While #Adobe is doing an absolute stupid with their new licensing terms, and (now Canva-owned) #Affinity slashes prices by half in a "flash sale", I am once again asking people to consider supporting #FLOSS tools instead.
Yes, they are far from perfect.
But with a small fraction of what these closed source vendors are raking in, these tools could be made immeasurably better.
And they won't end up bought up and enshittified, as experience with past attempts at doing that to FLOSS tools shows.
#UE#eleiçõeseuropeias2024 #PE#Portugal#OpenSource#FLOSS: "A ANSOL enviou um conjunto de questões aos partidos candidatos às Eleições Europeias 2024 sobre os temas mais prementes em discussão na União Europeia, que incluiam a Regulação de Patentes Essenciais a Normas, a Criptografia de Ponta-a-Ponta (E2EE), Dados Abertos, Acesso Aberto e Recursos Educacionais Abertos, Soberania Digital, e Ecologia e Sustentabilidade.
Publicamos abaixo as respostas completas, por ordem de recepção."
„#SPD, #Gruene und #FDP haben eigentlich in ihrem Koalitionsvertrag vereinbart, dass Aufträge für #Software „in der Regel als Open Source beauftragt“ werden. Denn der verbreitete Einsatz von #Microsoft-Produkten steht schon lange in der Kritik. Bereits 2019 stellte eine Studie im Auftrag des #Innenministerium‘s eine Abhängigkeit der #Bundesverwaltung von wenigen Software-Anbietern fest…“ #opensource#floss#deutschland
Posting an informal video of initial progress on an app for the Carbon Farm Network, a textile supply chain network in the NY Hudson Valley. Uses Holochain, hREA, Valueflows.
So far, we have offers, requests, planning from recipe for the season, starting into recording economic events against the plan and coordinating through the season. Much much more to do!
Wondering if anyone's interested in #FLOSS for older systems like #DOS and #FreeDOS? I really liked the #XFDOS distribution based on #FLTK and #nano-x with FreeDOS. I know the lead developer of XFDOS is no longer active, but it would be nice to see some development continue on this project. Is anyone else besides me interested in this sort of thing?
#OpenSource#FLOSS#Crypto#Cryptocurrencies#Bitcoin: "The P2P Rights Fund aims to support various legal efforts, including subsidizing defense counsel, sponsoring amicus briefs in pivotal cases, and financing affirmative impact litigation to set favorable legal precedents. Additionally, the fund plans to offer free or subsidized regulatory advice to developers working on non-custodial Bitcoin tools.
The initiative is in direct response to recent legal actions that have raised concerns within the Bitcoin community. Developers of non-custodial tools, such as hardware wallet creators and transaction node operators, are increasingly being treated as financial institutions, which is seen as a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology by the government."
Time, use and practice are key to switching OSes, platforms and apps: you get comfortable with what you use. A good start to moving away from Microsoft Windows might be to install Libre Office on Windows, and start learning to use that for your daily word processing, presentations and spreadsheets. Take some steps with open source software before you even have to tackle a new operating system. #floss#foss#freesoftware#recall#quitwindows#quitmicrosoft
Doe je iets met #opensource, #openstandards of #opensystems dan moet je erbij zijn. In november heb je weer een kans, want we organiseren 2x
p/jr een conferentie.
We zijn een vereniging, dus je kan lid worden! Zie: https://nluug.nl
Does anyone know a #FLOSS and perhaps self-hostable music scrobbler? Something similar to last.fm ?
I do not want to post every music I listen to here on my mastodon account, but it would nice to be able to share what I'm listening to with friends and family.
Depending on how big the gap is, I'm willing to contribute money as part of a crowdfunding effort to build up one of the #FLOSS alternatives to replace #Sonos with, possibly including someone building a hardware business to sell some neat audio relay boxes (with or without an AMP, I guess).
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