We're happy to share that 44 Free and Open Source projects will receive financial & practical support for their contributions to the digital commons. We want to thank them for their efforts to create a shared digital infrastructure for us all.

This is the outcome of the 8th call of the NGI0 Commons Fund, bringing the total to 314 projects selected. The fund is made possible with financial support of @EC_NGINext Generation Internet

Learn about the projects at: https://nlnet.nl/news/2026/20260302-announce-commons-fund.html

#FOSS #NGI #NGI0 #opensource

I've been increasingly concerned about the corporate monopoly over frontier LLMs. While many ethically-minded people choose to boycott these models, I believe passive resistance alone cannot break the structural grip of big tech. To truly “liberate” these technologies and turn them into public goods, we need to look beyond moral high grounds and engage with the material basis of AI—specifically compute, data, and the relations of production.

I've written two posts exploring this through the lens of historical materialism. The first piece analyzes why current “open source” definitions struggle with LLMs, and the second discusses what it means to “act materialistically” in our imperfect world. My goal is to suggest a path forward that moves from mere boycotting to a more proactive, structural socialization of AI infrastructure.

If you've been feeling uneasy about the AI landscape but aren't sure if boycotting is the final answer, I'd love for you to give these a read:

• Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
• Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations

#LLM #AI #opensource #historicalmaterialism #histomat #materialism #digitalcommons

In our latest blog post, we explain our motivation for engaging in standards, reflect on conversations with maintainers, and outline the reasoning behind our current survey. The survey is still open and we encourage you to contribute your perspective.

➡️ Read our blog post: https://www.sovereign.tech/news/open-standards

➡️ Participate in the survey (runs until March, 9th): https://survey.sovereigntechfund.de/999999

#OpenStandards #OpenSource #TechStandards #Interoperability #FOSS

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I also want to note that tech companies are trying to use us as a meat shield. They're throwing AI into everything under the guise of "accessibility". Meta tried to roll out its smart glasses facial recognition feature to blind people first, to disguise the fact it was mass surveillance. There are so many examples.

Give us somewhere else to go. It's more important than ever right now. Accessible open source software is a tool of freedom and resistance.

#oss #opensource

As an enthusiast for open source software who is also disabled, I get frustrated at how inaccessible a lot of open source software is. When there are accessibility options, they're usually bolted-on additions that don't work very well. Disabled users are forced into ad-hoc compromises that are laborious to install and labyrinthine to operate. The frustration often drives us back to corporate software. OSS is high friction and low benefit for many disabled users.

Open source developers would gain a lot from integrating accessible design into their products from the ground up (like TTS! My kingdom for fully integrated neural TTS on my browser and operating system). Accessibility features don't just help disabled people. More than half of all people using a phone use accessibility features. Do you really want to exclude half your users?

Accessibility also requires you to think about things like simplicity of design and ease of access for all your users. It can provide redundancy for errors (for example: alt text can be helpful when an image doesn't load, captions can provide a backup if their audio drops out, alternate input methods can allow people to continue using an app if they have keyboard or mouse issues). It can improve design (example: clearer instructions, easier to read text, simple consistent navigation). In short: it makes your software better.

Making the world more accessible for one group improves access for all: this is a basic principle of universal design. Stop excluding us and start making us the core of what you do — you will be a better developer for it.

#opensource #disability #universaldesign #softwaredevelopment

Das Kanzleramt drängt die Länder, Cloud-Verträge mit Microsoft / Delos abzuschließen, trotz Datenschutz- und Sicherheitsbedenken.

So wird das nichts mit der digitalen Souveränität!

Die @OSBAOpen Source Business Alliance hat einen Brief an die CIOs der Länder geschrieben.

#opensource #Nextcloud

https://osb-alliance.de/featured/sondersitzung-des-it-planungsrates-keine-ueberhasteten-vertraege-fuer-die-delos-cloud-beschliessen

#Introduction #FediHire

Hi everyone! 👋 Despite being a longtime Fediverse lurker (Mastodon.uno + a self-hosted blog), this is the first time I join a generalist English-speaking instance. After earning my PhD in #GlobalStudies (UBC) and working in journalism, I’m now exploring tech/policy roles, especially in #digitalrights, #opensource, and #IT. Moving back to #Europe and keen to collaborate!

When I am off-duty, I’m a #Linux die-hard and a sucker for Turkish/Anatolian psychedelic rock 🙂

Episode 6 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/news/dbw-e6.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueraven #darkblueproject #opensource #freesoftware #linux #bunsenlabs #porteux #linuxcontainers #hyprland

🚀 COSCUP 2026 Call for Participation is now open!

🎤 Community Tracks – Run a open-source agenda with talks, panels, or workshops. Apply by Mar 23. Spots are limited.

🛠 Community Booths – Showcase your project, recruit members, and connect. Apply by Jun 9. First come, first served.

👉 Apply here: https://s.coscup.org/26communityen

#COSCUP2026 #OpenSource #Community

Im Landkreis Harz arbeiten Schüler:innen auf gebrauchten Business-Laptops mit #Linux-OS.

"Ich unterrichte keine Marke, sondern ich unterrichte Kompetenzen. Textverarbeitung, Textstrukturierung oder Tabellenkalkulation können mit #LibreOffice genauso vermittelt werden wie mit #Microsoft Office." - Lehrerin Johanna Müller

Genau so geht #digitaleSouveranität und selbstbestimmte Techniknutzung! Keine überteuren Lizenzen, keine Schaffung von (Pfad)abhängigkeiten bereits im Kindesalter, keine Produktwerbung, für die auch noch gezahlt wird. Stattdessen nebenbei kritisches Denken fördern, während vordergründig Bürosoftware gelernt wird.

Quelle: https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/magdeburg/harz/sachsen-anhalt-digitale-souveraenitaet-technologie-usa-100.html

#digitalsovereignty #digitale_souveranitat #opensource #FOSS #FLOSS #datenschutz #dataprotection

Back in 2022, surrounded by colleagues who were infused with "open source scepticism", I wrote "Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/opensource_enterprise_notes.html as an explainer.

Hopefully a useful thing for others too, with links therein #freesofware #opensource #enterprise #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #linux

Want multi-guest live streams on PeerTube? Check out this Shig demo showing guest invites, ActivityPub sync, and the behind-the-scenes magic — a great how-to for federated streaming builders and fans! #PeerTube #Shig #ActivityPub #LiveStreaming #HowTo #OpenSource #WebRTC #English
https://video.shig.de/videos/watch/92e222aa-44a4-41ec-b7db-03e7af395290

Celebrate Software Freedom Day! Watch this inspiring conference, recorded across 42 Network campuses — talks on ditching tech giants and reclaiming control with free & open source tools. Ideal for devs, educators, and activists. Dive in and share! #SoftwareFreedomDay #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #TechFreedom #42Network #Education #PeerTube #English
https://videos.lacontrevoie.fr/videos/watch/374a3d26-7fd7-465f-bf28-f9ebb4e47be1

@tinkerTinker ☀️ Funnily, #publicadministration in Spain keeps using it. Even more, some of them are abandoning #OpenSource web tools and going for #adobe . I've been working for tech companies for 30 years and I keep finding these decissions on our Public Admin.:
- Unreasonable
- Dangerous
- anti-European
- Expensive and with no future

Deprecate confusing APIs like “os.path.commonprefix()”. After fixing a vulnerability in #pip, I started digging into the confusing API and found more than I expected.

👉 https://sethmlarson.dev/deprecate-confusing-apis-like-os-path-commonprefix

#python #oss #opensource #security

@tisbaSebastian Cohnen My (naive) reading is that they want to ensure copyright protection for LLM outputs, even though LLM outputs are uncopyrightable (by attributing it to a human).

Sounds kinda fraudulent.

#AI #opensource

Gibt es noch andere Tools oder Ecken im Fediverse, die ihr gerne nutzt? ✨✍️

Ich freue mich riesig über eure Tipps und Erfahrungen in den Kommentaren! 💬👇
#Empfehlungen #WebStack #FediLove #OpenSource

📡 Erfolg für die digitale Freiheit: Funkrichtlinie entschärft!
Gute Nachrichten für die Elektronikbranche, Open-Source-Fans und Funkamateure in Europa! Die umstrittenen Verschärfungen der EU-Funkrichtlinie (RED) sind vom Tisch. 🥳

Was war das Problem?
Die geplanten Artikel 3.3i und 4 hätten dazu führen können, dass auf Funkgeräten nur noch herstellerzertifizierte Software laufen darf. Das hätte nicht nur die Innovationsfreiheit massiv eingeschränkt, sondern auch alternative Software-Projekte (Open Source) blockiert.

Das Ergebnis:
Keine Aktivierung: Die Europäische Kommission hat die Initiative offiziell als verworfen markiert.

Sieg der Vernunft: Eine Folgenabschätzung ergab erhebliche wirtschaftliche Nachteile ohne echten Sicherheitsgewinn.

Wettbewerb gesichert: Freie Software und Hardware-Innovationen bleiben in der EU weiterhin möglich.

Die Piratenpartei hat sich intensiv gegen diese Einschränkungen eingesetzt und über den Erfolg berichtet. Den vollen Hintergrund und die detaillierte Analyse findet ihr hier:
👉 https://piratenpartei.de/2026/01/31/piraten-wirken-funkrichtlinie-erfolgreich-entschaerft/

Hinweis: Dieser Beitrag dient der Information über aktuelle politische Entwicklungen im Bereich der Gesetzgebung. Er stellt keine Wahlempfehlung oder Unterstützung für eine Partei dar.

#Europapolitik #Funkrichtlinie #OpenSource #DigitaleFreiheit #Technik #AmateurFunk #Innovation

@davx5appDAVx⁵ 🔄 I didn't know that. Another very useful #opensource tool—made in #Europe, just like Linux, #Mastodon,HTTP,HTML,VLC,LibreOffice...

Europe has produced so much good, free software. The tech giants from the US are building their entire empire on it and now want to disempower us and force us into a dangerous dependency.

Thanks to #DAVx5, I can sync my data without #BigTech.

Interesting article about free software from Europe and the role the US plays in it: https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

Maybe its just anecdotal but it seems that in previous eras attempts at #opensource mobile, #linuxmobile etc were targeting low end devices, whereas now they seem to be targeting the latest "mainstream".

The most extreme low end effort was maybe the #firefoxos ZTE devices, cute little plasticky things.

The difference can be quite material (> 500 versus < 200 in some monetary units).

No idea what best strategy to reach mass adoption but maybe chasing the giant phone selfie crowd is not it? 🤣

🫣 Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

｢ POC is fully conscious according to any test I can think of, we have full AGI, and now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library and still needs a lot of attention and mentoring but is increasingly running circles around me at coding ｣

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/

#vibecoding #aiagent #chatbotpsychosis #opensource

We’ve published a new blog post outlining how we’re preparing for the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and what it means for the FreeBSD ecosystem.

The CRA introduces new compliance expectations for products containing digital elements, including open source components.

Read the full post here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/getting-ready-for-the-cyber-resilience-act/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Security #Compliance #SBOM

#Tails 7.5 #Anonymous #Linux OS Released with Updated #Tor Client and Tor Browser https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-5-anonymous-linux-os-released-with-updated-tor-client-and-tor-browser

#OpenSource

A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue and he couldn't move or speak much. So I put together a web app with a set of phrases, connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from the list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.

So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.
It only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline.
It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works with screen readers).

Any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!

Link: https://turisc.github.io/voxease/

#openSource

CoreCollective is a new outfit that is dedicated to support work surrounding Arm.

https://itsfoss.com/news/corecollective-launch/

#opensource #arm #linaro

#LibreOffice 26.2.1 is here – the first minor update to our newest stable branch: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/26/tdf-releases-libreoffice-2621/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

New to FreeBSD and not sure where to start? You’re not alone.

In this second video of the series, I'm walking through the FreeBSD Foundation's Getting Started page.

On this page, you’ll find:
— The official FreeBSD Handbook
— Installation guides for desktops and virtual machines
— Step-by-step written walkthroughs for common setup options
— Links to community spaces: forums, Discord, Reddit, and LinkedIn

https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/getting-started-with-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #DeveloperCommunity #FreeBSDProject

ONLYOFFICE's new release. 👇

https://itsfoss.com/news/onlyoffice-docs-9-3-release/

#opensource #onlyoffice

Congrats @BibliothecarisUniversityofGroningenLibrary 👏

So great to see real #digital #sovereignty at 🇪🇺 Universities

Thanks @babetteknauer for your work 🙏

Let us grow real #openscience #communication based on #opensource like #peertube ✨

The next step of to explore how to embed @peertube videos into the university's CMS sounds even more promissing 🥰

Just ONE more day to vote for Wagtail in the CMS Critic Awards! Time to get your votes in late birds!

Vote here: https://cmscritic.com/vote

#Wagtail #Django #Python #CMS #OpenSource

Ah ! J'en sors pas, et puis ces flèches à redessiner à chaque fois.

Pas content de vos outils pour construire des graphes relationnels.
Essayez : https://graphviz.org/
Tout se fait avec votre interface en ligne de commande.
À partir d'un fichier texte, écrit dans un "langage" simple (Dot ou Neato et d'autres) vous créez un graphique au rendu optimisé. Les formats de sortie sont multiples.
Tout est paramétrable (flèches, formes, couleur, etc.)

#logicielslibres #logique #langage #opensource

React has a new home with the Linux Foundation.

https://itsfoss.com/news/react-foundation-launch/

#opensource #react #linuxfoundation

How open data might help us avoid the emerging finger-pointing shit-show (among other things) #opendata #opensource #OpenSourceAI

https://sunnydeveloper.com/we-need-open-data-in-the-open-source-ai-defini/

That the #opensource AI definition allowing private data is already a huge challange and eroding trust that attribution, and licensing enabled.

Just this morning I've seen two examples of accusations of stolen language and visuals - everyone feels helpless to create accountability. How did an ecosystem built on licensing and attribution slide so far, so fast.

Did I create the ultimate tool to watch anime with friends?

xtream is a website where you can "upload" any video and watch among other people, without loss of quality.

Files are actually transferred privately via a P2P connection, without going through my server.

Each user can choose their preferred audio and subtitle language. Without installing programs or extensions.

🧵

#P2P #FOSS #Rust #OpenSource #WebRTC

The Rust Foundation would love to see you on the ground at Talent Arena in Barcelona! Check the agenda and join us: https://talentarena.tech

There are so many exciting things happening in #rustlang right now—this is a fantastic opportunity to see that on a big stage.

#MWC26 #TalentArena26 #rustlang #OpenSource #AI #SafetyCritical

#LibreQoS Executive Dashboard:

https://devblog.libreqos.com/posts/0011-executive-dashboard/

We decided to display the global network-wide statistics as a simple heatmap.

Utilization, #QoO - Quality of Outcome, round-trip time, and retransmits follow a similar pattern.

A huge thank you to @nlnetfdnNLnet Foundation @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz @nlnet for sponsoring this development.

h/t @herberticusHerbert "Bracket" Wolverson

#QoE #bufferbloat #latency #broadband #QoS #jitter #ISP #WISP #FISP #QualityOfExperience #QualityOfService #FLOSS #QualityOfOutcome #FTTX #FTTH #FWA #OpenSource

This is sad 😢

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847

UPDATE (2026-03-02): This toot has gotten a lot more attention than what I would ever anticipate. Some clarifications are needed. A follow up is here: https://infosec.exchange/@dazo/116158898983233133

#firefox #privacy #mozilla #foss #opensource #web

Have you voted yet? Don't be a late bird! Vote today!

