jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)
Zed Editor launches Agent Metrics, offering public AI agent usage data:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/zed-editor-launches-agent-metrics-offering-public-ai-agent-usage-data/
Immich 2.7 adds duplicate resolution, editor shortcuts, new web actions, and much more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/immich-2-7-adds-duplicate-resolution-editor-shortcuts-new-web-actions-and-much-more/
SQLite 3.53 fixes WAL-reset bug, adds QRF library, new SQL features, improved CLI and more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/sqlite-3-53-fixes-wal-reset-bug-adds-qrf-library-new-sql-features-improved-cli-and-more/
GNU nano 9.0 CLI Text Editor Released with New Features and Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/gnu-nano-9-0-cli-text-editor-released-with-new-features-and-improvements
Microsoft has terminated developer accounts of VeraCrypt, WireGuard & Windscribe software:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/microsoft-has-terminated-developer-accounts-of-veracrypt-wireguard-and-windscribe-software/
(It was only by accident, right, Microsoft? RIGHT??)
FosseryWeb progress report:
I regenerated the HTML cheatsheets using the new page-builders tool, and fixed a lot of bugs/mistakes. Now I'm working on regenerating the JavaScript cheatsheets.
https://fosseryweb.codeberg.page/@beta/cheatsheets/
https://fosseryweb-min.codeberg.page/@beta/cheatsheets/
Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.349
Hugging Face Contributes Safetensors To PyTorch Foundation To Secure AI Model Execution:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PyTorch-Safetensors
Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/godot-gets-a-funding-boost-from-slay-the-spire-2-devs-mega-crit/
Legendary, the free and open source Epic Games Launcher, has moved to a new organisation:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/legendary-the-free-and-open-source-epic-games-launcher-has-moved-to-a-new-organisation/
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.8 Released with Fastboot Improvements, Bug Fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-imager-2-0-8-released-with-fastboot-improvements-bug-fixes
Redox OS Establishes AI Policy To Forbid Contributions Made Using LLMs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-March-2026
NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-RC3
Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2026.1-Released
#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #News #Zed #Immich #SQLite #GNUNano #FosseryWeb #FosseryWebMin #Vulkan #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #HuggingFace #GodotEngine #Godot #RaspberryPIImager #RedoxOS #NetBSD #OpenVINO #Llamacpp #PyTorch #DBMS #SelfHosting #Development #IDE #CodeEditor #TextEditor #Programming #Dev #BSD #FosseryTech
Took another step towards #DigitalSovereignty today! I'm now self-hosting my own instance of #Immich to store all my photos, officially saying goodbye to Apple's iCloud. It feels great having everything entirely under my control, running on my own hardware using CentOS-Stream 10 and #Podman.
Episode 12 of Dark Blue Weekly released
https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e12.php
#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #linux #opensource #freesoftware #trisquel #gparted #debian #nanoeditor #sqlite
🇫🇷 Frankreich macht Ernst: Die Digitalbehörde DINUM wechselt von Windows zu Linux, 80.000 Beschäftigte der Krankenversicherung migrieren auf eigene Kollaborationstools. Bis Herbst 2026 muss jedes Ministerium einen Abfahrtsplan vorlegen. So geht digitale Souveränität! 💪🇪🇺
#DigitaleSouveränität #Linux #OpenSource #Datenschutz
https://www.heise.de/news/Frankreichs-Plan-Weg-von-Windows-hin-zu-Linux-11251566.html
Linux Programme als Alternative zu Windows Programmen.
Je mehr ich recherchiere, je mehr fällt mir auf, dass meine Quellen oft nicht gut recherchiert haben. Anscheinend schreibt der Eine von dem Anderen einfach nur ab.
Daher kursieren auch immer die gleichen #Programme als Alternative.
Beispiel:
#DAW > zu 99% wird Reaper empfohlen, obwohl noch nicht mal Open Source. Ich nutze #Ardour.
#Bildbearbeitung > RawTherapee oder Darktable. Ich nutze #Art.
Echte Tipps!
apt 3.2 in Debian Sid and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS now has built-in rollback: a single command undoes any package update or reverts your system to a previous state. No more fear of breaking your Linux with updates. 🐧
apt history-rollback <ID> — that's it.
Full guide: https://newsgroup.site/apt-32-history-rollback-debian-ubuntu-guide-2026/
Microsoft suspended developer accounts for VeraCrypt, WireGuard, and Windscribe — blocking them from signing Windows updates. No warning, no appeal process. Only public pressure restored access. A reminder that even the best privacy tools can be held hostage by corporate infrastructure. 🔒
Read the full analysis: https://newsgroup.site/microsoft-veracrypt-wireguard-windscribe-developers-2026/
#OpenSource #Privacy #VeraCrypt #WireGuard #Linux #Security #DigitalRights
Mieux vaut tard que jamais ! #servicepulic #opensource #free #software 👍🇫🇷🐧 LA FRANCE LÂCHE MICROSOFT POUR LINUX ET L'OPENSOURCE !!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhTqURiXh6o
I made a visual 24-hour caffeine tracker for quickly checking how long it takes to leave my system and how that fourth latte affects my sleep.
Caffeine half-life is surprisingly long and individually variable.
Free to use at https://jnaskali.github.io/caffeine-tracker/
In addition to funding open source projects you use, if you can, consider extending support to the individual contributors/developers personally who work on those projects, many are volunteers and even a small monthly contribution could mean the difference. 🫶
Hello, we're on Mastodon 👋
🎧 Follow for updates on Navidrome, the open-source music streaming server 🎧
Released amiga-lw-plugin v0.7.0 for LightWave 5.x on AmigaOS: Fresnel + PBR scene-save fixes, a cleaner PBR setup, LensFlare now configurable up to 50 flare sources, and faster ObjSwap lookup for large replacement sets. Before/after renders in the thread.
github.com/midwan/amiga-lw-plugin
Alguien por aquí recomendó en su día Localsend y me da mucha pena no recordar quién fue porque tiene mi agradecimiento eterno.
Es lo mejor del mundo para compartir archivos entre distintos dispositivos que estén conectados a la misma red wifi.
Meet Shelly, a Modern Graphical Package Manager for Arch Linux https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-shelly-a-modern-graphical-package-manager-for-arch-linux
@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 4.5 hours from now.
Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource #Minecraft clone. More details here:
https://
docs.autis.toque.im/
Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited.
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!
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
📩 A new **Digging Code** newsletter just dropped.
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👀 Catch the full issue:
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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
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:
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? 👀
#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.
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
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 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
#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/
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.
#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/
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/
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
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
Gas Town kontrolliert, was automatisierte Agenten dürfen
Gas Town 1.0.0 orchestriert mehrstufige Entwicklungs-Workflows, härtet Agenten-Sicherheit und unterstützt erstmals Windows.
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
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,
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
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. 💩
Quand je vous dis que ce sont des gens bien…
La DINUM passe sous Linux.
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/
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.
✊️ 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/
It's done and #opensourced 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/
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.
#Alibaba #Forschung #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenSource #OpenAI #news