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Bridget Almas<p>Registration is still open for Fedora Camp 2025 in Vienna, with Neil Jeffries, Executive Director of the Open Preservation Foundation providing the opening keynote!</p><p>Register today: <a href="https://my.lyrasis.org/event-information?id=a0lUh00000T8dumIAB" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">my.lyrasis.org/event-informati</span><span class="invisible">on?id=a0lUh00000T8dumIAB</span></a></p><p>More details at: <a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/FF/Fedora+Camp+2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.lyrasis.org/display/FF/Fe</span><span class="invisible">dora+Camp+2025</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/glam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glam</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/digitalpreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalpreservation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/oss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oss</span></a></p>
PKPs Powerfromspace1<p>@MatthewBerman on YouTube! 📺 </p><p> "China 🇨🇳 Went HARD <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/QWEN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QWEN</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>..."</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/NOYuO9JoVFs?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/NOYuO9JoVFs?feature=s</span><span class="invisible">hared</span></a></p><p>7/25/2025 📰 🤖</p>
Jan K. ™ #T1D #MVP<p>Let's go and break the 40.000.000 <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/NuGet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuGet</span></a> wall<br><a href="https://www.nuget.org/profiles/punker76" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">nuget.org/profiles/punker76</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://nrw.social/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/MahApps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahApps</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/IconPacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IconPacks</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/ControlzEx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ControlzEx</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Avalonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Avalonia</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/WPF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WPF</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/XAML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XAML</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/MVPBuzz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MVPBuzz</span></a></p>

Hackathon für eine Digitalisierung von unten

🗓️ Save the date: 31.10 bis 2.11.2025

Gemeinsam an Open-Source-Softwarelösungen für Solidarische Landwirtschaften (#Solawi) arbeiten.

Wahrscheinlich wird es vor allem um ein Tool für die Beitragsrunde (auch Bieterunde genannt) gehen

aktion-agrar.de/hack-the-diffe

Aktion Agrar · HACK-THE-DIFFERENCE-HackathonUnser Hackathon bringt Acker und Hacker zusammen, für solidarische und offene digitale Tools für die bäuerliche Landwirtschaft

Edit: this is a positive, pro Open Source post, not a "us" against "them". When an Open Source project makes progress, is a progress for all the Open Source world.

FreeBSD 15.0 will allow users to install KDE Desktop directly from the installer. This is great news. I'm reading the comments on various news sites: “It’s too late”, or “What’s the point? No one uses it”. Or even “We already have Linux, we don’t need another OS”.

I may sound repetitive, but I really don’t understand why, in the Open Source world, people aren’t happy to have more alternatives to consider. Whether it's social networks, operating systems, or software in general, many seem to get stuck on the most popular solution and almost ideologically reject alternatives.
Fear of change?
Maybe - which is why progress is welcome, because once they see what other solutions are capable of, I’m sure they'll start to give them a chance.

Just yesterday I was talking about this with a colleague, but I’ll write about it in another post.

Time for my coffee.

Meshcore made some of the repeater firmware features also paid. They sell unlock codes for this feature on their store, see below.

I developed and PRd a similar feature but was unaware they were working on a similar paid feature. They seemed to ignore my PR so they could complete the paid version instead.

Which is totally their prerogative but imo not the greatest FOSS approach.

store.meshcore.co.uk/products/

@lowpass @jianmin @cdp1337

store.meshcore.co.ukMeshCore ESP-NOW Bridge Licence

For those who have InfoSec, privacy, security, and/or related technology expertise…

Would you use Bitchat?

(Feel free to elaborate in the comments and/or boost if you’d like to see the opinion of others.)