Debian 13/Gnome 48 is MUCH better to look at. I don't understand the majority of the software behind it, but the lines seem crisper, the colours are more defined, the animation is smoother, and the fractional scaling *works*. My goodness. Huge improvement. Thumbs up.

I'm sure I'm very late to this party, but SponsorBlock for YouTube is *amazing*. YouTube just has no ads for me any more. At all. (If I watch on my laptop.)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4e6d8360c24d6b8434cbb8869b
#linux #update #release #foss #ffmpeg #whisper

Hey lookie, Soundscape on Android. It's on the Play Store too so yeah. Programmers can help on its Github.

https://github.com/Scottish-Tech-Army/Soundscape-Android

Streaming LIVE! Watch @firesidefedi on Owncast: https://stream.firesidefedi.live/

We've got LOAD stripes! Not all of them stripes but at least we've got some! hahaha

I've decided to drop #Canvas and just use a static website for my course this fall. I'm still using #Gradescope for grading since I haven't found a drop-in #FOSS replacement yet and the fall semester starts soon.

I was also wishing for a self-hosted learning management system in a previous post. I didn't know about #Moodle. We used #Blackboard when I was in college. Since this might be my last year at this postdoc, I don't want to change too much, but I'm definitely going to consider it in future years. It looks like Moodle does have some kind of homework grading functionality, so maybe that should replace Gradescope. When I looked at the Canvas version of this feature before, it was terrible, so I'm not sure how much I can hope for with Moodle.

Learn how to gain #opensource #observability insights into network health with no code setup: https://t.ly/aJfSX

What interests/excites you about #FOSS?

I'm cautiously working on the first article on my blog in about 6 months and it's on the topic of FOSS and its underlying philosophy.

While I take opinions on the internet pretty lightly, I'm interested in one comment on reddit I saw:

"The fsf's (Free Software Foundation) definition of free hardware is shit" <- slightly changed version of the original

Any one care to elaborate?

I'm planning to move my bot @searchfoss_bot@fosstodon.org (that collects suggestions for my decentralised #pears search engine instance) away from #fosstodon for obvious reasons. Does anyone know of a relevant (#foss #opensource related) fedi instance that accepts bot accounts?

@FediGarden@social.growyourown.services
@foss@a.gup.pe @opensource@a.gup.pe

Really enjoyed the wide ranging discussion at the NZ #FOSS monthly meetup last night. Everything from topical stuff like #Matrix (I had to look up CSAM too) & #github through #righttorepair, #greengeeks, #bigbluebutton, #datasovereignty, #accessibility, #docker, #lorawan, #riscv & #homeassistant. I learned so much from great folks like @lightweight

Dein PC kann kein Windows 11? Kein Problem – wir haben eine Alternative!
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20.09.2025
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Bring deinen Rechner mit – wir helfen bei der Installation und geben dir Tipps für den Einstieg.
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Die letzten Release Candidates RC3 und RC4 von LibreOffice 25.8 sind diese Woche verfügbar.
https://de.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/08/13/die-letzten-release-candidates-rc3-und-rc4-von-libreoffice-25-8-sind-diese-woche-verfuegbar/
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #fedilz #schule #Verwaltung

Bellingcat has just launched a major new update to our Auto Archiver tool, simplifying the process of archiving online content for individuals or teams.
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/08/13/the-open-source-tool-that-has-preserved-150000-pieces-of-online-evidence/
#opensource #FOSS #archiving #autoarchiver #bellingcat #evidence #onlinecontent

I'm so sick of all of the "Rich person says you won't be using your computer like this in 3 years' time!" headlines. If we listened to how rich people said we should use our computers, Linux and countless other vital FOSS wouldn't exist.

Innovators have significantly different priorities than CEOs

I've built a new custom RSS-Bridge that provides real-time feeds for actions on any bill on Congress.gov.

https://sij.law/another-bridge-built-tracking-congress/

Rich Edmonds at XDA ditched Grammarly for Harper, a free open-source alternative

#foss

https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-grammarly-for-this-amazing-open-source-alternative/