Quite the gap between theory and practice: while German federal states, armed forces and French gendarmerie rely on #OpenSource because they have understood that #digitalSovereignty is only achievable with open technology, the closing declaration for tomorrow‘s #DigitalSummit treats OS like a hobby. 1/4
Berlin, Brussels, Paris, 17 November 2025. On the occasion of the French-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty, taking place in Berlin tomorrow (18 November 2025), more than 100 businesses, organisations, and individuals are publishing their …
Berlin, Brussels, Paris, 17 November 2025. On the occasion of the French-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty, taking place in Berlin tomorrow (18 November 2025), more than 100 businesses, organisations, and individuals are publishing their …
J'ai lu que le ministère de l'éducation est « intéressé » à faire passer les écoles à Linux. si cela est fait, l'éducation des non-et malvoyants en France sera complétement foutue. L'accessibilité de Linux est inacceptable pour en faire une plateforme d'éducation des enfants. vous voulez passer à Linux ? Soit. Je suis pas d'accord, mais soit. Dans ce cas-ci, il faut *d'abord* investir en accessibilité de cette plateforme, et puis « s'intéresser » à quoi que ce soit. J'espère bien qu'il y aura des appels à la justice. L'Acte Européen d'Accessibilité est en vigueur, et si l'état même s'en fout, comment peut-on exiger l'accessibilité aux autres ? #Accessibilité #Linux #OpenSource #Accessibility
We’re just over half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025. And already, 219 contributors have won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name (or…
I just donate to the @gnome project / foundation. This time I could only manage 10USD! But please if you can spare some money! Support one or more #opensource projects! It does actually make a difference!
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else.
But I'm scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
There's lots of talk about "digital sovereignty" – but what does that exactly mean? Well, avoiding vendor lock-in and economic dependency for starters. Learn how the Open Document Format (ODF) helps here: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource #freesoftware #openstandards
Digital sovereignty, or the ability of nations, organisations and individuals to control their own digital destiny, is a fundamental issue of the 21st century.
I am happy to announce this book that i wrote a chapter in. My chapter looks at the ethics of #accessibility #sustainability and #OpenSource so touches on many threads. It is amazing to have contributed a small part of this first work of accessibility ethics. routledge.com/Digital-Accessib…
Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.
Berlin, 13 November 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.3, the third minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, is now available at www.libreoffice.org/download.
💫 And in more recruitment news - we also have an open (PT) position for a research software engineer at the @tibosl @tibhannover, focusing on helping us orchestrate and deliver research data management services to our project partners.
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The Fedora community is coming together once again to celebrate the release of Fedora Linux 43, and you’re invited! Join us on Friday, November 21, 2025, from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC on Matrix for our virtual Fedora 43 Release Party.
Laden Sie Joplin Web Clipper für Firefox herunter. Capture and save web pages and screenshots from your browser to Joplin. The Joplin application is required to get this extension working - https://joplinapp.org
What will the world be like in 10 years? Or 50? We don't know – but we all need to think about long-term data storage. Don't get locked out 🔒 of your own documents – instead, choose a format designed for long-term archiving: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource #freesoftware #openstandards
Digital documents in proprietary formats often become inaccessible within a few years due to undocumented changes to the XML schema that are intentionally employed for lock-in purposes.
Einen #Desktop #PC habe ich mir vor ein paar Jahren zusammengebaut. Vielleicht hatte ich keine glückliche Hand bei der Auswahl von #CPU, #RAM und #Motherboard und das Zusammenspiel ist nicht optimal?
Er läuft sehr gut - bis auf unvermittelte Totalabstürtze ohne Logeinträge, die mir weiterhelfen konnten.
Irgendwann stolperte ich über ein #Gnome AdOn zur leichten Ampassung der CPU Leistung. Nach der Begrenzung der max. Frequenz via Multimedia-Mode lief er stabil.
Unter #ubuntu 24 funktioniert das AdOn nicht mehr und ich habe mir nun ein Script eingerichtet, welches nach dem Start die max. Frequenz begrenzt:
for cpu in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*; do
cpufreq-set -c "${cpu##*/cpu}" -u 4490000
done
Schrittweise habe ich die Frequenz von ca. 4,3 GHZ nach jedem Neustart erhöht, und habe so die Stufe herausbekommen, bis der er ohne Absturtz läuft.
Interessanteweise stürtze er nicht bei Operationen ab, bei denen man es erwartet hätte, z.B. der Transkodierung von #Video. Das letzte Mal rauschte er in die Tiefe, als ich lediglich mit #Firefox #GitHub aufgerufen hatte ... was auch immer da die Frequenz nach oben getrieben hat?
Es handlet sich um einen Intel® Core™ i7-9700. Dass ich die 4,7 GHz nicht zur Verfügung habe stört mich übrigens gar nicht. Jedenfalls bemerke ich keine langsamere Arbeitsumgebung durch die Begrenzung ... und Gnome ist offenbar seit den neuen Versionen stark optimiert worden, was die Geschwindigkeit angeht...
