@feoh

💡 Using the MIT license might seem like a good idea, but:

❌ Allows your code to be used in proprietary software
❌ No obligation to share improvements
❌ Companies can profit without giving back
❌ Doesn’t protect user freedom

📢 If you want your code to stay free: use GPL.

#FreeSoftware #GPL #FOSS #Licenses

Please donate, i have exausted my glasses fund to pay for food and clothes, i live in an abusive and transphobic home and im constantly bullied by family members, im extremely poor and unable to work, i need money urgently to pay for basics, please help me.

current goals:

food: 75$/75$

prescription glasses: 0/250$

misc bills/expenses: 125$/150$

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@mutualaid @disability @trans @vegan

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Dear #FreeBSD users,

What shell(as in text shell in the Terminal) do you use?

Best Regards,
Farooq the Chickenkiller.

#BSD #Linux #FOSS #opensource #freesoftware

Before Wayland, there was X11, the graphical backbone of Linux for over 35 years. Originally developed at MIT in the 1980s, X11 introduced network transparency, allowing applications to run on one machine while displaying on another, a concept ahead of its time. This flexibility made it an essential part of UNIX and later, Linux desktops, powering everything from early X Window Managers to full desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, and KDE.

Despite its age and complexity, X11 remains widely used today, proving that well engineered software can stand the test of time. While Wayland aims to replace it with a modern, secure approach, X11’s legacy continues to shape how we interact with Linux desktops.

#X11 #LinuxDesktop #FOSS #WaylandVsX11 #UnixHistory

awesome: Beastie/Leon McNeill just open sourced their Ultima III colour Macintosh port, all written in Think C!

This is the "Lairware" version that was sold at lairware.com, and received many updates over the years - eventually gaining OS X/Intel 32-bit support. The source appears to be an Xcode project with a mix of think C and cocoa.

great job, Leon!

https://github.com/beastie/ultima3

#openSource #foss #macintosh #vintageApple #retrogaming

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A screenshot of Ultima III running on a classic Mac. The graphics are in 256 colours with custom drawn sprites.

Hey!

If you consider supporting my work on #FOSS here's the most recent update regarding McCLIM. It contains a bunch of videos showing progress (I've shared all of them on this profile too):

https://www.patreon.com/posts/hello-patrons-123700109

And for those who already do support me -- thank you! :)

#lisp #mcclim

Level 73 of Anuto TD kicks my butt EVERY time.

#AnutoTD #TowerDefense #Android #FOSS #games

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Lost at level 73 with -1 life left and TONS of defensive armaments on the board.

Looking for a remote #cloud #architect position. I'm a talented coder, but real passion is architecture. I LOVE building shit. Love it. Integration is so much fun. I'd love a job @cloudflare but those are so competitive. If someone would just give me a chance, I'd rock. Any cool #FOSS startups? #jobs

I am once again faced with the bleak irony of people who install onto their computer some 5 or 10 apps via FlatPak or Docker, including VSCode, each installed with their own entire copies of Node.js and Electron.js (differing only in their minor revision number), while also complaining about Emacs being “bloated” because it ships with a miniature web browser and fully-featured e-mail client.

#tech #software #Emacs #WebBrowser #WebDev #WebApp #SoftwareDevelopment #FunctionalProgramming #Lisp #EmacsLisp #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #FlatPak #Docker #AppStore #ElectronJS #NodeJS

@osnews I'm one of those old skool 90s #FOSS hippies. I miss the days of 5 guys living in a 3 bedroom house near a university and just doing cool shit with computers. Back then you could barely afford a cardboard box coding professionally, but hot damned, was it fun. Now it's just so.....ewww.....

https://dhrm1k.github.io/lju-lug/

1998: "Linux is only free if your time has no value." (@jwz)

2025: "Commercial software is only convenient if your privacy, security, IT budget stability, ethics, and time have no value."

https://web.archive.org/web/19990218132145/http%3A//themes.org/totd/guest/archive/jwz/

#linux #foss

Idea of #karlmarx s alienation or weber s objection to his very definition of class and www
If someone works in #google can they end up buying their own #alphabet product one day
But the means of production here can be free , thanks to open source , but can they be?
I mean server cost is never free , #labor isnt free of cost , tax cuts re not free, nor is marketing and lawsuits
But #bigtech folks dont go through alienation
Why , because they share political control ( ie bargain position ) , which can be different from ownership , while the latter , including the value, which they can influence of their stock holding is reduced in that accord and they end up being better off than their peers in #academia or #foss as bigtech is now big enough to influence policy making for that
The dictated aspect of #gametheory .
Afaik weber didnt highlight the rich gets richer or big gets bigger part

Has anyone tried using #ZFS as home partition and common between #FreeBSD and #linux?

If yes, Have you got an advice?

Boosts very much appreciated

#FOSS #BSD #GNU #opensource

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)

https://blog.elenarossini.com/peertube-the-fediverses-decentralized-video-platform-part-1-first-impressions/

mentioning @Framasoft @peertube @fedihost@mstdn.social @fedihost@video.fedihost.co @paige @veronicaexplains @ewen @docpop @hikingdude

P.S.: this is the 20th article for The Future is Federated 🤗

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #ActivityPub #video

@tante

I'd like to mention that the "Open Source" verbiage was a soft-peddling of "Free Software" ideals to corporations from day one (mid-to-late 1990s, IIRC).

What we call #FOSS today was originally for hackers by hackers. Now corporations and deep pockets are involved because it's not "cool" to have linux machine that can't print or run AAA games.

I like printing, and... I'm quite ambivalent towards AAA games, but I like having an OS that runs well.

But we seriously lost something along the way.

P.S., I do not mean to say that the "soft peddling" wasn't done with the very best of intentions. But it is what it is.

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 76 ✨

Monday morning, which means: backing up my #YunoHost setup.

I see that #GoToSocial has an update available but I'm too scared to upgrade it. Having my 4th cup of espresso and working up the courage to do it (I hear it takes a looong time). Hoping I don't break anything 😅​

In other news, I am LOVING my #LinkStack and having a glimpse into the links that are the most popular (LinkStack offers you a ranking in reverse order of the most clicked links when you log into their dashboard). Is anyone interested in me writing about it? For reference, here is what the front end looks like: https://elena.social

Off I go update my #GoToSocial, wish me luck!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS

Project documentation of #opensource projects on #GitHub should be in…

#foss #devops #coding #documentation #fediverse #community

New blog post: I write my blogs in my Shanty markup language, and then parse the plain-text into separate blog pages. It's all done with #FOSS software. It's #SmallWeb and very accessible. https://nantucketebooks.com/blog/2025/02/2025-02-25_a_new_blog_platform_in_development.html

I am ready to open this up to other people and start a blogging platform for whomever is interested. #Syndication via #RSS, #Atom, *and* #jsonfeed.

If this sound like what you've been looking for, email me at njb@nantucketebooks.com

What's absolutely HILARIOUS is that I had to put a warning in my NOW page about my #FOSS radicalization.

Because if you know me IRL but haven't been in touch for a few months, you'd be REALLY surprised about what I'm currently doing (aka EXTREMELY techie things).

To blunt the shock of the transition, I put a little section in there about my @pixelfed photo gallery, because even non-techie people would get that.

Anyway there are pics of #FOSDEM too: https://blog.elenarossini.com/what-im-up-to-february-2025-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

In the early 1950s, software wasn’t something you bought, it was shared freely among researchers. IBM and MIT pioneered a culture where programmers exchanged code openly, laying the foundation for the Free Software Movement decades later. The term open source did not exist yet, but the philosophy was already alive.
#OpenSource #FOSS #TechHistory #SoftwareFreedom #HackerCulture