📰 ** Information Briefing: **

✨ #Armbian #Github Highlights
- Latest #Github developments released
- Kernel updates and enhanced board support
- Smoother workflows and bug fixes

🔗 https://www.adalta.info/pdf/index.html?title=prstn_linux_115883803394713320&lang=en
[ Verfügbar in 🇩🇪 (lang=de)//Available in 🇺🇸 (lang=en)//Disponible en 🇫🇷 (lang=fr) ]

#Linux #Update #Opensource #Embeddedlinux #Sbc #Arm #Devlife #Openhardware #AISummary #Bot

auto-cpufreq 3.0: Better CPU control for longer battery life on Linux

The new version of the power management tool brings manual turbo control and numerous bug fixes for Linux laptops.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/auto-cpufreq-3-0-Better-CPU-control-for-longer-battery-life-on-Linux-11138281.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IT #Linux #OpenSource #Wayland #news

Sent my feedback on public initiative for European commission and open source. Placed my name - I am proud and active on what I'm doing, talked as a blind european citizen.
Every european relying on accessibility should talk now.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/

#accessibility #a11y #blind # disability #eu #europe #inclusion #OpenSource

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

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

Special Guest: @rileytestut@mastodon.social

Building emulators and app stores for iPhone with shanegill.io

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 05 February 2026 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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Prêt à mettre à jour ton serveur ou ton vieux laptop reconditionné ? Fonce !

👉 https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260110

#Debian #Linux #Trixie #OpenSource #SysAdmin #BlablaLinux #MiseAJour

@vonpearly @zendis Dieses Sabatical nicht. Aber München hat damals das Projekt #LiMux gehabt. Umstellung der Verwaltung auf #OpenSource. Das Projekt war Ende 2013 abgeschlossen, ein Erfolg und sparte Geld.
Es gab dann einen eMail-Blackout. Verursacht durch eine kommerzielle Software. Es lag nicht an #OSS. Dennoch wurde #FOSS in Frage gestellt.
#Microsoft zog dann den deutschen Hauptsitz 2016 um nach München. 2017 fiel im Stadtrat die Entscheidung alles zurück auf Windows.
Das zeitliche Zusammentreffen der letzten beiden Punkte zu beurteilen überlasse ich jedem selber. Ich weiß, was ich daraus schließe.
2020 beschloss die Stadtregierung dann zurück zu OSS zu gehen. Dieses wurde aber nie gemacht. Wer den Beschluss ignorierte und dagegen handelte ist mir nicht bekannt.
Ab 2022 kam dann auf alle Rechner #Windows und MS Office. #Libreoffice sollte dann bis 2023 auch wieder vollständig verschwinden.

Nachzulesen bei Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

A cautious #cybersecurity warrior ensures that all tools and weapons work precisely as needed. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/bashrc/?s=mc

A small python script to extract all related domains for a specific Office 365 tenant🕵️‍♂️

https://github.com/r1cksec/corptrace/blob/master/ressources/modules/ms_get_rootdomains_from_tenant.py

#infosec #cybersecurity #redteam #pentest #osint #azure #entra #cloud #opensource

I want to collect examples of usability improvements in open source projects for opensourcedesign.net: improvements in labels/microcopy, better layouts of dialogs or new features which improved usability.

Do you know of good examples that are small and easy to understand?

(It is not hard to find examples in general, but they often need depper domain knowledge, are focussed on new functionality more than on improvement of usability) //jd

#opensource #design #documentation

The Register, from yesterday:
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/eu_open_source_consultation/ @theregister @carlypage #opensource

Digitale Souveränität als Voraussetzung für öffentliche Institutionen und Organisationen

Vortrag von Frank Karlitschek, Gründer und CEO von Nextcloud

🗓️Mittwoch, 25.2.2026 16:00 – 20.00 Uhr

Melden Sie sich jetzt an für diesen spannenden Anlass an der Berner Fachhochschule:

https://www.ch-open.ch/digital-sovereignty-nextcloud/

Nextcloud ist eine offene (Open‑Source) Plattform, die alle wichtigen Funktionen für sichere Zusammenarbeit und effiziente Büro‑ und Verwaltungsabläufe bereitstellt. Und damit ein Beitrag, um die Kontrolle über Daten und Infrastruktur wiederzuerlangen und gleichzeitig praktisch und skalierbar zu bleiben.

#digitaleSouveranitat #Nextcloud #opensource #digitaleVerwaltung #Collaboration

auto-cpufreq 3.0: Bessere CPU-Kontrolle für längere Akkulaufzeit unter Linux

Die neue Version des Power-Management-Tools bringt manuelle Turbo-Kontrolle und zahlreiche Bugfixes für Linux-Laptops.

https://www.heise.de/news/auto-cpufreq-3-0-Bessere-CPU-Kontrolle-fuer-laengere-Akkulaufzeit-unter-Linux-11138120.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IT #Linux #OpenSource #Wayland #news

"UPBGE 0.50 launches with GPU skinning, faster add object, 2D filter overhaul, and more"

"UPBGE0.50 has been released as the latest version of this free and open source 3D game engine, now built on Blender 5.0.1."

https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/upbge-0-50-launches-with-gpu-skinning-faster-add-object-2d-filter-overhaul-and-more/

#Python #OpenSource

Having redundancy is important on many levels.

