Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork

submitted by Drewski from news.ycombinator.com

FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released

submitted by Drewski from blog.freecad.org

refreezer - An alternative Deezer music streaming & downloading client, based on Freezer.

submitted by Drewski from github.com

The Quiblr Lemmy client goes open source

submitted by Drewski from github.com

NewPipe outage over: version 0.27.1 restores YouTube playback

submitted by Drewski from github.com

Drew DeVault on the biggest threats to FOSS and some proposed solutions

submitted by Drewski from fosstodon.org

We need more of Richard Stallman, not less

submitted by Drewski from ploum.net

Herb Code - Your AI-powered app for better yields

submitted by alyssaholden from herbcode.app

Stract| A search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results.

submitted by AlphaXChance from trystract.com

How Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source software

submitted by Drewski from techcrunch.com

Decentralized Communication - #SolutionsWatch (54:39) ~ The Corbett Report [unofficial mirror]

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

Mob Mentality Threatens The Free Software Movement (24:47) ~ DistroTube, 2021-03-24

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

Linux-powered AI assistant killed off by 'patent troll'

submitted by Drewski from theregister.com

New Hampshire once again on the cusp of enshrining Software Freedom into law

submitted by Drewski from libreboot.org

Why We're Rebuilding The Thunderbird Interface From Scratch

submitted by Drewski from blog.thunderbird.net

Richard Stallman: See what happens when software doesn't respect your freedoms?

submitted by Drewski from files.catbox.moe

working with the public domain and finding public domain content

submitted by panel30 from tastyfish.cz

Towards a reproducible F-Droid

submitted by Drewski from f-droid.org

accrescent: A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability

submitted by Drewski from github.com

lotide (Reddit Alternative), federated forum / link aggregator using ActivityPub.

submitted by [deleted] from dev.narwhal.city

SourceHut, opensource GitHub alternative

submitted by [deleted] from sr.ht

GotHub, alternative front-end for GitHub

submitted by [deleted] from gh.vern.cc

How We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging! (46:33) ~ Tantacrul

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

Revolt,(Discord Alternative) open source user-first chat platform.

submitted by [deleted] from github.com

VisionFive 2 RISC-V single-board computer is up for pre-order for $56 and up - Liliputing

submitted by [deleted] from liliputing.com

Bionic Reading - Convert Text into Better Way to Read Faster

submitted by Drewski from github.com

Tails 5.0 is out

submitted by Drewski from tails.boum.org

Privacy Respecting Software - A curated list of privacy & security-focused apps, software, and providers

submitted by Drewski from github.com

Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat

submitted by Drewski from matrix.org

Lemmy v0.16.0 Release: Theming and Federation improvements

submitted by Drewski from join-lemmy.org

SingleFile: Web Extension for Firefox/Chrome/MS Edge and CLI tool to save a faithful copy of an entire web page in a single HTML file

submitted by Drewski from github.com

Joplin - An open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities - now available on F-Droid

submitted by Drewski from f-droid.org

PeerTube v4.1 is out!

submitted by Drewski from joinpeertube.org

Spodcast - a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy.

submitted by Drewski from github.com

diaspora* version 0.7.16.0 released with security fixes!

submitted by Pis-dur from blog.diasporafoundation.org

Fraidycat - an app for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X which can be accessed from a local browser or a Tor onion site and can be used to follow folks on a variety of platforms.

submitted by Drewski from github.com

Wire is now on F-Droid

submitted by Drewski from f-droid.org

zspotify: A Spotify downloader needing only a python interpreter and ffmpeg.

submitted by Drewski from github.com

Blender 3.0 released

submitted by Pis-dur from blender.org

Snikket iOS app now publicly released

submitted by Pis-dur from snikket.org

#Take Back Our Tech TBOT - A new site from The Conscious Resistance friends.

submitted by JasonCarswell from takebackourtech.org

For A Free Digital Society - Richard M. Stallman (1:56:21) ~ CH Open, Feb 18, 2016

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

Libreboot 20210522 released

submitted by Drewski from libreboot.org

System76 announced an open source mechanical keyboard called "Launch"

submitted by Drewski from system76.com

Why trademark Open Source software

submitted by [deleted] from lightmeter.io

At Home (and On Campus) with EFF - Scheduled to be LIVE Jan 14, 2021

submitted by JasonCarswell from self.FLOSS

Can't believe I have to write that... The Quantum Ad-List is free.

submitted by The_Quantum_Alpha from i.imgur.com

Synapse 1.21.1 released | Matrix.org

submitted by Pis-dur from matrix.org

Is Self-Sufficiency Possible? - Questions For Corbett (33:12) ~ corbettreport

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

Calibre 5.0 released. The powerful e-book manager has moved to Python 3, has dark mode support and more.

submitted by Pis-dur from calibre-ebook.com

Frictional Games open sources Amnesia: The Dark Descent code under GPL v3:

submitted by Pis-dur from frictionalgames.com

The Newsboat RSS Feedreader 2.21 released

submitted by Pis-dur from newsboat.org

Mozilla announced the end of life for two legacy services that grew out of the Firefox Test Pilot program: Firefox Send and Firefox Notes.

