For the past six years, I’ve kept a quarterly ritual of donating to a free and open-source software project that recently helped me in my life or work.

Here is my 2026 lineup. With a special exception for Q4:

• Q1: FreeBSD Foundation (@freebsdfoundation@bsd.network)
• Q2: KeePassXC (@keepassxc)
• Q3: KDE e.V. (@kde)
• Q4: Sanktionsfrei e.V. (@Sanktionsfrei)

Not a FOSS project, but more important. Standing together for fear-free, dignified basic income support without sanctions in Germany! 🤝❤️

#FOSS #OpenSource #FreeBSD #KeePassXC #KDE #Sanktionsfrei #Bürgergeld #Solidarität #Fediverse

Hello wonderful hive-mind Mastodonians.

Having trouble with my new Nextcloud provider - customer support-wise, they're pretty unresponsive.

Has anyone tried Internxt yet?

They're European-based, open source, E2EE cloud storage providers. They look like the sort of organisation I'd be happy to support...

#CloudStorage #Internxt #E2EE #OpenSource #Drive #Nextcloud

If any of my work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or elsewhere) has been helpful in the past, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. ​

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://dir.floss.fund/view/@brynet.ca

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

#bsd #opensource #foss

Auf eduvidual.at, der Lernplattform des Bildungsministeriums in Österreich, gibt es übrigens einen Kurs zum Kinderbuch und -film "Ada & Zangemann - Ein Märchen über Software, Skateboards und Himbeereis" von @kirschner und Sandra Brandstätter. Ganz große Empfehlung und bitte weitererzählen!

"Schwierige Themen wie Monopole, Lobbyismus, Digital Divide, Softwarefreiheit, digitale Autonomie, IoT, Elektroschrott und vieles mehr sind in dieser Lernressource in kindgerechter Form leicht verständlich in eine spannende Handlung verpackt."

Kurs: https://www.eduvidual.at/course/view.php?id=218862

Buch: https://ada.fsfe.org/

#Bildung #eduvival #SoftwareFreiheit #FreieSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Österreich #FediLZ #Schule #Kinderbuch #Zangemann #AdaUndZangemann

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Titelbild vom Buch Ada & Zangemann. Ein dünner, großer alter Mann mit dem Händen im Kreuz stützend beugt sich herunter zu einem energisch dreinblickendem kleinem Mädchen mit motorisiertem Skateboard. Der Hintergrund ist grün und es gibt am Rande Maus, Tastatur und Smartphone mit weißen Kabeln, die einen Rahmen bilden.

We certify most of our #hardware at @oshwassociation

Pico2 Expansion Card (TR000006), and qwiic-like I2C sensor accessories compatible with it (TR000007, TR000008, TR000009, TR000010, TR000012) are all certified by OSHWA!

Pico2 Expansion Card will be soon on Crowd Supply this month, so keep following us to catch as soon as we open the pre-launch page.

#RISC_V #Opensource

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A small red pcb, like a USB-C dongle, with male USB-C below and 2 JST ports above, in the middle containing a little black chip (RP2354A)

Our AGS10 Air Quality I2C sensor modules are freshly out of NextPCB factory.

It is completely open source hardware certified by @oshwassociation as TR000010

Soon last prototypes of Pico2 Expansion Card and several other I2C sensor modules will be ready.

#opensource #hardware #pcb

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A metal sensor on top of a red PCB, with 2 JST ports on each edge of the PCB

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Retro side of a red PCB, with big logo of riscfruit in lowercase, on left there is the invert of the pomegranate icon with 4x4 sliced circular wafer, below written "Designed in Türkiye, Produced in PRC", above 'OSHW TR000010" and pinout names

🇮🇹 Le scuole italiane non devono formare dipendenti delle Big Tech, ma cittadini liberi.

Basta Chromebook, Gmail e piattaforme chiuse che profilano i minori. I nostri ragazzi meritano strumenti open source, sicuri e sovrani.

Firma ora e condividi per il futuro delle nuove generazioni:
👉 https://sovranitàdigitale.com/petizione/

#ScuolaDigitale #SoftwareLibero #Privacy #Istruzione #OpenSource #SovranitàDigitale #NoBigTech #FOSS #Italia #Genitori #Docenti #DirittiDigitali #Petizione #ScuolaPubblica

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Ecco il link dove firmare su change.org https://c.org/SZ7PjpcKDZ

So, you submit a feature request for an open-source project and offer to put together a pull request (which the maintainer even welcomed).

Then, you sit down, painstakingly build a fully-fledged new feature into the project, and submit a pull request—only for nothing to happen for four months.
In the meantime, several other people ask about the feature and even point toward your pull request, which is just waiting to be merged.

