GNOME 51 was released! 🥳️

GNOME OS now has a dedicated website with documentation, is now smarter on systems with little RAM and much more in This Week in GNOME!

#266 Fifty One!
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/09/twig-266/

#ThisWeekInGNOME #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource

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#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Privacy #Email #EmailArchiving #FOSS

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The 24th Kieler Linux and Open Source Days are over. It was an awesome event with many interesting conversations and presentations and it was my first time as a Kielux team member.

Thank you all for an awesome time and see you next year!

@kielux
@LinuxGuides
@LinuxLeben

#kielux #linux #opensource

@thenewoil

given there are 3 options

1. everyone is hooked into a small number of US technofascist AI companies

2. use your own open source AI

3. everyone avoids general purpose AI like they avoid asbestos, DDT and smoking

then maybe (2) is the most feasible harm reduction?

(my own preference is for 3)

#AI #mozilla #opensource

#Mila and #Mozilla announce new initiative to build trustworthy #OpenSource #AI for everyone, with Canadian government support

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mila-canada-open-source-ai-initiative/

#Canada #privacy #cybersecurity #FOSS

Happy Saturday!

The weekend is here: a nice opportunity to recommend #ArcaneChat to a friend or #family and help them get in contact with you there

Spread purple love 💜✨
Keep the family safe 🤗

#europe #european #android #OpenSource

What if open protocols operate just like natural ecosystems?

In this article from Silphium Design, we explore how decentralized networks mirror ecological resilience. When nodes federate via ActivityPub, diversity prevents single-point collapse and keeps digital communities sustainable.

Curious how digital ecology maps directly to the Fediverse? Check out the latest:
https://silphiumdesign.com/digital-ecology-in-the-fediverse-decentralized/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Decentralization #WebDev #OpenSource

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An AI representation of digital ecology.

Mumble is an open-source, self-hosted voice chat platform with low-latency communication, encryption, and full control over your own server.

A solid option for private voice communication, gaming, communities, and teams.

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#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Privacy #VoiceChat #Mumble #FOSS

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"why didn't you just use #XMPP"

post from the Debugging Memes channel, join here:

https://i.delta.chat/#B68D965B65A63BBE7EB32D56234652E2C899213F&v=3&x=ImcSr1dp4fEWrZreS4Emlb5u&j=eX6UqJEePp9y_i-225abLctf&s=NKEuhQYd9UlzXhnW7rCTHNbF&a=57cyvwkiidqqxnryms0q%40chat.in%2Dthe.eu&n=Debugging+Memes&b=Debugging+Memes

#dev #developer #joke #meme #developerjokes #opensource

I've turned off pull requests from non-members for Flask, Werkzeug, Jinja, and Click this week, and have enjoyed not waking up to a fresh wave of AI junk every morning. I think I'm going to update our contributing guide to say "introduce yourself and how you use the library in chat first if you want to contribute pull requests". Sad that we had to go here, but aside from conference sprints we weren't really getting outside contribution anyway (which is also sad, but that's been the case a lot longer than AI has been around). #python #flask #opensource

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@thanksstevenkim/117150622690285108

A new update to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Fediverse is deploying... now!

This round was shaped by useful feedback I received after sharing the project. The main point was fair: this is not a complete census of the fediverse. It is a continuously refreshed sample, discovered from deliberately chosen seed instances and their public peer relationships.

I’ve now made that limitation explicit in the documentation, rather than presenting the numbers as if they represented every ActivityPub server on the internet.

I also separated two things that are easy to blur together:

- federated services built primarily for the fediverse
- general publishing sites that participate through ActivityPub, such as WordPress or Ghost

That distinction matters when interpreting totals. A WordPress site with the ActivityPub plugin is still part of the network, but it is not the same kind of deployment as a Mastodon, Lemmy, or PeerTube instance.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSource #Data

🫧 Social coding commons boosted

Steven "thx" Kim » 🌐 2026-08-24
@thanksstevenkim@social.vivaldi.net

I’ve been working on a small Fediverse project called "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Fediverse".

It started as a simple directory of Fediverse instances, but I’ve been gradually turning it into something more useful:

- discovering new instances through federation peers
- filtering suspicious/spammy hosts
- monitoring known instances over time
- automatically hiding servers that stay offline
- bringing them back if they recover
- keeping the whole thing updated with GitHub Actions

The monitored set is already around 27,000 instances, so I also had to rethink the collector to use bounded concurrency and checkpointing instead of checking everything one by one.

Still very much a work in progress, but it’s been a fun way to learn more about how the Fediverse actually behaves in the wild.

https://github.com/thanksstevenkim/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-fediverse

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #OpenSource #SelfHosting

CoreOS 45 could also use a look from the community! Test Week starts on Monday, Sep 21!

➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/coreos-45-test-week/

#FedoraCoreOS #FCOS #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

What are your weekend plans? Maybe they will include messing around with beta testing?

Check out the Fedora Linux 45 Beta for all of our editions and spins, including Fedora Asahi Remix!

Beta announcement: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-45-beta/

Fedora Asahi Remix: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora_asahi_remix_45_beta/

#Fedora #FedoraAsahi #Linux #AsaihiLinux #OpenSource

Calibre has been updated with a “create your own adventure” game, powered by AI.

You design a world, create a character and shape the story by your choices to the text (and images) the AI generates.

Just what users of a *checks notes* /ebook manager/ will be clamouring for

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/calibre-ebook-app-ai-ficton-writing?v1

#openSource #calibre #ai

Do you like sharp and crispy cursors? What a coincidence, so do we!

Starting from GNOME 51 all our cursors are now rendered using SVG format, meaning no matter the resolution, the cursor will be crispy🤩️

#OpenSource #FOSS #SVG #FreeSoftware

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#OpenSource #SelfHosting #WebRTC #ScreenSharing #Privacy #Developers

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Microsoft's Edit snap package – maintained by a Canonical dev – was finally updated this week.

v2.0 of the TUI text editor supports syntax highlighting for over a dozen languages, adds new shortcuts for moving text around and makes Find & Replace more powerful.

(Yes, Microsoft, but it's open-source).

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/microsoft-edit-2-0-update?v1

#linux #microsoft #openSource

Here's the first batch of videos from our recent #LibreOffice Conference 2026! We'll be uploading many more, of course, and will then mirror them on PeerTube as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/18/first-batch-of-videos-from-the-libreoffice-conference-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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Release candidate 10.8.12.rc0 of 🐙passagemath, a comprehensive #OpenSource #Mathematics system in #Python, the pip-installable modularized portable compatible full-featured fork of #SageMath.
Now supports using any of the @networkx.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy #graph layouts.
github.com/passagemath/...
#MCP

Release passagemath-10.8.12.rc...

