On Mastodon, a newly introduced feature allows you to link your blog articles to your Fediverse account. I recently added this feature to my Hugo Blog and wrote down the necessary steps: https://kotthoff.dev/posts/2024/mastodon-tag/

#mastodon #hugo #opensource #blog #blogging #journalism

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#whistleblower #journalism #anonymous #reporting #tipline #tips #tipbox #opensource #nonprofit

FWIW, folks I follow used these hashtags today: #scotus (150) #law (43) #tech (37) #legaltech (37) #autosum (37) #trump (6) #mattgaetz (3) #dailystats (3) #currentevents (3) #cop29 (3) #contracts (3) #opensource (3) #democracy (3) #justicesystem (3) #Climate (3) #Cybersecurity (3) #legaldrama (3) #lawfedi (3) #education (3) #singapore (2) #privacy (2) #academia (2) #fedilaw (2) #media (2) #surveillance (2) #uspolitics (2) #economy (2) #bluesky (2) [#DailyStats]

GIMP 3.0 approaching. #opensource

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/gimp_30_release/

While there is no shortage of powerful photo and video editing tools, most of them come with a hefty price tag or require a subscription to get started. It may discourage students, beginners, and freelancers from exploring them fully. Luckily, thanks to free, open-source tools, you don’t need to shell out hundreds of dollars to achieve stunning results.

XDA Developers have short-listed their choices in the linked article below, and explained why each has been chosen.

I’d certainly also add digiKam for photo editing. It has some very powerful features, including advanced geolocation editing, batch editing, blending of stacked images, OCR text generation, creation of calendars, creation of panoramas, RAW editing, camera control, and exporting to numerous cloud services including Flickr, Imgur, Piwigo, Pinterest, etc.

See https://www.xda-developers.com/free-open-source-tools-for-amazing-photo-and-video-edits
#Blog, #opensource, #photography, #technology

This week's musings: Free, Libre, Open - Ethical?

(Totally not prompted by anything happening the world.)

https://opensourcerer.eu/free-open-ethical/

#OpenSource #blog #FreeSoftware #EthicalSoftware

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#contribute #whistleblower #journalism #anonymous #reporting #tipline #tips #tipbox #opensource #nonprofit #activist #activism #organizer

Catch snippets of the latest MOSE Episode with @stephenrwalli, @claredillon and Wayne Starr!

Learn more about why and how to invest in #opensource, using SBOMs and more!

Follow the podcast on: YouTube - https://youtube.com/@MyOpenSourceExperienceRSS - https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/653769c09c713d0012562f78 or podcast platforms!

Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in Jul 1993. It is the oldest distro still in existence. However, someone was dissatisfied with Slackware and created another distro a month later, in August 1993. This was Debian, the second oldest distro, founded by Ian Murdock. Both of these distros are still maintained, and Debian is often known as the "mother distro" because it has spawned many more distributions. #Linux #OpenSource #history

A Christmas Strike

Instead of giving unnecessary gifts this year, we give loved ones home-made Christmas cards:

“This year, I’m giving you a gift of democracy. This card represents a purchase not made, money that #billionaires cannot use against civilisation. I hope this is a gift that you shall be able to use in the future.”

or donate on their behalf to #opensource & #linux projects — things we actually need.

https://activersity.org/opinion/christmas-strike

#christmasstrike

Vim developer Bram Moolenaar posthumously receives the European SFS Award.

#freesoftware #opensource

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20241108-01.es.html

Discover The Fediverse: Emotional Support

A reminder on the importance of emotional support and how this can be achieved in our community of free and open source software projects.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-emotional-support/

- Canaima GNU/Linux @canaimagnulinux
A GNU/Linux distribution.
- seL4 @sel4
A high-assurance, high-performance OS micro kernel.
- Wagtail @wagtail
A content management system.
- LibreQoS @LibreQoS
A QoE and SQM system.

#blog #FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #foss

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#journalism #community #opensource #nonprofit

Mensinator provides a clean and intuitive interface for tracking your menstrual cycle, monitoring your periods, and viewing essential statistics—all without the need for sign-ups or sharing personal data. All information is stored securely on your device, ensuring your privacy is always protected.

It’s not the only such app on F-Droid, but coming from F-Droid means it is proper compiled open source code, and says what it does. There is no Big Tech company requiring registration to install it, or having privacy intrusive adverts inserted (which usually track and report locations).

There are a few countries in the world today where such information needs to be kept private to protect their citizens’ privacy. Open source respects the individual’s right to decide how they want to use their software.

