jbz
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🌩️ 74% of European firms would fail without access to U.S. technology
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Now would be a great time for smaller hosting providers like Hetzner to offer managed services with Zulip, RocketChat, and IRC servers...
Wouldn't it be spiffy if we saw an explosion of open-source managed services to replace proprietary ones Discord, Slack, Instagram, etc.?
System administration isn't for everyone. It's a non-starter to expect everybody to manage their own open-source services. *Especially* when people are trying to disentangle themselves from multiple proprietary things at once.
Run your own blog and web site? Sure. File backup? OK. Chat server... and photo hosting ... music and video streaming... and everything else? That starts to add up and become overwhelming for most people pretty quickly.
There's an opportunity for lots of small businesses, jobs, improving open source, and setting people free of proprietary services all at once here. If we all take it. Self-hosting doesn't *have* to mean literally running services yourself, if there are reasonable alternatives. (e.g., Fastmail, Hetzner Storage Share.)
Claudius Link
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Denn der Deutschland Stack muss an den Bedürfnissen der Zivilgesellschaft und der Verwaltung ausgerichtet sein und nicht an denen von Lobbyverbänden!
Er muss komplett Open Source sein. Jede*r muss ihn nutzen können und ein ihre*seine Bedürfnisse anpassen können.
Dafür muss er als Teil einer digitalen Infrastruktur gedacht sein, die öffentliches Eigentum ist.
RE: https://ruhr.social/@sonjalemke/116046752331624115
Sinnvolle Digitalpolitik in Deutschland?
🌩️ 74% of European firms would fail without access to U.S. technology
Denn der Deutschland Stack muss an den Bedürfnissen der Zivilgesellschaft und der Verwaltung ausgerichtet sein und nicht an denen von Lobbyverbänden!
Er muss komplett Open Source sein. Jede*r muss ihn nutzen können und ein ihre*seine Bedürfnisse anpassen können.
Dafür muss er als Teil einer digitalen Infrastruktur gedacht sein, die öffentliches Eigentum ist.
RE: https://ruhr.social/@sonjalemke/116046752331624115
Sinnvolle Digitalpolitik in Deutschland?
Stefano Marinelli
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NEW VIDEO - FreeBSD in 2026: Thriving or Dying?
#freebsd #unix #opensource #garyhtech
https://youtu.be/JRJBsb1mtIs?si=jg1ZLUuRM2Ewhajo via @YouTube
Heidi Seibold
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Bei der IHK Berlin spricht Schleswig-Holstein über Lessons Learned bei der Umstellung auf Open-Source in der Landesverwaltung.
#IHK #Berlin #OSS #OpenSource #SH
NEW VIDEO - FreeBSD in 2026: Thriving or Dying?
#freebsd #unix #opensource #garyhtech
https://youtu.be/JRJBsb1mtIs?si=jg1ZLUuRM2Ewhajo via @YouTube
Software used in German public offices has become geopolitical.
Part of the solution: #OpenSource
https://www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-journal/abkehr-us-software-100.html
(Video in German)
Rob Whittaker
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Maps don’t always need to be interactive.
With libgd-gis v0.4.1, maps can now include built-in legends, rendered directly into the image — fully server-side in Ruby.
This makes maps self-explanatory artifacts:
• no frontend
• no JavaScript
• no screenshots
• style-driven rendering
• optional post-processing via map.image
// foss.events
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Do you know @foss_events ? They collect #opensource oriented conferences across Europe. Each of the pins highlight an upcoming opensource event.
Could you guess what the pin on the top right corner represents? 😉
Checkout at https://foss.events
Maps don’t always need to be interactive.
With libgd-gis v0.4.1, maps can now include built-in legends, rendered directly into the image — fully server-side in Ruby.
This makes maps self-explanatory artifacts:
• no frontend
• no JavaScript
• no screenshots
• style-driven rendering
• optional post-processing via map.image
Now would be a great time for smaller hosting providers like Hetzner to offer managed services with Zulip, RocketChat, and IRC servers...
Wouldn't it be spiffy if we saw an explosion of open-source managed services to replace proprietary ones Discord, Slack, Instagram, etc.?
System administration isn't for everyone. It's a non-starter to expect everybody to manage their own open-source services. *Especially* when people are trying to disentangle themselves from multiple proprietary things at once.
Run your own blog and web site? Sure. File backup? OK. Chat server... and photo hosting ... music and video streaming... and everything else? That starts to add up and become overwhelming for most people pretty quickly.
There's an opportunity for lots of small businesses, jobs, improving open source, and setting people free of proprietary services all at once here. If we all take it. Self-hosting doesn't *have* to mean literally running services yourself, if there are reasonable alternatives. (e.g., Fastmail, Hetzner Storage Share.)
I wrote about #openscience and commoning beyond licensing, and how digital commons tend to deteriorate in the absence of collective governance.
https://tzovar.as/open-science-beyond-licenses/
(responses to this post also show up on my blog as comments)
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Open science and commoning beyond licensing: Deteriorating digital commons in the absence of collective governance
This post is an adapted/expanded version of an abstract that I have submitted for a track on Open, collaborative and participatory science: rethinking knowledge legitimacy, policy and science futures at the EU-SPRI Annual Conference Over the past decades, the open science movement – as well as the many wider, nonacademic,...
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
ravelin
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PSA for job seekers, freelancers and artists across fediverse, you can subscribe to hiring related hashtags to have those show up on your feed daily.
Or you can bookmark this to monitor most posts directly!
💡 https://fedi.thatshubham.com
Earlier today, I made a couple of UX improvements and how posts are filtered. Added more tags in monitoring list. Good luck!
#jobs #jobs #hiring #hired #remotework #freelance #commission #writing #getfedihired #opensource #commissionsOpen #commission
Angela Antunovic
and 1 other
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France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺
🔗 https://www.sinologic.net/en/2026-01/france-chooses-open-source-to-secure-european-sovereignty.html
#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice
Stefano Marinelli
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We’re pleased to highlight an article from the latest edition of the FreeBSD Journal. In “printf(“Hello, srcmgr\n”);”, Mark Johnston introduces the Source Management (srcmgr) team and the role it plays in supporting FreeBSD source development.
Read the article:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/printfhello-srcmgrn/
#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #Community
We’re pleased to highlight an article from the latest edition of the FreeBSD Journal. In “printf(“Hello, srcmgr\n”);”, Mark Johnston introduces the Source Management (srcmgr) team and the role it plays in supporting FreeBSD source development.
Read the article:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/printfhello-srcmgrn/
#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #Community
Bei der IHK Berlin spricht Schleswig-Holstein über Lessons Learned bei der Umstellung auf Open-Source in der Landesverwaltung.
#IHK #Berlin #OSS #OpenSource #SH