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Pro tip, if you're writing issues to report something to a #floss project, don't use strong or judgy wording. It doesn't help your case, to be sassy.


I think it's very telling that from all corners of the Fediverse, #FLOSS developers come screaming "I do it for free in my spare time, I can release whatever I want, and you can change it if you don't like it!"

As if that was the point.

I you release it as a broken hobby project, fine. Just don't call it a "fully functional" or "community driven" audio editor / encryption utility / mail server / file explorer / chat client if it's completely unusable to a reasonable part of the audience who just happens to be blind, or otherwise impaired.

#Accessibility #a11y


What do you get when you let (overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male) able-bodied developers build an operating system?

Well, you get an insightful display of structural #ableism.

As a developer, I feel ashamed about this state of affairs, reading the excellent blog series by @fireborn . We can do better, and we deeply need to.

dragonscave.space/@fireborn/11…

#Linux #Accessibility #a11y #FLOSS


The state of Linux accessibility in 2025. This started out as a rant but became a series. Please feel free to leave feedback, comments, and subscribe via rss or email for more stuff as I release it. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…


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



Which of these organizations do you have a positive opinion of?

#poll #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PublicGoods #Mozilla #Firefox

  • Mozilla (22%, 63 votes)
  • Open Source Initiative (31%, 88 votes)
  • Software Freedom Conservancy (50%, 143 votes)
  • Free Software Foundation Europe (73%, 208 votes)
282 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago


NVDA 2025.1 Beta 3 is now available for testing. As well as all the NVDA 2025.1 updates, beta3 adds:
- Updates to translations
- Disallow new Remote Access session in Secure Mode
- Update Remote Access interface
- Add unassigned command for Remote Access settings
- SAPI 4 bug fixes

Read the full release notes (including all the 2025.1 features & fixes) & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #Beta #FLOSS #FOSS #PreRelease #News #Testing #Test #FreeSoftware #ScreenReader


NVDA 2025.1 Beta 2 is now available for testing. As well as all the amazing updates in NVDA 2025.1 (from Beta 1), this new beta includes updates to some translations, as well as a minor bug fix for SAPI 5 voices using rate boost. Read the full release notes (including all the 2025.1 features & fixes) and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #Beta #FLOSS #FOSS #PreRelease #News #Testing #Test #FreeSoftware #ScreenReader


📢 Connaissez-vous le dépôt d'applis #Android nommé #FDroid 📦 et son appli éponyme ?

💡 Ajoutez-y le dépôt #IzzyOnDroid 📦 (apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/) ! Il enrichira votre catalogue.

ℹ️ Certaines applis sont présentes dans les 2 dépôts. Celles d'IzzyOnDroid sont en principe dans des versions plus récentes. IzzyOnDroid fournit les APK les plus récents ⚠️🐞 tandis que F-Droid compile lui-même les sources après contrôles 🔎🛡️

#️⃣ #OpenSource #LogicielsLibres #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #LibreTips #smartphone


NVDA 2025.1 beta 1 is now available for testing! 2025.1 includes NVDA Remote, OneCore & SAPI 4 & 5 improvements, OCR, Microsoft & LibreOffice improvements, Add-on store improvements, Braille updates & new tables plus heaps more! Download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

Please note the "What's new" link doesn't currently work, we're fixing it, but in the meantime, run the installer & open what's new from the NVDA menu.
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #News #Update #PreRelease #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource


Hi folks, I'm trying to jumpstart federation on my little gotosocial instance and get a more full feed of things to read and interact with.

I could use your help. If you could boost this, I would appreciate it. If you see this and favorite it, I will follow you if your interests seem to align with mine.

I'm not asking for follows... rather I'm asking for you to help me shout out into the ether that I'M looking for people to follow. My main interests are going to be hashtagged below.

By the way, the way hashtags work here is that currently, if I search, I only see what my server is already knows about... which would mean just the folks I follow, since I'm a single-user instance. Not very helpful 😂

I will also be using one of my apps that can load the main feed from other servers, to see if I see something interesting. If you see a follow from me and come here to check me out... I mean you no harm and I come in peace.

Thanks all!

#linux #fedora #foss #floss #oss #fediverse #raspberrypi #technology #gnome #polymerclay #fantasy #scifi #adventuremotorcycles



:flag_un: :freesoftware: Announcing the first 15 endorsers of the United Nations #OpenSource Principles" – 8 practical ways for groups around the world to promote global digital cooperation through free and open source software.

✍️ Like software freedom itself, these principles are for everyone, everywhere - and the orgs you support can join a list of endorsers today.

:boost_love: #boostsAppreciated - spread the word!

unite.un.org/news/fifteen-orga…

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #UN #UnitedNations


Google has signed a contract with Israel to supply Tech support used in the Palestinian genocide. A US$1.2 billion deal, with Amazon in the mix.
It's not the first time Google has been implicated in this type of crime.

Google obeys the every command of Trump-musk fascism, the Gulf of Mexico is just the one example that makes you laugh.

So when you have google main sponsor of FOSDEM and debian going dancing to GSoC, and many others in the FLOSS and Open movement doing the same,
I say to you straight out:
You're embracing fascism, you're legitimizing genocide, you're part of the problem!

#Floss #Debian #Fosdem #GSoC #Fascism


**Google Summer of Code 2025, Get Googled, Get Mixxx-ed, Get Involved**

Google Summer of Code is a program that enables students to work on open-source projects over the summer, typically lasting between 3 to 12 weeks. Participants are matched with mentoring organizations like Mixxx, where they collaborate on various projects under the guidance of experienced mentors.

