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My view on the recent Codeberg drama:
https://gagliardoni.net/#20260724_codeberg_drama
Codeberg voting members have the right to decide the policy of their association, and I understand if a community is averse to anything that is AI- or Web3-related. I understand it, but I don't agree with it, because it's 2026, and if you still think you can just stick your head in the sand and wish for these ugly bad things to go away, well, I have bad news for you.
To me, this is a perfect recipe to relegate Codeberg to irrelevance. And we are already seeing the beginning of a new exodus.
Here is my conspiracy theory: the vote was pushed or manipulated from the inside by Big Tech. Whether this is true or not, one thing is sure: folks at Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI etc. are now popping champagne.
#codeberg #opensource #foss #floss #libre #ai #llm #web3 #blockchain #crypto #cryptocurrency #antiai #luddism #eu #bigtech #politics #tech #censorship #github #microsoft #openai
I'll never be not amazed what is possible using only free software.
This will be the insides of a flight case, holding a DJ controller.
I'm using #FreeCAD for around ten years, learned and tried a few new techniques (for me) in this project anyway. Printing the parts takes longer than planning and designing. 🙂
#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeCADFriday
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My current design in FreeCAD.
I was about to transfer my Abject project to Codeberg but can't now.
Codeberg seems to be more aligned with the OSS compared to the FL in FLOSS.
https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
#Software has become like #bureaucracy:
Nothing ever gets fixed.
But new rules, new features, keep getting accumulated. Until you drown in them.
That includes #FLOSS.
Today I talked about GNU Guix at MashhadLUG, our local Linux User Group. I’ve published the presentation files on GitHub. (Sadly, GitLab is unavailable for my country due to sanctions, and Codeberg is blocked by the Iranian government, otherwise I would have preferred to host them there.)
I’m a big fan of Emacs and Org mode. This presentation was written in Org and delivered using org-tree-slide. It was a really enjoyable experience :)
#GNUGuix #Emacs #OrgMode #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux #GNU #FLOSS #LUG
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emacs with my presentation
Sehr praktisch im Urlaub, wenn man auf Datenstaubsauger wie Google Lens verzichten möchte:
Die recht junge App "Offline Translator" ist schon verdammt gut! Text, Bilder, Dokumente - komplett offline. Keine Anfragen werden an externe Server gesendet.
https://github.com/DavidVentura/offline-translator
Killer Feature ist die Live Video-Übersetzung. Eben wie Google Lens, nur datenschutzfreundlich. Das gab es meines Wissens bisher nicht als freie Software in der Qualität.
Details hier:
https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/mobile-translator-video/
#translation #ubersetzung #floss #foss #opensource #freiesoftware #fdroid #urlaub
Endlich Ferien in NRW!
Der Umstieg auf Linux und/oder andere quelloffene Programme kann eine erholsame Abwechslung sein. Dies haben uns Laien und Experten bestätigt. :-)
Unser nächstes persönliches Treffen in Herford findet am kommenden Montag, den 27. Juli ab 19 Uhr statt. Kommt gerne vorbei.
Infos über uns und unser Treffen findet ihr auf unserer Homepage.
#glughf #linuxusergroup #herford #linux
#Linuxhilfe #freifunk
#foss #floss #opensource
#diday #di_day
@herfordtoots
#endof10 #windows10 #windows11
I think the most important question is: why does anyone comply with what one incurious, self-centered, and self-important man, Linus Torvalds, says?
Why is that most important? Because Linux does not belong to Linus Torvalds. It belongs to the world. Torvalds only gets to dictate if the people who are best-positioned to take that power from him fail to do so. From where I sit (as an outsider), he should have been removed from the project, or at least have his dictatorial power removed, long ago, and the primary problem is that there is no structure or will to actually do that.
Under these conditions Linux is a hierarchical, and therefore right-wing, project. The project allows a single man to dictate the future evolution of a global good. Let's drop the illusion that it is "free" or "open" till that changes.
