freesoftware
An opinion piece I wrote on why you should move away from GitHub to something like Forgejo (try Codeberg if you want something hosted for you) for development. Applies to companies and open-source devs.
https://lambdaland.org/posts/2025-11-18_federate_your_forges/
Inviting the people of #Mumbai to attend the upcoming #OpenStreetMap mapping party at the #MiniDebConf !
Learn about OpenStreetMap and how to use it, then enjoy a fun session of improving the map together!
🗓️ Sunday, 14th of December
🕙 10 AM to 1 PM
📌 SIGCE, Ghansoli, #NaviMumbai
🎫 Get your tickets!
https://fossunited.org/c/mumbai/minidebconf2025
Learn more and click "Attend" here -
https://osmcal.org/event/4269/
#India #Linux #Privacy
#OSM #OsmMumbai
#FreeSoftware #FreeData
#FOSS #OpenSource #OpenData
Inviting the people of #Pune to attend the upcoming indoor #OpenStreetMap mapping party by #TomTom!
Learn about #OSM and how to use it, then enjoy a fun session of improving the map together!
🗓️ Saturday, 20th of December
🕙 2 PM to 6 PM
📌 TomTom office, Shanti One, Ramwadi
💻 We recommend bringing a laptop and a mouse
Learn more and click "Attend" here -
https://osmcal.org/event/4271/
#India #OsmPune
#FreeSoftware #FreeData
#FOSS #OpenSource #OpenData
#Scribus 1.6.5 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Changes https://9to5linux.com/scribus-1-6-5-open-source-desktop-publishing-app-released-with-various-changes
Interested in helping #freesoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining this Friday's upcoming FSD meeting on IRC. Read more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2024-09-20-irc #FreeSoftwareDirectory
Vivendo e aprendendo, temos que tirar o chapéu também para o pessoal do #OpenBSD que presenteia o mundo ao desenvolver essa maravilha.
#OpenSSH #SSH #blambers #TIL #softwareLivre #freeSoftware
#Dillo, the fast and small 
web browser, is another project fortunately migrating from #GitHub! 
https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/
#noAI #noBigTech #noJS #FreeSoftware
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I'm an anarcho-syndicalist non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns, is bisexual, from Bergen, Norway, and whose posts automatically delete after seven days regardless of likes or boosts, because I have autism and say random shit sometimes.
I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
As an anarcho-syndicalist, I encourage you to check out NSF-IAA, the sole remaining anarcho-syndicalist organization in Norway that has been actively upholding these principles since 1916.
I maintain several pages and resource documents related to left-wing Anarchist reading below.
🇬🇧 Entry to Left Wing Anarchist Reading
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html
🔗 Linktree
https://linktr.ee/p.marg
🏴 For en fri og kjempende arbeiderbevegelse
https://www.nsf-iaa.org
🚩 The Global Anarcho-syndicalist Federation
https://iwa-ait.org
#Linux #FreeSoftware #AntiCapitalism #Anarchism #Syndicalism #Debian #GNOME #KDE #NorskTut #Introduction
Why isn’t software funded by taxpayers released as Free Software? 🤔💻
We need legislation 📜 requiring publicly financed software to be #FreeSoftware. If it’s public money 💰, it should be public code! 👨💻👩💻
Code paid by the people should be available to the people! 🙌 #PublicCode
Eu não preciso esperar algum serviço como substituto de software (SaaSS) de Big Tech me oferecer estatísticas sobre o que ouvi durante o ano. @ListenBrainz, que posso usar a partir do servidor da própria Fundação @metabrainz ou auto-hospedar, disponibiliza-me (ou a quem quiser) essas informações quando eu quiser. Não apenas o software é livre (GPLv2+) como reúne dados abertos. 
:thinkSmart:#ListenBrainz #music #música #YearInMusic #FreeSoftware #SpotifyWrapped
Help us defend and promote user freedom: https://www.fsf.org/appeal/ #FSFTable #FreeSoftware #FSF
⚠️ The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X ⚠️
The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication. What initially intended to be a place for dialogue and information exchange has turned into a centralised arena of hostility, misinformation, and profit-driven control, far removed from the ideals of freedom we stand for.
Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251204-01.en.html
Looking for CMS advice
Hey Web devs!
Do you have any suggestions, tips, opinions, dos, don’ts about headless CMSes?
I have a growing list of small/mid non-profits and collectives asking for my help to (re)make their website. I totally want to help, but I don’t have much time, especially considering that they generally have little or no funding—I would most definitely point them to @VillageOneCoop, otherwise.
Therefore, I want a super simple and replicable solution where I can copy-paste most of the code, while providing them with a stable, fast, and modern solution. I had a look at the Headless CMS section in the Jamstack website, but I need opinions from people who actually used some of that software already.
Needs
I want to code and configure everything using @eleventy
Admin interface (#WebApp) for the client to add pages and write posts
Static website in the front-end
Simple and reliable CI/CD
No/minimal maintenance after the first setup
Self-hostable (I was taking this for granted so much that I forgot to write it)
If it requires forge integration, it should support #ForgeJo
#OpenSource
Nice to have
Possibly using #Deno, not #NodeJS
Allowing the client to customize a bit their website through the admin interface, with a GUI
CMS app packaged on @yunohost
No CMS vendor lock-in
I’d love to write as little JavaScript as possible
#FreeSoftware
Absolutely not
Front-end #JavaScript frameworks
Please, boost this and ask around! Links to videos, tutorials, and resources are welcome.
