"The permissionless #innovation enabled by #FOSS allowed smaller and non-profit business models to flourish, letting organizations develop and provide high-quality technological products and services to market sectors often ignored by commercial companies. Enforcing the #DMA could consolidate #interoperability as a foundational policy for #Europe’s digital #infrastructure."

https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/

#EU #TechPolicy #DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

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Editor to generate a fake internal server error page complete with You, Cloud, Server in red and green

I'm currently looking for one or more volunteers to maintain the Openmoko USB PID + OUI service at https://github.com/openmoko/openmoko-usb-oui as the existing maintainer is no longer available. This is a service providing free USB Product IDs and Ethernet MAC addresses for the #FOSS and #OSWH community. Volunteers have to review of the PRs fulfill FOSS/OSHW licensing requirements before merging PRs. #usb #opensource

Our Ubuntu Studio + Ardour + OBS Setup for our band's live streams. All open source. Love that we don't need proprietary software to play shows from our studio. 😀

#FOSS #LinuxAudio #Ardour #OBS #UbuntuStudio

Hoping to keep this up and contribute much.

#HareLang #IRC #FOSS #Community

Der erste Schritt: Kalter Entzug 🚫

Jahrelang war ich im Microsoft-Käfig (Win11, Office365 Familienabo). Bequem, aber fremdbestimmt. Mein Ziel: Echte digitale Souveränität. Also: Kündigung. Alles. Sofort. ✂️

Mein erster Reflex war Ubuntu. Lief gut, fühlte sich "frei" an. Doch die Ernüchterung folgte schnell: Hinter Canonical stecken zu starke US-Einflüsse. Ich wollte keine andere Abhängigkeit, sondern Unabhängigkeit. 🇺🇸❌

Nach tieferer Recherche fiel die Wahl auf openSUSE Tumbleweed. 🦎 Rolling Release, transparent, community-getrieben. Keine US-Cloud-Agenda im Nacken.

Es war ein steiniger Weg, aber ich sage euch: Ich gehe nicht zurück. Die frische Luft schmeckt zu gut.

Fortsetzung folgt...

#Linux #OpenSource #openSUSE #Tumbleweed #DigitalSovereignty #DigitaleSouveränität #Microsoft #Ubuntu #Privacy #ByeByeBigTech #SwitchToLinux #FOSS

Um einmal zu verdeutlichen, wo der Unterschied zwischen Microsofts Windows und Apples Mac liegt:

Mittlerweile habe ich mehrere Desktops getestet und auch Fremdtesten lassen und habe ein Portfolio an Betriebssystemen, falls ein Anbieter aus der Rolle tanzt.

Kubuntu LTS
Debain + KDE
LMDE
OpenSUSE Leap
(SUSE deshalb, um Debian als lastige Basis abzusichern).

Das sollte reichen.

Bei KDE als Desktop sind wir stecken geblieben. An Cinnamon, Gnome könnte man sich auch gewöhnen, wenn alle Stricke reißen.

Das sollte auch reichen.

Offices klar mit LibreOffice an der Spitze, Collabora.

Nextcloudanbindung über Client und Browser läuft identisch.

Jellyfin und Homeassitant laufen identisch.

Alle Browser-Plattformen laufen identisch, abhängig vom Browser.

Windowswechsler finden sich ein.

Das heißt, als IT Dienstleister kann man die alle in den Katalog aufnehmen und bietet zunächst eine Standardinstallation an, mit Auswahl für Kenner und hat gleich eine Ausweichmöglichkeit.

In Netzwerk herrscht Sicherheit, aber eben auch Flexibilität und Unabhängigkeit. Im laufenden Betrieb könnten ohne echte Mehrkosten weitere Server und Plattformen zugeschaltet werden.
Eine jahrelange Ablöse und Umstellung gibt es nicht, vorausgesetzt alle Tools sind interoperabel und verarbeiten die selben Datei(Formate).
Damit sind Clients total permutierbar.

Ging das jemals mit Windows oder einer geschlossenen Plattform? Nö. Noch nie.

#Linux

Zusammengefasst Softwarekriterien:
#portability #FOSS #interoperability (Anbieter) #redundancy #resilience

@neil just wanted to say thanks for posting this. This is why I love the fediverse. I've just added #snikket to my homelab stack 👌

My daughter started school this year and is nearing the age where she'll start asking for a phone. For me, snikket is perfect for hosting a small family #xmpp instance. I might actually consider a 'device' for her in the near future.

Of course it'll also be locked down with #NextDNS and likely some other parental control/monitoring tools. But I'm also excited by the idea of my daughter introducing snikket/xmpp to her friends. Despite how practical it might actually be, sharing #foss #privacy and #digitalsovereignty with the younger generation makes it all worth while.

Edit: LibreWolf has said this is a bug of sorts they are are working on addressing and they definitely don’t support AI slop https://chaos.social/@librewolf/115716877746538781

Well uh, guess I'm uninstalling LibreWolf now and using Vivaldi exclusively as the only browser to make a #NoAI commitment to my knowledge?
#FOSS #opensource

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Screenshot of LibreWolf: Key points See more with AI? LibreWolf uses AI to read the beginning of the page and generate a few key points. To prioritize your privacy, this happens on your device. Cancel Continue

hey vim experts, how's that for a challenge to exit from it

#Linux #Vim #FOSS #Software #Tech #Technology

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Retro arcade machine with two joysticks and set of buttons (red-yellow-blue in 2 rows) per player. Screen shows Vim intro

@NebulaTide @jkn Unfortunately, switching to alternatives is simply not enough; we also need to be unavailable on SMS, Whatsapp and other proprietary platforms.

Using a data SIM on #LinuxMobile, I have managed to onboard many people, over a hundred, to #FOSS messengers. Before when I preached freedom and #privacy, there'd always be resistance. Now people just accept that WA, SMS, etc are simply not an option and they readily hop on to alternatives if they need to reach me.

#DeltaChat #Matrix #XMPP #SignalMessenger #MobileLinux #Librem5 #digitalprivacy #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #e2ee

Bayern steuert digital in eine Sackgasse:
Ein Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft, ohne Ausschreibung, transparente Prüfung von Alternativen. Monokultur statt Vielfalt, Blackbox statt Kontrolle.

So zementiert man Abhängigkeiten.
Danke an alle, die sich für digitale Souveränität einsetzen, insbesondere #DigitaleFreiheitBayern

Heise berichtet: https://chk.me/hasF8SB

Wir tun das für Bayern. Und für Europa.
#DigitaleSouveränität #BeAVoice #BigTech #CloudRebelAlliance #FOSS #OpenSource #Linux

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Eine Mosaik-Illustration im Buntglas-Stil zeigt einen traurigen Pangolin im Vordergrund, der auf zwei Mähdrescher im Weizenfeld blickt. Einer der Mähdrescher trägt das Microsoft-Logo.

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/115716214017039201

Ich würd mal sagen, dass ist typisch für CDU/CSU.

"Nehmt von den Armen und gebt es den Reichsten!!"

Hat da ja irgendwie schon ne lange Tradition... 😠

Wie wäre es, mal Unternehmen zu stärken, welche dann auch regulär Steuern zahlen in DE?
Und nicht nur etwa 7,5%... und das in Irland.

Hinsichtlich #DigitalerSouveränität will ich jetzt garnicht erst anfangen... 🤮

#TaxTheRich #UnplugTrump #FOSS #OpenSource

Once again, a little late for #FreeCADFriday, but I needed a spacer for my leg curl machine to keep the weight plates from catching on a part of the frame. I wanted it to have a little “grip” on the post that the weights slide on. Hence, the slightly compliant inner portion, which is nominally sized a little smaller than the measured diameter of the post. It took about 10 minutes to model in #FreeCAD and an hour to #3dPrint.

#FOSS tools FTW!

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A screenshot from FreeCAD showing a spacer ring with a compliant inner core. The model is an orange color.

Welche Linux-Distribution nutzt ihr eigentlich und warum genau diese? #Arch, #Debian, #Fedora, irgendwas mit Installer-GUI oder doch „ich kompiliere mir das Leben selbst“?

Gerne mit Screenshot. Nicht für Benchmark-Kriege, sondern aus Neugier. Man erkennt an Distros oft mehr über Menschen als an Lebensläufen. 🐧

Wir fangen an mit: NerdbearOS (Base: Arch)

#Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #LinuxDesktop #LinuxCommunity

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Screenshot eines Arch-Linux-Desktops mit KDE Plasma im Dark-Theme. Links sind die Systemeinstellungen mit „Über dieses System“ geöffnet, rechts ein Terminal mit Systeminformationen. Im Hintergrund ein minimalistisches NerdBearOS-Wallpaper mit Bären-Logo in Pink auf einer Berglandschaft.

Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is Kimai, a time tracking tool, which I use to keep records of all the legal work that I do, as well as time spent on committees etc.

It has flexible reporting options - which I use for generating timesheets each month - and there is an integrated invoicing tool (which I do not use).

A great tool for #freelance work tracking.

https://www.kimai.org/

#FreeSoftware #FOSS #SelfHosting

what do you think about https://opencollective.com ?

Is it a good platform (as in no-BS, no-OpenWasher) for FOSS project?

I prefer to donate thru liberapay or SEPA for project when they have the option.

For individuals, I tend to contact them directly.

#foss sustainability

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

#BSD #RUNBSD #FOSS #Unix

Linux kernel developers have officially approved Rust as a full programming language alongside C and assembler, ending its experimental phase and marking a shift toward safer, more modern code. 🦀

Key subsystems still need bindings, but work is progressing, including a Rust-based Nvidia graphics driver. 🛠️

@linuxfoundation

🔗 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-Kernel-Rust-Support-Officially-Approved-11109808.html

#TechNews #Linux #Rust #OpenSource #Kernel #Security #Developers #Programming #Innovation #Systems #FOSS #Technology #Code #Engineering #Nvidia

TextAudio is now open source!

A privacy-first text-to-speech platform that converts documents into audiobooks without Big Tech surveillance. Features voice cloning, 23 languages, and production-ready microservices architecture.

Your documents, your data, your control. Built on sovereignty principles, released under MIT license.

Feel free to continue.

🔗 https://github.com/Pariatorn/textaudio

#OpenSource #Privacy #TTS #TextToSpeech #SelfHosted #Sovereignty #VoiceCloning #Python #FastAPI #SvelteKit #FOSS

1991 veröffentlichte ein 21-jähriger Student aus Helsinki seinen Code. Sein Name: Linus Torvalds. Rund 10.000 Zeilen, kostenlos, mit der Einladung: „Macht was draus.“ Unordentlich, menschlich, ehrlich.

Heute läuft dieser Linux-Kernel auf über 3 Milliarden Android-Smartphones, betreibt den Großteil des Internets und alle 500 schnellsten Supercomputer der Welt.

Aus ’nem Studentenprojekt wurde das größte kollaborative Software-Werk aller Zeiten.

#Linux #OpenSource #LinusTorvalds #FOSS

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1991 veröffentlichte ein 21-jähriger Student aus Helsinki seinen Code. Sein Name: Linus Torvalds. Rund 10.000 Zeilen, kostenlos, mit der Einladung: „Macht was draus.“ Unordentlich, menschlich, ehrlich. Heute läuft dieser Linux-Kernel auf über 3 Milliarden Android-Smartphones, betreibt den Großteil des Internets und alle 500 schnellsten Supercomputer der Welt. Aus ’nem Studentenprojekt wurde das größte kollaborative Software-Werk aller Zeiten.

Alright, I know we all know the "btw I use Arch" meme, but real talk. Who actually brings up which OS they use the most?

(Delete & Redraft to add Gentoo ​ )

#Linux #Unix #BSD #ArchLinux #NixOS #Gentoo #FOSS #Poll

BookLore: A self-hosted, multi-user digital library with smart shelves, auto metadata, Kobo & KOReader sync, BookDrop imports, OPDS support, and a built-in reader for EPUB, PDF, and comics.

https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

#Books #Reading #FOSS #SelfHosting #BookLore #Software

🚨🔒 Lust auf digitale Selbstbestimmung?
Komm zur Penguin Padlock Party! 🎉🐧

📅 Nächsten Donnerstag ab 19:00 Uhr #cbase. Austausch zu freier Software, & digitaler Sicherheit und Selbstverteidigung. 🤖🔐

#Windows vom Rechner bekommen und in neue Welten eintauchen?🎪

💻 Keine Vorkenntnisse nötig – gemeinsam Lösungen finden!

