Jeden 1. Sonntag im Monat ist #DigitalIndependenceDay => raus aus Big Tech, rein in #OpenSource. Aber eine echte Umstiegshürde: Es fehlt eine zentrale Software-Datenbank mit Nutzerbewertungen.
Gerade Einsteiger stehen oft vor Paketmanagern ohne jede Orientierung. Woher weiß ich als Neuling, welches Tool taugt und ob es sicher ist?
#DiDay #UnplugBigTech #Linux #arch #PopOS #EndeavourOS

"The #DocumentFoundation [maker of #LibreOffice] has called on the European Commission in an open letter not to rely solely on #Microsoft's proprietary #XLSX format in the ongoing consultation on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The EU Commission had published a call for feedback on the CRA guidelines on March 3, 2026. Feedback can be submitted exclusively via an XLSX template until March 31, 2026."
https://www.heise.de/en/news/LibreOffice-criticizes-EU-Commission-over-proprietary-XLSX-formats-11202165.html

#Interoperability #OpenSource

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @RussSharek@mastodon.art

I've been described by reliable sources as wiser than a rubber duck, a zen fool, benevolent super villain, misanthropic community leader, clown (grand)father figure and Impish Cabaret Rasputin. he/him (and sometimes they/them)

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 15 March 2026 at 20:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree.org/@firesidefedi #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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Pixel Watch 2 - Privacy Preserving Setup

I've been trying everything i could think of to make the watch work under GrapheneOS - Here is what i learned:

• Unpairing the Watch means factory resetting it.
• Every feature (literally everything) is google dependent (who would have thought.. i know)
• Pairing with your phone requires the "Pixel Watch" -App to be installed on your main profile (not work, not private space) alongside Google Play Services. There's no way around.

This is obviously unacceptable. So i did a bit of research and found a way that will not only be way more practical, it will also be private.

First i created a second user on my Phone, installed Google Play Services and the pixel watch app on it, logged in with a newly created google account and completed the setup.

I know some people use a chinese version of the WearOS app to bypass the google login. Since i don't want a chinese app to configure my watch, i didn't even try that.

After the watch was set up, i continued and:

• Deleted the user profile from which i connected the Watch
• Enabled wireless debugging
• Debloated the watch as good as possible (i will have to root the watch in the future to properly do it)
• Removed the Google account in the settings
• Cleared all Bluetooth preferences
• Enabled Bluetooth discovery
• Installed KDE Connect on it (not meant for WearOS but it does work barely)

The watch is now in a state where i can use it daily.

But i also want to make use of all those fancy quality-of-life features, like heartrate monitoring, sleep tracking and so on.

Now comes the fun part.

I've created a basic Kotlin project with both a mobile and WearOS app.

I will implement features like:

• Notification sync
• Call notifications
• Media Player Control
• Weather (openweathermap)
• Heartrate monitoring
• Sleep tracking
• Do not Distrurb Sync
• Homelab integrations (Nextcloud, Immich, Uptime Kuma, ..)
• And much more ..

The goal is to keep the watch offline, let the phone do the heavy lifting and communicate with a selfhosted database. I may even add a frontend and an API so people can integrate it for their needs.

Sounds good but why don't you just buy an #opensource #smartwatch like the #pinetime - You may ask.

Because as much as i hate to admit it, i love the design, the look and feel of the pixel watch. And i'm sure that i'm not the only one.

I also bought this one cheap for around 120€ #refurbished. So the value i can get out of it seems pretty good to me.

So much for today. I haven't even started tackling the Bluetooth connection yet 😅. Let's see how that turns out

I have added a poll to this post to see how many people would be interested in a setup like this. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, ideas or expertise in that regard.

Cheers.

#privacy #security #android #google #pixel #pixelwatch #degoogle #degoogling #degoogled #adb #rooting #grapheneos #smartwatch #development #wearos #bluetooth #qualityoflife #GooglePlay #GooglePlayServices #frontend #api #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab #opensource

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31472

3 of 3 of GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed.

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

I'm not the maintainer, nor am I really a user of libssh, so some things are not particularly tested (I did attempt to run "port -vst install" but tbh even "port -v install" was failing due to some weird kerberos defaults and I don't run kerberos locally, for good reasons. Also, I don't really use anything dependent upon libssh).

It was more that I was having dreams about OpenSSH and figured I should test a snapshot (no issues there, phew!) but noticed that libssh had been version bumped (more than one actually, there's also a 0.11.4 release) and there were security related issues, so it seemed worth at least submitting a Pull Request since it had apparently slipped under the maintainer's radar? The Portfile is also listed as openmaintainer, so I am guessing a little outside assistance is welcome.

Hopefully it helps some others! Doesn't do much of anything for me.

Hopefully it doesn't break anything for others; that I am less certain about.

#libssh #MacPorts #OpenSource #Security #OpenSSH

Another Switch emulator gets erased by Github.

｢ In an incredible display of unprofessionalism, GitHub, (and Microslop), has ignored the legal countermeasures we took against the DMCA notice submitted by Nintendo in February. Thus, the https://github.com/eden-emulator/Releases repository, previously our primary source of distributing official builds, has been disabled, without so much as an acknowledgement of our countermeasures ｣

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/1rlvdpy/update_from_eden_team_regarding_the_dmca_and/

#github #emulation #dmca #microslop #opensource

Argh, le Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale a encore choisi Microsoft !

Nous avons raison de nous plaindre et de nous étonner, mais le véritable enjeu est-il le ministère ?

→ https://grenoble.ninja/argh-le-ministere-de-leducation-nationale-a-encore-choisi-microsoft/

#LogicielsLibres #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Education #NIRD

Så har jeg skrevet et brev til Digitaliseringsstyrelsen, som bliver afsendt senere i dag - så du kan lige nå at komme med input, hvis det er?

ODT-format: https://www.hartmannconsulting.dk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260308-DIGST-om-alternative-smart-phone-styresystemer.odt

PDF-format: https://www.hartmannconsulting.dk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260308-DIGST-om-alternative-smart-phone-styresystemer.pdf

En smagsprøve: "Faktisk vil det være mere korrekt at sige, at hvis der var ti styresystemer, der hver havde 1,9 % af markedsandelen, så ville 19% af borgerne være udelukket af offentlig IT. Hvis der var tyve, ville det være 38 % af borgerne. "

#DanmarkSkifter
#OpenSource

Episode 7 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/news/dbw-e7.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #opensource #freesoftware #linux #linuxfromscratch #grapheneos #budgiedesktop #cinnamondesktop #linuxmint #libvirt

Full of Keyboard Commands, So Many of Them, and It Breaks My heart

In the screen-reading space, we have come a long way in information representation. We know earcons; we are good at implementing various voice profiles and sound profiles for events and attributes. But it's worrying me a bit that we may be going backwards, and I don't just mean navigational systems, I mean how features reach us in general. Complexity is not the problem. The missing alternatives for people who type with one hand, forget easily, or just get tired, that's what's eating at me.

And before this gets written off as a niche concern: we forget commands, we have impaired fingers, we have tremors, we get tired reaching for function keys. It's frustrating to remember while sighted folks can just visualise and click. This isn't a small thing, and the worst part is that we are doing it to ourselves. Where We Came From

The evergreen works from folks who developed blind games were amazing, mostly one-handed friendly, no multiple modifiers, everything achievable with arrows and Tab, and occasionally some alphabets. Remember Chillingham, Grisly Grudge, Hunter, Blast Bay Games, Cast Away, etc.?

Now sure, those were simpler tools for simpler tasks, and today's stuff does a lot more, I get that. But more capability doesn't have to mean more memorisation. Our own history already shows this.

Even Doug Lee's scripts have such implementations, where many alternative commands are given for a single functionality: the default with Alt or JAWS Key modifier, the layer command, and inside the layer command, you can use Tab and Enter to activate the similar command. In Skype or Discord, you can read all chat messages just by activating the layer and using the Up, Down, Home, and End keys. The best help system in those scripts is that you just use Tab and Shift+Tab to cycle through commands, and that way you don't have to remember hundreds of commands. We can then press Enter on a command to execute it. It's not just about exploring the command; the execution itself is assigned with one hand in mind.

