Thanks to @nev I found this handy list of #GitHub alternatives! And yes, writers use Git. https://nevillepark.ca/2025/03/13/branching-out-some-github-gitlab-com-alternatives/ #Git #OpenSource

In their release notes, #gitlab has started naming the specific third-party dependencies that cause their security issues... I don't know how I feel about this
#floss #opensource

The Summit on State #AI Legislation was a rousing success—so grateful to the panelists, moderators, attendees, co-organizers, and staff who made it happen! Two days of great conversations with state legislators, civil society, industry, and the #opensource community. Deets

I will be giving a talk on #Prav this Saturday in #BiharFOSS, organized by @fossunited .For more details, check https://fossunited.org/c/bihar/2025 .

It would be nice to see you there

The rise of Gimp 3

Big kudos to the #Gimp team!

I've just tested out the brand new version 3 and the most wanted feature, non-destructive-editig, just blew my mind!

I haven't realized that now, everything that is based on GEGL is editable, it is just amazing, this goes beyond what I expected as non-destructive-editing.

There are still plenty of room for improvements though , I hope in the future they will add a layer mask for each effect and the opacity channel to determine the amount of the intensity.

Nevertheless this result by itself it is just amazing and superior to other commercials solution even in its infantry!

This will boost my workflow cause now I can modify colors on my images without degrading the original ones and exporting the working file as jpeg-xl, this is already a pro level!

Wow! Thank you so much for adding so many events to // foss.events, making it a reliable source for everyone looking for FOSS events in Europe <3

And if you still miss an event (especially in the still empty areas of UK, France, Italy, Greece, Scandinavia and everything East of Brodnica/ Novi Sad) don't hesitate and add your event now!

https://foss.events/new-event

The new episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" is out covering among other things a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new levels in KDE's educational activity collection GCompris, fixes for Amarok, and digiKam's just released version 8.6.0.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

GIMP 3.0 is finally out with GTK 3 user interface, better UI scaling on HiDPI, Wayland support, non-destructive layer effects, color space management, improved file format support, and usability improvements

https://testing.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html#updated-gtk3-user-interface

Hello everyone! Velvelyne (a funky skeletal typeface) has just been released on our website! https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/velvelyne/
Velvelyne is published under the CUTE conditions, which are different from your plain old SIL OFL, so please check it out. #opensource #font #typeface #velvelyne

#GIMP 3.0 Open-Source Image Editor Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New https://9to5linux.com/gimp-3-0-image-editor-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new

The @eff made a wonderful project called rayhunter. It detects modern cell site simulators (aka stingrays, fake cell towers).

But it doesn't work out of the box on Debian and when I offered a fix (commands to compile a version for Debian), they didn't like it, suggesting that everyone who uses Debian or Ubuntu 22.04 should set up a rust development environment & compile it themselves.

The beauty of #OpenSource is that I don't have to accept that answer. I'm forking it & adding a Debian release

I was trying to figure out what ingredients were in the filling of a cookie, and I thought it would be great if food was open source. Like if the whole recipe was freely available. So I did a quick search to see if anyone is making food products and sharing the detailed recipe. I didn't find examples of that yet, but did find the Open Food Network, https://github.com/openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork . They make open source software for connecting food producers to buyers. Cool!
#freeSoftware
#openSource
#openFood

This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single blog post or news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host documentation securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing. https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/ #opensource

I like the idea of #Docs, an #OpenSource alternative to Google Docs developed by the French and German governments, compliant with #GDPR, and hosted outside the US.
https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr

But I'm having trouble finding reviews, perhaps because it's new or because it has such a generic name. Can anyone point to helpful reviews?

Good take by @molly0xfff on the future of open focusing on consent rather than copyright. Litigation has always been a poor call when trying to defend anything open, however measures to safeguard anything open from being sucked dry are needed.

https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/

I was Today years old, when I finally dug deep enough into the systemd rat's nest, to learn that it creates a directory in /var/log/journal based on the Machine ID, located in /etc/machine-id. and, judging by the last time each directory on my system was touched, a new machine-id is generated each time you do a distro upgrade. and no effort is made to clean up the old logs.

edit: the plot thickens. I was Today years old when I also learned that machine-id should be static, ie it shouldn't change if you're doing a distro upgrade.

furthermore, crawling through my / partition, I discover that, while the kernal removal tool does indeed remove kernels... if you're using bleeding edge for hardware support, it leaves behind hwe-tools.

I've already got several other bug reports to give the Linux Mint team so it's time to get off my lazy tail and finally make a GitHub account.

Interesting:
Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French (DINUM) and German governments (ZenDiS). We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands ). Feel free to reach out if you are interested in using or contributing to docs.

https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/

Share of programming languages used by #GTK3 / #GTK4 applications (2025-03-16):

28% #Python
21% #Vala
20% #Rust
17% #C
06% #C++ #Cplusplus
06% #gjs #Javascript
04% Other: #Csharp #Go #Lua #Haskell #Swift #Typescript #Crystal #Swift #D #Perl

63% use GTK4 (90% of them use #libadwaita), while still 37% use GTK3

Method: Source [1] lists 543 awesome #gtk (3/4) #opensource applications and their #programminglanguage

[1] https://github.com/valpackett/awesome-gtk

#GTK #FLOSS #Linux #Programming #Gnome

@GTK @gnome