It was a great pleasure to write up this post about the #Codeberg's recent votes with respect to LLMs and the impact that LLM have on #FLOSS more broadly, together with @Gusted and @fnetX:
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html
Codeberg community voted to ban AI-generated code in repositories:
https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
I am a regular Codeberg user, left GitHub in 2019, and co-maintain Libre projects that saw very little if none at all AI in development.
And still I think this decision will backfire badly.
I, like most of Codeberg users, was not even aware that this discussion was in place, did not vote. This only passed because of the anti-AI Luddite crowd. Which, mind you, has a point, I have very conflicting feelings about AI myself, and I think that the current trajectory is quite worrying. But this is just a knee-jerk reaction that has clearly not been thought of well enough.
I applaude the philosophy, or the intent if you want, of not having Codeberg turn into another SlopHub. But this is fairy-tale wishful thinking. There is no way to reliably detect AI-generated code at scale in 2026.
I can already smell the mutual witch hunts across projects and "camps".
Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.
#codeberg #ai #llm #drama #opensource #ludd #luddism #antiai #libre #foss #floss #slop #github
@tante sorry, the "how will people enforce this" argument is real, dismissing it will not make it disappear.
I am a regular Codeberg user, left GitHub in 2019, and co-maintain Libre projects that saw very little if none at all AI in development.
And still I think this decision will backfire badly.
I, like most of Codeberg users, was not even aware that this discussion was in place, did not vote. This only passed because of the anti-AI Luddite crowd. Which, mind you, has a point, I have very conflicting feelings about AI myself, and I think that the current trajectory is quite worrying. But this is just a knee-jerk reaction that has clearly not been thought of well enough.
I applaude the philosophy, or the intent if you want, of not having Codeberg turn into another SlopHub. But this is fairy-tale wishful thinking. There is no way to reliably detect AI-generated code at scale in 2026.
I can already smell the mutual witch hunts across projects and "camps".
Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.
#codeberg #ai #llm #drama #opensource #ludd #luddism #antiai #libre #foss #floss #slop #github
if you are a member of Codeberg you should have received numerous polls for voting on several topics. I almost forgot, but just voted.
So consider this my public service announcement for all @Codeberg members.
Don't forget to vote!
PS: Dear Codeberg organization thanks for all the hard work! A minor suggestion: please send out reminders for voting & make the voting period a bit longer especially around the holidays. Keep up the good work 💪
I don't know who needs to hear this, but #Linux is political. You personally might not be into it for the politics, which is fine I guess, but anything that pushes back against America's global tech monopoly is a political project. It can't not be.
Just saying.
A curious irony in the fact a great many of the free and open source platforms championing digital sovereignty are themselves utterly infrastructurally dependent on big tech apparatus GitHub, itself owned (and mined) by the ruthless and closed source market monopolist Microsoft.
We're gaining ground fast, but we've still got a way to go in the truly sovereign platform space. To use is to support, and that means any point along the supply chain.
There is a new chat app in town: vectorapp.io
you can find and join #groups here for the #messenger: vectorapp.io/hub
#chat #software #communication #security #cybersecurity #e2e #encryption #vector #app #news #software #internet #privacy #decentralization #foss #floss #opensource #tool #utility
Location: Matrix
🐧 Als plötzlich Schluss war...
Vor wenigen Tagen besuchte ich wieder einmal OpenOS.at – eine Webseite, die ich seit vielen Jahren immer wieder gern genutzt habe. Statt der gewohnten Startseite erschien jedoch nur noch ein kurzer Hinweis:
„Diese Webpräsenz wurde am 26. Juni 2026 (nach 12 Jahren Betrieb) eingestellt.“
Damit endet nach zwölf Jahren ein Projekt, das für viele Linux- und BSD-Interessierte eine feste Anlaufstelle war.
