foss

Every now and then when I come back to use my daily driver running #Debian #Linux, I got surprised why #apt still does not provided short-formed commands like #pkg in #FreeBSD and #pkgin in #NetBSD do such as:

# FreeBSD
pkg ins vim # same as pkg install vim
pkg sea vim # same as pkg search vim

# NetBSD
pkgin in vim # same as pkgin install vim
pkgin se vim # same as pkgin search vim

# while in Debian
apt search vim # no apt se/sea
apt install vim # no apt in/ins

#Unix #BSD #FOSS

My #gpn24 talk is live: User-centric #productmanagement in #OpenSource. Enjoy!

I prepared the talk with PM beginners, solo #foss devs, small FOSS teams in mind. Based on examples from @openproject.

I was impressed to see so many people in the audience & did not expect at all that we will have a discussion with the audience for almost an hour after the talk. Thanks for all the questions!

In case you would like to have a chat at #gpn24, feel free to ping me
#agile #jira

https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn24-435-user-centric-product-management-in-open-source

Toyed a bit with #gemini at #SDF. Still seemed quite fascinating. I did get confused about what permissions to give to files and folders in order for them to work though. Will probably try migrating some code snippets I find myself coping all around over and over again and see how it goes.

#FOSS #SmallNet #SmolNet

Something going on with the #Linux #kernel archive: kernel.org ? All links to tarballs except the 7.2 rc leads to 404. Read it somewhere else but it seems to be happening for many.

#FOSS #News #unix #KernelOrg

📡 Battlemesh v18 is happening!

Join us from 7–13 September 2026 in Gornji Karin, Croatia, for a week of talks, workshops, hacking, testing, and collaboration around community networks, mesh networking, OpenWrt, and open communication infrastructure.

Participation is free and open to everyone.

Read the announcement and find all details here:
https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV18/Announcement

Please share and help us spread the word!

#Battlemesh #CommunityNetworks #OpenWrt #MeshNetworking #FOSS

This looks like new fun. No mention of #BSD systems though.

#YSERVER: Modern #X11 Server Written In #Rust With The Help Of Claude Code - #Phoronix

https://share.google/d7VGQnfQozqS3tX45

#Xorg #Unix #FOSS

mlisp alpha is out: packages for Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.

A mailing list manager where the Maildir is the database. No separate
state to drift out of sync, the archive is the audit trail. CAN-SPAM,
GDPR, and CASL compliance are test-covered code paths, not a checklist
bolted on after the fact.

The Mailman/smartlist/Mailchimp replacement that doesn't put your list
in someone else's TOS.

#foss #selfhosted #infrastructure #privacy
git.sr.ht/~denzuko/mlisp

Just shipped my first #FOSS project under the EUPL 1.2, the european public license.

https://github.com/outfox/paletti

https://github.com/outfox/paletti?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme

CODE 26.04 is out.

First time AI-assisted workflows have landed in CODE, and they're optional, which is how it should be.

Also in this release:
☑️ Smarter document review in Writer
☑️ Per-user sheet views in Calc
☑️ Markdown support
☑️ Interactive presenting in Impress
☑️ Improved accessibility

Free to download and self-host.

Read the full breakdown: https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/code-26-04-release?mtm_campaign=release&mtm_source=mastodon&mtm_medium=social&mtm_content=code2604

#Collabora #OpenSource #FOSS

Change gPodder's Default Data and Download Directory

Learn how to change gPodder’s default data and download directory using environment variables on GNU/Linux or Unix with Xorg/Wayland and Windows.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/gpodder-change-data-download-directory/

#blog #OpenSource #FOSS #linux #unix #tech

🎉 Another milestone reached: my first contribution to @Mastodon has been merged into main!

I noticed the Service Worker was broken on 4.6.0-rc.1 and recent nightlies - its code chunks were requested from the site root and returned 404, so the worker never installed. That means no push notifications and no offline cache.
On my own instance I had been keeping it alive with some hacky Dockerfile symlinks. 😅

Now there's a proper fix: a small Vite plugin that rewrites the chunk paths at build time.

Admins on 4.6-rc.1 / nightly: the fix is on its way - your Service Worker will come back to life in the next build.

Issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/39431
PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39433

Thanks everyone!

#Mastodon #FOSS #OpenSource #WebDev #Fediverse #Blog

Awesome Digital Escape Tools is a curated collection of privacy-friendly, open-source, self-hosted, and secure software.

It features 220+ tools across 32 categories, with every entry linking to detailed information including features, screenshots, and more.

Contributions and suggestions are always welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/abdomk1998/awesome-digital-escape-tools

#OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHosted #FOSS #GitHub #Linux #DeGoogle

i am still searching for the right #messenger for my communities! It has to be #SelfHostable and #foss

Use Case "City"
– big groups (100 to open end) with persons i don't know. In the moment this function is served by #telegram

Use Case "Garden"
– personal contact with persons i know. Small groups like friends and family. In the moment this function is served by #signal

it is #matrix? DeltaChat? #XMPP? something else?

