The EU country of France replaces all government desktops with proper Open Source environments.

The country wants to be as least dependent as possible of US American Technology because the USA has been proven to be unworthy as a partner

Thus the country of France takes an enormous step towards digital sovereignty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France?wprov=sfla1

https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/

#OpenSource #Linux #programming #BSD #Technology #France #FR #USA #Little #Donald #Agent #Orange #no #TV

🚀 Domptez le stockage S3 en ligne de commande !

Marre de passer par une interface web pour gérer vos buckets ? Je viens de vous pondre un petit guide sur le wiki pour configurer le client MinIO (mc) sur Debian. 🐧

C’est simple, c’est rapide et ça change la vie pour vos scripts de sauvegarde !

👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/configurer-client-minio-mc-debian

Retrouvez l'ensemble de mes services sur https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

#Linux #MinIO #SysAdmin #Debian #OpenSource #BlablaLinux

Retrouvez l'ensemble de mes services sur blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

#Linux #OpenSource #Productivité #BlablaLinux #Wekan #Kan #Kanban

France's plan: Away from Windows, towards Linux

France's administration is to move away from Windows and US tools: the government is presenting a concrete roadmap for digital sovereignty.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/France-s-plan-Away-from-Windows-towards-Linux-11251739.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Datenschutz #DigitaleSouveränität #IT #OpenSource #Netzpolitik #Windows #news

We’ve published the second monthly report (March 2026) for the Cyber Resilience Act Readiness project, part of our ongoing 2026 effort to prepare the FreeBSD community for the European Union’s cybersecurity regulation.

Read the March report: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-projects/blob/main/Cyber%20Resilience%20Act%20Readiness/monthly-updates/2026-03.md

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Security #CyberResilienceAct #CRA #Community

I just released version 2 of my Catppuccin Mastodon UI and it is a big release!

- New name, Catppuccin Complete UI for Mastodon
- Added configurable Catppuccin flavor switching for Mocha, Macchiato, Frappe, and Latte (via Stylus/UserCSS)
- Added organized fixed exports under themes/ for every Catppuccin flavor and accent combination in both layouts
- and so much more!

Check it out here:
https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/catppuccin-complete-ui-for-mastodon-20/

#Mastodon #Themes #OpenSource #BuildInPublic #Catppuccin

Legendary, the open source launcher that powers the Epic Games integration in the likes of the Heroic Games Launcher has switched hands to keep it going.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/legendary-the-free-and-open-source-epic-games-launcher-has-moved-to-a-new-organisation/

#OpenSource #Apps #Misc

New podcast episode: Put some privacy in your smartphone! 📣 🎧

How can you use an Android smartphone while protecting your privacy? Who should you turn to for more privacy-friendly Android alternatives?
Can you install Linux on your phone?

With @fla from @Framasoft , we answer these questions!

👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/smartphone-put-privacy-in-your-smartphone/

#podcast #opensource #privacy #eos #iodeOS #calyxos #postmarketos #fairphone #commown #murena #ubuntutouch #grapheneos

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Projets Libres podcast season 4 episode 15: Put some privacy in your smartphone!

New on The Sovereign Auditor -- a long read for a Friday afternoon.
France just committed 2.5 million civil servants to leaving Microsoft. The reasoning is simple: a server in Paris is not legally French if the company is governed by US law.
Meanwhile Australia signed a new five-year Microsoft deal in February.
Different calculations. Different conclusions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/the-exit-and-the-lock-in
#DataSovereignty #CLOUDACT #Linux #OpenSource #GDPR #IsleOfMan #DigitalSovereignty #EU

@dansup
That are great news, I'm very curious about it.