Das erste Bild zeigt die frühere Startseite von OpenOS.at – mit aktuellen Distributionen, Nachrichten, Statistiken und Veranstaltungen aus der Welt freier Betriebssysteme. Das zweite Bild zeigt, was heute davon übrig geblieben ist.
Warum OpenOS eingestellt wurde, wissen wir bisher nicht. Vielleicht gibt es persönliche Gründe, vielleicht fehlte die Zeit oder Unterstützung. Vielleicht fand sich einfach niemand, der das Projekt weiterführen wollte. Solange es keine offizielle Erklärung gibt, sollten wir darüber nicht spekulieren.
Mich bringt das jedoch zum Nachdenken.
Viele von uns nutzen täglich freie Software, Webseiten, Foren oder Dienste. Wir freuen uns über aktuelle Informationen, hilfreiche Programme und funktionierende Server – oft ganz selbstverständlich und kostenlos.
Doch hinter all dem stehen Menschen.
Menschen, die ihre Freizeit investieren. Menschen, die Server betreiben, Inhalte pflegen, Fehler beheben, Updates einspielen und Fragen beantworten. Oft über viele Jahre hinweg und meist ehrenamtlich.
Gerade Projekte, die von einer einzelnen Person oder einem kleinen Team getragen werden, leisten Erstaunliches. Gleichzeitig sind sie aber auch besonders verletzlich. Wenn die Motivation nachlässt, das Privatleben mehr Zeit fordert oder gesundheitliche Gründe dazukommen, kann selbst ein langjähriges Projekt plötzlich enden.
Vielleicht erinnert uns das Ende von OpenOS daran, dass Open Source und freie Communities vom Mitmachen leben.
Nicht nur nutzen.
Nicht nur konsumieren.
Sondern auch einmal Danke sagen, Fehler melden, Dokumentationen schreiben, anderen helfen, einen kleinen Betrag spenden oder selbst mit anpacken.
Denn genau davon lebt unsere Gemeinschaft.
Ich möchte mich deshalb heute bei allen bedanken, die im Hintergrund dafür sorgen, dass freie Projekte überhaupt existieren – egal ob Entwickler, Administratoren, Übersetzer, Autoren oder Community-Mitglieder.
Ihr macht das Internet ein Stück besser. ❤️
#OpenSource #Linux #BSD #Fediverse #Community #OpenOS #FLOSS #Danke
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Dashboard der ehemaligen Webseite OpenOS.at aus dem Jahr 2020. Zu sehen sind Übersichten zu BSD-, Linux-, Solaris- und anderen Betriebssystemen mit aktuellen Distributionen, Nachrichten, Updates und Veranstaltungen.
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Die heutige Startseite von OpenOS.at mit der Meldung, dass die Webpräsenz nach zwölf Jahren Betrieb am 26. Juni 2026 eingestellt wurde. Im Hintergrund ist eine schlichte Seite mit einem großen Tux-Pinguin zu sehen.
People think the #Matrix was about robots. It wasn't. It was about operating systems.
#Windows is the blue pill.
You take it, and everything stays comfortable. Pretty icons. Friendly sounds. A setup wizard asking if you want to save your soul to the #cloud. Updates appear at the worst possible moment like a Marvel post-credit scene nobody asked for. Your #PC reboots. You cry. #Microsoft thanks you for improving your experience.
#Linux is the red pill.
You wake up. You see how deep the #RabbitHole goes.
At first, it is terrifying. The #terminal stares at you like Darth Vader asking if you know the power of the #CommandLine. You type one wrong character and feel like you accidentally launched nuclear missiles.
But then something changes. You realize your #computer actually belongs to you.
No ads in the Start Menu. No #AI assistant spying harder than a reality TV producer.
No mysterious background process eating half your #RAM like Pac-Man after three energy drinks.
You choose what gets installed. You choose when #updates happen. You choose what your #desktop looks like.
You are Neo.
