Just bought a #DELL 3190 laptop, new for $150 (11.6" screen, 64GB eMMC). It's fully supported on #Linux, and even if it has a Celeron N4120 CPU and only 4 GB of RAM, it'll work fine with #Mint, or #XFCE (and #Gnome/ #KDE if you don't mind some minor lag). Not opening too many browser tabs will ensure that the swap file won't get used too often.
If you're on a tight budget this is a good option, as it also has great battery life too at 10 hours with Linux.
#linuxmint #ubuntu #opensource #foss
Tell us a bit about yourself! My name is Adam Seskunas and I currently live in San Diego, California. In my free time I enjoy outdoor activities, hiking, backpacking in the Sierra, rock climbing and surfing with my daughter Sofia.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
CURL Up 2024
Let's meet @bagder and the other #opensource developers of the #CURL project
📅 May 4-5, 2024
📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪
🏨 Best Western Hotel
🎤 English
🌍 github.com/curl/curl-up/wiki/2024
mbsplugins.de/archive/2024-04-…
‼️ This week's Dev update highlights the ongoing work to enhance Jami's reliability and user experience.
👀 Read more about the progress on mobile testing, bug fixes, and UI improvements for both Jami and JAMS.
#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #TechTrends #PrivacyMatters
Ongoing work to improve communication reliability and efficiency, especially on mobile devices.Loïc Bogino (Jami)
We hear you: it IS frustrating that Thunderbird doesn't have a proper conversation view! It's finally time to answer WHY, and explain what we're doing to solve it.
It all started about 20 years ago...
PeerTube: tilvids.com/w/3wkuHE1GhpZXA5Z1…
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=s3dyGB9oHe…
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Development
It's a great question. And a frustrating situation. Why doesn't Thunderbird have a proper threaded view that includes your SENT messages? Alex explains the blocker, and what we're doing to solve it.TILvids
Today, at Open Forum Europe Capital Series, our @EC_DIGIT_director_general Veronica Gaffey, talked about our goal - increasing the maturity of open source in Commission.
"Many #OpenSource project have sizeable European communities. If we collaborate, Europe can remain at the forefront of open source."
I am getting tired of reading about the #xz #security issue as if it is all about issues within #opensource. It is much bigger than that, and those takes conflate the problem with the solution.
So I wrote "The xz issue isn't about Open Source" here: changelog.complete.org/archive…
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want…The Changelog
"You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project."
— a national government who relies on #Matrix when being asked to support it financially
Read more about the problem and some initiatives that are responding to it:
matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-s…
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #funding #xz #sustainability
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMatthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
Open source infrastructure *must* be a publicly funded service, and funders need to support maintenance – not just new feature development 📣
This is on our minds this week in the wake of the #xz news, and as we continue to seek funding to support #Matrix.
Read the latest from project lead, @matthew: matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-s…
#OpenSource #FOSS #OpenStandards
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMatthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
Schleswig-Holstein geht voran:
#LibreOffice statt M$ Office
#Linux statt Windows
#Thunderbird statt Outlook
#Nextcloud statt Sharepoint
Das Kabinett hat den Startschuss für den Umstieg auf freie Software gegeben - ein Gewinn für #IT-Sicherheit, #Datenschutz und die heimische Digitalwirtschaft.
Langfristiges Ziel ist die vollständige digitale Souveränität des Landes.
schleswig-holstein.de/DE/lande…
Wir ziehen den Hut und wünschen eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung!🎩
#OpenSource #DigitaleSouveränität
Schleswig-Holstein setzt künftig auf einen digital souveränen IT-Arbeitsplatz in der Landesverwaltung – das hat das Kabinett nun beschlossen.schleswig-holstein.de
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Tomorrow's the official start of #30DayFOSSChallenge! We've got a few people chatting in the #matrix already: matrix.to/#/#30DayFOSSChalleng…
Feel free to join us. Don't know what I'm talking about? Look here: nullarch.com/30DayFOSSChalleng…
#foss #floss #opensource #freeculture #degoogle #indieweb
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
Any experienced C developers among my followers? #BoostsWelcome.
