"Today, another mad dictator is threatening the world's infrastructure. For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from American tech – not just Russian gas."

As you might have come to expect and astute as ever, @pluralistic laying down the facts on American tech subservience.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics

#tech #technology #FOSS #policy

"Today, another mad dictator is threatening the world's infrastructure. For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from American tech – not just Russian gas."

As you might have come to expect and astute as ever, @pluralistic laying down the facts on American tech subservience.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics

#tech #technology #FOSS #policy

Je découvre que Moby a mis plein de musiques en libre accès sur https://mobygratis.com/

Très cool.

#moby #mobygratys #musique #free #foss #floss

Je découvre que Moby a mis plein de musiques en libre accès sur https://mobygratis.com/

Très cool.

#moby #mobygratys #musique #free #foss #floss

Happy to announce 29 projects have been selected in round 6 of the NGI Zero Commons Fund.

It is a great selection of Free and Open Source projects covering the entire stack from open hardware to apps that improve user autonomy. Together they help to build the digital commons.

Some projects even already have #hex stickers \o/. Come check it out!

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html

(and if you'd like to work for the internet as well, the current call closes December 1).

#FOSS#FOSSfunding#NGI#NGI0

I started a pol.is conversation on the topic "Fediverse acceleration(?) " ⬇️ (You don't need an account)

https://pol.is/6skfwtthmn

pol.is is a FOSS web-app to help find consensus global & subgroup opinions within a set of participants 🤝

I've heard a lot about it over the years, but have had no experience with it. It looks like you rate statements positively 👍 or negatively 👎 and can write your own ✍️ After 7 participants, report data should become available.

#polis #governance #foss #fediverse

Remember when #Firefox used to come with an integrated video calling service called Firefox Hello?

Now they’re offering their users #Amazon giftcards in exchange for taking a survey over #Zoom.

So you run non-free software in order to connect to an unethical service so you can go shopping at an unethical company. To be fair though, they also promote the alternative option of sending you money directly via an unethical payment processor. What can I say? Thanks for improving Firefox.

#lang_en#FOSS#Free_Software#Mozilla#PayPal#technology

The only remaining part of my computing world that is not yet on Linux is my audio/music production work. Formulating a plan to try and make a move there, too.

Would love to connect up with anyone doing this seriously on Linux. I'm totally okay with re-tooling a bunch of my software stack, but I'm trying to figure out a good, solid audio interface that will work well for serious use under Linux.

#linux #music #production #studio #foss

The only remaining part of my computing world that is not yet on Linux is my audio/music production work. Formulating a plan to try and make a move there, too.

Would love to connect up with anyone doing this seriously on Linux. I'm totally okay with re-tooling a bunch of my software stack, but I'm trying to figure out a good, solid audio interface that will work well for serious use under Linux.

#linux #music #production #studio #foss

I started a pol.is conversation on the topic "Fediverse acceleration(?) " ⬇️ (You don't need an account)

https://pol.is/6skfwtthmn

pol.is is a FOSS web-app to help find consensus global & subgroup opinions within a set of participants 🤝

I've heard a lot about it over the years, but have had no experience with it. It looks like you rate statements positively 👍 or negatively 👎 and can write your own ✍️ After 7 participants, report data should become available.

#polis #governance #foss #fediverse

Happy to announce 29 projects have been selected in round 6 of the NGI Zero Commons Fund.

It is a great selection of Free and Open Source projects covering the entire stack from open hardware to apps that improve user autonomy. Together they help to build the digital commons.

Some projects even already have #hex stickers \o/. Come check it out!

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html

(and if you'd like to work for the internet as well, the current call closes December 1).

#FOSS#FOSSfunding#NGI#NGI0

Look! Our Nepalese community is preparing a very cool #LibreOffice event for early December. More details to come 😉 #foss#OpenSource #freesoftware

LibreOffice turned 15 years old in September! We also had our annual conference, an update to the software, guidebook translations, news about migrations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/07/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-september-2025/ #foss#OpenSource #freesoftware

Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 are no longer receiving software updates, technical support, or bug and security fixes.

Consider migrating to LibreOffice.

Microsoft recommends migrating to a Microsoft 365 subscription.

LibreOffice supports the features that a majority of users need for free.

Website: https://www.libreoffice.org
Mastodon: @libreoffice

4/4

#Microsoft#Office2016#Office2019#Office #LibreOffice#Privacy#InfoSec#CyberSecurity#Encryption#FOSS#FreeSoftware#OpenSource

Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 are no longer receiving software updates, technical support, or bug and security fixes.

Consider migrating to LibreOffice.

Microsoft recommends migrating to a Microsoft 365 subscription.

LibreOffice supports the features that a majority of users need for free.

Website: https://www.libreoffice.org
Mastodon: @libreoffice

4/4

#Microsoft#Office2016#Office2019#Office #LibreOffice#Privacy#InfoSec#CyberSecurity#Encryption#FOSS#FreeSoftware#OpenSource

Hi @j12t,
IMO the #lack of #product #management is the most consequential shortcoming of #FOSS.

Meanwhile, in the parallel FOSS universe...

I switched to Linux three years ago, and would highly recommend you do the same. Linux is free, actively maintained, and hardware-friendly. It gives you full control over your system and data. Currently I'm using Linux both in my private and professional life and it's fully covering all my use cases. I'm really impressed how good the user experience delivered by @gnome is.

Break free from #Windows vendor lock-in.

#FOSS #opensource#Linux #windows10