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

Der Prototype Fund wird um vier Jahre verlängert

Mit der Neuauflage des Prototype Fund wird die Förderung von Freier und Open- Source-Software (FOSS) in Deutschland über vier weitere Jahre abgesichert und ausgebaut.

#Prototype_Fund #Förderung #EU #Projektförderung #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/prototype-fund-um-vier-jahre-verlaengert

Der Prototype Fund wird um vier Jahre verlängert

^GNU/Linux.ch

Linux users after trying Windows for more than 30 seconds:

#linux #windows

Natron is an open-source compositing software used for visual effects and motion graphics. It offers a node-based interface, which allows users to create and manage complex visual effects and compositions efficiently. Natron provides tools for color correction, keying, tracking, flexible rotoscoping, curve editor, dope-sheet editor, Shadertoy & G'MIC OFX plugins, and so much more.

https://natrongithub.github.io/

#Linux #natron #compositing #visual #effects #motion #graphics #node

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}

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 need to talk about Kdenlive video editor on Linux.

Kdenlive is open source software that runs on multiple platforms. Also, Kdenlive does NOT requires a additional graphics card, is not intense on system resources, supports multi-track video editing, supports advance features like audio and video plugin support, supports nested sequences, supports proxy editing, imports most file formats, and is easy to learn.

#Linux #KDE #Kdenlive #video #editor #OpenSource #open #source

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

So Russia blocked Signal - https://www.reuters.com/technology/signal-messenger-blocked-russia-says-roskomnadzor-ifax-2024-08-09/

"Access to the Signal messaging app is blocked in connection with violation of the requirements of Russian legislation which must be complied with to prevent the use of messaging apps for terrorist and extremist aims,"

So thankful that Russia goes after those extremists using Signal! Russia already has enough on their hands dropping bombs on hospitals and supermarkets and invading other countries! Fuck off extremists!

By the way we ship TROMjaro with a trade-free VPN to bypass these stupidities.

Also: Signal Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Censorship circumvention (on)

#signal #signalmessenger #russia #war #linux #tromjaro #trom

A big thank you to the anonymous donor who sent 500 Euros for @Rokosun to buy a laptop. Roko has been helping with our TROM projects for a while now. TROMjaro would not be possible the way it is now without him. He is the one coding our layout and theme switchers and a lot more.

Roko got TROM's "legacy" laptop a year ago 😀 but unfortunately the motherboard died 🙁. So he ended up using an old laptop that barely worked. He could barely test stuff for TROMjaro. So he really needed a good machine.

Now he will buy one and will be able to more easily help with the TROM project. We have a lot of plans! Follow us on the fediverse ;)

#linux #trom #tromjaro #donation #laptop #foss #trade-free

🎙️ Zgłoś swoje wystąpienie na Jesieni Linuksowej 2024! 🍂
📅 25-27 października 2024, #Rybnik

Podziel się wiedzą o systemie 🐧 #Linux, #OpenSource, #DevOps i na podobne tematy!
📍Nadsyłajcie propozycje do 19 sierpnia!📍

Więcej info: https://jesien.org/2024/c4p/

#JesieńLinuksowa2024 #JesienLinuksowa

TROMjaro is alive and well. And we keep it up to date and relevant - https://www.tromjaro.com - I love our Linux distro! 😀 I love when it is stable and just works. And we also ship with so many tweaks you can simply use it. No ads, no trackers, all apps available in Linux from one single place - click and install. I love it. A very positive project indeed 😀

#tromjaro #linux #foss #opensource #operatingsystem

For the past several months no one could install flatpaks from our Trade-Free TROMjaro app Library - https://www.tromjaro.com/apps/ - and now we finally fixed it thanks to @Rokosun ! One click installs 😀

We have curated around 700 trade-free apps for the library and we plan to add a lot more the following months. Check it out!

