Good news: GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released
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You can find a large random selection of open source #TTRPG resources on our site now for easy reference. Borrowed from the Forever Open Source game jam series I host every year.
"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"
WhatsApp is closed source. Do you trust #Meta? Signal is #opensource.
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 🛠️
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.
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/
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#ecodesign #ecoconception #opensource #a11y #i18n #androiddev #iosdev #webdev #VieDeDev
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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.
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
Do you know JOPLIN? It's a nice European alternative to apps like Evernote, Google Keep, Notion, Microsoft OneNote.
Joplin is a free, open source note-taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. You can search your notes, copy them, tag them and modify them either from the app itself or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format, which is great.
It was created by Laurent Cozic 🇫🇷 back in 2016 as an alternative to Evernote. It's cloud service is hosted in Paris, France. They focus on privacy, security and transparency.
It's open source and offline-first, so you can always access your data on the device, even when you're not connected to the internet.
It's got all the basics you'd expect, and you can also attach images, videos, audio files and PDFs to your notebooks.
There's a huge community of people who have made extra features possible with their plugins.
It's also super easy to export and import your files, which is great if you're worried about vendor lock-in.
The handy web clipper extension lets you save web pages or take screenshots in the browser and save them to your notes.
Check all the features in their website:
https://joplinapp.org
#notetaking #opensource #BuyFromEU #europeanalternatives
Follow them on Mastodon: @joplinapp
My latest blog post: VanSpoof – A-Muntzing We Will Go
https://mikecoats.com/van-spoof-muntzing/
With my first few VanSpoof prototypes assembled, I had noticed that the L78L05 was sometimes getting a little hot. Instead of knuckling down and calculating more suitable component values, I turned to the tried and tested method of Muntzing to get my power draw down.
#eBike #electronics #hardware #muntzing #openSource #vanMoof
My latest blog post: VanSpoof - Prototype 1 - Hardware
https://mikecoats.com/van-spoof-prototype-1-part-1/
Let's look at building a prototype PCB for my VanSpoof project. I really want to get better at soldering SMD components, so I'm going to try to use as few through-hole parts as I can get away with.
#eBike #electronics #hardware #openSource #reverseEngineering #vanMoof
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.
Git hits a 20-year milestone.
The Margo Initiative explores Edge interoperability.
The Salus Project addresses AI risks.
These highlights—and more—are in this week’s LF Quick Hits.
🎥 Click the comments for the full update.
#OpenSource #LinuxFoundation #CyberResilience #AI #EdgeComputing #Kubernetes #DevNews
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
A big thank you to #FreeWear for their donation to the Geeko Foundation in support of the @opensuse Project. Your contributions helps the #project & #community thrive! 🦎🎉 #opensource #FOSS https://www.freewear.org/openSUSE
Organic Maps is a great Google Maps alternative that's free, open-source, and offline. I used it yesterday to find my way in an unknown neighbourhood, and it worked like a charm. 🗺👍
#OrganicMaps #Navigation #GoogleMapsAlternative #Free #OpenSource #Offline #Privacy
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. ☺
Codeberg: Spam and DoS attacks on non-commercial development platform
Masses of spam messages, overflowing email inboxes and clogged internet lines: Anonymous attacks plague the non-profit Github alternative.
#Cybercrime #DoSSchwachstelle #Git #GitHub #OpenSource #Softwareentwicklung #Spam #news
This is neat: the United Nations have adopted a new set of 8 #OpenSource prinicples:
🔶 The UN Open Source Principles 🔶
1. Open by default: Making Open Source the standard approach for projects
2. Contribute back: Encouraging active participation in the Open Source ecosystem
3. Secure by design: Making security a priority in all software projects
4. Foster inclusive participation and community building: Enabling and facilitating diverse and inclusive contributions
5. Design for reusability: Designing projects to be interoperable across various platforms and ecosystems
6. Provide documentation: Providing thorough documentation for end-users, integrators and developers
7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower): Empowering individuals and communities to actively participate
8. Sustain and scale: Supporting the development of solutions that meet the evolving needs of the UN system and beyond.
Source: https://unite.un.org/news/osi-first-endorse-united-nations-open-source-principles
https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1886894357451866309
“One of my regrets about my years of being Mr. Famous Guy, when I had maximum leadership leverage, is that I didn't foresee the political threat to open source.
I thought it was enough to be apolitical, invite everybody to be part of our development community, and that everybody would continue to keep politics out of the coding. Including even my own libertarian politics.
If I had known what was coming, I would have made a big deal about insisting that the open source community had to have one positive political value: free speech and opposition to censorship. That would have been justified on the object level, because we can't function when those political conditions are violated.” — @esrtweet (x.com) @esrtweet
#freesoftware #freeculture #foss #floss #opensource #OSI #freesoftwarefoundation #freelibre #freespeech #censorship #anticensorship #freethought #antiwoke
GIMP 3.0 has been released.
https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/