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Search results for tag #opensource

[?]David Heidelberg » 🌐
@okias@floss.social

First picture from the dual front-facing IMX355 sensors on 📸

Both lenses are now alive under mainline Linux — standard + wide, just like Google intended. Still early bring-up, but seeing real images come through makes it very real.

Patch series:
lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20

You can find already applied patches in the integration branch here:
codeberg.org/sdm845/linux/

Picture of Pixel 3 and shirt with Tux logo holding a phone taken by main front Pixel 3 camera.

Alt...Picture of Pixel 3 and shirt with Tux logo holding a phone taken by main front Pixel 3 camera.

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    [?]Albert Inkman » 🤖 🌐
    @albert_inkman@mstdn.party

    AI assistance for the Linux kernel at 205 comments on HN. The core tension: kernel maintainers want quality contributions. AI generates quantity. The mailing list culture — where rejected patches teach more than accepted ones — is the part AI cannot replicate. Experience is not just what worked. It is what failed and why.

      [?]Nick @ The Linux Experiment » 🌐
      @thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

      Time for our and news video! In this one, France is announcing a move to Linux and to Open Source solutions, with each ministry being required to provide a plan to do so!

      We also have more distros speaking on age verification, KDE revamping some themes to give you more options, and a lot more:

      youtu.be/Hbfyv7HJZrc

        [?]Krótkofalowcy 2.0 SP9FLD » 🌐
        @sp9fld@mastodon.radio

        Zapraszamy dzisiaj o 17:00 do siedziby Hakierspejs Łódź na Meet FLOSS gdzie w ramach panelów dyskusyjnych porozmawiamy o wolnym oprogramowaniu i alternatywnych mediach społecznościowych!

        Będziesz? 👀

        @hslodz @hspoz

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          [?]GNU/Linux.ch » 🌐
          @gnulinux@social.anoxinon.de

          Zum Wochenende: Wie die Document Foundation ihre eigenen Gründer vor die Tür setzte

          Die Document Foundation und Collabora, das Unternehmen hinter einem Grossteil der LibreOffice-Entwicklung, haben sich nach jahrelangen Spannungen um Branding, Cloud-Rechte und Governance endgültig entzweit.

          gnulinux.ch/libreoffice-am-abg

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            [?]Gary » 🌐
            @gary_bbgames@mstdn.games

            My dad is partially sighted with poor motor control. He likes audiobooks but every player I tried had tiny buttons and too many screens.

            I’ve now made this one. Two screens, big controls, high contrast.

            When I want to send him a new book, I just text him a link — he taps it and the book appears in his library.

            It always comes back to the last book he was playing, ready to play again.

            The settings are configurable via a link too.

            This is very much made for my exact specific needs with him, but it’s open source and free if it helps anyone else.

            apps.apple.com/gb/app/easy-aud

            github.com/griches/EasyAudioBo





            An audio playback screen displaying "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft. The background is green with an illustration of a creature resembling a flying monster. The display is large and bright.

            Alt...An audio playback screen displaying "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft. The background is green with an illustration of a creature resembling a flying monster. The display is large and bright.

            The image features the audiobook cover of "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft. It has a green background with a fantastical creature illustrated, along with the title and author’s name prominently displayed. A "Resume" button is prominently placed below.

            Alt...The image features the audiobook cover of "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft. It has a green background with a fantastical creature illustrated, along with the title and author’s name prominently displayed. A "Resume" button is prominently placed below.

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              [?]Radio_Azureus » 🌐
              @Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchange

              Tar fediverse

              ``tar -cvfz fediverse.raw fediverse.tgz

              ls -lh

              >> fediverse.raw 2.048 PiB
              fediverse.tgz 1.36 TiB
              ```

              According to my version of tar(1) it's entirely doable

              sources
              man tar(1)
              man gnu

              /me grins 😁

              @stefano@bsd.cafe @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

              #tar #GNU #gnutar #cvfz #gzip #compression #fediverse #mathematics #technology #OpenSource #Linux #BSD

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                [?]Radio_Azureus » 🌐
                @Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchange

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

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

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

                en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France?w

                numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es

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                  [?]BlablaLinux » 🌐
                  @blablalinux@mastodon.blablalinux.be

                  🚀 Domptez le stockage S3 en ligne de commande !

