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MuseScore is an awesome program (https://musescore.org). But avoid the sinking sands of the service set up on musescore.com domain, made by the company that acquired both MuseScore and Audacity in recent years.

This stuff is a racket. I'd advise to install MuseScore from your Linux distribution's repository and never visit any websites associated with it.

MuseGroup's monetization schemes are vile.

Read more here:
https://gadanidis.ca/posts/2021-11-09-musescore.html

#MuseScore #MuseGroup #OpenSource #FOSS #DarkPatterns


LibreJS: an addon blocking non-free JavaScript by the @fsf

📎: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/

Non-official 📎: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/librejs/

#FOSS #Freedom #Mozilla #Addons #JavaScript #FSF #FreeSoftware #FLOSS


"Open Source" can't just be about using the goodwill of a very desirable common label for software goods. It's an integral part of keeping the developer ecosystem healthy.

And "healthy" can't only be about profitability for companies.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/08/open-source-architecture-or-go.html
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #OSS #SoftwareFreedom
It’s a very interesting time to be in open source. Open source zealots need to realize that open source needs to be reinvented for the new platform architecture, and web 2.0 companies need to remember that open source isn’t just goodwill, but an integral part of keeping the developer ecosystem healthy. And everyone needs to experiment with new models, and not believe that the story has already been written.


"These repositories are available under the same BSL license as Sentry’s core repos."

So... It will *become* open source... eventually... in about 4 years or so.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #OSS #SoftwareFreedom #SourceAvailable

https://about.codecov.io/blog/codecov-is-now-open-source/


Bühne frei für freie Software an Schulen:

Im September veranstaltet @digitalcourage fünf Mini-Fortbildungen (je 60 Min) für Lehrkräfte, Schulleitungen und Entscheidungsträger.innen (z.B. Träger) zu freier Software für Schulen:

* Only Office, 06. September
* Linuxmuster, 13. September
* Nextcloud, 14. September
* Moodle, 20. September
* LibreOffice, 21. September

Meldet euch JETZT an 🙂
https://digitalcourage.de/freie-software-snack-buffet

Wir bieten die Kurse kostenfrei an, um die Hürden möglichst niedrig zu halten, bitten aber um Spenden: https://digitalcourage.de/spenden

Die Referent.innen stammen alle aus dem Netzwerk Freie Schulsoftware. Vielen Dank, dass ihr das möglich macht!

#FediLZ #foss


> If you feel you are being watched, you change your behavior. Big Data is supercharging this effect.

> This could limit your desire to take risks or exercise free speech. Over the long term these 'chilling effects' could 'cool down' society.

> If you have "bad friends" on social media you might pay more for your loan.

> What you post on social media may influence your odds of getting a tax audit.

https://www.socialcooling.com/
https://www.mathwashing.com/

#privacy #foss #bigdata #surveillance #ai


Hi everyone! We are pleased to join the community!

PKP is celebrating 25 years as a community-driven, research-based #FOSS initiative. We're known for Open Journal Systems (#OJS) publishing software, used by 30,000+ journals around the world for independent publishing.

Our community also develops and maintains Open Monograph Press (#OMP) and Open Preprint Systems (#OPS).

We'll be posting about our community, research, development, and advocacy efforts. Glad to be here!

#introduction
Members of the team and wider community at a 2022 PKP Sprint in Colombia! 50+ people from various backgrounds are pictured, from software developers to librarians to digital initiatives specialists to editors and more.



A buddy of mine suggested that I look into #jitsi so I did, and so should you.

If you value #FOSS and you have a need for video calling / conferencing, and if you also are elated when you find such competitors to the leading software in the field but which actually functions better (by several metrics) on top of being FOSS, then yeah.. this is for you.

https://meet.jit.si/


dragon approved game's

basic bitch tier
portals
half lifes + black mesa
deep rock galactic
satisfactory
control
baba is you
ace combat 7
outer wild's

when you wanna play dnd but have no friends tier
shadowrun: dragonfall

urbex genious tier
mirror's edge
stray*
INFRA**

cute tier
railbound
a story about my uncle
transistor
oneshot

hashtag #foss tier
xonotic
super tux kart

this doesn't fit in any of the tiers but it's still good tier
mark of the ninja (remastered)

wat tier
jazzpunk
antichamber

* barely, due to cough its issues
** it's an acquired taste i guess
#foss



Google wants to track you - no matter what. Now it is threatening to take down Invidious, a popular platform on which you can watch YouTube videos without being tracked!

https://tutanota.com/blog/google-youtube-invidious-privacy-alternative

#google #business #data #legal #privacy #opensource #foss


There’s an open source non profit alternative to StackExchange called Codidact, who knew?! 🤷‍♂️

Mastodon: @codidact
Website: https://codidact.com

#Foss #Codidact #StackExchange



Simple Mobile tools


@jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 And did you ask people first if they want to invite #gafam (here: via #googleDoc ) to this panel ?
Are there really no #foss / free from #corpo #surveillance tools ( #nextcloud, #cryptpad, etc.) to need google ?
As admin of the #fediverse server, I do not intend to invite them here in any form.


