foss

F-droid was the first thing I thought of when I saw the news come by of Google's plan to turn Android more into iOS. Custom roms are already a dying breed due to all the crap that Google has been pulling, and now this.

It's such a shame we've ended up with a smartphone OS duopoly. It could've been so much better, sigh.

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

#Android #Fdroid #Google #FOSS #Enshittification

Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?

https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273

The last issue hasn't been active since 2023 but the 1st one has been active recently and the middle one last summer.

#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity

🇦🇹 Austria's Armed Forces have replaced MS Office with LibreOffice on 16,000+ workstations 📄

This shift began in 2020 to avoid mandatory cloud reliance ☁️
Their goal? Digital sovereignty—not cost saving 🔒
They even contributed 5+ person-years of code 🛠️
EU trend toward open-source grows 🇪🇺

@libreoffice
@itsfoss

🔗 https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-forces-ditch-microsoft-office/

#TechNews #LibreOffice #Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #FOSS #Security #Europe #EU #Microsoft #Cloud #DigitalSovereignty #Government #Defense #Innovation #Technology

👁️ #SX focus shift..

Attn: This is now an 🫂 outreach channel of Social coding commons, under custodianship and tender care of humane tech community gardeners.

Specifically this a 🪵 #dreamlog..

My personal account has moved (temporarily) to @humanetech in a custodianship (janitoring) 🎩

With my support by @nlnet ending, how I continue to foster and nourish my work, depends on 🌱 sustenance I manage to find, as I am out of money totally.

Such is #FOSS life, hence focusing on #SOSS now, really :)

Na naszym kanale YouTube pojawił się film z wystąpienia Kamili Drzewieckiej (@MarkAssPandi) “Sztuka tworzenia koła od nowa”, które miało miejsce podczas 19. Sesji Linuksowej.

🎥 Link do filmu: https://youtu.be/EV6pLE8CUrk

Zapraszamy do oglądania prelekcji i subskrybowania kanału.

#SesjaLinuksowa #opensource #foss #rust #programming

Really nice to see this: Game of Trees Hub (GOT)
A Git hosting service built on OpenBSD and Game of Trees, transparently funded via Open Collective.

Small, boring, security-first, and run by people who actually care about infrastructure.
Feels like one of the first real BSD-native Git hosting services.

This is the kind of thing BSD folks quietly smile about. 🐡

👉 https://gothub.org/

#OpenBSD #BSD #GameOfTrees #Git #FOSS

@jwildeboer
@kkarhan

#selfhost #homelab #opensource #foss

Hello dear Fediversers,

My students want to improve their home lab backups and have come up with the idea of storing their offsite backups with each other instead of in the cloud.
My question is, does anyone know of any software or solutions for this? It doesn't have to be open source, but it would be best if it were. The option to encrypt the backups is not essential, but would be preferable.

Please boost.

Many thanks for any tips.

Nowy rok, nowa energia, a to oznacza jedno: ruszamy z intensywnymi przygotowaniami do kolejnej Sesji Linuksowej!

Przed nami jubileuszowa, 20. edycja jednej z najstarszych imprez poświęconych Linuksowi i Open Source w Polsce.

Czekają na Was dwa dni merytorycznych prelekcji, inspirujących spotkań, integracji i… dużo więcej!

Już wkrótce zdradzimy więcej szczegółów – obserwujcie nas i bądźcie na bieżąco!

Strona: https://linuksowa.pl/

#SesjaLinuksowa #opensource #Linux #Wrocław #foss

Just received our first prototype of a Nickel-metal Hydride battery charger with a USB plug. This board is made to charge from 1 to 6 cells in series and supports a thermister for sensing overheating batteries.

This circuit design is planned to be a part of a pen-like stylus with a camera and haptic feedback for blind people to feel visual art.

https://codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr

#blind #a11y #accessibility #ee #pcb #fosh #foss #bce #prototype #maker #nimh #battery #charger

thinking about foss stuff, and I know I've groused about licensing stuff before, and how I feel like my only way out is to just Parity7 everything and fall into obscurity but...

...I think we need a different movement around open source, with new terminology, that clarifies the intent and opens doors to more pro-social behavior and capabilities (up to and including the potential for "ethical licensing").

I've been spitballing the terms Common Software and Community Software. The core idea is that things that count as Community/Common Software can't enter the realm of the proprietary (so, strong copyleft a-la AGPL and Parity, virality not necessary). What's the difference from "Free Software"? We get rid of "freedom zero", aka "the freedom to run software for any purpose". Common Software licenses may have Non-Commercial clauses, Anti-Particular-Industry clauses (such as anti-MIC stuff), etc.

I think "freedom zero" was a grave mistake. I get where it came from--a desire to remove discrimination--but what it resulted in was a hijacking of Free Software by the corporate "Open Source" wing to exploit an otherwise healthy community of people openly sharing their creations... for an enormous profit that we can't even quantify right now.

We need a strong return to copyleft, and we need to gather together and grow its existing ecosystem, away from the MIT/BSD poison that our world has turned towards.

Your thoughts are welcome on this. I want to have a conversation about this stuff and maybe eventually record all this in a longer-form blog post. If you know folks who have had similar thoughts please link them so we can chat, too.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #freesoftware

Happy to announce 29 projects have been selected in round 6 of the NGI Zero Commons Fund.

It is a great selection of Free and Open Source projects covering the entire stack from open hardware to apps that improve user autonomy. Together they help to build the digital commons.

Some projects even already have #hex stickers \o/. Come check it out!

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html

(and if you'd like to work for the internet as well, the current call closes December 1).

