jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Schönen guten Morgen,
DARF ICH EUCH EINLADEN ZU MEINER GESCHICHTE!
DIE GEBURT VON LINUX! – Wie ein Hobby‑Projekt die Welt veränderte.
Kapitel vier
Was tue ich?
Ich stelle mir diese Frage tatsächlich selbst sehr oft. Ich stelle sie mir, weil ich finde, dass wir sie uns alle öfter stellen sollten, ehrlich, ohne schönreden, ohne wegzuschauen.
Und... Ich mache das nicht perfekt. Ich scheitere auch. Ich bestelle auch mal etwas online. Ich bin kein moralisches Vorbild, ich versuche nur bewusst zu leben.
Technologie & digitale Selbstbestimmung
Ich nutze seit 1998 ausschließlich Linux. Privat und beruflich. Kein Windows, kein macOS. Nicht aus Trotz, sondern weil freie, offene Software für mich eine politische Haltung ist. Wer seine Daten, seine Werkzeuge und seine digitale Infrastruktur vollständig in den Händen von Konzernen lässt, die damit Milliarden verdienen, gibt ein Stück Souveränität ab. Das will ich nicht. Ich verwalte privat und beruflich dutzende Linux-Server, und ich tue das mit Überzeugung, nicht nur mit Kompetenz.
Kein Facebook (mehr). Kein Twitter/X (mehr). Kein Instagram. So wenig Amazon wie möglich. Ich weiß, das klingt für manche radikal. Für mich ist es konsequent. Diese Konzerne verdienen an unserer Aufmerksamkeit, an unseren Daten, an unserer Wut. Ich verweigere dieses Geschäftsmodell.
Stattdessen bin ich hier, im Fediverse. Dezentral, offen, menschlich. Ich betreibe mit lsbt.me eine eigene Mastodon-Instanz: ein sicherer, queerer Raum für LGBTQ+ Menschen. Ohne Algorithmus, der Hass belohnt. Ohne Konzern, der entscheidet, welche Stimmen sichtbar sind. Bei uns entscheidet die Community.
Ökologie & bewusstes Leben
Meine Frau Michelle und ich leben in unserem eigenen Haus und versuchen jeden Tag, unseren ökologischen Fußabdruck so klein wie möglich zu halten. Auf unserem Dach arbeitet eine 11-kWp-Photovoltaikanlage, gespeichert in einem 11-kWh-Heimspeicher. Wir produzieren unseren Strom weitgehend selbst. Die Sonne schickt keine Rechnung.
Wir fahren wenig, kaum 5.000 bis 7.000 Kilometer im Jahr. Bald steigen wir auf ein Elektroauto um, den Skoda Epiq, und laden es dann mit unserem eigenen Sonnenstrom. Mit einer PV-optimierten Wallbox schließt sich der Kreis.
Hinter unserem Haus liegt ein großer Garten, der uns echte Selbstversorgung ermöglicht. Bohnen, Kohlrabi, Salate, Kartoffeln, Zwiebeln, Knoblauch, Erdbeeren, Brombeeren. Mehrere große Kirschbäume, ein alter Walnussbaum, viele Apfelbäume. Was wir nicht selbst ernten, kaufen wir regional und saisonal. Essen hat für uns wieder einen Weg, und eine Herkunft.
Und ja, ich bin mir sehr bewusst, dass ich das Privileg habe, mir diese Infrastruktur (Haus/PV/E-Auto) leisten zu können, und sehe es gerade deshalb als Verantwortung, es auch genau so zu tun.
Politik & Haltung
Ich bin politisch. Sehr. Manche nennen mich linksextrem, ich finde das ehrlich gesagt eher bezeichnend für den Zustand unserer Debattenkultur als für meine tatsächliche Haltung. Ich bin weder gewalttätig noch verfassungsfeindlich. Ich bin schlicht der Meinung, dass Menschenwürde, soziale Gerechtigkeit und Klimaschutz keine Verhandlungssache sind. Ich bin Mitglied bei DIE LINKE, weil ich an eine Gesellschaft glaube, die niemanden zurücklässt.
Ich bin Feministin. Antifaschistin. Und ich stehe laut dazu, auch wenn es unbequem ist.
Aktivismus für trans* & LGBTQ+ Menschen
Ich bin eine Frau mit transgeschlechtlicher Vergangenheit. Und ich sage das nicht als Disclaimer, sondern als Erklärung, warum ich tue, was ich tue. Ich habe am eigenen Leib erfahren, wie es sich anfühlt, wenn niemand für einen kämpft. Wie es sich anfühlt, unsichtbar zu sein, diskriminiert zu werden, nicht zu wissen, ob es überhaupt einen Ausweg gibt.
Deshalb kämpfe ich. Ich habe jahrelang Selbsthilfegruppen für trans*, inter* und nicht-binäre Menschen geleitet, in Radolfzell, Ravensburg, Villingen, Sulz am Neckar und darüber hinaus. Ich habe als Peerberaterin hunderte Menschen auf ihrem Weg begleitet, bei Fragen zu Hormonen, Operationen, Ärzten, Behörden, Arbeitgebern, Familie. Ich habe Vorträge und Seminare an Schulen, Universitäten und Kliniken gehalten, um Transphobie zu bekämpfen, bevor sie entsteht.
