MapLibre April 2025 Newsletter is out! New releases across Native, GL JS & more!
Read all the updates here: https://maplibre.org/news/2025-05-04-maplibre-newsletter-april-2025/
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New #intro!
I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia.
My website https://meljoann.com includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media.
Some stuff I love:
#musicProduction #videoProduction #books #experimentalMusic #electronicMusic #RandB #earlyMusic #improvisedMusic #science #knitting #history #scienceFiction #horror #alternativeComedy #anarchism #foss #linux #introduction
Progress on my clone of the Emacs Lisp interpreter
This took me three months (a month longer than I had hoped), but I finally have merged it into the main branch!
This patch rewrites the Emacs Lisp lexer and parser in Scheme using Scheme code that is 100% compliant with the #R7RS standard, so it should now work across all compliant Scheme implementations. Previously the old parser relied on #Guile -specific regular expressions.
This patch also implements a new feature where a stack trace is printed when an error occurs. This of course makes debugging much, much easier. Previously the old parser did not keep track of where code evaluation was happening, it simply produced lists without source location information. The new parser constructs an abstract syntax tree (AST) and source locations are attached to the branches of the tree which can be used in error reporting and stack traces.
Next I will make whatever minor tweaks might be necessary to get my Emacs Lisp interpreter run on other Scheme implementations, in particular MIT Scheme, Gambit, Stklos, and Gauche. I would also like to try to get it running on Chicken and Chez, although these are going to be a bit more tricky.
Then I will continue with the task of implementing a new declarative GUI library.
#tech #software #FOSS #FunctionalProgramming #Lisp #Scheme #SchemeLang #EmacsLisp #Emacs #Schemacs #GuileScheme
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🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like"
https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/
mentioning @jaredwhite @anildash @ghost @caseynewton @molly0xfff @404mediaco @Daojoan @theindex @dangillmor @ryanbroderick @micahflee @melaniebartos @kleisli
I'd love to hear what you think about #AdoptAWriter ✨
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #resistance #SaveSocial
Discover The Fediverse: Build Your Own World
Take control of your life and build the world you wish to be a part of with these human curated free and open source projects found in the Fediverse.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-build-your-own-world/
#blog #FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #foss
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#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.
* 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 #nod #opensource #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #webdev
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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!
Galera, eu tenho um PDF que é só uma página com uma imagem de fundo. Eu queria adicionar campos editáveis e radioboxes nele (sim é um ficha de RPG :P).
Alguém indica um site ou software livre (pra Linux) que tenha essa utilidade?
De preferência um que eu possa estilizar as fontes dos campos preenchíveis.
Eu achei um site online que faz, mas é meia boca. E o Stirling acho que não tem essa opção...
#Adobe just raised its prices, some are over US$100 a month 😬
Stop paying rent on your tools, switch to #FOSS alternatives:
➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing
➡️ @ardour - Digital audio workstation
➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing
➡️ @Blender (main) & @blender@video.blender.org (videos) - 3D animation & video effects
➡️ @Krita (main) & @krita@tube.kockatoo.org (videos) - Painting & illustration
➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing
➡️ @darktable - Organise & develop raw photos
➡️ @www.scribus.net.news - Desktop publishing (feed)
#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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Interessante esse software livre chamado Graphite que está em desenvolvimento, com a promessa de ser um editor completo vetorial e também raster, e que terá em algum momento ferramentas para motion graphics. Legal também que ele têm um sistema de edição de nós, o que é bem promissor.
Ainda está na versão alpha, e por enquanto só existe em versão web, mas versões binárias estão planejadas para o futuro.
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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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Friction quick tip #3 : Hand draw a path with Automatic/Manual Fitting
A quick tip to use the 2 hand draw modes to create a path !
Do you know @friction ? It is an awesome open source 2d animation software, early stage, which could replace #aftereffect
Unofficial discord https://discord.gg/FkjnM2r2JD
Official page https://friction.graphics/
#adobe #noadobe #foss #motiongraphic #motiondesign #2danimation #animation #opensource
#alternative #friction2d
The best #opensource office suite is now even better with support for ODF 1.4, document privacy scrubbing, and new LibreOffice themes https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/libreoffice-25-2-released-this-is-whats-new
Friction quick tip # 4 : Use expression and current scene frame to create procedural animation
Use expressions to create no-keyframe animations (car wheel turning, noise seed...)
Do you know @friction ? It is an awesome open source 2d animation software, early stage, which could replace #aftereffect
Unofficial discord https://discord.gg/FkjnM2r2JD
Official page https://friction.graphics/
#adobe #noadobe #foss #motiongraphic #motiondesign #2danimation #animation #opensource #alternative #friction2d
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