TikTok nebo Instagram zná dnes úplně každý. Jedná se o obrovské sociální sítě, které patří velkým nadnárodním společnostem. Cíl těchto firem je generovat co ...
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.2 was announced on October 9 LibreOffice 25.2.7 was announced on October 30 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for R1C1 Calc formula syntax and DOI citation recognition and improved and updated help on dimension…
In this issue: XSF Open Letter, Interoperable Healthcare Chat and the Dutch NTA 7532, XMPP - an IETF standard protocol for chat with interoperability by design. XSF Membership Q4. XMPP at Hack or Di(y|e) 2025 in Italy.
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
Did you know that one of Jami’s key features is its ability to work in emergency situations where Internet access is severely limited or completely cut off? Want to know how?
We're so happy to annouce that we have an open source design devroom and we're now accepting calls for talks via the FOSDEM pretalx system.
Open Source Design has been part of FOSDEM for over a decade now, making sure designers who work with, or contribute to free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) a platform to share their ideas.
As a full-time #JAWS user who uses #NVDA only for testing and when JAWS really can't cope with an element, I simply didn't think about this issue but now it makes me laugh and cringe at the same time, as it was raised in a YouTube stream about NVDA I've recently seen. In JAWS, when you script something, you may assign a keystroke to your scripts, and as soon as you do that, JAWS will warn you about a conflict if the keystroke has already been assigned. In NVDA however, if, say, user A develops an addon that does a thing and assigns Ctrl+Insert+1 to it, then user B develops another addon that does another thing, an absolutely different one, and assigns Ctrl+Insert+1 to it also, guess what happens when user C installs both? Hold your breath… It's random! Apparently, the addon installed later overwrites the keystroke, but you as an end-user press a key, expecting, metaphorically, to get a cup of cappuccino, but you get all your windows in the whole house open, because NVDA doesn't warn devs that another addon has this key already assigned! And how can it, probably, since there are tons of addons? Anyway, I'm sure it's possible but, I mean… hahahaha (sorry). And guess what? There is another addon that allows you (as an end-user!) to check duplicates and reassign whatever you need. Phew! I mean… no comments, other than splendors and miseries of #OpenSource (yes, I know, you're mad at me, I repeat this phrase every day, but I will do it more, as it expresses the state of things perfectly). #Accessibility #ScreenReader
Přehrávač na #VHSky teď drží kvalitu rozlišení stabilněji — upravili jsme nastavení segmentů v #PeerTube, takže už by nemělo docházet k přepínání na nižší rozlišení při živých streamech.
🖥️ Počítač nemusí běžet jen na Windows. Existují otevřené systémy jako Linux, které zvládnou všechno od běžného používání po práci i kreativitu — a bez reklam, telemetrie nebo nucených účtů.
☁️ A data nemusí být v cizích rukou. Služby jako Nextcloud umí nahradit Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft 365 i iCloud. Sdílení souborů, kalendář, kontakty, poznámky, chat, videohovory… všechno běží otevřeně a s respektem k uživatelům – tak, jak to děláme na Oscloud.cz.
💡 Oscloud.cz nabízí Nextcloud i další open-source aplikace pro běžné uživatele, firmy i komunity. Bez reklam, bez sběru dat, s podporou v češtině.
Změna nemusí bolet. Jen začít pomalu — třeba od synchronizace souborů nebo kalendáře. A zjistit, že svoboda není jen slovo, ale způsob, jak si technologie znovu přivlastnit. oscloud.cz/ #opensource #nextcloud #linux #oscloud #privacy
Love LibreOffice? Join the project and help to make it even better – get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help th…
Hey @delta! Reading this delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-brows… got me thinking. I live in Firefox but miss Chrome’s one-click “Install PWA as app”. What about a Tauri-based helper + a Firefox extension that wraps a PWA into a desktop app in one step? Hosting stays light: the PWA is cached; relays/self-hosted instances can serve the client. Keeps control with admins. Interested? 👍🏻
As part of the project to port Delta Chat Desktop from Electron to Tauri1, we’ll showcase a setup where our Desktop app runs in Firefox and does not depend on Electron or Chromium anymore. This vid...
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 the month by posting the LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #5 –Accessibility in Free and Open Source Softwar…
Today we're releasing LibreOffice 25.2.7. This is the final update in the 25.2 branch – all users are then recommended to update to 25.8, the newest stable branch:: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Berlin, 30 October 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. Users of LibreOffice 25.2.
As we continue to grow the Foundation’s donations, we look forward to being able to focus on additional ways to directly support the community and the development of GNOME itself.
Thank you again to all 500 of you Friends of GNOME! To everyone else, we’d love for you to consider joining today: donate.gnome.org
Mozilla forces AI on its own community translators, what could go wrong? 
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