Windows #users are still sitting in their pods, downloading the latest mandatory #update called KB-Whatever-Again, wondering why their printer suddenly speaks ancient Sumerian.
Linux is not perfect. Sometimes Wi-Fi drivers behave like a side quest in Dark Souls.
Sometimes you spend two hours fixing a problem just to feel smarter than everyone else.
But that is the point. The red pill was never about comfort. It was about #freedom.
And freedom means occasionally reading a forum post written by a Finnish guy in 2007 who solved your #problem and vanished forever like a #Jedi master.
Welcome to Linux. There is no spoon. Only #sudo.
#meme #choice #os #software #foss #floss #opensource #gnu #gpl #computer #user #nerd #just4fun #system
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matrix meme for OS
Location: Matrix
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116810536261122047
Open Source developers, take note.
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #copyright #NoAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
Owners and operators of ~400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or compensation. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/publishers-sue-microsoft-openai-over-unauthorized-content-use
Everyday, I become even more convinced than I thought I could be that so-called "AI" is just well-funded hammers in search of nails in the best case, and vaporware in the worst case.
#UN #OpenSource #NoAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
What happens when a global company uses free software but doesn't understand the principle behind it?
The world's #knowledge belongs to humanity, and digital devices should belong to their owners, not to Big Tech.
#google #alphabet #bigtech #evil #freedom #android #linux #software #tux #floss #foss #opensource #fail #problem #ethics #user #globalization #power #capitalism #fail #finance #money #system #matrix #community #fdroid #future #smartphone #computer #digital #humanity #wisdom #customer
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Android is not free Software!
Location: Matrix
Über die letzten Tage habe ich meine Videos immer wieder mal mit Shotcut geschnitten - einfach mal ausprobieren was damit geht und was nicht so. Als Sparringspartner stand Davinci Resolve zur Seite - heute habe ich Davinici Resolve deinstalliert. Auch wenn ich das Interface von Shotcut immer noch "sperrig" finde - bin ich von der Leistungsfähigkeit überzeugt. Kann es weniger als Davinici - vielleicht. Aber scheinbar brauchte ich diese Funktionalitäten nie #floss #shotcut
Was an Monopolisten Microsoft, Oracle, ibm, SAP usw. stört: Für spezielle Bereiche bieten sie kein standardisiertes Produkt, nur Individualentwicklung und Consulting obwohl viele Branchen im Mittelstand, kommunale-, Landes-, Bundes-Verwaltungen immer wieder gleiche Prozesse abbilden müssen, eine "Standardlösung" längst überfällig ist. Sie verhindern #opensource Entwicklungen in diese Richtung, weil sie verfügbare Finanzmittel aufsaugen und Produkte schlucken. #oss #foss #floss #bigtech #gafam
I think I've finally been able to condense what irks me about the @conservancy guidelines on #GenAI use for #FLOSS.
Out of 14, only the first 2 relate positively towards not using these systems. The others are accommodations and even encouragement.
That's ... remarkably biased and doesn't adequately reflect or even acknowledge the potential and real harms associated with them.
The SFC used to be fairly principled. This does not appear to be.
https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html
FLOSS im geostrategischen Fokus
https://linuxnews.de/floss-im-geostrategischen-fokus/ #floss #opensource #linux #linuxnews
LLM, negative, loss of trust [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Some people think that #LLM usage costs rising will start undoing some of the harm caused by the #AI hype. I don't think that's really going to help that much.
I'm not even talking about all the projects that were ensloppified and enshittified already. I'm not talking about all the technical debt. I'm not talking about all the forks that will have to be maintained forever. I'm not talking of all the projects that were abandoned because of burnout, or because they were only hype-oriented. And I'm not talking about all the corporations that will continue submitting slop.
