New article: "Overview of Flatpak's Permission Models"
theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2023…
Huge thanks to @orowith2os for proofreading the article :)
#Flatpak #Linux #GNU #Security #FOSS #OpenSource
Flatpak’s permissions can be confusing. Some are technical and need knowledge on how they work, and others are self-explanatory.TheEvilSkeleton
#AndroidAppRain at @fdroidorg today with 53 updated and 1 new (*), plus at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 8 updated and 1 new (+) apps:
* Halma: Chinese checkers game
+ Smart Dock: a desktop mode launcher
Enjoy your #free and #foss #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo 
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
Today I am tremendously grateful for the 300K donors who gave a record-breaking amount to the @thunderbird Project in 2022.
And I'm tremendously thankful to be part of such an incredible #OpenSource project. One that is undoubtedly thriving, when only a few years ago its existence was in question.
Here is the 2022 Financial Report for #Thunderbird. I hope it inspires you to consider a financial gift to your own favorite #FOSS project.
As you'll see, it matters:
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…
Last year, our mighty donor base generously donated a record-breaking amount to the Thunderbird project! Here's our 2022 Financial Report.Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
Berlin, May 4, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.3 Community, the third minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from https://www.libreoffice.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
This is very cool.
#LibreOffice #Calc can now spell out numbers as words.
@libreoffice - I am very impressed.
For anyone who hasn't got it, see libreoffice.org/download/downl…
#FOSS #Spreadsheet @jeffjarvis
Download free office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Microsoft compatible, based on OpenOffice, and updated regularly.www.libreoffice.org
Today's #AndroidAppRain brings you 42 (hihi) updated and 1 new apps at @fdroidorg:
* Fintunes: a JellyFin audio player
At apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid it's 11 updated and also 1 added app:
* Chinese Converter: converts between Simplified and Traditional with regional variants support
Enjoy your #free & #foss #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo
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
Watch the talk by @allotropia's Balazs Varga from the #COOLdays 2023 in #Cambridge and hear about 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗗𝗙 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆 with @libreoffice. 📄
#wasm #foss #libreoffice #lotech #allotropia #pdf
m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8LwaDjc…
This talk was held during the COOL Days 2023 Technical Day, hosted by #Collabora on 28 March 2023 at Clare College, Cambridge. #COOLdays #CollaboraOnline #co...YouTube
The Document Foundation, thanks to the widespread popularity of LibreOffice, is recognized as one of the largest FOSS organizations worldwide, and especially in Europe (where the project was born over 20 years ago).Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
GO NOW! WATCH FUNNY FOSS VIDEO!
youtube.com/watch?v=mCXhM8gxPL…
(please boost)
#inkscape #foss #bug #alpha #testing #freesoftware #opensource #project #crash #advert #informercial #parody
Remember friends:https://inkscape.org/testerthatshttps://inkscape.org/testerYouTube
This looks really sleek and attractive. Well done, #LibreOffice, this doesn't look like the average #OpenSource and #FOSS software.
I would have guessed that this is #MicrosoftOffice because I don't use it at all, and it is the last #OfficeSuite that I saw and interacred with.
And here's the sanitized URL to this great resource for those who want to shield themselves from tracking, protecting their privacy:
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Love LibreOffice and free software? Want to grow the FOSS community in your region? Help to organise the LibreOffice Conference 2024! Our “Call for Location” is now open – read on to learn more… Background Once a year, the LibreOffice Community gathe…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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 location of the LibreOffice Conference 2023: Bucharest in Romania! It will take…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice is developed by a worldwide community, and many members of this community live in German-speaking countries. From 24 to 26 March, some of them met at the Linuxhotel in Essen.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
🎉 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
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...f-droid.org
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
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
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
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 of 15 years writing SumatraPDF, an open-source app for Windowsblog.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
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.
FMOD for Android is like peanut butter and strawberry jam, together for the first time!www.twittering.com
@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.
#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
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…
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...f-droid.org
#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
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
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy, freedom, and securityPurism SPC
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?
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
A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux - GitHub - free-sm/geonkick: A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/LinuxGitHub
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 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…
Get 100$ credit for your own Linux and gaming server: https://www.linode.com/linuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux:https://www.tux...YouTube
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:
More about the SFZ format here:
sfzformat.com/