If we specifically look at the FediVerse, all of us need to realize the following:

* There is no cloud it is somebody else's computer.
* Having that server online costs money.
* cash is deliberately kept scarce by those in power.

At the end of December 2025 I received a dreadful message from the maintainer of a FediVerse server owner. It is the second of such dreadful messages. The owner had to shut down the server because the costs to keep it online where unbearable.

This particular case jumped out because the costs were about two and a half thousand dollars per month!

I immediately ask myself what kind of configuration was run, in order to justify that heavy amount of money to run the server. USD 2500 is on the amount of a monthly salary of skillful people living in highly developed countries.
In my country people have to make do with pennies in comparison for a full month's work

I have an internet friend who runs FediVerse servers setups, using freeBSD tools on VMs which cost him just EUR 4 a month per VM. If those two people had only met at the time that the second one was creating a server he would have stayed online for years, with just one month of his spending; 625 months to be exact. Per year that would be 7500 months which would be 625 years much longer than the lifespan of all of us reading this.

Alas they've had no contact and another one bit the dust.

All of us who are users on different servers, need to realize that somebody is always paying the bill

It can vary from just EUR 4 but can even climb to astronomical levels of USD two and a half thousand as I learned then.

I'm fortunate enough that I'm from a period where everything needed to be done from scratch

I'm one of the three persons who set up the foundation of the internet in my country. Back then we had a 9600 BPS fax modem from the brand of Telebit donated by the OAS. Linux did not exist. We used waffle as our BBS front end on a single tasking os.

When you wanted to fetch an image you had to go through Archie for search, FTPmail at decwrl.dec.com, to transfer the file, learn scripting languages, before you could get one image from nasa.gov.

You had to Binary convert and uuencode the jpeg file hack it into 64kB pieces, and revert the process at arrival, before you could see it.

All connections were once a week where you needed to dial internationally to upr2.clu.net which cost a hefty amount of money almost bankrupting the director of the University computer center who initially payed out of pocket.

I know how much the internet can cost when you need to run a server.

Always be thankful and grateful when you're allowed to work on someone else's computer on the internet

Realize that on walled Gardens you pay with your data, personal uniquely identifiable data. Walled Gardens sell your data for about USD 4000 a person.

Make accounts on different FediVerse servers so that you are not cut off, when one bites the dust.

Use your own offline storage for your important documents toots.

Used triple tier backup systems.

Remember that someone always pays a bill for whatever you do on the internet.

#FediVerse #programming #technology #OpenSource #redundancy #backup

Vermaden has been at work LVN is online edition 20260112

Go read learn

#BSD #freeBSD #Linux #programming #OpenSource #technology #networking

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/valuable-news-2026-01-12/

Goverlay is a useful tool for configuring the likes of MangoHud, vkBasalt, and OptiScaler. Recently it arrived on Flathub, and a major new update is out.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/goverlay-for-managing-tools-like-mangohud-gets-a-major-new-release-and-its-finally-on-flathub/

#OpenSource #Apps #NewRelease #Misc

Wer 8.8.8.8 nutzt, hat die Kontrolle verloren. Bequemlichkeit ist der Käfig, den Big Tech uns gebaut hat. 🤷‍♂️

Ich habe den Stecker gezogen. In Teil 3 des Project Rebel Homebase bauen wir echte Souveränität.

Kein „Zwei Pi-holes im DHCP“-Gebastel. Sondern High Availability mit Keepalived, Unbound & virtueller IP. Overkill? Vielleicht. Aber mein „Stormtrooper“ verfehlt sein Ziel nicht. 🎯

Die Anleitung zur Unabhängigkeit:
https://chk.me/7d61jhj

#linux #RebelHomeBase #FOSS #OpenSource #HomeLab

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Der 'Rebel Cube' Homelab-Server im schwarz-weißen Stormtrooper-Design. Der Aufbau von oben nach unten: Ein ZimaBlade mit NVMe-SSDs, zwei Raspberry Pi CM4 Blades als redundanter DNS-Cluster, ein 2.5G PoE-Switch und ein 10G-Switch als Basis.

Neulich habe ich einen Bericht im Fernsehen gesehen, wo unter anderem die #OpenSource Minidrohne #Crazyflie von #Bitcraze gezeigt wurde. Fliegt indoor, wiegt knappe 30g, unter 10cm klein.
Ich dachte mir: Nettes Spielzeug. Mal schauen, was das kostet. Nur mal so for fun eine kaufen.
Die rufen doch für so ein kleines Ding allen Ernstes $285,60 auf. Denen brennt doch echt der Helm.

https://store.bitcraze.io/collections/platforms/products/crazyflie-2-1-plus

@rl_dane

Deno installation on Linux is luckily also trivial. I did it in Debian based distributions, on X86 and ARM.

