gyptazy.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
How does the FreeBSD Foundation Board fit into the broader FreeBSD ecosystem?
Following our annual meeting and Board elections at BSDCan, we’re taking a closer look at the role of the FreeBSD Foundation Board and how it differs from that of Foundation staff and FreeBSD Project leadership.
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/34234
and here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/34235
GitHub Continuous Integration checks are queued and running, hopefully they will go OK?
If so, it's still up to someone else with commit access to merge them!
#libtorrent #rtorrent #MacPorts #OpenSource #torrents #BitTorrents #TUI #ncurses
My latest blog post: Oops! All Servos! is Available
https://mikecoats.com/oops-all-servos-available/
My Oops! All Servos! expansion boards for XIAO / QT Py microcontrollers, with servo headers and level shifters, are now available for purchase. Development sponsored by JLCPCB.
#ad #electronics #hardware #openHardware #openSource #sponsored
Today marks Linux’s 35th birthday! 🎉🎂
35 years of milestones that took a hobby project from one developer’s announcement to the foundation of much of modern computing
Here is a look at the milestones that shaped its remarkable journey 😎👇
Find high-res pdf ebooks with all my Linux related infographics at https://study-notes.org
⚡ New BitFlip episode — brew something hot and press play.
📻 Ep. 13 — Episode 13: Amp Modelers Are Dead, Long Live Amp Modelers
Framework's refreshed Laptop 12 hits $699 with Intel Core Series 3, we get real about the WFH mental health grind, and how free amp modelers are making expensive hardware modelers obsolete.
#bitflipshow #Framework #Framework12 #LinuxDesktop #Linux #WorkFromHome #RemoteWork #NeuralAmpModeler #Guitar #OpenSource #Thinkpad
Are you using LLMs to write Free Software?
Then you should know whether your software is copyrightable, the situations in which you can license it, and what risks it may create for maintainers.
Our new Legal Corner explains what you need to consider:
https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.en.html
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Copyright #LLM #AI #generativeAI #VibeCoding
dropQbsd has been moved from GitHub – where a copy will remain – to Sourcehut, its natural home.
I’d like to thank Drew DeVault for welcoming my project onto his platform.
For free spirits, dropQbsd — compartmentalization without virtualization, based on BSD — can be found here: https://git.sr.ht/~nobraininside/dropQbsd
#OpenBSD #freebsd #netbsd #openSource #privacy #sourcehut #digitalsovereignty
📢 Fediverse-Sprechstunde: Was sind eigentlich „Issues“ – und warum gehen sie uns alle etwas an?
Ihr nutzt Friendica, Mastodon, Hubzilla, Sharkey oder eine andere Fediverse-Software und plötzlich funktioniert etwas nicht so, wie ihr es erwartet? 🤔
Oder ihr denkt euch bei einer Funktion:
„Das könnte man doch besser machen!“
Vielleicht habt ihr auch eine Idee, die ihr gern den Entwicklerinnen und Entwicklern mitteilen würdet.
Dann fällt früher oder später ein Begriff: „Mach doch ein Issue auf.“
Aber was bedeutet das eigentlich?
Was gehört in ein gutes Issue hinein? Wo erstelle ich es? Welche Informationen brauchen Entwickler, um einen Fehler nachvollziehen zu können? Und muss ich dafür überhaupt technische Kenntnisse haben?
Genau darum geht es bei unserer nächsten Fediverse-Sprechstunde:
📅 Montag, 31. August 2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr
💻 Online
Für dieses Thema konnten wir Jens (@qbi ) gewinnen. Einige von euch kennen ihn vielleicht bereits aus unserer Fediverse-Sprechstunde zum Thema BookWyrm.
Jens ist Administrator und Entwickler und kennt Issues nicht nur aus der Theorie, sondern aus der täglichen Praxis. Gemeinsam wollen wir uns anschauen, wie aus einem beobachteten Problem, einer Idee oder einem Verbesserungsvorschlag ein Issue wird, mit dem Entwickler auch wirklich etwas anfangen können.
Dabei geht es ausdrücklich nicht nur um Entwickler oder Administratoren!
Denn freie und offene Software lebt auch davon, dass diejenigen, die sie täglich benutzen, Rückmeldungen geben. Niemand kann jeden Fehler selbst entdecken und niemand kennt alle Wünsche und Probleme der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer.
Ein gut beschriebenes Issue kann deshalb ein kleiner, aber sehr wertvoller Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung einer Software sein. 🌱
Und vielleicht nehmen wir dabei auch ein wenig die Scheu vor Plattformen wie GitHub oder Codeberg. 😉
Ihr müsst dafür keine Programmierer sein und keinen Quellcode verstehen. Neugier und Fragen reichen völlig aus.