@dave
#fediverse #mastodon #loops #opensource #foss

Gas Town kontrolliert, was automatisierte Agenten dürfen

Gas Town 1.0.0 orchestriert mehrstufige Entwicklungs-Workflows, härtet Agenten-Sicherheit und unterstützt erstmals Windows.

https://www.heise.de/news/Gas-Town-kontrolliert-was-automatisierte-Agenten-duerfen-11252101.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Automatisierung #GitHub #IT #OpenSource #Windows #news

RT @garrytan: Wenn Sie möchten, dass Ihr OpenClaw- oder Hermes-Agent über eine perfekte Gesamterinnerung an alle mehr als 10.000 Markdown-Dateien verfügt, ist GBrain hier, um zu helfen. Es entspricht exakt meinem OpenClaw/Hermes-Agenten-Setup. Open Source unter der MIT-Lizenz. Ich hoffe, es hilft Ihnen beim Bau Ihrer Mini-AGI. github.com/garrytan/gbrain

Mehr auf Arint.info

#Agent #github #MIT #OpenSource #arint_info

https://x.com/garrytan/status/2042497872114090069#m

What do people use / recommend for plotting *publication quality* plots of mathematical functions.

Not plotting data, plotting functions.

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In opensource, matplotlib is huge, but it is fundamentally plotting data points, and plotting functions means creating domain data points and calculating their mapping, and plotting that. Unsatisfactory imo.

Similarly for the other tool, ggplot2 in R, it is designed for data.

In proprietary software, Mathematica is also huge, but imho their plots have always look janky and not publication quality.

What I haven't explored is "latex packages" which purport to do function plotting. I'd be surprised if they did fancy things like not crashing at singularities. Is this what authors use for polished publications?

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Attached image is mathics3, an open source implementation of the Mathematica language. Looks fine for blogs, but not for a book typeset in the style of the classic Springer texts imho,

#opensource #maths #visualisation #plotting

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Wishing everyone a great time at Grazer Linuxtage by Verein der Grazer Linuxtage starting today in TU Graz, Campus Inffeldgasse in #Graz, #Austria

Find out more on
https://foss.events/2026/04-10-grazer-linuxtage.html

Follow the official account: @linuxtage

Connect via official hashtag(s): #glt26

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

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Why the hell do I constantly have problems with KDE Plasma and that piece of crap Akonadi???? Constant error messages, crashes, etc. whenever I try to connect to a calendar! It doesn't matter at all whether I try the Nextcloud Calendar, iCloud Calendar, or Google Calendar. And when I remove an online calendar, everything freezes—the entire KDE desktop. I’ve had this problem for years, no matter which version of KDE I use. I never have these kinds of problems with GNOME or GNOME Calendar. Akonadi is just a piece of software crap. 💩

#linux #opensource #freesoftware #kde #akonadi

Quand je vous dis que ce sont des gens bien…

La DINUM passe sous Linux.

→ https://www.clubic.com/actualite-608305-l-etat-francais-lache-windows-pour-linux-et-veut-se-desensibiliser-des-outils-americains.html

Via @claude et @chickenkiller
#LogicielsLibres #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

🔒 Tired of Google Drive reading your files? Syncthing syncs them directly between YOUR devices — no cloud, no subscriptions, no middlemen.

Open source, TLS-encrypted, works on Linux/Android/Windows. Set up in 10 minutes.

Full guide 2026: https://newsgroup.site/syncthing-file-sync-without-cloud-guide-2026/

#Syncthing #Privacy #OpenSource #SelfHosted #Linux

FSL and BSL belong on any list of false-promise licenses:

• https://fsl.software/
• https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/#whatis

They are not open source. They are restrictive source-available licenses dressed up with “open” language.

Reading the code is not enough. If users cannot freely run, use, or build on the software because of field-of-use or competition restrictions, the software is not open source.

Marketing it as “open source” or even putting “open” in your name is misleading twice: first in the license, then in the messaging.

#opensource #fauxopensource #license

✊️ France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

｢ France positions Linux adoption as part of a broader policy focused on sovereignty, interoperability, and reducing dependence on foreign vendors. As the announcement comes directly from DINUM, which oversees digital strategy across ministries, it holds greater significance than a local pilot or isolated administrative project ｣

https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/

#france #opensource #digitalsovereignty

It's done and #opensource​d on #GitHub! 🖖🥳
https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/hw-smi

A minimal, cross-compatible #CPU​/​#GPU telemetry monitor with accurate data directly from vendor APIs and beautiful ASCII visualization.

