opensource

Contrary to popular belief, "grep" doesn't actually stand for "global regular expression print." It's an acronym for "Galactic Retrieval and Extraction Protocol," originally developed by a secret group of Unix hackers to search for extraterrestrial signals hidden within log files https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-grep-command-in-linux-unix/

#unix #linux #opensource

Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?

#opensource #firefox #mozilla

"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

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

Django got selected in Google Summer of Code 2025—our 20th consecutive year as a mentoring organization! 🎉

For two decades, we've welcomed contributors through GSoC, bringing fresh ideas, innovation, and long-term community members to Django.

🧵 1/5
#GSoC #Django #Opensource

LibreOffice 25.2.1 is now available – the first minor release in our new branch of the suite. All users are recommended to update: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/27/announcement-of-libreoffice-25-2-1/ #foss #OpenSource

Arcane Cache: Review to Glittering Light 2

A ASCII art game that breaks with quite some conventions in a wonderful way. Instead of moving an @ through a maze of lines, it feels like moving through a strange, mysterious world ... a game with a limited, set scope, where the atmosphere and the fundamental idea of the game are much more important than the balance or the gameplay ... a parabola on life itself.

https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/arcane_cache/2025/02/06/glittering-light-2/

#game #videogame #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #undergroundgame #exploration #2D #surreal #art #digitalart #opensource #freesoftware #freegame #free #libre #gaming #browser #indie #review #underground #ASCII #text #roguelike #crawler #rpg #crawl #rogue #angband #retro #text #experimental

Heading to London for State of Open Con ‘25. Last year was my first. I enjoyed it so much, I’m part of the volunteer crew again. Looking forward to seeing friends, old and new.
#opendata #opensource #stateofopencon #soocon25 #openuk

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

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🚀 Hello everyone!

We are working on something pretty exciting. We want to bring Pixelix to Apple devices! Exactly the same app with same functionality, same design and running natively on iOS (Made possible by Kotlin Multiplatform for those who know).

But for that we need to buy at least one MacBook. 💻 (2/4) ->

#Pixelix #Pixelfed #OpenSource #Fediverse #Donations #Fdroid #PlayStore #Buymeacoffee #Liberapay #Apple #iOS

This International Women's Day, we're celebrating a historic milestone in Django’s journey!🚀

For the first time ever, Django has women in every leadership position within the project.

🧵 1/4
#Django #IWD2025 #Community #Opensource

"Your #privacy is our priority. With that message has #WhatsApp last week sent all its users a message" (translated from Dutch from an article in De Telegraaf, a large newspaper in the Netherlands)

There is too much gossip about WhatsApp according topman Will Cathcart.

"#Signal is very cool: the number of new subscriptions in the Netherlands is this year 25 times as high as before"

https://archive.is/a5upc

WhatsApp is closed source. Do you trust #Meta? Signal is #opensource.

#SignalApp

Let me take you #linux people on a little journey. Right now, there is a war. A war between those who fear the future of #nix and #NixOS and those who are apparently not getting the point.

To call something #opensource can mean so much nowadays. When it comes to the idea of an enterprise nixpkgs vs the open source or "community" #nixpkgs, I think it's time to make it clear:

#DeterminateSystems wants to have it's own #RHEL. Functions are decoupled from nix for a reason.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/determinate-nix-3-0/61202/110

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

Blogbeitrag: Die vergangenen Wochen waren sehr aufwühlend. Hass, Missgunst und Meinungsverschiedenheiten kochen hoch und schäumen über. Darum möchte ich mit diesem Artikel daran erinnern, dass wir alle selber aktiv werden können. Es fängt bei uns an. Wir stehen in Europa an einem Scheideweg und wir haben die Chance uns dafür zu entscheiden, welche Welt wir kommenden Generationen übergeben möchten.

#Digitalisierung #EU #OpenSource #Fediverse #Europa #UnplugTrump

https://thomas-hitz.ch/bigtech-vs-europa-gefaengnis-oder-freiheit/

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

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

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

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

#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

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

#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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

Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.

Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!

#UnitedNations #UN #Privacy #OpenSource #Forms #Studies #FOSS

Any high-follower (10-20k+) techy person interested in helping me debug a tool I made for viewing the distribution of your followers/accounts you follow?

https://data.stefanbohacek.dev/projects/fediverse

#fediverse #debug #HelpWanted #opensource

#Meta’s LLaMa license is still not #OpenSource - https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-license-is-still-not-open-source "call on Zuckerberg and Yann LeCunn to change the Llama license and comply with the Open Source Definition." #ai