On 17 June 2024, you'll be able to apply for new financing from STF. We’re looking forward to proposals from critical and foundational open source technologies, whose work strengthens the #FOSS ecosystem. Thanks to all maintainers and contributors for your #opensource engagement! https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/programs#general-investments
It's bad enough that #PayPal stiffs you more than 10% for cash transfers (a particular bugbear for us writers), but they're now also going to enshittify the whole process, selling our personal data to boot.
Which raises the question - why isn't there a #`FOSS equivalent of PayPal? Is it possible?
discovered livetechhelper.com, while the initiative could be positive explained, the execution is horrible! I found https://livetechhelper.com/repos/jaapio/phpunit
I can help with #phpunit but obviously any income should go to the original maintainers not to me because I created a fork!
Same applies to other projects, should we stop this?! #php#foss?
#fedivision2024 is over, time to pursue new projects. Thanks for the incredible 15 votes we got for our song! Also, we are very grateful to the organizers, giving us this wonderful event once a year!
It was a lot of fun, both as artist and as listener; especially the love, spirit and community of it all. See you next round!
okay, it's a slow part of my 24 h shift, so it's finally time to make a thread about the #FOSS apps that I use on my phone, most of them obtainable through @fdroidorg . I've trawled through its repositories many times over years, and managed to find a bunch of great software fitting my needs, so hopefully someone finds this useful as well.
Feeling any software-related FOMO leave my body as Adobe threatens to sue users for using old versions of their programs, more triple-A games add kernel-level spyware for their games, and Windows continues to bog down the entire system with ads and anti-consumer lock-in.
There's nothing on Windows that I want on Linux anymore :meowdab: FOSS all the way, baby.
(Except I still wish Steam VR wasn't trash in Linux :meowpout: )
A new report on the Maui Project progress is now out. MauiKit4 fully based on Qt6 and KF6 is almost ready for the stable release and all the Maui Apps have been ported over. Find out more at
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🤏We need help finding a Mini #PC
🔐Go all in on #Passkeys
⌨️Remember ed(1) fondly
📝Give self-hosted #notes another try
🐧And separate good #Linux from bad
This post alleging extortion from CloudFlare¹ is plausible/cautionary. Market monopolies/tech mono-cultures suck so it's tempting to just be outraged at CF.
However, we allow this when we cede control to third parties (not just cloud) without mitigation plans, by NOT: