@RaccoonForFriendica new version 0.4.0-beta01 available for testing!

Changelog:
- feat: add "Distraction free" post layout;
- feat: add "Compact" post layout;
- feat: implement post dislike action;
- fix: retrieve post source for editing even for plain text;
- chore: translations update;
- chore: update dependencies.

Moreover, let me wish everyone happy holidays and remember to #livefasteattrash on Christmas and New Year's Eve.

A special and heartfelt acknowledgement goes to all the contributors of the #raccoonforfriendica project, people who helped with code, translations, bug reports, ideas for improvements, design, roadmap and in many other ways. Remember that this wouldn't have been the same without your contributions, and the fact that people who don't know each other (and don't even speak the same language) can meet and create something together is one of the best things of the free and open source model.

Hope we can continue in this direction next year. Thank you everyone, you are awesome ❤️🦝🎄

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #procyonproject

"One fun anecdote is that companies or governments will often say they need months or years to prepare (CLEAN UP) code for open sourcing. Because on the inside, people allow themselves far worse code than they’d prefer to share with the outside world. Open source code often has higher standards, and it is a great mechanism of keeping you on track."

Says @bert_hubert in his article about long term software development #opensource #dev #coding
berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-l…

On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert's writings

Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software.

^{Bert Hubert's writings}

🎉 Aktualizovali jsme vhsky.cz na verzi 7.0.0 ! 🎉

✨ Nový redesign vzhledu:

Světlé/beige téma a tmavé/hnědé téma přímo v jádru PeerTube
Vylepšené menu, rozdělené stránky pro knihovnu a správu
Lepší navigace a přehlednost

✨ Nové funkce:

Jednoduchá správa titulků díky novému editoru 🎥
Zlepšená přístupnost (kontrast, klávesová navigace, podpora čteček obrazovky)
Podpora slovenštiny 🇸🇰
SEO vylepšení a další UX drobnosti
Vyzkoušejte nový vzhled a funkce na vhsky.cz! Myslím, že si jej uživatelé zamilují. ❤️
#vhsky #peertube #opensource

VHSky

VHSky – Otevřená platforma pro sdílení videí bez reklam. Podporujeme kreativitu, svobodu projevu a komunitní obsah.

^VHSky

With #Prusa turning from #openness with its new Core One model and other cases, there is a need to discuss alternative models to cultivate and sustain #opensource hardware. Although promising approaches exist already, it might be vital to identify the necessary patterns of #Commoning. Read my thoughts here: blog.opensourceecology.de/en/2…

#OpenHardware #CommunitySupportedIndustry @OSEGermany cc @GOSH @stargirl

Why Tech-Commons die | Open Source Ecology Germany

The introduction of a new, closed Prusa CORE One should come as little surprise, but there could be a remedy A guest article by Paul Jerchel Commons die without…

^{Timm (Open Source Ecology Germany)}

The #XMPP Newsletter for November 2024 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!

xmpp.org/2024/12/the-xmpp-news…

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization

@RaccoonForFriendica new version 0.3.4 has been released.

I'm sorry for having released multiple versions in so little time, this is an exception situation and is due to 0.3.2 not being available in F-Droid due to this issue.

The only way was to migrate to a different dependency injection framework and, if you wonder what happened, never use the Koin Annotations library if you want your builds to be reproducible!

Changelog:
- refactor(di): migrate from Koin to Kodein;
- chore(l10n): update German translation (thanks @Thomas for your continuous improvements);
- chore: update dependencies.

Hope this is the last release until next year and, with this, I wish everyone happy holidays 🎉🎄#livefasteattrash

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #procyonproject

🎉 Shrnutí roku 2024 na OSCloud: Novinky a pokroky!

🛠️ Co jsme letos přidali?
👉 Vikunja: Moderní nástroj na správu úkolů a projektů.
todo.oscloud.cz

👉 Find My Device: Lokalizace a správa zařízení bezpečně a jednoduše.
findmydevice.oscloud.cz

👉 FreeScout: Nový nástroj pro efektivní zákaznickou podporu.

👉 Dokumentace OSCloud: Začali jsme vytvářet přehlednou dokumentaci.
docs.oscloud.cz

👉 Nextcloud: Váš cloud s OnlyOffice pro snadné sdílení a spolupráci.
oscloud.cz

💡 Možnosti na OSCloud
🌐 Hostujeme několik menších i větších webů – od blogů přes fotografické galerie až po fóra.
📸 Webhosting pro fotografy s aplikacemi jako Piwigo, Immich nebo Lychee.
💬 Fóra díky Discourse a NodeBB.
📂 Možnost hostingu pro firemní i osobní projekty.

🔍 Naše hlavní aplikace
👉 Talk: Videohovory přímo z prohlížeče. talk.oscloud.cz
👉 MxChat: Bezpečný chat založený na Matrixu. mxchat.cz
👉 CryptPad: Soukromá kancelář pro spolupráci. cryptpad.arch-linux.cz
👉 Mastodon: Naše instance pro otevřenou komunikaci. mamutovo.cz
👉 Pixelfed: Naše instance pro sdílení fotografií běží již několik let a stále roste.
pixelfed.cz
👉 Vikunja: Všechny vaše úkoly na jednom místě. todo.oscloud.cz
👉 Wallabag: Ukládání článků na později. read.oscloud.cz
👉 Tiny Tiny RSS: Sledujte novinky s vlastní RSS čtečkou. rss.oscloud.cz
👉 PairDrop: Sdílení souborů bez cloudových úložišť. pair.oscloud.cz
👉 SearXNG: Anonymní vyhledávání. searxng.cz
👉 PeerTube: Svobodné sdílení videí. vhsky.cz
👉 Bitwarden: Bezpečný správce hesel. bitwarden.archoslinux.cz
👉 Nextcloud: Cloudové úložiště s OnlyOffice. oscloud.cz
📢 Na co se můžete těšit?
Společně s @cynik_obecny pracujeme na novém webu OSCloud. Přinášíme přehledné služby a více možností pro naše uživatele!
🔐 OSCloud: Ochrana soukromí, otevřený software a bezpečnost na prvním místě
#oscloud #opensource #bezpecnost #soukromi

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

^{cryptpad.arch-linux.cz}

🌐 Novinka na OSCloud: FindMyDevice 🌐
Ztratil/a jsi někdy svůj telefon nebo ho potřeboval/a vzdáleně ovládat?
Nyní můžeš využít naši novou službu FindMyDevice, která:
🔐 Chrání tvoje soukromí díky end-to-end šifrování.
📍 Sleduje polohu tvého zařízení.
📱 Odesílá příkazy na telefon.
💾 Ukládá minimální data a vše důležité šifruje.

✅ Pokud nechceš používat podobné aplikace od Googlu, stáhni FindMyDevice z F-Droidu:
👉 FindMyDevice na F-Droidu

🎉 Uživatelé OSCloud mají aplikaci FindMyDevice již dostupnou přímo ve svém Dashboardu.

Více informací najdeš zde:
🔗hedgedoc.arch-linux.cz/s/jN2q7…

#OSCloud #FindMyDevice #OpenSource #Bezpečnost

HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together

Ideas grow better together

^{hedgedoc.arch-linux.cz}

How do you a visualize a contributor community like Thunderbird's? With help from @bitergia, of course! Read our blog on how we partnered up to understand and better support our community - and open up our data.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/12/v…

Open Source, Open Data: Visualizing Our Community with Bitergia - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird and Bitergia joined forces to help us visualize, understand and better support our open source community contributors.

^{Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)}

@RaccoonForFriendica version 0.3.2 of Raccoon has been released! 🎉🦝🎉

Changelog:
- feat: add Acknowledgements screen;
- feat: support for block quotes;
- fix: prevent crashes while loading timeline;
- fix: load suggestions and trending links;
- fix: retrieve source for post editing;
- fix: user post pagination;
- fix: images overlapping text;
- fix: detect Friendica RC versions;
- enhancement: accessibility improvements;
- enhancement: post preview;
- enhancement: exclude replies from timeline by default;
- enhancement: make Markdown mode always available;
- enhancement: l10n updates.

Thanks to all those who helped by testing and reporting bugs, submitting pull requests or translating the UI. You are mentioned in the home page and, from now, also in a dedicated screen which can be accessed from the "App information" dialog.

You are simply awesome #livefasteattrash

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #procyonproject

$ pip3 search something
...
RuntimeError: PyPI no longer supports 'pip search' [...]. Please use pypi.org/search (via a browser) instead. [...]

Sure, no problem. Let's see …

»JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Please enable JavaScript to proceed.«

Urgh, but okay, #pip is a #Python package manager, they're good guys. Let me just open #NoScript and temporarily allow pypi.org ... oh no, it wants to run #JavaScript from …

ethicalads.io
fastly-insights.com
googletagmanager.com
gstatic.com
statuspage.io

That's what you get after 30 years of using the term #OpenSource instead of #FreeSoftware.

@RaccoonForFriendica Finally we have a Weblate project for the translations of the app UI, changelogs and metadata. Hope this will help us all create a better user experience and correct some localization mistakes!

#raccoonforfriendica #procyonproject #foss #opensource #friendica #fediverseapp

Want to know more about the change from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android? We're answering your questions - three of them, anyway - in this latest installation of Heise.de's "Three Questions and Answers" series!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Android

heise.de/news/Drei-Fragen-und-…

Drei Fragen und Antworten: Technischer Wandel – von der K-9- zur Thunderbird-App

Die Umstellung von K-9 Mail zu Thunderbird hat zwei Jahre in Anspruch genommen, doch das Team hat eine gute Balance dafür gefunden, meint Philipp Kewisch.

^{Wolf Hosbach (heise online)}

Really interesting interview on Volts.wtf with @doctorow - Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?

volts.wtf/p/can-we-avoid-the-e…

They cover a lot of really interesting aspects of #ClimateChange, technology and #OpenSource. There are so many good innovators in the clean tech space, yet even with good motives, the incentives can drive towards #enshittification.

Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?

Cory Doctorow describes how software platform technologies go wrong and what it might look like when our homes and vehicles are on those platforms.

^{David Roberts (Volts)}

The newest point release for Thunderbird for Android/K-9 has landed on the Google Play Store, with F-Droid coming soon. We’re starting on improvements to the account drawer, and more customizable icons that stay in one place have landed in this release. Thank you to all our community contributors, and see what’s new/changed/fixed in our changelog: github.com/thunderbird/thunder…

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Android

Release Thunderbird 8.2 · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

New: Account initials now use the display name, improving customizability Account icons remain in the same position when selected Help text linking to support page added for Gmail login issues Ch...

^GitHub

🚀 Novinka od týmu OSCloud! 🌟

S radostí vám představujeme naši vlastní PeerTube instanci: VHSky.cz! 🎥✨

📽️ VHSky.cz je komunitní platforma pro sdílení videí. Bez reklam, bez sledování, jen čistá radost z tvorby a sdílení. 🐾

Hostujte svá videa.
Objevujte originální obsah.
Připojte se k nám a buďte součástí komunity! 🌍

🛡️ Co je PeerTube?

PeerTube je open-source platforma pro sdílení videí, která nabízí decentralizovaný přístup k hostování.

Žádné reklamy, žádné sledování.
Umožňuje propojení s dalšími instancemi díky síti federace.

🔒 Bezpečnost a soukromí

Vaše soukromí je naší prioritou. Na VHSky.cz:

Neshromažďujeme zbytečná data.
Data jsou chráněna a bezpečně ukládána.

💡 Proč to děláme?

Chceme vytvořit prostor, kde mohou tvůrci a diváci sdílet a objevovat videa bez vlivu korporací. Naším cílem je podporovat svobodu projevu, komunitní spolupráci a bezpečnost na internetu.
📝 Registrace

Registrace na VHSky.cz jsou aktuálně schvalovány moderátory, aby byla zajištěna kvalita obsahu a bezpečné prostředí.
Máte zájem? Kontaktujte mě, nebo @cynik_obecny přímo tady, nebo navštivte vhsky.cz.
#opensource #peertube #fediverse #Video #activitypub

The 2022 tech layoffs were 70% women. BIPOC, queer, and disabled workers were also terminated at higher rates.

While we can't prevent corporate layoffs, we can ensure the future of the free and open source community is more diverse and inclusive. Outreachy and Conservancy are vital to that future.

@outreachy connects people who face discrimination and systemic bias to internships in free and open source software. @conservancy staff and contractors run Outreachy.

Outreachy corporate sponsorships and grants have been drastically reduced since 2022. This means Outreachy can't offer as many internships to people who face discrimination and systemic bias in tech. Outreachy's normal 60 to 70 intern cohorts have been reduced to 25 to 35 interns.