💬 Was ist überhaupt ein Issue?
🐞 Wie melde ich einen Fehler sinnvoll?
💡 Kann ich auch Ideen und Verbesserungsvorschläge einreichen?
📝 Welche Angaben gehören hinein?
🔍 Sollte ich vorher prüfen, ob es bereits ein ähnliches Issue gibt?
🤝 Wie erleichtere ich Entwicklern die Arbeit?
Und natürlich bleibt wie immer Raum für eure Fragen und den gemeinsamen Austausch.
Die Fediverse-Sprechstunde soll kein Frontalunterricht sein. Sie ist ein Treffpunkt zum Fragen, Erklären, Ausprobieren und voneinander Lernen – für Einsteiger ebenso wie für erfahrene Nutzer, Administratoren und Entwickler.
🌐 Mehr Miteinander statt Gegeneinander.
Gerade im Fediverse gehören Nutzer, Administratoren und Entwickler zusammen. Wenn wir besser verstehen, wie die jeweils anderen arbeiten und wie wir uns gegenseitig unterstützen können, profitiert am Ende das gesamte Fediverse davon.
👉 Montag, 31.08.2026 um 19:30 Uhr
💻 Konferenzraum:
campus.ws-12.de/rooms/8p9-mvy-…campus.ws-12.de/rooms/8p9-mvy-…
📢 Weitersagen und Teilen ausdrücklich erwünscht!
Vielleicht kennt ihr jemanden, der schon einmal einen Fehler entdeckt hat, eine gute Idee hatte – aber nicht wusste, wie und wo man sie den Entwicklern am besten mitteilt. Bringt ihn oder sie einfach mit. 😊
#Fediverse #FediverseSprechstunde #OpenSource #Issues #GitHub #Codeberg #Friendica #Mastodon #Hubzilla #BookWyrm #sharkey
"Decolonize.Digital is an online resource that is a living, growing, and evolving website bringing together different connected projects that I've been working on. Parts of the site are available to all subscribers, but parts of it require a paid subscription. I made this decision because I've put hours, weeks, and months into this tool, in addition to my decades of work and learning that even makes creating it possible. I regard this work as I would a book, workshop, or any other labor that I do that is part of my life's work.
For free subscribers to my platform liberationtoolbox.io, all of these posts, articles, videos, and various mediums have been made available across my many platforms over the many years for free. And they are still accessible to all through those different platforms.
There are people who have the gall to be upset that I am actually compensated for my labor. If this is you, you should not be here. I do not recommend that you subscribe to the free or paid options of this Liberation Toolbox if you are one of these people.
Currently, on this site, Decolonize.Digital, I have put up the De-Google Your Life (Decentering Big Tech) series, Buildsheet: Community Building series, and the Opt-Out series. I will continue adding tools to each of these series over time. I have some exciting series and tools coming up.
Why now? Why this? When wielded by oppressors, everything, including technology, becomes murderous and rapacious, it becomes digital colonization.
There are better ways for technology. Finding these other liberatory ways, this is my life's work, to Decolonize Digital."
https://decolonize.digital
https://liberationtoolbox.io
#DecolonizeDigital #DIT #DUT #DUTgemacht #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #FOSS
To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news
The @starlabssystems
StarFighter might be the closest we have come to the ultimate Linux-first laptop.
In this review, I dive into the hardware, open-source coreboot BIOS, daily usability, fan noise, and internals. While it gets almost everything right, soldered RAM and average battery life hold it back from a flawless score.
Watch on PeerTube: https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/wAVfyZ6TDdQCokpXUDXSCo
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/njoC-hwCC6E
#Linux #OpenSource #StarLabs #StarFighter #coreboot #Hardware #Tech
Same model. Same skill. Same task.
Completely different results.
I tested Keep the Why across 6 coding agents and 9 models.
The agent harness mattered far more than I expected.
Gemini: 10/10 in one agent, 0/10 in others.
Grok stayed consistently strong.
Some runs even fabricated compliance.
Don't benchmark only the model.
Benchmark the system you actually use.
Full matrix + lessons:
https://blog.technopathy.club/same-skill-six-agents-nine-models-what-a-real-eval-matrix-taught-me
The GUI didn't make computing easier. It made you a passenger.
Type cd .. and you're navigating — you know where you are, where you're going. Click the arrow in your filemanager and you're following a path someone else designed. The first is writing. The second is a reflex.
Same logic from the Airbus that overrode its pilot to the spellchecker that corrects you without asking: the machine's judgment overrides yours, silently, automatically.