#tromjaro #linux #trade-free #opensource #foss #flatpak

#borgbackup 1.4.0 was just released, see:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.0

#linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #openindiana #macOS

Release Release 1.4.0 · borgbackup/borg

borgbackup 1.4.0 First release for the new 1.4-maint branch. borg 1.4 is kind of a refreshed 1.2 with mostly the same features and behavior, but a few bigger changes that could introduce issues and...

^GitHub

I really really REALLY wish that when I comment about #Linux DE #UX people would understand:
1. This is coming from a place of love for Linux, I want it to get better
2. I'm fairly new here and WILL make mistakes
3. I'm very welcome to be corrected
4. I'm not attacking anyone

I'm a #UX expert, not a Linux expert. I'm absolutely going to say stupid things. Could I possibly go a bit slower and be more diplomatic? Sure. Could people also not freak out and assume the worst? Please.

In 2020 I checked some old backup disks of mine and found to my utmost joy a copy of my former UT2003 installation. This is a Linux native 32bit build that is now over 20 years old. Well, LinuxGaming is hard because who can support 500 distributions, right? This worked just fine in 2020 on Fedora 31. Today I gave it another spin in 2024 on Fedora 38 on Wayland with PipeWire 😀

Hell yeah, the muscle memory is still there 🤘🤓🤘

(tbf the SDL1.2 compat lib rocks most of this but it's really all still there)

I have tried to switch from white-on-black xterms to black-on-white, since it's told to be a less strain on the eyes, but it's kind of impossible due to everyone defaulting their color schemes on WoB. It feels like a hopeless fight.
Otherwise it's really eye-soothing, but it's definitely not mind soothing the guy need to reconfigure everyfuckingthing.

#linux #terminal #theming #blackonwhite #futile

If you're a #Linux user, beware of the XZ backdoor:

https://youtu.be/OHAyf0qwdCs

A couple things to think about here:

This appears to be a malicious maintainer - not a compromised account. Meaning the person themselves, coded this in an pushed it out.

So:
1) Did they try and backdoor any other code?
2) Are they part of a greater campaign or is anyone else helping them.

This is a massive breach of trust.

That said! Huge kudos to Andres Freund, Florian Weimer, and others in finding this.

A lot of eyes are on this now. CISA is involved. Major distros are involved, etc. Many eyes and such.

#infosec #linux #foss #hacking #cve20243094 #cve

Dear #photographers & visual #artists running #Linux, what are your tricks for #colour -accurate #scanning photo prints on consumer-grade gear (not a film/drum scanner)?

I have 3+ #scanners, all with wildly different #color results, as you can see below. At least 2 of them can scan directly over LAN (in Simple Scan).

Ideally I'd want #colormanagement / calibration of scans, ideally with "Simple Scan" (otherwise, how do you do it with XSane?). I have a ColorMunki spectrophotometer, if it helps.

Is there concern for snaps or flatpaks? Checking my own stuff it looks like applications using bundled liblzma are running in the 5.2.* - 5.4.* versions, but if someone has a bleeding edge application running an affected version, what would the remediation be? Would uninstalling it be sufficient?

#snap #flatpak #linux #xz #liblzma

Seien Sie am 6. April dabei bei unserem Vortrag "Integrationstests mit Szenarien für Container-Kompositionen" auf den Grazer Linuxtagen!

👉 Samstag, 6. April 2024, 12.10 Uhr mit Wolfgang Silbermayr, Expert Lead Backend bei #OpenTalk

Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden Sie hier:

https://opentalk.eu/de/news/grazer-linuxtage-mit-opentalk

#OpenSource #Linux #gl24 #linuxtage

Grazer Linuxtage mit OpenTalk

^OpenTalk

I just saw that Mozilla is retiring Mozilla Location Services which provided an open, crowdsourced alternative to proprietary location services from Google and other vendors. 😰

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

This is used by GNOME and thus Fedora, Ubuntu, Endless OS, etc. to help provide OS-level location services without requiring every app to implement its own. And apparently a patent troll is part of the reason Mozilla stopped investing in it. 🙃

#OpenSource #Linux #GNOME #Mozilla

Retiring the Mozilla Location Service · Issue #2065 · mozilla/ichnaea

The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service. I...