I'm talking about the loss of trust. After all, we're not talking of people who realized they were wrong and are sorry. We're not talking of people realizing that it was wrong to forfeit ethics and morals in the name of "productivity". We're talking of people who are jumping ships because their previous approach turned out not to be profitable anymore. We're talking of gamblers who left the casino because they went broke. They aren't sorry that they gambled; they are sorry that they've lost. And they'd be happy to do it again at the nearest opportunity.
So, I'm sorry to say, but #FreeSoftware is never going to be the same again. A lot of people have shown their true colors, and I won't forget that.
Happy to see my tax money well-spent 😊🥳
Apparently accessibility fixes in Mastodon were largely sponsored by the Dutch government. Public money funding public code benefitting us all, regardless of where you live or your nationality. Awesome!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/
Almost forgot...well done & congrats on release 4.6 @Mastodon people & floss contributors 🎂🫶 🎉
#OpenSource #Mastodon #FLOSS #DigitalAutonomy #Accessibility
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Screenshot from Mastodon 4.6 release. With a yellow emoji finger pointing at the word Dutch.
Apparently accessibility fixes in Mastodon were largely sponsored by the Dutch government. Happy to hear a wee bit of my taxes are actually well spent. Check this link for the full text.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/
Does anyone have a solution yet for getting streaming services onto a TV, that sucks less than Roku/Apple/Android-Google/Amazon and could be done as a set-top box?
Maybe something like Kodi or Plasma Big Screen, but it actually works with streaming services, without the experience breaking every half year?
Needs to be something I can plunk family in front of for them to drive on their own.
#floss preferred, but id settle for proprietary crap at this point.
God damn. Gnome's "activities" overview remains absolutely genius design. You tap *one* button, and you have access to 95% of what you use on a regular basis. It's sad that other desktop environments don't have this.
#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Gnome
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A Gnome desktop with "activities" revealed. There is a desktop window slightly shrunken, in the centre of the screen, a series of desktop thumbnails across the top, and a "dash" with frequently used programmes along the bottom. One button reveals your whole computer.
exercice sur l'implémentation des risques sur le droit de la propriété intellectuelle...
je reponds #noai et #floss obligatoire !
je vais faire de la sensibilisation des stagiaires au #logicielsLibres 😉
Photoshop Alternative: Lange habe ich Gimp als Ersatz genutzt, stellt sich raus, daß für meine Arbeiten Krita besser geeignet ist, vor allem im Zusammenspiel mit dem Wacom tablet. Außerdem habe ich die Layerstyles (wieder)entdeckt, die mir die Möglichkeit bieten, Ebenen / Auswahl / Text eine Umrandung zu ergänzen 🤩 Nebenschauplatz: Die verfügbaren, stumpfsinnigen KI konnten für diese Funktion Krita nicht als Alternative benennen 🙄
#diday #linux #didit #windows #bigtech #foss #floss #photoshop
The former #CEO of #Microsoft once described #Linux as a #cancer that was ruining Microsoft's #business. In the end, it's the other way around. Microsoft is the cancer that is infecting Linux and commercializing it without respecting the #philosophy of #free #software.
source: linuxiac.com/microsoft-opens-t…
Microsoft's #Azure #cloud runs on Linux #servers. Microsoft generates the majority of its #revenue through cloud #services. In other words, it makes use of free software—specifically, from the open-source community project—without contributing to or supporting it in a meaningful way. On the contrary, Microsoft has been fighting the spread of Linux on the #desktop with #Windows from the very beginning. However, the company has learned how to profitably market free software. Unfortunately, this is a sign that die-hard capitalists are incapable of learning. Their greed for profit blinds them to the common good. Since Windows now accounts for only about 5% of Microsoft’s business model, it is used solely to keep customers within the Microsoft ecosystem and sell them cloud services. Meanwhile, Windows 11 is getting worse and worse, partly due to the use of AI.
The only company worse than that is #Nvidia, which also uses Linux but nevertheless actively prevents the development of decent open-source drivers for Nvidia #hardware. So while the #company understands the benefits of Linux, it still actively resists contributing to this #collaborative #project.