Sweden is also choosing @forgejo for their digitally sovereign government codeplatform, just like the Dutch code.overheid.nl 🥳🥳

https://github.com/diggsweden/ena-kodsamverkansplattform-poc

This is a nice step towards less dependence on US big tech, aka Github.

In my last days at the @BZKopensource I hope to set up a working group with other EU governments, to work towards a federated network of codeplatforms 🇪🇺

#codeplatform #forgejo #ospo #digitalsovereignty #opensource #foss #govtech

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Announcement on Linkedin about the Swedish Proof of Concept with Forgejo as a codeplatform

Trust, governance, and cost are bigger gatekeepers to enterprise agent adoption than model capability.

New LF Research on the shift from cloud-first to agent-first: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/enterprise-transitions-to-agentic-2026
#AgenticAI #LFResearch #OpenSource

A 'fancy' new overview mode has been added to Miracle-wm.

v0.11 of the Mir-based tiling window manager also adds window urgency support, keyboard cheatsheets and a stack of new Mir protocols.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/miracle-wm-0-11-released?v1

#Linux #OpenSource #foss

"Much of Omarchy's success is due to the visibility of Hansson – better known as DHH – the man behind both the distro and the Ruby on Rails web framework. He has attracted considerable attention for posts critical of immigration, including As I remember London and Wolves, sheep, and gypsies."

"The problem of open source developers not getting paid for their efforts is a persistent one in the FOSS world, and yet people and organizations are lining up to pledge money, or tokens, or both, to Omarchy. Its popularity is undeniable, but its creator's politics are likely a contributing factor."

The Register: Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/17/omarchy-gains-185m-in-backing-fresh-converts-and-fierce-critics/5296780 @theregister @lproven #Linux #FOSS #Omarchy #OpenSource

Ubuntu schließt Rust-Umstieg ab

Ubuntu 26.10 migriert alle Standard-Coreutils auf Rust. Auch cp, mv und rm sind nun enthalten.

https://www.heise.de/news/Ubuntu-schliesst-Rust-Umstieg-ab-11456307.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Systemverwaltung #Betriebssystem #IT #OpenSource #Rust #Security #Ubuntu #news

We're reworking how settings are organized in Thunderbird Desktop and would love your thoughts.

Take our short survey, 10-15 minutes tops. No trick questions, no wrong answers, and your feedback goes straight to the designers.

Take the survey 👇
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#opensource #thunderbird #ux

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UPDATE: Ubuntu 24.04.5.1 is now available to download, a fixed version of last week's fifth point release for the 2024 LTS.

For those unaware, a bug in the initial image – link below – left some desktop installs unable to complete, so Canonical pulled had to pull it from download.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-pulls-24-04-5-download?v2

#ubuntu #opensource

On 14 October 1996, a physics student in Tübingen, Germany posted a message to three Usenet newsgroups.

That post was the start of what would become KDE, one of the world's most impactful free software communities...

Trailer for the KDE Documentary drops on Saturday 🍿.

Original source for the email: https://kde.org/announcements/announcement/

#FreeSoftware #History #Documentary #OpenSource #Linux

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GNOME 51 released! Look forward to faster screen recordings, an Auto Rotate option for screens with accelerometers, offline maps, and much more.

Check out our release video! 👉️ https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5vARny78Rv2215JwEwNh8t
Full release notes 👉️ https://release.gnome.org/51/

We spent the last 6 months polishing the experience, to make it more accessible and more user-friendly. Unlike the current tech industry, we go slow and fix things! (1/3)

#linux #opensource #freesoftware #foss

We recently published our LLM policy, requiring all code and documentation contributions to be authored by a human. We do accept reports of vulnerabilities found with LLMs.

It has drawn a lot of feedback, both positive and negative. In this article we want to explain the background and motivation behind our choices.

#OpenSource #DNS #BGP #RPKI #softwaredevelopment

https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/maintaining-the-love-for-coding-in-the-time-of-ai/

In August the #LibreOffice QA and dev team worked on:

• LibreOffice 26.8
• Calc dynamic arrays & LAMBDA
• DOCX/PPTX compatibility
• PDF export & crashes
• 112 bug fixes

https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/09/16/qa-dev-report-august-2026/

#foss #opensource #freesoftware

A good move: #OpenSource #CMS #Conference has #free tickets for people who can't afford the standard price.

Ticket + travel + accommodation. I know how hard that combination can be for:

🐣 Smaller CMS projects
🧑‍🎓 Students shaping content management
⭐ Volunteer CMS contributors

Organizers say: "If cost is standing between you and Open Source CMS 26, we'd rather have you in the room than not."

#Utrecht, #Netherlands, 20–21 Oct 2026. Hope to see some of you there. 🫵

➡️ https://www.boye-co.com/conferences/opensourcecms26/tickets#block-yui_3_17_2_1_1788471803153_4788

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#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Privacy #WebRTC #FileSharing

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@libreoffice It's well deserved! I view you folks as a wonderful gateway into the #OpenSource sphere, as it has been mine, and thusly encourage others I spot looking for help with the big tech items that your products best.

Nice work Switzerland! 👏👏

European governments are starting to support alternative mobile app stores, such as @fdroidorg , for their government-built apps.

Next up, government issued (fair)phones for civil servants that come with an open OS and open app store? 🚀

https://www.parlament.ch/de/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=20267146

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #foss #mobile #fdroid #eupolicy #switzerland

Too many days working on #FLOSS feel like: "I'm not paid for this shit. I'm paid to do other shit and I have to focus on that shit, but I can't when I have to spend so much time fixing shit that apparently others are being paid to break all the time."

#Gentoo #LLVM #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

New opportunity to work with ORG 🚀

We're looking for an independent consultant or small consultancy to produce a report for organisations to reduce their dependence on large technology infrastructure providers and towards a collaborative open source model.

Closing date: 30 September.

Apply now ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/consultant-opportunity/

#jobs #opensource #tech #digitalsovereignty

Found an interesting alternative to OpenCode: OB-1, a free multi-agent coding agent with a built-in free model catalog.

I tested it on Debian running inside Termux/Android: it installed cleanly, created a C project, wrote a Makefile, compiled it and actually ran the resulting binary.

So far, promising. 🔥

Next step: deep testing on my Linux PC with real projects.

#Linux #OpenSource #AI #Coding #Terminal #OpenCode #OB1 #Termux #Debian

One handed keyboard manifesto

Full of Keyboard Commands, So Many of Them, and It Breaks My heart

In the screen-reading space, we have come a long way in information representation. We know earcons; we are good at implementing various voice profiles and sound profiles for events and attributes. But it's worrying me a bit that we may be going backwards, and I don't just mean navigational systems, I mean how features reach us in general. Complexity is not the problem. The missing alternatives for people who type with one hand, forget easily, or just get tired, that's what's eating at me.

And before this gets written off as a niche concern: we forget commands, we have impaired fingers, we have tremors, we get tired reaching for function keys. It's frustrating to remember while sighted folks can just visualise and click. This isn't a small thing, and the worst part is that we are doing it to ourselves. Where We Came From

The evergreen works from folks who developed blind games were amazing, mostly one-handed friendly, no multiple modifiers, everything achievable with arrows and Tab, and occasionally some alphabets. Remember Chillingham, Grisly Grudge, Hunter, Blast Bay Games, Cast Away, etc.?

Now sure, those were simpler tools for simpler tasks, and today's stuff does a lot more, I get that. But more capability doesn't have to mean more memorisation. Our own history already shows this.

Even Doug Lee's scripts have such implementations, where many alternative commands are given for a single functionality: the default with Alt or JAWS Key modifier, the layer command, and inside the layer command, you can use Tab and Enter to activate the similar command. In Skype or Discord, you can read all chat messages just by activating the layer and using the Up, Down, Home, and End keys. The best help system in those scripts is that you just use Tab and Shift+Tab to cycle through commands, and that way you don't have to remember hundreds of commands. We can then press Enter on a command to execute it. It's not just about exploring the command; the execution itself is assigned with one hand in mind.

So here is my question for everything: can a new user find and do any function, one-handed, without memorising anything first? That's the bar. If the answer is no, someone has some rethinking to do. JAWS: The Good and the Honest Gaps

JAWS hotkey help is another sleek invention. The Insert+H help system badly needs an emulation here in the accessibility space, a webpage linear structure where all the commands are just links to be clicked on.

The JAWS command search, despite its zen-mode loading time, is another great design decision that has changed people's lives. You just press Insert+Space and J, then type what you want to do in keywords, read the commands, and even press Enter to perform them. The Insert+F1 "context-sensitive help," the tutor messages, and keyboard voice always save people time by being brief and neatly helpful. Context-sensitive help is the most lacking concept in the NVDA screen reader.

The JAWS and Touch Cursor is a complex interface traversed with just arrows. The Home Row mode utility allows developers to explore Windows and its hierarchy with arrows and occasional alphabets. With all its complexity, the Settings Centre just requires you to search, press Space, then press Escape, and Space again to save. One-hand commands, to and fro.

JAWS also comes with an "Insert Key Mode", a sticky key concept. The Insert key functions as a sticky key: any key pressed immediately after pressing Insert is treated as if it were pressed in combination with it. The recent Table Layer commands have simplified table navigation a lot, and you just use the arrow keys to traverse tables. Doug Lee extended this implementation to list views through his ListTbl, a JAWS script for navigating ListView controls with table navigation commands.

Obviously, there is bad design in JAWS too. To know the time and date, you need to press Insert+F12. Wow, that's too remote. I changed mine to Ctrl+Shift+X. Adding to that, you need to go to farther places to modify your keyboard commands, which is just a pain for new users who struggle with their hands and fingers. NVDA is even further behind and has a lot more to figure out with its Input Gestures system. With JAWS, you can at least find a function by its assigned hotkey and change it; I don't think you can do that just yet with NVDA.

When using the HotSpotClicker scripts by Jim Snowbarger, I am amazed with the implementation of adding a hotkey to a hotspot set, in which a generous timer with a keyboard trap is initiated, and you press the key you want the hotspot to record. This concept should be further expanded into a proper standard: an easy mode to search or press the command you want to change, then press the new command, then verify and save. One hand, from start to finish. That shouldn't be too hard to build, honestly.

Going back to my keyboard gripe, don't let me get started with the gazillions of Braille display commands in JAWS. That's beyond my expertise, but I have heard plenty of stories, and it's not beginner-friendly, to put it simply. These things are full of life. From these creations, we can both learn a tonne and disregard problematic practices. Do JAWS or NVDA have a one-handed keyboard layout mode? If not, well, someone has something to build. Mainstream Lessons: Reaper DAW

In the mainstream space, the Reaper Audio DAW is an exemplary software that many others should look at. Yes, it has many commands, and it's further complicated by the ReaPack and OSARA implementations. @jcsteh and @Scott would be a testament to that. Reaper has a design process where every possible function can be learned or performed in multiple ways: by searching, by adding your own commands, or by using the keyboard tutorial mode to learn them first. The complexity is real, but so is the way out of it, and that's the whole point. I am not a full-fledged Reaper user, so excuse me for my oversimplifications. Scripts That Got It Right

There are other JAWS scripts from which we can learn a tonne of inclusive human design concepts. What they all have in common is what I was just talking about, you can find anything without knowing it first.

Take the JFW Technical Scripts by Jamie Teh, no keyboard commands to memorise. It's just Ctrl+Shift+J, that's all. All other functions are browsable in a virtual viewer within subpages and sections separated by headings.

Same for the Jawter script, created by @cachondo, which later inspired many other blind programs like Qwitter and TWBlue by @josh. The design is two modifiers with one hand; the other hand presses one key at most, mostly arrows, or any alphabet. In Qwitter and other programs, there is even a key describer mode to familiarise yourself with the commands, and a sticky mode to keep the Alt+Win key active while you use alphabets and arrows to navigate Twitter.

Jamal Mazrui is very much an icon in implementing keyboard-first tools. In every one of his tools, you have Alt+F10 or Alt+Shift+F10 to navigate the menus, and admittedly, those may require two hands. Inside these menus, every item is given a keyboard command, and you can use first-letter navigation to reach them.

There are surely equally complicated things in there that we may choose to refine. Work done by @matt with earlier Serotek and now @pneumasolutions is many, many times commendable. Remember how you used to navigate the SAMNetwork or DocuScan Plus? Even with the RIM software, navigation is just by Tab and Shift+Tab, or headings and links, simple as that. If you want, you can remember keyboard commands that have only a modifier with an alphabet, or Alt with an alphabet.

The System Access screenReader also comes with many great additions like that. The menu structure is webpage-like, and to go to each menu you just press one key, if I am not mistaken. It's fast, mindless.

I have not used GWMicro's Window-Eyes screen reader so deeply, but I am certain that the script and app developers there have created many more patterns that we can document, emulate, and equally follow. I am also sure that Vim, Emacs, and other open-source Linux implementations that are keyboard-driven have more ideas waiting to be implemented. Aliases? Batch commands? Macros? The Complexity Creep Problem

Nowadays, yes, we have more accessible tools, but also more keyboard commands to remember, without proper recourse or remedy for one-handed people or those with less cognitive reserve. Look at Google Suite, Office ribbons, so many layers of taxing keys with blatant disregard for design and simplicity, and loads of gymnastics we have to perform. Yes, for Google Suite there is Alt+Slash, and for Office there is Alt+Q, but imagine how much it can be simplified by adding alternatives that allow for more visualisation and less remembering.

This phenomena of mindless keyboard commands is creeping into JAWS scripts and NVDA add-ons as well. I am going to point some fingers at great people I have very much respect for. They have great product ideas and design that are benefiting lots of Blind people, and I am going to traverse their work and point out the good and the bits they can think about more. I am not here to tear down anyone's work or generosity, I just think there is a next step here.

@hartgenconsult is a champion in keyboard tool-making, from JTools all the way to Leasy. Something we should learn here is that the JTools/Leasy Help key (H) is a central place where all keyboard commands with categories are shown and can be activated by pressing Enter, a huge design gesture with simplicity in mind. And it's also context-sensitive, if I have this right. That's what I keep talking about, right there.

Despite the beautiful implementation, there are things that can be further studied. I am sure I am strawmanning his hard work here, but what I find is it's often hard to remember layers upon layers of keyboard commands. Let's take the Leasy clip operations, which may have been inspired by the HJClip days, made by an English developer whose name escapes me, and later further tweaked by Getinra. Both in HJClip and Leasy, it's simply too many commands, at least for me, to perform the myriad, complex keyboard operations.

In JTools, all clips are located on the function keys, honestly that's too much. In Leasy, it has certainly improved; I believe it's all on the number keys now.

My concrete suggestion here is to look at clipboard buffers, which are even older than HJClip, originating from the Vim system. @pixelate may enlighten me on whether Linux has this system, but Doug Lee created a similar buffer system in his BX key, and his approach is the model worth following. You can think of it as many clipboards. You trigger the command, say left bracket, and assign a text to an alphabet (say, S), then to paste it, you double-press S. You just add one modifier to that S to copy to clipboard, append, or clear that buffer. One hand, one simple mental model, and you have as many clipboards as you need.

Below, I am reproducing his clipboard buffer method from the BX documentation:

Text Management -- Commands for cutting, copying, pasting, and combining text blocks, and for holding blocks of text in up to 26 buffers named by single letters. This system was inspired by the buffer system in the "Vi" text editor found under Linux and other similar operating systems. The NVDA Add-On Renaissance

In the NVDA add-on ecosystem, it's a renaissance time. Add-ons are flourishing, and at the same time, people have to remember more. These two things don't have to come together, and some add-ons are already showing that.

One of them is the Instant Access add-on by Kamal Yasir. Thanks to @doubletap for introducing it to the world. The concept is simple: you pick a file, web shortcut, or folder, assign it to an alphabet, and launch it with a layer. It's fast, one-handed, and it works. The concept may be inspired by @brian_hartgen's JTools and Leasy, further refined into a buffer concept. I think new add-ons should be looking here for inspiration.

The Markdown Navigator add-on simply invents a layer to make Markdown documents browsable, making everything familiar by triggering the browse mode concept we are all so used to. You already know how to use it, and that's the whole point.

Other developers, still early in their work, are also trying their best to simplify their add-on designs. @Tamasg's TGSpeechbox is a revolution in the Blind TTS community. What could be improved further, and I really want this add-on to do well, is to make the huge settings panel with help context optionally enabled. Say, if someone checks a box to enable help, every arrow to a setting under the settings panel would briefly speak what it is. The huge settings panel would be further accessible if an item-chooser or Reaper Command Center-like approach were implemented, so people can type a phrase or a few letters to narrow the options. That one thing would make a tonne of difference, I think.

@ppatel's Terminal Access is another long-awaited terminal accessibility enhancement for NVDA. He does not stop there. Knowing that blind people deal with subpar experiences in many terminals, he painstakingly created profiles for many popular ones. Kudos to his many contributions, and to @tspivey for being a great backend inspiration for his work. The add-on quickly grew in complexity, and a menu-like or tab-like structure is much needed to navigate the huge layer commands, so people can zip through various functions using arrows, Tab, and so on. The foundation is solid, what's still missing is the discoverability layer. Closing Thoughts

I want to end here by saying that we often hold the strong impression that keyboard-only interfaces are flawless, and that our hands will not defeat us. But it's sad that often, when a piece of Blind tooling gets more complex, developers simply pile on more and more commands without paying enough attention to engineer them to be compatible with Blind people of many kinds.

I am not asking for less powerful tools. I want tools where you can find any function by browsing or searching, where one key gets you in and arrows get you around, and where memorisation is a choice rather than a requirement. We have done this before. Doug Lee did it. Jawter did it. Reaper does it. The knowledge is already in our community.

Generally, our difficulties compound as we get older. We forget commands, we have impaired fingers, we have tremors, we do feel tired reaching for the function keys. These are not rare cases, this is where most of us end up. Most importantly, it's frustrating to remember while sighted folks can just visualise and click. In those days, Blind software was designed with visualisation and muscle memory baked in. Now, we are losing our grip on that inherent creativity, more and more complexity, without reverence for the simplicity we know and love.

I think we can do better than this for each other.

#accessibility #jaws #screenReader #Blind #linux #opensource #reaper #daw #NVDA #keyboard #disability #web #design #ui #a11y #scripts

In #Telegram and #WhatsApp you have to pay for pinning more than a handful chats.

With #ArcaneChat you can pin as many chats as you want completely FOR FREE!

remove the limits: switch to ArcaneChat ✨

#opensource #android #european #europe #family

@smallcircles @thefulcrum

Am 17.09. ist in Erfurt die Konferenz der Wirtschaft zur #opensource in de.

#bfoss26

Der Tag im Jahr, wenn
Peer Heinlein & Frank Karlitschek
zusammen Kaffee trinken.

Einige des sozialen Bereiches oder der sozialen Community oder der sozialen nanobubbel, wie man will, in diesem Umfeld, sind dort vertreten.

