GASPACS (Get Away Special Passive Attitude Control Satellite) was the first satellite to use Raspberry Pi Zero as its flight computer. Built by a team of undergraduate students at Utah State University, the plucky cubesat spent 117 days in orbit. Its flight software, CubeWorks, is mostly written in Python and open source: https://github.com/SmallSatGasTeam/CubeWorks
Watched this 1hr documentary over lunch.
Code rush is the story of Netscape's "Project Source 331" as they prepared for the open sourcing release of netscape on March 31 1998.
Anytime I don't see something updated, I sort of ask myself, "Are there no more updates because development has discontinued or because it does not need any?"
The Orbital Index is a weekly technical newsletter focused on space science and exploration, the space economy, and related activities. They maintain a list of space-related code, APIs, data, and other resources, much of it under FOSS licenses: https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space
I wrote, illustrated, designed and edited a #book. First timer.
It's been six months and I just realized I did it entirely with #foss (free and open source software), including the OS, #linux. The only exception being the pencil and paper I used for the original writing and sketching. Didn't plan it, I use #krita on a daily basis for my professional #illustration commissions. I thought it was worth mentioning because #foss is unfairly despised by media creation professionals (who are often under-payed).
I published 50 copies, funding it myself. I'm not selling it, I'm giving it as a gift to people from whom I've learned something, or not. It feels much better than any commission I've been payed for, ever. It has given way to very interesting conversations. It's a pretty dark book, and has lots of newbie mistakes (biggest one on the cover...).
I put a belly band on two copies and secretly left them on a shelf in a very popular book store (anti-theft?). The band says "this book is not for sale, it has to be stolen". It's been sitting there for more than a month... even though it's free. Either the book is very bad, or people don't dare, or daring people don't go into book stores, or people don't like free books, or...
I was playing with this, it's simple enough to install - NOTE: it needs PAM, so that's a definite minus, but they say they're working on that (We'll see).
Also, it's certainly not ready for prime time now; most common use cases aren't supported - there's no fine grained control that it is typically used for: Per user, per command, per host defaults, etc.
If all you're doing is shielding yourself from borking your system, then it works ok.
Amethyst brings the Nostr social network to your Android phone. Just insert your Nostr private key and start posting.
Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media. Instead of a single website, it’s a network of thousands of users posting to each other's relay servers that can all interact with one another, seamlessly.
Gained my first payout from YouTube, covers my costs so far for https://foss.video.
Thinking I can maybe grow these in parallel so YouTube income covers the cost of proving a YouTube alternative for #foss content.