Ich habe das nicht gemacht, weil ich musste. Ich habe es gemacht, weil niemand das durchmachen soll, was ich durchgemacht habe.
Tue ich genug? Nein. Niemand tut je „genug". Aber ich tue, was ich kann, mit dem, was ich habe, jeden Tag ein bisschen bewusster. Und ich glaube, das ist der einzig realistische Anspruch, den wir an uns selbst stellen sollten.
Was tust du für eine bessere Welt? Ich frage das nicht rhetorisch. Ich bin wirklich neugierig. 🌱
#Linux #FreieSoftware #OpenSource #Fediverse #Mastodon #lsbtme #Nachhaltigkeit #Photovoltaik #Selbstversorgung #Klimaschutz #TransRechte #LGBTQ #Feminismus #Aktivismus #DieLinke #QueereRechte #Peerberatung #Solidarität
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#DigitalFreedom #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #TechFreedom #DigitalRights
#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
#FreeSoftware #AppDevelopment #AndroidDev #FDroid #Sideloading
#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität #petition
Auf der Suche nach einer #wetter #app für Android ?
https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.breezyweather/
Kernel programming lore
I haven't looked at the linux kernel source in too long a time. I just grabbed a section that was on top and started reading and learning
Source code is nice to read IMHO
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20260228145258.76937-2-johannes.goede@oss.qualcomm.com/T/#u
#kernel #lore #Linux #programming #OpenSource #POSIX #technology #modules #configure #make #asm #assembler #test #install
TIL about adw-gtk3 an unofficial GTK3 port of libadwaita.
It's a theme usuable for many DE and can make your GIMP look very nice too
https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3?tab=readme-ov-file
#GIMP #Photograph #Photo #correction #image #manipulation #adw #theme #OpenSource #TheGiMP #programming #keyboard #shortcuts #Linux #POSIX
Im Landkreis Harz arbeiten Schüler:innen auf gebrauchten Business-Laptops mit #Linux-OS.
"Ich unterrichte keine Marke, sondern ich unterrichte Kompetenzen. Textverarbeitung, Textstrukturierung oder Tabellenkalkulation können mit #LibreOffice genauso vermittelt werden wie mit #Microsoft Office." - Lehrerin Johanna Müller
Genau so geht #digitaleSouveranität und selbstbestimmte Techniknutzung! Keine überteuren Lizenzen, keine Schaffung von (Pfad)abhängigkeiten bereits im Kindesalter, keine Produktwerbung, für die auch noch gezahlt wird. Stattdessen nebenbei kritisches Denken fördern, während vordergründig Bürosoftware gelernt wird.
#digitalsovereignty #digitale_souveranitat #opensource #FOSS #FLOSS #datenschutz #dataprotection
Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.
Stell dir folgendes Szenario vor, du kaufst ein neues Smartphone, bezahlst es aus eigener Tasche und gehst selbstverständlich davon aus, dass es dein Eigentum ist. Ein Jahr später erhält das Gerät ein Systemupdate. Danach erscheint beim Installieren einer App plötzlich eine Meldung: „Diese App darf auf deinem Gerät nicht mehr installiert werden.“
Nicht, weil die App illegal wäre. Nicht, weil sie nachweislich gefährlich ist. Sondern, weil der Entwickler nicht im vorgesehenen Register steht.
Genau dieses Szenario könnte ab September 2026 Realität werden.
Vollständiger Beitrag:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-android-gehoert-uns
#OpenAndroid2026
#linux #opensource #freiheit #KeepAndroidOpen #Android #OpenAndroid
#DigitalFreedom #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #TechFreedom #DigitalRights
#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
#FreeSoftware #AppDevelopment #AndroidDev #FDroid #Sideloading
#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität
Kernel.org kernel dev
Reading a bit up on the Linux kernel doc
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/index.html
#kernel #Linux #programming #OpenSource #POSIX #technology #modules #configure #make #asm #assembler #test #install
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#DigitalFreedom #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #TechFreedom #DigitalRights
#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
#FreeSoftware #AppDevelopment #AndroidDev #FDroid #Sideloading
#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität #petition
Was ist denn die herrschende Meinung des Fediverse dazu, welches das beste (FLOSS) CAD-Programm ist, um Objekte für den 3D-
Druck zu gestalten?
AutoCAD Grundkentnisse sind vorhanden.