^GitHub

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To the #Windows and #macOS users of Mastodon who have tried #Linux and ended up still using Windows or macOS:

What is it about the Linux distro(s) you tried that made it/them unsuitable for your use? If some problem or set of problems was fully resolved, would it be enough for you to be able to comfortably use Linux?

The poll is just a list of possible things that could make Linux difficult or impossible to use for some, please feel free to comment with specifics.

• Too buggy (8%, 16 votes)
• Too unfamiliar (4%, 8 votes)
• Lacking any good alternatives to critical software (16%, 32 votes)
• Lacking critical software, alternatives aren't an option (26%, 52 votes)
• Overwhelming number of choices (3%, 6 votes)
• Incompatible with media I use (3%, 7 votes)
• Incompatible with my computer(s) (6%, 12 votes)
• Simply didn't like it (6%, 13 votes)
• Other (please comment) (19%, 38 votes)
• ...what's Linux? (4%, 9 votes)

My #Hungarian teacher asked me yesterday if I could help her with her computer, because she had some issues. Old retired woman.

When she started her PC, it turned out, she is using #Ubuntu #Linux.

#Linux 6.8 has been released 🎉

Builds have been started in our test repo.

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bieszczaders/kernel-cachyos

#cachyos

Salut !
J'ai créé un bundle de brushes pour la calligraphie pour Krita que je mets en partage sur mon site :
https://www.le-stylocalligraphe.com/fr/pages/blog/1283623/brushes-calligraphie-pour-krita

Merci de relayer l'info ! Bonne journée.
#krita_artists #krita #calligraphy #opensource #linux
@davidrevoy

Chemnitzer Linuxtage, 15.3. Vorabend, Essen, Turmbrauhaus?

👇 Anmeldung. 🍶 🍴 🍔 🥕 🍻 🍵

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/turmbrauhaus-clt-2024

#clt2024 #linux #chemnitz

Relatable? 😛

#linux

Dexed is a synthesizer that is closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7. Supports multiple platforms and various formats. Dexed is also a midi cartridge librarian and manager for the DX7.

Dexed is free software and is licensed on the GPL v3.

https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed

#linux #synthesizer #dexed

Here's some cool news: libinput - the underlying input API for #Linux nowadays - will support dials on drawing tablets soon! 🎉 A lot of XP-PEN's Artist Pro series have these controls for example.

@whot pushed along the API I originally made about a year ago, many thanks 😮 This means that applications that use libinput can make use of these dials soon, like Wayland compositors. If you're technically inclined, you can see the completed MR here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests/967

tablet: add API for relative dials (!967) · Merge requests · libinput / libinput · GitLab

This is a lot of copy/paste from the ring axes because the interface is virtually identical. The main difference is that dials give us a v120 value in...

^GitLab

J'adore ! Du coup, en fond d'écran ! Merci ❤️

#DailyDesktop #ShareYourDesktop #Linux #Xfce #Zorin #ZorinOS #DavidRevoy #ValentineDay

I play the demo of the space truck simulation „Star Trucker“ by Monster and Monster. The final game is about to be released somewhen in the year 2024 by Raw Fury.
The demo available for Windows only. I use Proton 8.0-5 to play it on Linux, no further tricks needed.
Whether the final release will have native versions for Linux or MacOS, I can't say at the moment.

Game website: https://star-trucker.com
GOG page: https://www.gog.com/game/star_trucker
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380050

My website: https://hatnix.net
My livestreams: https://live.hatnix.net

This whole forced microsoft copilot thing is making me so mad. Been thinking for a while of having a second hard drive with a linux distro for my personal work that i can boot to, and keeping windows for external work stuff.

Not sure how to go about doing this, though, does anyone have any advice on this?

Also for distros i was thinking popOS since I recall @davidrevoy using it for his work. I have been using Kubuntu on a laptop and it works great, but I am open to suggestions. I mostly use Krita, Scribus and OpenOffice.

#linux #advice