Deno is needed for ytdlp because a full JavaScript stack needs to be invoked to tame the Beast of YouTube. Ytdlp does not need deno anywhere else.

It's still the only way to ensure that Alphabet gets the least information possible from you, when you have to fetch some data that is served from there. Thanks to ytdlp I play with typescript in deno

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/

#Programming #typescript #JavaScript #stack #deno #ytdlp #BSD #freeBSD #Linux #OpenSource

@aredridel While I don't use or like TailwindCSS as a tool, I think it's nice to see community tools like this develop & succeed. And finding ways to monetize open source as a creator is what the industry needs.

But #OpenSource is an ideal that's really at odds with human nature. The licenses that became standardized for OSS really needed to have clauses for commercial use or use over $x of revenue needing to contribute back financially. It becomes unsustainable at scale. 💔

There are many ways to multi material….

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3rvVuCLa_MI

#RepRap #3DPrinting #OpenSource

🥊 VirtualBox vs KVM : Le match s'arrête ici !
Marre du message "Un autre hyperviseur est déjà installé" ? 🤯 Sur Linux, ils se battent pour votre processeur !

J'ai créé un petit script de bascule pour passer de l'un à l'autre en 1 seconde sans rien désinstaller 🚀

📖 La solution ici : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/conflit-hyperviseurs-kvm-virtualbox-linux

#Linux #VirtualBox #KVM #BlablaLinux #SysAdmin #OpenSource

Ooooh! Massive list of #opensource events. Will need to parse and integrate into my own list of conferences for 2026

https://github.com/EverythingOpenSource/open-source-events https://leaflet.pub/21cdba4b-811a-40a1-a47f-869019326771

🚀 YOURLS passe en v1.10.3 !

Le raccourcisseur d'URL auto-hébergé préféré des libristes s'offre une petite cure de jeunesse. Au programme : des correctifs, plus de stabilité et toujours 0 tracking tiers 🛡️

Parce que vos liens méritent d'être courts, mais surtout d'être à VOUS 🐧

🔗 Les détails ici : https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/releases/tag/1.10.3

#YOURLS #SelfHosted #OpenSource #Linux #BlablaLinux

Der Perlentaucher hat jetzt zusätzlich einen kuschelig-warmen Neoprenanzug (einsteigerfreundliche grafische Benutzeroberfläche) bekommen. 🤿

Verpackt in einer einzigen ausführbaren Datei für Linux, Windows, MacOS (nicht getestet).

Jetzt könnt ihr eure Big-Tech Streaming-Abos endgültig kündigen und werdet dennoch quasi täglich mit neuem Stoff versorgt.

Wenn´s euch gefällt: Gerne boosten!

#perlentaucher #oss #opensource #mediathek @mediathekperlen

https://codeberg.org/elpatron/Perlentaucher/src/branch/master/docs/gui.md

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Perlentaucher GUI - grafisches Benutzerinterface, das eine Tabelle der neuesten Blog Posts von Mediathekperlen auflistet.

📖 Le tuto Wiki : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/installation-virtualbox-debian-13-trixie

💻 Le script (GitHub/Gitea) : https://github.com/anyblabla/virtualbox

#Linux #Debian13 #VirtualBox #OpenSource #BlablaLinux #SysAdmin

Nice, Bose is open sourcing their EoL product's API, so that users can continue to use the product locally, without the cloud services!

More of that, please!

https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source

#bose #soundtouch #opensource

#OpenShot 3.4 Open-Source Video Editor Released with New Effects, Performance Improvements, and Other Exciting Updates https://9to5linux.com/openshot-3-4-open-source-video-editor-released-with-new-effects-and-features

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

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Screenshot of OpenShot 3.4 showing the main window while editing a video file and the About OpenShot dialog.

The EU, as well as every country in the world, should be taking seriously the importance of sovereign systems for communicating and disseminating information.

The ActivityPub protocol is proven and makes many platforms compatible and accessible to each other, allowing for effective information sharing and communication.

The only reason many people do not leave X is that many important services and public figures remain on that platform. Therefore, if countries truly care about digital sovereignty and resilience, they should adopt and promote the use of open source platforms and networks based on the ActivityPub protocol, whether it is Mastodon, Pleroma, Vebinet, or another platform.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Vebinet #Mastodon #Pleroma #socialmedia #X #Twitter #DigitalSovereignty #EU #Europe #EUpol #OpenSource #technology

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

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

Special Guest: @scottjenson@social.coop

Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team. Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time. mastodon.social: 2017-2022

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 29 January 2026 at US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy!

If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from Open Source, or if you're simply interested in questions about digital sovereignty, please visit https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en for details on how to contribute.

#FOSS #opensource

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.87 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/30679

It's churning through GitHub Continuous Integration checks (1 of 3 passed so far which is a good sign the other two will complete successfully).

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

p.s. the other day I read your napcop proposal and I dig the acronym. ;)

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Also, thanks to lxo, violette, fruye and to anyone else who may have helped contributed to this release!

I've submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.86 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/30669

Currently one of three Continuous Integration checks passed (which is a good sign the other two will probably pass soon too).

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

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse