📣 ✍️ Nouveau billet de blog ; celui-là il couve en moi depuis des années, et j'ai mis des mois à le peaufiner. https://david.guillot.me/fr/posts/thoughts/ma-vie-presque-sans-geants-tech-et-la-tienne/
#emancipation #numerique #souverainete #greenIT #opensource #logiciel_libre #logicielLibre #floss #foss #linux #android #lineageos #nextcloud #signal #signalapp #email #thunderbird #comaps #cartes #fediverse #alternative
To compete with #Adobe Creative Suites, #Microsoft Office 365, & #Google Workspace, should we have a universal #OpenSource account for all #FOSS & #privacy -focused apps for an easy workflow?
This would allow a #GIMP user to switch smoothly among #Krita, #Inkscape, #LibreOffice #Kdenlive, #Blender, #ProtonDrive, #Joplin, & #NextCloud on #Linux.
Uninstalled #NovaLauncher from my phone because they added ads and whatnot. Not opposed to paying for a launcher but that rollout gave me bad vibes.
Would prefer a reliable #FOSS alternative. I mainly liked Nova because of the dock and I found it easy to customize. I'm definitely not a power user.
But looked in the F-Droid store and there are WAY too many launchers, lol.
What FOSS launchers have folks found useful on #Android? (I'm running #GrapheneOS)
Speaking of cool!! We have a European POWERHOUSE of open source procurement experts on stage at the EU Policy devroom! 🇧🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱🇩🇰
Procurement sounds *hella boring*, but it's the biggest bottleneck right now for government wanting to use opensource.
@margaMarga Manterola in a necessary and insightful talk at 
@fosdem 2026
Todd C. Miller has been maintaining the #sudo codebase for over 30 years. This is exactly one of those cases where an entire critical infrastructure is held together by the work of a single volunteer who apparently can’t find anyone willing to sponsor him for some financial support. #opensource #linux #foss #GNU
In recent months I've started to receive more and more PRs for my OSS projects with very detailed explanations of the code changes (including the tests). Most of them are in pretty much the same format, and of course it's quite easy to guess how they were produced... Especially knowing how very few peopled bothered to write anything close to such details in the past... :-)
Nice, there were at least 30 people who raised their hand in the #Fosdem Legal & Policy track when 
@neilNeil Brown asked who is following him, after he asked who is using #Mastodon . Great to see this change with so many more switching to the #Fediverse 😃
Thanks Neil for being pro bono lawyer for so many #FreeSoftware initiatives and for giving the talk "Online Safety" laws: reflections for #FOSS projects" at #Fosdem 👏 https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/EAVFF3-online-safety-laws-and-foss-projects/
I want Mozilla to succeed, but I have major concerns about the future of Firefox, and I moved to Vivaldi about a year ago. Read more of my thoughts on my blog!:
Logseq is a free, open-source, local-first note-taking & knowledge base built on plain Markdown and Org files.
No accounts, no cloud by default — your data stays on your device. Supports bi-directional links, graphs, daily journals, and powerful queries, with optional sync & end-to-end encryption.
👉 https://github.com/logseq/logseq
👉 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/
Stats time! 📊 Our "State of the #LibreOffice Project" for 2025 counts downloads, Git commits, Bugzilla submissions, translations Ask LibreOffice activity, and donations: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/21/state-of-the-project-2025/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
This year's #UbuCon #Asia will be a joint event with #COSCUP in #Taipei, #Taiwan! - A great chance to meet Asian #Ubuntu Community folks and also experience Taiwan's largest global #FOSS gathering at once! See you in Taipei on Aug 8-9! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-asia-2026-to-be-held-at-coscup-2026-in-taipei-taiwan/75788
⏳ Just one day until @fosdem !
The XWiki team is heading to Brussels from all across Europe. We’re excited to meet the open-source community, share ideas, and explore how XWiki supports flexible, open collaboration.
See you this weekend!
#FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource #XWiki #fosdem #oss #foss #news #community
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
올해 
@UbuConAsia 2026 은 
@COSCUP 과 함께하게 되었습니다 :) 요 몇년간 행사가 성공적이고 계속 성장해 오긴 했지만 한국에서 먼 곳에서 개최했던지라 뭔가 꼭 오시라고 하기 좀 애매했는데(?) 올해는 가까운 대만 타이베이에서 열리니 시간 나는 분들은 꼭 참석 해 보시면 좋을 것 같습니다! 두 행사를 한번에 즐길 좋은 기회네요 :) #Ubuntu #FOSS #UbuCon #UbuConAsia #COSCUP #Taipei https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubucon-asia-2026-to-be-held-at-coscup-2026-in-taipei-taiwan/75788
#DeGoogle list with best private alternatives
Ahem...*taps mic*
This here be my beige.party #Introduction
I'm a Gen X (1967) American who works in security for a living. I feel fortunate to have grown up through the 70s, 80s, and the 90s. I kinda look at that as the Yahtzee! of pop culture. What a time to be a nerd!
Music defines me. I don't have just a soundtrack to my life, I have a boxed set, including rare demos and unreleased live recordings. Wanna get to know me? Hang around for my music posts.
A song that's...me?
I am ADHD, and have Dysthymia to boot. I live an unmedicated life, and am kind of a mess as a result. I'm not anti-medication, it's just that I can't seem to stay on the wagon. If you follow me, and I don't immediately follow you back, don't take it personal. I'm trying to deal with over stimulation.
Politically...jeebus. To make it easy, I'm a Democratic Socialist. Honestly, I hate trying to define myself.
What I am (consider the following "AF"): Pro-choice, Pro trans rights, as well as a firm believer that women can do whatever the blue hell they want. I'm pro-sexwork, and pro pineapple on pizza (DO NOT COME AT ME ON THAT ONE).
I DO NOT. LIKE. NAZIS.
If you are a nazi, I do not like you. My great uncle put bushels of you in the ground in WW II. Follow Hitler's example and suck on the end of a loaded Luger.
I'm religious, and by that, I shall refer to a quote attributed to Gandhi: "I consider him religious who recognizes the suffering of others." I am a bit all over the place, and do not blindly follow any specific dogma. I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, but that's okay. Everybody else has their thing. It may not necessarily be my thing, but that's okay. Whatever your thing is, may it bring you comfort and peace of mind. Just don't be a wanker.
I am very pro Fediverse, and pro FOSS. Technology can be very cool and wondrous, if we choose to make it that way. I'm a Linux user, and have shed all but two mainstream social media platforms. I am attempting to de-google my life. I am VERY anti-AI.
Be kind. Always.
Lord, but I did ramble a one. That's ADHD for ya, folks: LOADS of bonus content!
And now, hashtags...
#Introductions #Mastodon #adhd #MentalHealth #Dysthymia #Music #FreePalestine #FuckCapitalism #FOSS #Android #GrapheneOS #FuckAI #AnarchoCooperativism #Kropotkin #KurtVonnegut #WilliamGibson #EmmaGoldman #TTRPG #StarTrek #GraphicNovels #Comics #Languages #History #Ireland #IrishHeritage #CelticLanguages #DnD2e #GURPS #Skyrim #ElderScrolls #ElderScrollsOnline #Battletech #MechWarriorOnline #CozyGaming #WilliamGibson #Linux #LinuxMint #PopOS #Ubuntu #PCGaming #Tolkien #LOTR #Film #Runequest #Talislanta #HeroSystem #ChampionsRPG #Writing #France #French #Spirituality #Religion #Agnosticism #Books #PhysicalMedia #SciFi #Fantasy
Open source alternative to Slack: Mattermost? Element? Matrix?? Zulip? Ideas??
Tomorrow is the monthly online NLnet open Office Hour. You can drop by in our Matrix room and ask questions.
You can already start adding your questions to the pad or do it during the session.
The url below also links to an overview of FAQs from previous sessions. Thanks to participants we have quite a collection of answered questions already.
Welcome to join tomorrow, Wednesday January 28, 16.00 CET.
https://nlnet.nl/events/20260128/Office-hour/index.html
#FOSS #funding #NGI #NGIzero
#Linux #Snap Users Warned as Attackers Push #Malware Through Old Trusted Apps
https://linuxiac.com/linux-snap-users-warned-as-attackers-push-malware-through-old-trusted-apps/
How should the #EU support #OpenSource companies and communities? How about the #Fediverse?
#HaveYourSay: The 
@EUCommissionEuropean Commission would like to hear your views about the #European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy:
⏰ Deadline: 3 February 2026
Context: https://social.opensource.org/@policy/115940134797418877
#FOSS #Floss #OpenSource #NGI #DigitalSovereignty #DutGemacht #DiDay #UnplugTrump
I realized I need a pinned post, so here goes #introduction! Hey everyone, my name is Henry 👋
My activities and passions include:
- #Privacy
- #Running
- #Techlore
- #FOSS
- #Coaching
- #Consulting
- Playing #music
- Just #environmentalism & Animal Rights
This is MY Mastodon, so expect some personal takes. These takes do not necessarily represent formal stances of Techlore.
Follow if you want to, and enjoy the best feed in the world. 
Jeder Klick, jedes Wort, jede Gewohnheit füttert Konzerne.
Sie steuern unsere Aufmerksamkeit, verkaufen unsere Daten, bestimmen unser Verhalten.
Wir scrollen, wir streamen, wir chatten, und glauben, wir hätten keine Wahl.
Doch Wahl ist da.
Macht ist da.
Wir müssen sie nur greifen.
Sprache ist Macht.
Gewohnheit ist Macht.
Und wir können sie zurücknehmen.
Wir nehmen sie zurück gegen Big Tech, gegen Rassismus, gegen Faschismus. 
Für Freiheit, für Autonomie, für uns alle! ✊🔥
#unplugtrump #DUTgemacht #DIDit #NoBigTech #FOSS #Antifa #bigtech
Tomorrow, I participate in my 2nd hackathon: Social.coop x Cosocial Hackathon (2nd edition). 🧑🏾💻
Excited to assist in developing the wiki; thanks for organizing this event, 
@SocialCoop !
✨ You can still RSVP below: https://luma.com/04uq2wu6?tk=jlWVQa
🖤 calling unix weirdos
I wrote a manifesto about
Gopher, techno-romance, and why small systems beat scale
(“Intimacy in the Forgotten Stack”).
Before I throw it at Hacker News, I want eyes from people who actually love MUDs, telnet, suckless, smallnet, and human-scale software.
Reply or DM if you want the private draft. 🖥️✨
#unix #gopher #foss #smallnet #netart
what real usable alternatives to #facebook do exist?
i want to move our villagers away from fb as the official channel, but i need to give them a userfriendly #foss alternative. best even hosted in #finland #Suomi by real humans.
now is the best moment to explain how we can support democracy and freedom of speech.
#ActivityPub #Mastodon #pixelfed #digitalindependenceday #lapland
FOSDEM 2026 (Brussels): Sun Feb 1, 09:35 CET, UB5.230 (my last talk)
Accessible Sovereignty: Why the Four Freedoms Depend on Inclusion (Community devroom)
Thesis: the Four Freedoms are not real if people with disabilities cannot use the tools, study them, share them, and improve them in practice. Accessibility is the operational layer that makes software freedom exercisable.
Event: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/ANGFQX-our_freedoms_depend_on_accessibility
FOSDEM 2026 (Brussels): I am speaking (again) Sat Jan 31, 16:05 CET in K.3.401.
“We Need to Support Authors Better to Deliver Accessible Content”
Track: Collaboration & Content Management 
Thesis: Many accessibility errors are introduced when documents are authored.
Audits just record the damage.
I am speaking with Maurice Hendriks at #FOSDEM:
“Procurement Is the Biggest Form of Fundraising for FLOSS”
Track: Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 
Thesis: donations are optional and fragile. Procurement is structural. If public buyers require open deliverables and upstream work, they create durable funding for maintenance and security.
Event: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3YWKPG-lets_take_public_money_public_code_seriously/ 
“Public Money, Public Code” context: https://publiccode.eu/en/ 
#FOSDEM #FOSS #OpenSource #Procurement #PublicMoneyPublicCode
Next week in Brussels, I'm speaking at Drupal4Gov EU as part of #EUOpenSourceWeek
The #WAD, the #EAA & #Drupal. Now what?
The June 2025 deadline has passed. The risk now is false confidence & operational debt.
10:35am, Jan 29, 2026
FOSDEM is the biggest free and open source software (FOSS) event in Europe, and will take place on 31 January and 1 February in Brussels, Belgium. And the #LibreOffice project and community will be there! Meet us and grab cool merchandise: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/22/meet-the-libreoffice-community-at-fosdem-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
• Wsocial
https://w-social.eu
Social media platform, an alternative to X
~ ~
Check, help, and share the link to the platform 😊
_____
#twitter #x #socialmedia #Europe #freedom #freespeech #News #technology #Mastodon #Media #opensource #foss
New on // foss.events: OggCamp by OggCamp team on 25-26 April 2026 in Manchester Conference Centre, Pendulum Hotel in #Manchester, #United Kingdom
Find out more on
https://foss.events/2026/04-25-oggcamp.html
Follow the official account: 
@oggcamp
Connect via official hashtag(s): #oggcamp #oggcamp26
Call for participation is running until 28.02.2026
Something I'd really like to see from @fosdem - a graph of which social media addresses speakers have on their profile / presentations over the years. Last year it was still quite disappointing that the number of people with Mastodon on their slides was quite low. Maybe something for the stats session at the end?
#FOSDEM #fosdem2026
@sxaStewart X Addison @fosdem yeah. Lots on Li and X I see in the #Foss conferences I visited last year.
Our next major release is just around the corner! #LibreOffice 26.2 will be released in February, with many new features and improvements, thanks to our worldwide community. Help to test it, before the final release: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/01/20/libreoffice-26-2-rc2-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
Just placed an order for a new prototype PCB (Printed Circuit Board) for makers. This one charges NiMH (Nickel-metal Hydride) rechargeable batteries with charging speed options, support for up to 6 cells, temperature sensor, and USB-C plug.
This is a step toward our first accessibility product for blind people to feel visual art through a haptic pen-like stylus interface.
https://codeberg.org/bcecoop/bce-pcb-bq25172dsgr
#blind #accessibility #a11y #pcb #prototype #fosh #foss #freehardware #freesoftware #copyleft #ee
Still using #MySQL? Stewarded by Oracle, MySQL has been in decline for years. Stop using it in 2026, especially if your care about the #opensource #FOSS methodology and not just the license.
👉 https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/reasons-to-stop-using-mysql/
I've submitted my resignation letter to Apple. My last day will be this Friday, October 31st.
I'm starting a nonprofit company to create FOSH (Free Open Source Hardware) assistive consumer electronics, focused initially on assistive consumer electronics for blind people. I plan to release many small intermediate products for the maker community.
I plan to start working full time starting November 1st at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc.
@bceBrain Computer Enterprises
#nonprofit #a11y #blind #maker #fosh #foss #bce #bcecoop #freehardware #freesoftware #apple
For everyone wanting to test out OS/1337 there's good news:
You can just clone the #git repo or pull it as #zip:
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337
and then just run ./scripts/build.sh
and within a few mins it'll spit out a bootable #1440kB image in /build/0.CORE/ to put on a 3,5" FDD or run in a VM [may it be #QEMU or #VirtualBox]...
Thanks to 
@SweetAIBelleSweetAI Belle 
for the generous contributions!
#OS1337 #Linux #Development #Embedded #EmbeddedLinux #CLI #TUI #minimalist #OS #FLOSS #OSS #FOSS
It has been a few months since the debate around Framework's sponsorship choices. I am curious where the community currently stands.
How much does Framework's financial support of controversial project maintainers (Vaxry and DHH) impact their reputation in the open/privacy space?
#Framework #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #TechEthics #Privacy #RightToRepair #Hardware #AskFedi #Fediverse #Vaxry #DHH
Open standards – like the Open Document Format used by #LibreOffice – are extremely beneficial to end users. They reduce vendor lock-in, improve compatibility between apps, and preserve your data for longer: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/16/why-open-standards-are-beneficial-to-end-users/ #foss #openSource
New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 3: Let’s install NextCloud"
And sorry for repeating myself, but the path to digital independence and empowerment is easier than you thought.
My self-hosted #NextCloud has fully replaced WeTransfer, Google Drive and Dropbox for me... and it's only the tip of the iceberg.
I hope this visual guide will help fellow newbies.
#SelfHosting #YunoHost #MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS #blog #resist
Hello 
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// ,
I wonder if moving to a less crowded code hoster might lower the maintenance burden related to AI crap ?
I am sure you are aware of 
@Codeberg for example.
At 
@backintime we also have to deal with low-quality (student) and AI-crap PRs. Moving the project to @Codeberg is one item of my todo list.
For all #foss maintainers I hope we can find a way.
A toolkit for finite state machines: DFA, NFA, Moore, Mealy. Compact binary format, visualisation, code generation, TUI editor.
https://github.com/ha1tch/fsm-toolkit/releases/tag/v0.8.0
@ Native PNG and SVG renderers — no Graphviz dependency. Sugiyama layered layout algorithm. 4× supersampling for crisp output. Graphviz support still available, this is work in progress, matching Graphviz quality reliably will take time.
@ NFA support with powerset simulation, epsilon closure, and NFA→DFA conversion.
@ TUI editor (fsmedit) with mouse drag, undo/redo, two-column file browser, persistent config.
@ Code generation for C, Rust, and Go/TinyGo. Interactive runner with state history.
@ Formal specification documenting semantic guarantees.
Binaries: Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
https://github.com/ha1tch/fsm-toolkit/releases/tag/v0.8.0
#fsm #golang #foss #automata #compsci #tui #rustlang #rust #programming #electronics #embedded #embeddeddevelopment
Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore.
Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party wallet app).
Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with strangers on the Internet, I have decided to take a closer look at these .pkpass files.
They are just zip files that contain a background image, an icon and a pass.json with the actual information about the ticket. Nothing that can’t be handled by a script rather than a 3rd-party 100 MB mobile app.
I have thus put together a simple #shell script that does exactly that.
Dependencies:
jqzintmagickunzipcurl or wgethttps://gist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pkpass2png
Usage:
pkpass2png https://domain.tld/myticket.pkpass ticket.png
@fabioFabio Manganiello
Funny I was just looking at #FossWallet just before seeing this post. Didn't try it, but nice to see there are #FOSS solutions
