✊ Fedora AI Desktop Initiative Blocked After Council Vote Reversal

“I fear that the feedback (that was unfortunately received after the initial vote) indicates that the Fedora community is not supportive of this initiative as is. As one of the elected representatives, I feel I need to listen to that feedback and try to better understand it before I can approve this with a clear conscience.”

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-ai-desktop-initiative-blocked-after-council-vote-reversal/

#fedora #ai #aislop #opensource

And here's the official Open Source guidance from GDS.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-open-code-and-vulnerability-risk-in-the-public-sector

Throws quite a bit of shade at the NHS, including the line "Private repositories can create a false sense of security."

#NHS #OpenSource #Mythos

in other news...i made a knitting and crochet thing (well, vector symbols)!

this started because i was working on another program and got tired of trying to find/use other knitting symbols from pngs, etc.

so now what we have is a free, open-source svg set of the craft yarn council's standard knit and crochet chart symbols, with a little web customizer to recolor, resize, and download them.

102 symbols total — 81 knit, 21 crochet — plus a customizer that runs straight from github pages.

the cyc reviewed and approved the project last week.

free, no signup, no tracking — for indie pattern designers, zine makers, teachers, anyone who works with charts and doesn’t want to roll their own symbols.

contributions and suggestions welcome — open an issue or pr if there's a symbol you'd like added, a bug to fix, or an improvement you'd like to see.

https://leifrogers.github.io/cyc-svgs/

future goalposts are more symbols (not just the standard cyc set) that include lace and other complex stitches.

boosts appreciated 🧶

#knitting #crochet #fiberarts #opensource #svg

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Screenshot of a dark-mode web app titled "CYC Chart Symbols" showing the knit symbol set (81 of 102 symbols). A left sidebar shows controls — symbol set dropdown set to "Knit," a color picker set to bright phosphor green (#39ff14), stroke width set to 2, round line cap and line join, and a transparent background option. The main panel shows a grid of knit chart symbols rendered in the same bright green on a dark background, including Bind off, Bobble (B variant), Bobble (filled dot), Cast on (+ variant), Cast on (U variant), Dec 4-to-1 (centered, left, and right), Dec 5-to-1, Inc 1-to-3, Inc 1-to-4, and Inc 1-to-5 — each labeled with its filename, display name, and a short description of the stitch.

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Screenshot of a dark-mode web app titled "CYC Chart Symbols," currently showing the crochet symbol set (21 of 102 symbols). A left sidebar shows controls for discipline, color, stroke width, and background. The main panel shows a grid of crochet chart symbols rendered in white on dark — including 3-dc cluster, 3-hdc cluster/puff/bobble, 5-dc popcorn, 5-dc shell, back post dc, and chain-3 picot — each labeled with its name and a short description of the stitch.

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A close-up of a detail modal in the app for the symbol "Left-slanting lifted inc." The modal shows a large preview of the symbol (two white diagonal strokes forming an inverted Y on a dark background), the filename basic/lifted-inc-left.svg, its SVG viewBox, the raw SVG markup as code, and three buttons: Download SVG, Copy markup, Copy Data URI.

NetBSD 11 RC4 is here! Huge thanks to all the devs getting this ready for the final release.

Quick reminder since we are almost halfway through the year: The NetBSD Foundation needs our help to keep things running. If you appreciate clean code, software freedom, and an OS that literally runs on anything, OS which rejects A.I. slop, please consider making a donation. Let's help them hit their 2026 goals!
Grab the RC: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc4_available
Support the foundation: https://www.netbsd.org/donations/
#NetBSD #FOSS #OpenSource #antiaislop #Linux

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/

#opensource #linux #unix

What is your favourite code editor that is:
1) light (feature-wise)
2) pretty (in a customizable way)
3) running on Linux 👀

#Linux #Programming #OpenSource

Every year in late summer, FrOSCon brings together people who are passionate about Free Software and Open Source. The event is organized by the Department of Computer Science at Bonn Rhein Sieg University together with the FrOSCon e.V. and offers many interesting talks, workshops, project booths, and opportunities to connect with others from the community.

What I really like about FrOSCon is the atmosphere. Developers, companies, contributors, and open source enthusiasts come together to exchange ideas, learn from each other, and simply have a good time. The social event on Saturday evening is also always a great opportunity for networking and interesting conversations.

I am very proud that we as #credativ will be part of FrOSCon this year as a stand partner. It is a great chance for us to present our open source-projects (like #ProxLB, #ProxPatch, #ProxSnap, [...] but also all the other ones like #Plutono/#Vali and the credativ-pg-migrator for #PostgreSQL) and meet so many people from the community in person again.

