@laurenshof is opening the "decentralized technologies" track at @oscl

Big thanks to @_elena and @Gina for hosting our track as well as to @paolo and the whole team for organising #oscl26

#opensocialweb #fediverse #socialnetworks #activitypub #opensource #opencommunications #decentralized #digitalcommons #solidarity

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Laurens is giving His Talk at oscl26 - a camera ist filming him

🎤 Upcoming at SeaGL 2026:
📍 10:30 AM on October 23
🗣️ "Be a Starter, Not a Finisher: For Yourself and For the World"
👥 Speaker(s): Deb Nicholson
📍 Room: Room 332
🏷️ Track: Community and Culture
📝 Even though finishers will nearly always get the credit, starters are the secret power that changes ...

#SeaGL2026 #community #FLOSS #opensource #linux
🔗 https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/talk/V7RKJW/

The Q3 2026 issue of the FreeBSD Journal is now available.

This edition explores Production Deployments, with articles covering home lab consolidation, cloud operations using FreeBSD Compute, USB in user space, auditable credential-exposure checks, and more.

Inside, you'll also find the Foundation Letter, a EuroBSDCon trip report, and the latest 2026 events calendar.

🔗 Read it here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/production-deployments/

#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #SysAdmin

🎤 Upcoming at SeaGL 2026:
📍 09:10 AM on October 23
🗣️ "The mv Command Doesn't Move Things & Other Stuff New Users Don't Know"
👥 Speaker(s): Toby Betts
📍 Room: Room 250
🏷️ Track: Keynote
📝 If you think Linux dating all the way back to 1991 is old, wait'll you hear about AT&T UNIX. This ta...

#SeaGL2026 #keynote #linux #FLOSS #opensource
🔗 https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/talk/TGRTZU/

Open Source is freedom.
Open Source is sharing.
Open Source is being free from obligations.
It's making your own kind of music.

That Open Source must use GitHub is blasphemy.

That those who do Open Source must use specific tools or solutions is an abomination.

And when that tool belongs to a company, it's just another form of embrace, extend, extinguish.

Open Source is a license, a free one, that protects the software and/or the people.

Everything else is corporate in disguise.

#IT #OpenSource #BeFree

Earlier this year, the FreeBSD Foundation launched its Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Readiness project to help prepare FreeBSD, its community, and manufacturers for the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Our October update looks at the work completed so far, what’s underway, and how the Foundation is helping prepare the FreeBSD ecosystem for the CRA.

Read the full update to learn more: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/october-2026-update-getting-ready-for-the-eu-cyber-resilience-act/

#FreeBSD #CyberResilienceAct #OpenSource #Cybersecurity

A question for fellow open-source maintainers:

Imagine someone uses AI to redevelop your tool in Rust. The result barely works, but they reuse your project’s name and repeatedly jump into discussions about the existing project to promote their version.

How would you handle that? I’m usually a nice guy, but I still think that if someone keeps crashing your party, at some point you’re allowed to remind them they weren’t actually invited.

#ai #freesoftware #opensource #theory

I wrote the extraction playbook before I'd done the hard extraction. Said out loud, that sounds a bit daft.

Eight deliberately boring steps, written by a man who had extracted exactly one module, and an easy one at that.

Then chat went through it: the package that scored 10 for downstream value and 4 for ease of decoupling, the widest gap in the table. It made it out. go/chat is on its own release line and its go.mod mentions go-tool-base zero times.

And then it broke step six.

Step six says: add the dependency, delete the in-tree package. Open go-tool-base today and pkg/chat is still there. Ten files of it, all importing the extracted module.

Not a failed cut-over, more a category the playbook didn't have. Something has to turn the framework's resolved config into the typed settings the module takes, and that has to live on the framework's side of the line. So step six really means: delete the implementation, keep the border post.

Steps one to five held perfectly, and I'd write it that early again. A process document is a hypothesis. It looks like a rule and gets followed like a rule, but until something difficult has run all the way through it, you're reading a description of the easy case with the confidence of a standard.

#golang #SoftwareArchitecture #Refactoring #OpenSource

https://phpboyscout.uk/the-extraction-playbook-only-got-real-when-chat-left/

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A hand-drawn set of eight numbered steps on lined paper, with step six struck through and rewritten in the margin as delete the implementation, keep the border post.

Recommended: "While #repositories excel at long-term preservation, they were not made with the interactive capabilities required to execute complex code or analyze dynamic data directly. There are several #OpenSource platforms…which provide ‘sandbox’ environments for replaying research that can be integrated with repositories to add this functionality. By integrating these scholarly tools, institutions can move beyond static file storage to offer seamless, in-browser execution of scholarly materials."
https://iassistquarterly.com/index.php/iassist/article/view/1196

#Genres #GreenOA #Interactivity #IRs #ScholComm

Sind hier Menschen aus dem Raum #Celle, die Lust und Interesse haben, mit uns einen di.day auf die Beine zu stellen?

#DIDay #DigitalIndependenceDay #BigTech #DigitalSouveränität #DatenschutzJetzt #DemokratieStärken #AlternativenNutzen #DigitaleFreiheit #TechAlternativen #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #SaveSocial #FediVerse #OpenSource #DatenschutzIstMenschenrecht #DigitalerWandel

Got the honors to help testing LittleFedi, an #opensource project by @stefano and a very interesting one!

Why? Small, focused, no clutter, simplicity, easy to use. Also, Stefano is a great person and used the feedback he received to make it even better.

If you want to set up your own Fediverse instance, then this might be the one to start (and stay).

So do follow @littlefedi_official and visit the website https://littlefedi.org/ for more information.

🔁 Spread FOSS and great projects ❤️

OpenScreen v2.0 est disponible en prerelease. Alternative open source à Screen Studio, gratuite et sans compte.
Au menu : montage par la transcription, détourage de la caméra, rendu GPU natif sous Windows, macOS et Linux, serveur MCP pour Claude Code. ⬇️
https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-YwN

REP-158 has now been approved by both the ROS and Gazebo project management committees (PMCs).

This enhancement will add OpenUSD to the existing URDF and SDF formats for describing robots & environments.

Thank you to our community members from Robotech.ai, NVIDIA, and Ekumen for driving this REP to acceptance!

https://reps.openrobotics.org/rep-0158-2006/

#OpenSource #Robotics #ROS #ROS2

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The Open Robotics logo.

Debian is obviously a rock-solid choice for CERN. With their massive software ecosystem and community, it makes total sense why they went that route. But part of me can't help but wonder what a NetBSD-powered Large Hadron Collider would look like! ⚛️

NetBSD’s hardware portability just seems like a perfect match for lab. Plus, using pkgsrc to manage complex scientific software seamlessly across all those different niche architectures would be incredible to see at that scale.

Nothing but respect for the Debian rollout, but a sysadmin can dream! 🚩🚀

@cern

#NetBSD #CERN #Debian #Linux #UNIX #OpenSource #noai #nollm #antiai

Am I getting this correct?

Digital Ocean donates $3 million to Omarchy and then slashes their open source credits program?

That's fucked up.

#OpenSource

🦊 Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/30/firefox-157-could-bold-new-look-be-just-what-mozilla-needs/5300059

#firefox #mozilla #opensource

Firefox 157 déploie son nouveau design sur ordinateur et mobile, avec retour du mode compact, nouveau sélecteur de thèmes et page Nouvel onglet personnalisable à raccourcis épinglables. ⬇️
https://blog.mozilla.org/fr/firefox-fr/le-nouveau-design-de-firefox-est-la/

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-UM2

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Illustration du nouveau design de Firefox montrant un renard stylisé aux couleurs orange et rouges dégradées, accompagné d'un toggle switch blanc sur fond violet. L'image représente la modernisation du design du navigateur Firefox avec une interface épurée et contemporaine.

October is upon us!
#Seagl2026 is about 3 weeks away!

So here is the schedule:
https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/schedule/

October 23rd and 24th. Seattle,WA

#linux #FLOSS #opensource #FOSS #OSS #oswh #free #libre #open

RE: https://mas.to/@davidism/117292399049862157

The beginning of the month, when every junk producer's token limit resets, and we get a whole new wave of junk. Turning off PRs helped a lot, but they just started opening "test issue, checking if my API access is broken", or commenting or emailing their patches instead. I really wish I knew how to escape this without turning off community interaction entirely. #python #flask #opensource

Greg Wilson boosted

David Lord » 🌐 2026-09-18
@davidism@mas.to

I've turned off pull requests from non-members for Flask, Werkzeug, Jinja, and Click this week, and have enjoyed not waking up to a fresh wave of AI junk every morning. I think I'm going to update our contributing guide to say "introduce yourself and how you use the library in chat first if you want to contribute pull requests". Sad that we had to go here, but aside from conference sprints we weren't really getting outside contribution anyway (which is also sad, but that's been the case a lot longer than AI has been around). #python #flask #opensource

Nulled (https://nulled.llc) are offering to help out open source projects in place of the Digital Ocean Open Source Credits program.

https://void.lgbt/objects/b18960a5-787a-457d-ace9-579a15777ccb

#opensource #linux

Netherlands builds sovereign government desktop based on NixOS

The Netherlands is developing an open-source work environment for authorities. The desktop OS is based on NixOS, and eight municipalities are already testing it.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Netherlands-builds-sovereign-government-desktop-based-on-NixOS-11470450.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#DigitaleSouveränität #Linux #Microsoft #Netzpolitik #Nextcloud #OpenSource #Windows #news

Worried that an upgrade could leave you with an unusable system?

