Open-source community gets a Claude-sized gift https://thedeepview.com/articles/open-source-community-gets-a-claude-sized-gift by @sjvn

If you're a top #opensource developer,
Anthropic wants to give you free access to its $200-a-month, Claude Max 20x plan for six months. Now, that's a deal!

SCALE 23x is happening this week!
We’re excited to be back at SCALE, one of the best places to connect with the people building and supporting open source in the real world.

This year, we’re looking forward to:
Meeting community members, from new to longtime FreeBSD users

Connecting with fellow open source organizations and exploring what’s ahead in 2026
If you’ll be at SCALE 23x, stop by booth #112 and say hello; we’d love to meet you.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
#SCALE23x #FreeBSD #OpenSource

🎉 Applications for the Sovereign Tech Fellowship are officially open!

What’s new? For the first time, community managers, and technical writers can apply alongside open source maintainers until April 6, 2026, to become Fellows.

The #SovereignTechFellowship invests directly in the people behind the code, supporting key experts whose work underpins the health and stability of critical components in the #opensource ecosystem.

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Graphic reading “Applications Open! Sovereign Tech Fellowship” above a photo of five smiling people standing arm in arm, wearing matching black “Sovereign Tech Fellowship” hoodies. The text overlay states that the fellowship is open to FOSS maintainers, community managers, and tech writers, with applications due April 6th, 2026 at 11:59 PM (CET), and mentions freelance and employment options as well as flexible working hours.

Anybody know how to force LibreOffice to default to exporting PNG instead of WebP?

Specifically, I use Impress as a way to make quick and lazy graphics and then export to PNG. But for some damn reason it always defaults to WebP, which I do not want and have been unable to find the toggle to make it not do that.

It does not, as one might hope, remember the last setting used. Nope. Always WebP.

(Also, why of all formats would it be set to export to WebP and not JPEG or PNG?)

#LazyWeb #LibreOffice #OpenSource

Friend left behind on twitter Battlefield

This post of yours really hit home.

I have an internet friend who was Left behind on twitter because he wasn't ready to move (WTF why)

I've been congratulating him  on important anniversaries of his, through the internet for years like an Atomic Clock

It's the 4th or the 5th Year that I couldn't do it, because I refuse to re-open my Twitter accounts to see the battlefield, the horrific nukes of War, the destruction that Elon and his cohorts created.

I miss talking to him
He's a good man, a successful Bounty Hunter by Day, a great pappa at Night

@rl_dane

https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01JJYY2YV07G6NJS823G121T63

#Social #Media #Twitter #account #technology #walled #Gardens #Elon #Musk #friend #left #behind #Nostalgia #FediVerse #OpenSource

In addition to funding open source projects you use, if you can, consider extending support to the individual contributors/developers personally who work on those projects, many are volunteers and even a small monthly contribution could mean the difference. 🫶

#OpenSource #FOSS

Who could possibly have foreseen this? Aside from anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention?

"One of the codebases…contained 2,675 distinct licensing conflicts, indicating the complexity of managing IP has grown exponentially…the mean number of vulnerabilities in code has nearly doubled since last year. Eighty-seven percent of the codebases had at least one vulnerability, 78% had high-risk vulnerabilities, and 44% had critical-risk vulnerabilities."

https://sdtimes.com/ai/report-open-source-licensing-conflicts-hit-an-all-time-high-as-organizations-struggle-to-audit-ai-generated-code-for-ip-risks/

#OpenSource

It's time for Canadian Digital Independence Day. The 1st Sunday of the month is when you take action to reduce your use of #TechBros software and embrace #opensource solutions. Time to brag - tell us what you accomplished this past month.
Personally I have moved my email to Proton Mail and pretty happy with the change. Next - dump Chrome for something else, potentially Firefox.

Please boost for reach and tell us your #CDNdid plans.

#DigitalIndependance

Episode 6 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/news/dbw-e6.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueraven #darkblueproject #opensource #freesoftware #linux #bunsenlabs #porteux #linuxcontainers #hyprland

Back in 2022, surrounded by colleagues who were infused with "open source scepticism", I wrote "Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/opensource_enterprise_notes.html as an explainer.

Hopefully a useful thing for others too, with links therein #freesofware #opensource #enterprise #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #linux

@tisba My (naive) reading is that they want to ensure copyright protection for LLM outputs, even though LLM outputs are uncopyrightable (by attributing it to a human).