See https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mensinator.app
#Blog, #menstruation, #opensource, #technology

GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released. #opensource

https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/11/06/gimp-3-0-RC1-released/

Checking your own phone for signs of compromise is easy using Amnesty International Security Lab's Mobile Verification Toolkit. Here's how iPhone users can do it now:

https://scidsg.medium.com/how-to-check-your-iphone-for-pegasus-338bafb2358e

#threatmodel #security #iPhone #hacking #phishing #amnesty #journalism #opensource #press #law

When on the internet, all I want to do is read text, see images, and watch videos. That tech existed 20 years ago. All commercial #webdevelopment since then has intentionally had the goal of making that harder. It has accomplished little else other than providing the ability to order things.

#Capitalism did not create the internet (c.f. ARPANET) and it is seemingly incapable of improving it. I'm not sure how it got to be in charge.

Humans, rise

#opensource #linux #fediverse

EDIT: Now updated with ISO 639-1 codes!

Do you speak Croatian (hr), Breton (br), or Scottish Gaelic( gd)?

All three of those languages have slipped under 70% translation for Thunderbird for Android! Normally this would mean removing them from the app. But we're hoping we can rally some translators to help complete these languages - or at least get them over 70% translated!

#OpenSource #Localization #Community

To learn more or get started, go to our Hosted Weblate! https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tb-android/#languages

Update. If you *want* to use #AI for #PeerReview:

"Several publishers…have barred researchers from uploading manuscripts…[to] #AI platforms to produce #PeerReview reports, over fears that the work might be fed back into an #LLM’s training data set [&] breach contractual terms to keep work confidential…[But with] privately hosted [and #OpenSource] LLMs…one can be confident that data are not fed back to the firms that host LLMs in the cloud."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03144-w

#libobscura text #logo - I made another logo for when it's necessary to have a prominent name.

Which one do you like more? The one with blur or without?

Poll in comment.

#design #OpenSource

Update. Turns out that John #Deere has been using open code under the #GPL w/o living up to the license. The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) is calling on it to comply — which would greatly enhance #farmers' #RightToRepair.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/

"We…publicly call on John Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations…by providing complete source code…that the GPL & other copyleft licenses require, to the farmers & others who are entitled to it."

#OpenSource

The European regulators listened to the #OpenSource communities! - https://blog.opensource.org/the-european-regulators-listened-to-the-open-source-communities/ "While it’s all much better, and while the burden placed on individuals and charities is minimal, there are still challenges ahead. "

In the meantime, any folks involved in FOSS communities open to an interview? I want to explore more about the human side of FOSS communities, and intend on publishing interviews to a new blog project I'm starting (Fosset).

I come from a tech, compsci, FOSS, and journalism background, so no matter what your involvement in FOSS, you're in good hands :)

Audio/video preferred, email/text works as an alternative.

#JournoRequest #FOSS #OpenSource

Hmm, eines der Kriterien bei der Auswahl der Software, die ich nutze, ist fast immer: #opensource

Fälle, dass irgendwo ewig Fehler dringelassen wurden, der Code niemand zuzumuten ist, kein maintaining mehr passiert oder scheiss-code eingeschleust wird, sind bekannt. Meist folgt die Suche nach ner Alternative, ein #fork, ein fix...

Aber wenn #meta die Arme ausbreitet für die totale Umarmung, bin ich auch, sind alle selbst betroffen. Hilft da freier Code überhaupt?

#fedipact #Project92

Made this to show my impression of the new #Thunderbird #logo. Suffice to say, it's not great.

#foss #opensource #software #marketing #branding #design #linux #freesoftware #libre

Here's my #introduction

I'm Nathalie, interested in sociocracy, commons and open-source with an academic background in (biochemical) engineering. I love working with self-organised groups towards social change.

foodsharing.de was my main project over the last years, now I'm working with karrot.word. Looking into group governance I'm very into sociocracy and Sociocracy for All being my home for that!

#sociocracy #opensource #commons #foodsharing #foodsaving #karrot #sociocracyforall

The Swedish government is warning citizens about privacy risks associated with using Zoom and recommends Nextcloud Hub as a safer alternative.

Protect your data and privacy, learn more!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/swedish-government-advises-against-zoom/

#Nextcloud #NextcloudHub #privacy #OpenSource

Beantworte 9 einfache Fragen und erhalte 6 Monate Zeit und bis zu 47 500 € Förderung für deinen #OpenSource Software-Prototypen.

Bewirb dich jetzt bis zum 31. März 2023 beim Prototype Fund und bring deine Idee in die Realität. Alle Informationen auf https://prototypefund.de