Capitalism in its final stages—and, unfortunately, one of the reasons why humanity is heading so rapidly toward the #collapse of #civilization.
#fail #economy #news #server #world #internet #globalization #trade #humanity #freedom #foss #floss #ethics #profit #greed #future #opensource #computer #digital #internet #benefit #finance #money #driver #capitalism #system #matrix #mainstream #quote #wisdom #apocalypse #evil
Location: Matrix
I have been dragged into the rabbit hole of GnuPG/LibrePGP VS Sequoia/OpenPGP and, boy it is ugly. Yeah, yeah, I know, PGP is bad, but of all the ugly things that could have happened to the FOSS crypto space, this is really unwelcome. I wish people would just sit at a table and talk.
#pgp #gpg #sequoia #crypto #cryptography #security #foss #floss #libre #drama #ietf #privacy #openpgp #librepgp
GNU/Linux Studio
🔥Navidrome & Filebrowser (Together)‼️
Navidrome's dev suggested it; I built it. @navidrome
➡️ Navidrome How-To: https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2025/10/29/setting-up-navidrome/
▶️Navidrome: https://gnulinux.studio
📂 Filebrowser How-To: https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2025/12/09/secure-filebrowser-instance/
📁Filebrowser: https://upload.gnulinux.studio
Credentials for Both:
- User: pubglug
- Pass: musicisawesome
🎁 https://liberapay.com/oemb1905/
#debian #navidrome #subsonic #airsonic #music #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #gnulinux #linux #freesoftware #floss
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Filebrowser is a "finished product" screenshot from git notes
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Navidrome in chromium minimized view with Nord theme and digital vinyl spinning during play of Marley's uprising
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Navidrome's dev suggests Filebrowser in official FAQ
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Airsonic Advanced instance pic
🤨Interested in self-hosted podcasting?
👉Prefer free, libre, and open source (floss) solutions?
Maybe a @castopod instance will work for you ! My write up and installation notes can be found here:
➡️https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2026/05/29/spinning-up-a-castopod-instance/
If you would like assistance, have questions, or enjoy discussing GNU/Linux, consider joining the PubGLUG for support:
⁉️https://matrix.to/#/#introductions:gnulinux.club
#castopod #podcast #socialmedia #gnulinux #freesoftware #selfhosting #selfhosted #debian #floss #opensource
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castopod icon / pfp
RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116636618862693399
#Altersverifikation auf Betriebssystem-Ebene:
In Kalifornien zeichnet sich ein Kompromiss ab, wonach Anbieter freier Betriebssysteme von der Pflicht ab 2027 ausgenommen werden
- hoffentlich mit Signalwirkung in Europa
For my shop machine, I'm now actively testing Debian 14 Testing w/ Xlibre and SonicDE. So far, so good. I use this machine for client work and it also gets to be my guinea pig for testing drawing tablet workflows. Both native Xlibre (via wacom) and Gaomon's proprietary driver work. I'm impressed with how snappy SonicDE is - first time using it today. Great work folks‼️
@sonicdesktop @XLibreDev #xlibre #freesoftware #opensource #debian #sysadmin #floss #sonicde
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fastfetch screenshot for xlibre, debian 14/testing, and sonicde workstation
#floss #networking I need to replace a couple of old network switches.
Are there any companies doing open source switch hardware and software? I would like to tinker.
- 1U
- 12 or more10G fiber ports
- a couple of faster uplinks would be nice
- decent RESTish API or ansible support
Something like https://vyos.io #vyos seems suitable but it looks like I would have to diy my own hardware
RE: https://share.elouworld.org/@Exagone313/116515505584026952
Remember how I was talking about Trademark's becoming more important in the post vibe-slop-fork world, just last week? AND cited this very Notepad++ "mac port". Looks like upstream noticed too, and took offense. #NotepadPlusPlus #FLOSS
Finally back home after another great @FOSS North conference 🇸🇪 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Tired, but also inspired after many interesting and insightful presentations, and meeting so many cool people! Already looking forward to next years conference!
