foss

Another thing is, in #FreeBSD and also #Linux, using #efibootmgr to change #UEFI boot entries is quite handy. But it is not available for #OpenBSD and #NetBSD . However seems NetBSD has got something cooking already in -current and it is called efi.
#UseBSD #RUNBSD #BSD #FOSS #UNIX

So the #FOSS #Fediverse non-profit I manage @fedihosting_foundation needs some help.

We're at the point where we need more moderators for @LemmyWorld due to the growth of our communities (a good thing!).

We have a very kind and inclusive team from all over the world! Likewise, we also try to respect everyone's work-life balance and are flexible with scheduling (EST & CEST timezones).

Interested? DM me or apply online via
https://fedihosting.foundation/positions/#-site-moderator

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

"Sharkey: a Fediverse project that is beautiful inside & out"

https://blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/

special thanks to @pancakes for his awesome post on Misskey forks 🙏

and 👀 @ben @mia @stefan

#blog #Fediverse #Misskey #Sharkey #Firefish #MFM #FOSS #FLOSS #SocialMedia #tech

We’re looking for new people to join our team and strengthen digital infrastructure in the public interest!

If you know people who might be interested, please share these jobs with them!

We are currently accepting applications for the following positions:

🟡 Back-Office/Administration Manager
⚪️ Cybersecurity Program Lead
🟢 Program Manager
🟣 Technical Program Manager
🔵 Technologist
Details and links to full job descriptions below ⤵️
#hiring #foss #fossjobs

So I read a bit on #Slackware #Linux. but still curious. Is the Slackware does not handle dependency statement true? Or is it just not handled by default but if you use some third-party tools you get dependencies resolved apt/pacman style? Also related to this, I saw videos / tutorials on installing the systems, so it is generally recommended to simply install tons of packages you might not need in the first place just so when you need them or any other thing that might need something there as dependencies and you will have them already? Seems like trying to do a one-thing-fit-all style to me.

#FOSS #Unix #FediASK

Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für Jedermann 🔐

Teilen er­be­ten !

als PDF Datei:

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/kRgZ+fsPATHElnUKYE8ziTgT/

 #DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung #Leta
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows10 #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #OpenAndroidInstaller
#Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone  #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena  #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz

Uninstalled #NovaLauncher from my phone because they added ads and whatnot. Not opposed to paying for a launcher but that rollout gave me bad vibes.

Would prefer a reliable #FOSS alternative. I mainly liked Nova because of the dock and I found it easy to customize. I'm definitely not a power user.

But looked in the F-Droid store and there are WAY too many launchers, lol.

What FOSS launchers have folks found useful on #Android? (I'm running #GrapheneOS)

Discover The Fediverse: Free Software Movement

Learn the key points of the free software movement in order to protect your freedoms along with exploring free and open source software highlights.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-free-software-movement/

#blog #FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #foss

#Adobe just raised its prices, some are over US$100 a month 😬

Stop paying rent on your tools, switch to #FOSS alternatives:

➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing

➡️ @ardour - Digital audio workstation

➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing

➡️ @Blender (main) & @[email protected] (videos) - 3D animation & video effects

➡️ @Krita (main) & @[email protected] (videos) - Painting & illustration

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing

➡️ @darktable - Organise & develop raw photos

➡️ @www.scribus.net.news - Desktop publishing (feed)

if you are not following @FediFollows and checking their timeline for new people, communities and organizations to follow, you are not doing the bare minimum of #fediversing

yes, i verbbed #fediverse

if y’all have the coins, throw some their way, BUT! if y’all are part of the sundry organizations giving money to #FOSS initiatives, i urge you to think outside of the software development box. please fund the work of people and groups like FediFollows. without it, FOSS is just lines of code.

If you enjoy videos about Linux and free open source software, you might want to follow the Linux Experiment:

➡️ @thelinuxexperiment

There are already over 300 videos uploaded, if these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://tilvids.com/a/thelinuxexperiment/videos

You can also follow the Linux Experiment's general social media account at @thelinuxEXP

#FeaturedPeerTube #Linux #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #GNULinux #GNU #Computing #PeerTube #PeerTubers

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#FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, is now deployed on Github Pages and can be used from your web browser.

* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #Masto #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #mastohelp #MastoJS #nodejs #nod #opensource #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #webdev

GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People

GrapheneOS could have shipped real accessibility support. They had a screen reader. They had a libre speech engine — one they requested a feature from. They got that feature.

And then they said no.
Because the license was GPLv3.

They’ll ship sandboxed Google Play Services.
They’ll let you install GPLv3 software from their app store.
But a working screen reader for blind users?
Blocked. On principle.

This isn’t a technical limitation.
This is not a matter of priorities.
This is cruelty by ideology — and they’re proud of it.

So here it is. My full public dissection of the excuses, the hypocrisy, and the sheer contempt they’ve shown to the people who need privacy and security most: the disabled.

They chose licensing purity over basic humanity.
I chose to write this.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/grapheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/

#GrapheneOS #Accessibility #FOSS #Blind #DisabilityTech #Inclusion #GPLv3 #espeak #a11y #Security #FreeSoftware #DisabilityRights #Android #Rant #TechShame

Happy 2025 everyone! On this first day of the fresh new year we are happy to announce 50 Free and Open Source projects were selected to receive NGI Zero grants.

We'd like to congratulate all the teams and individuals and thank them for working on a better internet for us all.

Come over and meet the projects:
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html

#FOSS #NGI #NGIZero

#Microsoft has put vile LLMs into everything including Notepad & Github: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/23/microsoft_ai_notepad

Escape this dystopia by switching to #FOSS alternatives:

➡️ @CryptPad - Privacy-friendly online office suite, used by the UN 🇺🇳

➡️ @libreoffice - Most popular free open offline office suite

➡️ @CollaboraOffice - Collaborative online fork of LibreOffice

➡️ @ONLYOFFICE - Online office suite, self-hostable

➡️ @thunderbird (main) & @[email protected] (videos) - Email & comms suite (RSS, XMPP, IRC etc)

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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.8 👩‍🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: #Friendica)

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/

with shout-outs to @anubis2814 @dansup @fedidb @heidilifeldman @tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @ryanbroderick @caseynewton @ferrante @informapirata @russandro @hankg @tio

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #activitypub #diaspora #bluesky #tumblr

@NGIZero just dropped the 2025 list of grant-funded FOSS projects, and there's some bangers this year!:
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html

Here's 6 I'm super excited for in reverse order:

6. OpenStreetMap-NG
"a more accessible, privacy-respecting, and developer-friendly mapping platform."

"Our mission is to revolutionize the map and provide a better experience for all users. It is simply the Next Generation of OpenStreetMap."

https://OSM.ng

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#NGI #OSM #OSM-NG #FOSS #NGI0 #NGIzero

Discover The Fediverse: Together United

Understand how businesses have shifted and how the community united together will protect user rights by using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-together-united/

@powerampache @davx5app @moememos @k9mail

#blog #FollowFriday #Fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS

> Unfortunately, after careful consideration, we've decided to move
forward with other candidates who more closely match our requirements for
this role

How I resent this idiotic piece of text, which is put into every damn rejection mail I receive since a year. More than 100 job applications sent out and no damn job afterwards. For fucks sake I was a senior #developer, a master of #ruby who did the last two years at the job #elixir and guess what did all the other #web backend related bullshit. Like administering #postgresql doing the schema, designing the whole architecture of a legacy backend system written in ruby, writing backends, frontends with #javascript and guess what nothing.

I maintained so called #microservices on #linux with fucking #docker which ran on #openshift or in the pedestrian terms "#kubernetes". Nothing!

