I'm going to get a lot of flak, but #Fedora44 should drop 32-bit.

• Intel/AMD processors are 64-bit compatible since 2003
• ARMv8 with 64-bit support came in 2011
• RISC-V is 64-bit compatible since 2017

If they don't do it now, nobody would be forced to update their libraries. In some cases, software would perform worse, but old 32-bit software would still run with negligible performance difference.

Don’t you just love it when someone abandons a package for years and ignores requests to add additional maintainers, but you can see they’re active on GitHub?

Back in October 2024 I presented the research project on how designers contribute to OSS https://github.com/sprblm/Diary-Studies-Designers-in-OSS

I also managed top write up this blog post for the we open source community education platform.

It's by no means the most complete guide on starting design in an open source project but its based on the findings from the open source designer diary studies.

https://allthingsopen.org/articles/start-design-open-source-project

On behalf of Kojo (@kojoidrissa), Jeff (@webology) reminded us all that tomorrow is:

Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day

https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net

Wanted: OSS life apps, subscription or self-hosted all good opinions are requested
- Prefer group of OSS apps, but "Best in Class" list also good
- Requires cross-platform via either web-based, but ideally Android and Linux/BSD native apps
- Prefer not using NextCloud (due to PHP) but open to compromising if necessary
- Terminal access / TUI also yes wonderful
- Examples: reminders, notes, caldav, webdav, docs, etc

Tired of google services, tired of mozilla products, can't do apple anymore, burnt out on enshittification.

My article yesterday sparked a lot of comments on many of the platforms where I published it. Some comments, unfortunately, only served to confirm what I wrote in the article, reasonably from people who hadn't read it. "Open Source software users are in fact consumers, so they have the right to demand" or "Open Source is now in the hands of corporations, so it's fine to be demanding" were the most common comments.
Another common type of comment: "Developers who release open source must take responsibility for satisfying users, otherwise they'd better not release". Or "all Open Source projects and their communities are political".
All of this only confirms what I wrote in the article.
The comment that made me smile? The one in the screenshot.

From Collaborators to Consumers: Have We Killed the Soul of Open Source?

The Open Source community is becoming increasingly polarized. From the "distro wars" to Wayland vs. X11, the spirit of collaboration is fading. Are we shifting from "collaborators" to "consumers", and what can we do to build bridges instead of walls?

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/19/from-collaborators-to-consumers-have-we-killed-the-soul-of-open-source/

#OpenSource #OSS #Linux #BSD

All thr @berlinbuzzwords videos are now online -really great set of topics and speakers, as always. I should binge watch it with long breaks to sit in the sun for the authentic experience , especially if I have a Berliner Weisse to wrap it up.
#oss
https://youtube.com/@plainschwarzug

As per usual, @mikemcquaid's latest post resonate with me a lot: it really feels like having being an #OSS maintainer for so long allowed me to skill up my ability to review code quickly - and that's a very good advantage in an LLM world

(rly rec reading it all, ton of insights)

"Where have you been for the last 20 years?" - The question that changed everything. This isn't a BSDCan report, but a personal reflection on how impostor syndrome stole decades from me, and why it's never too late to find your community and live life fully.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/17/where-have-you-been-for-the-last-20-years/

We continue to welcome enthusiastic companies, organizations, and supporters who would like to contribute financially to this year’s FrOSCon and present themselves to a tech-savvy audience of over 1,500 attendees.

Currently available partnership opportunities include:
– Booth spaces along Hochschulstraße
– The popular Slushy stand
– Support of our Saturday night Social Event

I replaced my @11ty's custom translation logic with `eleventy-plugin-i18n` a few days ago.

This plugin is older and has not been maintained for years, and the way I had set up some templates would result in many (unnecessary) warnings.

But here is the fun bit about open source:

The original code is available online, and I copied it to my project. I only had to modify two lines from the original logic to make it play ball with my setup.

Pretty neat, and Eleventy's output is once again free of warnings.

AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers

Google has confirmed it isn't discontinuing AOSP, but it's making a change that makes it harder for devs to build Android for Pixel phones. [...]

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/

#google #software #opensource #technology #oss #interesstingRead #jasonsFeedReader

Stop met het exporteren van honden naar het bezettingsleger

Winkelcentrum de Ruwaard, Oss, zaterdag 14 juni om 14:30 CEST

Oss for Palestine (bron)

Op 14 juni gaan we weer de straat op in Oss om te demonstreren voor het stoppen van de export van honden naar het Israëlische bezettingsleger. Genoeg is genoeg!

Nadat de Gemeenteraad zich uit heeft gesproken voor mensenrechten, moet ze dit ook vertalen naar concrete actie: geen honden meer die door Osse bedrijven worden geëxporteerd om misbruikt te worden als oorlogswapens en martelwerktuigen om Palestijnen te onderdrukken.

Kom op zaterdag 14 juni om 14:30 naar Sterrebos 2 in Oss (voor de Nettorama, vlakbij station Oss West).

En loop met ons de mars mee naar Geffen, naar hondentrainingscentrum FourWindsK9.

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On June 14th we will take to the streets in Oss again to demonstrate to stop the export of dogs to the Israeli occupation army. Enough is enough!

After the City Council has spoken out for human rights, it must also translate this into concrete action: no more dogs from Oss’ companies to be abused as weapons of war and torture to oppress Palestinians.

Come to Sterrebos 2 in Oss on Saturday June 14th at 14:30 (in front of the Nettorama, near Oss West station). And join us in the march to Geffen, to the dog training center FourWindsK9.

https://acties.todon.nl/event/stop-met-het-exporteren-van-honden-naar-het-bezettingsleger

Oh the _feels_ when reading this announcement!

I was one of the GNOME project’s first sysadmins, back in the days of a single CVS server running on a machine hosted at Red Hat’s office.

It’s amazing to see their journey to the cloud!

#Linux #GNOME #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Cloud #AWS
https://foundation.gnome.org/2025/06/10/gnome-has-a-new-infrastructure-partner-welcome-aws/

Italian filmmaker @_elena is on a mission to bring more people into the fediverse. Today she dropped a brief explainer video for folks who aren’t familiar with it:

https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

Because I’m deeply embedded here, I’m not a great judge. But it feels pretty approachable for new folks. Just enough to shake hands.

It’s lovely to see folks building things to help the fedi grow.

Constellation update: the system is at the point of a bare-minimum end-to-end demo. I can submit a basic request to a peer, have it send to a consensus pool (if needed), then to a processor, then report the result back.

The "last mile" of code is janky and has lots of tech-debt to get to this point on a certain timeline, but it's there. The core architecture is mostly sound, though.

I'm in Melbourne, Australia for a spell! Hit me up if you want to talk #gamedev, Discord, Agones and/or #OSS!

Also giving a talk Tuesday at IGDAM talking about my ten years in games devrel (we're not recording this one, might be ).

Sign up here
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1409808