I've also uploaded the slides for my presentation here:
https://kodeknekkeriet.net/en/events/foss-north-2026-openjdk-freebsd/
What do these sea monsters outside the coast of Norway have to do with OpenJDK on FreeBSD? Come to my talk at @FOSS North conference 🇸🇪 tomorrow at 1 O'clock.
Gentoo, FLOSS, LLMs, depressing [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
#Gentoo is still one of the bright outposts in #FLOSS where human work is valued and #LLM contributions are banned. However, sometimes I feel that this matters very little.
After all, Gentoo is a distribution. While it has its own value, it cannot exist without all the software it is shipping. It makes no sense in isolation.
And let's be honest, I don't think you can avoid slop today. We are trying our best to sieve out the worst: the copywashing chardet, the vibecoded NIH Perl crypto packages… but it's just that.
As someone who bumps Python packages, let me tell you this: LLMs are omnipresent. I notice Claude in commit logs, I notice the blasphemy of agent instructions all over the place… and there's probably much more than I don't notice. With many core components giving in, you can't avoid it without literally freezing on old, vulnerable versions, or spending hours looking for alternatives or creating them.
FLOSS is dead. People don't care. They don't have conscience. All they care about is the sick idea of "productivity", i.e. generating more slop.
The few of us who do care can do very little. We will continue doing our best until they kill us (as they're literally slowly killing the whole humankind). But that's it. Maybe it will pass once the bubble pops, maybe it won't. Either way, the damage is beyond repair. We will never be able to trust one another like we did. We will never again be a community building a better world.
It's just like everything nowadays. It's hard to find a good washing machine (one that will actually be repairable), good shoes (that won't fall apart shortly after the warranty expires), good food. You need lots of money, and even then you have to sieve through all the scammers who just sell the same shit with higher profit margin. #OpenSource is just another branch of business where people are trying to "sell" you shit, and don't care anymore if it explodes in your face. They don't even care if they're actually making a profit.
How free #OpenSource software tools bailed out a disaster recovery team in #Turkey
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2023/spring/ground-zero-navigating-in-freedom
from #FreeSoftwareFoundation Bulletin
Spring 2023
At ground zero, #OpenStreetMap provided us with the mapping that we very much needed. When I was finally...deployed on the field, nobody was yet able to navigate properly. Along with much of our critical equipment, our dedicated GPS devices were sent somewhere else because the location of the earthquake's epicenter was misjudged, and almost all the personnel were trying to use their data connection to download the same maps over and over again in order to respond to every direction given by the command center. It was in this setting that I introduced a powerful free software tool called "OsmAnd~" (#OSM for Android), along with pre-downloaded maps that I had on my handheld device, which I was using to flawlessly navigate through the city.
When others saw this, it was received by the group as "magic."
AH, GhostBSD decided to go through with their planned switch to the racist anti-DEI XOrg fork by default.
I am becoming convinced that at some-point we've fucked up #FLOSS as a community. It may have been a mistake to believe ethical computing's primary and chief emphasis should be compliance with the free software definition. When ethics in computing is such a multi variable problem in actuality.
AND now we're just struggling with the problems born of that thinking, all the damn time.
There is more free software than ever, you can't throw a rock in some places without hitting something running the linux kernel. However, so much of this ecosystem is devoid of real ethical values.
I am becoming convinced that at some-point we've fucked up #FLOSS as a community.Indeed. The free software community was about one topic, free software. And when we stuck to just that one topic, we all agreed, and we made some great things together. The mistake seems to have been to introduce other topics into free software to disagree over.
Suddenly we had to be "diverse", but that only introduced something to fight over. What kind of diversity do we want or need? Diverse thought? No, that would include people that "we" disagree with. Diverse color? Kinda racist to bring skin color into a community dedicated to only free software, but that seemed to have happened nonetheless.
