Cash is private. Your digital payments aren't...yet.
Christian Grothoff joined Nym's Alexis Roussel to talk about fixing that.
💸 What GNU Taler is & why it matters
🔏 Payment privacy + network privacy
🌍 Building privacy infrastructure in Europe
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gVYPqi1lqI
#GNUTaler #Privacy #FreeSoftware #Nym #FOSS
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How many people know that #WordPress was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?
Or that he's from the north of England? A self-taught coder from #Stockport, just south of #Manchester? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?
After @bevangelist told me about @mikelittle I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he's Wozniak to Mullenweg's Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that's been central to WP's bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he's one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn't share in WP's financial success, but that he's barely known.
But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet #MikeLittle, perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in #foss… https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/
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The e Foundation makes privacy-friendly de-Googled versions of the Android operating system, and sells de-Googled Android phones under their Murena brand. You can follow their official video account at:
➡️ @efoundation
You can browse all their previously uploaded videos at https://peer.tube/a/efoundation/videos
You can also follow their general non-video accounts at @e_mydata and @murena
#FeaturedPeerTube #DeGoogling #Android #FOSS #PeerTube #PeerTubers
I'm finally moving over to Radicle (https://radicle.xyz) instead of switching to another centralized code forge (like GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, etc.). I definitely love the idea behind a #P2P code forge and I'm hopeful for Radicle's future, but I do have some reservations starting off:
1) Despite talking a lot about freedom and privacy in the tutorial, the group building Radicle (https://radworks.org/) is planning to sell hosting and make a profit via an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency (https://www.tally.xyz/gov/radworks) as well as NFTs and smart contracts. Some big Libertarian red flags there.
2) At some point there was a Swiss nonprofit "Radicle Foundation", but this now seems to be a for-profit venture (see https://radicle.xyz/history). I wish it could just be a nonprofit.
3) In the user guide chapter on private repos (https://radicle.xyz/guides/user), it says that I need to use a public DNS address trusted seed node to share the repo. I understand there's no DHT here, but I hope it's not too much of a pain to run this over my local network instead of the internet. (And yeah, I know I can use git locally, I just want to test Radicle locally.)
Overall, I think that if radworks turns out to be evil it will be a way easier transition to fork Radicle than it has been to leave GitHub, but I still wish I didn't have to worry.
#Programming #CodeForge #Radicle #GitHub #GitLab #Codeberg #FOSS #FreeSoftware #VersionControl #crypto #Cryptocurrency #NFT #DAO #SmartContract #Ethereum #Libertarian
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Enjoy writing fiction in Markdown, and prefer keeping ownership of your files in the filesystem, but still want beautiful ePub3 ebooks and paperback output? Your uncle Matt feels the same way!
I created a configuration and example project for pandoc, the fab #FOSS markup converter, to produce beautiful novels from your folders full of Markdown files. Lots of booky, novel-y, typographical/layout niceness. I'll be using this with #emacs. 💜
Read all about it here: https://github.com/mattgemmell/pandoc-novel
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?
Boosts and ideas welcome!
If anyone is interested in talking more about this or participating, even if you’re not a core maintainer for a project, I’ve created Discord and Matrix places we can start chatting in: https://discord.gg/fcSeuv56qp and https://matrix.to/#/%23nohub:matrix.org
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Discover The Fediverse: Free Software Movement
Learn the key points of the free software movement in order to protect your freedoms along with exploring free and open source software highlights.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-free-software-movement/
#blog #FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #foss
Just landed on Indiegogo: crowdfunding for a £1,100 per unit new Linux phone, the Liberux NEXX.
The specs are impressive, and it is the kind of thing I'd love to support, but wow that's a lot of money.
More than I'm willing to gamble, frankly, by a significant margin, but perhaps it might appeal to you!
#Microsoft has put vile LLMs into everything including Notepad & Github: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/23/microsoft_ai_notepad
Escape this dystopia by switching to #FOSS alternatives:
➡️ @CryptPad - Privacy-friendly online office suite, used by the UN 🇺🇳
➡️ @libreoffice - Most popular free open offline office suite
➡️ @CollaboraOffice - Collaborative online fork of LibreOffice
➡️ @ONLYOFFICE - Online office suite, self-hostable
➡️ @thunderbird (main) & @thunderbird@tilvids.com (videos) - Email & comms suite (RSS, XMPP, IRC etc)
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Do you want these stickers? Of course you do! And you can get them by just posting here why you love #LibreOffice (with the hashtag), as part of our Month of LibreOffice campaign: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/16/month-of-libreoffice-may-2025-half-way-point/ #foss #OpenSource
大家好，Fread 1.4.2 版本已发布。
1. 支持 Pixelfed
2. Bluesky 支持 2FA 登陆
3. 优化用户体验
4. 修复一些已知问题
#Mastodon #Bluesky #rss #activitypub #fediverse #FOSS #Android #Opensource #Freesoftware #Pixelfed
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zhangke.fread
🗓️ There are 4 days left to contribute to the crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app and help us to reach the next goal!