Expat, arguably the world's most popular #XML parser, is understaffed and without funding. As #xz has shown, situations like this are dangerous.
Last month, maintainer Sebastian Pipping put up a plea for help at github.com/libexpat/libexpat/b…
(I would help myself, but my C skills barely surpass "Hello, World".)
Found via @timbray - cosocial.ca/@timbray/112203547…
#libexpat
#SoftwareSupplyChainSecurity #OpenSource #OpenSourceMaintainer
#C
:herb: Fast streaming XML parser written in C99 with >90% test coverage; moved from SourceForge to GitHub - libexpat/libexpatGitHub
I think the #xz incident is teaching us that our infrastructure is dangerously fragile in the face of well-organized/funded attackers. The response isn’t “try harder” or “donate to your OSS project”, it needs to be institutional, professional, and at scale.So, here’s my proposal, called “OSQI”, aimed at starting a how-to discussion: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started March by announcing the new Board of Directors at The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Stuff I already wrote that other people might be open to reading this week, because of the #xz incident:
harihareswara.net/posts/2021/s… Four Non-Dev Ways To Support Your Upstreams (Pass this along to executives who are asking "how can we prevent this in our dependencies?")
harihareswara.net/posts/2023/u… Potential cross-project #opensource tools and practices that you/we can implement to help lighten the load on each other
1/n
This is the textual version of my June 7 2021 online talk at Upstream Live: "Sidestepping the PR Bottleneck: Four Non-Dev Ways To Support Your Upstreams", 23 minutes. Video is now up.Cogito, Ergo Sumana
Who needs bad April Fools' Day jokes when you have laptop lids! Today's lid is from @Unaccounted4
Things we are loving:
* Sweet, squishy mascots 🐧
* Sound haberdashery 🎩
* Science and swears 🤬
Rating: 1100/1010 binary references
#OpenSource #Community #WeRateLaptopLids
Wishing everyone a great time at Gnome 46 Release Party by Volunteers starting today in Offline in #Berlin, #Germany
foss.events/2024/03-30-gnome-4…
@gnome
#gnome46 #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe #gnome
🚨 ⚠️ Emergency PSA: A critical security exploit was discovered in the xz package recently, used for compression and decompression on nearly all Linux distributions.
Rawhide users ARE impacted and should immediately STOP using Rawhide until the package update is fully rolled back. (1/3)
Security Advisory: redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-secu…
#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Security #Privacy
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access., (Red Hat)
LibreOffice’s localisation community translates the software’s user interface, along with its documentation and websites.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
In true open source, the software is open to everyone on the same, neutral terms. If you are in need of an #opensource in-memory, key-value data store, check out Valkey, a community-driven fork of the Redis codebase by the former community contributors.
linuxfoundation.org/press/linu…
Community maintainers, contributors, and users will continue collaborative development of an open source, in-memory data store under the new Valkey name.The Linux Foundation
Berlin, 28 March 2024 – Today the Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 24.2.2 Community [1] and LibreOffice 7.6.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Thunderchat Alert! 🚨
Community Office Hours start in ONE hour at 17:00 UTC! Today's format is Open Forum and FAQs, so bring your questions and comments and we'll bring the team! Find out how to join in the blog post: blog.thunderbird.net/2024/03/m…
#Thunderbird #Community #OpenSource
The March 2024 Thunderbird Community Office Hours invites questions from the community in an open forum format.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
💡 The last Wednesday of March can only mean one thing...
Today we celebrate open standards: The ability for everyone to work and communicate using free software.
If you're using paid software that confines you see if any of the alternatives on my list of #opensource software can make life easier for you:
ethicalrevolution.co.uk/opt-op…
Includes (but not limited to) @cryptpad @thegoodcloud @piefedadmin @libreoffice @thunderbird @Tutanota @protonprivacy @plausible @GIMP @inkscape @session @signalapp @delta @efoundation @MattermostFR @element
Any I've missed, let me know!