At the moment I am unfortunately still unsure if I can attend personally, because I would also love to prepare a talk about #PegaProx for #Proxmox VE based clusters and share the story behind it, the progress over time, and some of the challenges and experiences along the way.

LET'S MAKE #OPENSOURCE TOGETHER!

FrOSCon Partner: https://froscon.org/partner/
FrOSCon: https://froscon.org/

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credativ at FrOScon 2026 with gyptazy

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

by @geerlingguy

Sooner or later, I'll buy a 3D printer. But, after this, I think I'll look at other brands.

#OpenSource

Open Source Conference Japan in #Nagoya coming up on 23rd of May!

https://event.ospn.jp/osc2026-nagoya/

Mostly Linux, but also a #NetBSD booth set up as well!

#OSPN #OpenSourceConference #Japan #OpenSource

Today we are celebrating our first birthday! 🍰🎈

As it's been a very busy year – full of new community members, new features, and more – we've written up a summary of all the things that have happened.

And to give all of you a small gift: If you press the *Check Updates* button in the 2026.05.06 version of CoMaps, you'll find some freshly updated maps that were quietly released for you yesterday!

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-05-12/celebrating-the-first-comaps-birthday/

#OpenStreetMap #opensource #freeSoftware

🚨 the @securedrop team at Freedom of Press Foundation is hiring 🚨

We're looking for a Cryptography Engineer to help us build out the new end-to-end encrypted version of #SecureDrop

✔️ fully remote
✔️ all FOSS
✔️ help secure whistleblowers and investigative journalists all around the world

More details in the job posting, happy to answer any questions

https://freedomofthepress.na.teamtailor.com/jobs/610227-cryptography-engineer

#GetFediHired #Rust #FormalMethods #Encryption #Cryptography #Whistleblowing #OpenSource

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/116555573783540910

The PSF Board has been developing a strategic plan and today we're sharing the high-level goals for community feedback. Full draft with detailed objectives follows in June.

This plan will shape how the PSF spends its resources for the next five years. If Python is part of your world, we'd love to hear from you.

#Python #PSF #OpenSource

I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:

1. You have to pay them a living wage.

While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.

It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.

2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.

People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.

So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

3. It can't end up being a job.

Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.

#OpenSource

I just discovered today that there are Pac-Man clones for the Unix terminal.

People truly will think of everything. Just a little ./configure; make; make install and you're good to go.

MyMan is the best:
https://termplay.github.io/posts/myman-terminal-pacman.html

#linux #freebsd #opensource

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A still from MyMan, a Unix terminal clone of Pac-Man featuring ASCII graphics for the characters

New features are coming in #LibreOffice 26.8, our next major release! Tamás Zolnai has added an option to display the baseline grid for page line-spacing in Writer, and the colour is customisable: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8#Writer #foss #opensource #freesoftware

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Screenshot of baseline grid

"Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement
The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up.

Back in November 2025, Jan Vlug, a software engineer who writes for the Dutch government's developer portal, put out a detailed blog recommending which Git forge the Netherlands should adopt for its governmental source code hosting needs.

His post came at a time when the Ministry of the Interior (BZK) was already setting up a dedicated Git instance, and the platform decision was still open.

.,

Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature. Licensed under GPLv3+ and governed by Codeberg e.V., a democratic nonprofit, it has no enterprise tier, proprietary upsell, or vendor lock-in problems.

On April 24, 2026, code.overheid.nl had its soft launch, with developer advocate Tom Ootes writing about it on developer.overheid.nl. He framed it as a collective project to build something together rather than ship something finished.

The platform is a self-hosted Forgejo instance, running on Dutch government infrastructure managed by SSC-ICT (DAWO). It's free for all government organizations and is built around the following goals."

https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-forgejo-migration/

#opensource #netherlands

What happens when you write to /dev/null ?

You can find out by attending this talk given by Martin Vahlensieck at BSDCan 2026.

Registration: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html

Scedule: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-all.html

#BSD #OpenSource #BSDCan

sh games

cp -prva ~/gate/secret/files* /media/my_user_id/gate/public/deep/dive

works in the following sh:

• bash
• ksh
• csh
• zsh
• tcsh
• dash
• ash
• psh

#Programming #Bash #zsh #OpenSource #BSD #freeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #Debian #mxLinux #MX #RPM #POSIX #ash

PHP officially retires its legacy PHP License 3.01 after completing the move to the standard BSD 3-Clause license.
https://linuxiac.com/php-officially-retires-its-legacy-license/

#php #opensource

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PHP officially retires its legacy PHP License 3.01 after completing the move to the standard BSD 3-Clause license.

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

@bagder They talk a big game about Open Source. But look at the walled garden "cabbage patch" at the bottom: #LinkedIn, #Bluesky, and #X. Why can't they manage a #Mastodon account, or something #OpenSource like that?