#til about #AppropriateTechnology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology

This feels like a perfect description of how I aspire to make all my #opensource software nowadays — hbu?

> Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist (…)

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movement

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Improvements for TROM.tf :

Our TROM Social first page (login) is not anymore just an empty page with a simple login, it provides you a peek into the fediverse:

Now you can see what's going on on the network, maybe to convince you to join 😀. It took a lot of CSS and HMTL gymnastics to achieve this. From my tests on desktop with mobile emulators all looks good on mobile, but for some reason when I check it on my phone it does not look as it should....I shall investigate.

Implemented some dark toggles for some of our services, where it was doable, such as Call

Search

Speed

And made our TROM Call, Jitsi Meet, more reliable.

Lastly we spent many days trying to figure out how to make our Peertube Live work better. Hours of tests, lots of logs. Hopefully we can make it more reliable.

#peertube #trom #tromsite #jitsi #searx #opensource #foss #friendica #fediverse

@Tio

🎙️ 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

After 5 years of development Pixelorama v1.0, an #opensource #pixelart drawing tool, is finally out!

https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama/devlog/773099/pixelorama-v10-is-finally-out

#retrocomputing

Pixelorama v1.0 is finally out!

Artwork by Wishdream, one of the artists for v1.0’s splash screen artworks. We made it. After 5 years in development, version 1.0 of Pixelorama is finally here. To be honest, I’m not even sure whe...

^{Orama Interactive (itch.io)}

After many months we are bringing back our TROM.tf Search! https://search.trom.tf/ thanks to Danny!

But with a twist. Instead of hosting a SearX instance we are using a script that checks the best and most reliable instances and uses them randomly for every search. It is a meta-search engine. This way we make sure it is reliable and our IP will never get blocked by google and the rest.

For those who do not know, SearX is itself a sort of meta-search engine, pulling results from google, DDG, yahoo and more, removing the ads and trackers, and basically allowing you to search without those viruses.

So, we are finally back!

To add it to Firefox simply right click the URL after the page loads, and then add the TROM Search as a search engine. From Firefox's settings make sure you select it to be as default for your browser.

#searx #searxng #search #foss #opensource #tromtf #trom

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

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/ by @sjvn

Switzerland is one of the world's leading #opensource countries; now, if only the United States could follow its lead!

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

^{Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)}

We now have 6 servers dedicated to transcoding/transcribing our Peertube videos https://videos.trom.tf - thanks to @Alexio who is providing 4 of them! Peertube is now a complete replacement for Youtube and I will make sure to push it a lot more in terms of use and promotion! We need to get people to use it, else without content, it won't go anywhere....

Feel free to use our instance!

#peertube #youtube #video #opensource #foss

CC @fedora (https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/142117?lang=en)

#GenerativeAI #AI #LLM #ethics #fedora #openSource #FOSS #BigTech #RedHat #IBM https://det.social/@jlink/112811798901196501

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

Heute stellen wir Ihnen unsere neue Rubrik 5 Fragen zu... vor. Den Anfang machen wir mit 5 Fragen zu #Rust an den Software Engineer Daniél Kerkmann!

Lesen Sie in unserem Beitrag, warum wir bei #Opentalk auf die #Programmiersprache Rust setzen, welchen Einfluss Rust auf unsere technische Architektur hat und Antworten auf drei weitere spannende Fragen 👇
https://opentalk.eu/de/news/5-fragen-zum-einsatz-der-programmiersprache-rust-bei-opentalk

#OpenSource #digitaleSouveränität #techstack #tech #programming #RustLang

After a long wait, it's finally here. FreeTube now supports user created playlists! The new v0.20.0 release has dropped and comes with a plethora of new changes along with the new playlists functionality.

You can check out the full release notes over on GitHub. You can download the new release over on our website.

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/discussions/4848

https://freetubeapp.io/#download

#freetube #privacy #opensource

Release v0.20.0 Beta · FreeTubeApp FreeTube · Discussion #4848

Ending Support for Windows 7/8/8.1 and macOS 10.13 / 10.14 In order to stay in line with recent updates to Electron, this update drops support for all Windows operating systems below Windows 10 as ...

^GitHub

In wenigen Tagen ist es soweit:
"Integrationstests mit Szenarien für #Container-Kompositionen" mit Wolfgang Silbermayr, Expert Lead Backend bei #OpenTalk.
Wir freuen uns Sie vor Ort zu treffen!

#OpenSource #digitaleSouveränität

Mehr Infos finden Sie hier 👇
https://opentalk.eu/de/news/grazer-linuxtage-mit-opentalk

Grazer Linuxtage mit OpenTalk

Seien Sie am 6. April dabei bei unserem Vortrag "Integrationstests mit Szenarien für Container-Kompositionen"

^OpenTalk

Thank you so much Eduard for becoming the 77th supporter of TROM! We run a unique fundraiser for TROM in that we need only 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month in order to support us for the long run.

