Little Bits: Issue #20
A new year is well underway, but it’s not too late to unwrap over 100 interesting bits from the month of December for your reading pleasure in this new issue.
"KDE For Digital Sovereignty" explains how KDE software returns control to institutions, companies and users, and gives you the tools to become the owner of your digital life.
https://kde.org/for/digital-sovereignty/
#sovereignty #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
@kde@lemmy.kde.social
🎉 LiberaForms version 3.6.0 out now! 🚀
We’re happy to release this version with translations now available in Čeština and தமிழ் (Tamil)! 💬
LiberaForms now speaks:
- Castellano
- Català
- Čeština
- Deutsche
- English
- Euskara
- Français
- Galego
- Tamil
A big thank you to all the translators, and special thanks to @trendspotter and @TamilNeram for their invaluable time. 🙏💚
Details at: https://blog.liberaforms.org/2025/01/22/version-360/
#LiberaForms #Translation #FOSS #FreeSoftware #community #Čeština #tamil
As you're probably aware, the #English adjective "free" applied to software can be a bit ambiguous. It could either mean software respecting your freedoms ("#FreeSoftware"), or one that is available free of charge ("#freeware"). (Don't get me started on the assholes advertising demo or trial versions as "free software".) So, to disambiguate we sometimes use the term "libre", possibly as #FLOSS (free/libre open-source software).
Fortunately, we don't have this problem in #Polish. The "free of charge" meaning is translated into "darmowe" or "bezpłatne", while the other meaning goes as "wolne".
Well, except that "wolne" can also mean "slow". Which is fine, because I'm so tired of how fast things are moving. Let's make more "slow software".
#GNU #Bash scripts I’ve put together to simplify everyday updates for all the common stuff on 
Debian GNU/Linux-based systems. It has been available under the #GPLv3+ for a while, so you are free to use, study, modify, and share it however you see fit—following #Copyleft principles, always preserving the users' freedoms. If you improve it, consider sharing back your changes to help keep the spirit of #FreeSoftware alive. 🤝Does anyone know of a #FOSS payment processor like PayPal or Venmo? It would be nice to run a small online business without having to use proprietary software for payments. #FreeSoftware #Software
Little Bits: Issue #21 for January 2025
Race on over to read the latest instalment of Little Bits issue #21 for January 2025 to explore the largest collection of discovered bits to date.
:ciladaBino: Acabo de ouvir pelo #AntennaPod o #podcast que compartilho abaixo como exemplo de cilada causada pela combinação de software privativo de liberdade, gestão de restrições digitais (DRM) e obsolescência programada. Esse tipo de situação esdrúxula ainda é demais normalizado pela mídia dita especializada em tecnologia da informação.#CBN Tecnologia - #Techtudo: Celular velho, música nova: a volta de iPhones antigos como #iPod
Ana Letícia Loubak fala sobre a nova tendência de transformar iPhones antigos em reprodutores de música, substituindo os iPods. A moda tem crescido por motivos de segurança, detox digital e #nostalgia, impulsionando as vendas de celulares usados e iPods na OLX.
"This week in Plasma" covers how KRunner now sees in color, the disk widget finds errors in your drives, Spectacle gets a spectacular overhaul, and much, much more!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/01/this-week-in-plasma-great-stuff-for-6.4/
#desktop #Plasma #Plasma6 #opensource #FreeSoftware
@kde@lemmy.kde.social
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Congratulations to the @Blender project for its role in the film "Flow", which just won the Best Animated Feature award at #Oscars2025.
Open Source has won, indeed!
https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-interview-with-director-gints-zilbalodis/
#Oscars #Flow #Blender #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
30,000 PCs are moving from Microsoft Office to #LibreOffice in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. At the recent Univention Summit 2025, we met the people handling the migration: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/05/libreoffice-at-the-univention-summit-2025/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
400 million downloads of #LibreOffice since we started! More and more people are moving to the office suite that respects your privacy, doesn't mine your data, and doesn't force AI onto your workflow: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01/30/400-million-downloads-and-counting/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Discover The Fediverse: Love Your Neighbour
A thought provoking message on our similarities, power of our words and community along with sharing open source highlights found in the Fediverse.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-love-your-neighbour/
- TileOS @tile_os
Linux with tiling Wayland compositors.
- GNU Taler @Taler
Privacy-friendly payment system.
- tldr-pages @tldr_pages
Console cheat sheets.
- Tangent Notes @tangentnotes
A note writing app.
#blog #FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #foss
Lichess had 31 people contribute code across 15 repositories in January! Check out what's changed in the updated changelog: https://lichess.org/changelog 🛠️
Build local networks with decentralised solutions that are #OpenSource #FreeSoftware and based on #OpenStandards not because you want to fight BigCorp, but because you want to help your neighbours. Focus on solutions, not on problems you can't really solve. Build bridges, not walls. Deal?
Pessoal dos BLAMERS, que que cês recomendam de gerador de site estático? Eu preciso de algo que suporte formulas em LaTeX e que tenha mais cara de homepage do que de blog ou documentação.
Uso SPHINX para as páginas das Disciplinas e comecei a usar o Nikola para a homepage/blog, mas não animei tanto com ele. Se for feito em python, é um plus.
This year marked #Luanti’s second consecutive appearance at #FOSDEM! Held in Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM is the largest free and open source software conference in Europe. Fresh off our recent rebranding and new release cycle, FOSDEM was a fantastic opportunity to collect feedback and update people on what’s happening in the Luanti world
See what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog: https://lichess.org/changelog 🛠️
#lichess #chess #community #opensource #freesoftware
Our sister organisation the @fsf has published its evaluation of the #Llama 3.1 Community
License Agreement.
This is not a #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) license.
Read more why it does not qualify https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/llama-3-1-community-license-is-not-a-free-software-license
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.
With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Contacte-me utilizando daltux na plataforma de comunicação distribuída #Jami: https://jami.net
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