People whose perspective I would really value: @zachleat @harryfk @deno_land @jaredwhite @vanillaweb @stefan @mxbck @WeirdWriter @deadsuperhero (Sorry if I am spamming you!)
#Eleventy #11ty #CMS #HeadlessCMS #Ghost #DecapCMS #CraftCMS #Strapi #Web #WebDev #WebDesign #StaticGen #StaticWebsite #Website #HTML #CSS #YunoHost #SelfHosting #Wordpress
thinking about foss stuff, and I know I've groused about licensing stuff before, and how I feel like my only way out is to just Parity7 everything and fall into obscurity but...
...I think we need a different movement around open source, with new terminology, that clarifies the intent and opens doors to more pro-social behavior and capabilities (up to and including the potential for "ethical licensing").
I've been spitballing the terms Common Software and Community Software. The core idea is that things that count as Community/Common Software can't enter the realm of the proprietary (so, strong copyleft a-la AGPL and Parity, virality not necessary). What's the difference from "Free Software"? We get rid of "freedom zero", aka "the freedom to run software for any purpose". Common Software licenses may have Non-Commercial clauses, Anti-Particular-Industry clauses (such as anti-MIC stuff), etc.
I think "freedom zero" was a grave mistake. I get where it came from--a desire to remove discrimination--but what it resulted in was a hijacking of Free Software by the corporate "Open Source" wing to exploit an otherwise healthy community of people openly sharing their creations... for an enormous profit that we can't even quantify right now.
We need a strong return to copyleft, and we need to gather together and grow its existing ecosystem, away from the MIT/BSD poison that our world has turned towards.
Your thoughts are welcome on this. I want to have a conversation about this stuff and maybe eventually record all this in a longer-form blog post. If you know folks who have had similar thoughts please link them so we can chat, too.
UPDATE: I've sketched out an initial conclusion based on today's discussion over at https://toot.cat/@zkat/115852520380684438
Privacidade é impossível sem software livre.
https://u.fsf.org/prism
#privacy #nsa #prism #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLivre #FSF
"Today, with almost 2,000 active installations and over 50,000 downloads, it no longer makes sense to define #Tainacan as “Beta" …a new phase is beginning.
But the initial goal has been achieved: to transform the #digitalculture landscape for #Brazilian #institutions by offering a viable #freesoftware alternative for managing information on collections and cultural objects—and to expand horizons in different areas of use as well."
Sad to see this happening: #Google will now publish #AOSP only in Q2 and Q4, instead of every quarter before. See the note on https://source.android.com (thanks to @grote for the ping) #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
#Bitwarden is no longer #freesoftware.
... and #Vaultwarden is doomed to become obsolete
So there isn't really anything more to do, except pack your things once more and find and alternative. That's what I did this afternoon, going back once more to #keepassxc which has greatly improved from the last time I used it, and it can leverage #Nextcloud to keep all my devices synced.
All in all it is a tedious process, but it prevents the mind from rusting too much and abandoning itself to being used to... Breaking things, changing habits, that's the way to do it, until you've got the energy for it.
I also expect that #Vaultwarden software will quickly gain technical debt and become obsolete, since it cannot use the new SDK.
Read the details here:
https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issues/898
...and here:
https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611
1.2 "Bitwarden" means the Bitwarden software made available by the Company, available for download at the following URL, as updated from time to time.
1.3 A "Compatible Application" means any software program or service that (i) connects to and interoperates with a current version of the Bitwarden server
products distributed by the Company; and (ii) complies with the Company’s acceptable use policy available at the following URL: https://bitwarden.com/terms/#acceptable_use .
...
3.3 You may not use this SDK to develop applications for use with software other than Bitwarden (including non-compatible implementations of Bitwarden) or to develop another SDK.
Little Bits: Issue #31 For November 2025
Road blocks may have delayed this release, but it is still full of endless little bits to explore along with a message of gratitude and positivity.
I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️
See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
Please boost 🙏
#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Python
🗓️ 🎉#NewYear #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLivre #LibreSoftware #SoftwareLibre
‘#OpenSource And #Ethical’ #TikTok, #WhatsApp And #Instagram Alternatives Could Transform #SocialMedia
from #Forbes
By Esat Dedezade, Contributor.
Esat Dedezade is U.K.-based journalist who covers Big Tech for Forbes
Jan 25, 2025, 12:23pm EST
[a very well-written article with a favorable yet realistic angle on the #Fediverse]
"At the heart of these alternative apps lies the Fediverse platform — a portmanteau of "federated" and "universe" that represents a radical reimagining of how social media can work. Unlike traditional platforms where users are locked into isolated ecosystems, the Fediverse operates as an interconnected network of independent servers that communicate with each other through a standard protocol called #ActivityPub."
#Pixelfed #PeerTube #Mastodon #Loops #Sup #FreeSoftware #SocialWeb #technology #news #press
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @rileytestut
Building emulators and app stores for iPhone with shanegill.io
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 05 February 2026 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )
If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:
#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi
#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
Want to make a difference for software freedom? Support the efforts of @conservancy to ensure Vizio respects the GPL. Your donation funds critical legal battles like this one. https://sfconservancy.org/donate/ #FreeSoftware #SoftwareRights