🔗 https://c-base.org/calendar/#view=month&date=2025-12-11&event=2ed46d92-d0ac-4256-8920-19dc032b1592

#FOSS #OpenSource #endof10 #Linux #CryptoParty 🚀 #ppp

#techmap #foss #BigTech #NoBigTech

SOURCE: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html

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A detailed map of Europe showcasing the geographic distribution of various big tech alternative software projects and companies. Each project or company is represented by its logo and placed on the country it originates from. Notable projects include Signal, DuckDuckGo, and ZULIP from the USA; 1Password, Obsidian, and Pixelfed from Canada; and a variety of European projects such as Mastodon from Germany, Murena from France, and Nord from Lithuania. The map also highlights open-source projects without a specific country association, such as Jellyfin, LibreOffice, and Linux Mint.

Fish Alpinism

How I make digital art.

https://triapul.cz/_/1765291397

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #alpine #linux #gimp #art #foss

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artist keyboard

Now CachyOS is Eating Arch Linux' Lunch: https://boilingsteam.com/now-cachy-os-is-eating-arch-linux-lunch/
#linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #distro #cachyos #archlinux #share #protondb #desktop

Today we launch the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with project contributions of MCP (Anthropic), goose (Block) and AGENTS.md (OpenAI), creating a shared ecosystem for tools, standards, and community-driven innovation.

Learn more about this major step toward open, interoperable agentic AI: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation

#AgenticAI #AAIF #OpenSourceAI #AIStandards #Interoperability #OpenInnovation #LinuxFoundation #Anthropic #Block #OpenAI #MCP #goose #AGENTSmd #FOSS #TechNews

Hol dir kostenlose #Hilfe beim Umstieg auf #Linux und höre dir spannende #Vorträge an in #Hamburg / #Bramfeld

Linux Installations #Party am Samstag | 24.01.2026 | 15:00 Uhr im #Brakula.

mehr Informationen hier: brakula.de/veranstaltungen/164…

Vorträge:
16:00 Uhr – Linux-Grundlagen und #Installation. Nach welchen Kriterien wählt man eine Linux-Distribution aus?
17:00 Uhr – #Firefox mit Add-Ons weiter absichern. Wie erhöht man die #Cybersecurity in Firefox beim #Surfen?
18:00 Uhr – Anonym surfen über TOR. Wie hilft mir Linux und #TOR dabei, #anonym im #Internet zu bleiben?

mehr Informationen zu #EndOf10 hier: endof10.org

#Microsoft #Windows #win10 #windows10 #Update #Upgrade #sicherheit #Freiheit #foss #floss #Pinguin #Tux #mitmachen #weitersagen #Termin #Laptop #Computer #notebook #Netbook #desktop #Unterstützung #Veranstaltung #Privatsphäre #datenschutz #os #software #Neuigkeiten #Vortrag #gratis #Anonymität #Darknet #Browser Linux Installations Party

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Windowsumsteiger im Norden aufgepasst, der Pinguin erwartet euch in Hamburg 🐧

Did you see this fork without AI? So getting tired of smug #FOSS developers too, but here's the fork without AI. https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre @abucci

What are your favorite programs that specialize in working with tables? My use case: building human-readable matrices for documentation and reference. Not a database.

I don't want a typical Office program (Not Excel or Word or the FOSS equivalent.)

For example, OmniOutliner or Logseq are much better for outlining than Word etc. No, I'm not going to learn Emacs Org Mode.

Markdown tables are simple but clumsy.

I've used SQLite Browser to great effect for data., but not the right tool here.

What's actually good?