Distributed support so that it won't put a big toll on anyone, and a limited goal so that we do not get rich.

If you appreciate the so many things that we do at TROM (see https://www.tromsite.com) then please consider supporting us.

#tromlive #foss #opensource #privacy #documentary #fediverse

I had a sudden "what if…?" intuition for a potential #productivity speedup in my #opensource bug reporting workflow when tables of data are involved, and… it turns out that it is actually possible.

As you can see in this short demonstration I recorded below, you can paste #LibreOffice #spreadsheet cells into a #GitLab ticket, and it automatically converts it to a proper #MarkDown table. It just works! What is this sorcery!? 🤯 What a time to be alive.

We provide Mastodon/Peertube/Nextcloud/Friendica and more, as a service. For a cost. Just order and have your own instance, no headaches.

I always do trade-free stuff, but since I am trapped in this trade-system and I do not get enough financial support via the projects that I do, I have to also trade a bit.

WebApe https://webape.site/ is what I do to trade. Basically we create websites, install Mastodon/Friendica instances, Peertube, Nextcloud, etc.. We setup, manage, update, customize.

We try to do something decent and make some money with that, to then support our free projects.

So if you want a Mastodon instance for example, or any other website/service, please see https://webape.site/. I have lowered the prices now, so a Mastodon instance starts at 30 Euros per month.

We will take a limited amount of websites so to not overwhelm ourselves.

Please share if you think others might be interested. In a way, we can make the fediverse more known and accessible via the WebServices that we provide.

#foss #opensource #fedi #fediverse #mastodon

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

Ab heute finden Sie uns auf dem Berliner Kongress #DigitalerStaat.

Sie möchten erfahren, warum #OpenTalk eine gute Wahl für Videokonferenzen in der öffentlichen #Verwaltung ist? Sprechen Sie mit unseren Kollegen Erwin Heffele und #OpenTalk Geschäftsführer Markus Michels. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch an Stand 37!

https://opentalk.eu/de/news/digitaler-staat-mit-opentalk

#OpenSource #digitaleSouveränität
#PublicSector

We need help to pay for our backups. This is a yearly funding campaign that we do, so if you can help us please see here https://www.tromsite.com/trom-backup/ - we only need 300 Euros for a full year of 4TB encrypted backups.

This means everything from our videos and documentaries, books, websites, including trom.tf (meaning all of the files that users have uploaded to our services - from Peertube videos to Nextcloud files). Everything!

300 Euros to make sure that we have everything backed-up in a secure place.

Please help if you can and thanks a lot for doing that!

#tromlive #opensource #foss #volunteering #alternative

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

Treffen Sie uns vom 12. - 13. März auf der Konferenz #digitalerStaat

#OpenTalk vereint Sicherheit, Skalierbarkeit und eine intuitive Nutzerführung. Lassen Sie uns über digitale Souveränität im öffentlichen Sektor und moderne Tools in einer modernen Verwaltung ins Gespräch kommen!

#OpenSource #digitaleSouveränität #datenschutz

Mehr Infos finden Sie hier 👇
https://opentalk.eu/de/news/digitaler-staat-mit-opentalk

Digitaler Staat mit OpenTalk

Vom 12. - 13. März treffen Sie uns als Aussteller auf dem Berliner Kongress rund um die digitale Transformation in der öffentlichen Verwaltung.

^OpenTalk

Since we integrated with ActivityPub at the end of last year, Minds has added 32,000+ new users to the network via federation, from 2,200+ different ActivityPub networks.

With our new Networks product (https://minds.com/about/networks), anyone can launch their own network in a matter of minutes. These networks can federate with Minds and the rest of ActivityPub too. Your data, your community, your rules.

Building a network of networks.

#decentralization #growth #opensource #activitypub #fediverse

The Hell has just started melting.

NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers

#nvidia #linux #opensource

NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers

Today is a wild one for open-source/Linux users

^{www.phoronix.com}

In der letzten Woche durften wir gemeinsam mit @heinleinsupport zu Gast sein auf der @fosdem in Brüssel! Wir danken allen Anwesenden, die unsere Vorträge besucht haben und mit uns in den Austausch gegangen sind!

Weitere Infos zu Heinlein Support und #OpenTalk finden Sie hier 👇

https://www.heinlein-support.de/services

#OpenSource #digitaleSouveränität #DSGVO #Datenschutz #FOSDEM

🇩🇪 Germany is embracing FOSS in public admin! This Saturday, @marco will share the progress and lessons learned. See the schedule here: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/public-code-and-digital-public-goods/

#FOSDEM2024 #PublicCode #OpenSource #DigitalTransformation

We have a new supporter for our 200 for TROM campaign! https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - Thank you Darby!

We need some 150 more people to donate 5 Euros a month and support our project forever. Some 20 websites, a lot of trade-free materials and services. Support if you can 😀

#tromlive #opensource #trade-free

Updated our TROM Files to Nextcloud 28. Biggish update. We had to remove the following apps tho, since they were not compatible: files_3d, files_markdown, metadata, video_converter, extract. Whenever these are available for Nextcloud 28 we will enable them.