And what happens today?
A new release of the software comes out, and the feature is now included.
But my pull request is still open. I check the commit history and see that it was implemented five days ago—by Claude.
I take a look at it today, and, well... it’s a half-baked implementation that immediately causes other issues (my version was much more stable and didn’t have those negative side effects elsewhere).

I rarely contribute to open-source projects—mostly due to a lack of time—and things like this are just even more demotivating...

#OpenSource #GitHub #noAI #Claude

The Arcticons project exists for over 6 years now!
So we're bringing you a new release packed with icons and updates 🥳

https://github.com/Arcticons-Team/Arcticons/releases/tag/15.4.7

#arcticons #iconpack #opensource

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Visual changelog with all the new app icons in a line style. At the top is the text "Arcticons 15.4.7 - 194 new icons"

Does your organisation rely on NLnet Labs? If you have budget left this year, please consider using some of it to support our #OpenSource work.

As an independent non-profit foundation, we fund maintenance of our open-source software through support agreements, new development through grants, and research and policy work from our reserves.

Take out a support agreement, sponsor a feature, or make a donation. If someone else manages the budget, please share this with them.
https://nlnetlabs.nl/funding/

There was a thing a while back about "if you want open source free software use this instead of..." but I cannot find it.

I have a very old version of Adobe Premiere, in that, I cannot even do 4K video editing in it. I love it. I understand it. But...it does not suit my needs because we are beyond 1080p now!

Recommend me something that does not need cloud, or have genAI bullshit built in please! I don't need the same editing levels of Premiere, but I do need basic color shifting, light adjustments, I do a lot of clipping and overlaying with audio so the same cut/mark/move layout with the timeline would be the biggest help.

I don't use it enough to spend a bunch of money on it. I have tried OpenShot, it's...okay but it is clunky and the timeline cut/edit is annoying and it doesn't seem to do anything else.

Boosts welcome.

#software #openSource #noAI #recommend

Node64 vereint sechs Homelab-Dienste in einem Container
https://linuxnews.de/node64-vereint-sechs-homelab-dienste-in-einem-container/ #homelab #selfhosting #linux #opensource #linuxnews

Bayern und Schleswig-Holstein kooperieren für digitale Souveränität

Bayern und Schleswig-Holstein wollen gemeinsam die digitale Souveränität in der öffentlichen Verwaltung voranbringen.

https://www.linux-magazin.de/news/bayern-und-schleswig-holstein-kooperieren-fuer-digitale-souveraenitaet/

#linux #opensource

@uba

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Logozeile des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Digitales: links ein Raster aus blauen, roten, gelben und grauen Quadraten, rechts das bayerische Staatswappen.

So we're finally splitting our monorepo! If you package #Pidgin, you'll want to read this post!

For those of you that don't know, the source code repository for Pidgin has historically contained four separate but related projects.

This has worked okay for the past 20 odd years, but has caused a number of issues including completely shadowing projects like #Finch.

Due to those issues and GTK+ 2 being removed from distributions we're separating everything!

https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/splitting-the-monorepo/446

#OpenSource

The first open source software that we used, and the FOSS that we have most recently started using regularly.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-134/

#podcast #linux #opensource

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Linux After Dark artwork

🎉 I made an age verification bypass for Discord!

Hi everyone! After many requests, I just added Discord to my age verification bypass extension! It was the hardest one to bypass so far but I did it!

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/age-verification-bypass?utm_source=fedi_share (Just install and use on Discord web)

More details about what's bypassed : https://github.com/helloyanis/age-verification-bypass/wiki/discord

I managed to do it by spoofing an old version number in the requests to Discord's API (a version that didn't have age verification) and hijacking the gateway connection and making the client think you are an adult!

❗In regions like Australia and the UK, Discord does additionnal checks and you'll get a "Messages failed to load" error. In that case use a VPN along with the extension.

It may get patched, if discord propagates the additionnal check to all regions but hopefully not.

With Discord, Twitter, Reddit and bluesky bypassed in this extension, I'm really happy at how it turned out!

Give it a try!

@privacy

#privacy #opensource #discord #ageverification

Bayern und Schleswig-Holstein kooperieren für digitale Souveränität | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Bayern-und-Schleswig-Holstein-kooperieren-fuer-digitale-Souveraenitaet-11513932.html #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Datenschutz #privacy #Microsoft #KRITIS #CriticalInfrastructure #Linux

📦 New FeedEcho destination: GitHub. One user asked for it, so here it is.

FeedEcho can now publish feed items as markdown files straight into a GitHub repo. Connect a repo with a fine-grained PAT, then set a file path template and body template per echo. Front matter renders like any other template text, so your feed's tags land in the file. Existing files update in place, never duplicated.

Self-host or use the hosted version: https://github.com/jcrabapple/feedecho and https://feedecho.net

#opensource #RSS #Mastodon