New on // foss.events: T-DOSE by T-DOSE Foundation on 31 May - 10 June 2025 in De Weeffabriek in #Geldrop, #Netherlands
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/05-31-t-dose.html
Official account: @tdose
Official hashtag(s): #TDOSE
Call for participation is running until 31.03.2025
LOOKING FOR KEYNOTER NOMINATIONS
SeaGL is happening again this November. And everyone has a chance to contribute by nominating their favorite speaker to be a keynoter.
New on // foss.events: Congreso LliureX by LliureX on 05-06 May 2025 in Universitat d'Alacant: Campus de Sant Vicent in #Sant Vicent del Raspeig, #Spain
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/05-05-congreso-lliurex.html
Wishing everyone a great time at FOSS Backstage Design by Plain Schwarz UG starting today in bUm – Raum für solidarisches Miteinander in #Berlin, #Germany
I am once again faced with the bleak irony of people who like to code in the terminal with Vim or Nano, but also install onto their computer some 5 or 10 apps via FlatPak or Docker, including VSCode, each installed with their own entire copies of Node.js and Electron.js (differing only in their minor revision number), while also complaining about Emacs being “bloated” because it ships with a miniature web browser and fully-featured e-mail client.
Ämter ohne Microsoft – Warum Behörden freie Software nutzen sollten.
Eine EU-Studie beziffert das Kosten-Nutzen-Verhältnis von Open
Source Software auf 1:4.
Jeder Euro, den der Staat investiert, kommt vierfach wieder zurück. Würden mehr Institutionen Geld in Open Source stecken, statt an Microsoft zu überweisen, könnte das ein großes Konjunkturprogramm für die
europäische Digitalwirtschaft sein.
Today, the United Nations announced the "UN Open Source 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.
#boostsAppreciated - spread the word!
https://unite.un.org/news/osi-first-endorse-united-nations-open-source-principles
The last maintenance release of the 24.12 cycle is out.
Wishing everyone a great time at Open Source Job Fair by ULYSSIS VZW starting today in KU Leuven University Hall in #Leuven, #Belgium
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/03-11-open-source-job-fair.html
Official account: @ulyssis
Wishing everyone a great time at Drupal Mountain Camp 2025 by Drupal Switzerland starting today in Davos Kongresszentrum in #Davos, #Switzerland
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/03-11-drupal-mountain-camp-2025.html
Official account: @mountaincampch
Official hashtag(s): #DrupalMountainCamp
#chatgpt is a data hungry stealing beast. You opt in to share everything you feed it. All prompts, all files you use are donated to OpenAI. Why not use an open source tool like #gpt4all and run the #AI locally. #foss #floss #education
https://gpt4all.io/
I always loved to be able to backup of the home folder on #linux and basically take that from one install to another without loosing anything important. But with #flatpak installed inside the user folder, it adds another layer of magic. I was already amazed, when I realized the appeal of user partitions on linux, some years ago. Windows has nothing comparable.
You know what would be great? A degoogled Android with a virtual machine where I can run all the Apps that force me to use Google Play and Google Services that I cannot get rid of yet (e.g. Banking two-factor-authentication and similar critical stuff). A little dirty environment I can force kill at any time closed of from a clean one on the same device.
Wishing everyone a great time at FOSS Backstage by Plain Schwarz UG starting today in bUm – Raum für solidarisches Miteinander in #Berlin, #Germany
Please consider supporting my translation work. It's free (libre), released under a cc-by 4.0 license, and can help reduce radicalization, because while Christian Nationalists don't listen to reason, they do (supposedly) read the Bible. A properly translated Bible is much more difficult to weaponize, which is why they tend to cluster around the ESV and CSB.
Even so, all translations currently being published have the stated goal of aligning the Bible to certain dogmas.
I fully intend to let the Bible speak for itself, without censorship. I have always held that, "where the Bible speaks, we speak, where it is silent, we are silent;" add to that, where it is vague, weird, or even self-contradicting.
New on // foss.events: NLLGG Bijeenkomst by NLLGG on 15 March 2025 in Gerrit Rietveld College, Eykmanlaan 1200, 3571 KH, Utrecht, Netherlands in #Utrecht, #Netherlands
Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/03-15-nllgg-bijeenkomst.html
Official account: @nllgg
Official hashtag(s): #NLLGG #FOSS #linux
Open-source is for the privileged. I am giving up on FOSS because:
a) open-source, just like startups, requires that you have safety-net and access to resources to learn stuff
b) activism in a crowd of unskilled IT sweat-shop workers is pointless
c) no one will raise funds for your software, because it is privilege and entitlement in your world
d) you're isolated from skilled folks in developing world, so you'll never a part of it