How much #VRAM bandwidth does an application or a game pull? Is the traffic over #PCIe a bottleneck? What's the CPU/GPU load, RAM/VRAM occupation, temps, power draw, clocks? hw-smi works with all CPUs and all #Nvidia​/​#AMD​/​#Intel GPUs, on both Windows and #Linux.

Have fun!

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Tzipporah/116375812854285969

Y'all can read the rest of this article early with a sub to my Raindrops tier or higher on Patreon! Mvto for the support~

Centralized and corporate-owned social media hurts Native communities → https://www.patreon.com/posts/centralized-and-155143186

#Native #Indigenous #Fediverse #Mastodon #Mvskoke #OpenSource #FOSS

France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.
https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/

#linux #opensource

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France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.

Happy Horse: Alibaba's secret AI video model storms the benchmarks

The AI model Happy Horse causes a stir: it generates videos with synchronized audio and outperforms the competition. Alibaba is likely behind it.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Happy-Horse-Alibaba-s-secret-AI-video-model-storms-the-benchmarks-11251074.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Alibaba #Forschung #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenSource #OpenAI #news

I'll be speaking about #opensource in #varberg next week. Come and join me!

https://www.meetup.com/varberg-tech-events/events/313741409/?slug=varberg-tech-events&eventId=313741409

"How it all began"

I saw an ad for this CD set at a very low price in a computer magazine. I decided to give it a try, enticed by the low cost and this 'alternative solution to Windows', and in late 1996 I ordered this set.
When it arrived, I was fascinated (having never used a Unix or Unix-like system before) but a bit daunted by the lack of support for the main applications I knew. A few months later, though, I decided to give it another go and from that point, I never looked back. Whether it was Linux, one of the BSDs, or something similar (but Unix or Unix-like), I was not going back to systems like Windows.

My #ThrowbackThursday today is probably one of the most significant in my computing life.

#Linux #TechHistory #OpenSource #Unix #TechNostalgia #ComputingMemories #BSD #TechnologyEvolution #OldSchoolComputing #1996 #ITLife

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This is a photo of a 6-CD set case for "InfoMagic LINUX Developer's Resource". The CD case cover has a whimsical cartoon character on the front, which appears to be an anthropomorphic penguin dressed as a wizard, complete with a wizard's hat and a magic wand. The character is standing on a stylized representation of the globe. The background is blue and there is a yellow banner on the top right corner that says "QuickStart Guide inside". The packaging suggests that this is a software resource kit for Linux developers from the era when software was commonly distributed on CDs.

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This is a photo of the back cover of the "InfoMagic LINUX Developer's Resource CD-ROM" case. The cover lists the contents of the 6-CD set, including distributions like Red Hat 3.0.3 "Picasso", Slackware 3.1, Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4, and others, with various kernel sources up to version 2.0.12+. It mentions the inclusion of a "QuickStart" installation guide and additional software like X-Free86 Version 3.1.2, with references to online resources. There's also information about the included on-line documentation like "Installation & Getting Started Guide" by Matt Welsh and "Network Administrators Guide", as well as file format details. Contact information for InfoMagic, including telephone, fax, email, and web address, is listed, along with the company's address in Flagstaff, AZ. A barcode is present on the bottom right. The text indicates the product is from 1996, providing a glimpse into the distribution of Linux software in the mid-1990s.

New blog post: #FreeBSD 16 System Calls Table

https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2026-04-09-freebsd-16-system-calls.html

I wrote this mainly as personal notes to explore and kick off a new project, but it might be useful for others too.

#happycoding #UNIX #openSource #kernel #coding #syscalls #SystemCall

Which has the best source code?

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Best is whatever you care about code quality. For some it might be design coherence, for others it might be resistance to security exploits, for others it might be architecture portability.

#netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #opensource

Had a great time joining the Call For Testing channel's Jail/Zones Production User Call to talk about daemonless.io! We dove deep into the weeds of bringing native FreeBSD OCI container images to life, porting complex application stacks, and exploring the future of container ecosystems on FreeBSD.

Check out the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/1pKdEZ1DhYM

#FreeBSD #daemonless #OCI #Containers #OpenSource #SelfHosted

2/2 Once I finish testing I'll publish all the results and methodology to show that the features in omnimem are helping rather than just a pure retrieval metric from the Valkey data store.