Not a feature. A philosophical manifesto.
And when writing came back — through the AI — it returned as supplication, not sovereignty. The closed-source GUI and the undisclosed LLM are the same thing.
Newsletter: https://newsletter.nicolabaudo.fr/open-the-hood-why-your-gui-is-lying-to-you/
Full version on the blog — mimesis in Plato, induced illiteracy as a business strategy, the pincer of clicking and requesting, and what it means to open the hood: https://blog.nicolabaudo.fr/the-icon-and-the-command-line-image-truth/
#ai #BSD #openSource #unix #cli #gui #privacy #sovereignty #digitalFreedom
Jeremy from #TheBitcoinCashPodcast has launched a project to vote about 1 minute blocks on #BitcoinCash. Currently you can join only with your #X account.
If you consider yourself part of #BCH community, please consider voting on the project.
I personally haven't got expertise in development of the network and stuff. But as a user, it always annoys me when I want to buy something with BCH and then I'll have to wait 30-120 minutes for me transaction to get confirmed. Sure, BCH has got 0-conf. But no one outside BCH takes it seriously even when you give them a feedback. And we cannot make a change while we are a minority.
Many things in the world of technology don't make technical sense. But that's how things are. And when we are a minority, we cannot define the rules. We have to go with the rules till we get big enough. Then we'll be able to rule how we want. Like technically sound.
The website is here:
#opensource #crypto #cryptocurrency #BTC #p2pmoney #p2p #decentralized #decentralizedmoney
The Arch Linux-based Omarchy has secured $8 million in backing through the new Omacom Foundation, which has become Hyprland’s exclusive sponsor.
https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-linux-distro-lands-a-massive-8m-boost/
Hister v0.18.0 is out!
- New search suggestion UI with history completions, fields, facets, and sorting
- Import PDF, DOCX, Markdown, Org mode, and text files
- New Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, and Discourse extractors
- Responsive terminal result details
- Persistent sessions and safer MCP results
Zwei Konzerne entscheiden, welche App auf meinem Telefon läuft. Alternatives Android? Verweigert manche App den Dienst, obwohl deren Hardware-Attestierung strenger prüft als Googles Play Integrity. Begründung trotzdem: Datenschutz. Ein Monopol im Sicherheitskostüm.
#datenschutz #opensource #android #digitalerechte #schicksalsjahreeineskaisers
💾 OpenZFS 2.4.4 a fost lansat: Suport pentru Kernel-ul Linux 7.2 și un nou utilitar de recuperare MMP!
A fost lansată versiunea de mentenanță OpenZFS 2.4.4, oferind compatibilitate cu cele mai recente kernel-uri Linux, precum și unelte noi menite să ajute administratorii de sistem la recuperarea stocărilor afectate de erori complexe de rețea sau de blocare.
✨ Noutățile principale din OpenZFS 2.4.4:
🐧 Suport extins pentru Kernel-ul Linux 7.2:
• Adaugă compatibilitate completă cu seriile recente de kernel Linux 7.2 și 7.1, permițând utilizatorilor de distribuții rolling-release sau Enterprise să actualizeze sistemele fără riscul de a pierde accesul la pool-urile de date ZFS.
🛠️ Utilitar nou pentru recuperare MMP (zpool mmp):
• Introduce o unealtă dedicată pentru gestionarea caracteristicii MMP (Multi-Host Protection). În cazurile în care un pool este blocat greșit din cauza unor întreruperi de rețea sau probleme la nivel de cluster, noul instrument le oferă administratorilor posibilitatea de a verifica starea de blocare și de a forța recuperarea în siguranță a datelor.
⚡ Optimizări de performanță și stocare:
• Îmbunătățiri la nivelul gestionării memoriei cache ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache) pe sisteme cu memorie masivă.
• Corecții pentru prevenirea degradării performanței la operațiunile de scriere/citire intensive în medii virtualizate (KVM, Proxmox VE).
🐛 Măsuri suplimentare de siguranță și bug-fixes:
• Rezolvă câteva cazuri particulare de închideri neașteptate (kernel panics) apărute la montarea/demontarea volumelor criptate și îmbunătățește stabilitatea modulului ZFS pe sistemele FreeBSD.
O actualizare esențială de infrastructură pentru serverele și sistemele de stocare NAS ce se bazează pe fiabilitatea sistemului de fișiere OpenZFS! 🚀
#OpenZFS #ZFS #Linux #SysAdmin #Kernel #Proxmox #Storage #Linuxiac #TechNews #OpenSource
Nouvel item dans mon portfolio sur mon indépendance numérique :
https://portfolio.torrent.swiss/portfolio-items/mon-independance-numerique/
#Linux #Linuxmint #almalinux #opensource #gafam #jolla2 #sailfish #newpipe #pivpn
#Luanti 5.17.0 is here! This time, we have added the start of gamepad support, the ability to export user data on Android, and improved modding capabilities.
