animfetch is animated system fetch based on fastfetch.
github.com/Andrew-Velox/animfe…

#Linux #OpenSource #fastfetch #neofetch

Inkscape 1.5 is a brutal middle finger to Adobe Illustrator, finally delivering the devastating blow that trapped, exploited designers have been praying to see for decades.

If you understand C++, join the fight

Don't let Inkscape developers alone in the trenches — step up, fuel the resistance, and help them drive a stake through the heart of Adobe's monopoly

Quicktab is a minimal offline-first new tab page for Chromium based browsers.
github.com/rollecode/quicktab

#OpenSource #Browsers

Cool artikel door @Marloezovic:

nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/07/een-a… (giftlink)

Eigen Mastodon voor NRC:

"...een Mastodon-server is een logische eerste stap in die alternatieve sociale wereld."

"De kosten van het gebruik voor @nrc_nl vallen mee: zo’n 250 euro per maand. Het is een kleine server... „Eigenlijk betaal je vooral voor de mensuren”, legt @koen uit. We kunnen de server samen inrichten en in de loop der tijd aanpassen. Hij en zijn collega’s hebben daar al veel ervaring mee."

#opensource

Een alternatief voor de grote sociale media: staat de NRC-server straks in de eigen kelder?

Broncode: Het is gemakkelijk om eindeloos te discussiëren over alternatieven voor de bekende sociale media.

^{Marloes de Koning (NRC)}

CachyOS Linux Kernels are open-source kernels optimized for speed and responsiveness. They offer multiple CPU schedulers, performance patches, and variants for gaming, desktops, servers, hardened security, and real-time workloads.

Available for Arch Linux, with community packages for Fedora, Gentoo, and NixOS.

More details: digitalescapetools.com/tools/t…

#OpenSource #Linux #CachyOS #Performance #FOSS

Only 2 weeks left to submit your proposal for #OSCL26 #CallforPapers

Delegates would like to hear how you, your organisation/project could help them leading in Digital Sovereignty in areas that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- #OSPO and Open Source #Governance
- #OpenSource in local/central governments and EU institutions
- #CyberSecurity
- #Sovereign #AI
- #EdTech
- Decentralised technologies for #DigitalSovereignty

conference.opensource.lu/

#CfP #Luxembourg #FOSS

Elm chat - Open source, E2EE chat rooms

github.com/shawnbure/elm-chat

#OpenSource #selfhosted

GitHub - shawnbure/elm-chat: Open-source, account-free, end-to-end encrypted chat rooms that self-destruct, with single-use invites and no persisted server-side transcript.

Open-source, account-free, end-to-end encrypted chat rooms that self-destruct, with single-use invites and no persisted server-side transcript. - shawnbure/elm-chat

^GitHub

RE: hachyderm.io/@openuk/117048973…

You should nominate your favourite #OpenSource people in the UK.

They get to come to a fancy dinner (free!) in the House of Commons.

This is your chance to show open source maintainers, projects, teams, and people that they're brilliant.

OpenUK (@openuk@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 1 image The OpenUK Awards are live, the "Oscars of Open Source." 🏆 🚀 This 7th edition recognises UK leadership and global collaboration in open tech. Gala dinner at the House of Commons, 5 Nov, hosted by Chi Onwurah MP.

^{OpenUK (Hachyderm.io)}

⚠️Quick tip for the privacy community: remember that duress passwords and decoy PINs can be a double-edged sword. In some jurisdictions, using them during an investigation is treated as destruction of evidence, which may result in separate criminal charges and prison time.

Stay safe by knowing your rights and talking to a local legal professional before setting up these tools!

#software #privacy #security #data #justice #law #hacking #foss #opensource #freesoftware #grapheneos #android #mobile

XWiki has joined European open source companies like @Tutanota and @nextcloud alongside many other organizations, in signing the #FinishTheJob open letter.

The Digital Markets Act was created to make digital markets more open, fair, and contestable.

But rules only matter when they are enforced.

For European tech, this is about fair competition, real choice, and digital sovereignty in practice. 🇪🇺

finishthejob.eu

#DMA #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #XWiki

Our July Mobile Progress Report is here! Check out our blog to see where we are with iOS development, as well as updates to the Android app.

#android #ios #thunderbird #opensource

blog.thunderbird.net/2026/07/m…

New IT Guy Show is live, and this one is about a tool a lot of us LOVE: @bitwarden .

Password managers are one of those things everyone agrees you should use and nobody really wants to talk about. We got into why Bitwarden being open source actually matters, new features, and how it holds up when you take it into a team or an org instead of just your personal logins.