FreeBSD boot environments, powered by ZFS, provide a straightforward way to recover.

In this video, learn how FreeBSD boot environments can make upgrades and system maintenance easier to manage.

Watch the video to learn more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHCXEzRfao&t=4s

#FreeBSD #ZFS #SysAdmin #OpenSource

Happy #WorldHeartDay! 🫀

Small healthy choices today can make a big difference tomorrow. choose #NetBSD 🚩🧡

#NetBSD #WorldHeartDay2026 #OpenSource #UNIX #noai #nollm #runbsd

#SovereignTechResilience relaunches with four new services for critical #opensource projects: memory safety, post-quantum encryption, supply chain security, and Cyber Resilience Act compliance.
https://www.sovereign.tech/news/resilience-relaunch 1/

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Sovereign Tech Resilience relaunches with four new services to prevent, discover, and eliminate vulnerabilities in critical digital infrastructure. Sovereign Tech Agency.

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Transition to memory safety: helping projects find where memory-safe languages and practices matter most, then supporting the move. Sovereign Tech Resilience logo in the upper right corner, Sovereign Tech Agency on the bottom.

📱 Signal ohne Telefonnummer: Es geht tatsächlich los.

In der aktuellen Android-Beta lässt sich ein neues Signal-Konto erstmals komplett ohne Telefonnummer anlegen. Statt SMS-Verifizierung erhält man eine 32-stellige Account-ID und einen 64-stelligen Recovery-Key.

Die Registrierung kostet einmalig rund 3 US-Dollar bzw. einen länderspezifischen Betrag. Laut Signal wird die Zahlung durch Zero-Knowledge-Technik nicht direkt mit dem neuen Konto verknüpft.

Wichtig: Gehen Account-ID und Recovery-Key verloren, gibt es keinen Fallback über eine Telefonnummer – das Konto ist dann weg. 👇

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/11197884108826-Phone-Numberless-Registration-for-Android

#Signal #Messenger #Datenschutz #Privacy #Android #OpenSource

If any of my work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or elsewhere) has been helpful in the past, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. ​

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://dir.floss.fund/view/@brynet.ca

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

#bsd #opensource #foss

AI Passport Photo : générateur qui prépare vos photos d'identité aux normes officielles, pour 32 pays. Traitement entièrement dans le navigateur, aucune image envoyée sur un serveur.
Export en 300 DPI ou planche prête à imprimer (4×6, 5×7, A4). ⬇️
https://www.aipassportphoto.org/fr

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-ipj

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Interface web d'AI Passport Photo montrant un exemple de photo d'identité générée par IA avec un portrait de femme sur fond clair, accompagné des caractéristiques du service : cadre aux normes officielles, centrage du visage, fond personnalisable et export en 300 DPI.

#AskFedi:

Aside from Gentoo, what other #OpenSource projects have policies about how to handle #AI-assisted contributions?

#PleaseBoost

@rl_dane

The GNU license promotes itself as promoting 'free' software.

It positions millions of unpaid devs to work for free improving software that only the billionaire class is positioned to profit from using.

Sure everyone is free to use it. But only the rich or well-connected are free to profit from using it.

Permissive licenses solve this problem. With a permissive license you are not required to donate your code changes to your billionaire competition.

In short, 'free software' copyleft is marketing propaganda that benefits mainly the rich and those with connections. The little guy must give his improvements to the public 'billionaire class' without compensation. The little guy can't make any profitable, proprietary software from copyleft sources. The megacorp with its resources can get around this in sundry ways.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #CopyLeft #Copyright #SoftwareFreedom

A reminder that Prāv is offering paid work to improve #XMPP clients and servers. We need app developers (mobile, desktop, and web), translators, and designers.

Talk to us about available tasks, and send us a quote. This way, you can make money working on #libre software and #decentralized networks…and even better, it’s a #cooperative (in the process of registration), not a company - so the users and developers call the shots.

As the cherry on top, LLM-generated contributions are not allowed, as per the recent policy vote (announcement pending). So everyone who’s sick of genAI permeating the industry is welcome 🙂

Interested contributors should join the Prāv development channel: https://invite.joinjabber.org/#prav-devel@groups.durare.org?join
Sign up on our Loomio forum: https://codema.in/ (stands for COllective DEcision MAking)
And check out the code, issues, and PRs at https://codeberg.org/prav

Those who would like to fund this project can donate at https://prav.app/donate

#FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #contraLibre #GetFediHired