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Little Bits: Issue #22 for February 2025

Exciting times are ahead, a motivational message and loads of new curated bits found in February 2025 while surfing the Internet for you to enjoy.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-22/

#blog #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #gaming #tech #news

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.

Que legal! Uma wiki activitypub! 😊
(Só não pode política 😑 mas pode auto hostar 😁) Quero muito!

Página principal — open.ibis.wiki

https://open.ibis.wiki/

#activitypub #ibis #FreeSoftware #wiki

Fireside Fedi: E71 - Building Freedom: A Conversation with Alexandre Oliva, FSF Latin America Co‑Founder @lxo

https://tubefree.org/w/faD93wn8B59HCsydCseVfN

#FreeSoftware #PeerTube #FsF #FSFLA #Brazil

Interested in helping #FreeSoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining the FSD meeting this Friday on IRC. Read more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-04-03-irc #FreeSoftwareDirectory #FSF

Contacte-me utilizando daltux na plataforma de comunicação distribuída #Jami: https://jami.net

Simples assim? 🤙
Acabo de instalar na tornozeleira eletrônica de bolso #Android via #FDroid.
#SoftwareLivre #GNU #FreeSoftware

I like the spontaneous nature of the #ILoveFS ❤️ meetups. Besides the great people of @HSN we got joined by @Scott_Trakker and @paolo from Luxembourg. We sent chat messages and post cards to the great people making #FreeSoftware possible! ❤️

Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation.

We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.

We have some idea of how co-ops like Igalia do this, but we have a lot of differences (like being largely volunteer run and having very different goals) which leave us with a lot of unknowns.

To give an example of the kind of structure we're thinking of (by no means final, there hasn't been any broad agreement on a new structure yet):

We have the relevant pieces in place to form an assembly (everyone listed on https://postmarketos.org/team/ ) which could then democratically form teams and delegate responsibilities to them (e.g. finance/budget, technical policy-making, maintainers for various OS components).

The assembly would then also be responsible for deciding on focus areas and long term goals for the project (e.g. improving reliability, building a production-ready immutable version of the distro)

We could then form working groups to enable cross-team collaboration to move towards our specific goals.

Currently we lack a lot of understanding of the potential implications of something like this, how we can ensure the project doesn't get hijacked, that we don't drift too far from our mission statement, etc etc...

If you have a background in sociology and/or relevant experience from other projects then I would love to reach out and be able to discuss this in more detail!

#decentralization #opensource #freesoftware #foss

Big new update to #LibreOffice, the free and private office suite. Version 26.2 is here, with:

📝 Markdown support
📊 Connectors in Calc
🚀 Spreadsheet speedups

...plus many other new features, improvements and fixes. Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/04/libreoffice-26-2-is-here/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

GIMP 3.0 has been released.
https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/

#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Why should public institutions use Free Software?

🔓 Freedom to use & share
👀 Transparency & adaptability
🛠 No vendor lock-in
💰 Public funds = public benefit

Public Money? Public Code! #publiccode #freesoftware

https://publiccode.eu/

This Week in KDE Apps covers new releases for Kaidan, Tellico and Amarok; usability improvements for Itinerary, Kasts and Kate; fixes for KOrganizer and Konsole; and new stuff in Merkuro and SystemDGenie.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #freesoftware #opensource

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Here's a selection of new features in #LibreOffice 26.2, which we released on Wednesday: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/pyAi3grZqqrBaN1XWzWrvw #foss #openSource #freesoftware

🗨️ Meu ID no GNU #Jami, o comunicador livre e distribuído (P2P), ou seja, que não depende de servidores intermediando as comunicações, é simplesmente daltux. Aliás, isso não é muito mais fácil que números telefônicos?

