🎉 We're growing! Our global #FDroid community is pleased to announce that we now have an official governance plan and a brand-new volunteer Board of Directors. We're excited to work with them to keep improving the leading all #FOSS mobile app catalogue!

f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-dr…

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Android

A new F-Droid board for a new era of growth | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

THE INTERNET, 20 March 2023 — The global F-Droid community is pleased toannounce that it has officially accepted the merge request to adopt anofficial govern...

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Found this on other account. Please boost for reach: Fedora Linux is focusing on accessibility for the next five years. I'd love to see people with disabilities, very much including blind people, comment on this. If you're interested in Linux, or free and open source software, your voices are valuable. I hope Fedora finds our voices valuable too.

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
#accessibility #linux #fedora #foss

Fedora Strategy 2028: Focus area review (Accessibility)

Hello. Yes, sometimes, setting things up is a challenge, however, things are improving. The QT environment variables are definitely not needed for QT 6, and likely 5. Same can be said about GTK_MODULES, which are not needed at least from GTK 3.

^{Fedora Discussion}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 15 updated and 2 new apps:

* NekoBox: universal proxy toolchain

Aaand I'm excited to announce that one app returned fully FOSS, and will soon show up as reproducible at F-Droid (so you can cross-update)!

🥁

* Amethyst: Nostr Client for Android

will soon be the first Nostr client entering F-Droid, if I didn't miss any.

Enjoy your #free, #foss & #libre #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Law enforcement use closed-source "secure" communication tools to catch criminals, but this compromises the privacy of law-abiding users. Exclu, An0m, EncroChat - these all prove why only open source software can be trusted. Read more! 👇

tutanota.com/blog/posts/risks-…

#communication #privacy #lawenforcement #opensourcesoftware #foss #opensource

Collateral Victims of Sting Operations: The Risks of Closed-Source Software

Only open source software can truly be secure.

^Tutanota

Interesting #FOSS project retrospective from the #SumatraPDF developer: blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f…

Lots of opinions I share, some less so. Good food for thought though. :)

Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app

Lessons learned of 15 years writing SumatraPDF, an open-source app for Windows

^{blog.kowalczyk.info}

#AndroidAppRain again at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid – today with 14 updated and 1 new apps:

* Sensify: sense all your device sensors

(when asked, the author created a special FOSS flavor with all the proprietary dependencies and trackers removed 🥳)

Enjoy your #free & #foss #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

@IzzyOnDroid #opensource at its best:

I recently installed vector pinball from @fdroidorg - great to kill some time, and especially fun because of the sound effects and background music. Out of curiosity I followed the link to the README in it's github repo. In it, the author thanks the guy who added the sound effects and music, who wanted to try out a sound library for android and therefore sought out a silent open source game and created sounds and music for it. He wrote an article about it here: twittering.com/webarchive_arti…

So thanks to this exemplary #FOSS collaboration I'm having a good time, whenever I have a five minute break.

@devhonk
Unfortunately going with "permissive" license is not really being generous: it is giving legal justification to others to use your code to exploit users.

As I personally look at Free Software from the "consumer protection" angle, I don't think the so-called "permissive" licenses are ever a good idea.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FOSS

#AndroidAppRain at @fdroidorg with 32 updated and 2 new (*) apps – and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 10 updated and 1 new (+):

* GuessThatPokemon: guess pokemon names and you capture them (game)
* TouchDroid: use your Android Device as Touchpad (not new, rather re-branded)
+ Ping Utils: utilities to test network connections

Enjoy your #fee & #foss #Android #apps with/from #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Special shout-out to @shiftphones thanks for supporting our team! If you haven't heard of #ShiftPhone, you might want to take notes. They build #sustainable electronics and also deliver their own #FOSS #android blend called #ShiftOSL, which comes with #FDroid preinstalled.

f-droid.org/2023/02/09/donatio…

Donation SHIFT6mq | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

In 2022, the German company SHIFT donated three smartphones of their modelSHIFT6mq as a loan for life toF-Droid team members. This was done without asking fo...

