos nossa economia global com base na premissa de que o software possui um certo padrão de qualidade — padrão esse que, como se descobriu, dependia apenas da boa vontade dos primeiros programadores entusiastas.
Agora que o mercado se consolidou e eliminou o poder de negociação antes desfrutado pelos engenheiros de software, o mundo avança descontroladamente rumo a uma realidade dura: softwares repletos de falhas e que atuam contra os próprios usuários, entrando em conflito direto com o cotidiano.
O software livre permanece nossa estrela-guia. Nunca foi tão importante."
#SoftwareLivre #OpenSource #EngenhariaDeSoftware #BigTech #FLOSS #Tecnologia #Decentralização #ética #codigoAberto
@tecnologia@lemmy.pt @tecnologia@lemmy.eco.br
@andrewrk https://mastodon.social/@andrewrk/115827673852139724
Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.
I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, and @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users.
I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!
As you're probably aware, the #English adjective "free" applied to software can be a bit ambiguous. It could either mean software respecting your freedoms ("#FreeSoftware"), or one that is available free of charge ("#freeware"). (Don't get me started on the assholes advertising demo or trial versions as "free software".) So, to disambiguate we sometimes use the term "libre", possibly as #FLOSS (free/libre open-source software).
Fortunately, we don't have this problem in #Polish. The "free of charge" meaning is translated into "darmowe" or "bezpłatne", while the other meaning goes as "wolne".
Well, except that "wolne" can also mean "slow". Which is fine, because I'm so tired of how fast things are moving. Let's make more "slow software".
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"My Year of Fediverse explorations"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/
with shout-outs to @pixelfed @dansup @pfefferle @gotosocial @yunohost @phanpy
#tech #Fediverse #BigTech #socialmedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Wordpress
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/supporting-the-fediverse-one-small-act-at-a-time/
with shout-outs to: @elduvelle @nacly @nclm @thek3nger @docpop @angie_marie2 @frank @dansup
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog
Just to share with the #fediverse that brings us here that I'm now coming back to High-School (as a Teacher ;-) in the mornings
( hackengineer in the afternoon)
Thumbs up to
@martin and the #Moodle LMS team.
Schools look more human... when instead of BigTech 'Classrooms' we can use #FLOSS made with love , inviting the students to jump in !
Here is the #BlueHats 🧢 newsletter #2, with news about #FreeSoftware #FLOSS in public organizations around the world.
👉 https://bluehats.world/events/newsletter-2
📩 https://bluehats.world/newsletter/ to subscribe and receive the next one in three months.
TIL: The European Union Public License.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence
Looks pretty decent actually!
• 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
#EUPL #EuropeanUnion #software #license #FLOSS #OpenSource #licensing
What are you using to edit #markdown locally? I write educational stuff with lots of images, I would like to see them in a preview...
I'm on Linux, and I'd like some #FLOSS tool #fedirecommend
A new #DestinationLinux has hit the road!
😂❤️🐧🐧🐧
https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-420/
Anduin OS, a Windows 11 Lookalike,
Open Source Lab Reaches Funding Goal 🎉–What’s Next,
Redis Flips Back to Open Source
#Linux #podcast #FLOSS
Thank you @SandflySecurity!
http://destinationlinux.net/sandfly
🙀🚂🐧