Vote here: https://cmscritic.com/vote

#Wagtail #Django #Python #CMS #OpenSource

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. EST (UTC-5), just 6 days from now, we will hold the Podman Cabal meeting. At the moment, the agenda is wide open for your topics! Please add one, and hope to see you there! https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both #podman #OpenSource

Today at 16.00 CET we have another NLnet Open Office hour. If you have any questions, you can drop by in our Matrix room and ask them.
You can already enter your questions to the Etherpad and we'll answer them this afternoon.
The questions that are asked are collected in a FAQ so the answers are available to others as well.
Links to the Matrix room, Etherpad and FAQs can be found at:

https://nlnet.nl/officehour/

#FOSS #opensource #NGI #NGI0 #fundingfoss

Der Digitale Exitus: Warum Europa jetzt die Ketten sprengen muss

Ein Manifest für die Souveränität

Wir stehen am Abgrund einer technologischen Leibeigenschaft. Während wir uns einbilden, in einer freien Demokratie zu leben, haben wir die Schlüssel zu unserem Haus, unseren Gedanken und unserer Wirtschaft längst an eine Handvoll Milliardäre im Silicon Valley übergeben. Wir sind keine Nutzer mehr. Wir sind Datensätze. Wir sind digitale Leibeigene in einem feudalen System, das keine Grenzen kennt und keine Moral. Es ist Zeit, die rosarote Brille abzusetzen. Es ist Zeit, das Betriebssystem unserer Gesellschaft neu zu installieren. [Mehr lesen...]

https://www.christin-loehner.de/blog/der-digitale-exitus-warum-europa-jetzt-die-ketten-sprengen-muss

#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #Privacy #Datenschutz #BigTech #FuckBigTech #DeGoogle #BoycottAmazon #BoycottGoogle #BoycottMicrosoft #Europa #Europe #LocalFirst #KaufLokal #Widerstand #DigitalResistance #FairTech #RightToRepair #Signal #Mastodon #Nextcloud #Firefox #BraveBrowser #Sustainability #SelfHosted #TechFreedom #Cybersecurity

Malware beware? Australia's Azul is now available for everyone to use.

https://itsfoss.com/news/azul-malware-analysis-repository/

#opensource #cybersecurity

Ich höre und lese immer wieder „#Copyleft-Lizenzen wie die #GPL sind inkompatibel zu anderen #FOSS-Lizenzen und spalten damit das FOSS-Ökosystem”.

Leider hält sich dieser Mythos noch immer. Aber das Gegenteil ist eigentlich der Fall: Copyleft-Lizenzen garantieren die dauerhafte Beibehaltung von Freiheitsrechten und verhindern proprietäre Forks von #OpenSource-Software.

Wenn euch Kompatibilität mit anderen Lizenzen wichtig ist, dann nutzt die #MPL oder die #EUPL:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/introduction-eupl-licence

TIL: https://web.archive.org/web/20241214105427/https://techautonomy.org/

Must-read für jede:n die/der in der Tech-Branche arbeitet.

#DigitalAutonomy #surveillancecapitalism #pricacy #foss #opensource

👋 Hello fediverse! We're glad to be here. #introduction #newhere

Holochain is an #opensource framework for building distributed peer-to-peer apps. We are excited to join this vibrant community and connect with all of you who are passionate about #decentralized #peertopeer #opensource tech on the Fediverse.

Let us say a little more about who is behind this account 🧵

AI companies have scraped your content for years. Free. Without asking permission.

HTTP 402 says: not anymore.

Live demo: https://pay-per-crawl-demo.license-proxy.workers.dev
Repo: https://github.com/Josusanz/pay-per-crawl-worker

#HTTP402 #OpenSource #Cloudflare #WebDev #AI

Is #RANCID still alive in production environments?

We’re considering integration with #NetXMS and trying to estimate real-world usage.

#networking #netops #opensource #NMS

Do you use it?

NEW VIDEO - Why Rust Is Causing Tension in the Linux Kernel.

#FreeBSD #Linux #Rust #opensource #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/-XLuGB0wZ1M?si=R3JBRFIYxUgunsMR via @YouTube