Then we had to be "ethical", and infighting started to happen on what is and is not ethical, and how we should or should not support it. Currently its fighting about whether mandatory age checks are ethical (protip: they're not).
It seems that whenever people bring in things that are not free software into the free software community, it just brings divisiveness. To me, that seems to be the core issue. The free software community should stick to caring about free software, that is what unites us. You can keep your skin color, gender, ethics, whatever, to yourself, there are other communities to talk about that kind of stuff.
Rather than focusing on things to divide us, focus on the one thing that free software is about.
Some big news regarding mobile OSes:
First, Graphene OS has confirmed a partnership with a large OEM to bring support to non-Pixel devices (Snapdragon SoC):
https://piunikaweb.com/2025/10/13/grapheneos-ending-pixel-exclusivity-new-oem/
This is good news, but IMHO it only delays the unavoidable demise of free AOSP-based projects since Google is now finally pulling the rug.
Second, the FSF announced Librephone, an initiative to bring real freedom to mobile devices:
https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
This is also good, but it must be taken in the right perspective: Librephone, as far as I understand it, is not a new mobile OS, but rather an initiative to open-source existing proprietary firmware blobs. AOSP-based open source OSes like Lineage, Graphene, and even /e/OS, will hopefully benefit from this initiative, by being able to replace binary blobs with open-source firmware. But they still remain AOSP-based solutions, and therefore bound to the Google ecosystem.
There are two problems here that really need to be addressed.
The first one is political. Legislators and citizens must come to acknowledge that a democratic society where the full mobile ecosystem is in the hands of a corporate duopoly is not acceptable.
The second one is technological: AOSP is not a fully free OS, it's a trojan horse, a trap set by Google years ago that is springing right now. We need to move away from Android and embrace full GNU/Linux solutions, or even something completely new, at this point I don't even care. I've heard good opinions of Postmarket OS. Any feedbacks here?
Say what you want about Richard Stallman, but he saw this coming.
#android #aosp #google #lineageos #grapheneos #eos #postmarketos #libre #foss #floss #opensource #privacy #security #surveillance
Open Source calendar platform goes proprietary under the delusion that "AI" means keeping their code secret leads to more secure software.
The move does absolutely nothing to increase the security of their product.
https://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Before switching to #Linux, I had not known that in online discussions, it would land me in the overlap of #anarchists and #trans women (which, themselves, already have a not insignificant overlap).
S'nice, here. I like it.
@cassidy @sri @hbons
In the world of constantly-improving FLOSS apps, negative reviews absolutely need a limited lifespan IMHO, because they will never reflect reality in anything beyond short-term shelf life: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2181
May this sanity spread to all nations.
FWIW you can be absolutely sure there is no way the US public, gov and mil sectors would ever allow the use of non-US proprietary OS's.
We've all just normalised US tech dependency. Tireless pressure gangs of lobbyists on insane carbon miles have helped of course.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/
#Vim carnival this month with the following topic: How do you use Neovim/Vim to build your knowledge management?
If you are interested, send me a link to your #blog post. I will collect all of them until the end of the month.
#FLOSS #FOSS #Neovim #editor #terminal #shell #opensource #Pkm #notes #plaintext #writing #blogging #bloggers
Fucking tmux is AI slop. #openbsd #tmux #floss https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Contributing#use-of-ai
EDIT: There has been a fair amount of discussion about if this applies to upstream openBSD, and how the AI code policy is interpreted.
An example can be seen in this commit by the lead developer landing in openBSD attributed to "claude code" https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/9c2b8e445a0bdfafdd6148b1760f00aa5429627b
satire, ai, floss [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Well there you go, a company is explicitly offering FLOSS licensing math-washing as a service:
https://malus[.]sh/
> Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.
Congratulations to anyone in the FLOSS community still supporting and promoting genAI "revolution".