What percentage of code in a Free and Open Source software project should be written by the core maintainers?

#EvanPoll #poll #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

FreeBSD Hackathon | April 24–26, 2026 | Wiesbaden, Germany.

We’re proud to support the FreeBSD Hackathon kicking off today in Wiesbaden, bringing together developers, contributors, and community members for focused collaboration and hands-on progress.
Over the next three days, participants will work together to advance FreeBSD in a productive, supportive environment.
Learn more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar/hackathon-202604/
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Hackathon #Community #BSD

New Yorkers, it's not too late to demand your representatives drop state-mandated censorship and surveillance from the proposed budget. https://eff.org/3DPrintNY #3dprinting #opensource #privacy #NewYork

Just a reminder that another #DigitalIndependance Day will soon be upon us. On May 3rd you can celebrate any actions you've taken to #deGoogle or move towards #OpenSource applications. Today would be a good day to send an email to your local elected representative asking them to participate by joining Mastodon. Use our Digital Independence template or craft your own message. BONUS - the activity can help you adopt a Plushtodon.

#CDNdid #ProselytizingforPlushtodons
https://elbowsupdigital.ca/resources/email-templates/

Ah, #firefox Split-tab is bloody good, if you are not using any tiling Window Manager. Very useful.

How to open? Put your cursor on any damn link and right-click, and it should show you the option for split-view, select that.

How to close? Look at the address bar(where you type the url), on the right, there is a split symbol. Click on it, and it will show the options for closing.

#linuxdmin #tool #opensource

📣 Ci sarete al DevConf?

Siamo felici di poter annunciare anche la presenza di @kenobit come relatore con un suo talk il giorno 8 luglio alle ore 17.00

@devconf@citiverse.it

Prenota il tuo ingresso gratuito e visita il sito web https://devconf.it

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

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Hello! #introduction

I just migrated from https://hachyderm.io/@mattwynne which was 👍🏻, but I have been meaning to move over here for some time because I love the initiative to democratically run our social media!

I'm from the UK originally, now based in Nelson, BC.

I'm a generalist/polyglot programmer. I lead the https://github.com/cucumber #opensource project and I'm known for coaching teams in technical practices like #TDD/#BDD and #EnsembleProgramming.

Also #SkiTouring and generally #MountainLiving

Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:

1. Federates
2. Allows to collect donations
3. Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service

#AskFedi #Blog #Blogging #OpenSource #Fediverse

How the Foundation’s Laptop Support & Usability Project Came Together

In this article from the Q1 2026 FreeBSD Journal, Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, explains how the Foundation turned recurring community feedback about FreeBSD on laptops into a structured, funded initiative with long-term impact.

Read more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/how-the-foundations-laptop-support-usability-project-came-together/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Usability #LaptopSupport

Siete pronti per il DevConf Italia?

A Pavia, il 7 e 8 Luglio del 2026, presso il Learning Space Cravino in Via Agostino Bassi 2 si terrà il primo convegno nazionale, a cadenza biennale, denominato Dev. Conference Italia.

L'evento è stato ideato dall'Associazione @BoostMediaAPS ed alla sua prima edizione affronta numerosi temi quali: sicurezza, sviluppo applicazioni, didattica, fediverso, libertà e sovranità digitali che potete trovare sul programma.

L'associazione ha attivato alcune convenzioni per i relatori e chi del pubblico vorrà trattanersi per entrambe le giornate.

L'ingresso è gratuito ma è necessaria la registrazione poichè i posti a sedere sono limitati.

Venite a scoprire di cosa parleremo, vi aspettiamo numerosi!

@devconf@citiverse.it

https://devconf.it/

#opensource #freesoftware #foss #devconf #devconfita #pavia

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I wonder if anyone I know could recommend a reliable, open source tool for posting either from an RSS feed or some other automated fashion to Mastodon, Bluesky, and any other relevant social networks...

Basically, a Hootsuite or something but open source and *preferably* not a project that has jumped on the AI bandwagon.

