Thank you Google for being a Gold #sponsor of #GUADEC2025! 🌟

Google belives that open source is good for everyone. It enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology.

Visit their website to know more: opensource.google

#foss #linux

🌟 Excited to share Thorsten-Voice's YouTube channel! 🎥 🗣️🔊 ♿ 💬

Thorsten presents innovative TTS solutions and a variety of voice technologies, making it an excellent starting point for anyone interested in open-source text-to-speech. Whether you're a developer, accessibility advocate, or tech enthusiast, his channel offers valuable insights and resources. Don't miss out on this fantastic content! 🎬

follow hem here: @thorstenvoice
or on YouTube: youtube.com/@ThorstenMueller YouTube channel!

#Accessibility #FLOSS #TTS #ParlerTTS #OpenSource #VoiceTech #TextToSpeech #AI #CoquiAI #VoiceAssistant #Sprachassistent #MachineLearning #AccessibilityMatters #FLOSS #TTS #OpenSource #Inclusivity #FOSS #Coqui #AI #CoquiAI #VoiceAssistant #Sprachassistent #VoiceTechnology #KünstlicheStimme #MachineLearning #Python #Rhasspy #TextToSpeech #VoiceTech #STT #SpeechSynthesis #SpeechRecognition #Sprachsynthese #ArtificialVoice #VoiceCloning #Spracherkennung #CoquiTTS #voice #a11y #ScreenReader

Thorsten-Voice

Guude! (hi, nice to see you) 👋, i'm Thorsten 😊. You like open source, privacy aware and local running voice technology? Me too 😎. You'll find cooking recipe like tutorials on TTS, STT, Voice Assistants, AI, ML and way more cool stuff here.

^YouTube

#FOSS alternatives to #Microsoft (cont)

➡️ If you just want an easy-to-use replacement for Windows, highly recommend @linuxmint

Complete list of Linux distros on Fediverse:

@almalinux
@alpinelinux
@archlinux
@AsteroidOS
@chimera
@edubuntu
@elementary
@fedora
@Feren_OS
@freedomboxfndn
@garuda
@gentoo
@kalilinux
@linuxmint
@LubuntuOfficial
@mobian
@opensuse
@postmarketOS
@rockylinux
@getsolus
@ubports
@ubuntubudgie
@ubuntustudio
@ubuntusway
@UniversalBlue
@yunohost

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#FOSS alternatives to #Microsoft (continued)

➡️ @Jami - Peer-to-Peer calling, video conferencing & chat

➡️ @nextcloud - Easy-to-use personal clouds, lots of add-ons available such as office tools, chat & calling, photo sharing etc.

➡️ @forgejo - Self-hostable code forge, supported by Codeberg, hard fork from Gitea

➡️ @Codeberg - Large non-profit code forge, running on Forgejo which they maintain

➡️ @Luanti - Free open alternative to Minecraft, highly flexible, mod-friendly, online-friendly

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#Microsoft has put vile LLMs into everything including Notepad & Github: theregister.com/2025/05/23/mic…

Escape this dystopia by switching to #FOSS alternatives:

➡️ @CryptPad - Privacy-friendly online office suite, used by the UN 🇺🇳

➡️ @libreoffice - Most popular free open offline office suite

➡️ @CollaboraOffice - Collaborative online fork of LibreOffice

➡️ @ONLYOFFICE - Online office suite, self-hostable

➡️ @thunderbird@mastodon.online (main) & @thunderbird@tilvids.com (videos) - Email & comms suite (RSS, XMPP, IRC etc)

🧵 1/3

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

: A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified

^{Richard Speed (The Register)}

Every project should have a "cursed"-page like that: 😆

"Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building #Immich that we wish we never knew."
immich.app/cursed-knowledge/

🤓

#FOSS #yakshaving #fun

Cursed Knowledge | Immich

Things we wish we didn't know

^immich.app

Enjoy writing fiction in Markdown, and prefer keeping ownership of your files in the filesystem, but still want beautiful ePub3 ebooks and paperback output? Your uncle Matt feels the same way!

I created a configuration and example project for pandoc, the fab #FOSS markup converter, to produce beautiful novels from your folders full of Markdown files. Lots of booky, novel-y, typographical/layout niceness. I'll be using this with #emacs. 💜

Read all about it here: github.com/mattgemmell/pandoc-…

GitHub - mattgemmell/pandoc-novel: Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF)

Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF) - mattgemmell/pandoc-novel

^GitHub

If you contribute in some way to GNOME, are you already a GNOME Foundation member? If not, you should apply ASAP: foundation.gnome.org/membershi…

Once you do (or if you’re already a member), don’t forget to VOTE in the upcoming Foundation elections!

The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is elected by Foundation members. If you want to influence how the Foundation is run, one of the most effective things you can do is to become a member and vote.

