Alright everyone, new week, new mutual aid goals.

I didnt get enough donations last week to cover all my expenses, so my donation goals are higher now.

Please donate if you can.

I live in an abusive home and my family hates me bc im trans.

Having a roof over my head isnt garanteed, neither is food or anything else.

Please donate to me to help me afford my basic expenses, like HRT, food, new glasses, feminine clothing that fits me, phone bill, etc.

Please help.

Thank you to anyone who boosts or donates.

current goals:

food: 75$/75$

misc bills/expenses: 25$/200$

prescription glasses: 0/250$

payment information:

cashapp: https://cash.app/vparagon

gofundme: https://gofund.me/034cef1a

cashapp referral (i make 5$): https://cash.app/app/QPL1BJF

monero address: 8576pqM8cmNW92eogjqnYzEewZbmwUbY61xRcGmbVCFphchaXKyAad1Xj9oNrYWQNqZkcm2kCHEzea4Y5Wd3DMUW4DozSV2

@mutualaid @disability @trans @vegan

Alright, I'll bite. If you're not using helm, what are you using to version and package your Kubernetes manifests?

#FreeBSD #FOSS #Desktop

I have successfully installed and configured FreeBSD 14.2 in a PC. I am using Plasma6 as my desktop environment, I am using FISH as my shell, and everything seems to be working.

My question to you is… What now? Please share your ideas on what projects I could do with my FreeBSD machine. Thanks.

Grrr! There's no #FOSS app for annotating PDFs on #Android.

Plenty of readers, but no open source app for filling in forms and drawing a signature.

(I am actively begging you to prove me wrong.)

A new security fund opens up to help protect the #fediverse

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/a-new-security-fund-opens-up-to-help-protect-the-fediverse/

Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/matrix-auth-service/
#linux #update #foss #matrix #mas #migration #authentication

It's #50forFOSS Friday tomorrow! If a piece of free/open-source software has saved your bacon, there's no better way to show your appreciation.

https://50forFOSS.org

How it works:

1. Choose a piece of free software.
2. Send the maintainer 50 bucks.
3. End of list.

If you want, you can share your donation with the #50forFOSS tag. I'll be right there with you.

Open Source Experiences

A podcast for your morning, afternoon, and all other UTC offsets. This episode features the BSD community's renowned leader for all things CFT, OpenZFS, FreeBSD, and many more Open Source topics in-between: Michael Dexter - @dexter

"Open doesn't Always Mean Accessible", from My Open Source Experience Podcast

So then, let's listen to tales of OSS in the episode! Links to various syndicated apps below.

- Podverse: https://podverse.fm/episode/kr9LJXJi3
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/my-open-source-experience-podcast/id1726085697
- ACast: https://shows.acast.com/my-open-source-experience-podcast/episodes/open-doesnt-always-mean-accessible

The excellent artist and libre fan David Revoy has an official PeerTube account full of art, art tutorials, reviews of art-related hardware etc. You can follow at:

@shichimi

There are already more than 80 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/a/shichimi/videos

You can also follow Revoy's general account at @davidrevoy

We're kicking off season 2 of the NGI Zero podcast with Armijn Hemel of DeviceCode. The electronics industry works differently than most people think. Behind the different brands and casings is often the same hardware, created by a single factory.
But security issue disclosure focuses on single devices, so vulnerabilities in similar devices go unnoticed.
DeviceCode uncovers the hidden patterns of the electronics industry to improve security.

https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero/episodes/devicecode/

Psst... Chcesz wiedzieć jakie nagrody można wygrać na Sesji?

Już tylko kilka dni dzieli nas od 19 Sesji Linuksowej, a co za tym idzie – czas na konkursy! Lubisz wyzwania? Chcesz wrócić do domu z wyjątkowymi nagrodami?

Spotkaj się z nami w weekend by dowiedzieć się, co można wygrać.

Strona wydarzenia: https://sesja.linuksowa.pl/

In den sozialen Medien wird immer noch OpenOffice empfohlen. Seien Sie sich nur bewusst, dass es nicht mehr aktualisiert wird und mehrere Jahre alte, nicht behobene Sicherheitsprobleme aufweist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security - Um sicher zu gehen, wechseln Sie zu einem der aktiv gepflegten Nachfolgeprojekte (wie LibreOffice).
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #fedilz #schule #Verwaltung

You're invited to join the Open Source #webinar by #NGI0 partner @ow2 this afternoon at 16.00 CEST. Simon Descarpentries / @siltaer will be speaking about his #FOSS project @metapress, a Firefox extension that lets you explore news without trackers and snooping companies.
And Didier Barzin will talk about Mercator, an open source web application designed to map information systems.

Participation is free but you do need to register: https://www.ow2.org/view/webinar/webinar_4

Irrational leftists advocating the destruction of anything not-left often via violence are banding up on the #fediverse and the community is silent because of their political leanings.
Advocating Violence is unacceptable, immoral, it's #terrorism.
A cancer within the #FOSS community.
Don't stay silent on left terror. They will eventually turn on you for being less left and non-violent.
SPEAK UP! #FOSS
#left #leftTerror #Violence #silence

Alright everyone, new week, new mutual aid goals.

I didnt get enough donations last week to cover all my expenses, so my donation goals are higher now.

Please donate if you can.

I live in an abusive home and my family hates me bc im trans.

Having a roof over my head isnt garanteed, neither is food or anything else.

Please donate to me to help me afford my basic expenses, like HRT, food, new glasses, feminine clothing that fits me, phone bill, etc.

Please help.

Thank you to anyone who boosts or donates.

current goals:

food: 75$/75$

misc bills/expenses: 25$/200$

prescription glasses: 0/250$

payment information:

cashapp: https://cash.app/vparagon

gofundme: https://gofund.me/034cef1a

cashapp referral (i make 5$): https://cash.app/app/QPL1BJF

monero address: 8576pqM8cmNW92eogjqnYzEewZbmwUbY61xRcGmbVCFphchaXKyAad1Xj9oNrYWQNqZkcm2kCHEzea4Y5Wd3DMUW4DozSV2

@mutualaid @disability @trans @vegan

Last year I started a webring like it was 1999 with the System Crafters community. And for its first anniversary I wrote a blog post about How I accidentally got better at self-hosting and FOSS contributing.

Sometimes you don’t have to wait for someone else, you can be a catalyst. Happy Birthday Craftering!

Thanks to @daviwil for fostering a great community and to @kern for building Ringfairy and being so encouraging.

I said it before on Mastodon. I'm reposting this again. Comparing #DeltaChat and #Matrix together, if you want hassle free and consistent messenger for private #E2EE chats, don't go for Matrix. DeltaChat is way better.

However, if you want something like a public forum, or a public chatroom, don't go for DeltaChat. Matrix is way better suited for that. And DeltaChat does not support public groups at all. In DeltaChat groups, there is no admin or moderator and everyone have got permission to remove or add the others.

I think I have to write a longer post on my personal blog about these two, comparing them together.

PS: Another Matrix encryption bug few minutes ago triggered repost of this.

While we believe #Accessibility should be a key component of any project from the outset, one of the advantages of open source is that those with the knowledge are able to contribute to projects to help address shortcomings. @wireshark is "The world's most popular #network protocol analyzer", and a fellow #OpenSource project. Do we know any #A11y coders with an interest in #Networking willing to give them a hand with accessibility? See their post here: https://fosstodon.org/@wireshark@ioc.exchange/114269660077710254 #FOSS