@dff
#FOSS #DFF #DFD #decentralize
Join me in taking step O, “Opt Opensource”, in the A-Z of steps to a better world: transparency, quality, reliability, flexibility +low cost.Sam (Ethical Revolution)
If you're an #opensource maintainer seeking a good task to give a less-skilled new contributor, ask them to do a discovery report on the project, such as:
Starting from scratch, try to get a local installation up and running, and note how long it took.
Take an hour to explore our documentation and fora, and tell us your impressions.
Given a demo install, try these common user tasks.
Examples:
diff.wikimedia.org/2014/03/25/…
blog.linuxgrrl.com/2014/03/25/…
blog.openhatch.org/2014/spinac…
changeset.nyc/resources/instal…
Arguably the largest photo contest on the African continent aimed at highlighting the richness, diversity and beauty of Africa which deserves to be visually celebrated […]\nDiff
It's time for our Community Office Hours this Wednesday March 27 at 17:00 UTC and the topics are up to you! We'll answer live questions, questions sent to officehours@thunderbird.net, and some of the questions we heard most at SCaLE! 🤔 🐧
Find out how to join us in the blog, and note the shift in day and in UTC! Silly spring time changes. 🗓️ ⏰
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/03/m…
#Thunderbird #Community #OpenSource
The March 2024 Thunderbird Community Office Hours invites questions from the community in an open forum format.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
A new @DestinationLinux has hit the road! (363) 😎🐧▶️ tuxdigital.com/dl363
Check out #DestinationLinux 363: PipeWire Interview with Wim Taymans, Revolutionizing Audio & Video on Linux
#linux #podcasts #opensource #tech
Download as MP3 On this week’s episode, we have a special guest joining us to discuss his work with making our lives better in Linux audio. Of course, this...TuxDigital
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: The Czech team has finished translating the LibrePffice Writer Guide 24.2. As usual it was a team effort, with translations by Petr Kuběj, Radomír Strnad and Zdeněk Crhonek.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Noch eine Woche: Bewerbt euch noch bis nächsten Sonntag, 31.03. um 23:59 Uhr auf 47.500€ Förderung für euer #OpenSource Softwareprojekt.
Keine Sorge: Für unseren Bewerbungsprozess braucht ihr kein Jurastudium, sondern müsst nur elf einfache Fragen beantworten.
Los gehts!
prototypefund.de/jetzt-bewerbe…
Es geht wieder los: Die 16. Runde Prototype Fund steht an. Bewerbt euch jetzt!Paul (Prototype Fund)
🗺️ 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘔𝘢𝘱 3𝘋 🧊
Zoom in to street level to see the 3D features.
#map #maps #OpenStreetMap #3D #topography #world #WorldMap #cities #landscape #environment #data #tools #OpenSource #FOSS
F4 Map is a WebGL 3D Map Viewer based on OpenStreetMap dataF4map Demo - Interactive 3D map
Apache Pekko has left the incubator phase and is now a top-level project.
lists.apache.org/thread/grl5h0…
That's great news! Pekko was created as a Fork of Akka 2.6, right after Lightbend chose to pull a bait-and-switch by relicensing Akka to a non-FOSS license.
I have already switched to Pekko a few months ago, it went very smooth, and I am grateful to everybody involved in making this happen.
#opensource #pekko #akka #scala #java #licensing #apache #foss
#GNOME 46 "Kathmandu" Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What's New 9to5linux.com/gnome-46-kathman…
@gnome #Linux #OpenSource
GNOME 46 desktop environment is here with headless remote desktop support, variable refresh rate support, improved notifications, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Cheers to two decades of innovation, collaboration, and community. Join us in celebrating our community's journey by looking back at a few of the big moments...YouTube
Today we’re talking to Dione Maddern, who helps out in LibreOffice’s documentation team… Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m 44. Originally from Brisbane, Australia but I currently live in Baltimore, on the East Coast of the USA.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