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#AndroidAppRain today on @fdroidorg with 43 updated & 2 new (*) apps, and on apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 7 updated and also 2 new apps:

* Image Resizer: a simple image resizer
* omWeather: watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested
+ Battery Tile: Quick Settings tile to show current battery state
+ Farhan: helps you with smartphone addiction

Enjoy your #free & #foss #Android #apps with/from #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

I was surprised at my phone ringing last night, until I realised I got a real non-test push notification from the experimental fork of Nextcloud made by Niklas Reimer. It uses @unifiedpush in the #foss and @fdroidorg compatible version of Nextcloud, and notifications don't go through Google Services or the Nextcloud Push gateway.

Something very exciting is coming!

#foss #pushnotification #UnifiedPush #android #Nextcloud #ntfy #fdroid

a quando una alpha disponibile per i test su linux?

#opensource #email #foss #thunderbird

Here's one of the lesser known ancient Chinese sayings. Still worth living by:

~~ Any day can be made better by synthesizing a kick drum with Geonkick. ~~
- Sun Tzu (most likely)

youtu.be/EtWSnbmdB9w
github.com/free-sm/geonkick

#MusicProduction #FOSS #OpenSource #Geonkick #Drums #SoundDesign #DrumSynthesis

GitHub - free-sm/geonkick: A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux

A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux - GitHub - free-sm/geonkick: A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux

^GitHub

Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" will be intuitive and welcoming to new users, while remaining familiar and comfortable for our veteran users.

See how we're accomplishing that balance with this preview of the new Folder Pane: blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/t…

#Thunderbird #FOSS #Email #OpenSource

Thunderbird 115 Supernova Preview: The New Folder Pane

Thunderbird 115 introduces a brand new Folder Pane to make webmail users feel right at home. But what about veteran users? Find out inside!

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

The Thunderbird community is constantly submitting feature ideas to improve Thunderbird.

But these ideas need upvotes and discussion to get traction. Check out the latest suggestions and add your voice to the mix at connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/i…

#Community #Thunderbird #Email #FOSS #OpenSource

All the talks, all the slides! #FOSDEM

Did you miss any of the talks by our team on @libreoffice Technology at @fosdem? Please visit our blog and find the links to the videos and the available slides for download!

⏬ collaboraoffice.com/company-ne…

#fosdem23 #LOtech #foss #opensource #digitalsovereignty #collabora #collaboraonline

And this week's #Linux and #opensource news video is finally here!

In this one, we have confirmation that #Windows 11 sends data to third parties after a fresh install, without user consent, we have @fedora moving to Flathub in their next release, an AI tool that violates #FOSS licenses, @thunderbird sharing a roadmap and some interesting history, and @gnome Software getting some nice performance improvements:

youtube.com/watch?v=03t0GmaWun…

If you are looking for open-source sampled instruments to use in your music, here's a great repository:
sfzinstruments.github.io/

They use the SFZ format which is the best way to make sampled instruments. It's open-source, easy to edit (all based on text + audio files) and well documented.

To use these instruments in Ardour or other DAWs I'd recommend the open-source plug-in sfizz:

sfz.tools/sfizz/

More about the SFZ format here:
sfzformat.com/

#MusicProduction #FOSS

February is Free and Open-Source Software month - #FOSSFeb! As the your #FOSS screen reader, we want to encourage everyone to explore the world of free, open-source software - especially #accessible software of course! Here are a couple of links on #FOSSFeb to get you started:

opensource.com/article/17/2/fo…

onyxpoint.com/national-free-an…

codemotion.com/magazine/dev-li…

How are you celebrating #FOSSFeb?

Worth reading: "Voice.AI: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM"

undeleted.ronsor.com/voice.ai-…

#FOSS #OpenSource #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

@libreoffice has a #DarkMode. 😍

OK, I updated from 7.3, so I probably missed this feature in 7.4, but this is a _huge_ improvement for me. And I just discovered, that I can change the document background, too. Less strain on my eyes. I'm in love! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

libreoffice.org/download/downl…

#LibreOffice #Office #FOSS #Accessibility

We had a great chat with the #Ubuntu and @ubports teams at #FOSDEM today.

Special shout-outs to Thunderbird Council member Philipp Kewisch (far right) and @ahoneybun (second from right) of @system76!