Watch here: youtu.be/mtJVzPL9-fQ
#Bitwarden #OpenSource #Cybersecurity #PasswordManager #Linux #ITGuyShow

I'm so excited to organize this with @_elena 🥳🥳

This years @oscl has a new track named “Decentralized Technologies for Digital Sovereignty!" 👏

🔗: conference.opensource.lu

We are looking for speakers interested in discussing these topics:

• Federated technologies in the public sector
• Decentralized platforms
• Fediverse successes and challenges
• Self-hosted solutions
• Interoperability

Apply here:
🔗: pretalx.com/open-source-confer…

Please boost 🚀

#OSCL26 #DigitalSovereignty #Opensource #Fediverse

Open Source Conference Luxembourg

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Open Source Conference Luxembourg

^pretalx.com

Come join me and @Gina in Luxembourg this October!

#OSCL26 (Open Source Conference Luxembourg) has a brand new track devoted to “Decentralized Technologies for Digital Sovereignty”:

🔗: conference.opensource.lu

We are looking for speakers interested in discussing these topics:

• Federated technologies in the public sector
• Decentralized platforms for video, chat, communications, code, etc.
• Fediverse successes and challenges
• Self-hosted solutions for individuals and institutions
• Interoperability for resilience

Apply here:

🔗: pretalx.com/open-source-confer…

The conference takes place on Wednesday October 7th in Belval, Luxembourg.

Please share! 🚀​

#Fediverse #FediAdvocacy #conferences #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #TheFutureIsFederated #selfhosting #interoperability #DigitalSovereignty #activism

Open Source Conference Luxembourg

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Open Source Conference Luxembourg

^pretalx.com

🤖 DeepSeek's new V4 Flash really is 99% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8: $0.28 vs $25 per million output tokens.

It also beat Claude on Arena's front-end coding leaderboard and scores 82.7 on Terminal-Bench, ahead of some Claude tiers. That part is true.

The nuance: on overall intelligence rankings Claude still leads. V4 Flash is a 284B open-weight model with a 1M context window, MIT-licensed, and it's the same playbook as Moonshot's Kimi K3, which took the same coding crown first. Cheap open models keep getting very good at specific jobs, and that's changing who pays what.

US hyperscalers still outspend China on AI infrastructure by 7-8x (Goldman), so reports of the US losing the race are early.

Read more:
axios.com/2026/08/01/deepseek-…
api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_st…
github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3

#AI #DeepSeek #OpenSource

Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs

The prices listed below are in units of per 1M tokens. A token, the smallest unit of text that the model recognizes, can be a word, a number, or even a punctuation mark. We will bill based on the total number of input and output tokens by the model.

^{api-docs.deepseek.com}

A new #DestinationLinux has hit the road! 😂💖🐧🐧🐧
youtu.be/f49YHx74z3U

We have a great interview with Till Kamppeter of Open Printing! Discussing Printing's Biggest Anti-Consumer Practices & more!

@till #OpenPrinting
#Linux #podcast #opensource
Thank you @SandflySecurity!
deviantairwaves.com/sandfly

📣 More Dutch companies are making their Android apps inaccessible on alternative mobile devices, by using the strictest Google Play Integrity API settings. 📣

After Funda and Rabobank, now a public collective for emergency controlrooms has made their app inactive on open source OS's. Caught by @rikviergever from @murena .

We can't keep being dependent on two US big tech companies. If we want more digital sovereignty, we'll need to invest in mobile alternatives.

#digitalsovereignty #opensource

@CppGuy @xexyl

In the same Wikipedia article:

"In 2018, scientists from TU Dresden developed and published a tool to extract and analyze the steganographic codes of a given color printer and subsequently to anonymize prints from that printer. (...) [18][11][19] The scientists made the software available to support whistleblowers in their efforts to publicize grievances.[20]"

#anonymization #printing #OpenSource #software #privacy

Genuine question:

Linux has a loyal fanbase...

so why is Windows still the default choice for most people?

#Linux #Windows #OpenSource

Linux-cleaner (lc) is a ncdu-style TUI that ranks disk usage by how long files have gone unused
github.com/rollecode/lc

#OpenSource #Linux

TetraOP by Tilr 🎛️
Wavetable synth: 4 oscs, FM, RM, Unison, PD, 2 filters, drag-mod

💻 macOS/Win/Linux (VST3/AU/LV2)
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🔗 github.com/tiagolr/tetraop

More freeware 👉 linktr.ee/legalvst

#freeplugin #wavetablesynth #fm #opensource #tilr #synthplugin #modulation

From internet routing and web protocols to accessibility, digital payments, encryption, federated social platforms, and electric vehicle charging, the technologies they maintain underpin the digital systems we rely on every day.

Learn more and meet the people behind the code: sovereign.tech/news/meet-the-f…

#OpenSource #OpenStandards #DigitalInfrastructure

(2/2)

Meet the First Sovereign Tech Standards Cohort

^{Sovereign Tech Agency}

Elon Musk says X’s codebase will be made open source. "Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝕏 open source, with no exceptions."

This is not the first time Musk has tried to roleplay as an open source advocate. I do not trust him one bit. What is there to gain and why on earth would he do that? I would be glad if he does, I am curious to know how they have weighted their algorithms and messed up their features.

theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…

#X #ElonMusk #Twitter #OpenSource

Elon Musk says X’s codebase will be made open source.