Now for a different take on decentralization and mastodon: Mastodon Is Doomed: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-04-24-mastodon-is-doomed/ #linux #update #foss #mastodon #socialnetwork #decentralization #future


@It's FOSS It's a bit of a shame to promote/endorse #slack on the #foss site and not, for example, its open source counterparts like #rocketchat, #mattermost, #nextcloud . Don't be like the #LinuxFoundation


Is it important to you that your smartphone runs #FreeSoftware? :fdroid: :eos: :ubuntu: 😛ostmarketos:

Boost for more range📶

#android #ios #ut #ubports #ubuntutouch #foss #opensource #smartphone #poll #polls #survey #postmarketos

  • Yes, my phone runs a free OS :lineageos: :ubuntu: (34%, 95 votes)
  • Yes, I use free apps on my phone whenever I can (35%, 98 votes)
  • Actually, yes. But I'm not managing that very well (17%, 49 votes)
  • No. On my phone, comfort is more important to me. (13%, 37 votes)
279 voters. Poll end: 2 years ago


Which bootloader are you using on your primary system?

Boost for more range📶

#grub #bootloader #linux #foss #opensource #systemd-boot

  • GRUB (82%, 184 votes)
  • systemd-boot (12%, 27 votes)
  • syslinux (0%, 2 votes)
  • Another one (please comment!) (4%, 10 votes)
223 voters. Poll end: 2 years ago


#LinuxFoundation (czyli #GAFAM +++ pod przykrywką #linux 'a) założyło swojego mastodona: @The Linux Foundation .

Co #korpoludki z LF mają nam do przekazania na temat #opensource / #foss :
"W przeciwieństwie do zamkniętego oprogramowania, oprogramowanie open source jest bezpieczne tylko wtedy, gdy jest używane prawidłowo i odpowiedzialnie." 😮
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/open-source-separating-fact-from-fiction

⚠️ #FOSSwashing ⚠️


#ChatGPT conversation histories leaked:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-confirms-leak-of-chatgpt-conversation-histories

Can you guess who or what does Sam Altman from #OpenAI blame for it?

"A bug in an open source library."

Yup. #FLOSS is great for #OpenAI as a way to build on somebody else's code, and as a way to train their models on somebody else's code. But as soon as shit hits the fan, it *will* get thrown under the bus.

Wanna *bet* it's not an #AGPL library? SV hypercapitalists keep away from those!

#FOSS #InfoSec



Here’s the platform I’m using for drcassone.social. You can learn more, donate, and install your own. @alex has created a premium product and it’s for all to use.

https://soapbox.pub/

#fediverse #drcassonesocial #foss



Godot Engine 4.0 gets a first Release Candidate https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/godot-engine-4-first-release-candidate/ #FOSS #GameDev #OpenSource #Godot
Godot 4.0 RC1 testing on Fedora Linux



I hope this is in jest lol.

Also, holy cow I haven't seen you in a while! I was pretty heavy into GIMP in the early 10s, and was/am so inspired by your work. Warms my heart to see you're still at it, and still using #foss.
#foss


HandBrake 1.6 Released with AV1 Video Encoding Support https://www.omglinux.com/handbrake-1-6-released-with-av1-video-encoding-support/ #opensource #av1 #foss
screenshot of handbrake showing presets


@PhenomX6I loathe being compelled to visit a third party site when I'm doing #Fediverse stuffs, but when it comes to audio and videos, #Soapbox is one of the most capable of all Fediverse server platforms.

I can post a link to a podcast or song on a #FunkWhale server for example, and play it right here without ever having to leave my Gleasonator account - it handled such media better than pretty much any other platform, and even those that do accommodate in site viewing, Soapbox is much much prettier.

When it comes to YouTube, however, a trick i picked up in #Matrix, that also works in Soapbox, is to simply run it through a sanitizer like #Invidious.

Then i can play the video inside Soapbox.

This is handled automagically with #Fedilab if you're posting to a Soapbox Pub server.

https://invidious.fdn.fr/shorts/teK_CFdc7gM&local=true?feature=share

#tallship #FOSS #media #playback



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FreedomBox 22.27 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports.

Highlights:
- minidlna: Fix incorrect marking for firewall local protection
- zoph, wordpress: Add conflicts on libpam-tmpdir

Details: https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-22-27-released/2391/1

#FreedomBox #Debian #Wordpress #FOSS


It's just incredible what is possible with #FOSS and dedication! 😄 Tnx for the video, it was well made! Probably gonna show this to my wife who is the more "artsy" of us 😆

#Krita #PeerTube #MastoArt #Tutorial


Hello world!

#Liblast is a free and open-source multiplayer FPS game built with Godot 4 game engine and a fully libre toolchain.

https://libla.st

The project is non-profit, but we accept donations to cover server costs etc.

I'm unfa (co-founder, project lead and main developer), though in the future it's possible other Liblast contributors will also post through this account 😀

Ahoy!

#Godot #Godot4 #GodotEngine #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #FOSS #OpenSource #Game #Multiplayer #FPS


It's finally here, teasing is over:

I'm excited to launch #keyoxide today!

https://yarmo.eu/post/keyoxide

#FOSS solution for easy encryption, signature verification and decentralized identity proofs!

I've been in favor of #DeleteKeybase but I never had something to offer as an alternative. Now I do 😀


How much does it cost to have a human being clean up and edit your podcast?

I am interested in offering affordable podcast editing and mastering to nonprofits and community/personal projects.

Do people need this? Would it help?

#podcasting #foss #community #nonprofit