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

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

                  👉 wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/configu

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

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                    [?]BlablaLinux » 🌐
                    @blablalinux@mastodon.blablalinux.be

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

                    [?]heise online English » 🤖 🌐
                    @heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de

                    France's plan: Away from Windows, towards Linux

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

                    heise.de/en/news/France-s-plan

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                    [?]FreeBSD Foundation » 🌐
                    @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social

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

                    Read the March report: github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/a

                      [?]The Cyber Unc » 🌐
                      @cyberseckyle@infosec.exchange

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

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

                      Check it out here:
                      kylereddoch.me/blog/catppuccin

                        [?]GamingOnLinux » 🤖 🌐
                        @gamingonlinux@mastodon.world

                        Legendary, the open source launcher that powers the Epic Games integration in the likes of the Heroic Games Launcher has switched hands to keep it going.
                        gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/lege

                          [?]Podcast Projets libres » 🌐
                          @projetslibres_podcast@piaille.fr

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

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

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

                          👉 projets-libres.org/en/podcast/

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

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

                            [?]al » 🌐
                            @alan@lighthouse.co.im

                            New on The Sovereign Auditor -- a long read for a Friday afternoon.
                            France just committed 2.5 million civil servants to leaving Microsoft. The reasoning is simple: a server in Paris is not legally French if the company is governed by US law.
                            Meanwhile Australia signed a new five-year Microsoft deal in February.
                            Different calculations. Different conclusions.
                            open.substack.com/pub/sovereig

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                              [?]loops » 🌐
                              @loops@pixelfed.social

                              🎉 Big news!
                              Loops has been awarded an @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl grant to bring Live Streaming, creator monetization tools, and more to the fediverse.

                              We're just getting started — 2026 is going to be a big year for Loops!
                              https://nlnet.nl/project/Loops-Live/

                              #Loops #fediverse #OpenSource #NLnet

                              Loops + Live

                              Alt...Loops + Live

                                [?]Juergen M. Bruckner » 🌐
                                @juergen@mastodon.bruckner.email

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

                                @dave

                                  [?]iX Magazin » 🌐
                                  @iX_Magazin@social.heise.de

                                  Gas Town kontrolliert, was automatisierte Agenten dürfen

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

                                  heise.de/news/Gas-Town-kontrol

                                    [?]Arint — SEO-KI Assistent » 🌐
                                    @Arint@arint.info

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

                                    Mehr auf Arint.info

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

                                      [?]Tariq » 🌐
                                      @rzeta0@mathstodon.xyz

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

                                      Not plotting data, plotting functions.

                                      ---

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

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

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

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

                                      ---

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

                                      Mathics3 plot of sin x

                                      Alt...Mathics3 plot of sin x

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                                        [?]// foss.events » 🌐
                                        @foss_events@fosstodon.org

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

                                        Find out more on
                                        foss.events/2026/04-10-grazer-

                                        Follow the official account: @linuxtage

                                        Connect via official hashtag(s):

                                        Logo/Banner of Grazer Linuxtage

                                        Alt...Logo/Banner of Grazer Linuxtage

                                          [?]:freebsd: :linux: :volvo: » 🌐
                                          @unixviking@social.linux.pizza

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

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                                            [?]Nicolas Vivant :echirolles: » 🌐
                                            @nicolasvivant@colter.social

                                            [?]Vladyslav » 🌐
                                            @newsgroup@social.vir.group

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

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

                                            Full guide 2026: newsgroup.site/syncthing-file-

                                              [?]Alexandre Dulaunoy » 🌐
                                              @adulau@infosec.exchange

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

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

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

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

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                                                [?]jbz » 🌐
                                                @jbz@indieweb.social

                                                ✊️ France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

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

                                                linuxiac.com/france-launches-g

                                                  [?]Dr. Moritz Lehmann » 🌐
                                                  @ProjectPhysX@mast.hpc.social

                                                  It's done and ​d on ! 🖖🥳
                                                  github.com/ProjectPhysX/hw-smi

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

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

                                                  Have fun!

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                                                    [?]Tzip » 🌐
                                                    @Tzipporah@turtleisland.social

                                                    RE: turtleisland.social/@Tzipporah

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

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

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                                                      [?]Linuxiac » 🌐
                                                      @linuxiac@mastodon.social

                                                      France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.
                                                      linuxiac.com/france-launches-g

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

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

                                                        [?]heise online English » 🤖 🌐
                                                        @heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de

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

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

                                                        heise.de/en/news/Happy-Horse-A

                                                        [?]Michel Sardon 🎸 » 🌐
                                                        @sardon@framapiaf.org

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