Thanks for spreading the knowledge, guys.

#FOSS #Community

Learn about software-driven #environmental harm and how to combat it with #FreeSoftware!

Come to 📍 Room AW1.126 (#energy devroom) at #FOSDEM from 🕟 16:30-17 (CET).

Or 🖥️ watch online.

More information here: fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

#KDE #KDEEco #BE4FOSS #FEEP #FOSS #OpenSource #sustainability #environment #ecology

kudos to the #libreoffice #community for another awesome release!

Proud to be a part, having contributed 8 of the new features, and more than 260 commits overall to this LibreOffice 7.5 release.

#foss #office #release #opensource

wiki.documentfoundation.org/Re…

Saturday afternoon, make sure to visit #Collabora's talks on @libreoffice , #CollaboraOffice and #CollaboraOnline at the #LibreOffice Technology devroom at @fosdem 2023. 💪

Please find the schedule in our blog 🗓️ collaboraoffice.com/community-…

#fosdem #fosdem23 #LOtech #foss #opensource #digitalsovereignty

Saturday evening at @fosdem don't miss @tml's talk on #CollaboraOnline and #WASM.

Come to the @libreoffice Technology Dev Room and hear about a new approach to enabling browser deployment of rich office functionality.

Sa. 4.2, 18:30 🕓 fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

#LOtech #LibreOffice #fosdem #fosdem23 #foss #opensource #collabora #collaboraoffice #collaboraonline #cool_dev

#Thunderbird is proud to be included on TechRadar's shortlist of the 10 best #OpenSource apps for 2023!

techradar.com/best/best-open-s…

On a personal note, as the person running this account, it's especially awesome to see #Audacity on the list -- that was my first introduction to #FOSS in 2001.

Gateway software is important 😉

❓ What would YOUR Top 10 open source applications be for everyday use, and everyday users?

Best open source software of 2023

Free software for everyday use

^{Jacob Parker (TechRadar pro)}

This Saturday, at @fosdem don't miss Sarper Akdemir's talk about an #interoperability issue at the @libreoffice Technology devroom and hear how bug tracking can take one deep down the rabbit hole. 🐜

"An Interoperability Improvement in LibreOffice Impress Tables"
Sa. 4.2., 16:30 🕟 fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

#fosdem #fosdem23 #LOtech #LibreOffice #Collabora #CollaboraOffice #CollaboraOnline #foss #opensource

Already looking forward to @fosdem next week?

Saturday afternoon, don't miss our talks on @libreoffice Technology. Noel Grandin will not only address the “elephant” in the Dev Room, but also show how to turbocharge him. 🐘 ➡️ 🏎️

Hear about interesting challenges in a massive codebase!

Sa. 4.2, 16:10 🕓 #LOtech Dev Room 📹
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

#LibreOffice #fosdem #fosdem23 #foss #opensource #collabora #collaboraoffice #collaboraonline #cool_dev

Ardour developers ask for help from users - it's really easy to do and we can all make Ardour a bit better :)

Read more here:

discourse.ardour.org/t/help-ma…

#Ardour #AudioProduction #MusicProduction #Audio #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre #LinuxAudio #FreeSoftware

Help make Ardour 7.3 better: a simple thing for everyone

The source code of Ardour now contains support for searching both global and per-session preferences/properties.

^Ardour

web client -they're mostly looking for #Fediverse web clients - Pinafore is a Fediverse web client, perhaps you can retool your client to support other Fediverse server types like #Pinafore does?

Maybe something like:

fe.SoapBox.Pub

That supports a wide range of Fediverse server platforms, and of course, mastobrand is included in that list.

I hope that helps!

#tallship #FOSS

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Have you heard about #ReproducibleBuilds? This is one of the biggest #security benefits of #FOSS. On #Android, this technique ensures that the #FDroid version of an app exactly matches the developer's version.

Read our article below for more details and to see how easy it is for developers to get set up:
f-droid.org/en/2023/01/15/towa…

Towards a reproducible F-Droid | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A common criticism directed at F-Droid is that F-Droid signs published APKswith its own keys. Using our own keys doesn’t mean insecure — we have a goodtrack ...

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