GIMP uses GEGL. I will briefly quote; I want you to seek GEGL data yourself at their site. It's a wonderful architecture
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GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a data flow based image processing framework, providing floating point processing and non-destructive image processing capabilities to GNU Image Manipulation Program and other projects (imgflo, GNOME Photos, iconographer, …)
GIMP site also has interviews with the programmers. Go and seek
Sources
https://www.gimp.org/
https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/02/22/%C3%B8yvind-kol%C3%A5s-interview-ww2017/
https://pippin.gimp.org/
https://gegl.org/
https://gegl.org/operations/index.html
#GIMP #Photograph #Photo #correction #image #manipulation #OpenSource #TheGiMP #programming #keyboard #shortcuts #technology #Linux #POSIX
RFC 1305 defining the NTP protocol version 3 was published in March 1992 https://cromwell-intl.com/networking/protocols.html?s=mb #IPnetworking #OpenSource #Linux
Marre de courir après les infos ou de subir les algos ? Reprends le contrôle ! 📢
Je viens de te préparer un Docker Compose aux petits oignons pour déployer FreshRSS en 2 minutes chrono. C'est propre, c'est centralisé, et c'est auto-hébergé 🐧☕
⚙️ Le snippet ByteStash : https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/920c7dc1a57a58e7c2635800615b5718
🌐 Site officiel : https://freshrss.org
🛠️ Dépôt GitHub : https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
#SelfHosted #FreshRSS #RSS #ByteStash #BlablaLinux #OpenSource #Docker
RFC 7822 extending the NTP protocol version 4 was published in March 2016 https://cromwell-intl.com/networking/protocols.html?s=mb #IPnetworking #OpenSource #Linux
"You can now use detailed open source licensing filters on AlternativeTo!"
"So, some of you might have already caught this, but for those who have not, we wanted to share a small update we pushed recently.AlternativeTonow hasmore detailed open source licensing filters. Hey guys!"
Keyboard shortcuts power in UI control
I've had consistent good keyboard experiences with keyboard shortcuts in both closed source and Open Source programs
The program suite by AutoDesk ACAD which I know from version 10.0, was run on a single tasking 286 CPU with a seperate 287 math coprocessor installed. That computer was in URC, the computer lab of my University in SR/SA.
In that period of multitasking dark ages on x86 not even the coprocessor could be integrated on the CPU die. Of course my Amiga multitasked all it's programs in the same period, but that's for another toot ;)
ACAD10 and others have a set of nice functions which I still know by heart, because I can make nice 3D images with them
The 3D objects look gorgeous!
I can create them in seconds on simple hardware, and can play by making them for hours
#keyboard #shortcuts #UI #GUi #TUI #programming #OpenSource #ClosedSource #ACAD #DOS #Amiga #Linux #technology
GIMP v3.04
It was this early morning, when I tried to fire up GIMP, I noticed that I had forgotten to install this magnificent gfx tool kit.
I ran apt install gimp immediately
I've been using GIMP ever since it came out, decades ago (spawn 1995). Even though the UI was totally different from what I was used to, adaptation was fast and my fluency in use of GIMP increased fast. I like working in GIMP
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In 1995, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis began developing GIMP as a semester project at University of California, Berkeley for the eXperimental Computing Facility.[8] The software was originally named the General Image Manipulation Program
Over the decades I've seen a lot of users emitting futile complaints about the GUI, the use of many windows / viewports, while I can easily transition from closed source software on client's machines, to the GIMP, just by switching the mindset regarding the UI. The logic behind UI decisions is easily traceable.
You should learn what you need to do, get fluent into those tasks, and learn more when you need more. This mind set also works in VIM, which has a massive ammount of functions and commands to make not only your programming in different languages more pleasant, it also has subtle assist functions which makes your source entries even more enjoyable.
GIMP always gives me consistent performance and I can rely on the keyboard shortcuts without having to use the mouse to select functions brushes, et all.
GIMP is for me a must have in my photo correction work flow. I've never relied on closed source software for those tasks, GIMP always has similar functions, many working even more efficient with your computer's CPU / GPU resources.
For the Love of GIMP
Note:
I've always known that Open Source programs can be trusted better than closed source equivalents, something you all know when it comes down to the big photo manupilation suite, which enshittifies everything for its paying users.
You can trust GIMP
Sources:
Mea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP
#GIMP #Photograph #Photo #correction #image #manipulation #OpenSource #TheGiMP #programming #keyboard #shortcuts #Linux #POSIX
Stell dir folgendes Szenario vor, du kaufst ein neues Smartphone, bezahlst es aus eigener Tasche und gehst selbstverständlich davon aus, dass es dein Eigentum ist. Ein Jahr später erhält das Gerät ein Systemupdate. Danach erscheint beim Installieren einer App plötzlich eine Meldung: „Diese App darf auf deinem Gerät nicht mehr installiert werden.“
Nicht, weil die App illegal wäre. Nicht, weil sie nachweislich gefährlich ist. Sondern, weil der Entwickler nicht im vorgesehenen Register steht.
Genau dieses Szenario könnte ab September 2026 Realität werden.
Vollständiger Beitrag:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-android-gehoert-uns
#OpenAndroid2026
#linux #opensource #freiheit #KeepAndroidOpen #Android #OpenAndroid
#DigitalFreedom #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #TechFreedom #DigitalRights
#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
#FreeSoftware #AppDevelopment #AndroidDev #FDroid #Sideloading
#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität
Back in 2022, surrounded by colleagues who were infused with "open source scepticism", I wrote "Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/opensource_enterprise_notes.html as an explainer.