Apply now! Check out our wiki for more details: github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/wiki/…

#Mixxx #GSOC #GSoC2025 #Floss


:flag_un: 🤔 If you wanted to contribute to an #OpenSource project working on various types of social goods, and contribution opportunities were curated through the global UN Volunteers* Programme, how likely would you be to pursue that option?

:boost_love: #boostsAppreciated

unv.org/become-online-voluntee…

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #volunteering

  • Very likely (28%, 4 votes)
  • Somewhat likely (57%, 8 votes)
  • Somewhat unlikely (0%, 0 votes)
  • Very unlikely (14%, 2 votes)
14 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago


I have a good friend, for real, that is slowly going #blind. Is there a good plugin for #thunderbird
to read emails without involving a #bigCorp ?

I'm thinking of
1) Open email in window,
2) click button that says "read aloud"

She is not blind yet, this would be like training wheels to get her use to using a screen reader while she can still see a little.

#FLOSS #FOSS


I'm happy that, not wanting to accept the monthly price hike from 7 to 10 Euros, or the annoying cursor adjacent Copilot prompt, my wife decided to finally join me and switch permanently to the latest version of LibreOffice (@libreoffice). One less customer for Microsoft, one more user for quality, free, libre and open source office software, without the annoying, planet-burning AI.

#FLOSS #LibreOffice


🇺🇳 :opensourceparrot: Some folks have asked how our efforts are going helping governments be good open source citizens as they leverage free software to provide public services.

🎉 The answer is: Things are going very well, and they're getting better every week.

📋 With 4 months until UN Open Source week, here's a current update from our UNDP team:

undp.org/digital/blog/open-sou…

#UN #UNDP #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #GovTech


Going thru the stands at fosdem ran into immich.app as a photographier I was interested so asked a few questions :
- what's your biz model?
- none yet, but probably hosted services
- how do you compare to #flickr or #pixelfed?
- pixelwhat? We are providing a replacement photo - no direct answer for flickr
- do you support activitypub?
- actiwhat?
- do you run on any OS?
- of course we do, we provide docker images

#fosdem2025 #floss #selhosting #photography


@accrescent Sounds great. I am looking forward to it. Thanks for #Accrescent and contributing to the #FLOSS community. I greatly appreciate that.

Adding an info whether an app is FLOSS is helpful.



I like how, in many ways, you put contributions/contributors into spotlight for #curl 😃
I think other #floss projects should take inspiration…





#introduction

As I just joined social.coop, it may be a good time to re-introduce myself.

I studied architecture and organization development, and work now at tangente.coop supporting community-led and non-speculative #cooperative #cohousing projects in #Spain.

Also experienced in sustainable and people-centered urban develoment, and urban #cycling #mobility.

I love and support #FLOSS #freesoftware, digital autonomy and libre culture in general.



👉 "The core issue is that open source contributors are not paid fairly. 60% of open-source maintainers are unpaid volunteers, and just 13% make a living as professional project maintainers, according to the 2023 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report."

Boosts appreciated 🚀

➡️ infoworld.com/article/3557846/…

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #SoftwareLibre #Business #KDE #Research #Science #NLnet #softwareDevelopment


As has been foretold: chaos.social/@RichiH/112579960…

#FOSDEM will happen on 2025-02-01 and 2025-02-02, we just signed the contract with ULB today!

You're hearing it here first, because Mastodon is the #FLOSS social network. We'll publish official news in a bit :)


wtf is #1p_for_floss ?

One percent 💰 for Free and Libre Open Source.

1% is a suggestion. Substitute whatever fraction makes sense for your life and position. Is that 0.025%? Great! Contribute that and use the tag with blessings.

The idea is to normalize regularly giving to support the tens of thousands of "dude in Nebraska holding up the internet" #XKCD2347 that make our computing life as rich as it is.

Use Ko-Fi, Patreon, GitHub Sponsors, PayPal, Bitcoin, ... heck even old fashioned snail mail 🐌 💌. Just make sure it's money 💰, and make it a habit.

Because software needs to be more expensive blog.glyph.im/2024/03/software…

#floss



Here we have me in my native environment, at a #FLOSS event (hello @gnome and #GUADEC), with a pair of binoculars. @ramcq for scale.


If FLOSS is built on the four freedoms, and FLOSS has created an environment that is brittle, then perhaps it’s time for FLOSS to similarly augment the four freedoms.

We have to address this in a fundamental way. The alternative may well be the (eventual) end of FLOSS as we know it.

interpeer.io/blog/2024/04/in-s…

#xz #FLOSS #FourFreedoms #sustainability #robots


Your attention please:

Maybe you've never heard about it but since 2020, the Next Generation Internet programs, a sub-branch of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program, have been cascading funding (via @nlnet calls) open source software in Europe. The massive fundings have enabled a great deal of free software development in recent years, and all without too many constraints (with too few transparency and monitoring, though… which urgently needs to be improved). Unfortunately, these NGI programs seem to have been withdrawn from the next round of Horizon Europe fundings to give priority to AI bullshit.

As a result, we’ve been invited to contact the National Contact Points, Horizon Europe’s national representatives, to express our concern and the importance of maintaining public funding for free software. With this in mind, we wrote an open letter at Petites Singularités and thought it would make sense to fork it out with Hackstub and ARN in Strasbourg for the French NCP to get other French-speaking free software orgas to sign. I’m thinking in particular of the software that has benefited from this funding, such as Yunohost, but also of the Kittens that use this same software.

We can also announce that this topic will be part of the central theme of the next #OFFDEM in Brussels, on the first weekend of February 2025. There's not yet an exact title, but we’ll be discussing financing and community structuring for free software over the next few years.

If you want to sign the french-speaking version of this letter, there's a pad for it: pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI

#ngi #publicMoneyPublicCode #floss