After 2 years I managed to get WebApe to the official list of Mastodon providers https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/

In order to support the so many free projects we are doing, we are also trying to provide hosting and management for Mastodon, Friendica and the like.

For those interested see https://webape.site/

Basically if you need a Mastodon instance, or Peertube, or Friendica and so forth, you pay a monthly fee and we do everything. No need to worry about updates and all that.

#hosting #foss #mastodon #hostingproviders

TROMjaro 2025.06.24 (manual fix needed) - https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2025-06-24-manual-fix-needed/265

#linux #tromjaro #foss #opensource

TROMjaro 2025.06.24 (manual fix needed)

The usual updates PLUS a fix. Here is the problem: As you may know we struggle a lot to make all apps (GTK or QT, flatpaks or not) look the same on TROMjaro. To basically use the same theme.

^{TROMjaro Forum}

The End (of Windows 10) is nigh!

On 14 October, #Microsoft will end support for #Win10.

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

Yours may be one of them!

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

Learn more: https://endof10.org/press

Saved a device from the bin? Tell the world with the hashtag: #EndOf10

#Linux #GNU #GNUlinux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Windows

GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People

I chose to write this.
Link removed
#GrapheneOS #Accessibility #FOSS #Blind #DisabilityTech #Inclusion #GPLv3 #espeak #a11y #Security #FreeSoftware #DisabilityRights #Android #Rant #TechShame

**update**: If you are using this post as some kind of call-to-action to harass and attack the GOS developers, please don't.

That damages everyone. You, them, and myself. It's not helpful.

**Update two**. I have made the decision to pull this post. It is not a good starting-point for a discussion, and just encourages defensiveness on both sides – when there really aren't sides here at all.

As a FOSS contributor, I am deeply ashamed at the way I approached this out of frustration.

#Adobe just raised its prices, some are over US$100 a month 😬

Stop paying rent on your tools, switch to #FOSS alternatives:

➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing

➡️ @ardour - Digital audio workstation

➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing

➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social (main) & @blender@video.blender.org (videos) - 3D animation & video effects

➡️ @Krita@mastodon.art (main) & @krita@tube.kockatoo.org (videos) - Painting & illustration

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing

➡️ @darktable - Organise & develop raw photos

➡️ @www.scribus.net.news - Desktop publishing (feed)

I use #VLC

#movie #video #foss #floss #opensource #freedom #software #cosplay

Favorite thing lately is finding an article I wish were in podcast form, saving the text to a .txt file, then having TTS Util use RH Voice to convert the file into an audio reading, and listen to my own little robotic FOSS nanny read me the stories I want to hear in my headphones as I do yardwork.

#FOSS #TTS #TextToSpeech #DIY #podcast #hack #audiobooks

We need help with our 200 for TROM Campaign - https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - we have a bit over 40% of the needed support. We only accept 5€ a month donations to not have to rely on a few individuals donating more money. We need to make this sustainable.

Unfortunately the support over the past months has dropped a little bit. So if you can, please support us.

On the same page you can see what you are supporting. We hope this year to bring new projects to TROM, although it is terribly difficult to do so when you can't even get the minimum support needed to run the current projects.

We have been resilient since 2011 so we will not give up, but the ones who see value in such projects need to support them at least a little bit in order for these projects to survive.

Many thanks to those who keep on supporting us!

#trom #tromsite #foss #opensource #donate #documentary #documentaries #volunteer #trom.tf

#Lenovo Cuts the #Windows #Tax and offers Cheaper #Laptops with #Linux Pre-installed

source: https://news.itsfoss.com/lenovo-cuts-windows-tax/

#foss #floss #laptop #software #os #news #customer #economy

Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed

Lenovo is doing something that many aren't.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

Our chat.trom.tf (Matrix/Synapse) has become very difficult to manage - growing database, not an easy way to prevent bots from registering, or others from abusing our service.

For now we have closed the registrations and only accept them via requests. We have 460 users but we are thinking to perhaps shut down the entire service this year.

Too much work considering anyone can make trade-free accounts with matrix.org or other providers....

We will keep everyone informed about our future plans.

#foss #synapse #matrix #chat #trom #tromtf

Die Infrastruktur von FOSS wird von "KI"-Firmen angegriffen:
"LLM Scraper zerstören die Infrastruktur von FOSS-Projekten, und es wird immer schlimmer."

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

#OpenSource #FOSS #LLM #KI #AI

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

^{Niccolò Venerandi (LibreNews)}

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

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #UN #UnitedNations

We need to pay for the yearly backups for all of our services and content - https://www.gofundme.com/f/paying-for-the-yearly-backups-for-all-of-our-projects

This means all of our TROM.tf services (friendica, peertube, nextcloud, etc.), all of our websites like tromsite.com, videoneat.com, tromjaro.com, and so on.

We only need 230 Euros to cover another year of backups. Please if you can help out since we are underfunded and cannot afford to pay for them.

The payment is yearly. We need to pay by the end of this month (March).

Thanks a bunch!

#trom #opensource #foss #fediverse #peertube #friendica #fedi #volunteer

Donate to Paying for the yearly backups for all of our projects, organized by Tio TROM

We need to pay for our Borg Backups. We are backing up all of our websi… Tio TROM needs your support for Paying for the yearly backups for all of our projects

^gofundme.com

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. ​

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... ​ I hate it here.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!

#bash #bashscript #echo #foss #linux #unix #BlackHistoryMonth #gnu

End Of 10 at #FOSDEM!

#KDEEco 's Call To Action against #eWaste driven by Windows

BoF *Sun 2 Feb 14:00* Room H.3242

Global #FreeSoftware campaign to raise awareness of #Windows 10 EoL and how independent software keeps devices in use & out of the landfill!

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6779-coordinating-a-windows-10-to-linux-upcycling-campaign-across-free-software-communities-worldwide/

Same day just before, learn how #FOSS enables a circular digital economy *11:55-12:05* #Energy #DevRoom H.2214

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5431-software-licensing-for-a-circular-economy-how-foss-reduces-the-energy-consumption-and-carbon-footprint-of-ict/

#EndOf10 #OptGreen #KDE #OpenSource #Sustainability #Environment

@kde

It is time to move on from #FOSS..

Let FOSS just be the licensing and copyright protection part. The software freedom assurance.

I will use #SOSS from now on to refer to Sustainable open social systems / software / services that are commons-based.

I will use working-in-public and weaving-in-public. But in addition I wll do #WorkingInCommons, the collaboration environment and technological ecosystem, where #sustainability first approach is followed at any one time. So the commons has control.

#FOSS community. How much did WE vote democratically for current #fascism trends, with the wallet of our ergonomic coding keyboards?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113908811338200792

#FOSS has failed as a concept. It's software ate the world.. and runs #BigTech #fascism now.

How much of our #WorkingInPublic and #SoftwareFreedom was gratis fundamental #innovation and applied #OpenScience, that is oh so bad for revenue. Gladly delegated to volunteer losers who can work on just #morals and values that're alien to #corpo?

Happy New Year everyone! Just in time to start off the 2025 new year (over here on the pacific coast anyways), Tenacity 1.3.4 has been released! This release contains numerous bug fixes and improvements across all sorts of platforms. Please see https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/releases/tag/v1.3.4 for more information. (The changelog is quite long to list here).

#tenacity #audio #podcasting #foss #privacy #newyear #2025newyear

tenacity

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systems

^Codeberg.org

Let's make Windows 10 the last version ever used!

*Sat. 28 Dec. 11h* Stage YELL #KDEEco 's Call To Action against e-waste driven by #Windows10.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/opt-green-coordinating-a-windows-10-to-linux-upcycling-campaign-across-free-software-communities-worldwide/

*Mon. 30 Dec. 13-15h* B&B habitat join the BoF to organize a global #FreeSoftware campaign to raise awareness of Windows 10's EoL in 2025, the role of software in #eWaste, and how independent, sustainable #FOSS is a solution to keep devices in use & out of the landfill.

https://fahrplan.alpaka.space/jugend-hackt-38c3-2024/talk/ST8NJA/

#38C3 #KDE #OpenSource

@kde

Starting to do the TROM work now 😀 - I am in Romania for a month or so before we go back and start the TROMhome adventure. A new TROMjaro ISO is out https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2024-12-18-pikas-back/242 ! More updates to follow!

