Search results for tag #software
Long thread/4 [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
@pluralistic you've used this analogy before. it was stupid then and it's stupid now. the excretions of the #software industry are not hard and concrete things like nuts and bolts; in fact they are deliberately made to be as unlike those things as possible, as unlike REAL ACTUAL TOOLS as possible.
I know who William Gibson is. I respect him. Who the fuck are you
Excellent analysis in the article linked here -
"If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems"
And some comical turns of phrase as well :-)
Link shared here earlier by @RuthMalan - thanks!
(I don't know if Andrew Murphy the author is on Fedi?)
10 Things Linux Can Do That Windows Still Can’t
"Linux offers more freedom than Windows in many ways. Here are a few things you can do on Linux that Windows simply doesn’t allow."
https://itsfoss.com/things-linux-can-window-not/
#linux #OS #OperatingSystem #FOSS #OpenSource #software #tech #technology #microsoft #microslop #windows #tip #tips #FreeSoftware #free
Palantir in den USA - Ein Schreckensszenario für Deutschland?
Die US-Behörden nutzen Palantir-Software für harte ICE-Einsätze. In Deutschland löst sie neue Sorgen vor Überwachung und Grundrechtsverstößen aus.#Palantir #US-Einwanderungsbehörde #Software #ICE-Beamte
Palantir als Machtwerkzeug: Was passiert, wenn Regierungen zu viel wissen?
Ageless Linux, a "technical provocation disguised as Linux distro," circulates among developers and privacy activists 🧩.
Built on Debian, it rejects age verification laws to defend open-source freedom from regulatory overreach 🔒.
🔗 https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260316-agelesslinux-noncompliance-age-verification/
#TechNews #Linux #Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS #Debian #AgeVerification #Regulation #Security #Freedom #Software #DigitalRights #UserFreedom #Technology #Innovation
🔐 Introducing: Unified Attestation
An open-source project for verifying the integrity of Android apps—as an alternative to Google's Play Integrity.
The goal is to make apps such as banking and payment apps usable on independent Android systems without relying on Google services.
We invite developers, ROM projects, and app providers to get involved.
#Volla #VollaOS #OpenSource #software #hardware #Privacy #Security #DeGoogle
#openSUSE just released Cavil-Qwen3.5-4B; an #opensource AI model that automates #legal compliance checks for #software licenses and copyright notices. Runs on modest hardware thanks to #GGUF #quantization. #AI #Linux https://news.opensuse.org/2026/03/16/os-releases-updated-legal-classification-model/
I'll just put this here for the #record in case anyone wants to #question me about it later.
I #donated with #BitCoin back in January to #AnnasArchive and now the site's knocked #offline literally.
I paid like C$120.00 for the online form of the #project just to disappear.
Yeah ok #wikipedia has them moving #domains every other day but it was a lot more stable than that before I gave them a leg up.
This is why I hate centralized #websites and hosting.
This is why #self #hosting works by connecting #dedicated #servers to the #internet as a whole.
If you use anything less, you will face more #legal challenges hosting #human #knowledge and unfortunately, it is as #simple as that.
You cannot convince me that #BigTech is not turning into #authorized #tech as it seems as though the #copyright #industry and the #torent industry has eluded to colluding with one another to obtain #rights for.
Guys, I don't know what to say anymore. I'm a huge fan of #books and #media and #free #open #source #software and I long for the day that the #government doesn't need to get a cut of everything I #download or #upload anywhere, especially for #personal #use over all.
Please do whatever you can to fight #statistical #bottlenecks where ever they appear. I want humanity to have better access to #education and #intelligence built by real people in a fair and consistent manner.
I always am striving and trying my best to be a better #human being.
A new European consortium led by Volla is creating UnifiedAttestation, an open-source alternative to Google's Play Integrity API 📱.
This would enable secure payments and sensitive apps on Google-free custom ROMs, reducing dependency on proprietary US infrastructure and advancing user sovereignty 🔒.
#TechNews #Android #Privacy #OpenSource #Google #Security #Payments #FOSS #Mobile #Linux #UserFreedom #DigitalSovereignty #Software #Technology #Innovation #Europe #ROM
broke my own rule of not creating new bash scripts and instantly regretting it.
spending more time debugging the script than I was supposed to save creating a release... just going to write up the steps in a text file.
doing fast frictionless releases is dangerous anyway. it's good to slow down. 🌱
@anildash @Lacey I advise you to remember this at least: if you ever think it's right or ethical to take pride in the current state of #software and the #technology sector and its achievements of the last few decades: DON'T.
If every last person who ever billed themselves as a "tech entrepreneur" spent the rest of their lives being pelted with rotten oranges, it would be reckoned as *justice*. Your crowd has, among other things, delivered the people over to fascism. And no, you're not one of the "good ones", any more than there's such a thing as a "good cop". You're ALL complicit.
@anildash @Lacey In any case I think you're emotionally projecting, Mr. Dot-Com. This isn't about your hurt feelings or Lacey's hurt feelings, or about some wispy opinions on whether coding is "real" or not. It's about whether software development, "software engineering" as it's sometimes called (usually in error), will ever raise itself out of the swamps of the current-day slop-happy culture of capitalist #technology, take some responsibility for its own actions, and rise to the level of a *genuine engineering discipline*—with standards designed around serving the public interest.
As long as tenth-raters such as yourself as Lacey dominate this field, Mr. Dot-Com—people who seem to care only about themselves and their feelings, and who want to keep software development stuck as a sort of playset for aging children (who expect to be paid ridiculous amounts of money for their playtime, in comparison to the wages of those who do actual constructive work like sweeping floors or bagging groceries0 then #software is going to remain where it is right now: 99.9% trash.
Linux and BSD distributions are taking varied approaches to new U.S. age verification laws requiring OS‑level age attestation during setup 🧩.
Ubuntu and Fedora are planning privacy‑respecting local APIs, while MidnightBSD and Adenix reject compliance, citing risks to open‑source freedom and user privacy 🔒.
🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/distros-response-age-verification-laws/
#TechNews #Linux #BSD #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Regulation #Compliance #Software #Freedom #FOSS #Ubuntu #Fedora #System76 #UserRights #AgeVerification #US
Xpadder is a versatile software application that facilitates the mapping of keyboard keys, game controller pads, and arcade sticks to enhance user interaction with operating systems, specifically Windows and the Linux variant known as Wine. This powerful utility offers gamers the ability to customize their control schemes, allowing for a more tailored and enjoyable gaming experience. It is particularly advantageous for individuals who prefer using various input devices for gameplay, as it provides the flexibility to assign specific functions to different buttons and keys.
In terms of accessibility, Xpadder is typically discovered through various channels within the software distribution community. It is often available in patches and versions that are shared on internet forums devoted to software enhancement, as well as within the torrent ecosystem, where users seek alternative means of acquiring software. Additionally, instances of Xpadder can sometimes be located on web archives that preserve digital content, allowing users to retrieve older versions of the program for compatibility with legacy systems or specific gaming applications.
Overall, the presence of Xpadder in these contexts highlights the software's popularity and the demand for customizable input solutions among gamers and technology enthusiasts alike. The functionality of Xpadder not only enhances gameplay experience but also encourages a more inclusive gaming environment by allowing a broader range of input devices to be utilized effectively.
#bittorrent #webarchive #xpadder #linux #windows #software #controller #keyboard #mapper #arcadesticks #gamepad #controllers #blutooth #and #usbadaptors
There we go - my opinions on "vibe coding" after having actually created a full working app with it - as a senior Software Engineer and Cybersecurity expert.
I think some of the strange shifts we're seeing in high-profile folks in tech who already had authoritarian impulses---which, let's be real, is uncomfortably common among tech workers---is that they are groping for ways to embrace taking power that do not run afoul of other values they've endorsed. This really can't be done unless the person was already pretty antisocial, so we see weird behavior such as running self-serving "surveys" about AI with foregone conclusions, microaggressions and dissembling, attacks and other forms of hostility, being "one shotted" or conflating a computer program with humanness, etc. It's really a general problem, in that view, given how the US regime has shifted away from social democracy/liberalism into a much more brash, violent, and authoritarian stance. There are a variety of ways to cope with such a shift, one being to embrace it while bursting into a cloud of internal contradictions.
🤦🏻♂️ Oh no... The line between a successful lunar mission and a $72 million piece of space junk can come down to a single line of code. 🚀 NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission just provided a painful lesson in systems engineering. Shortly after launch, a navigation glitch caused the spacecraft to lose its sense of direction. Instead of correcting its course, the onboard computer entered a loop that exhausted its entire fuel supply in less than a day. 😳
This wasn't a mechanical failure or a solar flare, it was a software error that prevented the craft from communicating with its own star trackers. When we build complex systems, we often focus on the big risks while ignoring the small, logical traps that can paralyze a machine. For the engineers who spent years on this project, it is a reminder that in space, there is no "undo" button for a bad update. 🌖
🧠 A logic error caused the craft to misinterpret its orientation.
⚡ The entire fuel reserve was spent trying to fix a non-existent course deviation.
🎓 Recovery efforts failed because the craft could no longer point its antenna at Earth.
🔍 This incident highlights the critical need for more robust hardware-in-the-loop testing.
https://gizmodo.com/the-stupidest-glitch-imaginable-killed-a-72-million-lunar-mission-in-a-single-day-2000728962
#Aerospace #SystemsEngineering #NASA #TechFailures #Vibecoding #Fail #SoftwareDevelopment #Software
Windows 12 rumors point to deeper AI integration that could control services, updates, screen reading, and semantic search — impossible to fully disable. 🧩
This could be the tipping point pushing users to Linux, which offers no ads, no forced AI, no hardware demands, no tracking, and zero cost. 🛡️
🔗 https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-12-rumors-linux-migration/
#TechNews #Linux #Windows #Windows12 #Privacy #AI #OpenSource #Desktop #Microsoft #Migration #FOSS #SysAdmin #Tech #Software #Security #Freedom
ap, the ActivityPub API command-line client
As part of my book "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web", I created a coding example to show how to program for the ActivityPub API. ap is a command-line client, written in Python, for doing basic tasks with ActivityPub.For example, you can log into a server using this command: ap login yourname@yourserver.example Once you're logged in, you can follow someone: ap follow other@different.example Or, you could post some content: ap create note --public "Hello, World" This isn't […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
As part of my book “ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web“, I created a coding example to show how to program for the ActivityPub API. ap is a command-line client, written in Python, for doing basic tasks with ActivityPub.
For example, you can log into a server using this command:
ap login yourname@yourserver.example
Once you’re logged in, you can follow someone:
ap follow other@different.example
Or, you could post some content:
ap create note --public "Hello, World"
This isn’t enough to have a real social networking experience, but I think it’s pretty useful for testing an ActivityPub API server, or automating some repetitive tasks.
I should note quickly here that not all ActivityPub servers support the ActivityPub API. It’s an under-utilized part of the ActivityPub standard. In particular, Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and other services don’t support the API. There’s a pretty good list of servers and clients that do support the API in this Codeberg issue.
Suffice it to say, unless you’re actively working with one of those platforms, or you are writing your own, you’re not going to get much use out of ap. It will probably give you an error message like “No OAuth endpoints found” if it can’t use the service.
Refreshing the project
I’ve never packaged ap for distribution; it was always supposed to be example code. But given the recent interest in the ActivityPub API, including the work going on in the ActivityPub API task force, I decided to get it into shape for installation by developers working on other apps. My friend Matthias Pfefferle of Automattic asked me about it when we were at FOSDEM this year, and I was embarrassed to see how difficult it was for him to use.
So, I’ve made two big upgrades to the package. The first was actually making it a package, and distributing it! I upgraded the package management framework to uv, which seems like a good bet for now, and pushing the application to PyPI, the Python Package Index. It’s visible at https://pypi.org/project/activitypub-cli/ now. (Note: different package name from the command name! The PyPI “ap” package name was taken a while ago.)
You can now install the application in one shot with this command on a computer that has Python on it:
pipx install activitypub-cli
You can test that the application installed correctly in your path by running the version command:
ap version
That should show the same version as is currently on the pypi.org page for the project.
The second change was implementing the current OAuth 2.0 profile best practices. I’ve upgraded the login flow so it tries a lot of different options for identifying itself to the server: CIMD, FEP d8c2, and Dynamic Client Registration. It tries to do them in preferential order; it uses permanent, global client identifiers before dynamic ones.
Help me test
I’m especially interested in testing this command-line client against other servers. If you’re developing an ActivityPub API server, please install the ap command and try it out against your (development!) server. Report a bug if it doesn’t work well, or send me a DM at @evanprodromou if it works OK. Given time, I think ap can be a useful first smoke test for ActivityPub API implementations.
I've reached the 'I-prefer-paying-for-software-subscriptions/donations-so-developers-keep-maintaining-it' age.
Linux: Wie Kmscon virtuelle Textkonsolen modernisiert
Altlasten loswerden, Sicherheit verbessern und mehr Flexibilität: Das verspricht der Wechsel zu Kmscon, eine neue Technik für Virtual Terminals.
English speakers of the fedi. In a software with the interface in English, Reading a menu with verbs such as Save, Open, Close, Edit, Format etc., do you read them as imperative (an order: "do this") or as an infinitive (the "base form" of the verb, like "to do this")?
Are you a native speaker or have English as a second language?
#Dev #ux #ui #software #interface #translation #uiux #uxui #gui
| Native speaker, imperative: | 3 |
| Native speaker, infinitve: | 4 |
| Second Language, imperative: | 3 |
| Second Language, infinitive: | 4 |
A resource I've sometimes found useful during times of need:
Experienced engineers (& others) can register as tutors & charge by the hour for Zoom sessions. Sometimes you can arrange a recurring series with a student or freelance gigs.
One Python/JS engineer I knew was able to make her entire living off of it. At least it can help make ends meet.
#GetFediHired #Software #Programming #Tutoring #Jobs #Gigs #Hiring #Freelancing #FediHire #Job #JobSearch
I was able to finish reading all of “The Genius of Lisp“ by @cdegroot and the whole book was as good as the free preview (chapter 8). I was able to speed-read through the detailed explanations of concepts I already knew, like tail recursion, garbage collection, the Y-combinator, Currying functions, and so on. But there were parts where I slowed down and read carefully, like the section on the Universal Turing Machine, and some of the details of the IBM-704 system architecture. Also the story of how the first Lisp implementation was created when one of McCarthy’s grad students implemented an M-Expression calculator, this was described in slightly more detail than what I recall McCarthy himself explaining in his 1960 paper — that or I had just forgotten those parts of the story.
The tone of this book reminds me a lot of popular physics books like Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” which was aimed more at general audiences than professionals. That said, there is a lot to enjoy about this book for professionals like myself as well. There are many good stories about the principals designers of Lisp throughout. The sections on the commercialization of Lisp for the first AI boom of the 1970s and it’s subsequent “AI winter,” were very interesting to read. And if you are a teacher, you might like how some of the concepts in the book are explained.
And I would definitely recommend this very strongly to 3rd-year high school students, or 1st and 2nd year college students, who are more genuinely curious about how computers work and want to know more than just how to make the next billion dollar app.
The next #LispyGopherClimate show with @screwlisp I look forward to talking about this book some more.
#tech #software #Lisp #ProgrammingLanguages #SchemeLang #Scheme #Clojure #Emacs #EmacsLisp #RetroComputing #LispyGopherClimateShow
@cdegroot I think you might have a factual error on page 174 in the section called “Emacs Lisp.” You write this:
In a nutshell, Emacs Lisp (“elisp”) is a classical Lisp-1 with dynamic variable scoping. As you may recall, a Lisp-1 has a shared namespaces for symbols depicting variables and symbols depicting functions, while a Lisp-2 has two such namespaces; Scheme is a Lisp-1, and Common Lisp a Lisp-2. The debate on which one is better will likely never be settled, so it was probably either a coin-toss for Stallman or simpy a matter of expediency, if he thought a Lisp-1 would be simpler to implement.
I believe Emacs Lisp is a Lisp-2 system, unless I am misunderstanding some finer point about the difference between Lisp-1 and Lisp-2 systems. For example, Emacs Lisp has defvar, setq, defun, and funcall. You can use setq to set the value of a variable f and you can also do something like (defun f () (princ (format f))). So unless I am mistaken, that makes Emacs Lisp a Lisp-2.
«Wie sicher sind Apple-Geräte wirklich?
Apple-Geräte gelten als vergleichsweise sicher. Doch sind sie wirklich sicherer als Windows oder wiegen sich Nutzer nur in falscher Sicherheit?»
Apple ist doch auch nur eine Glaubensrichtung was unter anderem auf *BSD aufbaut. Es ist extrem Closed-Source und auch deswegen funktionieren ihr Versprechen auf Hoffnung.
🍎 https://www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cloud-security/wie-sicher-ist-apple
#apple #marketing #itsicherheit #bsd #linux #windows #software #itsec #it #ios #betriebsystem
That's it, people. With lots of emotion I announce the first release of my first ever open-source desktop app. Who happen to know I'm blind will laugh (and I share that laugh, so feel free and don't hold yourselves): it's an image converter. I was in need of an accessible solution for well… converting images from one format to another and didn't find anything, especially that supported ICO needed, for example, for making favicons for websites.
Anyway, it's a dead simple and of course accessible #Windows app that can work with most popular image formats, can convert in batches, can do favicons, application icons, resize with keeping proportions or cropping as you wish (very useful if, for example, you need a photo of yourself but 128x128 pixels and not a pixel wider). You can paste images straight to the main window, and you can even paste direct links. It also supports detecting and downloading files that are stored in clouds (I tested with OneDrive).
Anyway, it's called SIC! (for the Latin word "Sic" and for "Simple Image Converter"). Oh, and it's multilingual, supports English, French, German, Ukrainian and Russian for now. And yes, you can use it as installed software or in portable mode, and it doesn't go to the Internet (only to check for updates), unless you add an image by link or prefer to update automatically. I reiterate: your images are converted on your device and don't go anywhere.
Official page: https://oire.org/software/sic
GitHub: https://github.com/Oire/sic
Issues are welcome. Discussion of the 1.0.0.23 release: https://github.com/Oire/sic/discussions/29
#Accessibility #OpenSource #Software #SelfPromoting
Yes, because everyone hates it.
It's a dumbed down, childish looking, enshittified mess.
To distribute an Android app outside Google Play, starting September 2026, developers will need to register with Google, submit government ID, and pay a $25 fee. Even if they're using F-Droid or the Amazon Appstore, stores Google doesn't own or operate. Privacy groups are pushing back.
https://reclaimthenet.org/open-letter-google-android-developer-verification-policy-criticism-2026
#Google #Android #enshittification #dystopia #software #monopoly #technology #idverification #privacy
Keep Android Open
Because Android is open, for now, till 01 September 2K26, I have been able to install this wonderful tool set of which you see a screen cap below.
If all of you who read this toot, please boost for visibility, make your voices heard as it is explained in the first link, you will be able to stop Google from closing Android worse than Apple
We all need to unite to stop google cold in their tracks
EU users have enormous power in this, remember USB-C on apple
Don't think you don't have power to stop google
UNITE!
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html
#GNU #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #keepandroidopen #keep #android #open #UNIX #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes
There are still people with souls in Silicon Valley.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7434699479389405184-wjB4
You know that funny XKCD comic poking fun at the precarious nature of modern digital infrastructure? Someone made an interactive version of it that is... surprisingly fun to play around with for a few minutes at least.
Windows 12 reportedly set for release this year as a subscription-based, AI-focused OS
So there can be something worse than Windows 11...
https://tech4gamers.com/windows-12-reportedly-relasing-2026-modular-ai-focused-os/
#Microsoft #Microslop #Windows #Windows12 #Copilot #AI #enshittification #software #technology
Ooof, this smells of a sign/math error somewhere, ouch.
"...the software that should have pointed Lunar Trailblazer’s solar panels toward the Sun instead pointed them 180 degrees away from the Sun...."
“#Amazon has told managers to incorporate projected #AIEfficiencies into headcount planning for the year, according to two people familiar with the matter.
This has led to pushback, including an open letter signed anonymously by current and former #staff members, which argued the company was investing in a #future where it would be easier to discard #employees.
“Here’s what we’re actually experiencing: higher expected output and shorter timelines, mandates to build #AITools for wasteful use cases, and massive investment in #AI with little investment in career advancement,” the letter, published last November, said.
“As soon as AI got introduced, #deadlines started shortening, and people were expected to do more as quickly,” said one signatory who was made #redundant last year. “It was heavily implied we would be graded on use.”
Multiple current #AWS #software #developers said they were being asked to take on new #roles with the assistance of AI tools. They noted technical writing teams had been laid off, with engineers now required to complete these tasks. AI use had also been formally written into some workers’ promotion criteria, the developers said.”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://archive.md/c5NGK> / <https://ft.com/content/433f41f2-bf6d-4bdf-a561-50ab516bc62d>
Just had a sighted person tell me they often use clients and programs that were made for us, they don’t use screen readers, but they use clients like oh i don’t know a blind Mastodon client, SonarPad, as an example, because they said, the interface is 1000 times cleaner, there’s a lot of keyboard shortcuts, and I never have to put up with animation nonsense. You know software development has vastly sank in quality when sighted folk are using blind clients. #Programming #Software
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
"I wonder how the government of California plans to enforce it?"
#AgeVerification #dystopia #privacy #surveillance #software #technology #Linux
socialmedia [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Weekend Project: How To Replace Discord With Free Software And An Old PC
Looking for a Discord replacement or alternative? I have a solution for you...and a guide on how to make it happen.
https://ideatrash.net/2026/02/weekend-project-how-to-replace-discord-with-free-software-and-an-old-pc.html#internet #online #social-media #software #alternative #discord #howto #jitsi #nextcloud
Alt...
Weekend Project: How To Replace Discord With Free Software And An Old PC
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/dhgypbM1uw7UBNNEQKVibP
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_LCHKP_BW/1)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://www.thefreelantern.com/lyrics/our-story/01-penguins-of-the-world-unite")
Une chanson indie transcende le code pour forger un hymne à la collaboration radicale.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/7TGDNRjtYgz1uu3kZJTjiq
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_LCHKP_BW/1)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://www.thefreelantern.com/lyrics/our-story/01-penguins-of-the-world-unite")
Ein Musikprojekt transformiert Open-Source-Ideale in kulturelles Kapital und demonstriert neue Modelle kollaborativer Wertschöpfung.
“As #stocks
wobbled in the last week of February, some found a cause in a note by #CitriniResearch, a firm of #EquityAnalysts. It imagined a world in 2028 in which artificial intelligence had rendered a lot of #WhiteCollar work obsolete—along with firms from American Express to DoorDash and much of the #software industry. The note went viral. But its economics are shaky.
In Citrini’s near future, output keeps growing, “driven by #AIAgents that don’t sleep, take sick days or require health insurance”, while consumer spending collapses: #workers have no #jobs and no #incomes to spend. “Economic pundits popularised the phrase ‘Ghost gdp’: output that shows up in the national accounts but never circulates through the real #economy.”
<https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/02/25/a-viral-research-note-on-ai-gets-its-economics-wrong>
(paywall) / <https://archive.md/Gs14a>
GIbt es hier im Fediverse jemanden, der in der #Kieferorthopädie arbeitet und #Ivoris als Software im Einsatz hat? Mich würden mal eure Erfahrungen dazu interessieren.
I just discovered a fantastic #hack that makes the #iOS #SpeechToText engine work quite well!
1. Go to dentist
2. Require freezing for dental procedure
3. Use iOS speech to text prior to freezing coming out
4. Success!
🤔😳😂
Utilitários de Teclado/Mouse/Touch🖱️
xfce4-mouse-settings Na primeira vez, basta-me abri-lo, aba Touchpad, e ativar Tap touchpad to click (Tocar no touchpad para clicar). O resto já vem, por padrão, do jeitinho que prefiro.
#TerSoftware #Xfce #FreeDesktop #XWindowSystem #GNU #software #softwareLivre
heise+ | Ionos Nextcloud Workspace: Microsoft-365-Alternative im Test
Kann ein gehostetes Nextcloud eine Alternative zu Microsoft 365 sein? Der Webhoster Ionos hat ein Online-Office geschnürt, das dieses Versprechen einlösen soll.
#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #tech #dev #SoftwareLicensing
Trying out a new text editor. Really liking how screen reader friendly it is, but still, no autocorrect/text replacement support. Still, check this out. You can disable spell check, which I have done. https://github.com/Ambro86/Sonarpad #PlainText #OpenSource #TextEditor #Software
Kurze Zufriedenheitsumfrage beim Kunden: einmal von unten nach oben durch die Etagen telefonieren: alle glücklich und zufrieden.
Und die Mitarbeiterin, bei der ich gestern den Prozess erheblich optimiert habe, ist "noch nie so glücklich zur Arbeit gegangen, wie heute". Hach.
#itsupport #support #erp #prozessoptimierung #software #navision
... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
OpenClaw™ (also answers to Moltbot, Clawdbot, and “why is my laptop doing that?”) is prescribed for mild productivity enhancement.
OpenClaw™ is sometimes prescribed for:
“boosting productivity.”
Common side effects may include:
• Full system access
• Reading and writing your files
• Running arbitrary scripts
• Browser control without blinking
Some users report light WebSocket hijacking, spontaneous prompt injection attacks, API leakage, and the occasional database breach.
In rare cases, may feel indistinguishable from malware.
Do not install OpenClaw™
if you are allergic to basic security practices.
Consult your IT professional before use.
#AI #CyberSecurity #Infosec #Slopification #programming #software #artificialintelligence
![[?]](data:image/png;base64, iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAEAAAABAAQAAAACCEkxzAAAAUUlEQVQoz43R0QkAMQwCUDdw/y3dwEvsvzlL4X1IoQkAisKmwfAFT3RgJHbQezpSRoXEqeqCL9BJBf7h3QbOCCxV5EVWMEMwG7K1/WODtlvxAYTtEsDU9F34AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC)
Man sollte einfach den verkauf von Internet fähigen Geräten nur noch ab 18 Jahren erlauben. Ausweis im Laden vorzeigen sollte da genügen, Datensammelei ist nicht nötig.
Die Hersteller oder Verkäufer oder wer auch immer sollten verpflichtet werden eine Software fest zu installieren mit der die Volljährigen Besitzer eine Altersangabe der Benutzer machen müssen die nur sie ändern können (Passwort) .
Des weiteren müssen alle Sozialmedia Anbieter ihre Inhalte gestaffelt nach alter der Nutzer freigeben oder sperren.
Sollte eigentlich Softwareseitig kein Problem sein.
#SCOTUS Adopts ‘New’ Process To Avoid #ConflictsOfInterest 20 Years Too Late
The justices announce conflict-checking #software & new filing rules that lower #courts have used forever.
Only the #SupremeCourt could announce a bare minimum #ethical #guardrail that lower courts have used since the George W. Bush administration & act like it’s a bold blow against the appearance of impropriety.
#law #LegalEthics
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/supreme-court-adopts-new-process-to-avoid-conflicts-of-interest-20-years-too-late/
“US stocks fell sharply on Thursday as a sell-off in the #technology sector reignited, extending a volatile run for equity markets buffeted by concerns that #AI could disrupt entire industries.”
…
“US markets have been volatile in recent weeks as #investors worry the release of ever more sophisticated #AITools threatens to upend industries such as #software and #WealthManagement and potentially lead to large-scale #LayOffs.
At the same time, investors have become nervous about the massive #investment in #AI by “#hyperscalers” and when they are likely to deliver a return.”
At first slowly, then all at once.
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #LLM <https://archive.md/29chh> / <https://www.ft.com/content/513ddbc1-0b68-4200-bb2e-ce920fa601aa>
I decided to merge my #Scheme react-like declarative GUI framework (schemacs ui), even though the back-end isn’t completely bug-free yet. (It is still an experimental software project, so the main branch is the development branch).
Though it is written in pure #R7RS “small” Scheme, the only GUI back-end currently available is for Guile users who go to the trouble to install Guile-GI all on their own.
If Guile-GI is installed, put on your safety goggles and run this command in the Guile REPL:
(load "./main-gui.scm")I haven’t tried getting it to work in a Guix shell for almost a year now, but my last attempt did not go well (it crashed while initializing Gtk). To anyone who wants to try the GUI, I am sorry to inconvenience you, but I’m afraid I just have to ask you to please install Guile-GI yourself using the old-fashioned ./configure && make && make install method. If anyone happens to be able to get it to work in a Guix shell, please let me know, or open a PR on the Codeberg Git repository.
The only examples for how to use (schemacs ui) are in the test suite and the Schemacs Debugger. The only documentation so far are the comments in the source code, though I did try to be very thorough with comments.
The “Debugui” debugger works, but only has one single feature: the eval-expression command, which is bound to M-: (Alt-Colon). This command works the same as in #Emacs but you enter a Scheme language command instead. The #EmacsLisp interpreter is not yet connected to the GUI.
Now that this is merged, I am going to work on a few tasks in the Emacs Lisp interpreter that have been pending for more than a few weeks now. Then, back to creating new features in the GUI toward the goal of making it a useful program editor. And also, of course, writing some more documentation.
Well I have started the process of upgrading my #music #studio! First item on the list is the audio interface. Just got the new #Focusrite #Scarlett #18i20 4th gen today. Rather large upgrade from my nine year old 2nd gen unit with some cool features.
Unfortunately....I had one helluva time getting it set up. First, my #Mac never recognized it as being plugged into any USB port (USB 2, 3, or USB-C) or USB cable used. Second, the control #software intermittently recognized it but would fail downloading the new #firmware. Third, the unit mysteriously powered off during troubleshooting. It is *completely* dead.
I've hooked up the old one again but this was...disappointing. I will start the return process tomorrow morning.
@giacomo
"[...] those who now resist to the fear of missing out and preserve their skills might gain even higher wages in the future [...]"
I'm honestly not so sure about that. Basically every skilled profession from cooking, over tailoring, to construction work has been automated, outsourced or flooded with workers so much that its practitioners are oftentimes paid minimum wage (or sometimes even less). There's very little functional difference between a programmer and a shoemaker.
Sure there're few exceptions, like the Michelin-star level chef or the master woodworker who get paid handsomely, but by definition, there can't be _that_ many experts in one field. Plus the number of people who can even can afford Master-level products and services (given they realized their value in the first place) is also diminishing sharply.
Companies and people have stopped considering #SoftwareEngineeing or #Software itself a service/product worth a skilled professional. Just like they did with T-shirts, food and many things more. The resulting feedback loop started with the #Vibecoding and #LLM hype will further suppress the wages of tech workers while simultaneously increase prices (i.e. #Enshittifcation).
It's going to be a very interesting future in software...
🧵 …that's the answer to the toot above. Not only that, when coding software, a lot of thought is given to what it is more stable and how it is implemented more safely. Mindlessly letting something rattle together sooner or later results in serious gaps.
»Technical Breakdown: How AI Agents Ignore 40 Years of Security Progress«
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3okhTwa7w4
#ai #vibecoding #itsecurity #breakdown #llm #LLMs #noai #softwareengineering #software #video #youtube #yt #code
Is the cost of importing it form a closeby country with that option too much?
#Enshittification #LLM #AI #programming #OpenSource #technology #Lenovo #Linux #POSIX #SatyaNadella #microSoft #license #hardware #software #win64
Lenovo
TIl about an interesting OS option by Lenovo, on their notebook computers. Logical yet interesting and expected
You get an *Open Source* OS by default from Lenovo. No more win64 as default
If you want closed source you have to **ask** for it and pay the _hefty premium_ that microSoft's microslop demands, for their LLM infected, malware like OS. Lenovo wants to sell it's notebooks for the best price possible if you want an OS, and microsoft does not meet those demands anymore (for a while)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fw4HsJpfa8
#Enshittification #LLM #AI #programming #OpenSource #technology #Lenovo #Linux #POSIX #SatyaNadella #microSoft #license #hardware #software
gonna try again:
any of y'all know any good replacements for MS Paint? and i don't mean a specialized tool with a bunch of knobs and levers to pull like GIMP or the various other popular pixel art tools. just a very simple program where you can easily paste things in, move them around, and occasionally draw a little (very basic features which microsoft has somehow managed to completely fucking cock up!)
Looks like a boring flip phone at first glance - an Alcatel Go Flip 🥱
Except: it runs KaiOS - what became of Firefox OS, and isn't Android based or iOS based, but its own thing! 🤓
Neat!
#software #smartphones #cellphones #tech
Alt...
Showing a black flip phone, opened showing the screen. It says KaiOS on it.
Alt...
Showing the home screen of the flip phone. It has the date and time, as well as network services on top, as well as 'notices' and 'speed dial' near the bottom of the screen. The silver words Alcatel are visible on the phone. The background image is purple-blue
Alt...
Showing a listing under 'more information'. It says KaiOS Version 1.0, platform MSM8909.LA1.1
(popcorn, waiting for Spotify to collapse from AI sloppified source code, lol). Also, I am biased, you can't call yourself a "developer" if you're just shoveling up AI generated slop you did not write.
Slashdot Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI
Alt...
Spotify's best developers have stopped writing code manually since December and now rely on an internal AI system called Honk that enables remote, real-time code deployment through Claude Code, the company's co-CEO Gustav Soderstrom said during a fourth-quarter earnings call this week.
Today's job search matches:
* "AI"
* "AI"
* "AI"
* "AI"
* algorithmic trading
* gambling
* weird non-engineering management role
* 3 x duplicate posting of the previous
* "innovative financial product", i.e. how to milk more fees from poor people
* Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft ... and laughably underpaid for a Principal Engineer role
* "FinOps and AI"
* "AI"
* Weirdly aggressive "If this isn't you, don't bother." at top of job description
* trying to replace human therapist with software
[...]
Every single one of those is in blatant contradiction with my personal ethical code, with the possible exception of the weird non-engineering role (which isn't described well) and the all-Microsoft shop one, which isn't my wheelhouse.
My industry has gone to shit.
#software #engineering #SoftwareEngineering #ethics #ethical #unethical #enshittification
Linus Torvalds rejected Linux 7.0’s MMC updates as “untested garbage.” ⚙️
The move delays new eMMC features but reinforces Linux’s focus on stability and sound testing. 🧩
Debate follows on quality standards, transparency, and contributor accountability. ⚖️
🔗 https://www.techedubyte.com/linus-torvalds-rejects-linux-7-0-updates-controversy/
#TechNews #Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #Kernel #Software #Testing #QA #Security #Innovation #Accountability #Developers #Hardware #FOSS #Coding #Freedom #Freesoftware #Ubuntu #Debian #Fedora #Community
France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺
🔗 https://www.sinologic.net/en/2026-01/france-chooses-open-source-to-secure-european-sovereignty.html
#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice
“For those unfamiliar with the saga of #Clawdbot, er #Moltbot, no, wait, #OpenClaw (it keeps changing names), it's an #OpenSource, #VibeCoded agentic #AI platform that has been, frankly, an unmitigated disaster for those worried about security.
#OpenClaw's skill store, where users can find extensions for the #bot, is riddled with malicious #software. Three high-risk #CVEs have been attributed to it in recent weeks, and it's also been reported that its various skills can be easily cracked and forced to spill API keys, credit card numbers, PII, and other data valuable to #cybercriminals.”
<https://theregister.com/2026/02/09/openclaw_instances_exposed_vibe_code/>
#software #developers #TechLaw
"So what happens when something goes wrong? Regulation in software has always been reactive. It responds to harm after the fact...If an access management system fails because an agent-written module contained a subtle error that no human ever saw, who is liable? The three engineers who designed the architecture? The AI provider whose model generated the code? The company that sold the product?" 🤔
https://law.stanford.edu/2026/02/08/built-by-agents-tested-by-agents-trusted-by-whom/
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/vSpWe5YF9eyD9YPEBtQj55
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_1EDKB8T_/1)
La normalisation des rustines logicielles mine la qualité, la sécurité et la productivité à long terme.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/er5htdQ6XuY794BS5TavaJ
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_1EDKB8T_/1)
How a universal software engineering practice reveals systemic organizational and technical debt.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/pdE17nRbnCgqaNLMbfaAmP
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_1EDKB8T_/1)
Wie temporäre Code-Korrekturen zu dauerhaften Systemrisiken werden
Distributions are interwoven with the GNU principles.
Before distributions I would have to download the GNU program Source Code one by one, then cross compile (GCC for example) them.
Once chicken egg tools were cross compiled I could start with native
./configure; make; make test; make install
Quote
Specifically, free software means users have the four essential freedoms: (0) to run the program, (1) to study and change the program in source code form, (2) to redistribute exact copies, and (3) to distribute modified versions.
^Z
These are important pillars of Free Software
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html
#GNU #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #UNIX #vi #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes
A chicken egg tool is a tool, in this case the GCC compiler, which you need in your GNU Linux Operating System to compile your programs.
The GCC compiler needs to be compiled first.
This means that you need another C compiler, to compile your GCC compiler.
The other C compiler will need to reside in another Operating System.
In this specific example of building a GNU Linux multi tasking Operating System from the MS-DOS single tasking operating system, I used the Turbo C compiler, which was written by Borland. The Turbo C compiler, is a proprietary Closed Source compiler, which is delivered as a executable, not in source code.
Armed with the Turbo C compiler, I ran the following command sequence for compiling GCC
./configure
make test
# this runs the assembler program too
make
I did not run 'make install' because GCC needs to be installed in GNU Linux. I also used switches so that a Linux ELF Binary executable was created, not a MS-DOS executable binary.
The last step was to do a raw write of the GCC binary to the Linux file system.
#GNU #GCC #compiler #ELF #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #UNIX #vi #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes
About GNU
GNU was launched in 1983 by Richard Stallman
Quote
The primary and continuing goal of GNU is to offer a Unix-compatible system that would be 100% free software. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%. The name of the system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix—a way of paying tribute to the technical ideas of Unix, while at the same time saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is like Unix. But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.
^Z
Realize this
Without GNU, Linux {distributions} would *not* exist. You would only have a kernel after boot, no user land programs
Be grateful for the existence of GNU
#GNU #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #UNIX #vi #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/about-gnu.html
🚀 been updated to the 4.5.5 Mastodon version!
We are currently in the testing phase, but the first impressions are great. In our opinion, the UI looks much cleaner and more refined than previous versions. It’s faster, sleeker, and simply better to use. So far, I’m loving it! )))
Check it out and share your thoughts. Let’s build the free web together!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Update #TechNews #FreeSpeech #VIRGroup #Networking #OpenSource #Software #TechUpdate
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source.
According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.
💻 https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/
#vibecoding #opensource #software #oss #vibe #linux #europe #kill #ai #LLMs #llm #smallprojects #noai #tailwinds
I finally ditched @photoprism@floss.social for immich as my photo library. Not because immich is better but it just seems to have a wider community and ecosystem. #photolibrary #photo #software
Alt...
Picture of the library of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum
Job [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Dieses gute Gefühl, wenn man etwas robuster macht, obwohl es gerade (noch) nicht kaputt ist
heise+ | Besser texten mit Office-Alternativen: LanguageTool in LibreOffice einrichten
Verbessern Sie die Textprüfung von LibreOffice mit LanguageTool als Online-Dienst oder lokale Installation.
I posted this some time ago, but now that I have a few blind friends who are involved in programming, and especially the musical side of things, I figured I would try again. To summarise. I want to see if it is possible to make pre-electric recordings sound like early electric ones. So one from 1903 might sound like it came from 1930. I doubt we could go any higher than the 1940's, if that, given the constraints of acoustic recording, but it would still be a huge improvement in sound. Perhaps, with the right software, some frequences can be restored. The trouble is that there are only a few such programs and all are inaccessible with screen readers. I explain things more fully at the below link. Normally, this is a subreddit about opera recordings and singers from the 1950's and earlier, so if you have no clue about this but like opera, feel free to join us in general.
Frequency Restoration in Acoustic Recordings
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldOpera/comments/1oqgz2k/frequency_restoration_in_acoustic_recordings/
#accessibility #AcousticRecordings #Android #AudioRestoration #blind #DigitalRecording #FrequencyRestoration #gramophone #IOS #Linux #MacOS #opera #phonographs #records #software #technology #Windows
Open Source - Die Suche nach mehr digitaler Unabhängigkeit
Um in der IT weniger verwundbar zu sein, setzen Bundesregierung und Ministerien nicht mehr auf Microsoft-Software, sondern vermehrt auf den offenen Quellcode.#Software #OpenSource #offenerQuellcode #IT #Computer
Um in IT-Fragen weniger verwundbar zu sein, setzen Bundesregierung und Ministerien auf Open Source
We keep creating the wrong software. Our thinking is so embedded in a capitalist framework that we don’t even realise that we are acting within its confines. The answer to replacing MS Office is not LibreOffice. The answer is to create software that serves people, not corporations.
France mandates open source "Visio" across government by 2027, replacing Teams, Zoom, and non-EU videoconferencing tools 🖥️
MIT-licensed app runs on French infrastructure for full data sovereignty and security control 🔒
Emphasizes user freedom while challenging Big Tech 💻
🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/france-ditches-microsoft-teams-and-zoom/
#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #France #Danmark #LibreOffice #Linux #French