So here is my question for everything: can a new user find and do any function, one-handed, without memorising anything first? That's the bar. If the answer is no, someone has some rethinking to do. JAWS: The Good and the Honest Gaps

JAWS hotkey help is another sleek invention. The Insert+H help system badly needs an emulation here in the accessibility space, a webpage linear structure where all the commands are just links to be clicked on.

The JAWS command search, despite its zen-mode loading time, is another great design decision that has changed people's lives. You just press Insert+Space and J, then type what you want to do in keywords, read the commands, and even press Enter to perform them. The Insert+F1 "context-sensitive help," the tutor messages, and keyboard voice always save people time by being brief and neatly helpful. Context-sensitive help is the most lacking concept in the NVDA screen reader.

The JAWS and Touch Cursor is a complex interface traversed with just arrows. The Home Row mode utility allows developers to explore Windows and its hierarchy with arrows and occasional alphabets. With all its complexity, the Settings Centre just requires you to search, press Space, then press Escape, and Space again to save. One-hand commands, to and fro.

JAWS also comes with an "Insert Key Mode", a sticky key concept. The Insert key functions as a sticky key: any key pressed immediately after pressing Insert is treated as if it were pressed in combination with it. The recent Table Layer commands have simplified table navigation a lot, and you just use the arrow keys to traverse tables. Doug Lee extended this implementation to list views through his ListTbl, a JAWS script for navigating ListView controls with table navigation commands.

Obviously, there is bad design in JAWS too. To know the time and date, you need to press Insert+F12. Wow, that's too remote. I changed mine to Ctrl+Shift+X. Adding to that, you need to go to farther places to modify your keyboard commands, which is just a pain for new users who struggle with their hands and fingers. NVDA is even further behind and has a lot more to figure out with its Input Gestures system. With JAWS, you can at least find a function by its assigned hotkey and change it; I don't think you can do that just yet with NVDA.

When using the HotSpotClicker scripts by Jim Snowbarger, I am amazed with the implementation of adding a hotkey to a hotspot set, in which a generous timer with a keyboard trap is initiated, and you press the key you want the hotspot to record. This concept should be further expanded into a proper standard: an easy mode to search or press the command you want to change, then press the new command, then verify and save. One hand, from start to finish. That shouldn't be too hard to build, honestly.

Going back to my keyboard gripe, don't let me get started with the gazillions of Braille display commands in JAWS. That's beyond my expertise, but I have heard plenty of stories, and it's not beginner-friendly, to put it simply. These things are full of life. From these creations, we can both learn a tonne and disregard problematic practices. Do JAWS or NVDA have a one-handed keyboard layout mode? If not, well, someone has something to build. Mainstream Lessons: Reaper DAW

In the mainstream space, the Reaper Audio DAW is an exemplary software that many others should look at. Yes, it has many commands, and it's further complicated by the ReaPack and OSARA implementations. @jcsteh and @Scott would be a testament to that. Reaper has a design process where every possible function can be learned or performed in multiple ways: by searching, by adding your own commands, or by using the keyboard tutorial mode to learn them first. The complexity is real, but so is the way out of it, and that's the whole point. I am not a full-fledged Reaper user, so excuse me for my oversimplifications. Scripts That Got It Right

There are other JAWS scripts from which we can learn a tonne of inclusive human design concepts. What they all have in common is what I was just talking about, you can find anything without knowing it first.

Take the JFW Technical Scripts by Jamie Teh, no keyboard commands to memorise. It's just Ctrl+Shift+J, that's all. All other functions are browsable in a virtual viewer within subpages and sections separated by headings.

Same for the Jawter script, created by @cachondo, which later inspired many other blind programs like Qwitter and TWBlue by @josh. The design is two modifiers with one hand; the other hand presses one key at most, mostly arrows, or any alphabet. In Qwitter and other programs, there is even a key describer mode to familiarise yourself with the commands, and a sticky mode to keep the Alt+Win key active while you use alphabets and arrows to navigate Twitter.

Jamal Mazrui is very much an icon in implementing keyboard-first tools. In every one of his tools, you have Alt+F10 or Alt+Shift+F10 to navigate the menus, and admittedly, those may require two hands. Inside these menus, every item is given a keyboard command, and you can use first-letter navigation to reach them.

There are surely equally complicated things in there that we may choose to refine. Work done by @matt with earlier Serotek and now @pneumasolutions is many, many times commendable. Remember how you used to navigate the SAMNetwork or DocuScan Plus? Even with the RIM software, navigation is just by Tab and Shift+Tab, or headings and links, simple as that. If you want, you can remember keyboard commands that have only a modifier with an alphabet, or Alt with an alphabet.

The System Access screenReader also comes with many great additions like that. The menu structure is webpage-like, and to go to each menu you just press one key, if I am not mistaken. It's fast, mindless.

I have not used GWMicro's Window-Eyes screen reader so deeply, but I am certain that the script and app developers there have created many more patterns that we can document, emulate, and equally follow. I am also sure that Vim, Emacs, and other open-source Linux implementations that are keyboard-driven have more ideas waiting to be implemented. Aliases? Batch commands? Macros? The Complexity Creep Problem

Nowadays, yes, we have more accessible tools, but also more keyboard commands to remember, without proper recourse or remedy for one-handed people or those with less cognitive reserve. Look at Google Suite, Office ribbons, so many layers of taxing keys with blatant disregard for design and simplicity, and loads of gymnastics we have to perform. Yes, for Google Suite there is Alt+Slash, and for Office there is Alt+Q, but imagine how much it can be simplified by adding alternatives that allow for more visualisation and less remembering.

This phenomena of mindless keyboard commands is creeping into JAWS scripts and NVDA add-ons as well. I am going to point some fingers at great people I have very much respect for. They have great product ideas and design that are benefiting lots of Blind people, and I am going to traverse their work and point out the good and the bits they can think about more. I am not here to tear down anyone's work or generosity, I just think there is a next step here.

@hartgenconsult is a champion in keyboard tool-making, from JTools all the way to Leasy. Something we should learn here is that the JTools/Leasy Help key (H) is a central place where all keyboard commands with categories are shown and can be activated by pressing Enter, a huge design gesture with simplicity in mind. And it's also context-sensitive, if I have this right. That's what I keep talking about, right there.

Despite the beautiful implementation, there are things that can be further studied. I am sure I am strawmanning his hard work here, but what I find is it's often hard to remember layers upon layers of keyboard commands. Let's take the Leasy clip operations, which may have been inspired by the HJClip days, made by an English developer whose name escapes me, and later further tweaked by Getinra. Both in HJClip and Leasy, it's simply too many commands, at least for me, to perform the myriad, complex keyboard operations.

In JTools, all clips are located on the function keys, honestly that's too much. In Leasy, it has certainly improved; I believe it's all on the number keys now.

My concrete suggestion here is to look at clipboard buffers, which are even older than HJClip, originating from the Vim system. @pixelate may enlighten me on whether Linux has this system, but Doug Lee created a similar buffer system in his BX key, and his approach is the model worth following. You can think of it as many clipboards. You trigger the command, say left bracket, and assign a text to an alphabet (say, S), then to paste it, you double-press S. You just add one modifier to that S to copy to clipboard, append, or clear that buffer. One hand, one simple mental model, and you have as many clipboards as you need.

Below, I am reproducing his clipboard buffer method from the BX documentation:

Text Management -- Commands for cutting, copying, pasting, and combining text blocks, and for holding blocks of text in up to 26 buffers named by single letters. This system was inspired by the buffer system in the "Vi" text editor found under Linux and other similar operating systems. The NVDA Add-On Renaissance

In the NVDA add-on ecosystem, it's a renaissance time. Add-ons are flourishing, and at the same time, people have to remember more. These two things don't have to come together, and some add-ons are already showing that.

One of them is the Instant Access add-on by Kamal Yasir. Thanks to @doubletap for introducing it to the world. The concept is simple: you pick a file, web shortcut, or folder, assign it to an alphabet, and launch it with a layer. It's fast, one-handed, and it works. The concept may be inspired by @brian_hartgen's JTools and Leasy, further refined into a buffer concept. I think new add-ons should be looking here for inspiration.

The Markdown Navigator add-on simply invents a layer to make Markdown documents browsable, making everything familiar by triggering the browse mode concept we are all so used to. You already know how to use it, and that's the whole point.

