#foss #opensource #isitreallyfoss

heads up #Europe, if you want #sovereignty, there is an #European #chat solution that is #decentralized, #OpenSource, free, multi-platform, multi-profile, #encrypted, it is called #DeltaChat

it is doesn't require phone numbers or any data for registration! painless setup, find it in your app store of choice

your messages and data live in your pockets and not in some 3rd party's "cloud" servers, you truly own it!

#digitalindependence #diday #autonomy #privacy #security

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poster with two screenshots of Delta Chat and text "go sovereign with Delta Chat. private, decentralized, yours. get.delta.chat"

Okay, folks, gather 'round, because you are not going to believe this one. My friend who is working at NASA told me this confidential news , but i can finally spill the beans: NASA is officially running NetBSD.

Yeah, you heard that right. Turns out, when you need an OS that can literally run on a potato *and* survive the vacuum of space without a hiccup, you do not mess around. They have been working under wraps with their deep space division on something they are calling "AstroBSD."

Apparently, the Perseverance rover on Mars? Yeah, it is not just taking pretty pictures; it is crunching data with a custom NetBSD kernel.

This just proves what foundation has been saying forever: "Of course it runs NetBSD!" From your ancient router to a rover on another planet.

#NetBSD #NASA #AstroBSD #AprilFools #OpenSource #Portability #MarsRover #SpaceTech #GeekHumor

Finde ich sehr gut von Frankreich! 👍 🇫🇷🇪🇺

Deutschland - wann? 🇩🇪🇪🇺🤔

„2,5 Mio. Beamte steigen um: Frankreich forciert Open-Source-Wechsel

10.04.2026 16:04 Uhr
Von Felix Krauth

Frankreich macht Ernst bei der digitalen Souveränität und verabschiedet sich von amerikanischer Software. Ein neuer Fahrplan sieht zudem den schrittweisen Wechsel von Windows zu Linux vor.“

#Frankreich #Foss #DigitaleSouveraenitaet #Deutschland #OpenSource #Linux https://winfuture.de/news,158029.html

10 years of #MountainCamp

It started with a small group of open source enthusiasts, a mountain, and a dream. That was 2017.

Fast forward to today: the orga team just had its first planning session for #MountainCamp2027 and we are buzzing. This one is special. 2027 marks 10 years since that very first camp, and we want to make it the most fun and amazing one yet.

Want to help organize? Reach out!

👥 drupalmountaincamp.ch/team

✉️ drupalmountaincamp.ch/form/contact

#Drupal #OpenSource #Davos

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Mountain Camp Organizing Team had a retreat to plan for Mountain Camp 2027

📩 A new **Digging Code** newsletter just dropped.

📰 Issue title
**Laravel 13.4**, **Toast Notifications** & a **Laracasts App** — Plus **2 Packages You'll Want**.

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#tech #webdev #dev #backend #php #laravel #opensource #ai #claude

First picture from the dual front-facing IMX355 sensors on #Pixel3 📸

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:
https://lore.kernel.org/phone-devel/20260411-pixel3-camera-v2-0-41b889abb14c@ixit.cz/T/#t

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

#LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #Mainline #Kernel #OpenSource #sdm845

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

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. #AI #Linux #OpenSource

Time for our #Linux and #OpenSource 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:

https://youtu.be/Hbfyv7HJZrc

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

#floss #wioo #mastodon #fediverse #matrix #foss #opensource #freesoftware

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.

#LibreOffice #Collabora #OpenSource #Office #TDF #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/libreoffice-am-abgrund

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.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/easy-audiobook/id6761441597

https://github.com/griches/EasyAudioBook

#iOS
#Accessibility
#Audiobooks
#OpenSource
#AI

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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.

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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.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France?wprov=sfla1

https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/

#OpenSource #Linux #programming #BSD #Technology #France #FR #USA #Little #Donald #Agent #Orange #no #TV

🚀 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 !

👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/configurer-client-minio-mc-debian

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

#Linux #MinIO #SysAdmin #Debian #OpenSource #BlablaLinux

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

#Linux #OpenSource #Productivité #BlablaLinux #Wekan #Kan #Kanban

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.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/France-s-plan-Away-from-Windows-towards-Linux-11251739.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Datenschutz #DigitaleSouveränität #IT #OpenSource #Netzpolitik #Windows #news

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: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-projects/blob/main/Cyber%20Resilience%20Act%20Readiness/monthly-updates/2026-03.md

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Security #CyberResilienceAct #CRA #Community

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:
https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/catppuccin-complete-ui-for-mastodon-20/

#Mastodon #Themes #OpenSource #BuildInPublic #Catppuccin

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.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/legendary-the-free-and-open-source-epic-games-launcher-has-moved-to-a-new-organisation/

#OpenSource #Apps #Misc

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!

👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/smartphone-put-privacy-in-your-smartphone/

#podcast #opensource #privacy #eos #iodeOS #calyxos #postmarketos #fairphone #commown #murena #ubuntutouch #grapheneos

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

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.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/the-exit-and-the-lock-in
#DataSovereignty #CLOUDACT #Linux #OpenSource #GDPR #IsleOfMan #DigitalSovereignty #EU

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

@dave
#fediverse #mastodon #loops #opensource #foss

Gas Town kontrolliert, was automatisierte Agenten dürfen

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

https://www.heise.de/news/Gas-Town-kontrolliert-was-automatisierte-Agenten-duerfen-11252101.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Automatisierung #GitHub #IT #OpenSource #Windows #news

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

#Agent #github #MIT #OpenSource #arint_info

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

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

Not plotting data, plotting functions.

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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?

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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,

#opensource #maths #visualisation #plotting

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Mathics3 plot of sin x

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

Find out more on
https://foss.events/2026/04-10-grazer-linuxtage.html

Follow the official account: @linuxtage

Connect via official hashtag(s): #glt26

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

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Logo/Banner of Grazer Linuxtage

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. 💩

#linux #opensource #freesoftware #kde #akonadi

Quand je vous dis que ce sont des gens bien…

La DINUM passe sous Linux.

→ https://www.clubic.com/actualite-608305-l-etat-francais-lache-windows-pour-linux-et-veut-se-desensibiliser-des-outils-americains.html

Via @claude et @chickenkiller
#LogicielsLibres #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

🔒 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: https://newsgroup.site/syncthing-file-sync-without-cloud-guide-2026/

#Syncthing #Privacy #OpenSource #SelfHosted #Linux

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

• https://fsl.software/
• https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/#whatis

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.

#opensource #fauxopensource #license

✊️ 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 ｣

https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/

#france #opensource #digitalsovereignty

It's done and #opensource​d on #GitHub! 🖖🥳
https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/hw-smi

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

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

Have fun!

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Tzipporah/116375812854285969

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 → https://www.patreon.com/posts/centralized-and-155143186

#Native #Indigenous #Fediverse #Mastodon #Mvskoke #OpenSource #FOSS

France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.
https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/

#linux #opensource

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

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.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Happy-Horse-Alibaba-s-secret-AI-video-model-storms-the-benchmarks-11251074.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Alibaba #Forschung #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenSource #OpenAI #news

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