You can follow along on the v5 branch and particularly issue #19 at: https://codeberg.org/ric_harvey/omnimem whilst you're there drop me a star please :) It'll all help as I don't have celebrity backers ;)

#opensource #aims to #memory #claude #openai

1/2 So if you're wondering how #omnimem compares to #MemPalace:

result: single-session-assistant type achieved 94.6% on longMemEval.

However, v5 is bringing in LOTS of changes to help with temporal reasoning and multi-session improvements by allowing users to optionally switch on enrichment queues for remember_document(). This will extract individual facts from larger documents helping with the recall() function.

#opensource #ai #memory #claude #openai

FreeBSD keeps showing that serious open source work also means serious hardware testing.

This laptop compatibility website is a great example of that. It gives people a clearer view of what actually works on real machines and makes FreeBSD more approachable for anyone thinking about using it on a laptop.

What I like most is that this is practical work. It helps users make better decisions, reduces guesswork and strengthens trust in the ecosystem.

https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/freebsd-laptop-testing/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource

APT 3.2 has landed with some noteworthy additions.

https://itsfoss.com/news/apt-3-2-release/

#linux #opensource

@ct_Magazin "KI-FOMO frisst Sicherheit" trifft es genau. MCP-Server werden ausgerollt, bevor irgendjemand fragt: Wer darf welches Tool aufrufen? Was passiert mit den Daten bevor sie das LLM erreichen? Das Protokoll selbst liefert keine Antworten darauf.
Deshalb bauen wir an ToolMesh — ein MCP-Gateway mit Autorisierung, Audit Trail und Output-Filtering. #MCP #Security #OpenSource

Keycloak 26.6 bringt Zero-Downtime-Updates und Workflows

Das Open-Source-IAM-System Keycloak 26.6 befördert fünf Features in den produktiven Status – darunter Federated Client Authentication und Zero-Downtime-Updates.

https://www.heise.de/news/Keycloak-26-6-bringt-Zero-Downtime-Updates-und-Workflows-11250371.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IdentityManagement #IT #Java #Kubernetes #OpenSource #Security #news

Digitale Souveränität: Erneutes Stühlerücken beim ZenDiS

Führungswechsel beim Zentrum für Digitale Souveränität (ZenDiS): Geschäftsführer Alexander Pockrandt verlässt die Doppelspitze des Unternehmens.

https://www.heise.de/news/Digitale-Souveraenitaet-Erneutes-Stuehleruecken-beim-ZenDiS-11250345.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#DigitaleSouveränität #IT #Security #Netzpolitik #OpenSource #Wirtschaft #news

RT @KanikaBK: 🚨 EILMELDUNG: MICROSOFT hat gerade eine VOICE AI als Open Source veröffentlicht, die 60 MINUTEN AUDIO in einem einzigen Durchgang transkribiert. 100 % KOSTENLOS. Sie weiß, wer gesprochen hat. Sie weiß, wann sie gesprochen haben. Sie weiß genau, was sie gesagt haben. Alles in einem Schritt. Kein Aufteilen. Kein Kontextverlust. Sie heißt VibeVoice. Kein bloßes Transkriptionswerkzeug. Kein einfacher Speech-to-Text-Wrapper. Eine wegweisende Voice-AI-Familie mit ASR, TTS und Echtzeit-Streaming. Alles Open Source. Alles kostenlos. Das ist der eigentliche Funktionsumfang 👇 VibeVoice ASR – Spracherkennung: → Verarbeitet 60 Minuten kontinuierliches Audio in einem einzigen Durchgang → Teilt Audio niemals in Stücke auf, sodass der globale Kontext niemals verloren geht → Identifiziert gleichzeitig, WER gesprochen hat, WANN sie gesprochen haben und WAS sie gesagt haben → Unterstützt benutzerdefinierte Hotwords für domänenspezifische Genauigkeit → Funktioniert nativ in über 50 Sprachen → Bereits von der Hugging Face Transformers Library übernommen → Wird bereits von der Open-Source-Community weiterentwickelt – VON LEUTEN, DIE KEINE AHNUNG HATTEN, DASS DIESES NIVEAU AN GENAUIGKEIT B