submitted by Pis-dur from blog.mozilla.org

Spritely Goblins v0.7 released - a transactional, distributed actor model environment

submitted by Pis-dur from dustycloud.org

weeklyOSM 529

submitted by Pis-dur from weeklyosm.eu

Xfce 4.16pre1 released! - the first development release leading up to Xfce 4.16. It comes with a boatload of new features and improvements.

submitted by Pis-dur from andreldm.com

Mycroft AI Making Development Syncs Public

submitted by Pis-dur from mycroft.ai

This week in KDE: Akademy makes the magic happen

submitted by Pis-dur from pointieststick.com

GNU remotecontrol - News: New Google Nest Thermostat passes through FCC [Savannah]

submitted by Pis-dur from savannah.gnu.org

The number of Google searches in all languages for privacy-focused Gmail alternatives (e.g., “private email” or “encrypted email”) increased 39 percent worldwide between May 2019 and April 2020.

submitted by Pis-dur from protonmail.com

PeerTube 2.4 is out!

submitted by Pis-dur from joinpeertube.org

Ardour 6.3 is released

submitted by Pis-dur from discourse.ardour.org

OpenPGP in Thunderbird 78

submitted by Pis-dur from blog.thunderbird.net

Free Software Awards: Recognize those who advance our freedom by October 28th — Free Software Foundation

submitted by Pis-dur from fsf.org

Spain’s First Open Source Satellite

submitted by Pis-dur from hackaday.com

GNU FreeIPMI - News: FreeIPMI 1.6.6 Released [Savannah]

submitted by Pis-dur from savannah.gnu.org

Peertube·Social briefly, P·S at 100 000 views.

submitted by Pis-dur from write.tedomum.net

Snap

submitted by dissent from i.imgur.com

Jitsi - open-source alternative to Zoom video conferencing

submitted by JasonCarswell from self.FLOSS

Linux Lite 5.0 Released With UEFI Support & Other Major Improvements

submitted by dissent from itsfoss.com

FarmBot: open source backyard robot for a fully automated garden (31:43) ~ Kirsten Dirksen, 2016-09-25

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

[Repost] FSFE welcomes CDU decision to make Free Software mandatory

submitted by JasonCarswell from fsfe.org

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

submitted by Mnemonic from theregister.co.uk

GNOME files defense against patent troll

submitted by Mnemonic from gnome.org

How to support open-source software and stay sane

submitted by Mnemonic from nature.com

25th Anniversary of FreeDOS -- with Jim Hall! ~ Bryan Lunduke (46:33)

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

Is Free Software digital Communism? ~ Bryan Lunduke (9:20)

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

CERN Ditches Microsoft to 'Take Back Control' With Open Source Software - Slashdot

submitted by Mnemonic from news.slashdot.org

Is Telemetry evil... even in Open Source? ~ Bryan Lunduke

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

What software thingy would I do with a billion dollars? ~ Bryan Lunduke

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

Should macOS and iOS be Open Source? ~ Bryan Lunduke

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control

submitted by happysmash27 from boingboing.net

Does going Full Stallman isolate a person? ~ Bryan Lunduke

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible

submitted by Mnemonic from linuxjournal.com

Should strong A.I. source code be opened? ~ Bryan Lunduke

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

WireGuard - a FLOSS application and communication protocol that implements virtual private network (VPN) techniques to create secure point-to-point connections in routed or bridged configurations, run as a module in the Linux kernel aiming to beat IPsec and OpenVPN tunneling protocol performances.

submitted by JasonCarswell from en.wikipedia.org

Gratis versus libre (no cost vs no restriction, or free stuff vs freedom)

submitted by JasonCarswell from en.wikipedia.org

MiniWin | Open source embedded window manager - for small embedded systems with a touch screen.

submitted by JasonCarswell from miniwinwm.wixsite.com

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is both free and open-source unlike proprietary software, and anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.

submitted by JasonCarswell from en.wikipedia.org

Open source - a term for a product with permission to use its source code, design documents, or content, most commonly referring the model, where software or other products are released under a license. Originating with software, it has expanded to cover other open content and collaboration.

submitted by JasonCarswell from en.wikipedia.org

Switching family members to Free Software and Linux? ~ Bryan Lunduke

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

Dystopian Hypothetical: Free Software outlawed. Join the resistance or keep family safe? ~ Bryan Lunduke

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

GNU Project - a free-software, mass-collaboration project, started by Richard Stallman in 1983, aiming to give users freedom and control over their computers and devices, by collaboratively developing and providing software based on freedom-rights.

submitted by JasonCarswell from en.wikipedia.org

14 Best Free And Open Source Software For Windows 10 Every User Must Know In 2018 ~ Aditya Tiwari, 2018-01-12 - [ The must-have fundamentals for FLOSS newbies. Nothing new or unique for experienced users. ]

submitted by JasonCarswell from fossbytes.com

Best Free Window Manager/Resizer/Arranger List - [ I don't know if any of these software are FLOSS, which is why I want to migrate to Mint, but meanwhile I need a descent Win7Manager, so recommendations welcome. ]

submitted by JasonCarswell from techsupportalert.com

Does Open Source take away Closed Source jobs? ~ Bryan Lunduke

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com