#foss #software #tables #tabular #matrix #matrices

New Achievement unlocked! Jetzt geht's weiter Richtung LPIC-1.
Danke an @toheine und @angry für die Unterstützung und Motivation!
@LPI #linux #floss #foss #essentials #FediLZ

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Linux Essentials Badger

please, don't use discord and telegram for your #FOSS project

#BSD #RUNBSD #Unix #FOSS

#NetBSD #BSD #RUNBSD #UNIX #FOSS

My goblincore / cottagecore / librarycore desktop setup.

#FOSS #Linux #cottagecore #goblincore #CachyOS

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Screenshot of a GNOME desktop with the Colloid Everforest Dark colorscheme. Maximized Alacritty terminal window, with the Everforest Dark colorscheme, containing 4 even rectangular panes. Going clockwise: Pane 1 contains the Amfora browser showing the Project Gemini home page. Pane 2 contains Neovim editing a justfile. Pane 3 contains a listing of just commands. Pane 4 contains the cowsay program with a sheep saying "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must, above all, be a sheep. --Albert Einstein".

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Screenshot of a GNOME desktop with the Colloid Everforest Dark colorscheme. The background wallpaper is of the Elder Scrolls Online: Scribes of Fate DLC. An Alacritty terminal window in the middle of the screen shows the btop program with everforest dark colorscheme.

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Screenshot of a GNOME desktop with the Colloid everforest dark colorscheme. The background wallpaper is of the Elder Scroll Online: Scribes of Fate DLC. On the left side of the screen is the Nautilus file manager display the user's home directory. On the right side of the screen is an Alacritty terminal window displaying the output of the fastfetch command on CachyOS.

What do you think of using Google in your life?

I use a Google Pixel 7 Pro at the moment, but I use GrapheneOS instead of OEM, and I think it is the best Android line of phones I have used so far. Their bootloader is lockable after installing custom operating systems which is much better than all other offers at the moment. The build quality, battery and design of the phone is solid as well. This phone has a lot of merits going for it which other Android phones are not replicating for the sake of a false sense of "security" or profits. I will appreciate Google for giving me a great phone to install GrapheneOS on, alongside Android for being a secure base for an operating system.

I appreciate the Chromium browser more than other browsers in the market. While Google Chrome is junk regarding user privacy, as well as shoving AI in your face, Chromium itself is actually pretty solid. It is also the most secure option, offering a malloc() implementation better than Firefox's mozmalloc, although not as secure as hardened_malloc, by GrapheneOS. Firefox is also implementing AI features into their browser, which leaves a bad taste in my mouth. MV2 is deprecated, sure, but you win more than you lose in security, as a lot of API features were exploitable. Chromium does a lot of good things, while Chrome gives the base itself a lot of bad blood. I would like to see what Servo can do, but I appreciate Google for making a secure browser.

I generally despise a lot of what Google offers, however. I feel like they lean heavily on the deception of convenience, where Google gives really good results while it uses your data for the sake of advertising. This applies with the Google Suite (Mail, Office, and Drive among others) as well. I would much rather use FOSS or nonprofit alternatives, such as Tutanota, or LibreOffice. Google is essentially the serpent from The Book of Genesis, selling you the benefit of their convenience for the sake of having your data stolen for their use. As such, I will choose not to follow Google convenience promise for my security.

Feel free to leave your opinions, and why I should consider other avenues rather than accepting a bit of Google in my life. As much as I love privacy, your privacy can't be guaranteed if there is no good security. Google may be known for piss-poor privacy, but their open source projects have a lot of security merits as well as good privacy. Do not use this as advice, but make your own conclusion.

#google #privacy #security #grapheneos #chromium #technology #FOSS

Imagine you're part of a small open source project or community, and a government using your code asks what you would like in return.

Which would be the most helpful? Comments are welcome!

#opensource #oss #foss

In my new article "The rebellion will be federated – 2025 edition" I discuss the key role of the Fediverse in this political and cultural climate... and argue that digital sovereignty and the ability to self-host are now more important than ever:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-rebellion-will-be-federated-2025-edition/

Plus I had a chance to look back at my Fediverse advocacy in 2025 😊

Psst: my Ghost blog is now federated thanks to @jannis and his amazing @hey 🥳 🪄 📄

#resist #resistance #TheFutureIsFederated #tech #BigTech #FOSS #blog