@smallcircles @thefulcrum

Aber es haben sich auch welche ganz expressis verbis dagegen entschieden dort teilzunehmen. Solange wir aber noch nicht die schönste aller Welten haben, wird dies womöglich eine nicht so zielführende Option bleiben

#opensource

IMHO this is way cool! 🥳

Open Audio Analyzer by Jonas Grunau, an absolute gem of an #opensource #audio #loudness and #spectrum #analyzer suite / #plugin (s) for #linuxaudio. 😎

https://open-audio-analyzer.com/

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Some of the 14 meter modules Open Audio Analyzer comes with out of the box.

If you use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps, you can help make it better.

OpenStreetMap is community-maintained, so you can add and improve places yourself.

Website Wizard is a JOSM plugin that makes it easier to add a place's official website to its OSM data.

Small contributions like this help improve the maps used by OSM-based apps.

Plugin: https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/

JOSM: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/

OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #JOSM #OpenSource #Privacy

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JOSM “Download” dialog showing an OpenStreetMap map of downtown Seattle, with a rectangular area selected for downloading OSM data. The dialog shows options for OpenStreetMap data, raw GPS data, and notes.

We had difficulties automatically classifying chats, messaging channels, and forums. So we tested several open-weight large language models for our use case. The benchmark is published below, along with a tool supporting the classification process.

This helps us avoid manually classifying channels collected from dark-web forums and social networks, while reliably identifying which channels can be discarded and which deserve further analysis.

🔗 Publication https://aipitch.eu/2026/09/10/Automated-Topic-Classification-of-Chat-Messaging-and-Forum/
🔗 Source code https://github.com/AIPITCH/topic-classifier

#ai #llm #cybersecurity #darkweb #osint #opensource

What if your e-books could become a private knowledge base?

ReadAny is a local-first, open-source e-book reader for desktop and mobile. Chat with your books, search by meaning, create highlights and notes, and organize what you learn.

It supports local AI with Ollama and local embeddings, while WebDAV sync keeps your library, notes, and highlights synced across devices.

More details & alternatives:
https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=readany

#OpenSource #Privacy #LocalAI #Ebooks #SelfHosting #DigitalReading

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Screenshot of ReadAny showing its ghost-like reading logo, title, and description as a local-first AI e-book reader for desktop and mobile. It highlights RAG chat, semantic search, highlights, text-to-speech, WebDAV sync, and support for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.

It's the last day of the #LibreOffice Conference 2026! Then we'll start editing and uploading videos from the sessions. Stay tuned... https://conference.libreoffice.org #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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Sharkey is generally no longer actively maintained. Much like IceShrimp, which shifted its focus from IceShrimp-js to IceShrimp.net, Sharkey is effectively in "maintenance mode only." This means it still receives critical security updates and required patches, but it generally no longer tracks upstream Misskey development.

Sharkey's latest release: 2025.4.7

Misskey's latest release: 2026.9.0

I had to laugh when, back on January 13, 2026, they titled a release "2025.4.5 — We'll catch up, we promise." The release right before that had been 6 months earlier. In all the time since, they've only pushed out 2 security updates (2025.4.6 and 2025.4.7). They are now well over a year behind Misskey's development.

If anyone has the time and skills, I hope someone builds a script to migrate Sharkey sites back to Misskey. Since Sharkey is a fork of Misskey (as was FireFish), it should be possible and is a smart precaution.

#Sharkey #Misskey #FireFish #OpenSource #Fediverse #ActivityPub

It seems, I've only now discovered this article by @RareBird15: https://lanie.work/technology/privacy-is-a-luxury-i-cant-afford/. This is the truth as it is.
All those leftists who preach inclusion and happiness for everyone (which, as we all know, is already something worrying because there is no one condition everyone can be happy in, except for one: if you are a dictatorship and you eliminate people who are not happy under your power — anyway). Many people especially in Europe now talk about degoogling, de-microsofting, de-appling, de-whatever-ing. Although I have no spare time for it, I read and keep reading those articles. And not a single of them, not an F'ing single one, mentions #Accessibility for the blind, chronically ill, for people with parkinson's, for all of us who do need accessibility. Inclusion is good, but only on paper and only for certain groups. Use various pronouns (even non-existent in the current language), don't pronounce this or that word, don't have a different opinion on some subjects, and first and foremost, don't forget to preach inclusion. For everyone. Yes, for everyone — except for at most 25% of people on this planet who *really* need accessibility, accomodations and particular treatment.
H is for hypocrisy there.
and no, you won't convince me that privacy-schmivacy or something else is more important then accessibility. Accessibility is *not* a luxury — it's how we live. A talking computer or a talking smartphone is the only way for us to communicate with such devices (there is Braille, I know, but it's not the point of this discussion). A website suited for keyboard and screen reader operation is the only website we *can* work with. Again: it's not about what we *want*, it's about what we *can*. So if your website is a million times private, sovereign, open-source and what not, but if it's not accessible — I *cannot* work with it, hence it's not for me. If your operating system has no screen reader or is not suited for keyboard and screen reader users — I *cannot* use it, hence it is not for me. And no, I won't go and fix everything, as most of the open-source community suggests. I have no time and no mental force to fix OS kernels and office suites. Of course, if you hire me on a contract as an accessibility specialist (or not me, anyone of us who is knowledgeable enough, I'm not jealous!) — then it's another thing.
That's that simple. And, as we are here, if Meta glasses can help me to read a sign or a menu in the restaurant — I'll strive to buy them, because I need this accomodation. I don't know why I have to repeat such things over and over and over, — I don't know why Lanie has to, why Elena @elettrona has to — but we repeat this and we will do it on and on and on, as much as they want us to shut the F up.
P.S. for those AI haters: This was written with no help of AI.
#OpenSource #Privacy

Linux Mint is adding two new apps in its next release, both part of its GTK cross-desktop XApps Project.

Clockenstein is a replacement for GNOME Calendar, while Xepub is an ebook reader with annotation tools.

🗞️ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/linux-mint-new-apps?v1

#linux #opensource #linuxmint

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Last night at the #LibreOffice Conference 2026, we had our community dinner 😊 And now the second day of talks is starting, with the project's Engineering Steering Committee: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/11/day-2-of-the-libreoffice-conference-2026-begins/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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If you've ever opened Thunderbird's settings and felt like you needed a computer science degree, you're not alone. We're rewriting 250+ settings in plain language, and the results from our user testing are in.

