woo what a sh%$ I switched my #Android phone to another (without google bk, etc) just like 15 years ago, the phone a motorolla with a new random google account - what I saw it was pure a magnificent s$&% google play + its vendors install by default a list of garbages apps - what if I do not have/ I don't want G apps/account? - this must stop now! - I hope what I'm developing as business idea can help people to find nice alternative like #GrapheneOS
Years ago I built a People Directory for the fediverse, to help you find people based on topics aka hashtags in their bio.
Spread the word!
Right on the heels of the v6.0 release, Podman v5.8.4 has been released and is making its way to Fedora and other distros. It's primarily a Security fix release, and details are here: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases/tag/v5.8.4 #podman #opensource
I found a new page with a list of #EU digital solution and #OpenSource --> https://european-alternatives.cloud
The classic I always visit:
https://european-alternatives.eu/
Almost the same 😅
Learning something new everyday...🫠
🇪🇺 European consumers demand digital autonomy!
Proton's new study reveals:
🔸4 in 5 care if tech is European
🔸45% avoid US-based data storage
Privacy & security now rank higher than price. Time to switch? 💻🔒
Full article via @TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-surprising-number-of-them-said-yes-study-finds-many-customers-would-leave-a-business-which-stays-loyal-to-us-big-tech-services
🗳️Vote locally, no matter which EU country you call home.
Around 14 million EU citizens living in another EU country have the chance to participate in, and run as candidates, for municipal elections in their country of residence.
And we want to make sure they do!
Participation in local democracy just got easier:
🔸Clearer information in a widely understandable language.
🔸Simpler registration procedures.
🔸Equal voting rights as nationals.
EU countries must make this law by June 2028.
In this edition of my For A Better Web podcast, I chat with Wolfgang Oels, COO of Ecosia, about the European Search Perspective (an EU search index they co-founded), saving the planet and more. https://vivaldi.com/blog/wolfgang-oels-ecosia-for-a-better-web/
Hyundai and Kia added official GrapheneOS support to their apps months before Volkswagen banned GrapheneOS:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/31697-myhyundai-app-has-official-grapheneos-support
Pressure from Volkswagen customers on them can achieve the same thing. There's no legitimate reason to ban GrapheneOS so they'll undo it with pressure.
Very happy watching those beautiful option thx to #openspurce community and passionate people worldwide, lets get ready for September
Apertus is a sovereign AI and a powerful public interest alternative to Big Tech AI like Google/OpenAI/Claude. Built entirely in Switzerland by public academic institutions and running on a national supercomputer, it is fully open and transparent to all. Apertus provides downloadable model weights, transparent training data, and fully documented, reproducible research, enabling anyone to run, audit, study, and understand the model on their own hardware https://apertvs.ai/
OpenTofu is a free and open source IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tool that lets you define, cloud provision, and manage tech infrastructure using configuration files. If you are familiar with Terraform, OpenTofu is quite literally a direct, drop in replacement for it due to Terraform drama in 2023 (HashiCorp made Terraform changes and it is no longer open-source) https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu
🎉 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY 🎉
💙 Celebrate with a GifCities GifGram, filled with classic, sparkling, nostalgia-soaked GIFs from the early web.
🧢 Send it to someone special or create your own custom GIF greeting for the Dads in your life.
Share this one or make your own GIF greeting at https://gifcities.org/gram/
strncpy() has been removed from the #Linux kernel. All former callers have +been migrated to safer alternatives. strncpy() is major source of bugs. The replacements are listed now.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1a3746ccbb0a97bed3c06ccde6b880013b1dddc1
FYI, this is starting from Linux kernel v7.2 but it was the need of the hour.
Happy FreeBSD Day! 🎉
In 2017, FreeBSD Day was officially recognized by the National Day Calendar and is celebrated each year to honor the innovation, dedication, and collaboration of the FreeBSD community.
Learn more about FreeBSD Day: https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-day/
Thank you for being part of this journey and helping shape the future of open source.
We have talentful contributors roaming our trackers all the time.
One of the very active contributor we have lately is balooii, who also ends up being a skilled software archeologist! 🤠
One of his last fun project was building #GIMP 0.54 from 1996 in a Flatpak package (making it runnable on a modern Linux system). This was the last version using the Motif toolkit (before the GIMP authors created #GTK).
More here:
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/254-commit-graph/35564#miscellaneous
pretty nice #ramentime + #Gyoza
instance admins are the real heroes of the fediverse and open social web.
they turn our software into real communities.
so let's not forget them, and everything they do for us.
pay them, thank them, remember them. they are the glue of this whole network.
Already upgraded my #nextcloud instance to 26 version, and I'm pretty happy being part of the community since 2020 hosted and running on @hetzner
🌐 **Growing sovereignty: new federation features, improved data export and import**
I'm totally sure today 2026 Startups and SME can run and use a full and open package alternative for those closed USA solutions no compliance with security and data privacy
#sovereignty for data integrity even for a stable & reliable business profile.
