We are making the Silex editor translatable, funded by @nlnet through the @NGIZero Commons Fund https://www.silex.me/nlnet
We would rather start where people are already waiting than guess from download numbers
Which language should we do first?
foss
@raccoonforfriendicaapp version 1.1.0 has been released!
This version includes better support for quotes on Mastodon, a totally revamped navigation system (with better support for foldables and tablets) and some important bug fixes that solve issues you reported.
Thanks to all testers and users! And remember to live fast and eat trash 🦝🦝🦝
#kotlin #multiplatform #compose #kmp #foss #fediverse #raccoonforfriendica
So, Codeberg (which is a FOSS/freedom-focused code hosting site) is run as a cooperative, with members able to nominate measures/policies and vote on them etc.
They just had a vote and approved policies making "AI" / LLM-based projects basically unwelcome there. The vote wasn't close; 70% voted in favour of the policy. It's not a hard & fast "if you use LLM, you're banned" or anything of the sort - it's quite a measured, reasoned stance.
The slopcoders are freaking out. They just don't understand how this is possible. Imagine! A community of people that makes their own decisions and you can't just make them do what you want or ignore them and consume their resources without their consent!
"I like slopcoding, actually" is turning out to be a *really* good litmus test for people you want to have absolutely nothing to do with your project or your community.
Look at some of the whining (this is the only reason I would ever link to YCombinator [1]):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021856
[1] Your occasional and irregular reminder: "Hacker" "News" is neither.
#NoAI #NoLLM #sloperator #slopcoding #vibecoding #consent #Codeberg #hosting #forge #community #FOSS #HackerNews #YCombinator
Der Herbst ist da! 🍂 Macht es Euch auf dem Sofa 🛋️ bequem, brüht Euch einen heißen Tee 🫖 und schaltet Euch am 01.10.2026 ab 19:00 in das virtuelle Meeting der Troisdorfer Linux User Group TroLUG 
ein! Dieses Mal diskutieren wir die neuen "Sideloading"-Rules bei Android 
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Mehr Infos und Zugangsdaten findet Ihr hier:
https://doc.adminforge.de/hwwMlM7OQd2BLildSk9F4g
I'm thinking it's time for a new introduction post
I'm Sky (ae/aer pronouns, title is Mx.)! I'm a nonbinary person living in rural Virginia with my two partners and my kiddo
awkward and mostly introverted, but I'm great with people and genuinely enjoy socializing
I'm a strong Free Software advocate, a monster-taming game fan (Digimon, Pokemon, etc.), and a web developer and Linux application programmer
I'm both white and indigenous (Cherokee)
I'm have ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, and PTSD from a hate crime
devout Linux user since 1996, rolling releases are the future
love both GNOME and Plasma though philosophically I lean more towards KDE
my first musical love is punk (especially gargage punk, though I love pop punk too)
my current obsessions are breakcore, hyperpop, and kawaii metal
transgender and general LGBTQIA+ activist
mutual aid is community aid
anyway, love y'all fediverse
#introduction #hi #trans #transgender #nonbinary #enby #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #indigenous #cherokee #virginia #countrygirl #mutualaid #punk #hyperpop #breakcore #kawaiimetal #foss #freesoftware #opensource #linux #developer #programmer #gnomedesktop #kdeplasma #monstertaming #digimon #pokemon #nexomon #anodeheart #disccreatures #romhacks #digimonstory #moonstoneisland
Software Freedom Day: Celebrate and Protect Our Freedoms
Join in the celebration of Software Freedom Day and learn about Free Software and its virtues along with how to host or attend this worldwide event.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/software-freedom-day-2026/
#blog #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #tech #technology @dff
BashStyle-NG 11.4, Codename "Torna", released with two fixes, and two minor new features.
https://nanolx.org/posts/bashstyle-ng/
In case you lack of GPU acceleration on GhostBSD 25 and FreeBSD 15 using Linuxulator, it is caused by a bug in that component where it does not expose correctly the video cards to the system.
There is this workaround, but has some lines that have to be fixed, depending where you want install the script, before it can work.
Below I put a guide how fix and install the script.
Contact me if you spot errors or if the passages are not clear.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-enable-vulkan-on-compat-linux.101997/#post-749250
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There was a sense in the Inkscape project that it should be the developer team that decided what the AI policy should be.
I flatty rejected this.
Because most of the consequences for the project, for our users and for the world have absolutely nothing to do with developing software. It's reputation, risk, relationships and community standards and morality.
The last thing I wanted was important decisions to be pre-narrowed to questions of technical usefulness.
Next milestone achieved 🍾
Merged into @symfony core.
max_depth was counted per runtime class name. A Doctrine proxy is a subclass of the entity, so it got its own counter, and a graph with max_depth 1 serialized two levels deep instead of one.
The depth key now falls back to the parent class when the parent declares the same MaxDepth. Proxy and entity share one counter.
The issue was opened in October 2024. 685 days in the tracker before someone got to it.
Landed in 6.4 LTS, merged by nicolas-grekas, upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1 next.