#DIDay #DUTgemacht #did_dut #kollaps #mutualAid #floss

#presentation #introduction
Dans l'informatique depuis 30 ans, ayant vu se créer les différents réseaux sociaux, une récente prise de conscience pour les logiciels libres #foss m'a poussé à venir ici.
Pareil pour d'autres applications de communication.
Passionné de nouvelles technologies, j'ai créé mon entreprise en 2010.
Du côté #alsace du pays, j'aime travailler avec nos voisins de l' #Allemagne et de la #Suisse.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ppcland/116882926455601689

This is the kind of dumb assessment bred by the #BuyEuropean narrative:

The #DigitalMarketsAct led to the #Mozilla #Firefox browser to gain 6 million EU users and we whine about it not being "European."

And no need to reply how terrible Mozilla's decision often are, I'm aware. But they currently maintain the only reasonably successful alternative engine to #BigTech and it's #FOSS. Of course this should be celebrated.

I had to replace #FreeBSD with #Linux on my old laptop at home serving as a streaming server for movies mainly. The only reason is low internet speed. The laptop came with an Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 Plus Bluetooth wireless card, both the iwn and iwlwifi successfully bring it up and connect. However, neither driver worked well enough to achieve as fast as 1M/s speen when downloading large files. After installing #Debian downloading speed easily goes up to as 2M/s when downlading the same large files.

#Unix #BSD #RunBSD #FOSS

House Music streaming from London 24/7

No ads, no talks, just pure vibes.

https://stream.ldnhouseradio.net/public/live

#housemusic #EDM #london #internetradio #radio #streaming #azuracast #FOSS #selfhosting #homelab @homelab

Re: https://social.freebitcoin.gay/users/drew/statuses/01KY7HAXB9R8BZ60CXWB3P2B7Y

I think the most important question is: why does anyone comply with what one incurious, self-centered, and self-important man, Linus Torvalds, says?

Why is that most important? Because Linux does not belong to Linus Torvalds. It belongs to the world. Torvalds only gets to dictate if the people who are best-positioned to take that power from him fail to do so. From where I sit (as an outsider), he should have been removed from the project, or at least have his dictatorial power removed, long ago, and the primary problem is that there is no structure or will to actually do that.

Under these conditions Linux is a hierarchical, and therefore right-wing, project. The project allows a single man to dictate the future evolution of a global good. Let's drop the illusion that it is "free" or "open" till that changes.


#dev #tech #FOSS #FLOSS #LOSS #linux #kernel #AI #LLM

Looks like #FreeBSD ports freeze is over Action Required: Recent ports history has been rewritten . Huge thanks to the core team and all developers and coordinator!

#RunBSD #Unix #FOSS #BSD #News

Our cozy fantasy point and click game, Aster Pebble and the Case of Bad Bureaucracy, is out now!

The game is on a 15% off launch sale for the next 7 days and it's available on both Steam and itch.io.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4233520/Aster_Pebble_and_the_Case_of_Bad_Bureaucracy/
itch.io: https://wandering-door-games.itch.io/aster-pebble-and-the-case-of-bad-bureaucracy

#GameDev #IndieGame #GodotEngine #Godot #PixelArt #PointAndClick #OpenSource #FOSS #CozyGame

Blender is a free open source animation suite for making 3D and 2D films, videos and effects. You can follow their video account at:

➡️ @blender

(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)

You can also follow their non-video account at @Blender@mastodon.social

#FeaturedPeerTube #Blender #Blender3D #FOSS #Animation #PeerTube

Sto cercando una soluzione per segnare note/appunti/idee, che sia preferibilmente sincronizzabile e #FOSS. Tra i papabili candidati, ho trovato: #Joplin, #Notesnook e #Logseq.

La scelta principale ricadrebbe su Joplin Server, in #selfhosting, per via della sua natura "cloud". Pareri in merito? Dovrei considerare altro? Avete suggerimenti?

Eviterei soluzioni tutto in uno come #Nextcloud, che installerei comunque ma a parte, per compartimentare meglio e avere un servizio dedicato ad ogni scopo.

Mastodon CLI app

md — a fully terminal Mastodon client, written in Go. 🐘

• Live-streaming timelines.
• Act on any post by number.
• Notifications view + browser OAuth.

Install:
`brew install prvrtl/tap/md`

Boosts appreciated

#Mastodon #Fediverse #FOSS #CLI #TUI #Golang

My first Outline contribution shipped yesterday in v1.9.0: CloudFront support for signed attachment URLs (PR #12656).

I wrote it months ago to solve my own problem, the PR got merged, and then life happened and I stopped checking. Yesterday I opened the release notes and there it was, my handle under "New Contributors".

Small patch. Still counts. That's kind of the whole point of open source.

https://github.com/outline/outline/releases/tag/v1.9.0

#OpenSource #Outline #AWS #CloudFront #SelfHosting #Fediverse #FOSS

At the core of #AndroidDeveloperVerification are a couple potentially useful ideas. #Google has entirely wrapped them in a pile of anti-competitive garbage designed to defend their massive #monopoly profit margins, but nonetheless, those specific technical ideas might still be useful. #iOS's "notarization" is basically the same. That leads me to ask the key question:

What would a #FOSS-respecting system of #verification look like? What #identity info is useful for trusting the #developer?