Along with his usual morning tweets in support of right-wing politics, against certain immigrants to the US, and boosting data centers, the sometimes-trillionaire writes, “Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make t…

^{Richard Lawler (The Verge)}

The environmental cost of running LLMs keeps climbing, but a few inference providers are running on 100% clean energy out of the box:

- Regolo (regolo.ai/sustainable-ai/): EU-hosted GPU clusters running on wind and solar power, using zero-water cooling.
- GreenPT (greenpt.com/api): European OpenAI-compatible API powered 100% by renewables in ISO-certified datacenters.
- Riveon (riveon.io/): Swiss provider with Finnish GPU sites powered 100% by renewables, offering OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
- Upgreat (upgreat.ai/): Carbon-aware EU compute that schedules workloads around clean energy windows from on-site solar farms.

Good options if you want clean compute for open-weights inference without relying on carbon offsets.

#AI #GreenTech #OpenSource #Sustainability #MachineLearning #Tech

GreenPT API: one European AI API for developers

An OpenAI-compatible European AI API: chat, embeddings, reranking, OCR, speech-to-text, scraping, and web search. EU-hosted, renewable-powered, privacy-first. One key.

^GreenPT

Offline Translator

An Android translator app that performs text, PDF/ODT documents and image translation completely offline using on-device models.
Supports automatic language detection and transliteration for non-latin scripts. There's also a built-in word dictionary.

💬 github.com/DavidVentura/offlin…
📱 f-droid.org/packages/dev.david…

#android #fdroid #translater #offline #tool #language #pdf #odt #text #opensource

Offline Translator | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

On-device translation of text, images and pdf/odt files, with TTS

^f-droid.org

🌱 Thunderbird 153 "Meadow" is out now! This Extended Support Release brings a redesigned Account Hub, native Microsoft Exchange support (no add-ons), desktop accent colors, and quick actions right from your notifications.

Get more info here:
blog.thunderbird.net/2026/07/t…

#thunderbird #opensource

Thunderbird 153 "Meadow" is out now! - The Thunderbird Blog

^{Brian Offredi (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Just out: The missing Discord voice chat overlay for Linux
github.com/rollecode/nameplate

#Linux #OpenSource

GitHub - rollecode/nameplate: The missing Discord voice chat overlay for Linux

The missing Discord voice chat overlay for Linux. Contribute to rollecode/nameplate development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

After more than a year on the waitlist, my Thundermail Early Bird invite finally landed. I subscribed without a second of hesitation and grabbed dol@tb.pro and dima@tb.pro before anyone else could.

Do I need them? Absolutely not. I already run my own three-letter domain, I am on Proton Visionary, Apple One Premier, and a dozen mailboxes I barely open.

But this was never about need. I want @thunderbird to make it. I want at least one piece of email infrastructure left standing that Big Tech cannot swallow. That is worth a subscription without a use case.

FOMO did the clicking. Conviction pays the bill.

#Thunderbird #Thundermail #Mozilla #Email #OpenSource #Privacy #Blog #Thoughts #FOSS #Fediverse

Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered has been released as a nice upgrade for the classic, and the code is open source too.
gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/arma…

#OpenSource #FPS #Retro #NewRelease #NativeLinux

Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered is now out in full and open source

^{Liam Squires-Hand (GamingOnLinux)}

How to Install and Run Wiki.js on #Ubuntu #VPS This article provides a detailed, step-by-step guide for How to Install and Run Wiki.js on Ubuntu VPS.

What is Wiki.js?
Wiki.js is an open-source, modern wiki software built on Node.js that lets individuals, teams, or organizations create and manage knowledge bases, documentation, and internal wikis in a fast, collaborative way.
🔹 Key Features ...
Continued 👉 blog.radwebhosting.com/install… #opensource #selfhosted #selfhosting #letsencrypt

Have you #linuxaudio and #opensource fans seen (and heard) the Air-G Audio #plugin suite based on the famous #airwindows plugins yet? 😀

ko-fi.com/airgaudio/

#vst3

«xAI stellt KI-Agen "Grok-Build" nach massivem Datenleck als Open Source auf GitHub:
xAIs Kommandozeilen-Tool "grok" hat massive Kritik ausgelöst, weil es beim Ausführen in einem Verzeichnis sämtliche Dateien auf xAIs Google-Cloud-Server hochlud.»

So viel zum Thema Suverenität von xAI. Klar ist, dass Open-Source ist schon länger auch Marketing der IT-Konzernen auf die meisten basieren.

🤖 the-decoder.de/xai-stellt-ki-a…

#xai #datenleck #github #opensource #git #grok #grokbuild #googlecloud #ai #ki #x

xAI stellt KI-Agen "Grok-Build" nach massivem Datenleck als Open Source auf GitHub

xAIs Kommandozeilen-Tool "grok" hat ungefragt sämtliche Dateien eines Verzeichnisses auf Google-Cloud-Server hochgeladen, darunter SSH-Schlüssel und Passwort-Datenbanken.

^{Matthias Bastian (THE-DECODER.de)}