Just learned about https://goodfirstissue.dev/ which aggregates good first issues for registered open source projects. Might be worth a look if you want to give back and contribute.

#opensource #contribute

Recently I got asked about my @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe project, which offers free VPS instances of vary #BSD based systems for learning and educational purposes and I'm happy to share that this projects remains available. Several things could finally be clarified to continue this service to make sure people can learn and practice on real #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD systems to #RUNBSD. Also, BoxyBSD starts moving over to #Sylve on #bhyve.

But not only that! We could also get some more new resources and locations to scale and this also brings up another new project for #free Linux #VPS instances at https://boxedtux.com (Fedi: @BoxedTux@mastodon.social) where people will be able to learn and practice on different #Linux based distributions (e.g., #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Rocky,...). BoxedTux utilizes #Proxmox clusters as a foundation.

Hope you like this small update... Over & out!

#freeVPS #VPS #VM #Hosting #education #learning #learningplatform #service #opensource #BoxedTux

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BoxyBSD Logo - a free BSD based VPS Service by gyptazy

Signal is developing a standalone desktop app without requiring a smartphone for setup or use, based on recent open-source code changes. 🖥️
The update adds more desktop controls while keeping end-to-end encryption, improving device independence with a privacy-first design. 🔐

@signalapp

🔗 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-without-a-mobile-phone-standalone-version-in-development/

#TechNews #Signal #Messaging #Privacy #E2EE #Encryption #EndToEndEncryption #OpenSource #FOSS #Cybersecurity #Security #Data #Internet #Freedom #Software #Tech #Communication

Episode 15 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e15.php

#darkblueproject #darkblueweekly #fedora #bazziteos #cachyos #proxmox #gcc #archlinux #linux #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

Happy Digital Independence Day to all Canadians who are transitioning away from the #TechBros to #OpenSource applications. What alternatives, large or small, have you implemented this past month? What are your plans for the next 30 days? Tell us what you're working on and encourage others to get started.
Start small, take baby steps to make it easier to reduce your reliance on U.S. based technology.

#CDNdid #DeGoogle #DigitalIndependance

"The #NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its #OpenSource repositories." - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/ this is utterly insane; if you are in the UK, please write to your MP explaining why this is so stupid - https://www.writetothem.com/

The FreeBSD Project is proud to continue participating in Google Summer of Code and to welcome this year’s contributors and mentors.

This year’s projects address critical areas of the operating system, including kernel live patching, and much more.

We look forward to supporting our students throughout the summer and sharing their progress with the community.

Explore the full list of projects:
https://bit.ly/4ukF0p4
#FreeBSD #GSoC2026 #OpenSource #BSD #SystemsEngineeringFreeBSD

We’re proud to share that Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, will be speaking at Open-Source Summit North America, hosted by the Linux Foundation.

📍 Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 11:00am – 11:40am CDT | Room 101H

View the full schedule here:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/program/schedule/

Deb's talk: https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQsf/what-running-freebsd-on-a-modern-laptop-taught-me-deb-goodkin-the-freebsd-foundation?iframe=yes&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no

We look forward to seeing you there.

#FreeBSD #OpenSourceSummit #LinuxFoundation #OpenSource

🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source”

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories.

Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
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#government #nhs #OpenSource #politics

W3C is very pleased to announce that the @sovtechfund has launched a pilot program to support independent #OpenSource maintainers participation in the work of our groups, including training, mentoring, and financial support to make sustained engagement possible. It is really wonderful to see efforts from donors to recognize the role that open standards play.

The call for applications is open until 19 May.
More information available at https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/standards
Apply now!
#FOSS

"Learning from mistakes" as individuals is hard if those lessons are not (or can not be) percolated up or are even rejected by larger groups or society in general, if the behaviors one might consider a mistake on a personal/ethical level are actually rewarded and encouraged (or imposed) by those larger social structures.

So many people have tried so hard for so long to share their knowledge and tools, trying to teach & inspire others, to build communities to help make the world at least a tiny better, enabling people to do more with their tech than just consuming or being "entertained". People have been sacrificing years and hard-earned savings to keep the work/projects/momentum going... only to have these efforts being outright stolen & upended now, declared meaningless, and at the same time being called to our faces "entitled", "self-important", "gate keeping" for attempting to retain some form of humanity in these projects (all phrases taken from an email received on weekend about my anti-LLM stance for my own 200+ projects — always so amazing for motivation! 😭)

Has this all been meaningless? The same entities who've been benefiting the most from 20-30 years of this culture of openness, are now regularly talking about it as weakness, "supply chain risk" and "threat vector"... People who've never ever run a project themselves are just as happy to chip in with this narrative.

Sure enough, mistakes were made, many of them (a small selection):

A large mistake was to systematically devalue our own labor, to believe a participatory, postspectacular[1] society would be possible, that more people/orgs would not just consume, but actively participate, reciprocate, feed back, wanting to learn/build together, to create & co-own their tools of production and seeing the true value of that. Of course, not everyone is able to divert time & energy, but many more people/orgs/unis/govts would and should have been! Support for these projects can take so many different forms! Instead it's always been left to so few people to do it all... and then punish them (in many direct/indirect forms) for trying (or not being perfect)!

A mistake was not to set strict boundaries early on what these shared assets/knowledge could be used for and by whom. We allowed large corporations (and countless smaller bad players[2]) to harvest the fruits of our labor as free, high-quality raw material, them never contributing anything back. We didn't organize to demand more rights, have proper legal frameworks or even interest from larger society to help creating or enforcing terms & constraints. For years, we were labeled naive altruists and were stuck with the issues of existing FLOSS licenses which were written by people who (mostly) explicitly rejected any ethical/moral constraints of use and instead sold this lack as "freedom to use for any purpose", a core pillar of these licenses.

A mistake was to believe a culture of resource-poor decentralized entities could meaningfully influence or even outcompete the centralized infinitely funded structures whose ONLY interest is in exploitation, sustaining/cementing/expanding their own imposed hierarchy and grasp of power/control at all costs.

These mistakes (and many more) are all fractal in nature, from the individual, projects, to governments and entire cultures... If you personally or organizationally have benefited from open source culture, but never once acted on any of the above, you're simply part of the problem and the mistakes made!

It's time to learn from them, together, and before it's too late (if it isn't already)...

If you want to keep on benefiting from open source culture (not the corporate or agent-regurgitated neo-interpretation), get active, show some support to the projects and esp. people involved, in whatever form or gesture you can!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

[2] Over the past 25+ years, I know of at least that many businesses & people who built their entire early careers on my open source work, without ever contributing, donating or acknowledging...

#OpenSource #Culture

📣 Il DevConf si avvicina!

Che farete il 7 e 8 luglio? Vi aspettiamo a Pavia presso il Learning Space Cravino per 2 giorni di 🔥

@devconf@citiverse.it

Tanti i temi trattati, tra cui:

❤️ sviluppo
❤️ sicurezza
❤️ libertà e sovranità digitali
❤️ fediverso

Scoprite alcuni dei relatori!

https://fedidevs.com/s/OTkz/

#devconf #devconfita #devconf_ita #opensource #freesoftware #sviluppo #sicurezza #libertadigitale #sovranitadigitale #fediverso

New Integrated by Design FreeBSD Book

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/integrated-by-design-launch

#HackerNews #FreeBSD #IntegratedDesign #BookLaunch #TechReading #OpenSource

I love how the #FSF unerringly comes out in support against anyone trying to reduce the harm software is used for and maybe not hand it to murderers.

"It's only free if you don't try to stop anyone else from using it to kill people via the license terms" is the most US take *ever*.

(Not that OSI is different.)

That's how you end up with #Palantir as a major FOSS sponsor, I guess.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/rail-are-nonfree-and-unethical

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116478133377243019

Workflow security continues to be a common cause of compromises of open source projects.

If you're using GitHub Actions and don't want this to happen to your project: use Zizmor and treat the findings seriously, especially insecure triggers and user-controllable template injections.

https://docs.zizmor.sh

#github #actions #security #oss #opensource #python

Andrew Nesbitt » 🌐 2026-04-27 / 2026-04-27
@andrewnez@mastodon.social

At this point having zizmor scans of every python package is turning out to be quite the crystal ball: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/elementary-data-compromised-on-pypi-and-ghcr-forged-release-pushed-via-github-actions-script-injection

elementary-data in my db: 203 zizmor findings total. 82 template-injection (High), 47 unpinned-uses, 4 dangerous-triggers, 2 github-env, and 1 bot-conditions.

#Proxmox #PVE #monitoring #metrics #opensource

https://gyptazy.com/blog/grafana-dashboard-for-pegaprox-prometheus-exporter/

pip 26.1 is an incredible release, thank you to the pip maintainers!! 💜

– Relative dependency cooldown support!
– Installing from pylock.toml
– Multiple security fixes

Read the full blog post by @ichard26

https://ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/04/whats-new-in-pip-26.1/

#python #pypi #pip #security #oss #opensource

Episode 14 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e14.php

#darkblueproject #darkblueweekly #ubuntu #ubuntudesktop #ubuntuserver #redcorelinux #gentoo #lxqt #qemu #linux #opensource #freesoftware

Review of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/articles/ubuntu-26-04-resolute-review.php

#darkblueproject #ubuntu #ubuntudesktop #lubuntu #kubuntu #ubuntubudgie #xubuntu #linux #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

You can now help spread the word that:
📣 SeaGL 2026 Call For Presentations is now OPEN!!

📄 https://seagl.org/news/2026/04/24/CfP-Open

#SeaGL2026 #cfp #linux #opensource #FLOSS #OSS #libre #open #event #seattle #tech

📣 Il 7 e 8 luglio a Pavia la prima edizione del DevConf!

Siamo felici di poter dare il benvenuto ad @italovignoli con il suo talk dal titolo: Dopo il software, liberate i documenti!

Tanti i relatori presenti ed i temi affrontati e ricordiamo che il convegno è stato riconosciuto dall'Università di Pavia come corso di formazione interna.

Vi aspettiamo al Learning Space Cravino in Via Agostino Bassi 2 a Pavia.

Prenotate il vostro ingresso gratuito. I posti sono limitati!

@devconf@citiverse.it

#devconf #devconfita #devconf_ita #opensource #freesoftware #sicurezza #fediverso #sviluppo #libertadigitale #sovranitadigitale #pavia

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