Please boost for reach if you would. Thanks!

#OpenSource #LazyWeb #Socialmedia

Heute wieder mal einen alten Laptop mit Linux wiederbelebt. 🐧

Das Ding wäre sonst im Elektroschrott gelandet – jetzt läuft es schneller als vorher mit Windows.

Manchmal ist die beste Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie einfach: frische Software drauf, neues Leben drin.

Danke an alle, die freie Software bauen, damit wir Hardware nicht wegwerfen müssen. 💚

#Linux #OpenSource #Nachhaltigkeit #RightToRepair #FOSS

The UK's "over-reliance on foreign [tech] companies has become an urgent issue of national security as US foreign policy actions are creating geopolitical uncertainty.”

Our new report calls for the UK government to pursue Digital Sovereignty to protect its critical infrastructure.

🗣️ ORG's Exec Director @jim

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366641487/UK-reliance-on-US-big-tech-companies-is-national-security-risk-claims-report

#DigitalSovereignty #nationalsecurity #bigtech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

Episode 13 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e13.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #linux #bsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #solusos #linuxkernel #openssl #opensource #freesoftware

Paying without #Google: New consortium in #Europe wants to remove #customROM hurdles
Using #banking and payment apps on #Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that. It is an #opensource alternative to #GooglePlayIntegrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with #GooglePlay services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Paying-without-Google-New-consortium-wants-to-remove-custom-ROM-hurdles-11204037.html

Shipped two releases of ansible-jailexec today. An Ansible connection plugin that runs tasks inside FreeBSD jails via jexec over SSH, without needing direct SSH into the jail.

v1.1.0: ground-up refactor. Now subclasses the built-in ssh plugin and merges its options at import time, so ControlPersist, jump hosts, private keys, password_mechanism. About a quarter of the old code.

v1.2.0: adds ansible_jail_root to override the jls probe for nested / VNET jail setups.

https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec

#Ansible #FreeBSD #Jails #DevOps #SysAdmin #OpenSource

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

Special Guest: @BjornW@mastodon.social

publicspaces.net

Lives in The Netherlands, EU. Works as self-employed tech consultant & software developer. Likes to tinker & has way too many interests 😊

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 20/04/26 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥

📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)

🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)

🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)

Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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A dark image. The background is unclear and blurry. On the foreground on the left there is a huge circle, inside of which a profile picture belonging to @BjornW@mastodon.social. On the other side, a bit lower in the frame we see a fediverse logo, but on fire. This is the logo of the Fireside Fedi show. In between those two elements a text is written. This text says: AN INTERVIEW WITH @BjornW@mastodon.social @BjornW@mastodon.social - Lives in The Netherlands, EU. Works as self-employed tech consultant & software developer. Likes to tinker & has way too many interests :) 20/04/26 AT 15:00 US EASTERN TIME ON FIRESIDEFEDI.LIVE

@cwebber

Re: “polluting”, my reply is: https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/116426437134023846 (elsewhere in thread).

Re: “copyleft-only #LLM”: I didn't propose that. I proposed copylefting the human-modified output of LLMs.

Re: “two scenarios”: IMO you propose a false dichotomy.

I hope you come to one of #SFC's public sessions on this, as I'd be glad to talk more about it, & this discussion doesn't lend itself to online debate because it's so complex.

cc: @ossguy @richardfontana
@jedbrown

#AI #OpenSource #FOSS

Bradley M. Kühn » 🌐 2026-04-18
@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org

@cwebber

I agree with @ossguy in particular because if *we* are copylefting our code (even if assisted by #LLM-backed gen-#AI), we won't face a copyleft claim later.

Furthermore, it is highly unlikely these LLMs are (a) trained on proprietary software, and (b) any proprietary software company that so-trained would later claim infringement.

#Microsoft has all but admitted they refuse to train Copilot on their own code anyway.

Cc: @LordCaramac @richardfontana

asimpy Performance Benchmarking: https://third-bit.com/2026/04/18/asimpy-performance-benchmarking/ This is the library used in https://third-bit.com/dsdx/ - suggestions for improving performance on simple operations without hurting complex ones would be greatly appreciated. #python #opensource

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

I had the opportunity to tell the founders of the Sovereign Tech Agency (@sovtechfund) that I'm a big fan of their organization. I firmly believe that other countries should have similar initiatives. In fact, the EU should have one too.

Their recent €600k+ grant to Mastodon is a great example of what public investment in open digital infrastructure can look like. It strengthens the Fediverse, a real alternative to X. As I’ve argued in the #LeaveX campaign: we already have a viable social media alternative to X (1) and what we lack is sustained funding and political commitment. (2)

Thus, if more EU countries invested in improving Mastodon, how quickly could it become Europe’s de facto public square?

While most European politicians still prefer X for their official communication, reducing technical barriers could attract a more diverse audience, including the people our representatives want to reach, like journalists and the general public.

By the way, it's interesting, though not surprising, that the Sovereign Tech Agency has almost four times as many followers on Mastodon as on Bluesky. It would be great to see them highlighting posts and profiles of some awesome open-source projects active on the Fediverse. 😉

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #SocialMedia #EU #OpenSource

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Mastodon Profile (@sovtechfund@mastodon.social) - Alt Text: Sovereign Tech Agency - Mastodon Profile Display Name: Sovereign Tech Agency Handle: @sovtechfund@mastodon.social Bio: Strengthening digital infrastructure and open source ecosystems in the public interest. Home of the Sovereign Tech Fund, Sovereign Tech Resilience, Sovereign Tech Fellowship, and other programs supporting critical FOSS technologies. Joined: February 2023 Stats: Posts: 1,101 Follows: 113 Followers: 6,609

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Bluesky Profile (@sovereign.tech) - Alt Text: Sovereign Tech Agency - Bluesky Profile Display Name: Sovereign Tech Agency Handle: @sovereign.tech Bio: Strengthening digital infrastructure & open source ecosystems in the public interest. Home of the Sovereign Tech Fund, Sovereign Tech Resilience, Sovereign Tech Fellowship, & other programs supporting critical FOSS technologies. Website: www.sovereign.tech Stats: Followers: 1.7K Following: 59 Posts: 803

‘the most valuable software infrastructure in the world continues to be maintained by people working for free, while the companies building fortunes on top of it never had to pay for its upkeep. Now a powerful new capability has arrived — and as we’ve seen repeatedly in tech, there’s the risk that organizations with resources will receive it first and learn to protect themselves, while others are left vulnerable’

#security #openSource #infrastructure #technology

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/mythos-open-souce-internet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA.jwFu._8Ff-POwoQ2S&smid=nytcore-android-share

#Mozilla Announces "#Thunderbolt" As An #OpenSource, Enterprise #AI Client
Thunderbolt is designed as a #sovereignAI client – an open-source, extensible workspace where users can interact with AI through chat, search, and research, connect to enterprise data, and choose models and tools that fit their needs.
Thunderbolt initially has a web app as well as native Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android builds. The code is open-source on GitHub under the #MPL 2.0 license
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Thunderbolt

(1/5) [ Meta-info to start the thread. Here and the posts that follow reply to lots of people's comments (from various threads) together here. Can we consolidate this conversation into this single thread to discuss https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/15/eternal-november-generative-ai-llm/ ? ]

Cc: @wwahammy @silverwizard @mjw @cwebber @josh @jamey @mason @spencer @rootwyrm @drwho @mmu_man @mathieui @beeoproblem

#LLM #AI #OpenSource #FOSS #SoftwareFreedom

In this #InfoQ #podcast, Sam Bhagwat, co-founder & CEO of Mastra, shares insights on building and sustaining #opensource communities, the emerging discipline of #AI engineering and evals, and why cross-functional Tiger Teams are key to shipping agentic applications.

🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4tQpH7w

📄 #transcript included

#Teamwork #DistributedTeams #Agile