At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!!

flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.…

#Accessibility #GNOME #GTK #GTK4 #libadwaita #a11y #calendar #GNOMECalendar #Linux #GNU #OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OSS

GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …

^{TheEvilSkeleton}

Upscaler just reached 200 thousand downloads 🥳

flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.the…

#Upscaler #Upscaling #GNOME #libadwaita #GTK #GTK4 #FOSS #OpenSource #OSS #FreeSoftware #Linux #GNU

“The vulnerability might be in the proof-of-concept”

This is a common pattern I see for reporters to open source projects, where the proof-of-concept itself contains the vulnerability, not the project.

👉 sethmlarson.dev/the-vulnerabil…

#security #opensource #oss #vulnerability

The vulnerability might be in the proof-of-concept

The Security Developer-in-Residence role at the Python Software Foundation is funded by Alpha-Omega. Thanks to Alpha-Omega for sponsoring security in the Python ecosystem. I'm on the...

^{sethmlarson.dev}

I am pleased to be speaking at #OSSummit this afternoon in Amsterdam on Digital Public Goods - Incentivizing Collaboration

osseu2025.sched.com/event/28XF…

#DigitalPublicGoods #DPG #FOSS #OpenSource #OSS

Digital Public Goods - Incentivizing Collaboration - Mike Gifford, CivicActions

Digital Public Goods are often celebrated as open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content.

^{osseu2025.sched.com}

After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-cal…

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita

GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …

^{TheEvilSkeleton}

EU’s Cyber Resilience Act isn’t fully in effect yet, but #OSS maintainers are already bracing for compliance requests. cURL creator @bagder is among the first to receive one (from a Fortune 500 company using a 2 year old version.)

What happens when companies treat volunteers like vendors?

socket.dev/blog/oss-maintainer…

Open Source Maintainers Feeling the Weight of the EU’s Cyber...

The EU Cyber Resilience Act is prompting compliance requests that open source maintainers may not be obligated or equipped to handle.

^Socket

Why is security work unlike any other contribution to an open source project?

We need to re-think the tight association between maintainers and security work if we want sustainable open source security.

Read more: sethmlarson.dev/security-work-…

#opensource #oss #security #supplychain

Open Source Security work isn't “Special”

I gave this keynote at OpenSSF Community Day NA 2025 in Denver, Colorado. There will be a YouTube video recording available at a later date. This talk was given as the Security-Developer-in-...

^{sethmlarson.dev}

1 Meme sagt mehr als 1000 Worte. Oder, Conny?

Wir sind nächsten Freitag in Sachen Aufklärung über Open-Source-Software-Alternativen auf der Digitalen Woche Kiel unterwegs - von Office-Anwendungen über Clouddienste (Nextcloud) bis zum Betriebssystem (Linux).

Wir freuen uns über alle, die sich aufschlauen möchten oder noch weitere Tipps für #OSS-Tools in der Tasche haben.
👉🏼digitalhub.sh/de/termindetails…

The latest proprietary #VSCode extension that no longer works in non-Microsoft builds of the MIT licensed VS Code source code appears to be C and C++ support.

Your regular reminder: every day more of VSCode functionality is proprietary, and increasingly #FOSS hostile.

#FreeeSoftware #OpenSource #OSS

github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/i…

Microsoft C/C++ Extension appears to no longer support unofficial forks of VS Code · Issue #2300 · VSCodium/vscodium

As of the latest update of Microsoft's C/C++ extension (v1.24.5, released April 3, 2025), use on non-Microsoft products appears to have been blocked. Upon initializing the extension, I get the foll...

^GitHub

In which an unpaid open-source maintainer gets help from companies using the software to attack a particularly complex and ugly bug: blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-…

Good on Sebastian and on the companies that stepped up!

Also, recursion is often bad.

#oss

Ich habe, bevor @k9mail von @mozilla für @thunderbird übernommen wurde, immer monatlich über GitHub unterstützt. Da ich k9 weiterhin nutze, ging die Spende dieses Jahr an Mozilla. Das ist echt einfach gemacht in der App, schwupps über G-Pay. Ich konnte endlich mal die Gutscheine einlösen.

Unterstützt Open Source - mich würde auch interessieren was für Chromium Derivate die ganzen Google Hasser nutzen, anstatt Gecko. 🤷

#spende #support #oss

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}

Black Weeks at @Tutanota Save 62% On Our Legend Plan! 💎 tuta.com/blog/black-weeks-at-t…

#Encrypt #privacy #BlackFriday #Email #Calendar #FLOSS #OSS #OpenSource

Not endorsing the #degoogle hashtag here just because a hell of a lot of spackle is needed for a comparable experience, but if you're interested in #cloud email servoces, this is one of the better ones in this space.

