Join us on Thursday, September 4, 2025 at @cbase for the Kdenlive meet up.
- Community Hangout
- Q&A Session with the team
- Video Editing Workshop
- Live Stream
🕑 2 PM – 6 PM (local time)
📍 c-base - Rungestrasse 20 10179 Berlin
💻 Bring your computer for the workshop
#kdenlive#kde#berlin#floss #videoediting #hackerspace#foss#opensource
Join us on Thursday, September 4, 2025 at @cbase for the Kdenlive meet up.
- Community Hangout
- Q&A Session with the team
- Video Editing Workshop
- Live Stream
🕑 2 PM – 6 PM (local time)
📍 c-base - Rungestrasse 20 10179 Berlin
💻 Bring your computer for the workshop
#kdenlive#kde#berlin#floss #videoediting #hackerspace#foss#opensource
Reason 7 To Choose Linux 😍
You decide when to install updates and reboot your computer!
Security updates are critical. They should be done early and often to keep your computer safe.
But you don't want your device to force an update - and then reboot - while you're working.
With #Linux, the decision when to update is yours.
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#EndOf10 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS#GNULinux #Microsoft #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11
Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now.
Be. Kind. To. Them.
They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're showing them using Linux will be worse than Windows. If you can't bring yourself to be kind, then SAY NOTHING. Let others pick up that slack.
MS making automatic saving of Word documents to the Cloud a default, putting privacy of vast numbers of documents at risk
It's @libreoffice for the win... Their free #FOSS Writer app just works AND doesn't upload your private documents to a cloud.
Hi and welcome to the SearchFOSS PeARS community! 🍐 💚
We aim to be an easy-to-search directory of information about #foss#opensource projects. We currently have ~600 pages indexed, but you can help us grow! A more detailed contributor's guide will follow soon, but any information pages about projects are welcome (project home pages, GitHub/CodeBerg repos, news articles about new projects...)
Find out more at https://www.searchfoss.nl/ check out our bot @searchfoss_bot 😊
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"Advice For Tech Non-Profits"
Make it easy to give you money!
There's been a lot of talk about donations to #FOSS projects lately, and for good reason. An overwhelming majority of FOSS projects run on volunteer goodwill alone, and it shouldn't be that way.
I wish I could say that I donate to FOSS projects myself, but I've been more focused on donations to orgs like the ACLU, family planning centers (you know the one), and my local library. I do want to help fund FOSS in the future, but I feel like my United States Fun Bucks are needed elsewhere right now.
Reason 7 To Choose Linux 😍
You decide when to install updates and reboot your computer!
Security updates are critical. They should be done early and often to keep your computer safe.
But you don't want your device to force an update - and then reboot - while you're working.
With #Linux, the decision when to update is yours.
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#EndOf10 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS#GNULinux #Microsoft #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11
Uhh the #andriod#foss #app #opencamera le's one directly clear the #metadata #exifdata of #pictures under the i ① #icon sweet ✅ 💡 Quick additional hint alternatively one could use a upload a picture into signal to automatically remove #metada 💡 ✅
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera
Uhh the #andriod#foss #app #opencamera le's one directly clear the #metadata #exifdata of #pictures under the i ① #icon sweet ✅ 💡 Quick additional hint alternatively one could use a upload a picture into signal to automatically remove #metada 💡 ✅
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera
Folks, @micr0 is the creator and maintainer of altbot@fuzzies.wtf and tldr@fuzzies.wtf, arguably two of the most useful #Fediverse bots I've ever seen, utilizing a locally run, low-power #LLM server operated with #privacy and #transparency primarily in mind.
If I wasn't already living off of charity, I would gladly donate to this cause. So instead, I'm asking everyone who is willing and able, please visit the post below and consider donating to help micr0 continue to provide two immensely powerful and helpful services for #inclusion and #accessibility. They deserve to at least break even on their bills for such (imho) important work.
Additionally, I encourage everyone to follow one or both bots (I'm not tagging them in the post to avoid triggering another loop like I did the last time) if you are overly-verbose like myself and need a concise, abridged version of my babblings, or don't have the spoons to write alt text for images AND videos.
Folks, @micr0 is the creator and maintainer of altbot@fuzzies.wtf and tldr@fuzzies.wtf, arguably two of the most useful #Fediverse bots I've ever seen, utilizing a locally run, low-power #LLM server operated with #privacy and #transparency primarily in mind.
If I wasn't already living off of charity, I would gladly donate to this cause. So instead, I'm asking everyone who is willing and able, please visit the post below and consider donating to help micr0 continue to provide two immensely powerful and helpful services for #inclusion and #accessibility. They deserve to at least break even on their bills for such (imho) important work.
Additionally, I encourage everyone to follow one or both bots (I'm not tagging them in the post to avoid triggering another loop like I did the last time) if you are overly-verbose like myself and need a concise, abridged version of my babblings, or don't have the spoons to write alt text for images AND videos.
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The stubborn few who show up with shovels, laptops, and trust
In the tech world of social change and challenge, we’re living with a strange imbalance. Too often, the spaces we use and try and build are crowded with useless, self-destructive prats – people more interested in ego, control, and clout than in making anything grow from the roots. And when they do very rearly act, their “help” is often poison: it blocks, slows, and derails.
At the same time, the number of people doing truly useful, collective, grounded work feels small. You can see […]
I recently had reason to make a video DVD (yes I know it's 2025) and the free and open source DVDStyler was the answer:
Very easy to use but powerful. Looks like the project has been going for years and forums are still pretty active.
Microsoft denied access to its products to Nayara (a petroleum product company in India) due to US sanctions or something.
This meant that Nayara was unable to access its own data after paying license fees to Microsoft to its products.
Another lesson about the need to avoid software 'services'.
Open source please.
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The stubborn few who show up with shovels, laptops, and trust
In the tech world of social change and challenge, we’re living with a strange imbalance. Too often, the spaces we use and try and build are crowded with useless, self-destructive prats – people more interested in ego, control, and clout than in making anything grow from the roots. And when they do very rearly act, their “help” is often poison: it blocks, slows, and derails.
At the same time, the number of people doing truly useful, collective, grounded work feels small. You can see […]
Open Source Is Dying and We’re All to Blame, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
Open Source Is Dying and We’re All to Blame, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
DX.
Why did it take me so long to think of 😱 instead of trying to say "you know, UX but for library APIs"
Now I can just say: Hey FontConfig, you have terrible DX!
(I have long pushed on the idea that design is a required skill for programming code, not just GUIs or even CLIs, but the code itself should be designed too)
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