Check out the full details on our blog:
https://sohub.io/zxqf

#opensource #thunderbird

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Want more control over Windows telemetry and tracking?

WindowsSpyBlocker is an open-source tool that helps block spying and tracking on Windows using network filtering rules. Written in Go and available as a single executable, it’s licensed under MIT.

More details & alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=windowsspyblocker

#Privacy #Windows #OpenSource #Telemetry #PrivacyTools #Security

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Screenshot of the WindowsSpyBlocker GitHub README, describing an open-source Go application that blocks spying and tracking on Windows systems by analyzing network traffic and applying rules.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@itguyeric/117247755023932296

The Fedora Community Architect role has changed hands.

Justin Wheeler passes the seat to @shaunm, who continues as @centos Community Architect. Both join Fedora Podcast Ep. 60 to explain what the job actually does.

https://youtu.be/h5qoj9bEEOI

#Fedora #CentOS #OpenSource

Do Open Source and Open Internet organisations reflect your values with respect to AI?

#EvanPoll #poll #ai #opensource #openweb

The #LibreOffice Conference 2026 begins! Follow the live streams: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/10/the-libreoffice-conference-2026-begins/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

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Two thirds to three quarters of AI-generated security patches are production ready. Governance, cost, and trust remain the hard part.

A new Linux Foundation and FINOS report captures what financial services leaders discussed at the AI in Finance Summit in June 2026.

Read the findings: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/ai-open-source-financial-services

#FINOS #OpenSource

@smallcircles I agree there is a truth to this, but it's equally incomplete:

When the project grows and sees popular uptake suddenly countless different factors become important, requiring skills beyond coding. These are often badly accounted for. Product development, documentation, organization, PR.

I think a missing key piece of the argumentation here is the imbalance of these extra demands vs. personal bandwidth/resources/time/funds available at these stages of a FOSS project.

Speaking only from own experience, I can't agree at all that the above values aren't important. And even though, with my own projects, I think I went way beyond average trying to address them, I always found it incredibly hard to prioritize these extra factors/tasks without any clear feedback or other support being given, not just financially, but especially socially. From a dev's POV, addressing these things becomes entirely speculative effort. For example, how can one justify spending weeks/months on improving documentation without even/ever getting sufficiently useful pointers/reports other than indirect generic top-level criticism about "missing beginner tutorials" (and even though there are longish readme's with hundreds of code examples and links to further research/background, as well as almost 200 small example projects, all commented and explaining many key usage patterns in situ)... In all my FLOSS projects (since 2000, across different languages/communities) I found these broken dynamics the single-most demotivating parts, knowing there are so many people happily using the work, but so, so few of them are feeling like contributing anything back, helping to sustain the projects, helping to promote by blogging/sharing tips/knowledge/experiences etc. In hindsight, the imbalance is truly shocking and yet the blame is always put on the original devs not doing enough!

I literally invested years of my life/sleep into helping others with the tools I built and always hoped these projects and open source culture in general would entice more people to not just be/remain consumers and lead to more co-creation... But it just hasn't happened and if anything, by now I feel the train has truly left and society has only become more extremely consumerist. General interest in building shared bodies of work/knowledge is waning by the hour...

(This is not to say that I'm throwing the towel, and this also has a lot to do with projects having reached a certain maturity/stability, but my priorities have definitely shifted in terms of focusing more on maintenance than on onboarding/promotion efforts, which I'd consider wasted energy by now...)

@mayel @Bonfire @benpate @fedify

#OpenSource #Maintenance #ThingUmbrella

Today at the #LibreOffice Conference 2026, before the main tracks start tomorrow: the community session! Join us at 14:00 at the venue – check the site for communication channels and more info: https://conference.libreoffice.org #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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Ubuntu is testing x86-64-v3 ISO builds for 26.10.

It's a step up from the v1 baseline currently, and since most CPUs sold in the last decade support v3, modern machines stand to benefit.

Daily builds only for now.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-amd64v3-iso-downloads?v1

#ubuntu #opensource #tech

Switzerland launches open-source workplace for 3,000 employees

The Swiss Federal Chancellery is launching a program for sovereign workplace software. Around 3,000 employees are expected to use it.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Switzerland-launches-open-source-workplace-for-3-000-employees-11445672.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Datenschutz #DigitaleSouveränität #IT #Security #Microsoft #Netzpolitik #OfficeSuite #OpenSource #Software #news

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610538

#HackerNews #LibreOffice #Download #Records #AI #Features #OpenSource #Software #Community

This year’s #LibreOffice conference starts in two days, in Pordenone, northern Italy – and we’re getting ready. It’s not too late to register and join us! https://conference.libreoffice.org/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

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sagemath-mcp, the Model Context Protocol server that provides stateful #SageMath computations, now has (experimental) support for using a pip-installed passagemath instead of running Sage in a Docker container.
pypi.org/project/sage...
#Python #OpenSource #Mathematics #MCP

sagemath-mcp

Firefox Nova, the browser's rounded new design, will go live later this month.

Code commit suggests the redesign will be enabled by default for all users in Firefox 157 – barring any last minute hiccups, of course.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/firefox-nova-redesign-coming-september?v1

#firefox #openSource #nova

The package for experiments with Runge–Kutta methods for ordinary differential equations by Th. Dumont @cnrs.fr@bsky.brid.gy now supports using the pip-installable modularized passagemath distributions in #Python instead of the monolithic #SageMath.
pypi.org/project/RKkit/
#OpenSource #Mathematics

RKkit

Keep your camera feeds and AI processing under your control.

Viseron is a self-hosted, local-only NVR and AI computer vision platform with object detection, motion detection, face recognition, and more.

Run it with Docker and manage your setup through a web interface without relying on cloud processing.

More details:
https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=viseron

#Privacy #SelfHosting #OpenSource #LocalAI #NVR #HomeSecurity #Docker

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Screenshot of the Viseron project page showing its blue eye logo and title. The page describes Viseron as self-hosted, local-only NVR and AI computer vision software with object detection, motion detection, face recognition, and monitoring capabilities.

Dockhand is a modern, self-hostable Docker management UI for containers, Compose stacks, remote Docker hosts, Git deployments, logs, terminals, and more.

It’s free for personal and internal business use. Note: Dockhand uses the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL 1.1), not a traditional open-source license.

More details & alternatives:
https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=dockhand

#Docker #SelfHosting #Homelab #DevOps #OpenSource #DockerCompose

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Screenshot of Dockhand, a modern Docker management UI, showing its logo, navigation links, and an “About” section describing container management, Compose stacks, multi-environment support, and privacy-focused design.

Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do

https://github.com/pigeonlabsHQ/pigeon

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585209

#HackerNews #Pigeon #signedPass #subAgent #TechInnovation #OpenSource

The #LibreOffice Conference 2026 starts next week in northern Italy – but we're also looking further ahead, to LibreOffice-related talks at the Open Source Conference Luxembourg, which takes place on October 7: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/06/libreoffice-talks-at-the-open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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Just released version 10.8.11 of passagemath, the comprehensive #OpenSource #Mathematics system in #Python, the pip-installable modularized portable compatible full-featured fork of #SageMath.
github.com/passagemath/...

Release passagemath-10.8.11 · ...

I couldn't find a Slack-like Linear.app bridge, so I decided to build one based on existing bridges of a different kind. It's built with TypeScript, Nginx, and a bot, and it works in E2EE rooms too. It links threads to Linear as two-way discussions.

https://github.com/rollecode/linear-matrix-bridge

#Matrix #Linear #LinearApp #Apps #OpenSource

Final release candidate 10.8.11.rc3 of 🐙passagemath, a comprehensive #OpenSource #Mathematics system in #Python, the pip-installable modularized portable compatible full-featured fork of #SageMath.
github.com/passagemath/...

Release passagemath-10.8.11.rc...

OpenWhispr is a privacy-first, open-source voice-to-text app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It can run transcription locally with Whisper or Parakeet, keeping your audio on your device.

It also supports meeting transcription, AI agents, notes, translation, and local or cloud AI models.

MIT licensed • Open source • Local AI • Cross-platform

More details & alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=openwhispr

#OpenSource #FOSS #Privacy #LocalAI #VoiceToText

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Screenshot of the OpenWhispr project page in dark mode, showing its blue logo and name, MIT license, macOS/Windows/Linux support, release and download stats, and a description of it as a privacy-first open-source voice-to-text app with AI agents, meeting transcription, and notes.

📢 Good news everyone!

All talk acceptance emails have been sent. Please check your inbox and spam folders and confirm your attendance so we can finalize the schedule.

#SeaGL2026 #linux #FLOSS #opensource #event #cfp

Audacity 4.0 has landed, and the new Qt UI delivers quite the glow up!

New clip editing features, project file format and better system integration are also included in the update.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/audacity-4-released?v1

#opensource #audacity #foss

ArcaneChat's contributing policy got updated

#ArcaneChat #ai #llm #llms #genai #dev #openSource #development #softwareDevelopment

Release candidate 10.8.11.rc2 of 🐙passagemath, a comprehensive #OpenSource #Mathematics system in #Python, the pip-installable modularized portable compatible full-featured fork of #SageMath.
Now with typeset symbolic expressions in Google Colab notebooks.
github.com/passagemath/...

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We are accelerating our #Thundermail waitlist invites! If you want to get onto the list and join us in the Early Bird program, sign up below to get your invite soon!

https://www.tb.pro/waitlist

#thunderbird #opensource #email

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🐻 Berlin braucht eine eigene Mastodon-Instanz für öffentliche Einrichtungen – von der Feuerwehr über die BSR, die Wasserbetriebe, Bezirksämter, THW, Bildungseinrichtungen, etc. 🐘

🗓️ Heute gab es ein erstes Auftakttreffen für ein solches Projekt, inititiert von @kingconsult. Die Berliner Volkshochschulen, als öffentliche Bildungseinrichtung mit am Tisch.🤗🤝

Danke für den produktiven Austausch und die Motivation an @zlb_berlin @anoxinon@social.anoxionon.de @resieguen @citylabberlin @deutschestechnikmuseum @bjoernsta @berlinfediday, die LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin, das Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg und ein besonderer Dank an die Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, in deren Räumen wir uns treffen durften. 👍

#VHS #Berlin #Volkshochschule #Bildung #Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSource

ArcaneChat / DeltaChat channel for you:

Debugging Memes - developer&linux memes, open source and other nerdy and tech related stuff, to join click here:

https://i.delta.chat/#B68D965B65A63BBE7EB32D56234652E2C899213F&v=3&x=ImcSr1dp4fEWrZreS4Emlb5u&j=eX6UqJEePp9y_i-225abLctf&s=NKEuhQYd9UlzXhnW7rCTHNbF&a=57cyvwkiidqqxnryms0q%40chat.in%2Dthe.eu&n=Debugging+Memes&b=Debugging+Memes

discover that and many more channels at:
https://arcanechat.me/channels

#memes #fun #meme #channel #decentralization #encryption #e2ee #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #linux #opensource #gnulinux #developers #development #dev #ai #genai

New in #LibreOffice 26.8: Adaptive slideshow controls – The (optional) slideshow navigation bar now scales its icons automatically as the presentation window is resized. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 #foss #opensource #freesoftware

FxSound is a free, open-source audio enhancer with an equalizer, volume boosting, effects, and audio-processing controls.

Lightweight and customizable, it gives you more control over how your audio sounds.

More details & alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=fxsound

#OpenSource #FOSS #Windows #Audio #Privacy

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FxSound page showing its Windows digital audio program, describing a high-fidelity audio engine with effects for boosting and shaping volume, timbre, and equalization.

As other office suites pile on AI features, LibreOffice's decision to not join in isn't hurting its appeal.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/libreoffice-download-record?v1

#LibreOffice #Linux #Opensource

I rattle through some of August's Linux app updates you might've missed.

Liferea got a GTK4 port, Kdenlive added… a lot, the return of missing effects in the latest Audacity 4.0 beta – and more besides.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/linux-app-release-roundup-august-2026?v1

#Linux #OpenSource #foss

One million downloads of #LibreOffice 26.8, since its release last week! And more stats: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/02/one-week-of-libreoffice-26-8-the-stats/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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#Broadcom pledges to lock down #OpenSource #Python, #Java libraries

https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/08/31/broadcom-pledges-to-lock-down-open-source-python-java-libraries/5293454

#cybersecurity #FOSS

𝗞𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗶:

#TimeTracker #OpenSource

https://thewhale.cc/posts/kimai

Kimai is a free & open source timetracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project … It’s simplicity is its strength. Due to Kimai’s browser based interface it runs cross-platform, even on your mobile device.

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Kimai is a free & open source timetracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project … It’s simplicity is its strength. Due to Kimai’s browser based interface it runs cross-platform, even on your mobile device.

They: We value your #privacy
Me: Source?
They: Sorry, that part is confidential.