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/65647
#Symfony #PHP #Doctrine #Serializer #OpenSource #Backend #Blog #Fediverse #FOSS #Software #Development
![A black card in DOL brand style. Across the top, in mono uppercase, Open source, Symfony core, and on the right a dark green pill reading 6.4 LTS. A large white headline, Merged into Symfony core. Under it in grey, the pull request title, [Serializer] Fix max depth counting for subclasses that inherit MaxDepth metadata. A thin rule, then four figures with labels. Pull request #65647, Issue open for 685 days, Merged by nicolas-grekas, Upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1. At the bottom the DOL emblem with dol.ch and dol.social.](/proxy/post_attachment/1173994/ce9ea532ce0a3f7463e11bb25f1c1ce6.png "A black card in DOL brand style. Across the top, in mono uppercase, Open source, Symfony core, and on the right a dark green pill reading 6.4 LTS. A large white headline, Merged into Symfony core. Under it in grey, the pull request title, [Serializer] Fix max depth counting for subclasses that inherit MaxDepth metadata. A thin rule, then four figures with labels. Pull request #65647, Issue open for 685 days, Merged by nicolas-grekas, Upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1. At the bottom the DOL emblem with dol.ch and dol.social.")
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Today I get to know the #SCM tool #Fossil. It is a single binary application and #SQLite backended. Yet it comes with version control, web UI, ticket and wiki, forume, chat and more! All FREE and OPEN SOURCE under 2-clause BSD license. This is so amazing!
Fossil: A Coherent Software Configuration Management System
#FOSS
Fossil: A Coherent Software Configuration Management System
#FOSS
I have decided to shut down my #mastodon instance, and all my public facing web services.
This will happen in 3 months time, on November 29, 2026, to allow everyone to backup and migrate.
The reason for this is that I can no longer trust:
- the #Linux kernel
- #Debian
- rails
- most #Foss projects
Additionally, I'm basically out of storage, it is unaffordable to purchase more, and no one is interested in donating to help.
Our bastion of free computing has been poisoned by fascist gen ai slop, and basically NONE of it can be trusted anymore.
It's impossible to vet slop from an ecosystem that is welcoming of it.
This makes it nearly impossible to update my systems, which makes it harder to pretend it's even remotely secure.
I'm fucking devestated - gutted by what has happened to computing, and I just do not have the resources to keep fighting.
Fuck all you #LLM boosters into the sun. May you learn the folly of your way and DO SOMETHING TO FIX IT!
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Veronica Explains is a series of really fun and useful videos about computing, technology, self-hosting, FOSS, Linux, retro computing and assorted other stuff. You can follow at:
➡️ @vkc
(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server has followed it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)
You can also follow Veronica's non-video account at @veronica
Read a very insightful post : Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
#Linux #Debian #FOSS #ScientificResearch
#Linux #Debian #FOSS #ScientificResearch
#Fediverse today consists of apps and app platforms. It is entirely app-centric.
Since fediverse (luckily) didn't attract much corporate attention yet, it is dominated by #FOSS culture, where people on the #SocialWeb are all "users" that are dependent on FOSS developers to serve their needs. Every dev focuses on their app features first and #interoperability second, leading to a patchwork of poorly integrated apps, and a janky overall experience. The app delivery model is not much different than Web 2.0.
A paradigm shift is possible, to a #SocialNetwork of apps and services, a service-oriented #fedi. The efforts around the #ActivityPub API can be the enabler of this shift.
In this new paradigm devs introduce solutions to a unified #SocialNetworking space, delivering new services to participants on the network. On top of a robust Protocol Layer they model social use cases in the Data Layer, integrating with services and building blocks already available.
Whoa. @libreoffice unleashes “no AI as a feature” and breaks download records.
“In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories.”
Great work, LibreOffice team! 👏🏻
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
A subtoot: corporations, and corporate(-like) behavior, are political. Anyone claiming that corporate-like work is apolitical--work that includes business-friendly software development whether it occurs within the walls of a corporate entity or not--is either naive or deliberately obfuscating reality.
"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations
"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations
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Oggi gli sviluppatori di @videolan mi hanno regalato il loro magnifico cappello a forma di cono. Li ho ringraziarti per il regalo e per il lavoro che fanno. Giornata migliorata istantaneamente ❤️
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I have just released version 1.1 of #btText, my #FOSS #accessible text snippet program for Windows. The biggest feature is the new variable system to automatically fill in certain values, such as date, time or interactively queried values, when inserting snippets. There are more features, changes and fixes. https://github.com/adkurz/btText/releases/tag/v1.1
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A quick #DayGlowShow Mini this Thursday! @ishotjr & I will explore local #git, #codeberg, #sourcehut, and other options for code management / version control / sharing.
Live and chaotic as usual, but hopefully only ~60min!
Sept. 10, noon PST / 3pm EST / 7pm UTC:
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAx0970bsL8&list=PLwWiFinxwDlgomKdWjfaavDbMRdhHhfqQ&index=1
▶️ https://www.linkedin.com/events/7501773655367069697
▶️ https://www.twitch.tv/glowascii
▶️ https://makertube.net/c/liveglow/videos
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Niccolò Ve is a KDE developer making videos on free open source software, Linux, the internet and related topics. You can follow them at:
➡️ @veggero
(Don't worry if the account seems blank, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow them and their videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)
🔄🚨 ALERT 🚨 for all #FOSS projects out there which get donations via PayPal.
In the last 2 days we've gotten several donations (some as "purchase") ranging from 250 → 500 USD. Always same amount as USD (which was suspicious since we rarely get USD).
The trick of the cheaters: They will open a "Paypal Buyers protection" case and if you just send back the money rather than "cancelling" the real transaction, they will get the money twice...
Suggestion: Mark it as fraud and let Paypal resolve it.