Issue triage is the first step towards great software!

Here’s how Astro maintainers evaluate every bug report we receive 🐛

https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#issue-triaging-workflow

#opensource #software

FreeBSD Foundation’s Alice Sowerby and Moin will be speaking at Open Source Summit Europe on August 26 in Amsterdam.

Panel: From Backlog to Breakthrough: How FreeBSD and Bitergia Tackled 7,000+ Bugs with Data-Driven Dashboards

Date: August 26 | Amsterdam
Explore the schedule: https://bit.ly/3NXx5Zp
📌 Register here: https://bit.ly/3yD2c78

Will you be at #OSSummit Europe? Let us know, we would love to connect.

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #OSSummit #LinuxFoundation #GrimoireLab

Do you use lots of Linux containers? Try, `ctop` cli utility on Linux, macOS or Windows, that provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers. It is `top` like interface for container metrics and a good tool for all developers and IT pros.

Repo https://github.com/bcicen/ctop

#opensource #linux

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A screenshot of ctop which is nothing but top-like interface for container metrics.

#RUNBSD! But BoxyBSD now also starts to support #Linux! We're starting soon with the Linux support for already present users, offering free boxes:

* #AlmaLinux
* #Alpine
* #Debian
* #Devuan
* #CentOS
* #Fedora
* #Gentoo
* #OpenSuse
* #OpenEuler
* #RockyLinux

Just next to our core OS like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and #DragonflyBSD (and #illumos). This should also make the step easier to compare and test different scenarios where BSD provides a different behavior compared to Linux systems.

Thanks to @gyptazy for the implementation!

#VPS #VM #VirtualMachine #OpenSource #Hosting #IPv6 #BGP #FreeHosting #Community

Just in case you have not heard of it yet Open Camera is a very powerful camera control program

#Android #programming #camera #POSIX #OpenSource

https://opencamera.org.uk/

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The image displays a screenshot of a mobile device's web browser, showing a page for the "Open Camera" app. The top section of the screen features a dark brown header with the app's name "Open Camera" in white text, accompanied by a blue circular icon with a white camera symbol. Below the header, there is a blue hyperlink labeled "Jump to Instructions." The main content area lists the app's features, including options for auto-leveling, exposure settings, remote controls, and more. The features are presented in bullet points, with some text highlighted in blue, such as "auto-level" and "HDR." The background of the content area is a darker shade of brown, providing contrast to the white text. At the bottom of the screen, there is a navigation bar with a home icon, a search bar displaying "opencamera.org.uk," and a back button. The battery icon in the status bar indicates 85% charge, and the time is 15:16. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.247 Wh

The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx

#rustlang #opensource #sql

NEW VIDEO - Can You Solve This Strange FreeBSD Mail Mystery? Fixing DB5 Issue!

#FreeBSD #Unix #opensource #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/Y-xtxEpl_yM?si=h3Pk8xCX2frV5soT via @YouTube

Java’s Not Gone, It’s Just Hiding in Plain Sight

From powering Minecraft on the PlayStation to driving high-performance financial systems, Java remains a quiet force behind technologies we use every day.
Our latest blog takes a thoughtful look at how this long-standing language continues to make an impact, sometimes where you’d least expect it.

👉 Read more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-minecraft-to-markets-java-hiding-in-plain-sight/

#FreeBSD #Java #OpenSource #TechTrends #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment

I'm never going back to Matrix

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-never-going-back-to-matrix/

I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea shanties! Let's join the future!

The problem is - Matrix is shit. Not just on a protocol level, but on an organisational level as well.

I joined Matrix at FOSDEM - the largest gathering of open source nerds in Europe. We were all encouraged to use it - every talk had its own channel, all the official comms came from there, I was even invited to a top-secret private channel for speaker. This was going to be epic! Viva la rèvölūçïón, right? Wrong.

It was dead. Even among the most seasoned geeks on the planet, most people preferred to use other services like Signal, Telegram, and Slack. Why? Because those other tools actually work.

Matrix has two official Android apps - one of which is old and unsupported, the other is new and doesn't work with many of the basic chat features.

I want to be absolutely clear about this - the company behind Matrix have put out an app which doesn't work with their own product! Lest you think I'm exaggerating, here's a typical view of the official FOSDEM speaker room, using the official Matrix app:

It was embarrassing. People would pipe up in channels and say "this doesn't work" only to be told they were using the wrong app and should go back to the one marked unsupported. So they left, never to return. Even in the large talks, where people were encouraged to use the official Matrix chat, most of the conversation happened on other platforms. It was just too hard to use Matrix.

A few thousands geeks, all used to recompiling their own kernels and participating in the Fediverse, and most thought that Matrix was too much of a faff.