I started into being a #software #developer through the damn #hacker scene and was a "founding member" (whatever that means) of a #hackerspace out of which I was kicked out and still suffering the emotional scars. But yeah, fuck that I see. And probably I'm at fault 100% because that's what this shitty #shame based society wants to tell everybody.

In my free-time I dabbled with #lisp #smalltalk and #cpp and #clang and #perl and I wrote #python a little for money too and for extending a little #django app at a hackerspace. Yeah, sure this is also worth nothing.

I tried to do #freelancing for 6 months, but guess what the current project market in #europe is shit and therefore nothing on the table for me either. While I find thousands of dimwits on reddits and everywhere, who are telling me that "I'm not an entrepreneur" or that "I deserve X", because they simply don't like what I write or my face.

Yeah sure, I'm 39 and I have no idea to go to, no damn #community and for fucks sake seem to be now going to join team long-term unemployed... because... yeah absolutely no damn fucking idea why I'm in this mess. What I'm supposed to do and obviously nobody fucking cares anyway.

I once dreamed of being "my own man", being that independent developer, coding happy #foss projects and contributing to #opensource and getting paid for that. But no. World says no to that. World says "go and die".

#job #hiring #getfedihired #gethired #rant

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.10 👩‍🚀

"My Fediverse summer & the top 3 lessons I learned"

https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-summer-3-lessons/

with shout-outs to: @poliverso @phanpy @ivory @MonaApp @pixelfed @Tusky @MoogleMaestro

#TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #Fediverse #Mastodon #Wordpress #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #Firefish #Ivory #Phanpy

I am once again asking if anyone is interested in helping me work on a tool for sorting, hosting, and sharing images and eventually videos (hopefully). This will be great for artists, yuri collectors, sorting memes, and more

Are you a frontend dev? A backend dev? We need both. If you know HTML, svelte, typescript, or nestjs these are some of the things we are using.

Perhaps ur none of that and just want to stay up to date with the progress, give feedback, or help translate the tool. Well then feel free to join the discord or follow me here since ill post my progress.

Discord: https://discord.gg/tcXrRWccU5

Matrix: #artist-image-tool-dev:platypus-sandbox.com

Also id like to have someone review some of my open PR's cuz at some point I'm just gonna have to force push or the whole project stalls. Also it would be more fun if this didn't more of less become a solo project

Oh also have some of the lastest WIP images of the project:

#FOSS #svelte #SvelteKit #software #frontend #backend #backenddeveloper #FLOSS #typescript #SelfHosted

FOSDEM is the biggest free and open source software (FOSS) event in Europe, and will take place on 31 January and 1 February in Brussels, Belgium. And the #LibreOffice project and community will be there! Meet us and grab cool merchandise: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/22/meet-the-libreoffice-community-at-fosdem-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.12 👩‍🚀

"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)"

https://blog.elenarossini.com/beyond-technical-features-why-we-need-to-talk-about-the-values-of-the-fediverse-part-2/

mentioning: @alttexthalloffame @Gargron @FediTips @ivory @IceCubesApp @Tusky @Simx72 @phanpy @jon @mathi_gwithyas @rysiek

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #accessibility #AltText #CW #ContentWarnings #Phanpy #Ivory #Tusky #Mastodon #IceCubes

Raphus.social is a Mastodon server for bringing together open minded people interested in technology, open source, games, and other general geekery. (In case you are wondering, Raphus is the Latin for the dodo bird.)

This server has a post size of up to 1024 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://raphus.social

You can find out more at https://raphus.social/about or contact the admin account @raphus

#FeaturedServer #Technology #FOSS #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

The e Foundation makes privacy-friendly de-Googled versions of the Android operating system, and sells de-Googled Android phones under their Murena brand. You can follow their official video account at:

➡️ @efoundation

You can browse all their previously uploaded videos at https://peer.tube/a/efoundation/videos

You can also follow their general non-video accounts at @e_mydata and @murena

#FeaturedPeerTube #DeGoogling #Android #FOSS #PeerTube #PeerTubers