💡 Não dependa de mais ninguém além de quem quer conversar com você por texto, voz e vídeo, individualmente ou em grupo: para instalar Jami nas diversas plataformas para as quais está disponível, confira https://jami.net 📱💻🖥️📺

Já o tinha colocado em tornozeleiras eletrônicas de bolso (📴), mas, enfim, o instalei direito também no 💻️ #GNU/Linux. ⚠️ Deixo a dica: evitar pegar o Flatpak do Flathub por não ser mantido pelo próprio projeto e estar defasado. Há repositórios próprios de pacotes binários para várias distribuições, seguindo a documentação. O Snap também é oficial. Nesses casos, sim, funciona melhor. 🤙

⚖️ Jami segue a Licença Pública Geral GNU ( #GPLv3+ #Copyleft ) e o projeto é gerenciado em https://git.jami.net/ 🧑‍💻

#privacidade #SoftwareLivre #FreeSoftware #FreeAsInFreedom #chat #comunicação #mensageiro #Android #mac #GNUlinux #windows #WhatsApp #meet #conferência #videoConferência #grupos #dica #conversa #telefone #chamadas #celular

L'appel à participation des Journées du Logiciel Libre 2026 est ouvert !

Vous voulez proposer un stand, une conférence, un atelier ou toute autre chose ? C'est par ici : https://pretalx.jdll.org/jdll2026/cfp

Vous avez jusqu'au 15 mars 23h59 ! ⏳

Pour rappel, les Journées du Logiciel Libre, c'est un évènement autour des communs numériques, dont l'édition 2026 aura lieu le week-end du 30-31 mai à @ENSdeLyon

Plus d'infos ici : https://jdll.org

#JdLL #JdLL2026 #CfP #Communs #Lyon #FreeSoftware #Commons

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' Got to 0.122 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31141

GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK.

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it!

#Got #GameOfTrees #MacPorts #VersionControl #OpenBSD #Git #Development #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware

Game of Trees 0.122 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260211061627 #openbsd #got #git #gameoftrees #versioncontrol #development #freesoftware #libresoftware

Remember, you can always slap the #GNU #GPL on a permissibly licensed work. #FreeSoftware for the win.

pw-videomix v0.3.0

A lot of new features were added within the last year. Not all are finished. The reason, why I hesitated to release a new version. But the next step needs to be taken. So the motto of 0.3.0 is:

"Half Baked"

new:
- Saving and loading project files.

- New nodes (kaleidoscope, video source, encoder sink for video files, control nodes).

- MIDI devices to control values.

- Removed binaries from the source repository. The Linux binary will be updated regularly now. There won't be a Windows binary in the near future.

- Connections update their resolution automatically. No reconnects needed anymore.

... more in the changelog

Try it out here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/AdeptVeritatis/pw-videomix

#rust #rustlang #vulkan #egui #winit #opensource #freesoftware #creativecoding #art

On February 14, we celebrate I ❤️ Free Software Day!

https://Internet.nl is free/open source and is reused by a.o. 🇧🇷 https://top.nic.br and 🇩🇰 https://sikkerpånettet.dk. This is possible thanks to free/open source software we build upon, such as Python (@ThePSF) and @django.

We also use free/open source sw in our work environment, such as @nextcloud, @libreoffice, and Jitsi.

We try to give back through 💶 donations, ⁉️ feature requests and ⚙️ code.

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#ilovefs #freesoftware #opensource

💌 I love free software, the one that respects all users' essential freedoms.

Yay, everyone agrees? Not so much.

Let's stand for free software and not "open source", nor "FOSS", "FLOSS", or whatever people say trying to be neutral, or really missing the point.

#ILoveFreeSoftwareDay #ILoveFS #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #SoftwareLivre #SoftwareFreedom

Freed a chromebook (Acer 14 CB3-431) from Google. Got it used for 65€. Still has the power for 5 hours of movie (full hd/h265) or 6-7 hours of working with LibreOffice.

#chromebook #linux #linuxmint #mint #google #fuckoffgoogle #opensource #hardware #freesoftware #acer

Little Bits: Issue #33 For January 2026

A brief life update of challenges and a loads of little bits to explore covering an array of topics such as blogs, gaming, open source and security.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-33/

#blog #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #tech #news #LinkDump

RE: https://gruene.social/@Gerbsen/116052492129846084

Money transfer from the German Federal Administration to Microsoft:

2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro
2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro
2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro

(Source: German Parliament 21/4006 page 96 https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/040/2104006.pdf )

Daniel asks what #FreeSoftware #OpenSource could have been procured and developed with such sums and how you feel about when you see those numbers. He also fears this trend will continue.