Take advantage of our TROM Files https://files.trom.tf - you get 10GB of storage space and access to better tools than Google's Drive. All trade-free.

#tromlive #foss #opensource

Please, please, please add a reminder to your calendar so that you do not forget to thank a #FreeSoftware #OpenSource contributor or organisation on 14 February (#ilovefs). 🙏

Some more background and ideas are available here: https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240109-01.html

Are you ready for ‘I Love Free Software Day’ 2024? - FSFE

Every year, on 14 February, the FSFE, together with Free Software organisations around the globe, celebrates “I Love Free Software Day”: a special day of a...

^{FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe}

Well that's #annoying

#opensource chat server Rocket Chat decided to make their latest upgrade plain abusive. If you run your own, you are now *required* to enrole in a trial of their premium proprietary nonsense and it's likely the server is spying on it's admins and users.

*great*

Looks like #inkscape is going to have to move chat systems. There's just no way to regain trust in an upstream that is abusive. Not without forking away from the abusers.

Big thanks to those who support our 200 for TROM donation campaign https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - there are 44 people donating 5 Euros a month and we need 200 in total. We provide a lot of materials and tools - see the donation page. Your support allows us to keep these alive and relevant, and if enough support to continue to produce more.

Remember, among many things, we provide a video platform with unlimited uploads for anyone, a file hosting platform with 10GB of storage for any user that registers, a social network and a chat platform. Also a Linux Operating System. A lot, and for everyone. So please, consider donating 5 Euros a month if you can. It is the only amount we accept.

Thank you!

Donate https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

#opensource #foss #fediverse #help #donation #campaign #free #trade-free #tradefree #tromlive

@Łukasz @Michał Górny :autism:🙀🚂🐧
To podsumuję jak rozumiem co napisałeś:
#Korporacje są dobre dla #opensource pod warunkiem, że mogą dobrze sprzedać coś co dostały od innych za darmo.
A kodu opartego na #GPL nie można dobrze sprzedać bo nie można legalnie zabronić żeby ktoś (kto nawet za niego zapłacił) nie puścił go dalej za darmo.

"Najlepsze" jest zdanie "jak dodajemy coś co może się komuś przydać i nie jest specyficzne dla naszego produktu to wrzucamy takich patch do upstream" bo jest dość odważnym przyznaniem że bierzecie z opensource ile się da (na ile licencja pozwala) a oddajecie tylko tyle ile sami uznacie - czyli nawet zero.

📣 Wir sind dabei: Tausende #OpenSource-Developer treffen sich am 3./4.02.24 auf der #FOSDEM in Brüssel.

Die Vorträge von Heinlein und OpenTalk:

👉 Heinlein-Consultants Carsten Rosenberg und Manu Zurmühl fragen, ob man eine effektive #Mail-Security-Infrastruktur mit Open-Source-Komponenten bauen kann.

👉 Entwickler Wolfgang Silbermayr gibt Einblicke in unser #OpenTalk-Projekt, die Service-Architektur und den Stand der Entwicklung unserer souveränen #Videokonferenz.

https://www.heinlein-support.de/news/heinlein-opentalk-vortraege-fosdem-2024

Falls jemand noch nicht glaubt, dass die öffentliche Hand auf Open Source / freie Software setzen sollte: Hier ein feines Interview (auf Englisch) zu Open Source in der Münchner Verwaltung mit der Laura Dornheim @schwarzblond

https://podcast.sustainoss.org/214

#opensource #freiesoftware #freesoftware #publicmoneypubliccode #verwaltungsdigitalisierung

Dr. Laura Dornheim on Munich's open source journey

Dr. Dornheim's insights on LiMux, Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund, tech understanding, and the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act.

^Sustain

TROMjaro 2024.01.07 (and a longish article) https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2024-01-07-and-a-longish-article/207 - improvements to our Layout Switcher thanks to @Rokosun and new default apps ;)

#tromstuff #linux #foss #opensource #arch

TROMjaro 2024.01.07 (and a longish article :) )

TROMjaro Layout Switcher revamp In this release we are bringing the new TROMjaro Layout Switcher. @rokosun rewrote the entire application in the Nim programming language with use of owlkettle library for GTK.

^{TROMjaro Forum}

"#Apple überrascht... Das Unternehmen hat sein grosses multimodales Sprachmodell Ferret als #OpenSource-Code freigegeben. "

Berichtet t3n: https://t3n.de/news/apple-heimlich-grosses-sprachmodell-open-source-code-1598979/

Apple hat heimlich ein großes Sprachmodell als Open-Source-Code veröffentlicht

Apple überrascht die Tech-Welt mit einer unerwarteten Offenheit: Das Unternehmen hat sein großes multimodales

^{Kay Nordenbrock (t3n Magazin)}