Every contribution helps us build a world where everyone can use PeerTube from anywhere!
👉 https://support.joinpeertube.org
#crowdfunding #mobile #app #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
a little tool I built to fight linkrot and save our sources from the memory hole → https://sij.law/deepciter
#digitalpreservation #selfhosting #archivebox #opensource #foss #textfragments #waybackmachine #linkrot #memoryhole #legaltech #permalink #deepcite
Up for helping us out? The Overte e.V. is doing its first donation drive. We are preparing to hire our first long standing contributor, and hope to raise 3000€ toward that goal.
Read more here: https://overte.org/index.html#help-us-hire-a-team-member
Or go straight to our donation page: https://overte.org/donate.html
#foss #vr #OpenSource
#FOSS is all about options:
- I chose not to use #RedHat systems 28 years ago.
- I chose not te use #GNOME 15 years ago
- I chose not to use #SystemD 6 years ago.
- I choose to accelerate the migration of all the #Linux based systems I can to #BSD systems because:
- I choose to keep up with the #UNIX way
- I choose to use stable systems which don't change for the sake of change
- I choose to be part of healthier communities, that don't promote monoculture or fall so easily into arrogance
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Our Summer Clearance Sale is happening now! Save 50% on select @adminmagazine and Linux Magazine back issues and products. Use the links at the top of the page to get to the shop system for your region/currency.
https://shop.linuxnewmedia.com/shop/category/summer-clearance-79
#Linux #sale #LibreOffice #RaspberryPi #OpenSource #security #hacks #FOSS
ONLYOFFICE 8.3 released with Apple iWork file support, shape merging, text document merging + more
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/onlyoffice-8-3-released-new-features
#0ad is possibly one of the most advanced #foss games. It's a multi-platform #RTS historical #game, and there's currently an appimage for #Linux users found at #github (in case #flatpak isn't to your liking).
Plays really smoothly, although it eats my 2015's #Macbook Air's battery (running Linux #Mint) for lunch. We're talking that it has about 30 minutes of overall #gameplay before I need to recharge. CPU utilization is at about 50-60%. @play0ad
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Raphus Social 🦤 is a better bird site, a safe and inclusive place for bringing together open minded people interested in technology, open source, games, and other general geekery. (In case you are wondering, "Raphus" is Latin for the dodo 🙂)
This server has an extended post size of 1024 characters and up to 8 poll options.
More info at https://raphus.social/about or contact the admin @raphus
#FeaturedServer #Tech #FOSS #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
The #FDroid Board of Directors is pleased to announce our endorsement of the #UNOpenSourcePrinciples
These were introduced by Open Source United agency of the #UnitedNations, and were developed in partnership with a wide set of stakeholders across the #FOSS (Free and #OpenSource Software) ecosystem.
Also #UNOpenSourceWeek 2025 is taking place in New York, so make sure to tune into the online live video streams if that interests you!
More details here: https://f-droid.org/2025/06/18/united-nations-open-source-principles.html
🔥 Want to start your own Bonfire instance?
We’re hosting online install parties, come set up your server alongside others! Bring your questions and curiosity, we’ll figure it out together and support each other through the process.
✅ Ideally have a (sub)domain + server with DNS set up, or just follow along and take notes.
📆 Vote on possible dates/times: https://crab.fit/bonfire-install-parties-394649
📩 Sign up to be notified: https://mailchi.mp/a601c2e1e132/bonfire-install-parties
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new release of #Fedialgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, counts the number of times each hashtag appears in your timeline even if people don't use a "#" character to give you a better sense of what people are talking about in the Fediverse.
there's a little bit of art vs. science here because some strings are disqualified from this kind of counting (e.g. a word like "the" should not be counted even if some maniac decided to make it a hashtag) so let me know if you see any weirdly high counts.
* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522
#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #Masto #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #mastohelp #MastoJS #nodejs #node #opensource #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #webdev #hashtag #typescript #hashtags
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Create a Vector Sunburst Effect with Inkscape
Learn to create the eye-catching look of a sunburst effect using two different methods within Inkscape by following this step by step guide.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/inkscape-create-sunburst-effect/
Drupal.community is a Mastodon server focused on Drupal, free open source software and web development, but any content is welcome as long as it adheres to the code of conduct:
You can find out more at https://drupal.community/about or contact the admin @pcambra
cc @drupal
#FeaturedServer #Drupal #WebDevelopment #WebDev #FOSS #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse