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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

Découvrez l'Open Source, à travers les recherches d'Amel Charleux, Maître de conférence à l'université de Montpellier 🔍🔍

Modèles économiques, compétition et coopétition entre acteurs, IA : un autre regard sur notre éco-système qui permet de prendre du recul !

👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/podcast/s4e10-open-source-vue-par-une-chercheuse/

Bonne écoute 🎧🎧

#recherche #opensource #openrail #logicielLibre #logicielslibres #oca #odoo

Sometimes I get frustrated with my open source choice. Some days I'm like "yeah let's make X work" and others I'm like "I just want to do X and not make X work". I'm sure I'm not alone, but man sometimes... yeesh.

#opensource #foss #tech

🚀 Introducing MapLibre Tile (MLT)
A next-gen vector tile format built for planet-scale maps & modern graphics APIs.

✅ Supported today by MapLibre GL JS and MapLibre Native.

👉 Check out the announcement: https://maplibre.org/news/2026-01-23-mlt-release/

#maplibre #openstreetmap #OpenSource #foss4g

Hallo Fediverse! Ik zoek een nieuwe baan. Na 2 jaar in een een steeds benauwder wordende corporate omgeving gewerkt te hebben begint mijn intrinsieke motivatie een bijzonder laag niveau te bereiken. Help me hieruit!

Dus ben je op zoek naar een goeie Linux engineer, laat het me weten via een DM. CV heb ik bij de hand.

Het liefst werk ik voor een non-profit organisatie of een organisatie met een groot maatschappelijk belang.

#Linux #GetFediHired #OpZoekNaarEenBaan #OpZoekNaarWerk #OpenSource

Lesenswert! - Erst vorgestern habe ich etwas zum Netzwerk SDS gepostet und jetzt gibt es einen Artikel von Republik zum Thema. Danke @adfichter !

Mit der digitalen Unabhängigkeit der Staaten sehen die US-Konzerne ihre Felle davonschwimmen… und laufen Amok!

#Republik @republik_magazin
#NetzwerkSDS #Schweiz #DigitalSovereignty #DigitaleSouveränität #DigitaleSchweiz #Switzerland #OpenSource #OpenSourceRocks

https://www.republik.ch/2026/01/26/die-usa-lobbyieren-gegen-die-digitale-souveraenitaet-der-schweiz

#Pipelight typescript issue fixed.

It was a nasty bug that slide in with #deno 2.2.

Fixed by replacing external #UUID library with bultins uuid library.

This type of heartful message is what keeps me sharing my best code with you. ☺

#opensource #foss #cicd

https://github.com/pipelight/pipelight/issues/35

Friction 1.0.0 RC 1 is now available 🥳

https://friction.graphics/releases/friction-100-rc1.html

#motiongraphics #motiondesign #mograph #animation #svg #vector #2d #graphics #artWithOpenSource #opensource #linux #skia #friction #friction2d #enve

Enjoy this new Arcticons release with:

🎉 256 new and updated icons!
💡 Added support for 1447 apps using existing icons.
🔥 14241 icons in total!
🐋 Fixed Material You colors not refreshing properly on certain launchers (for real now).

https://github.com/Arcticons-Team/Arcticons/releases/tag/14.2.4

#arcticons #iconpack #opensource #icons

i made some small portable windows apps and put them up for free. CC0 - public domain, do whatever you want with them. No accounts, no telemetry, no installers.

- Core Cooldown - break timer
- Whisper Voice - local speech-to-text
- TypoGenie - Markdown to Word docs
- TutorialVault - video tutorial organizer
- OpenPylon - local Kanban board
- Vesper - distraction-free Markdown reader

Source on my self-hosted Gitea.

https://apps.lashman.live

#OpenSource #CC0 #FOSS #Productivity #PublicDomain

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' LibreSSL to 4.3.1 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/32313

GitHub Continuous Integration checks are queued. Hopefully they will complete without issues?

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

I should do something similar with libressl-devel next.

#LibreSSL #MacPorts #TLS #TransportLayerSecurity #SSL #SecureSocketsLayer #Encryption #OpenSource

There was a pretty critical news segment by Nieuwsuur about @landesregierung 's move to open source alternatives. It shows a Higher Court user having issues with LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office, and using a scanner workaround. Also the email migration didn't go without issue.

To someone who has done this migration before; jup sounds familiar. But it's also something that can be solved. We're actually visiting SH next week to learn about their #opensource experience.

https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/video/2600988-kunnen-europese-organisaties-zonder-microsoft

Gesucht: Presenting-Partner 2026 für das #Fediverse! 🌐✨

Wir bauen eine öffentliche, europäische Video-Infrastruktur auf Basis von #PeerTube aus. Dafür suchen wir einen Partner, der den Betrieb (Server, Bandbreite, Wartung) mitfinanziert – als Ermöglicher, nicht als Datensammler.

✅ Sichtbarkeit ohne Tracking
✅ Unabhängig von Big Tech
✅ Echter Support für das #ActivityPub Ökosystem

Details & Kontakt: https://livespotting.com/de/blog/presenting-partner-peertube-fediverse/

#livespotting #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #NoTracking

Delighted to be at the @europeanOSacademy this evening In the historic Solvay Library in my home town of #Brussels! Tonight is about recognising the amazing work of Open Source Devs here in Europe ❤️

#EUpol #OpenSource

Thank you to @Dedomainia for renewing their Bronze sponsorship! 🐍🤝
We’re delighted to announce that Dedo has renewed their Bronze sponsorship of the Django Software Foundation.
Their continued support helps us strengthen the Django ecosystem and sustain the work of the community that builds, maintains, and evolves the framework every day.
A big thank you to the Dedo team for their trust and long-term commitment to open-source 💚
#Django #Python #OpenSource #Sponsorship #Dedomainia

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

Very much liked this statement from Mario Campolargo at the EU #OpenSource Policy Summit:

👉 If the money is public, the code should be public. 👈

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

#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' signify to 1.62 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31080

GitHub Continuous Integration checks queued.

Hopefully they will run without issue?

If so, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

This isn't very significant from the last PR I submitted from late October 2025 (upstream has a commit from early September 2025 so I am trailing by many months with this one) however, remarkable to me:

MacPorts' signify's version is now in alignment with upstream's versioning!

Yay!

I have no idea if that was true previously? My guess is: no, since I think jpouellet/Jean-Philippe Ouellet branched that out a long time ago and seemed to have iterated version tags haphazardly? Maybe I am mistaken though! There's a completely different Linuxism fork of signify which seems to have evolved (and versioned) very differently too.

That in particular has confused me with spurious repology.org out of date error messages for many months. I dunno if it has confused others, or if this version sync will make things less confusing, but hopefully? It makes things less confusing for me at least.

In tangential news, since I saw tedu in the man page, someone was wondering where he got off to a while ago and I don't think I saw a response. Hopefully he's doin OK? Please?

#signify #MacPorts #macOS #OpenSource #OpenBSD #cryptography

#Linux on notebook? Check ✅
(*Trying to set up #FreeBSD for daily driving? Check ✅)
No systemd distro? Check ✅
#CustomROM on phone? Check ✅
#Degoogled android? Check ✅
#OpenSource apps? Check ✅
#Fediverse? Check ✅
Am I missing something? :)

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

HELLO! My #opensource #lisp game Kandria is now out on GOG with a 70% discount (highest ever!) to go along with it:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/kandria

#commonlisp #indiedev #gamedev