Mehr auf Arint.info

#HuggingFace #MICROSOFT #mit #OpenSource #arint_info

https://x.com/KanikaBK/status/2041803346345132410#m

RT @JafarNajafov: 🚨EILMELDUNG: Jemand hat gerade einen Headless-Browser als Open Source veröffentlicht, der 11-mal schneller als Chrome läuft und 9-mal weniger Arbeitsspeicher verbraucht. Er heißt Lightpanda und wurde von Grund auf speziell für KI-Agenten, Scraping und Automatisierung entwickelt. Kein Chromium-Fork. Kein Hack. Ein völlig neuer Browser, geschrieben in Zig.

Mehr auf Arint.info

#OpenSource #Zig #arint_info

https://x.com/JafarNajafov/status/2041804695505924574#m

🦀 Redox OS — the Rust microkernel OS — has banned all AI/LLM-generated contributions.

Their reasoning:
❌ LLMs produce code that "looks correct" but hides subtle bugs
❌ No chain of accountability for AI-written system code
❌ Legal risk from training data copyright
❌ Erosion of contributor understanding

For OS-level code, this position makes sense. Every line of kernel code has a human who understands it.

Full analysis:
https://newsgroup.site/redox-os-ai-code-ban-llm-policy-2026/

#RedoxOS #Rust #OpenSource #AI #Linux #Privacy

🚨 NEWS 🚨

The Apache Software Foundation Announces $1.5M Donation from Anthropic

https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces-1-5m-donation-from-anthropic

#AI #opensource #cloudnative #DataInfrastructure #ArtificialIntelligence

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Working on the #ZZ9000 #Amiga #RTG card next. Time to optimize that performance a bit, since there hasn't been any new firmware or driver updates in quite a while!

#OpenSource @mntmn

Hi folks again for today! ✌️

Now you can freely download "Dima Defense" on F-Droid 👉 https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.xolatgames.dima.defense/

Thanks too much to linsui (https://gitlab.com/linsui) for helping me again 🙂

Have a good evening! 😉

#libgdx #android #androiddev #mobile #mobiledev #game #games #java #gradle #inkscape #tiled #TiledMapEditor #2d #towerdefense #fdroid #opensource #gamedev #MobileDevelopment #Dima #netbeans #free

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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the kind of work I want to keep building and sharing online.

I wrote about that, why I refreshed my support pages, and what I’m hoping to make more of going forward: practical cybersecurity, MSP automation, indie web tools, and real-world IT projects.

https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/why-im-building-more-intentionally-online-and-id-love-to-have-you-along/

#IndieWeb #IndieWebDev #OpenSource #BuildInPublic #Cybersecurity #MSP #IT #Blogging

@socialband Le projet s'inscrit-il dans une démarche de #logiciellibre ou #opensource ?

Since my bonfire @firesidefedi account is acting up, going to post this here.

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

Special Guest: @tommi@pan.rent

If I wanted to make this bio accurate, it would change every few hours. Figuring out my identity, 64 bits at a time. Learning at post.lurk.org/@xpub , working with social.coop/@dweb and toot.village.one/@VillageOne... . Words and pictures originally published by me are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 13 April 2026 at 13:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥

📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)

🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)

🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)

Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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A dark image. The background is unclear and blurry. On the foreground on the left there is a huge circle, inside of which a profile picture belonging to @tommi@pan.rent. On the other side, a bit lower in the frame we see a fediverse logo, but on fire. This is the logo of the Fireside Fedi show. In between those two elements a text is written. This text says: AN INTERVIEW WITH @tommi@pan.rent Tommi - If I wanted to make this bio accurate, it would change every few hours. Figuring out my identity, 64 bits at a time. Learning at https://post.lurk.org/@xpub , working with https://social.coop/@dweb and https://toot.village.one/@VillageOneCoop . Words and pictures originally published by me are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 13 April 2026 AT 13:00 US EASTERN TIME ON FIRESIDEFEDI.LIVE

A full fediverse instance running on a simple shared host, in pure PHP, with no external dependencies. That is the idea behind Starling:
https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling/

#fediverse #activitypub #php #opensource