#floss

Gestern beim Netzpolitischen Abend in Wien gab es einen Vortrag über die Umstellung vom Bundesheer auf @libreoffice@fosstodon.org. Ich hab gefragt, wie das finanziell ausschaut. Trotz, dass sie 7-8 Leute dafür beschäftigen, und für die initiale Umstellung auch Geld in die Hand nehmen mussten, haben sie jetzt schon gespart und die nächsten Jahre wird das nur noch mehr werden. Also erzählt das gerne weiter! Wenn ihr Leute nicht mit Unabhängigkeit als Argument erreichen könnt, dann vielleicht damit. Außerdem fließen die Verbesserungen, die sie machen, wieder in das Community-Projekt zurück, wirklich sehr toll! #SoftwareFreedom #FOSS #FLOSS #LibreOffice #DigitaleAutonomie #DigitaleSouveränität #NetzPAT #Bundesheer #Österreich #Verwaltung

Oops, I did it. #NetBSD sent you this post of mine! 🎉 I switched! Just didn't like the #Linux #slop situation... #BSD #LLM #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #dev #desktop #software

RE: https://narrativ.es/@janl/117484474907395355 #FOSDEM will not have a DEIB room 😔 True to #DIY #OpenSource spirit we will fix this ourselves. Support @Gina@fosstodon.org @elena@aseachange.com @RosannaSibora@fosstodon.org initial proposal for a DEIB room with the #FOSDEMPledge @janl@narrativ.es proposes: Take a min or 2 to discuss the need for diversity, equity, inclusivism & belonging (DEIB) in your talk or have a talk on this topic in the room you organise. For me #FLOSS is about people. Let's make sure everyone feels welcome & enable their participation in the FLOSS ecosystem. ✊

I think if FLOSS wants to stay relevant nowadays, it has to fulfill 3 things:

• no AI whatsoever
• full anonymity and freedom for human users (either in compliance with state identification laws or despite them)
• no service for bots

I have no technical solutions for combining the latter two.

#FLOSS #LLMMeAlone #NoAI #NeverSlop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #anonymity #BotProtection

#Gentoo has a strict #NoAI policy, so our projects are slop-free. Unfortunately, these days you cannot run an up-to-date system without tons of random slop packages, because everyone insists on using that crap. Gentoo supports a whole bunch of architectures that probably every other distribution dumped so far. Unfortunately, these days the available software list is shrinking, as everyone insists on adding some random meaningless dependencies on #RustLang (like using uv-build, which is the single most harmful meaningless #Python project ever created). Gentoo has a strong upstream cooperation policy. However, these days I'm afraid to file issues, because just too often they just trigger more slop. I miss the "good" old days where the worst you could expect is some toxic asshole. The state of #FreeSoftware is truly depressing. There is little joy in distribution work these days. You're overwhelmed with shit, burned out and end up doing a shitty job. And it's bad for your health. #FLOSS

Here is how I wasted the last 30 minutes with #mozilla #thunderbird Suddenly, the "add attachment" dialogue window stopped appearing. I could not attach memes to my emails anymore. I messed a bit around, unsuccessfully. Nothing appears anywhere in logs. I also checked #bugzilla , but that bug tracker is a huge mess and I can't wrap my head around it. Defeated, I tried #ai , which, I have to admit, helped. But not immediately. It went carefully through discarding possible culprits one by one, starting from the most common issues, until it found the cause. The culprit, in my case, is a ridiculous #bug (anyone feel free to report it, I won't touch Bugzilla with a stick) I deleted the last directory which I had last used to attach a file from. This path remains stored as default "last used" directory. Thunderbird did not find the directory anymore and decided to FREAK OUT SILENTLY instead of doing something sensible, like defaulting to my home, or at least alerting me that the directory could not be found. I want my 30 minutes back :( #rant #linux #opensource #foss #floss

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Hello, all! Can you all give me a recommendation for an alternative to Meets/Teams/Skype? Ideally one that you can send a link and then people can join from their browser. Open to any of your suggestions. And thank you 😃 (And if you don't know, boosts are welcome help!) #floss #foss #teams #meet #gafam #opensource #skype #video #videoconfrencing

Here is the other thing, a lot of #FLOSS projects are taking in a lot of #LLM generated code now in the grey-limbo of no policy. AND the longer projects take to ban it, the less likely they are to ever ban it. "No policy" means tacit acceptance is the status quo for a lot of projects. The time for #KDE to ban LLM generated code has kind of passed. I just don't believe it's possible for them. Their unlikely to reverse commits like this. https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-HDR-KWin-Claude-Code AND even if banning it, didn't require reversing prior commits like that; the tacit acceptance of this kind of code, while there is no policy serves to normalize LLM generated code in the project over time. If you need your DE to be llm-code free; time to move on from KDE. #antiAI #noAI

RE: https://kirche.social/@Frau_Sanders/117335808990684519 An dieser Stelle weise ich gerne darauf hin, dass die Ev. Kirche im Rheinland mit einem Open-Source-Portal arbeitet, das niemanden zu Linux zwingt, das aber sehr entspannt mit Linux und Microsoft-frei genutzt werden kann. #EKiR #floss #ITStrategie

OH: The entire point of Open Source Code was not to be at the mercy or enthroled to code you do not understood or have little to no control over. #FLOSS #OpenSource #LLM ( cc @kde@floss.social )

Reading a lot of Linux projects talking about LLMs now, focusing on if they work well enough or not. No talk about ethics, ideals or politics. If it continues down this path, FLOSS will end up like the Ed Sheeran of software. #software #foss #floss #libresoftware #linux #lxqt #desktopEnvironment #openSource #ethics #llm #techbros #tech

New on // foss.events: Chemnitzer Linuxtage by Individual Network Chemnitz on 20-21 March 2027 in TU Chemnitz, Zentrales Hörsaal- und Seminargebäude in #Chemnitz, #Germany Find out more on https://foss.events/2027/03-20-chemnitzer-linuxtage.html Follow the official account: @clt_news@mastodon.social Connect via official hashtag(s): #clt2027 #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

OpenJDK 27 released to FreeBSD ports tree I just pushed a port for OpenJDK 27 to the main branch of the FreeBSD ports tree. In additions to the upstream changes, the following BSD specific improvements are included: Fix os::naked_short_nanosleep on OpenBSD when < 20 miliseconds.Only return symbols that match the requested address for dladdr(3) on BSD. The latter also reverts the default visibility of symbols in libjvm.so to hidden, which should make loading the library faster, and reduce the memory consumption slightly. As always thanks to @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social for sponsoring my work on the OpenJDK for FreeBSD, and also to Kurt Miller for digging into the details for the BSD specific fixes for this release. #FreeBSD #OpenJDK #mywork #java #jvm #FLOSS

Haack's Networking ✍️ We would like to introduce everyone to our latest addition to the #pubglug PubGLUG community offerings. Ente #E2EE encrypted photos, files, and secrets is now live for testing. All users get 10GB upon sign up, but/and more is available upon request (DMs). The technical setup notes are here: 🔗 https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2026/09/21/ente/ 💡 The instance link is here: 🔗 https://gnulinux.pics 📜 We are in testing right now and there will definitely be bugs and/or other issues that need addressing. Please let us know in replies, DMs, and/or hit us on Matrix or DC. For now, registration is open - if it proves to be a problem we will close it. Until then, happy hacking! #ente #sysadmin #selfhosted #caddy #debian #freesoftware #floss #opensource

At the risk of getting blocked by even more snowflakes: Look, Richard Stallman absolutely is a weirdo; but y'all cancelling him (predictably) paved the way for worse weirdos like these Omarchy people. Bad Move. #linux #freesoftware #floss

Kdenlive just got a new timeline for keyframes, and it comes with a bonus performance boost! https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/dopesheet-status-9-26/ #kdenlive #videoediting #floss #kde

I think, it's actually kinda funny that the #altRight #racist #OvertonWindow #Omarchy guy, DHH, collected 8(11?) million Vespuccistan bucks from several M|Billionairs, that will only BENEFIT our beloved virally licensed #FLOSS ecosystem. Even #Nazi money IS technically ALLOWED to use and contribute to #Linux and stuff, within the license - that's the actual deal. 😉 Sure, a few million bucks is a big deal - but it's not exactly a big deal - we all remain protected by our fave licences, right?!

I'm so glad I never gave #Framework my money. Dodged a Nazi bullet. I would have learned about #Omarchy and then *hated* the machine I was using. I wouldn't even be able to give it away in good conscience. #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #computers #laptops #fascism