Black Weeks at Tuta: Save 62% On Our Legend Plan! 💎 | Tuta

Get the deal from November 15 to December 4, 2024.

^Tuta

Next version of Upscaler will have the option to scale images between 2x and 4x :)

gitlab.gnome.org/World/Upscale…

#GNOME #GTK4 #libadwaita #FOSS #Upscaler #Upscale #OpenSource #OSS #FreeSoftware

fail2ban has one core maintainer github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban and he has only 3 Github sponsors github.com/sebres

WTF

I can't even comprehend how many servers are protected by fail2ban, how many compromises are avoided, how many people who run hobby things all the way up to major sites that get to sleep soundly every night... because of this single project.

#oss

GitHub - fail2ban/fail2ban: Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors - fail2ban/fail2ban

^GitHub

Do you remember a couple of weeks ago when I complained that a very large #python contribution to #inkscape was poorly formatted and I felt embarrassed about pushing back and asking them to run a linter over it?

Yeah I'm not fucking embarrassed now, I'm furious. 🤬

Update: Apparently they meant a small section of it was, not the whole MR. I'm annoyed, but I'll have to take them at their word.

#llm #oss #foss #mergerequest

Von den meisten kaum bemerkt, wird das Open Source Learning Management System ILIAS laufend in Sachen #Barrierefreiheit verbessert. Aber diejenigen, die dringend darauf angewiesen sind, wird es freuen.
Einen schönen Einblick in die Communityarbeit zur Barrierefreiheit gibt's unter dem folgenden Link der FH Dortmund:
fh.do/nLSktc

#OSS #ILIAS #LMS
mastodon.social/@ilko/11233289…

Kaum bemerkt und doch viel besser: Barrierefreiheit in ILIAS - ILIAS Kompetenzzentrum

An der Verbesserung der Barrierefreiheit in ILIAS wird laufend gearbeitet. Wir erklären, wie genau und warum Barrierefreiheit so wichtig ist.

^{ILIAS Kompetenzzentrum (E-Learning Koordinierungsstelle)}

"(...) Hardly noticed by most people, the open source learning management system ILIAS is constantly being improved in terms of accessibility . But those who urgently need it will be happy.

A nice insight into the community work on accessibility can be found at the following link from the FH Dortmund:
fh.do/nLSktc

#OSS #ILIAS #LMS
mastodon.social/@ilko/11233289… (...)"

Kaum bemerkt und doch viel besser: Barrierefreiheit in ILIAS - ILIAS Kompetenzzentrum

An der Verbesserung der Barrierefreiheit in ILIAS wird laufend gearbeitet. Wir erklären, wie genau und warum Barrierefreiheit so wichtig ist.

^{ILIAS Kompetenzzentrum (E-Learning Koordinierungsstelle)}

While the #GenAI news cycle keeps announcing new models, cost and evaluation continue to be crucial for both developers and businesses.

This post showcases #OSS tools that help evaluate models while keeping costs low. We include Prometheus by KAIST AI; @MozillaAI's very own lm-buddy; and llamafile.

Davide Eynard @mala shows how these components can work together to evaluate LLMs on cheap(er) hardware.

blog.mozilla.ai/local-llm-as-j…

Today more companies are announcing their support of the Valkey community (the group that includes committed developers previously working on the OSS version of the core Redis engine): Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.

#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation

linuxfoundation.org/press/valk…

Valkey Community Announces Release Candidate Amid Growing Support for Open Source Data Store

Valkey community welcomes new partners, including Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Chainguard, Heroku, Huawei, Percona, and Verizon.

^{The Linux Foundation}

Now on stage for the morning #OSSummit keynotes, core team member Madelyn Olson to speak about the new Valkey community effort.

The walk-on music: "We are never ever getting back together" by Taylor Swift. 🤣

Love it!

#OSSummit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Redis #Valkey #Community #LinuxFoundation

Have you seen @nextcloud AI Assistant 2.0?

You can now chat about your own documents and data, use GPU acceleration, transcribe audio with Whisper, use your own LLMs, and a ton more integrations and new features.