Other developers, still early in their work, are also trying their best to simplify their add-on designs. @Tamasg's TGSpeechbox is a revolution in the Blind TTS community. What could be improved further, and I really want this add-on to do well, is to make the huge settings panel with help context optionally enabled. Say, if someone checks a box to enable help, every arrow to a setting under the settings panel would briefly speak what it is. The huge settings panel would be further accessible if an item-chooser or Reaper Command Center-like approach were implemented, so people can type a phrase or a few letters to narrow the options. That one thing would make a tonne of difference, I think.

@ppatel's Terminal Access is another long-awaited terminal accessibility enhancement for NVDA. He does not stop there. Knowing that blind people deal with subpar experiences in many terminals, he painstakingly created profiles for many popular ones. Kudos to his many contributions, and to @tspivey for being a great backend inspiration for his work. The add-on quickly grew in complexity, and a menu-like or tab-like structure is much needed to navigate the huge layer commands, so people can zip through various functions using arrows, Tab, and so on. The foundation is solid, what's still missing is the discoverability layer. Closing Thoughts

I want to end here by saying that we often hold the strong impression that keyboard-only interfaces are flawless, and that our hands will not defeat us. But it's sad that often, when a piece of Blind tooling gets more complex, developers simply pile on more and more commands without paying enough attention to engineer them to be compatible with Blind people of many kinds.

I am not asking for less powerful tools. I want tools where you can find any function by browsing or searching, where one key gets you in and arrows get you around, and where memorisation is a choice rather than a requirement. We have done this before. Doug Lee did it. Jawter did it. Reaper does it. The knowledge is already in our community.

Generally, our difficulties compound as we get older. We forget commands, we have impaired fingers, we have tremors, we do feel tired reaching for the function keys. These are not rare cases, this is where most of us end up. Most importantly, it's frustrating to remember while sighted folks can just visualise and click. In those days, Blind software was designed with visualisation and muscle memory baked in. Now, we are losing our grip on that inherent creativity, more and more complexity, without reverence for the simplicity we know and love.

I think we can do better than this for each other.

#accessibility #jaws #screenReader #Blind #linux #opensource #reaper #daw #NVDA #keyboard #disability #web #design #ui #a11y #scripts

I just setup #LibreCalendar for out household resources. Let's see of it sticks. Really good piece of #opensource software for a booking calendar!

https://librebooking.readthedocs.io/

Mahlzeit,

DARF ICH EUCH EINLADEN ZU MEINER GESCHICHTE!

DIE GEBURT VON LINUX! – Wie ein Hobby‑Projekt die Welt veränderte.

Kapitel fünf „Der Name“

https://hedgedoc.linuxat.de//hc/s/wAM_IpHDDm

#Linux #Geschichte #OpenSource #freiheit #Foss

New cheatsheets pushed

https://github.com/r1cksec/cheatsheets

#infosec #cybersecurity #redteam #pentest #threatintel #malware #dfir #bugbounty #opensource

Good morning 🇹🇭 Bangkok !

Today, the FOSSASIA summit starts and I'm excited to meet many cool people, talk about open source and of course spread the world about @matrix !

#FOSSASIA #Matrix #FOSS #OpenSource #Bangkok

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Rosahaj sitting on a lobby chair inside of the FOSSASIA community room.

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Entrance to the workshop center in the True Digital Park in Bangkok.

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Escalators upstairs. The pillars are covered by LED screens simulating a waterfall flowing down the building. The ceiling displays tree tops on LED screens as well.

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Sight on the lobby of the True Digital Park.

💬 Matrix isn’t just a chat protocol — it’s a platform for rich, interactive experiences! In this session, Kim Brose @HarHarLinks how to enhance Matrix with widgets, bots, and integrations, making your chats more dynamic, productive, and fun at #FOSSASIASummit2025

🔗 Click here https://youtu.be/YWHicIx2P7I to watch on the FOSSASIA YouTube channel.

#Matrix #OpenSource #ChatApps #FOSSASIA

📱 Neue Einsteiger-Anleitung für GrapheneOS (Linux-Fokus!)

Vom Pixel-Kauf über den Flash-Vorgang bis zu Profi-Tools wie Obtainium & AppVerifier – alles Schritt für Schritt erklärt.

👉 https://gist.github.com/Ubuntu51/0ffbd82b4b7b8f5504fc891cf7754f0a

#GrapheneOS #Datenschutz #Privacy #Linux #OpenSource #Pixel #GoogleFrei #FOSS

Ook voor de #Nerdvote zit je goed bij ons! Maar liefst 4 kandidaten op de lijst hebben een achtergrond in de IT. 🤓 Zij hebben ruime kennis over #DigitaleSoevereiniteit, #BigTech, #OpenSource #Privacy en #CyberSecurity.

In de wereld van vandaag zijn deze zaken belangrijker dan ooit. Waar jouw #data zonder toestemming gebruikt wordt om #AI te trainen en gevoelige persoonlijke informatie op straat komt te liggen of bij onderdrukkende regimes.

(1/2) 🧵

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Foto van Kivilcim Pinar op een groen witte achtergrond. Tekst op de afbeelding: Stem Pinar - Lijst 8 - #1 Nerd Vote Alkmaar Partij voor de Dieren

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Foto van Fabian Zoon op een groen witte achtergrond. Tekst op de afbeelding: Stem Zoon - Lijst 8 - #2 Nerd Vote Alkmaar Partij voor de Dieren

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Foto van Lilian Jonker op een groen witte achtergrond. Tekst op de afbeelding: Stem Jonker - Lijst 8 - #4 Nerd Vote Alkmaar Partij voor de Dieren

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Foto van Janine Visser op een groen witte achtergrond. Tekst op de afbeelding: Stem Visser - Lijst 8 - #11 Nerd Vote Alkmaar Partij voor de Dieren

Schönen guten Morgen,

DARF ICH EUCH EINLADEN ZU MEINER GESCHICHTE!

DIE GEBURT VON LINUX! – Wie ein Hobby‑Projekt die Welt veränderte.

Kapitel fünf „Der Name“

https://hedgedoc.linuxat.de//hc/s/wAM_IpHDDm

#Linux #Geschichte #OpenSource #freiheit #Foss

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116189938186518281

Great! 👍 But look, guys, even if you maybe don't want to directly badmouth Microsoft, you don't have to keep pretending that most people prefer it.

Yes, there'll be minor switching abrasion; familiarity is a strong motivator - but I assure you, the number of users who *want to* work in MS Office or Windows is well witin a single-digit percentage.

- which also means feel free to improve on the experience. "We're not Big Tech" is not your only selling point.

#privacy #OpenSource #QuitBigTech

🎷🦣 Mastoshare update — future of Mastoshare

Mastodon recently put a service that covers some Mastoshare functionality — sharing posts.

https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116160846932470950

What that means for Mastoshare? Mastoshare was never about money, but with a goal of making better UX of Mastodon. I believe semi-centralized solution is the right way, as it has network effect — the more people use one website the easier it is for everyone.

#mastodon #fediverse #mastoshare #webdev #frontend #opensource #buildinpublic

dansup boosted

Mastodon » 🌐 2026-03-02
@Mastodon@mastodon.social

We've got something to Share! We hope you'll find it useful. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-new-share-button/

This is going to be so strange. This basically requires OS providers to use an online account similar to Microsoft's approach and to provide details of each account to third parties.

That's simply not going to work with open source operating systems — or lots of other software providers.

So far projects are reacting by banning use by Californians and Coloradons.

#tech #Linux #opensource #Foss

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/os_age_verification/

#Debian bereitet erneut Abstimmung über KI vor - linuxnews https://linuxnews.de/debian-bereitet-erneut-abstimmung-ueber-ki-vor/ #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Linux #OpenSource

(Linux news in previous posts)

FOSS NEWS

Firefox Nova – our first look at the browser’s big redesign:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-nova-redesign

Automattic ends Simplenote active development, only basic maintenance continues:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/automattic-ends-simplenote-active-development-only-basic-maintenance-continues/

Zen web browser introduces live folders, Firefox 148 core, Linux performance boost & more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/zen-web-browser-introduces-live-folders-firefox-148-core-linux-performance-boost-and-more/

Shotcut 26.2 update: new text options, subtitle search & crash fixes:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/shotcut-26-2-update-new-text-options-subtitle-search-and-crash-fixes/

KeePass 2.61 adds diacritic-insensitive search, async updates, improved OTP tools and more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/keepass-2-61-adds-diacritic-insensitive-search-async-updates-improved-otp-tools-and-more/

GIMP 3.2 issues third release candidate with fresh fixes:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/gimp-3-2-third-release-candidate-fixes

Arti 2.1.0 advances relay and RPC support, overhauls configuration:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/arti-2-1-0-advances-relay-and-rpc-support-overhauls-configuration/

Xournal++ adds tablet-friendly toolbar mode:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/xournalpp-tablet-mode-ui

Memerist is a new desktop meme generator for Linux:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/memerist-meme-generator-app-linux

Burner Todo now "officially" available for Linux, as a Flatpak or AppImage:
https://social.linux.pizza/@fosserytech/116167053395729064
(In case you're wondering, no I'm not gonna comply with the California bill or any other moronic age verification bill and start requesting age bracket from the OS. Not sure if it legally applies to me, I only distribute the app on Codeberg, plus the Flatpak via Disroot's file sender because it exceeds Codeberg's file limit, but I just put it out there, in case this would apply to FOSS projects distributed solely on code collaboration platforms. What can they do with me? I'm anonym, they don't know my real-world identity, and even if they hire hackers, and de-anonymize me, what do they do with me? Fine me? Not gonna pay. Arrest me then? I'm in Europe. But I guess they don't even know about the existence of the app, so why should I even bother?)

FEX 2603 Released With A Partial Fix For The Steam GUI Crashing On AArch64:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2603-Released

(more FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #Firefox #SimpleNote #ZenBrowser #Shotcut #BurnerTodo #KeePass #GIMP #FEX #Arti #XournalPlusPlus #FosseryTech

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Rust 1.94 introduces array windows, Cargo config inclusion, and TOML 1.1 support in Cargo:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/rust-1-94-introduces-array-windows-cargo-config-inclusion-annd-toml-1-1-support-in-cargo/

DBeaver 26.0: AI filter settings, bug fixes & Salesforce currency support:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/dbeaver-26-0-ai-filter-settings-bug-fixes-and-salesforce-currency-support/

FosseryWeb progress report:
All Java cheatsheet pages are now generated using the new page-builders tool, to make the code more consistent, and also to test the tool, discover bugs, edge cases. HTML, CSS and JavaScript cheatsheets will also be regenerated, although the CSS ones have a bit more "unique" elements like images, figures consisting of HTML and CSS code, etc., will see if I can make those be generated with the tool, or if they will still require manual work.
https://fosseryweb.codeberg.page/@beta/cheatsheets/java/
https://fosseryweb-min.codeberg.page/@beta/cheatsheets/java/

Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.345-Released

libavif 1.4 Released For Advancing AVIF Image Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libavif-1.4-Released

/e/OS 3.5 released with LineageOS 22.2 base, WebAssembly support, and FairPhone 6 upgrades:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/-e-os-3-5-released-with-lineageos-22-2-base-webassembly-support-and-fairphone-6-upgrades/

3mdeb Making Progress On AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Port With Coreboot + openSIL:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/3mdeb-Ryzen-MSI-Port-Progress

GNU Hurd On Guix Is Ready With 64-bit Support, SMP Multi-Processor Support "Soon":
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-64-bit-2026

Haiku OS Pulls In WiFi Driver Updates From OpenBSD, Other Improvements In February:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-February-2026

FreeBSD 15.1 On Track With Better Realtek WiFi & KDE Desktop Install Option:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.1-Realtek-KDE-Wins

NetBSD 11.0-RC2 Released For Testing:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-RC2-Released

MidnightBSD blocks downloads from California due to the Californian age verification law:
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/midnightbsd/status/2027101491211718765

Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-February

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #News #Rust #DBeaver #FosseryWeb #Vulkan #Libavif #eOS #3mdeb #GNUHurd #Guix #Haiku #FreeBSD #NetBSD #MidnightBSD #RedoxOS #AgeVerification #OS #OperatingSystem #Programming #Cheatsheet #FosseryTech

📱 Neue Einsteiger-Anleitung für GrapheneOS (Linux-Fokus!)

Vom Pixel-Kauf über den Flash-Vorgang bis zu Profi-Tools wie Obtainium & AppVerifier – alles Schritt für Schritt erklärt.

👉 https://gist.github.com/Ubuntu51/0ffbd82b4b7b8f5504fc891cf7754f0a

#GrapheneOS #Datenschutz #Privacy #Linux #OpenSource #Pixel #GoogleFrei #FOSS

📱 Neue Einsteiger-Anleitung für GrapheneOS (Linux-Fokus!)

Vom Pixel-Kauf über den Flash-Vorgang bis zu Profi-Tools wie Obtainium & AppVerifier – alles Schritt für Schritt erklärt.

👉 https://gist.github.com/Ubuntu51/0ffbd82b4b7b8f5504fc891cf7754f0a

#GrapheneOS #Datenschutz #Privacy #Linux #OpenSource #Pixel #GoogleFrei #FOSS

Here's how to automatically post to Mastodon: https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/python-social-media-automation/?s=mb #OpenSource #Python #TwitterMigration

Keep Android Open

Because Android is open, for now, till 01 September 2K26, I have been able to install this wonderful tool set of which you see a screen cap below.

If all of you who read this toot, please boost for visibility, make your voices heard as it is explained in the first link, you will be able to stop Google from closing Android worse than Apple

We all need to unite to stop google cold in their tracks

EU users have enormous power in this, remember USB-C on apple

Don't think you don't have power to stop google

UNITE!

https://keepandroidopen.org/

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html

#GNU #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #keepandroidopen #keep #android #open #UNIX #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes

Le Reverse Proxy, c'est aussi du design ! 🛠️

Grâce aux sub_filter de NPM, j'ai injecté du CSS dans Phanpy sans toucher au code source :

✅ Branding : Ajout de mon logo avec halo #117371.
✅ Symétrie : Repositionnement du bouton "Rédiger".
✅ Responsive : Correction du scroll sur Desktop sans toucher à la version mobile.

La preuve en 3 images : du brut au "pixel perfect" ! 🐧

#NPM #SelfHosted #CSS #OpenSource

That's why, dear #OpenSource militants, people are reluctant to use alternatives. At least, some people.
One more post here said: "You should use LibreSpeed now, because SpeedTest is bought by some company, dealing with billionaires, something like that".
Okay, let's give it a try.
No main region — fine, at least there is heading level 1.
"Start" which should be a button, is… a piece of text. Nice? Nice.
then there is the server combo box, then ping, download speed, upload speed — all at zero, because we haven't started yet. Why is it showing at all? Question.
Okay, we are advanced peeps, we press space on Start and pray. Yes, it launches.
The results are not a region, no ARIA-driven announcements, no separate headings…
I mean, it's a dead simple service.
You might think I want to just bash LibreSpeed. No, I don't, at least, it's not my goal.
It's just an example. SpeedTest did it better — not perfect though, there are unlabeled elements, I want more headings, etc., but Start Test is a button, there are live ARIA announcements throughout. Hence I'll use SpeedTest. Because it's accessible. Because it's convenient. Because it's better UX.
And this is true for everything: operating systems, office suites, clouds (see my previous angry post about Nextcloud and inaccessible Copy Link dialog which Microsoft and Google managed to do accessibly).
We are roughly 15% of population. And also we have family, friends and people that listen to us.
Make this world accessible, and only then preach about bad billionaires, trackers and whatever else. You can repeat your mantras, but they won't get to my ears nor to my heart — I'm blind, and I need to work and to live in the digital world. And for that I need —
#Accessibility!

Read below 👇 why you should start using LibreSpeed from now on for internet speed tests

"Speedtest and Downdetector were just sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion. (...) Ookla, the parent company of both tools, has been acquired by the global IT consulting giant Accenture (...).

The open source alternative: LibreSpeed. No tracking scripts, no GPS harvesting, no profile building, no ads and no data sold to anyone."

https://librespeed.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rmalpy/news_librespeed_opensource_alternative_made_in/

#FOSS #opensource

🐧 Log du jour : La nouvelle page "Soutiens" est en ligne ! 🚀

Vos messages, c'est le meilleur carburant pour continuer l'aventure BlablaLinux. Un immense merci pour votre force ! 🙏

À découvrir ici : https://blablalinux.be/vos-temoignages/

#Linux #OpenSource #Communaute #Proxmox

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Vos retours et messages de soutien

Un immense merci pour tous vos messages de sympathie reçus sur les réseaux sociaux. J'ai regroupé ici vos retours et vos encouragements qui me touchent énormément au quotidien. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

Un immense merci à vous tous pour vos messages de sympathie !

Que ce soit sur Facebook, X (Twitter), Mastodon ou Bluesky, vos retours et vos remerciements me touchent énormément. C’est votre soutien qui me donne l’énergie de continuer à partager mes astuces, mes tests et mon quotidien autour de Linux et du logiciel libre.

J’ai décidé de regrouper ici quelques-uns de vos commentaires qui m’ont fait chaud au cœur. Cette page, c’est un peu la vôtre.

Merci d’être là et de faire vivre cette belle communauté !

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Je profite de ce message, mais il pourrait s'appliquer à tous... Je suis un "power user", monter un Proxmox et mettre qques VMs dedans ne me fait pas peur. En attendant je l'avais jamais fait pour moi, pour de l'auto-hébergement. Tu fais partie des gens qui m'ont motivé à le faire, et j'ai maintenant, à ma manière, mon infra perso. Tout simplement merci 🙏

@deepthoughts10 #OpenSource like #pfsense is the best defense. Real #cybersecurity experts like us know the real threat is the closed source hardware no matter who makes it. Are these #exploits in #paloalto and #cisco ASA really just exploits or asic features implementened as intended that third parties found?

Open source is free like a puppy, not free like beer. 🐶

Our VP of Security, @joshbressers, applies this adage to AI-generated code in his new post on Techstrong.ai. He details the rise of "hidden dependencies," where AI copies open source functionality without creating a traceable package manifest.

For teams trying to automate compliance and reduce audit findings, these hidden risks are a major challenge. Josh argues...
https://techstrong.ai/contributed-content/the-curious-case-of-ai-dependencies/

#OpenSource #Infosec

Here’s a moment from Day 1 at SCALE 23x yesterday.

We asked attendees what they like about FreeBSD, and this student highlighted something many users appreciate: the documentation and the Ports collection. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

What was the first thing that stood out to you when you started using FreeBSD?
#FreeBSD #SCALE23x #OpenSource #BSDCommunity

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@alfonsosiciliano/116020502982048435

Thanks everyone for all the feedback, testing, and suggestions! I'm currently fixing things up and getting a version ready for bsdinstall.

#FreeBSD #UNIX #opensource #installer #TUI #shell #KDE #GUI #FreeBSDDesktop

We spoke with a new FreeBSD user who shared how he’s exploring the system and learning more about features like jails while working through the book Absolute FreeBSD. He also mentioned that he stopped by the booth after seeing on our website that FreeBSD would be at SCALE.

If you're new to FreeBSD and looking for a place to start, we’ve put together resources to help guide you:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/new-to-freebsd/

What helped you most when you first started using FreeBSD?

#FreeBSD #SCALE23x #OpenSource

The Wine 11.4 development release is now available for the Windows to Linux compatibility layer, bringing assorted new features and fixes.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/wine-11-4-released-with-directsound-and-msxml-improvements/

#OpenSource #Wine #Misc

PHP Statistics v1.5.0 is out, with non-linear regressions.

To celebrate 100K downloads, I wrote about decoding GPX running data with real statistics (outlier detection and trend forecasting).
https://dev.to/robertobutti/gpx-runners-data-decoded-with-php-bm9

#php #statistics @thepracticaldev #DevCommunity #opensource

Current weather in Mariënburg SR SA with the grace of owm curl {ba{c{k{z{fi}}}}}sh and the cool lolcat

No Background photograph composed by myself

#Weather #wttr #owm #meteorology #Physics #Chemistry #Mathematics #lineair #algebra #technology #OpenSource #programming #POSIX #technology

There is a silver lining to the whole #python #chardet debacle. If it is legal to throw a pile of code at an LLM, and tell it to write a new version of that code that is not a derivative then that gives us a lot of options too.

GPL compatible #ZFS? no problem! #ReactOS from the leaked NT/2k sources? No problem!

Maybe this is a golden age for the collapse of proprietary software after all. If they can do an end run around the #GPL we can do an end run around the #EULA.

#opensource

🎙️ Neue BuzzZoom-Folge: Zentral vs. Dezentral
Warum bricht das halbe Internet zusammen, wenn #Cloudflare hustet? Warum hat #Matrix Skalierungsprobleme? Und was haben Energiesparlampen mit Nutzererwartungen zu tun?
Dirk @dde und Mario @DerMario diskutieren, warum das Internet eigentlich dezentral gedacht war, und was daraus geworden ist.
🎧 https://buzzzoom.de/128/
#BuzzZoom #Podcast #Fediverse #Matrix #Dezentralität #OpenSource #Linux

📢 Woohoo! Version v6.5.4 of Firefly III has just been released 🎉. Check it out over at GitHub, Docker, or download it using your favorite package manager.

#opensource #oss #newrelease #php #software #personalfinance #selfhosted

https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/releases/v6.5.4

Mit einen Günstigen USB Dongle zb aus'm "China shop" für paar euro, kann man(n) fast alle geräte die #infrared haben steuern (Listen,Hex,Bruteforce)
Oder wenn das #smartphone eingebaute IR-Sender hat.

Kudos an Dev(s)

https://github.com/iodn/android-ir-blaster

#opensource #app #infrarot #steuerung #github #foss #linux #android #keepandroidopen #fdroid #Droidify #apk #usbdongle #FlipperZero #BruteForce

There's a joint presentation from the Illinois #Luddite Society and #Makerspace Urbana on the 14th (next Saturday) at 2PM at the local Independent Media Center (#IMC).

Come hear people suggest that:
1.) technology should serve human wellbeing
2.) the judgement that many dominant technologies fail to meet this standard, and
3.) what you can do about it

I'm going to mention lots of #OpenSource and #SelfHosted tech from texting with #Meshtastic to privacy respecting smart thermostats.

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A flier with a headline of "why you should be a luddite" and a byline of "learn how to resist obnoxious technology". The bottom half has a photo of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, where the event will take place on March 14th at 2PM. 202 S. Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL. Presented by the Illinois luddite society & Makerspace Urbana.

Maintaining open source projects is mostly a thankless task, but very occasionally a very kind soul drops their appreciation and thanks, and it really does make your day 🥰

▶️ Take a moment sometimes to thank the maintainers of open source projects you value!

#OpenSource #OSS #Positivity #Appreciation #Tech

Hallo #Fediverse, hallo Hessen! ✨
Bin von .social nach #hessen.social umgezogen. Mein Profil im Gepäck:

🔭 Astronomie: Deep-Sky & Astrofotografie. Ich teile hier Tipps & Bilder. Mehr Tiefe gibt’s auf meinem Blog: www.astroblog-of.de

🐧 Linux: Langjähriger User. Ich helfe privat gerne beim Umstieg von Windows oder bei Fragen zu OpenSource.

Freue mich auf den Austausch mit euch!

#Neuhier #Astronomie #Hessen #Astrofotografie #Astroblog #Linux #OpenSource #SwitchToLinux

The GCVE.eu initiative will take part in hackathon.lu (14–15 April, Luxembourg), alongside core developers of GCVE-related projects. See you there to build, experiment, and collaborate!

#gcve #cve #opensource #openstandard #hackathon

🔗 https://hackathon.lu

@gcve
@circl

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GCVE federated model

Für kleines Geld ein eigenes kleines Funknetz bauen? Genau darum geht es hier: Meshtastic zeigt, wie man mit LoRa-Hardware und etwas Bastellaune unabhängig kommunizieren kann. Irgendwo zwischen Nerdprojekt und Krisenresilienz.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000310941/meshtastic-wie-man-sich-um-kleines-geld-ein-rebellen-funkgeraet-baut

#meshtastic #lora #opensource #diy #lora #mesh

What are you doing on Friday night? For me, a relaxing time involves doing a few #pull #requests on #github to add our #linux based #mirror. Proud of my team for #mirroring #almalinux based on #rhel #opensource https://techrich.hk

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BTW, Arch Linux is now (finally) powered by #Linux kernel 6.19 🐧 🏹

#OpenSource #ArchLinux

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Screenshot of Arch Linux with the Xfce desktop environment showing the Xfce Terminal app with an output of the fastfetch and uname -a commands.