Sounds kinda fraudulent.

#AI #opensource

This is sad 😢

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847

#firefox #privacy #mozilla #foss #opensource #web

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Screenshot of git commit for the Mozilla web page removing the FAQ question: «Does Firefox sell your personal data?»

#Mozilla has lost their ground and is now in a free fall into a sinkhole. I doubt they'll ever get out if this again unless they do a 180-turn within the coming days. Mozilla has lost a lot of trust and credibility over the last couple of years. This accelerates that distrust even more.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

It looks promising, until you hit the last paragraph (my highlight)

In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our privacy notice. Whenever we share data with our partners, we put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share is stripped of potentially identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).

In my book, that's indirectly selling data.

Goodbye, #Firefox.

Update (2026-02-26): So this change happened exactly 1 year ago. I saw the date and missed the year. And since Mozilla is still doing the privacy whitewashing, there is no reason to trust Mozilla more today than a year ago. Leaving Firefox is unavoidable. The current Mozilla leadership does not deserver much trust from the community.

#privacy #ads #foss #opensource #web

We’ve published a new blog post outlining how we’re preparing for the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and what it means for the FreeBSD ecosystem.

The CRA introduces new compliance expectations for products containing digital elements, including open source components.

Read the full post here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/getting-ready-for-the-cyber-resilience-act/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Security #Compliance #SBOM

Beim DiDay gilt: Bitte Barrierefreiheit nicht vergessen. Wenn wir wechseln, dann richtig. Empfehlt nur Systeme und Apps, die wirklich nutzbar sind – mit Screenreader, Tastatur, Untertiteln, gutem Kontrast und ohne fiese Hürden. Diese Bewegung kann die Welt fairer machen. Aber nur, wenn alle mitkommen. Freiheit ohne Zugang ist keine Freiheit. Also: testet, meldet Bugs, nervt Anbieter und baut Alternativen, die inklusiv sind.

#DigitalIndependenceDay #DIDay #DIDit #DUTgemacht #CCC #Barrierefreiheit #Inklusion #OpenSource

New to FreeBSD and not sure where to start? You’re not alone.

In this second video of the series, I'm walking through the FreeBSD Foundation's Getting Started page.

On this page, you’ll find:
— The official FreeBSD Handbook
— Installation guides for desktops and virtual machines
— Step-by-step written walkthroughs for common setup options
— Links to community spaces: forums, Discord, Reddit, and LinkedIn

https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/getting-started-with-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #DeveloperCommunity #FreeBSDProject

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' Got to 0.123 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31334

GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

I also published an announcement on undeadly.org since rueda had already prepped it and it looked good!

#Got #GameOfTrees #MacPorts #OpenBSD #macOS #VersionControl #OpenSource #Git

You know what would be a great idea?

Putting a LOT of vital #OpenSource projects under one organisation, creating a massive single point of failure and a sustainability crisis that no one wants to talk about.

(see also: GitHub)

https://linuxiac.com/react-moves-to-the-linux-foundation-with-launch-of-the-react-foundation/

Do you remember your first FreeBSD install?
Many in our community remember when installing an operating system meant waiting on physical media, dial-up downloads, or carefully tested CD distributions, long before pulling source took seconds.

We’d like to hear your story:
• Was your first FreeBSD install from a CD?
• Do you remember your first release?

Share your experience in the comments.

🔗 Wayne Self’s original reflection: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wself_been-thinking-about-how-much-access-to-software-ugcPost-7431565320290619392-RHVM/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD #Community

🗺️ Renette Ros will share the blueprint for treating upgrades as a continuous, automated, safe background process instead of expensive manual projects. See how her team composes open source recipes and writes custom ones to handle migrations at enterprise scale. https://www.devconf.co.za/ #DevConf2026 #OpenSource

It was great to be invited back onto the @TalkingDrupal podcast recently to talk about all things @mautic and Drupal.

Take a listen here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzaBXL4D_Fw

#Mautic #Drupal #OpenSource #MarketingAutomation

Respecting maintainer time should be in security policies. Even better: you don't even have to mention the elephant in the room!

https://sethmlarson.dev/respecting-maintainer-time-should-be-in-security-policies

#opensource #oss #security