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

This week's In-process Blog post is out! A bumper edition, featuring:
- NVDA in Open-Source Promotion Plan
- NVDA 2025.1 Beta 6
- Timings for the .1 Release
- NVDA Remote Access
- Other “Remote” add-onsv

Head to nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1… and check it out now!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Blog #News #Newsletter #Beta #PreRelease #FOSS #Free

🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀

Why do developers keep choosing LibreOffice after 40 years? 🛠️
Jim Hall interviews co-founder Italo Vignoli on tech, transparency, and freedom.

allthingsopen.org/articles/40-…

#WeLoveOpenSource #LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS #ODF #DigitalSovereignty

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

apnews.com/article/icc-trump-s…

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #EthicalTech

🔥 The EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is LIVE at euvd.enisa.europa.eu/homepage 🇪🇺💪

Finally, we've got our OWN vulnerability tracking system that's not dependent on …

Three awesome dashboards: critical vulns, actively exploited stuff, and EU-coordinated disclosures. … intel we need to patch our systems PROPERLY!

This is digital sovereignty and resilience in action, folks! No more single points of failure in global vuln tracking. 🧙‍♂️🖥️

#Cybersecurity #EUVD #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #NIS2

EUVD

European Vulnerability Database

^{euvd.enisa.europa.eu}

In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.

So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.

I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!

Next step: radicle.xyz maybe?

github.com/orgs/community/disc…

#github #microsoft #openai #codeberg #ai #ml #llm #enshittification #foss #floss #opensource #radicle

I can't tell y'all how much I love #Emacs. It was the first interface that really intrigued me. It was the first interface where I felt like there was so much I could learn about. And Emacspeak brought it to life for me. Headings spoken by a deeper voice. Italics spoken by a higher, rather fuzzy voice. Bold spoken by a deep voice, almost like headings. Because headings are bold, and large. A calendar where I could move around the actual calendar, not just a list of events. Want to know what date next Friday is? Find Friday of this week, and simply press Down arrow. Or C-n if you're really into Emacs. And there it is. Oh and Nov-mode (nov.el). I can't say enough about that package. An EPUB reader that doesn't choke on a huge book. And Markdown-mode and Org-mode, and even HTML-mode. With Emacspeak, I could hear the syntax highlighting. That way, I knew if I didn't close a bracket pair, or quotes, not only by the punctuation itself, but how the voice sounds.

And now Emacspeak hasn't been updated in a year. Luckily, I think T.V. Raman has made fixes up to Emacs 30. But beyond that, I don't know. I hope it's not abandoned forever. I maybe could use Emacs through Orca, or BRLTTY, or maybe Speechd-el, if I can figure out how it's supposed to be set up and used well. But it feels like such a pail imitation of Emacspeak. But then, unconfigured Emacs doesn't feel all that special either.

#Emacs #foss #Emacspeak #accessibility #blind #linux

Is there a coop or collective of disabled people in tech where you can go to hire accessibility experts? I don't want to continue to release software unless I know its accessible, but I can't know that unless I have my software audited by disabled tech experts that know the pitfalls of these things. I don't need free labour either. I am happy to pay for this service.

#a11y #accessbility #disablity #foss

If you are blind and you have the spoons, can you let me know if you use the terminal on Linux and if so which one? If you use the terminal, do you use a screenreader plugin or a specific external screenreader on Linux?

I wrote a terminal UI program for kubernetes that has voice assistance and I want to test it with a normal workflow that a disabled user would follow.

Edit: I am also willing to pay! Read further down in this thread!

#a11y #foss #accessbility

“Linux ‘just works’ – if you can see.
…
This isn’t a bug.
This is neglect.”

– @fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…

(And its ableist culture will sooner make you the villain for criticising it rather than acknowledging the failing and fixing the status quo. ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be… There’s a reason I’m back on Mac after six years on Linux. As a developer, it was impacting my ability to make what I’m building accessible. And I reject the unspoken premise that the source being open is somehow more important than the human right to universal access. Ethical technology requires more than just the “four freedoms” web.archive.org/web/2025041809… This is why inclusivity is a core Small Technology principle. small-tech.org/about/#small-te…)

#accessibility #inclusivity #universalAccess #a11y #linux #FOSS #openSource #freeSoftware #freedom

About

We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We’re working on building the Small Web.

^{Small Technology Foundation}

@RaccoonForFriendica This weekend I took some time to investigate how much work would be needed to build an iOS version of the app, and it turned out that at least building and running a basic version of the app is doable with some minor changes (see here).

What do you think about it? Would you like to see a Raccoon on iOS too?

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

So, I'm about to try Slint! Thanks to @JessDail for reminding me about it. Except this time I'm going to try it in a VM because I do not want a repeat of the Fedora incident from a week ago. Ugh.

slint.fr/en/home.html

#accessibility #slackware #slint #linux #foss #blind

New #intro!

I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia.

My website meljoann.com includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media.

Some stuff I love:

#musicProduction #videoProduction #books #experimentalMusic #electronicMusic #RandB #earlyMusic #improvisedMusic #science #knitting #history #scienceFiction #horror #alternativeComedy #anarchism #foss #linux #introduction

Meljoann.

Website of hyperjack music producer, writer and video artist, Meljoann.

^Meljoann.

🗣️ New interview !

@ThibaultMartin of @matrix.org sat down with @NGICommons to discuss the role Matrix plays in building a privacy-respecting, sustainable digital communication infrastructure.

Read more on our website: commons.ngi.eu/2025/05/07/matr…

#Matrix #DigitalCommons #foss #OpenSource #Decentralisation #Privacy #Sustainability #Fediverse

@OpenForumEurope
@openfuture
@martelinnovate
@cnrs
@linuxfoundation
@ngi