Looking to hire someone with #FreeSoftware experience? Learn how you can advertise your position on our #job page: https://u.fsf.org/46v

A #ThankGNU! to Adam Oberbeck, Andy Kopra, and Ayan Jaysan for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

Im Mai ist im #LibreOffice-Projekt viel passiert! Es gab Updates für die Software, Veranstaltungsberichte, Neuigkeiten über die kommende Konferenz und vieles mehr:
https://de.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/06/02/libreoffice-projekt-und-community-rueckblick-mai-2025/
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #fedilz #schule #Verwaltung

Continuing with the emphasis on commitments and norms rather than licenses of the likes of the Anti-Capitalist Software License and the Non-White-Heterosexual-Male License, there’s also this sharp take on going post–open source:

https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.html

Even though I know we’re not really supposed to criticise open source these days...

#Opensource #software
#freesoftware #floss #digital
#tech #copyright #capitalist
#anticapitalist

Spread the word about #SoftwareFreedom! Order promotional material!
For example, you can:

Take it to your next #FreeSoftware meeting
Explain to your friends and colleagues why #FreeSoftware is important and share our stickers and material with them
Organize a booth or a talk

https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html

I've spent little to no time on Mastodon in the last few weeks, let alone posting...

The reason has been the illness and then death of my beloved dog “Sam”, aka “Unixdog”, which has left me pretty broken up.

The grief is still not out of my heart, and it doesn't look like things are getting better at the moment, but I will try to bring normality back into my life and thus post Linux and Open Source related topics here again.

And I hope that Sam is doing well in dog heaven, running and jumping across green meadows - and shitting in them. Just like he liked to do here on earth...

Couldn't resist…

𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨

https://survey.blender.org/feedback/2024

From: blenderdumbass . org

The challenge for Dani's Race is deliberately not to be a movie. As in the game should not have cuts, nor there ever should be a moment when the player loses control over the character. Yet through all those limitations I want to continue a story I started in an actua...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/story_without_cutscenes_in_dani_s_race

Desde que regresé a LineageOS me encontré con un inesperado desafío: Ya no podía escuchar música desde la app de YT Music.

Antes usaba una app libre llamada InnerTune, que se rompió completamente desde que Google cambió su API, y hoy en día sigue sin funcionar al menos desde el repositorio oficial. Al ver esto, y dado que tuve que regresar temporalmente a MIUI porque mi universidad me lo exigía, comencé a utilizar YT Music sin más tema. Sin embargo, al haber vuelto a LOS, y al no tener GApps, pues ya la app ni siquiera abre jajaja. Traté de utilizarla desde el navegador web, pero es medio que un martirio; se traba, se pausa, no puedo descargar canciones, y otro puñado de cosas que hicieron que en mí surgiera la necesidad de descargar mi música para tenerla accesible en cualquier momento, y potencialmente en cualquier lugar.

Por esta razón, hago el anuncio de que desarrollé un servicio web para descargar música desde YT Music. Es un servicio con enfoque autohosteable y descentralizado, por lo que cualquier persona con el tiempo y las ganas puede levantarse su propia instancia privada o pública. El proyecto sigue en una etapa temprana, por lo que aún no tiene mucho; descarga canciones individuales y playlists, las comprime en un archivo ZIP y permite descargarlas. También agrega cosas como los metadatos y el AlbumArt para cada canción, y permite descargar en distintos formatos (como mp3, opus, ogg y flac). Poco a poco puliré el software y le agregaré más cosas; mejor aún si alguien comienza a contribuir en el repositorio.

Levantaré una instancia "oficial" en mi dominio, pero no la anunciaré por aquí para evitar que demasiada gente la use, pues eso comprometería mi ancho de banda y aumentaría la vulnerabilidad del proyecto ante ataques o censura. Pondré el link en la sección de "Servicios" de mi página web, y ahí estará para quien lo quiera probar. El repositorio está en https://codeberg.org/Autumn64/Elisifier, y cualquier persona es bienvenida de contribuir, así como de clonar el repositorio y levantar su propia instancia.

¡Muchas gracias por el apoyo!

I wonder if you can #copyleft an idea?

Like, you've done some research and you've figured out a method, technique, algorithm, etc, but you don't have any code or a prototype.
Can you make sure that if anyone builds anything with it, they can't make it proprietary?

Here's another #animation I made with @friction today.

I adore #LocalSend, slick and useful

https://localsend.org/

There are countless ways you can support the #FreeSoftware movement, and volunteering with the #FSF is just one of them: https://www.fsf.org/volunteer

Come September, there will be a gathering of #BSD developers and users in Zagreb, Croatia -- #eurobsdcon 2025.

See https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/ for details, and you can submit your talk or tutorial at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/cfp until 2025-06-21.

See you in Zagreb!

#conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @EuroBSDCon

Update on // foss.events:

Location has been changed for:

P.I.W.O. by Knyfyrtel Hackerspace Poznań on 07 June 2025 in IOR Hotel & Congress Centre in #Poznań, #Poland

Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/06-07-p-i-w-o.html

Official account: @piwo
Official hashtag(s): #piwo2025, #piwo

CoMaps (Based on Organic Maps) has a stable release now (coming to fdroid and google play soon).

You can download it from
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/2025.06.01-6-android

You can read more about the background for this fork at https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

You can read more about the project at https://comaps.app or follow @CoMaps

There are countless ways you can support the #FreeSoftware movement, and volunteering with the #FSF is just one of them: https://www.fsf.org/volunteer

j2k25 - OpenBSD Hackathon Japan 2025 (rsadowski@) https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250601104254 #openbsd #hackathon #j2k25 #development #kde #kdeapps #yubikey #freesoftware #libresoftware

Are there any good #opensource alternatives to #canva that run locally on a #mac ?

I enjoy using Canva but concerned about lockin and outages.

Use case: mainly social media graphics, simple stuff