Hopefully a useful thing for others too, with links therein #freesofware #opensource #enterprise #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #linux
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#OpenAndroid2026
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#DigitalFreedom #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #TechFreedom #DigitalRights
#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
#FreeSoftware #AppDevelopment #AndroidDev #FDroid #Sideloading
#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität #petition
Frischer Wind mit X: #GhostBSD wechselt von X.org auf #XLibre | iX Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/Frischer-Wind-mit-X-GhostBSD-wechselt-von-X-org-auf-XLibre-11191755.html #wayland #BSD #x11 #Linux
#OpenSource
Eine Neuigkeit für heute: Wir planen, LibreOffice Online wiederzubeleben, eine webbasierte Version der Suite, die Benutzer auf ihrer eigenen Infrastruktur einsetzen können:
https://de.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/02/25/libreoffice-online-ein-neuanfang/
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #fedilz #office #schule #Verwaltung
Lightweight Distro BunsenLabs Carbon Is Here with Support for Wayland Sessions, Based on #Debian 13 https://9to5linux.com/bunsenlabs-carbon-is-here-with-support-for-wayland-sessions-based-on-debian-13
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#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
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#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität #petition
Stell dir folgendes Szenario vor, du kaufst ein neues Smartphone, bezahlst es aus eigener Tasche und gehst selbstverständlich davon aus, dass es dein Eigentum ist. Ein Jahr später erhält das Gerät ein Systemupdate. Danach erscheint beim Installieren einer App plötzlich eine Meldung: „Diese App darf auf deinem Gerät nicht mehr installiert werden.“
Nicht, weil die App illegal wäre. Nicht, weil sie nachweislich gefährlich ist. Sondern, weil der Entwickler nicht im vorgesehenen Register steht.
Genau dieses Szenario könnte ab September 2026 Realität werden.
Vollständiger Beitrag:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-android-gehoert-uns
#OpenAndroid2026
#linux #opensource #freiheit #KeepAndroidOpen #Android #OpenAndroid
#DigitalFreedom #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #TechFreedom #DigitalRights
#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
#FreeSoftware #AppDevelopment #AndroidDev #FDroid #Sideloading
#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität
I'm looking at the architecture of things like Fedora Silverblue, NixOS, and the Steam Deck.
The concept of an immutable root filesystem with atomic updates seems like the technically correct way to do an OS. No more dependency hell, no more breaking the system with a bad sudo command. But the muscle memory of apt-get install / dnf install is hard to break. Containerizing everything (flatpak/distrobox) feels like a friction point for quick tasks.
For those who daily drive an immutable distro: Was the learning curve worth the stability? Or is it still too much friction for a machine? 🤔
#askfedi #linux #fedora #steam #steamdeck #NixOS #foss #opensource #programming #sysadmin
Beim DiDay gilt: Bitte Barrierefreiheit nicht vergessen. Wenn wir wechseln, dann richtig. Empfehlt nur Systeme und Apps, die wirklich nutzbar sind – mit Screenreader, Tastatur, Untertiteln, gutem Kontrast und ohne fiese Hürden. Diese Bewegung kann die Welt fairer machen. Aber nur, wenn alle mitkommen. Freiheit ohne Zugang ist keine Freiheit. Also: testet, meldet Bugs, nervt Anbieter und baut Alternativen, die inklusiv sind.
#DigitalIndependenceDay #DIDay #DIDit #DUTgemacht #CCC #Barrierefreiheit #Inklusion #OpenSource
I've built something new for the #fediverse and it's #opensource. If your website has an #RSS feed and you'd like to bring its content to a new audience well now it's easy without changing any code and you can do it with #selfhosting
Introducing "Feediverse": https://feediverse.squarecows.com
Please boost to help spread the word!
I got rid of the default home/screen launcher app years ago, and haven't looked back. There are many alternatives.
My favorite is the KISS launcher. It gets rid of the pages of apps entirely. Instead, it puts four or five apps along the bottom row as "favorites", below that a search bar (which searches for apps, urls, optionally contacts, etc). Above it, previously launched apps in order of most recent use.
Most apps are either my favorites, right above my favorites, or one keyboard stroke away (just type the first letter of the app, and history list filters itself instantly.
It takes a minute to get used to, but it's worth it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.neamar.kiss
New project - spin up a second isolated self-hosting environment and keep the total power draw under 30 watts.
Done ✅
Two labs, each under 30 watts hosting multiple VMs and dozens of containers.
#linux #selfhosted #homelab #ubiquiti #docker #debian #virtualization #opensource #foss
💪 #postmarketOS AI Policy:
The following is not allowed in postmarketOS:
- Submitting contributions fully or in part created by generative AI tools to postmarketOS.
- Recommending generative AI tools to other community members for solving problems in the postmarketOS space.
If somebody keeps on violating these rules, we may escalate the situation according to the Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines with warnings and temporary/permanent bans
https://docs.postmarketos.org/policies-and-processes/development/ai-policy.html
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#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@prism/116143681558403685
MicroG needs more human human.
And maybe some kind of AI slop verifier :|
The comedy of MicroG being unable to use RCS continues.
https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2994
The bounty for fixing is now fifteen thousand dollars! This has drawn quite a bit of attention from various AI scrapers who are submitting PR's to "fix" the issue. They also leave a lot of comments on the issue which people are responding to as if they are human!
Résultat ? Une instance v9.3.0-138 qui ronronne et un Nextcloud plus réactif que jamais ! 🐧🔥
Le Libre, c'est bien. Le Libre bien optimisé, c'est mieux.
#BlablaLinux #OnlyOffice #Docker #Proxmox #SelfHosted #Nextcloud #SysAdmin #OpenSource
Stell dir folgendes Szenario vor, du kaufst ein neues Smartphone, bezahlst es aus eigener Tasche und gehst selbstverständlich davon aus, dass es dein Eigentum ist. Ein Jahr später erhält das Gerät ein Systemupdate. Danach erscheint beim Installieren einer App plötzlich eine Meldung: „Diese App darf auf deinem Gerät nicht mehr installiert werden.“
Nicht, weil die App illegal wäre. Nicht, weil sie nachweislich gefährlich ist. Sondern, weil der Entwickler nicht im vorgesehenen Register steht.
Genau dieses Szenario könnte ab September 2026 Realität werden.
Vollständiger Beitrag:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-android-gehoert-uns
#OpenAndroid2026
#linux #opensource #freiheit #KeepAndroidOpen #Android #OpenAndroid
#DigitalFreedom #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #TechFreedom #DigitalRights
#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
#FreeSoftware #AppDevelopment #AndroidDev #FDroid #Sideloading
#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität
Brief issue with peertube and the S3 storage backing it... but should all be back up and running now, currently opening the videos from this year so we can get started with some content!
The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with Linux?
So, while clearing out my storage locker, I found a box of MiniDV tapes. I have two cameras, known to be working when they were put in storage about two years ago, but it’s probably time to get the video off the tapes before they deteriorate or the cameras stop working.
What’s the preferred #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux way of downloading copies of the data from tape? I think I have an old Mac Mini with a FireWire port, but I never liked the way iMovie chopped up the clips it downloaded.
Et toi, tu attends quoi pour les rejoindre en vocal ? 🎤
👉 mumble.blablalinux.be:64738
#BlablaLinux #Mumble #GamingLibre #ApexLegends #LinuxGaming #OpenSource #AutoHebergement
Anonymisierendes #Linux: Tails 7.5 mit sichererem #Thunderbird | heise online #OpenSource
We’re excited to welcome @elizabethn as the new Executive Director of The PHP Foundation! 🐘 💜
Elizabeth brings deep PHP community roots, open-source governance experience from GitHub and CHAOSS, and a passion for making PHP thrive for decades to come.
Read more → https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/02/27/welcoming-elizabeth-barron-new-executive-director/
Stell dir folgendes Szenario vor, du kaufst ein neues Smartphone, bezahlst es aus eigener Tasche und gehst selbstverständlich davon aus, dass es dein Eigentum ist. Ein Jahr später erhält das Gerät ein Systemupdate. Danach erscheint beim Installieren einer App plötzlich eine Meldung: „Diese App darf auf deinem Gerät nicht mehr installiert werden.“
Nicht, weil die App illegal wäre. Nicht, weil sie nachweislich gefährlich ist. Sondern, weil der Entwickler nicht im vorgesehenen Register steht.
Genau dieses Szenario könnte ab September 2026 Realität werden.
Vollständiger Beitrag:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-android-gehoert-uns
#OpenAndroid2026
#linux #opensource #freiheit #KeepAndroidOpen #Android #OpenAndroid
#DigitalFreedom #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #TechFreedom #DigitalRights
#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
#FreeSoftware #AppDevelopment #AndroidDev #FDroid #Sideloading
#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität
🐍🤖 Saiu post novo no blog!
Ontem no encontro da https://bolha.us sobre ActivityPub a gente bateu um papo incrível sobre bots no Fediverso — e esse post é o resultado prático disso.
👉 Construindo Bots para o Fediverso com Python e apkit
https://www.riverfount.dev.br/posts/translate-bot/
Cubro tudo o que você precisa pra criar um bot ActivityPub do zero:
→ Por que usar apkit em vez de Mastodon.py
→ WebFinger, HTTP Signatures e RSA na prática
→ Um bug real de produção com digest SHA-256
→ 96 testes e os padrões de mock que aprendi na prática
O caso de estudo é um translate-bot: recebe menções, detecta o idioma e responde com a tradução direto na thread.
sudo-rs shows password asterisks by default – break with Unix tradition
The Rust implementation sudo-rs now shows asterisks by default when typing passwords. A break with long Unix tradition.
I am going to play with this DB on one of my distributions. couchDB scales from massive all the way down to mobile
quote:
Apache CouchDB ™ lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and products that span every imaginable computing environment from globally distributed server-clusters, over mobile phones to web browsers.
https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/intro/why.html
#couchDB #database #scaling #Apache #Linux #dBASE #programming #technology #OpenSource #POSIX
LLM slop bug reports in log4J2
This thing now needs to be fixed on the highest level possible
Wasting programmers time is what the LLMs are doing
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/discussions/4052
#log4J2 #LLM #AI #generated #Slop #bug #bounty #reports #technology #OpenSource
Heute habe ich noch einen echten Knaller für Euer Wochenende gefunden.
Da ist nun wirklich ALLES drin:
1. #Nerds können ein Dutzend liebevoll versteckter easter eggs finden und Laien trotzdem alles gut verstehen.