Please consider donating to the Conservancy fundraiser, in support of Outreachy and the diverse and inclusive future FOSS needs:

sfconservancy.org/donate/

#freeSoftware
#OpenSource

Happy Birthday, @thunderbird!

#mozilla #thunderbird #free #opensource #linux #happybirthday

A public sector funding initiative should pick up #Mozilla #Firefox and drive it as a community browser indepedent of #Google funding.

A browser is by far the single most impactful gateway to computing resources for people nowadays. (Right after a mobile OS.)

It must not be allowed to fail.

zdnet.com/home-and-office/netw…

#OpenSource #OpenWeb #PublicSector #PublicMoneyPublicCode

Why Google's legal troubles could hasten Firefox's slide into irrelevance

Fewer people than ever use the once popular web browser, but Mozilla remains profitable thanks to Google. How long can that trend continue with the Department of Justice coming after Google?

^{Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)}

#Slop is low-quality media - including writing and images - made using generative artificial intelligence technology.

Quelle: Wikipedia.

Open source projects have to deal with a growing number of low-quality vulnerability reports based on AI. See for example this comment from Daniel Stenberg, maintainer of #Curl:

I'm sorry you feel that way, but you need to realize your own role here. We receive AI slop like this regularly and at volume. You contribute to unnecessary load of curl maintainers and I refuse to take that lightly and I am determined to act swiftly against it. Now and going forward.

You submitted what seems to be an obvious AI slop "report" where you say there is a security problem, probably because an AI tricked you into believing this. You then waste our time by not telling us that an AI did this for you and you then continue the discussion with even more crap responses - seemingly also generated by AI.

Weiterlesen bei HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and inet_ntop4.

#opensource #AI #LLM #Spam

curl disclosed on HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop...

*Curl is a software that I love and is an important tool for the world. * *If my report doesn't align, I apologize for that.* The `Curl_inet_ntop` function is designed to convert IP addresses from...

^HackerOne

Wishing everyone a great time at EmacsConf by EmacsConf team starting today in the Internet

foss.events/2024/12-07-emacsco…

#emacsconf #EmacsConf #EmacsConfteam #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

Have experience in open source program management, especially within the US legislative landscape? We’re seeking a contractor to help bootstrap Flathub into a self-sustaining entity.

Help us:

• Launch payment & donation systems
• Establish operational governance
• Coordinate financial & legal operations
• Ensure community engagement & transparency
discourse.flathub.org/t/reques…

#Flathub #FediHire #GetFediHired #Flatpak #job #JobAlert #OpenSource #Flatpak #Linux

Request for Proposals: Flathub Program Management

The GNOME Foundation is seeking a contractor to help with program management, financial/legal setup, and public outreach to bootstrap Flathub LLC. This work is funded by Endless. Project Overview The GNOME Foundation, in partnership with KDE e.V.

^{Flathub Discourse}

The Fedora Project is looking for a new git forge to move to, and right now the preference is toward @forgejo over GitLab. We're looking for feedback one more time from the community before the Fedora Council has a vote on it!

Learn more: fedoramagazine.org/fedora-move…

#Fedora #Forgejo #GitLab #OpenSource #Git

Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo - Fedora Magazine

Numerous factors were involved in the decision to move to Forgejo and this article will discuss them, present some background on the process, and invite one more chance for feedback.

^{Akashdeep Dhar (Fedora Project)}

I've noticed a concerning trend of "slop security reports" being sent to open source projects. Here are thoughts about what platforms, reporters, and maintainers can do to push back:

#oss #opensource #security

sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-…

New era of slop security reports for open source

I'm on the security report triage team for CPython, pip, urllib3, Requests, and a handful of other open source projects. I'm also in a trusted position such that I get "tagged in" to other open sou...

^{sethmlarson.dev}

Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video!

It's my birthday today, so I'll leave you to it and go enjoy some free time :)

youtube.com/watch?v=8JQGGQIVlx…

Steam Controller 2 design leak, bcacheFS ban, Wine + Wayland by default: Linux & Open Source News

Give a shot to proton VPN with their Black Friday deals (up to 70% off): https://protonvpn.com/TheLinuxEXPGrab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: h...

^YouTube