After FOSDEM, I kept the Matrix app on my phone. Occasionally receiving a ping from some long-forgotten channel.

And then, one day, I got hit with the most vile spam. A dozen notifications suddenly appeared on my phone with abuse, torture, and transphobic slurs in them.

You can view the screenshot - but, fair warning, it is grim.

This shouldn't be possible. It doesn't take an expensive team of moderators to add some keyword monitoring. It doesn't take a massive AI model to work out that a stranger shouldn't be able to bombard users with multiple notifications. You don't have to sacrifice your dream of a decentralised future - you just need to care about your users.

This stuff is basic.

I moaned about it on Mastdon and was surprised to receive a private reply from the official Matrix account.

Please do not encourage the spammer by giving them a platform and propagating their spam; you may want to consider deleting your post.

This is classic victim blaming. It is my fault for giving the spammer attention. I am the one who needs to take responsibility and delete the evidence. I shouldn't warn people that Matrix is actively dangerous to use.

Bullshit.

Here's what I expected them to say:

"We're sorry you had such a bad experience on Matrix. Rest assured we're working hard to block these spammers - here's a link to show what we're doing. You can protect your account further by doing x, y and z. Once again, sorry and we hope we can win back your trust."

I'm not saying scrappy open source projects have to hire anodyne corporate communications specialists; they just need to have a little empathy.

But, no, just constant whining about how it isn't their fault and how I am the one who needs to change my behaviour.

This is pretty typical behaviour from the team. Find any post complaining about some aspect of Matrix and you'll see their instant woe-is-me replies.

So I deleted the app. I would have liked to have nuked my account but apparently that's not possible.

I'm not the only one who feels like this. Here's an epic post by Marius, which concludes:

Between the slow performance, the increasing amount of spam, the miserable web client, and the unfinished state of Element X, the Matrix.org network is not something I am willing to continue to recommend, especially to non-technical users. Normal people are simply tolerating it to communicate with idealistic nerds like myself who insist(ed) on using it.

Matrix just isn't focussed on users. I'm not talking about user-experience tweaks like which shade of cornflower blue to use - I mean basic user needs like apps that work and a way to combat spam.

There's a long list of ways the protocol contributes to a poor user experience. It almost seems designed without regard for how it will actually be used.

While the protocol may be conceptually interesting and their intentions noble, I'm not prepared to suffer abuse in the name of technical purity.

Open Source and Open Standards nerds like me ought to know by now that the protocol is the least compelling thing about a service. Who cares if your home is built using only Stallman-blessed tools, when the walls are full of rats?

#foss #Matrix #OpenSource #rant

Hey there, Fedi Friendos!

Who's headed to #FOSSY this weekend?

https://2025.fossy.us

#PDX #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

I am sure that most of you know about this free and open-source security tool that bans hosts causing multiple authentication errors on Linux or Unix. It could be a lifesaver for developers or IT professionals, protecting many services including SSH and web services.

https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban

#opensource #unix #linux #security

Looking for HR & payroll software? Look no further! Frappe HR has everything you need to drive excellence in your organization. It's a complete HRMS opensource solution with 13+ modules, covering everything from Employee Management, Onboarding, and Leaves to Payroll, Taxation, and beyond!

https://github.com/frappe/hrms

#opensource

I’m looking for anyone in my circles who:

• is a front-end web developer
• has some design sense
• understands the allure of buying a Linux computer
• is open to paid work

A Linux computer company reached out asking if I was available for paid work on their website and while I would love to, I’m just not able to find the time right now. But they’re a great company and I would love to connect them with someone!

#Linux #OpenSource #WebDesign #WebDev

Hacker slips malicious 'wiping' command into Amazon's Q AI coding assistant - and devs are worried https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-slips-malicious-wiping-command-into-amazons-q-ai-coding-assistant-and-devs-are-worried/ by @sjvn

#Opensource only works well and securely if you actually look at the code. #AI #Security

`vet` is a CLI tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky `curl | bash` command. It lets you inspect remote scripts for changes, run them through a linter, and require your explicit approval before they can execute on your developer or production machine.

Repo https://github.com/vet-run/vet

#security #unix #linux #opensource

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The Problem: We've all seen this pattern for installing software: This is convenient, but you're blindly trusting the remote script. ``` curl -sSL https://example.com/install.sh | bash ``` This is dangerous. The script could be malicious, the server could be compromised, or a transient network error could result in executing a partial script. The Solution: vet vet wraps this process in a secure, interactive workflow: Fetch: It downloads the remote script to a temporary location. Diff & Review: It shows you what, if anything, has changed since the last time you ran this script. Lint: If you have shellcheck installed, it automatically analyzes the script for potential bugs or malicious patterns. Confirm: It prompts you for explicit approval before executing anything. The new, safer way: ``` vet https://example.com/install.sh ```

Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.