All #open-source 😀

Boosts appreciated 🙏

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-r…

#AI #mastodon #Linux #Foss #OSS

Missed @lea@ordinary.cafe and @jaiden@ordinary.cafe's panel at @socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizza about the future of the Linux desktop?

Here’s a recording to satisfy your curiosity :3

youtube.com/watch?v=hNDJDyef_U…

Featuring:

- @lea@ordinary.cafe, Fyra Labs
- @jaiden@ordinary.cafe, Fyra Labs (Moderator)
- @zana@sfba.social, @gnome@floss.social Foundation
- @technobaboo@tech.lgbt, @stardustxr@fosstodon.org
- @communiteatime@fosstodon.org, @thunderbird@mastodon.online- @mattdm@hachyderm.io, @fedora@fosstodon.org & Red Hat
- @druonysus@mstdn.io, @kde@floss.social & @opensuse@fosstodon.org
#tech #linux #foss #oss #scale21x

Where Does the Linux Desktop Go from Here?

It's no lie that the Linux desktop has been changing greatly. Through technological and social shifts, the desktop and community we know today is a far cry f...

^YouTube

It is really terrific to hear about the great work on #OpenSource being done by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It was terrific to learn about the work of @jakerella work & about the adoption of #OSS in #DigitalGovernment.

Great to see government agencies setting up Open Source Program Office #OSPO & beginning to change the culture around buying, building and sharing code. All this helps broader goals towards government transparency and #OpenGovernment.

medium.com/@DigitalServicesCoa…

DSC Supports the Federal Government’s Collaborative Open Source Initiatives

Adopting open source policies, initiatives, and laws is more than a technological shift — it’s a commitment to transparency, security, and collaboration. As the Digital Service Coalition (DSC), we…

^{Digital Services Coalition (Medium)}

Keep the momentum going for free open source projects in this week's Follow Friday by giving your support with contributions, boosts and follows.

adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-f…

- LÖVR @lovr
A framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences.
- NV Access @NVAccess
A screen reader.
- BiznisBox @biznisbox
A web app for managing invoices, clients, & payments.
- BookStack @bookstack
Documentation system.

#FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #ff #oss #foss #floss

Holy shit.

That is a masterclass in how to _not_ handle accessibility request in #OSS.

Prusa needs to do better. Frankly, probably all #3dPrinting tools need to be better, but how this was handled is egregious.

The one positive takeaway was the reference to See3D in the issue thread. Glad I found out about that as it seems like a good organization.

see3d.org/index

Hey Fedi! We're hosting a panel at SCALE 21x with some of the major players in the Linux desktop ecosystem to discuss where we go from here, any big ideas you want us to discuss?

Here's our list as of now: outline.fyralabs.com/s/8f1ce88…

And the abstract: socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/p…

Post your ideas in the replies!

#foss #linux #oss #opensource #gnome #kde #stardustxr #stardust #vanillaos #xdg #scale21x

The #EuropeanCommission is finally considering whether "#OpenSource software (#OSS)…can be used as a foundation for developing the new #publishing platform" for EC-funded #OpenAccess research.
op.europa.eu/en/publication-de…

Unfortunately, the new software would merely "underpin" #OpenResearchEurope (#ORE), not replace it. ORE is proprietary software owned by #TaylorAndFrancis. When the EC called for bids on ORE, it did not require open code despite many calls to do so.

#FLOSS #OpenInfrastructure

Analysis of the requirements for the Open Source infrastructure of the Open Research Europe Publishing Platform.

Open Research Europe (ORE) is the peer-reviewed open-access publishing platform of the European Commission. It follows the post-publication peer review model to promote scientific transparency and reuse.

^{Publications Office of the EU}

100% agreed that the CVSS scoring system and "assume the worst" guidance makes for scores that do not accurately reflect importance. Especially for very broad-use things.

My take on this is that. like it or not, more open source projects of note need to become "CNA" (certificate numbering authorities) of their own which I understand can given them some control over the content of CVEs filed against their project. cve.org/ProgramOrganization/CN…

#cve #cvss #cna #oss

Hello Fediverse 😀
We are starting this account for Qt Project related communication, events, and many more things.

Did you know that there is a simple page that gives you the instructions to contribute to Qt? and also you can get some nice plots to see the activity on all the repositories!

contribute.qt-project.org

#qt #oss #qtproject #floss

Help support The Document Foundation (@tdforg), the #opensource home of @libreoffice, on this #givingtuesday by donating at libreoffice.org/donate/

#LibreOffice #MSOffice #OSS #word #office365 #office