I'm hereby declaring the Sovereign Tech Fund and NLnet the official guardians of tech positivity. The only good tech news passing through my feed these days are reports of FOSS projects getting some nice grants.
Just pushed a new protoXEP for implementing Remote Control in #XMPP, along with an accompanying implementation in #Libervia!
This is exciting, as it enables not only Remote Desktop, but also controlling devices without video feedback - like using your phone as an ad-hoc touchpad, laptop keyboard to control a Single-board computer, or making automation scripts, and more!
It's designed to be extensible, with plans to add clipboard sharing and gamepad input. Thanks to #NLnet for their support!
I like @Mastodon, however I am also flirting with the #XMPP could-have-been, @movim as a platform to discover. If only #Movim had proper #ActivityPub compatibility.
Thanks so much to everyone who hung in this week as we’ve all worked to fix the state of the Nix community. It’s been a ride; but I think things are going to get better.
Here’s the last major piece of the puzzle — the product of several months of work from an absolutely incredible team. It’s not ready for a full announcement, but we’ve opened our beta so people who are fleeing the core Nix community have a place to go.
Btw, probably well-known by those closely involved in Nix et al, there's also #TVIX by The Virus Lounge, a #Rust reimplementation of the #Nix language. And a project that got funding from #NLnet@NGIZero
How can European open-source projects and technologies be funded? Let's explore the role of the NLnet fundation and the @NGIZero program with Lwenn Bussière, Technology Assessor at NLnet!
Mastodon becoming a US entity with a neoliberal board of directors and the goal of growth über alles is the issue here folks, not whether Eugen and company are compensated for their work. Of course they should be and well too. Or is that a privilege reserved only for the mediocre yes-people at the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?
If, on the other hand, maybe we’d like more folks to contribute to the commons and maybe not even be captured by Silicon Valley how about this radical idea: Fund them so they can live (at least as well) as any mediocre yes-person at a mainstream tech company.
"Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within." https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
Coming soon: it’s going to be trivial to deploy a different app on your Small Web server. Useful if you’re a dev and you’re playing around with different apps.
(Also, notice the speed at which deployment happens. I’m one step away from implementing this in Domain using pre-warmed Kitten instances – called toasty kittens – thereby bringing the time it takes to deploy your own Small Web place down to a handful of seconds.)
🚀 Just pushed the #WebRTC Data Channel Signaling implementation to #Libervia! In this case, it features a different workflow compared to usual Jingle File Transfer methods, with separate browser and #GStreamer implementations 💻
It's a great addition, allowing direct P2P file sending (where possible) from any device to any other one (like a CLI/Desktop frontend sending files directly to a remote browser). I look forward to enhancing the UI/UX! #NLnet#XMPP#PeerToPeer 🌐
"The perfect solution in the #EU would probably be a #NLnet-style organisation with the remit to route funds in the range of low-millions a year to larger projects like @matrix which have become widespread critical #infrastructure."
Webinar Announcement:
Open source CPU and SoC design tools
Through the lens of the SpinalHDL, VexRiscv and NaxRiscv projects, this webinar will introduce the kind of tooling which is involved in designing a CPU and deploying it on hardware, the related challenges, the similarities and differences between hardware and software open-source, how the industry interact with open-source hardware, as well as the difficulties that the scale of such project creates. https://nlnet.nl/events/20240411/index.html #NGI#nlnet
wow, threshold-sphinx is a thing! just managed to get a password for which the oprf key has been created by a dkg. not that we knew this is possible, sure. but now i have working code doing so! still a lot of work until this can be deployed, but it is very promising start! #sphinx#oprf#threshold#passwordmanager#nlnet#ngi0
There is a call here for small projects by #NLnet for free and open source hardware, software and open access scientific papers. Perhaps you could get some fund to port your favorite Linux mobile distribution to some phone?
We enjoyed today looking at timescales and responsibilities for our upcoming #NLnet tasks in a visual way, using excalidraw. It's a very playful experience and we quickly reached a sort-of consent on how to order things.
A nice thing about drawing tools (especially this one) is people are quite good at creative expression in them, and the process was very emergent.
I think not being constrained by rigid definitions and fields helps there. Something to reflect on... how far can this concept go?
Hands up if you think public EU money being awarded by @NGIZero / @fsfe should be subject to a transparent process where we can see all internal discussions/comments/reasoning concerning funding decisions including who made them.
Who exactly is involved in approving/rejecting each application, including their qualifications, and a transparent – and ideally democratic – process for electing judging panels at intervals.
A public transcript of all conversation/deliberation for each application, archived for posterity.
All correspondence between the applicant and the judging panel.