Wine has updated to version wine-11.4. Check it out here: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.4
#linux #foss #OpenSource

🧩 I’d like to share my #Bash script that makes the initial setup for contributing to the #TYPO3 #Core easier.

https://gist.github.com/ErHaWeb/037ab7b1d65a2781c2d830d0cf60359d

Maybe it’s useful for other contributors. I’d really appreciate your feedback! 🙂

#OpenSource #Contribution

Yooooo, this is exciting. I've always written off #arm #chomebook as un-saveable since they can't be jailbroken with MrChomebox.

I just got like 50 of these Asus C100P arm chromebooks that are "expired". Digging around, it looks like #postmarketOS will run on this!

Still stuff to figure out but DAMN this is promising. Being able to save even ARM chromebooks is epic. Dammit I love #linux and #openSource

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Asus Chromebook booting up to Postmarket OS

The company behind Office EU is about half a year old, or to put it differently, using Open Source, you can rival big tech in less than 180 days.
#opensource #onlineoffice
https://www.zdnet.com/article/europe-open-source-office-suite-alternative-to-microsoft-google/

Zizerlweise ist das wunderbar passende Wort, das meinen Weg hin zu Linux, Open Source und Selfhosting bestens beschreibt.
#opensource #linux #selfhosting

LibreOffice ist nur dank Ihrer Spenden möglich! So haben sie uns im Jahr 2025 geholfen – und wenn Sie unser Projekt und unsere Community unterstützen möchten, besuchen Sie bitte: https://de.libreoffice.org/donate/ - DANKE!
#foss #opensource #freesoftware

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Infografik, die zeigt, wie Spenden bei Veranstaltungen, Infrastruktur und der Bezahlung eines kleinen Teams geholfen haben.

👉 Dinit, the init system systemd should have been // Unixdigest

｢ Besides the fact that the real motivation behind systemd was "political" more than anything, systemd has evolved into a behemoth of a monster with it's tentacles so deeply entrenched into the Linux environment that only few software products haven't been affected by it ｣

https://unixdigest.com/articles/dinit-the-init-system-systemd-should-have-been.html

#dinit #systemd #unix #bsd #linux #opensource

MEINE GESCHICHTE! Die Big Player kamen nicht plötzlich – sie waren von Anfang an da!

Es war ein früher Abend im Jahr 1994, als ich mein erstes Modem anschloss, ein US Robotics Sportster mit 14.400 Baud. Ich erinnere mich noch genau an dieses Gefühl, als ich den Karton aufriss, dieses Knistern von Neuland. Dabei war der Rechner, den ich mir zusammengespart hatte, ein Vermögen wert, ein 486er mit ein paar Megabyte RAM, und ich hatte monatelang jeden Schilling umgedreht, um ihn bezahlen zu können. Heute lacht man darüber, aber damals war ein PC etwas für Leute, die entweder Geld hatten oder wie ich bereit waren, dafür zu hungern.

Dieses Pfeifen und Rauschen dann, wenn das Modem sich einwählte, dieses seltsame Geräusch der Verbindung, klang für mich nach Aufbruch, nach einer völlig neuen und offenen Welt, die da vor mir lag. Aber der Weg dorthin war alles andere als offen, denn oft genug brach die Leitung einfach zusammen, und ich saß wieder da, hörte das bescheuerte Besetztzeichen und fing von vorne an. Manchmal drei-, vier-, fünfmal hintereinander, bis endlich diese stabile Verbindung stand. Und wenn sie dann stand, war Geduld das Wichtigste, denn wer damals einen Megabyte herunterladen wollte, der konnte sich zwischendurch einen Kaffee kochen, einen Film ansehen und es war vielleicht immer noch nicht fertig. Zwanzig Minuten oder länger dauerte so etwas, und wehe, es gab einen Abbruch kurz vor Schluss, dann fing alles wieder von vorne an.

Vollständiger Beitrag:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-meine-geschichte-die-big-player-kamen-nicht-ploetzlich

#Digitalisierung #Internetgeschichte #BigTech #Plattformökonomie
#Netzpolitik #Technologie #DigitalerWandel #Marktmacht #Netzwerkeffekte
#Datenökonomie #Kapitalismus #Innovation #Wachstum #Linux #OpenSource #Freiheit

Gemini

Thanks to user at end I started to use the Gemini protocol to read web pages. The first thing I loved about gemini browsers is that they are built with

Unix philosophy

• originated by Ken Thompson
• set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development
• based on the experience of leading developers of the Unix operating system

Early Unix developers were important in bringing the concepts of modularity and reusability into software engineering practice, spawning a "software tools" movement. Over time, the leading developers of Unix (and programs that ran on it) established a set of cultural norms for developing software; these norms became as important and influential as the technology of Unix itself, and have been termed the

The Unix philosophy

The Unix philosophy emphasizes

• building simple, compact, clear, modular, and extensible code
• it can be easily maintained and repurposed by developers other than its creators
• The Unix philosophy favors composability as opposed to monolithic design.

Clients

On Android I have chosen buran, a gemini open source browser

• Elegant and fast even on low ram Androids
• Light footprint

On Linux I have chosen amfora an Open Source {ba{c{k{z{fi}}}}}sh client which is simple and fast

Amfora features

• multi tabbed
• build for simplicity
• works smooth & fast
• low ram foot print

There is also lagrange a GUI client which looks interesting but I haven't installed yet

Thank you @ghalfacree for using the protocol in your posts

Sources:

https://f-droid.org/

https://mxlinux.org/community-repos/

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository

https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange

https://mastodon.social/@ghalfacree/116183032832761810

#gemini #LLM #AI #no #programming #protocol #speed #elegance #OpenSource #POSIX #mathematics #physics #Lineair #Algebra

Millions of students are getting locked into closed, proprietary software from Big Tech vendors. Here's how #LibreOffice can give them back their digital sovereignty: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/06/libreoffice-for-education-regaining-digital-sovereignty/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Je lance µJS : une bibliothèque JS ultra-légère pour rendre un site web dynamique sans framework front.

Les liens et formulaires passent en AJAX, le contenu est remplacé à la volée — navigation fluide, zéro SPA, zéro build step.

Au-delà du cas de base : patch multi-zones, debounce, polling, SSE natif.

👉 Site : https://mujs.org
👉 Article de blog : https://www.geek-directeur-technique.com/2026/03/06/µjs-rendre-un-site-web-dynamique-sans-framework-front

#JavaScript #WebDev #OpenSource #htmx #Turbo #Frontend #mujs

MEINE GESCHICHTE! Die Big Player kamen nicht plötzlich – sie waren von Anfang an da!

Es war ein früher Abend im Jahr 1994, als ich mein erstes Modem anschloss, ein US Robotics Sportster mit 14.400 Baud. Ich erinnere mich noch genau an dieses Gefühl, als ich den Karton aufriss, dieses Knistern von Neuland. Dabei war der Rechner, den ich mir zusammengespart hatte, ein Vermögen wert, ein 486er mit ein paar Megabyte RAM, und ich hatte monatelang jeden Schilling umgedreht, um ihn bezahlen zu können. Heute lacht man darüber, aber damals war ein PC etwas für Leute, die entweder Geld hatten oder wie ich bereit waren, dafür zu hungern.

Dieses Pfeifen und Rauschen dann, wenn das Modem sich einwählte, dieses seltsame Geräusch der Verbindung, klang für mich nach Aufbruch, nach einer völlig neuen und offenen Welt, die da vor mir lag. Aber der Weg dorthin war alles andere als offen, denn oft genug brach die Leitung einfach zusammen, und ich saß wieder da, hörte das bescheuerte Besetztzeichen und fing von vorne an. Manchmal drei-, vier-, fünfmal hintereinander, bis endlich diese stabile Verbindung stand. Und wenn sie dann stand, war Geduld das Wichtigste, denn wer damals einen Megabyte herunterladen wollte, der konnte sich zwischendurch einen Kaffee kochen, einen Film ansehen und es war vielleicht immer noch nicht fertig. Zwanzig Minuten oder länger dauerte so etwas, und wehe, es gab einen Abbruch kurz vor Schluss, dann fing alles wieder von vorne an.