2. Unterhaltsam und spannend wie ein #Thriller
3. Eine richtige #truecrime Doku
4. Ein #Verbrechen, das beinahe gelang und weltweit Folgen in mindestens ähnlichen Dimensionen wie der Diebstahl einer #Atombombe gehabt hätte!
5. Kaum jemand außerhalb der IT hat je davon gehört
6. Das bekannteste Internet #Meme erklärt "nebenbei" Datenkompression für Laien
7. Man lernt ebenfalls "nebenbei" verstehen, wie public key #Kryptographie funktioniert - *ohne Mathe!*
8. #XKCD
9. On Top "nebenbei": Warum ein Drucker "schuld" an #OpenSource und #Linux ist
10. Ein Cameo für EVE (aus #WallE)
11. ein Programmierer, dessen Namen >99,9% der Menschheit nicht kennt, rettet buchstäblich die Welt
- er arbeitet bei #Microsoft !!1!
12. Happy End (diesmal)
Do you also want contribute to the Open Source movement?
Don't know where to start?
You can't write programs (yet)?
You must (have) use(d) google voice
It's getting enshittified (makes more and more mistakes) and is NOT opensource
Common Voice by Mozilla
Don't just use Open Source software CONTRIBUTE!
my stats are here (screencap)
What are yours?
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/dashboard/stats
#OpenSource #Voice #Common #Voice #CommonVoice #programming #rust #C #CLang #goLang #go #Linux #BSD #freeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #mac #win64
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#FediHire #Jobs #Dresden #Linux #SysAdmin #Ansible #OpenSource #SLUB
ICS[AP] updated CISA ICS Advisories Master File for 2/26/26 & the following year's CSVs:
CISA_ICS_ADV_2026_2_26.csv
CISA_ICS_ADV_2025_2_26_26.csv
Available @ ICS[AP] GitHub:
https://github.com/icsadvprj/ICS-Advisory-Project
Stell dir folgendes Szenario vor, du kaufst ein neues Smartphone, bezahlst es aus eigener Tasche und gehst selbstverständlich davon aus, dass es dein Eigentum ist. Ein Jahr später erhält das Gerät ein Systemupdate. Danach erscheint beim Installieren einer App plötzlich eine Meldung: „Diese App darf auf deinem Gerät nicht mehr installiert werden.“
Nicht, weil die App illegal wäre. Nicht, weil sie nachweislich gefährlich ist. Sondern, weil der Entwickler nicht im vorgesehenen Register steht.
Genau dieses Szenario könnte ab September 2026 Realität werden.
Vollständiger Beitrag:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-android-gehoert-uns
#OpenAndroid2026
#linux #opensource #freiheit #KeepAndroidOpen #Android #OpenAndroid
#DigitalFreedom #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #TechFreedom #DigitalRights
#Plattformmacht #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitaleRechte #Infrastrukturmacht
#Monopol #Technologiepolitik #Netzpolitik #Developers #IndieDev #FOSS
#FreeSoftware #AppDevelopment #AndroidDev #FDroid #Sideloading
#ITSecurity #Cybersicherheit #SecurityVsFreedom #Privacy #Datenschutz #Kontrolle #DigitaleSouveränität
🐧 Linux 7.0: Rust, Intel Nova Lake & AMD Zen 6 im neuen Kernel
Linus Torvalds veröffentlichte den ersten Release Candidate für Linux 7.0 – mit Treibern für neue Hardware, Rust-Integration und Performance-Boosts (PostgreSQL, exFAT). Highlights:
✔ Intel Diamond Rapids & AMD-GPU-Support
✔ Optimierte Dateisysteme (EXT4/F2FS)
✔ Basis für Ubuntu 26.04 LTS & Fedora 44
Finale Version: Mitte April. Nutzt ihr Linux?
#Linux #OpenSource #Kernel
🔗 https://winfuture.de/news,157116.html
Different distros. Different opinions.
Still building together.
My new song “Penguins of the World, Unite!” is a small anthem for a global community that keeps choosing collaboration over control.
Built on Linux.
Inspired by OpenSource.
CC-BY.
https://www.thefreelantern.com/lyrics/our-story/01-penguins-of-the-world-unite
🫣 Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'
「 POC is fully conscious according to any test I can think of, we have full AGI, and now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library and still needs a lot of attention and mentoring but is increasingly running circles around me at coding 」
We need YOU to help make #SuriCon2026 the best one yet! There are exciting sponsorship opportunities available this year like a coffee sponsor and welcome reception sponsor! Be sure to check those out and help fuel #Suricata's community conference! ☕
suricon.net/sponsorships/
I'm prepared for the high RAM prices being high for the next year or so, by having enough RAM to run several more #incus containers (preferred), and failing that, also several more #Docker containers (*much* more expensive on RAM).
#OpenSource #Linux
Wayland reference compositor Weston 15 with Lua shell and Vulkan renderer
The Wayland reference compositor Weston has been released in version 15. It brings a Vulkan renderer and a Lua shell.
RE: https://toot.community/@gecos_analytics/116137159015929072
It's a good idea to always have local copies of your important files. Modern NAS ("Network Attached Storage") systems integrate nicely with public Cloud services.
If you're interested in #digitalsovereignty and #opensource options might find the following thread interesting.
I’m thinking about getting a mini PC under €400 to move to Linux and start getting my hands dirty with self-hosting (home server, Docker, personal services, etc.).
It’s been on my mind for a while, but since I’ve mostly been in the Apple ecosystem, I’ve never really looked into hardware or understood the differences between setups.
What would you recommend right now?
Google want's to control who can develop and what apps you can install on your android
wtf. #keepandroidopen
there's an open letter and a campaign website:
https://keepandroidopen.org/
@keepandroidopen
The Harbour Masters team recently released a big upgrade for SpaghettiKart, their Mario Kart 64 fan-made PC port with a bunch of new features.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/spaghettikart-the-mario-kart-64-fan-made-pc-port-gets-a-big-upgrade/
@justincrozer Better to avoid closed ecosystems entirely and just "keep your options open" 🙂 #opensource
#gitlab macht sich gerade bei mir keine guten Stand.
Update ist mit 18.9.1 immer noch nicht funktional, siehe Issues und dann kommt im Administratorenbereich man solle doch ASAP upgraden, da Sicherheit ein Problem ist.
Spinnen die komplett?!?!?
Das Upgrade auf 18.9 ist nachweißlich Fehlerhaft. Auf 18.9.1 immer noch
#adminlife #security #opensource
Issues:
https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=Category%3ADatabase
Releasemeldung 18.9.1:
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/02/25/patch-release-gitlab-18-9-1-released/
#GoToSocial 0.21.0 came out today. Has many, many bugfixes. #OpenSource #Linux I debugged and tested an opinionated, vibe-coded #python script to install it in a way that will play nice with my #Ansible playbooks. My first use of vibe-coding! I had to fix like 60 bugs. The vibe coding was really only useful as a template, and I have strong #Sysadmin skills to totally oversee and understand everything it does.
DokuWiki is an open source wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language.
https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
It works on plain text files and thus does not need a database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.[3] It is often recommended as a more lightweight, easier to customize alternative to MediaWiki.
(When you are testing out xampp in your computer localhost. the first thing to try is DokuWiki which does not require database)
"OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems"
"An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission."
https://www.wired.com/story/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-cloudflare-scrapling/
Guess what's next up for Phil! Who's got experience and has pointers? #GrapheneOS #linux #degoogle #foss #opensource #privacy #autonomy
A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue and he couldn't move or speak much. So I put together a web app with a set of phrases, connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from the list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.
So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.
It only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline.
It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works with screen readers).
Any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!
#Mozilla has lost their ground and is now in a free fall into a sinkhole. I doubt they'll ever get out if this again unless they do a 180-turn within the coming days. Mozilla has lost a lot of trust and credibility over the last couple of years. This accelerates that distrust even more.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/
It looks promising, until you hit the last paragraph (my highlight)
In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our privacy notice. Whenever we share data with our partners, we put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share is stripped of potentially identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).
In my book, that's indirectly selling data.
Goodbye, #Firefox.
Tech founders become billionaires in their 20s. Linus Torvalds created Linux—the OS that powers the internet—and is worth ~$50M.
No royalties. No billions. Just a salary from the Linux Foundation.
He could have locked it down. Chased money. Became a billionaire.
Instead, he gave it to the world. Free. Forever.
Linux runs: internet servers, cloud infrastructure, Android, supercomputers.
Torvalds drives a regular car. Writes code. Answers emails.
Legacy > Money.
Today at 16.00 CET we have another NLnet Open Office hour. If you have any questions, you can drop by in our Matrix room and ask them.
You can already enter your questions to the Etherpad and we'll answer them this afternoon.
The questions that are asked are collected in a FAQ so the answers are available to others as well.
Links to the Matrix room, Etherpad and FAQs can be found at:
My Ferris plushie from ferris.rs arrive today
It is already trying to convert my Gopher!
High quality, reasonably sized and priced, and came with some stickers. What more does one need?
In Autumn 2020 I arrived in a dark, cold Oslo with my partner, for her post-doc. As a new Covid lockdown came in, knowing no-one in a city not famed for its winter friendliness, I got stuck into a documentary idea about the history and ideals of Open Source. Advised by Tom of Spirit Level (whose business partner is @elio) I started on a script, and began to look for subjects. I’d heard a rumour at Mozfest that year that WordPress – the content management system powering a bonkers 45% of the web – had a co-founder beyond Matt Mullenweg, the Wes Anderson-looking guy who founded Automattic (the multi-billion dollar company running WordPress.com) – and he was from the north of England.
It didn’t sound plausible as I’d never heard of this in 15 years knowing WordPress, but I soon found a name – Mike Little. Of particular interest to me, Mike is from close to my sister’s old manor in Stockport, just outside Denton, south Manchester. I reached out, and happily he agreed to be the first interviewee of my working titled ‘What the Fork is Open Source’ – which by then had a trailer. He even set up a podcast microphone and hi-def camera on a tripod fed into Zoom so there was a hi-def version of the Stockport/Oslo chat.
Mike and Matt’s story goes back to the early days of blogging. There were commercial platfomrs like LiveJournal, Moveable Type and Blogger, while the free and open source (‘FOSS’) crowd gathered around B2 Cafelog. But its French creator Michel Valdrighi seemed to have vanished. On January 24, 2003 Matt Mullenweg wrote a blogpost proposing to ‘fork’ Cafelog – a FOSS concept which means ‘take the code and build your own thing from it’.
Forking is amazing.. it’s the ‘one click revolution’ in everything FOSS that keeps the all powerful code maintainers ‘benevolent’. Fail to listen to your users and they can take what you built and start again. It was this story I wanted to tell in the film, not that Open Source was free, or that you can see under the hood – it’s that every FOSS project – from Wikipedia and Firefox to Android and Open Streetmap is community owned in a way even cooperatives aren’t (I wrote about the distinction here). Elon Musk doesn’t need to care about who he upsets on X as they can’t fork the software.
Mike replied to Matt’s blog a day later: “Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing.”

5 months later a freshly named WordPress launches, and the rest is history…
We talked for two and a half hours – he’s one of the nicest people I’ve interviewed. As he listed what he and Matt focussed on during the year of work before WordPress launched I realised he was behind WordPress’s main reason for its success, the one-click upgrade, as well as the solid technical foundation on which the software’s growth and ecosystem is built (and that other CMSs dream of).

I was even more astonished by something he revealed at the end of the interview: after spending a year working alone with Mullenweg, and the launch and growth, he’d sent his CV to Automattic for a job – and never got a reply.
It seemed a sad, scandalous story – here was Steve Wozniak to Mullenweg’s Steve Jobs (indeed Matt gets user interface and marketing better than much of FOSS) and no-one knew him. Unlike Woz, he’d never had share options, hasn’t been knighted or hall-of-famed, despite having been instrumental in building The Tool That Powers 45% of The Web. Was this because he was a nice, friendly Northern Brit? Because he didn’t have a degree? Or because he’s black?
I don’t know the answer to that, and it’s not something we explore during the interview.
Before I could get any further, Netribution was awarded a big grant from the Interledger Foundation to finally make the decentralised open video architecture I’d always dreamed of. The film got put to the side.
Years later and I’ve still not made the film.
When the grant funding ran out, everyone had to get back to earning money, while the legal and compliance demands of what we’d built stalled it. I moved back to London with my partner, became a dad at 44. I set my ambitions a little smaller and started to contribute regularly to CiviCRM which had been the foundation for half of our project (and runs on WordPress and other CMSs). I made design improvements for this somewhat dated-looking open source tool for fundraising, mailings, subscriptions, event ticketing, contact management that’s widely used by non-profits (from Wikipedia to the Royal Television Society), but which also appealed as it’s all an indie film/music producer/distributor/exhibitor could need if they wanted to be 100% independent.


And that’s what inspires this final issue of Netribution @ 25: Mike’s stated focus on contentment. He’s the closest to the taoist ideal I’ve (knowingly) met:
“Creating, yet not possessing, Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten. Therefore it lasts forever.” Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching verse 2
He manifests this, and I’ve no real idea on his journey to get that point. His contribution to the web – with a tool used by millions and encountered daily by billions – is beyond anything most of us can imagine, yet he’s not rich, famous or known beyond some older WordPress devs.
So please meet Mike Little.
I split the chat into two pieces: his story with WordPress, and then a more technical dive into his life with code, for anyone wanting to check my claim he’s WordPress’s Steve Wozniak or curious about how tech has changed since he started with a teletype machine at Stockport College in 1978.
He’s why this last issue is called Becoming Little: not just because of the Linus Torvalds quote “The big point for me really was not when it was becoming huge, it was when it was becoming little” – which can be seen in the influence of Cath and David in the history of filmmaking on the web, and that sums up what he did for WordPress… but because I think he’s the kind of hero the world needs more of right now.
https://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz
This is a sponsored post. The writer is co-founder and CEO of TiDB, an open-source NewSQL database.
I feel better already.
"Learn why AI agents are the new primary database users and how architecture must evolve to prioritize speed, elastic ephemerality, and safety via isolation. "
The New Stack: What happens to a database when the user is an AI agent https://thenewstack.io/databases-for-ai-agents/ @TheNewStack #opensource
Developer Eric Engestrom announced the Mesa 26.0.1 update for open source graphics drivers, the first set of bug-fixes for the latest release.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/open-source-graphics-drivers-mesa-26-0-1-released-with-various-bug-fixes-and-a-security-fix/
This was posted yesterday.
Socket: Open Source Risk Is Compounding as AI Agents Write 90% of New Code https://socket.dev/blog/risky-biz-podcast-ai-agents-open-source-risk @SocketSecurity #OpenSource #infosec #bots
Say I just came up with something really cool that's a library and can be useful to folks. In pre-AI times, I'd slap a GPL on it and release it as an open repo.
Now, today, how can I make it available in a way that won't get instantly sucked into training data?
Secondly (and more importantly), how can I make sure people bring their questions to me, so the project can evolve? (As opposed to them asking LLMs to hallucinate/slopcode quick tweaks for them?)