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“Modular, repairable, and equips 12 easily replaceable parts.”
🙏 Thank you to Vishnu Sarangapurkar from Android Central for covering the Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6) and highlighting /e/OS: “a notable alternative to Google OS.”
👉 Read the full article: https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/murena-fairphone-gen-6-announced-and-it-is-yet-again-sustainable-and-easily-repairable
#Fairphone#FP6#Privacy#PrivacyMatters#FairTech#DeGoogle#OpenSource @e_mydata
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Latest release of #FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, lets you blur / hide images marked as sensitive / #NSFW, which solves the "unwanted dick pics in your feed" issue that can come up when users of one of the more "risque" fediverse servers manage to make one of their favourite hashtags trend.
* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522
* Release notes: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/releases
#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline#Fedi#FediTips#FediTools #Fediverse#Feed#FOSS#GoToSocial #hashtag #hashtags #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #MastodonApi #mastohelp #mastojs #nodejs #nod #opensource #socialmedia#SocialWeb #timeline#TL #typescript#webdev
Create colour wheels in #LibreOffice Calc, to make "doughnut" charts for representing data: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/12/create-a-colour-wheel-in-libreoffice/ #foss#OpenSource
ENISA published guidance on the #NIS2 implementing act for the digital sector. They cover how to apply the NIS2 requirements when it comes to #FOSS, including clarifying that in most cases upstream open source maintainers should not be considered a ‘direct supplier’. There are 37 occurrences of #opensource in the text. Some quotes to follow https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/nis2-technical-implementation-guidance
🔥 Here's a great video! In less than 4 minutes, the talented @_elena highlights (as it deserves) the #Fediverse, how it works, and its virtues… as opposed to the well-known hegemonic social networks.
💡 Having trouble convincing your friends and family to take the red pill and follow the white rabbit down the rabbit hole? Show them this video, which is clear, educational, and very appealing!
I woke up to a comment so smug, so perfectly soaked in gatekeeping and faux-righteous posturing, it earned its own blog post.
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux#GNU #FOSS#Accessibility#BlindTech#FreeSoftware#Gatekeeping#DisabilityInTech#OpenSource#Orca #ScreenReaders#ArchLinux#BurnItDown #blogpost
My complete setup is currently as follows:
Linux Mint and FreeBSD on all my computers and notebooks
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS (but will be replaced by a new Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena in the future)
Connected via KDE Connect
Office with LibreOffice
My own Nextcloud for files, photos, calendar and contacts
Hardened Firefox with uBlock Origin
Freetube and Newpipe instead of YouTube
Ecosia search instead of Google
Proton Mail and Tutanota Mail
Simple fitness tracker with watch, Pedometer, sleep tracker and calorie counter without Bluetooth and app connection instead of spying smartwatch and "health apps" such as Fitbit, Apple or Samsung Health
Manual recording of my health data such as blood pressure, blood sugar, sleep, steps and more in a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet, can be easily converted into a PDF for my doctors to evaluate
Am I missing anything? Absolutely not! This setup works just as smoothly and conveniently as previous ecosystem solutions from Apple, Google or Samsung. Only with significantly more privacy, without tracking and surveillance by US Big Tech
#linux #unix #freebsd #linuxmint #opensource #freesoftware #nextcloud #privacy #grapheneos#murena #fairphone #eos #libreoffice #protonmail #tutanota #firefox #kdeconnect #ecosia #google #newpipe #youtube
In case anyone was wondering, yes my project Wordforge is effectively abandoned. I graduated and got a job last year and haven't had the time to work on it. It's a shame really since I really wanted to see something like this on the fediverse, but such is life.
If anyone wants to take over, feel free.
https://codeberg.org/grafcube/wordforge
#wordforge #opensource #foss #fediverse #activitypub #rust #leptos
Repo: Apptainer (formerly Singularity) simplifies the creation and execution of containers, ensuring software components are encapsulated for portability and reproducibility https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer
🔥 Voici une superbe vidéo ! En moins de 4 min, la brillante @_elena met en lumière (comme il le mérite) le #Fediverse, son fonctionnement et ses vertus… par opposition aux réseaux sociaux hégémoniques bien connus.
💡 Vous avez du mal à convaincre votre entourage de prendre la pilule rouge et de descendre avec le lapin blanc au fond du gouffre ? Montrez-leur cette vidéo qui est claire, pédagogique, et qui a beaucoup d'allure !
LibreOffice isn't just an app – it's a worldwide community of people who work on code, documentation, QA, design, marketing and more. Meet us at local events, like recently in northern Italy: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/16/libreoffice-at-the-linux-arena-in-pordenone-italy/ #foss#OpenSource
Excited to share that I've joined #OSSCA (Open Source Software Contribution Academy) as a mentor for the @fedify project!
OSSCA is a national program run by South Korea's NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) through their Open Source Software Support Center, aimed at fostering the next generation of open source contributors.
We're currently in the process of selecting around 20 mentees who will start contributing to #Fedify once the selection is complete. I've been busy preparing good first issues to help them get started on their open source journey.
Looking forward to working with these new contributors and seeing what amazing things we can build together!
This is a small personal instance of Bonfire in the Fediverse.