#xfce #tromsite #tromjaro #trom #linux #foss

It's #BlueFriday and let's celebrate by doing something good for the planet. The most eco-friendly device is still the one you already own!

Install GNU/Linux and run new & old HW more efficiently and for longer, reducing the disproportionate #carbon footprint from device production.

Donate the savings to #KDE and #FOSS projects to show your love for all the amazing things we achieve when we work together:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

@kde

#SupportGoodPeople #fundraiser #BlackFriday #OptGreen

Users need service, service needs labour, labour needs money, money needs coercion, coercion needs control, control needs ownership, ownership leads to abuse.

This is how the great chain of software abuse happens. Free software has for too long focused on breaking the chain at money, instead of breaking it at coercion. We can fix this.

#PayForFreeSoftware #freesoftware #foss #oss #linux

What a refreshing story! I imagine many of us here owe a great deal to @libreoffice a software suite that has freed us from the grip of the document monopoly, thus broken our dependency on the fate of a single company.
If you're curious about how LibreOffice became what it is today, I highly recommend watching this in your spare time: https://youtu.be/9M468Krlawo

#LibreOffice #FOSS #DocumentFreedom

LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #1 – Marketing Free Software

Italo Vignoli and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss marketing free and open source software...

^YouTube

On the two year anniversary of joining #Mastodon I'm super proud to share:

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.13 👩‍🚀

"The #Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same."

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-fediverse-has-empowered-me-to-take-back-control-from-big-tech-now-i-want-to-help-others-do-the-same/

with mentions of @forgeandcraft (who made this awesome Fediverse t-shirt) @phanpy @ivory @Tusky @nimi @Roneyb @davidoclubb

#FOSS #FLOSS #Matrix #TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #activism #BigTech #socialmedia #education

The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same.

The Fediverse has helped me regain control from the behavior modification empires of Big Tech. Now I want to help other people do the same.

^{Elena Rossini}

TROM II: Attack the World with Solutions - https://videos.trom.tf/w/3wi826du6SpuDJRmm13k5p

#opensource #volunteer #foss #capitalism #money #trade-free #trade

TROM II: Attack the World with Solutions

Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/

^{videos.trom.tf}

TROMjaro Searches - https://videos.trom.tf/w/1YJZKKmaqLr1pG3xNLVHQW

We have integrated web searches into the apps menu to give you almost instant access to the web.​

#linux #tromjaro #foss #opensource #open-soyrce #xfce

TROMjaro Searches

^{videos.trom.tf}

Do you want to help make software safer? Find the bugs in our ntpd-rs!

The ntpd-rs Bug Bounty Program offers a reward to anyone who finds a qualifying vulnerability.

Read the details here: https://yeswehack.com/programs/pendulum-bug-bounty-program

This Bug Bounty Program is organized and funded by @sovtechfund . Read more about this initiative here: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/programs/bug-resilience/

#foss #opensource #security

ntpd-rs Bug Bounty Program bug bounty program - YesWeHack

ntpd-rs Bug Bounty Program bug bounty program details

^{YesWeHack #1 Bug Bounty Platform in Europe}

TROMjaro Gestures - https://videos.trom.tf/w/jyjAnX5c3LUnbjVDHENqG6

Did you know that TROMjaro comes setup with a few basic and very "handy" 😀 gestures for the mouse, touchpad and touchscreen?

#linux #foss #tromjaro #xfce

TROMjaro Gestures

Here are the default gestures TROMjaro comes setup with. For more info see https://www.tromjaro.com/

^{videos.trom.tf}

We will soon update our TROMjaro theme switcher to support some 160 unique theme styles with a very simple interface 😀

A complete theme switcher application 😀.

#tromjaro #trom #linux #foss #opensource #xfce #theming