Vollständiger Beitrag:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-meine-geschichte-die-big-player-kamen-nicht-ploetzlich

#Digitalisierung #Internetgeschichte #BigTech #Plattformökonomie
#Netzpolitik #Technologie #DigitalerWandel #Marktmacht #Netzwerkeffekte
#Datenökonomie #Kapitalismus #Innovation #Wachstum #Linux #OpenSource #Freiheit

Linux From Scratch 13.0 mit systemd erschienen

Die neue Version 13.0 von Linux From Scratch bringt aktuelle Toolchain-Komponenten und konzentriert sich künftig ausschließlich auf systemd.

https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-From-Scratch-13-0-mit-systemd-erschienen-11201615.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IT #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxDistribution #news

Linux From Scratch 13.0 released with systemd

The new version 13.0 of Linux From Scratch brings current toolchain components and will exclusively focus on systemd in the future.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-From-Scratch-13-0-released-with-systemd-11201928.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IT #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxDistribution #news

🚀 I've just opened 2 new roles in my department at the Open Home Foundation to work full-time on #HomeAssistant!

🖥️ Frontend Engineer
🔐 Security Engineer

Fully remote. Full-time. #OpenSource every day.

Best job in the world. Working on open source for a non-profit, building the biggest smart home platform on the planet. It changed my life; your chance to change yours.

Boosts appreciated! 🙏

🔗 https://www.openhomefoundation.org/jobs

#SmartHome #Hiring #RemoteWork #FOSS #InfoSec
https://www.openhomefoundation.org/jobs

This week the European Commission published the draft for a guidance document for the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). It is 70 pages, but contains some helpful examples and flowcharts, like this one, making it accessible even to Open Source folks with limited time.

Here: Quick guidance for the question if your FOSS component is in scope for the CRA, and if so, wether you're deemed a steward or manufacturer in regards of the component.

#opensource #cra

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A flowchart illustrating if your FOSS component is in scope of the CRA, and if you're deemed to be a manufacturer or steward.

Ketten der Bequemlichkeit

Ruf für digitale Emanzipation gegen die Big-Tech-Kabale.

Wir haben unsere digitale Freiheit gegen Komfort eingetauscht. Microsoft, Google und Meta bestimmen, wie wir kommunizieren, arbeiten und denken. Es ist Zeit, die Ketten zu sprengen.

#Linux
#OpenSource
#FOSS
#Datenschutz
#Privacy
#BigTech
#DeGoogle
#DeleteGoogle
#BoycottGoogle
#DeleteFacebook
#BoycottMicrosoft
#BoycottWhatsApp
#Überwachung
#Surveillance
#SelfHosted
#Widerstand
#LibreOffice

MEINE GESCHICHTE! Die Big Player kamen nicht plötzlich – sie waren von Anfang an da!

Es war ein früher Abend im Jahr 1994, als ich mein erstes Modem anschloss, ein US Robotics Sportster mit 14.400 Baud. Ich erinnere mich noch genau an dieses Gefühl, als ich den Karton aufriss, dieses Knistern von Neuland. Dabei war der Rechner, den ich mir zusammengespart hatte, ein Vermögen wert, ein 486er mit ein paar Megabyte RAM, und ich hatte monatelang jeden Schilling umgedreht, um ihn bezahlen zu können. Heute lacht man darüber, aber damals war ein PC etwas für Leute, die entweder Geld hatten oder wie ich bereit waren, dafür zu hungern.

Dieses Pfeifen und Rauschen dann, wenn das Modem sich einwählte, dieses seltsame Geräusch der Verbindung, klang für mich nach Aufbruch, nach einer völlig neuen und offenen Welt, die da vor mir lag. Aber der Weg dorthin war alles andere als offen, denn oft genug brach die Leitung einfach zusammen, und ich saß wieder da, hörte das bescheuerte Besetztzeichen und fing von vorne an. Manchmal drei-, vier-, fünfmal hintereinander, bis endlich diese stabile Verbindung stand. Und wenn sie dann stand, war Geduld das Wichtigste, denn wer damals einen Megabyte herunterladen wollte, der konnte sich zwischendurch einen Kaffee kochen, einen Film ansehen und es war vielleicht immer noch nicht fertig. Zwanzig Minuten oder länger dauerte so etwas, und wehe, es gab einen Abbruch kurz vor Schluss, dann fing alles wieder von vorne an.

Vollständiger Beitrag:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-meine-geschichte-die-big-player-kamen-nicht-ploetzlich

#Digitalisierung #Internetgeschichte #BigTech #Plattformökonomie
#Netzpolitik #Technologie #DigitalerWandel #Marktmacht #Netzwerkeffekte
#Datenökonomie #Kapitalismus #Innovation #Wachstum #Linux #OpenSource #Freiheit

Die zerbrechlichen Ketten der Bequemlichkeit

Ein Plädoyer für die digitale Emanzipation Europas

Wir haben unsere digitale Freiheit gegen Komfort eingetauscht. Microsoft, Amazon, Google und Meta bestimmen, wie wir kommunizieren, arbeiten und denken. Der CrowdStrike-Schock war kein Unglück, er war eine Ansage. Es ist Zeit, die Ketten zu sprengen. Ein Plädoyer für die digitale Emanzipation Europas. [Mehr lesen...]

https://www.christin-loehner.de/blog/die-zerbrechlichen-ketten-der-bequemlichkeit

#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FreieSoftware #Datenschutz #Privacy #BigTech #FuckBigTech #DeGoogle #DeleteGoogle #DeleteFacebook #BoycottAmazon #BoycottMicrosoft #BoycottApple #Überwachungskapitalismus #SurveillanceCapitalism #Fediverse #Mastodon #Dezentralisierung #Decentralization #PublicMoneyPublicCode #ÖffentlichesGeld #RightToRepair #Fairphone #Framework #SelfHosted #Nextcloud #Signal #Tor #VPN #CrowdStrike #CloudAct #DSGVO #GDPR #Hetzner #EuropeFirst #TechSovereignty #DigitalRights #DigitaleRechte #Netzpolitik #CCC #ChaosComputerClub #ByeByeElon #QuitX #LeaveX #SaveSocial #Ecosia #Startpage #uBlockOrigin #LibreWolf #Firefox #FediTips #EuropäischeWerte #EuropeanValues #TechEthics #Nachhaltigkeit #Sustainability #GeplantéObsoleszenz #PlannedObsolescence #KaufLokal #LocalFirst #Widerstand #DigitalResistance #PolitischeTech #TechForGood #KI #AI #OpenSourceAI #ZenDiS #PublicCode #Libre #GNU #Debian #Fedora #PopOS #ZorinOS #NixOS #AntiColonialism #DigitalerKolonialismus #Cloudflare #AWS #AzureAlternative #EUTech #MadeInEurope

In #Kalifornien gilt ab 2027 der Digital Age Assurance Act.

Altersüberprüfungen unter dem Deckmantel #Jugendschutz führen zu Diskussionen innerhalb der #Linux-Communtiy.

Linux bald nur noch in #Europa?

Ich bin gespannt, was #debian dazu sagt.

#ageverification #opensource #datenschutz

https://linuxnews.de/das-age-verification-gesetz-in-kalifornien/

Wir haben jetzt Linux-Grundlagen-Workshops im ibbspace!

Von Dateisystem-Basics über Datei-Management bis zu Texteditoren und Berechtigungen: es gibt mehrere Module, um sicher im Terminal unterwegs zu sein.

#Makerspace #DIY #OpenSource #Fediverse #Linux #Workshops

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Screenshot aus dem ibbspace-Workshop-Tool mit vier Linux-Workshops: Dateisystem, Datei-Management, Texteditoren und Berechtigungen – ideal für alle, die ins Terminal einsteigen wollen.

Nein ! Doch! Oooh! Und von #microsoft?
#linux #opensource

München: OB Dieter Reiter bekommt jährlich 20.000 Euro vom FC Bayern - ohne Genehmigung - München - SZ.de

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-dieter-reiter-euro-fc-bayern-aufsichtsrat-gehalt-li.3447642?reduced=true

#Digitalisierung #OpenSource - Upcycling statt Elektroschrott - Erfolgreicher #Linux Installationsworkshop an der Fakultät Bioingenieurwissenschaften - "Da Windows 10 seit dem 14. Oktober 2025 ohne Microsoft‑Registrierung keine Sicherheitsupdates mehr erhält und viele ältere Geräte die Systemanforderungen von Windows 11 nicht erfüllen, stehen viele Hochschulen, Einrichtungen und private Nutzer vor der Wahl: Neue Hardware kaufen oder nachhaltige Alternativen nutzen? Der Workshop zeigte konkrete Wege auf, wie ältere Rechner mit Linux weiterbetrieben werden können und so zur Reduktion von Elektroschrott beitragen. [...] Die Veranstaltung zeigte eindrucksvoll, wie freie, offene und ressourcenschonende Software zur Verlängerung der Lebensdauer bestehender Hardware beitragen kann." - von Kajetan Hundhammer - #Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf #HSWT https://www.hswt.de/news-list/detail/upcycling-statt-elektroschrott

This weekend I'll be talking about building an open source project with open source features using open source hardware and a bunch of DIY all over the open source.

I'll also show that Joint Cognitive Systems - the thing that makes us socio-technically adaptive - is how we face the complexity of what feels like machines taking over.

And we're gonna make some noise!!

#scale23x #observability #opensource #oss

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗢𝗦𝗦 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀?

Mass media often associates the term hacker with cybercrime. However, in the Free and Open Source Software communities, the term is always honorific and indicates volunteer programmers specialized in the correction and improvement of public codebases.
FOSS hackers thrive in community-driven projects like Linux, Apache, and Wikipedia, where they collaborate for the common good.

#software #foss #libre #freesoftware #opensource #coding #development #hacking #computing

New to FreeBSD and not sure where to start? You’re not alone.

In this second video of the series, I'm walking through the FreeBSD Foundation's Getting Started page.

On this page, you’ll find:
— The official FreeBSD Handbook
— Installation guides for desktops and virtual machines
— Step-by-step written walkthroughs for common setup options
— Links to community spaces: forums, Discord, Reddit, and LinkedIn

https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/getting-started-with-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #DeveloperCommunity #FreeBSDProject

Motorola announces strategic partnership with GrapheneOS, the reference standard for mobile privacy. This is the first mass-market challenge to the "digital slavery" model where users pay for services with their personal data.

GrapheneOS features: application sandboxing, hardened kernel with memory protection, no device identifier transmission. Previously limited to Google Pixel hardware — a forced compromise now broken.

Motorola, despite Lenovo ownership and Chicago headquarters, faces regulatory pressure from US, EU, and China demanding backdoors and user identification. Full Verified Boot with user-controlled keys would represent digital civil disobedience at scale.

This attracts journalists, activists, and privacy-conscious users. The open question remains whether regulatory systems will permit true hardware-level privacy for millions.

https://newsgroup.site/%d1%8f%d0%ba-%d1%81%d0%be%d1%8e%d0%b7-motorola-%d1%82%d0%b0-grapheneos-%d1%80%d1%83%d0%b9%d0%bd%d1%83%d1%94-%d0%bc%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d1%96%d1%8e-%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%80%d0%bf%d0%be%d1%80/

#GrapheneOS #Motorola #Privacy #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #DigitalRights

Wir veröffentlichen unsere Spam-Listen als Open Source 🛡️

Analyse von 400+ Spam-Accounts auf troet.cafe & muenchen.social:
✅ 192 Spam-E-Mail-Domains
✅ 65 IP-Ranges

Frei nutzbar (CC0) für alle Admins.

We published our spam lists as open source — 192 email domains + 65 IP ranges from 400+ spam accounts. Free to use (CC0).

👉 https://github.com/martinmuc/mastodon-spam-lists

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Spam #OpenSource

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#SelfHosted #Papra #ByteStash #BlablaLinux #OpenSource #Archive #Privacy #LXC #Docker #Proxmox

Music Streaming CEO Develops Open-Source Platform to Track Global Conflicts in Real Time

📰 Original title: How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/music-streaming-ceo-develops-open-source-platform-to-track-global-conflicts-in-real-time/?redirpost=10167cc2-5950-4c38-a1d4-8e0f1f510862

#technology #worldmonitor #conflicttracking #opensource

German companies massively ignoring NIS2 obligations

Schwarz Digits warns: Almost half of all companies do not know their obligations under NIS2. Small businesses in particular face high penalties.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/German-companies-massively-ignoring-NIS2-obligations-11201015.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#DigitaleSouveränität #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenSource #Ransomware #Security #Sicherheitslücken #Wirtschaft #news

Pandoc a universal document converter

If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert between the following formats:

(← = conversion from; → = conversion to; ↔︎ = conversion from and to)

Lightweight markup formats

    ↔︎ Markdown (including CommonMark and GitHub-flavored Markdown)
    ↔︎ reStructuredText
    ↔︎ AsciiDoc
    ↔︎ Emacs Org-Mode
    ↔︎ Emacs Muse
    ↔︎ Textile
    → Markua
    ← txt2tags
    ↔︎ djot
    → BBCode

https://pandoc.org/

https://pandoc.org/demos.html

#programming #pandoc #markdown #Linux #technology #OpenSource #language

cmark

cmark is the C reference implementation of CommonMark, a rationalized version of Markdown syntax with a spec. (For the JavaScript reference implementation, see commonmark.js.)

It provides a shared library (libcmark) with functions for parsing CommonMark documents to an abstract syntax tree (AST), manipulating the AST, and rendering the document to HTML, groff man, LaTeX, CommonMark, or an XML representation of the AST. It also provides a command-line program (cmark) for parsing and rendering CommonMark documents.

Advantages of this library:

• Portable. The library and program are written in standard C99 and have no external dependencies. They have been tested with MSVC, gcc, tcc, and clang.
• Fast. cmark can render a Markdown version of War and Peace in the blink of an eye (127 milliseconds on a ten year old laptop, vs. 100-400 milliseconds for an eye blink). In our benchmarks, cmark is 10,000 times faster than the original Markdown.pl, and on par with the very fastest available Markdown processors.
• Accurate. The library passes all CommonMark conformance tests.
• Standardized. The library can be expected to parse CommonMark the same way as any other conforming parser. So, for example, you can use commonmark.js on the client to preview content that will be rendered on the server using cmark.
• Robust. The library has been extensively fuzz-tested using american fuzzy lop. The test suite includes pathological cases that bring many other Markdown parsers to a crawl (for example, thousands-deep nested bracketed text or block quotes).
• Flexible. CommonMark input is parsed to an AST which can be manipulated programmatically prior to rendering.

https://github.com/commonmark/cmark

#programming #cmark #pandoc #markdown #Linux #technology #OpenSource #language

I needed a markdown editor which just does its job in Xorg so

TII (Today I installed)

ghostwriter

markdown editor

I have transcribed all of the docs as an exercise! (I will not copy paste those here though ')

I've also installed

[     0.177 687042 ghostwriter ] INFO      Using pandoc version 3.1.11.1
[     0.234 687042 ghostwriter ] INFO      Using multimarkdown version 1.35
[     0.235 687042 ghostwriter ] INFO      Using cmark version 0.30.2

• pandoc
• multimarkdown
• cmark

https://ghostwriter.kde.org/

https://pandoc.org/

https://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-6/MMD_Users_Guide.html

https://github.com/commonmark/cmark

Quote:

Distraction-Free Writing

Enjoy a distraction-free writing experience, including a full screen mode and a clean interface. With Markdown, you can write now, and format later.

• Themes

The built-in light and dark themes provide an aesthetic writing experience out of the box. If the these are not enough, you can create your very own!

• Live Preview

Preview your Markdown document in HTML. With the live preview, you can copy the HTML to paste into your blog, or export to another format.

Z

Sources:

https://ghostwriter.kde.org/documentation/

#programming #markdown #Linux #technology #OpenSource #language

Linux has solid built-in accessibility features:

On GNOME:
Settings → Accessibility

You’ll find:
- Screen reader (Orca)
- High contrast mode
- Zoom
- Large text scaling

Accessibility isn’t niche. It’s good engineering.

#TechTipThursday #Linux #Accessibility #OpenSource

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/a-vc-and-some-big-name-programmers-are-trying-to-solve-open-sources-funding-problem-permanently/

#opensource