🚨 Includes a critical security vulnerability fix, so make sure to update 🚨
While it is great that Roblox is Open Sourcing its safety tools, they seem to have missed the fact that the problem is with their corporate posture and follow-through, not with the tools.
#opensource #safety
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/roblox-makes-three-of-its-ai-safety-tools-open-source
"Get a first look at the #QuadRF, a modular 4x4 MIMO beamforming tile built with an open antenna architecture that moves software-defined radio into the spatial domain. Functioning as a real-time RF camera, the QuadRF allows you to visualize the #wireless world around you."
#OpenSource #wifi #SDR #gnuradio
https://youtu.be/38GKlCrGTQM
I like that TuxedoOS has decided to shift towards supporting a community based distro, such as Debian.
So with TuxedoOS migrating to Debian, I wonder if Linux Mint will start to prioritize development of LMDE over standard Ubuntu based LM.
🧪 Beta and open source. HydraSDR owners: please break it and tell us how 🙏
📦 github.com/PentHertz/gr-hydrasdr
🚀 rfswift.io
Im Februar 2016 kaperten Hacker die Website von #Linux Mint und tauschten die offiziellen ISO-Downloads gegen eine präparierte Version mit einer eingebauten Hintertür aus, wodurch Nutzer unbemerkt Schadsoftware auf ihren Systemen installierten.
das war mein persönlicher moment, wo ich jegliches vertrauen in die #FOSS community verloren habe.
wann habt ihr euren glauben an #FOSS und #OPENSOURCE verloren?
Von Ubuntu zu Debian: Ein neuer Upstream für TUXEDO OS
👉 https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2026-3646-von_ubuntu_zu_debian_ein_neuer_upstream_fur_tuxedo_os
Was passiert, wenn ein Linux-Hardwarehersteller seine eigene Distribution von Ubuntu LTS auf Debian Testing umzieht?
Unser Kollege Max gibt in seinem Talk einen technischen Blick hinter die Kulissen der aktuellen Entwicklung von TUXEDO OS. Mit der Open Beta auf Basis von Debian Testing wird der Wechsel von Ubuntu LTS zu einer neuen technischen Grundlage erstmals öffentlich testbar.
#Linux
7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-7-2-bringt-umfangreiche-Treiberupdates-11419043.html #Linux72 #OpenSource
I need to go out and stare at moss in the forest before getting back to your message
#ArcaneChat #privacy #security #encryption #anonymity #family #digitalindependence #Europe #European #android #openSource
Gestire i dischi su Linux significa molto più che lanciare un semplice df.
Partizioni, filesystem, stato di salute degli SSD, prestazioni I/O, spazio occupato, dispositivi montati e diagnostica avanzata: ecco una raccolta dei comandi più utili che ogni utente GNU/Linux dovrebbe conoscere. 😎👇
Altre infografiche e risorse dedicate a Linux le trovi su @linux@diggita.com
#Linux #GNULinux #OpenSource #SoftwareLibero #SysAdmin #unolinux
RE: https://chaos.social/@cccpresser/117132501236214891
Everyone get involved in this if you are at #OSHOP it will be great fun. #FreeCAD #KiCad ... love that the base of my #opensource #pcb clamp (as seen on @oshwassociation show and tell) is the example FreeCAD challenge item!
The Steam Deck's touchscreen LCD works with a Raspberry Pi thanks to a HAT from Scandent. They have open sourced their design and code.😎 🚀
Soomi — The sovereign #Canadian office suite.
https://soomi.ca/en/
#DataSovereignty #canada #opensource #privacy #boycottusa #boycottmicrosoft #boycotttechbros #ElbowsUp
MirrorMan v0.5.2 is here, and it’s the final release in the 0.5.x family!
This release is a major stabilization and feature update for Parch Linux MirrorManager. The GUI now has mirror search and filtering, reliability sorting, bulk enable/disable controls, configurable auto-refresh, non-blocking notifications, keyboard shortcuts, and persistent window geometry. Custom repositories can also be removed directly from the GUI.
The CLI has grown significantly too, with mirrorlist backups, cleanup with dry-run support, mirrorlist sync and diff, individual mirror speed testing, export functionality, and shell completions for Bash, Zsh, and Fish.
Under the hood, MirrorMan now has architecture-aware mirror testing, automatic backup rotation, SHA256 verification for BlackArch's `strap.sh`, safer tempfile handling, and recovery from poisoned mutexes to prevent GUI freezes after thread panics.
Packaging also received some love with AppStream metadata, improved desktop keywords, and a Polkit action for cache cleanup.
with this release, MirrorMan 0.5.x reaches its final milestone.
The next chapter starts with 0.6.x.
#ParchLinux #MirrorMan #Rust #GTK #Libadwaita #Pacman #OpenSource
@stefano I'm so grateful to you for embodying the open-source philosophy and communicating openly. That's so incredibly important for all *BSD users and open-source enthusiasts. No one can keep track of the source code for every program or library all the time. I admire you so much for the value you bring to the community. That's the spirit!
RE: https://openbiblio.social/@datenteiler/116476021319060949
Die öffentlichen Arbeitsplätze in der @tibhannover sind jetzt alle auf #Linux (ok außer die beiden Readerprinter). Noch nicht alles bugfrei, aber dafür ist es schnell und stabil. Das Nutzer:innen Feedback vor Ort, mit denen ich gesprochen habe, war super positiv, weil es so schön aufgeräumt aussieht.
Am Mittwoch stelle ich den "Ubuntu Nutzer:innen Arbeitsplatz (UNA)" kurz auf der GBV-Verbundkonferenz vor. Bin gespannt. 😊
Das Vortragsprogramm zum #Linuxday #Dornbirn am 26. September 2026 steht fest:
What's one under-the-radar tool or technique that's genuinely made your development workflow smoother lately? 🤔
Sometimes the smallest additions can have the biggest impact on daily productivity. I'm always looking for those gems that fly under the radar but are incredibly effective.
A veritable smörgåsbord of new features lands in your favourite apps with KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.08!
Dolphin improves its integration with KDE Connect, Konsole revamps its drag'n'drop features, Kdenlive's titler gets more functionalities, and Okular's annotations more power.
And much more where that came from:
I never saw value in writing a lot of notes, I used to be able to remember everything. Now that I am almost 40, it hurts to admit I can use some help remembering most things. And #obsidian has been a fantastic partner in that matter. I could probably get away with just markdown files with nvim/helix, but being able to read and correct things on a phone on the couch is pretty damn cool. Am just sad it's not fully #opensource though.
Keep the Why 0.8.0 is out.
context/ entries can now say Type: undefined — <reason> when none of decision/workaround/incident/constraint fits. Blank used to mean either "not reviewed yet" or "reviewed, nothing fits" — now those are distinguishable and grep-able, giving real signal for whether the vocabulary needs a fifth value later.
https://github.com/oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why/releases/tag/v0.8.0
Wir waren letztes Wochenende auf der FrOSCon. Alles in allem doch ein gutes Wochenende.
FrOSCon 2026 - Rückblick
https://andreas.scherbaum.la/post/2026-08-19_froscon-2026-rueckblick/
#FrOSCon #StAugustin #OpenSource #Conference #Konferenz #Linux #FrOSCon21
Question for #OpenSource project maintainers who manage a domain for the project. How do you manage the domain such that:
1) a single maintainer disappearing doesn't cause the domain to be lost
2) a single maintainer can't [easily] abscond with the domain
3) the group can collectively (somehow) ensure the domain registration fees get paid without sharing sensitive billing details with the group and without needing to sign up for some sort of group credit card
This is for a mature project with ~10 maintainers. Not all of them need access to this system, but more than one person does.
General strategies as well as recommendations for specific registrars welcome.
ComputerBase startet seine ausführliche Berichterstattung zum TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 15 und nimmt das Notebook hinsichtlich Verarbeitung, Ausstattung sowie Gaming- und Anwendungsleistung genau unter die Lupe.
👉 https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/notebooks/tuxedo-infinitybook-max-15-gen10-linux-test.97114/
A sanctioned ICC judge lost access to Amazon, Apple ID, iCloud, PayPal, Google, even her Alexa stopped responding. 🚨
One executive order, and your entire digital life can vanish if it lives on US-controlled servers.
Move your data to European, open-source infrastructure.
#Linux 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates #OpenSource
https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-7-2-bringt-umfangreiche-Treiberupdates-11419043.html
Linux 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates
Am Sonntag hat Linus Torvalds den Linux-Kernel 7.2 freigegeben. Im Entwicklungs-Endspurt gab es noch größere Änderungen.
Und dann sage doch noch mal jemand auf X gibts keinen guten Content.
#degoogle #grapheneos #opensource #unplugbigtech #linux #FTSM #SPX6900