#freesoftware #opensource

August was a busy month for #LibreOffice, with a new major release, an interview with the Austrian Military about its migration from Microsoft Office, updates on community and team activities, and more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/01/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-august-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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preparing to move the whole folk dance course's #WhatsApp group to #ArcaneChat

#european #europe #android #family #privacy #encryption #OpenSource

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁:

#ProjectManager #OpenSource

https://thewhale.cc/posts/openproject

Open Project id a powerful, easy-to-use and open source collaborative project management software.

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Firefox 155 is out today, and it makes its AI-powered Smart Window available to users in USA, Canada and France – entirely opt-in (mercifully).

Plus, blocked tracker counts show in the address bar, you can re-order containers and some pesky Linux bugs were squashed.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/firefox-155-released?v1

#opensource #firefox #foss

Papermark is an open-source, self-hostable alternative to DocSend. Share documents with custom links, track viewer engagement, and use custom domains and branding.

A great option for founders, freelancers, and teams who want to keep their document-sharing infrastructure under their control.

More details & alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=papermark

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Privacy #FOSS #DocSend

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Screenshot of the Papermark page describing it as an open-source DocSend alternative. It shows a Product Hunt #1 Product of the Day badge, papermark.com link, GitHub with 9k stars, AGPLv3 license, and text highlighting built-in analytics and custom domains.

Release candidate 10.8.11.rc1 of 🐙passagemath, a comprehensive #OpenSource #Mathematics system in #Python, the pip-installable modularized portable compatible full-featured fork of #SageMath.
github.com/passagemath/...

Release passagemath-10.8.11.rc...

𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗰𝘂𝘁:

#Video #OpenSource #Shotcut

https://thewhale.cc/posts/shotcut

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

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Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

Digital #sovereignty can only be achieved with #FreeSoftware!

The "Germany Stack" will shape public administrations’ digital infrastructure, and whether people and businesses can interact with them on sovereign terms. Free Software must be its standard: proprietary software "Made in Europe" does not deliver sovereignty.

Revisit our FSFE submissions to both #GermanyStack consultations:
🔗 https://gitlab.opencode.de/dstack/d-stack-home/-/work_items/347
🔗 https://gitlab.opencode.de/dstack/d-stack-home/-/work_items/624

#PublicCode #DeutschlandStack #OpenSource

⋅ California Bill AB-1856 passes - exempting open source from age verification

− https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/california-bill-ab-1856-passes-exempting-open-source-from-age-verification/

#OpenSource #AgeVerification

zoxide is a smarter, open-source replacement for cd that learns your most-used directories and lets you jump to them with just a few keystrokes.

It works on Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, and Termux, supports most major shells, and can integrate with fzf for interactive selection.

Lightweight, local-first, and no cloud account required.

More details & alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=zoxide

#OpenSource #Linux #Terminal #CLI #FOSS

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Screenshot of the zoxide website showing its logo and description as a smarter cd command. It remembers frequently used directories so users can jump to them with a few keystrokes and works with major shells.

Long-awaited colour correction tools arrive in OpenShot 4.0, tagged for release this weekend.

The video editor also lets you create and save custom workflows, adds new effects, improved ComfyUI integration and a lot more.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/openshot-4-0-release?v1

#OpenSource #Linux #Video

California has just exempted Open Source from age verification. While a step in the right direction, self-certification is still a pointless data-collection exercise.
#opensource #ageverification
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt

Release candidate 10.8.11.rc0 of 🐙passagemath, a comprehensive #OpenSource #Mathematics system in #Python, the pip-installable modularized portable compatible full-featured fork of #SageMath.
New 3D graphics support w/ plain Python @jupyter.org@bsky.brid.gy kernels, e.g. Google Colab.
github.com/passagemath/...

Google is adding more network privacy features to Android 17. That’s good news, but privacy shouldn’t stop at the operating system.

Zerion is an open-source messenger for Android. No phone number, no account and no central server. Messages are end-to-end encrypted and routed over Tor.

We’re still early, building in public and improving step by step.

Try Zerion and tell us what you think:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.professor.zerion

#Privacy #OpenSource #Android #Tor

Just catching up on the Debian AI debate. The project has had a voting window over the past two weeks which just concluded.

Results are in and Debian maintainers voted to allow AI contributions with encouraged disclosure.

The winning proposal will hold the human contributor who uses AI accountable for the content they submit to the project.

https://linuxiac.com/debian-says-yes-to-generative-ai-but-keeps-humans-accountable/

#Debian #AI #Linux #OpenSource

https://catima.app/

Why Tor Button? 💪🏻

Imagine living in a country where Tor is allowed and reachable, but some apps or services are blocked and you don't want, can't, or don't trust a commercial VPN.

Install Tor Button, press one button, and your Android apps' TCP traffic goes through Tor.

No per-app proxy configuration. No VPN provider to trust.

https://github.com/bashcore/tor-button?tab=readme-ov-file

#Tor #Privacy #Android #CensorshipResistance #OpenSource

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#Chat #Communication #OpenSource #Element

https://thewhale.cc/posts/riot

Sovereign, interoperable and secure communications, built on the Matrix open standard.

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Sovereign, interoperable and secure communications, built on the Matrix open standard.

Want your own music streaming service?

Kima is a self-hosted music platform for your personal library, with surprisingly powerful music discovery.

It supports Spotify/Deezer/YouTube playlist imports, Lidarr & Audiobookshelf, Subsonic, podcasts, PWA/Android TV, and a “Vibe” system that finds similar music based on audio characteristics.

More details & alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=kima-hub

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #Music #Privacy #FOSS

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Screenshot of the Kima-hub website describing a self-hosted audio streaming platform for personal music libraries. It shows Docker and release version 1.10.0, GPLv3 licensing, and a dark-themed music player interface with library radio, discovery, playlists, audiobooks, podcasts, and playback controls.

ArcaneChat / DeltaChat channel for you:

Debugging Memes - developer&linux memes, open source and other nerdy and tech related stuff, to join click here:

https://i.delta.chat/#B68D965B65A63BBE7EB32D56234652E2C899213F&v=3&x=ImcSr1dp4fEWrZreS4Emlb5u&j=eX6UqJEePp9y_i-225abLctf&s=NKEuhQYd9UlzXhnW7rCTHNbF&a=57cyvwkiidqqxnryms0q%40chat.in%2Dthe.eu&n=Debugging+Memes&b=Debugging+Memes

#memes #fun #meme #channel #decentralization #encryption #e2ee #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #linux #opensource #gnulinux #developers #development #dev