CC @EUCommission

#EU #USA #corporateCapture #europeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #github #openSource #freeSoftware #tech #freedom #humanRights #democracy

Window Maker Live

｢ Window Maker Live is an installable Linux Live ISO based on the current Bookworm branch of Debian. The system uses the Window Maker window manager as its default graphical user interface. Window Maker Live's components have been carefully preconfigured and the desktop environment has a consistent visual appearance ｣

https://wmlive.sourceforge.net/

#windowmaker #linux #opensource

Awesome. Proxmox (VMware alternative and FLOSS software) Donates €10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation

https://www.perl.com/article/proxmox-donates-to-tprf/

#opensource

Repo https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio

Purpose: Label Studio is an open source data labeling tool. It lets you label data types like audio, text, images, videos, and time series with a simple and straightforward UI and export to various model formats. It can be used to prepare raw data and more.

#opensource

Edit: this is a positive, pro Open Source post, not a "us" against "them". When an Open Source project makes progress, is a progress for all the Open Source world.

FreeBSD 15.0 will allow users to install KDE Desktop directly from the installer. This is great news. I'm reading the comments on various news sites: “It’s too late”, or “What’s the point? No one uses it”. Or even “We already have Linux, we don’t need another OS”.

I may sound repetitive, but I really don’t understand why, in the Open Source world, people aren’t happy to have more alternatives to consider. Whether it's social networks, operating systems, or software in general, many seem to get stuck on the most popular solution and almost ideologically reject alternatives.
Fear of change?
Maybe - which is why progress is welcome, because once they see what other solutions are capable of, I’m sure they'll start to give them a chance.

Just yesterday I was talking about this with a colleague, but I’ll write about it in another post.

Time for my coffee.

#FreeBSD #OSS #OpenSource

🎉 Whether you’ve contributed 1 line of code or 1,000 — your work matters.

Open source is nothing without its people.

#FreeBSD #opensource

FreeBSD is making strides toward supporting Plasma as an out-of-the-box installer option by the 15.0 release. That means a smoother setup for folks who want a functional desktop right from install

Check out the GitHub issue that’s driving this forward:

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/25

Original post by @kkremitzki: https://mastodon.social/@kkremitzki/114866829934967996

It’s an exciting step forward for more desktop usability on FreeBSD. Thoughts?

#FreeBSD #KDE #PlasmaDesktop #OpenSource #UnixLike

I know this is for a car, but many a thing cried out at a command line. 😅

#git #programming #gitlab #mergerequest #foss #opensource

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A bumper sticker in a bold serif font says "LET ME MERGE I HAVE TO PEE"

Be the change you want to see in the world!

I want to shape the real digital sovereignty! I want to bring change to our society and not just talk about how important it is! This is why I’m excited and proud to join @openproject as a CPO.

OpenProject is the leading free and open source project management software for data conscious organizations.

#foss #opensource #digitalsovereignty #projectmanagement

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An individual is smiling and posing for a selfie while wearing a white T-shirt featuring the text "ACHIEVING GREAT THINGS TOGETHER." The background is a blue and green gradient design. Text on the image includes "OpenProject: Welcome to the team.”

With @openproject we empower project teams to achieve great things together for the good of society. This mission resonates with me a lot and aligns with my personal leadership principles. I just love empowering people and seeing the magic happen!

#foss #OpenSource #digitalsovereignty

I can no longer listen to people complaining that there are no European #opensource alternatives to big tech products. It’s a myth! I want to contribute to the education of our society and to the creation of strong and open European alternatives. This is now more important than ever.

At @openproject we strongly believe in the #PublicMoneyPublicCode principle and I’m proud of it. As a European citizen I want my tax money to be spent consciously for the good of our society.

#foss

Why Some Satellites Use NetBSD?

https://machaddr.substack.com/p/why-some-satellites-use-netbsd

#HackerNews #NetBSD #Satellites #SpaceTech #HackerNews #OpenSource

The first version of Ubuntu Linux 4.10, codenamed "Warty Warthog," and it was released on Oct/2004. Ubuntu brought the Linux desktop experience to many developers and IT folks for the first time espcially forlks coming from Win/NT/2000 days. They were an early distro to support ease of installation for proprietary firmware and drivers for network, wifi, and sound/video, and that made them very popular as compared to other distros. They also used to send discs by post. #Linux #Ubuntu #OpenSource

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Ubuntu Linux 4.10, codenamed "Warty Warthog," desktop screenshot

has Unix or Linux command (more like bash script) checks presence of various command line tools on the PATH and reports their installed version https://github.com/kdabir/has

#linux #unix #opensource

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This screenshot shows has command which checks presence of various command line tools and their versions on the path.