#FOSS #FOSSfunding #NGI #NGI0

So, one of my resolutions this year was to write more code.
I love to break stuff, but last year I reignited my passion for coding and I would really love to contribute to the community that has given me so much and continues to do so.
And contributing works a lot better by creating, rather than breaking.

So I created a codeberg account. And I already have a first repo published!
I called it Axmar.
Axmar is a C# implementation of the SilentHarvest technique that was published last year.
It uses backup access and rarely used APIs to (mostly) stealthily read the local credentials database in Windows system.

Enjoy!

https://codeberg.org/Ti-Kallisti/Axmar

#foss #coding #infosec #malware #pentesting #redteaming #codeberg #windows #csharp

Are you into #opensource ? And in the #eu ?
There is a Call for Feedback by the European Commission for a 'European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy' For strategic approach to #foss in Europe, and a framework for using open source within the European Commission. You can respond until 3 February. It is useful to respond even if your point has already been submitted by someone else. The number and repetition of arguments is used as a weight. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en cc #fosdem

etckeeper is an unsung hero of Linux computing, if you ask me.

#tech #foss #linux #etckeeper

FOSS == ✅️ software artifact
FOSS != ❌️ software project
SOSS == 🌱 sustainable software project

https://coding.social

#SX #SocialCoding #SOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Sustainability

Markdown support is coming to #LibreOffice! And a new dialog to edit table styles, Python and BASIC code auto-completion, Rust UNO language bindings, and more - all thanks to participants in the Google Summer of Code: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/22/libreoffice-and-google-summer-of-code-2025-the-results/ #foss #OpenSource

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy!

If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from Open Source, or if you're simply interested in questions about digital sovereignty, please visit https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en for details on how to contribute.

#FOSS #opensource

Taki tejk: dlaczego #GAFAM tak zwalcza #OpenSource, chociaż sam jest na nim w dużej mierze zbudowany?

#FOSS jest egalitarne. Jeśli dysponujesz wiedzą i czasem, to nie będzie różnicy jakości między Twoimi otwartymi rozwiązaniami a drogimi bigtechowymi. Wręcz odwrotnie. Interoperacyjność opensource i zgodność ze standardami daje Ci przewagę.

#FOSS jest oparte o wiedzę, nie można jej "szybko kupić" za abonament. Wczesniej zaczniesz, wcześniej zdobędziesz doświadczenie. Ludzie pomogą.

#FOSS nie przywiązuje cię do dostawcy. To ogromna "wada" z którą #GAFAM musi walczyć, by zachować monopol.

Pamiętaj, poza systemami Google, Microsoftu, Apple, jest jeszcze dostępny cały ekosystem wolnego oprogramowania. Stworzony przez ludzi dla ludzi. Do dzielenia się nim, wdrażania i korzystania.

P.S. Czytając to korzystasz właśnie z ekosystemu #FOSS / #OpenSource.

#AskFedi : How to bulk download all emails in inbox from #Yahoo email? I confess, I do not have a good habit of archiving and backing-up my emails. Now my inbox is booming and reaching ~10k emails since I have subscribed to a few mail lists. I do have #Alpine set up locally on my laptop to read them once in a while. I tried Select All and Save in Alpine however it is too slow and easily fail simply because it took so long that remote server would kill the connection.
#FOSS #Unix #Linux

My full-time passion is making GitNex & LabNex better. To sustain this dedication and keep them growing:

👉 Get them on Play Store
👉 Join on Patreon
👉 Or reach out to donate directly

Your support means the world.

https://labnex.app
https://gitnex.com

#gitnex #labnex #android #foss #opensource

Again when I was trying to add some updates to an blog post from a few years back it seemed #Hugo update had break changes that prevented the theme from working. Since I do not have the knowledge to write a theme myself l, I turn to #ChatGPT and instructed it to write a theme from scratch, with minimal styling and no JS at all. It now works locally and I probably will switch to it soon after more tests. I hope using a minimal theme will make it less likely to break with future Hugo updates
#Blog #FOSS #AI

📣 Call for Papers – 20. Sesja Linuksowa 📣

Zgłoś się i dołącz do grona prelegentów jednej z najstarszych konferencji poświęconych Linuksowi i Open Source w Polsce i współtwórz z nami 20. edycję Sesji Linuksowej!

📅 Termin zgłoszeń: do 16 lutego 2026
📝 Formularz zgłoszeniowy: https://asi.confreg.pl/events/69-20-sesja-linuksowa

#SesjaLinuksowa #CfP #CallForProposals #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS

Having been using #Debian as daily desktop operating system but I never thought about this. Remotely remind me of the #pkgbase arguement in #FreeBSD

Debian's AWKward essential set

#Linux #Unix #BSD #AWK #FOSS

Modern web needs like 100MB just to say "Hello World". I went the other way.

Introducing GASM: A Gopher server in pure i386 Assembly.

💾 Binary: 1.5KB
🧠 RAM: 24KB (Verified with pmap)
🚫 Dependencies: 0 (No libc, pure syscalls)
🦕 Min Spec: Intel 386DX (1985)

Probably runs on the shittiest hardware you can find, or on your Ryzen 9.

https://github.com/someodd/gasm

#assembly #gopher #lowlevel #linux #retrocomputing #foss

Nuovo video tutorial su come aggiornare @linuxmint 22.2 a 22.3 "Zena" in pochi minuti.

PeerTube: https://videos.gianmarco.gg/w/fuyH6mwKosDKRfA6kkcwF5
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@gianmarcogg03:e/mintupgrade:a
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_M83E7fF2s

@linux

#FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #SoftwareLibero #OpenSource #FOSS #Video #Privacy #Linux #GNULinux #LinuxMint #LinuxMint223