Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

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heise+ | Streamingsoftware: Wie man Music Assistant installiert und einrichtet

Music Assistant vereinfacht das Streaming, indem es verschiedene Anbieter und Lautsprecher unter einer Oberfläche vereint.

https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Streamingsoftware-Wie-man-Music-Assistant-installiert-und-einrichtet-11076137.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Entertainment #Musik #Software #Spotify #news

— will be live in about 5 minutes.

https://emacsconf.org/2025/watch/dev

Questions can be posted to this live chat: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2025-schemacs

EDIT: Thanks for all the great questions everyone. It is so encouraging for me to see that there is so much interest in this project, it really keeps me motivated to keep working on it.

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OpenDORS: A dataset of openly referenced open research software https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01570v1 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #research

Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

heise+ | Streamingsoftware: Wie man Music Assistant installiert und einrichtet

Music Assistant vereinfacht das Streaming, indem es verschiedene Anbieter und Lautsprecher unter einer Oberfläche vereint.

https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Streamingsoftware-Wie-man-Music-Assistant-installiert-und-einrichtet-11076137.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Entertainment #Musik #Software #Spotify #news

GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html

#HackerNews #GitHub #Actions #Package #Manager #Worst #Experience #Tech #News #Software #Development

These are the things that stockholder lawsuits are built from... 😐

#grumpy #software #design

For me, the more annoying thing about using software tools is that I learn to use them and start to integrate them into my workflow, but when I download the latest update, the designers of the tools have changed how it operates, so iit breaks the model of the workflow I have created inside my head.

Means that I have to learn it all over again, which is a waste of my cognitive bandwidth... :|

#grumpy #software

I'm always amazed when people build a successful open-source project and manage to make a living from it. I often wonder how they do it, especially in the early years. It must either be very stressful — working on it alongside a full-time job — or they must have a solid financial cushion that lets them focus on it.

#OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #Software

Other browsers are racing to build AI that controls what you experience online.

We're building a browser that gives YOU control while exploring the web. Simple as that 🤝

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#artificialIntelligence #AI #LLM #Vivaldi #Browser #Tech #Technology #Software

If you don't actually know how #genAI and #agenticAI works, then you shouldn't let it anywhere near your data (or anyone else's).

If you do actually know how they work, then you *know* not to let it anywhere your data (or anyone else's).

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part

#tech #software #dev #coding #duh #aislop #aitrash

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

#HackerNews #TinyCoreLinux #LinuxDistro #LightweightLinux #OpenSource #Software #GraphicalDesktop

— will be live in about 5 minutes.

https://emacsconf.org/2025/watch/dev

Questions can be posted to this live chat: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2025-schemacs

EDIT: Thanks for all the great questions everyone. It is so encouraging for me to see that there is so much interest in this project, it really keeps me motivated to keep working on it.

#tech #software #Emacs #SoftwareDevelopment #EmacsConf #EmacsConf2025 #SchemeLang #R7RS #Scheme

Rolled a nat1 on buying a uvc camera. Turns out it's a proprietary chinese thingy-ma-bob and the only foss work is on a device with the same name and different manufacturer and product ID.

What an annoying pain in the behind.

Anyone a linux kernel dev who loves inkscape enough to barter me a driver for fixes? I don't really want to get into kernel development at this time.

#linux #webcam #driver #software #foss #hardware

Another year to make a #CyborgMonday joke! For your future cyborg self, invest in #software freedom!

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Also check out the hot deals on #freesoftware! Dozens of software projects available at deep discount prices. Act now!

#MeTacheles Tonspur:
"
Microsoft hat Windows zerstört - Warum ich zu Linux wechsle
"
"Microsoft verliert die Kontrolle über Windows – und KI ist der Grund dafür.
Satya Nadella prahlte im April 2025 damit, dass 20–30 % des Windows-Codes inzwischen von Maschinen geschrieben werden. .."

https://share.transistor.fm/s/174b5071

#Audio: https://audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/48885/c3bee76d46a89f1aa5d616aee95a1416.mp3

30.11.2025

#AI #Code #IT #KI #Microsoft #Programmierung #Software #Werbung #Windows